psylocin, one of the two significant psycoactive component in psylocibin mushrooms (the other being, of course, psylocibin) is destroyed by heat. Cooking, boiling, or heat drying mushrooms can make them almost 50% less potent.
I can see the mafia use this technology too. What to kill someone? How about a little research first. Lets see what roads lead to his house and away.
By studying these maps, I bet it would not be too hard to find a vulnerable bank to hit.
This is known as "casing the joint", and is a technology that has been accessible to "bad guys" for centuries. It has also incorporated any available technology that was available for information gathering at the time.
Invented telescopes? Well, pretty soon we've got scurvy pirates scoping out helpless little seaside villages for plunder.
Oh, "cameras", you say? Well, now we've got hard-boiled private investigators taking tele-photo pictures of stuff that's none of their business.
So, my first point is that information gathering technology can always be used for nefarious purposes.
My second point is that Google is only mapping public space. You can't pull up the Google3D map of the underground tunnels leading to the Oval Office. Any place on a Google 3D map is gonna be something viewable from a public street.
So, lets say Google buys in to the terrorist hysteria and blocks out maps of every terrorist target (which, according to Fox news, is bloody everything). Now all I've got to do is stroll down the street and take a look at my target myself.
And really - if you're gonna knock over a bank, what are you going to trust, some random Beta map system, or your totally inconspicuous dry-run from the actual location?
A lot of Americans want our public information to be accessible, but somehow surounded by some magic "bad guy" filtering firewall. It can't be done, guys.
Well, it can be done, but only by reading minds, which for our purposes means constant monitoring and documentation of your activities. Do we want that? I hope not.
As a gender-issue, though, it's interesting to note that we automatically assumed the "co-convener Saige Walton" was male.
This may be an illustration of the fact that things (and people) are generally identified as male or male-like unless they have clearly defining female characteristics.
That, in turn, may be why female superheroes have such exaggerated bodies - when superheroes are women, they're not just superheroes who happen to be women, they're "Flamia the Female Wonder" (or whatever), and the fact that they're women is underscored both in the art and storyline.
Unfortunately, it seems that you see feminism less as a complex and nuanced socio-political critique, and more as the aggregation of opinions you've read in Cosmopolitan and/or heard women talk about.
It may be a waste of time to try to explain, but for the sake of those who may have read your comment and thought "Hey, yeah! What business does she have making me hold the door? I'M oppressed!", here goes:
You must not have had many relationships... Not meant as in insult, it's just that any man whose been in relationships with women know that this is completely false.
Just because your wife can make you do the dishes does not mean that women as a global class are empowered. This is the kind of folsky wisdom that is hilarious when it's in a "Cathy" comic, but when applied to reality, it's a dangerous denial of the fact that:
"as many as 95% of domestic violence perpetrators are male.
A Report of the Violence against Women Research Strategic Planning Workshop sponsored by the National Institute of Justice in cooperation with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 1995."
(according to http://www.abanet.org/domviol/stats.html)
Ahhh yes, bringing about equality through inequality. "I WANT TO BE TREATED THE SAME AS A MAN! NOW HOLD THAT DOOR OPEN FOR ME!"
Most women (I would claim the vast majority) would gladly pick "Not being objectified, cat-called, occasionally terrorized, and generally humiliated based on my gender" over "Not having to open doors or pay for dinner". I'm not saying that some women don't want it both ways (and who can blame them? I like it when someone pays for my dinner, too!), but that gets back to the fact that you don't seem to have a very clear understanding of what feminists really want, as opposed to what some random women you know want.
There's a lot of FUD surrounding gender issues, mainly because everyone thinks they understand "men" and "women" as social classes based solely on their own interpersonal experience.
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psylocin, one of the two significant psycoactive component in psylocibin mushrooms (the other being, of course, psylocibin) is destroyed by heat. Cooking, boiling, or heat drying mushrooms can make them almost 50% less potent.
I can see the mafia use this technology too. What to kill someone? How about a little research first. Lets see what roads lead to his house and away.
By studying these maps, I bet it would not be too hard to find a vulnerable bank to hit.
This is known as "casing the joint", and is a technology that has been accessible to "bad guys" for centuries. It has also incorporated any available technology that was available for information gathering at the time.
Invented telescopes? Well, pretty soon we've got scurvy pirates scoping out helpless little seaside villages for plunder.
Oh, "cameras", you say? Well, now we've got hard-boiled private investigators taking tele-photo pictures of stuff that's none of their business.
So, my first point is that information gathering technology can always be used for nefarious purposes.
My second point is that Google is only mapping public space. You can't pull up the Google3D map of the underground tunnels leading to the Oval Office. Any place on a Google 3D map is gonna be something viewable from a public street.
So, lets say Google buys in to the terrorist hysteria and blocks out maps of every terrorist target (which, according to Fox news, is bloody everything). Now all I've got to do is stroll down the street and take a look at my target myself.
And really - if you're gonna knock over a bank, what are you going to trust, some random Beta map system, or your totally inconspicuous dry-run from the actual location?
A lot of Americans want our public information to be accessible, but somehow surounded by some magic "bad guy" filtering firewall. It can't be done, guys.
Well, it can be done, but only by reading minds, which for our purposes means constant monitoring and documentation of your activities. Do we want that? I hope not.
It's....instupituous!
As a gender-issue, though, it's interesting to note that we automatically assumed the "co-convener Saige Walton" was male.
This may be an illustration of the fact that things (and people) are generally identified as male or male-like unless they have clearly defining female characteristics.
That, in turn, may be why female superheroes have such exaggerated bodies - when superheroes are women, they're not just superheroes who happen to be women, they're "Flamia the Female Wonder" (or whatever), and the fact that they're women is underscored both in the art and storyline.
You sure knocked her down good!
Unfortunately, it seems that you see feminism less as a complex and nuanced socio-political critique, and more as the aggregation of opinions you've read in Cosmopolitan and/or heard women talk about.
It may be a waste of time to try to explain, but for the sake of those who may have read your comment and thought "Hey, yeah! What business does she have making me hold the door? I'M oppressed!", here goes:
You must not have had many relationships... Not meant as in insult, it's just that any man whose been in relationships with women know that this is completely false.
Just because your wife can make you do the dishes does not mean that women as a global class are empowered. This is the kind of folsky wisdom that is hilarious when it's in a "Cathy" comic, but when applied to reality, it's a dangerous denial of the fact that:
"as many as 95% of domestic violence perpetrators are male.
A Report of the Violence against Women Research Strategic Planning Workshop sponsored by the National Institute of Justice in cooperation with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 1995."
(according to http://www.abanet.org/domviol/stats.html)
Ahhh yes, bringing about equality through inequality. "I WANT TO BE TREATED THE SAME AS A MAN! NOW HOLD THAT DOOR OPEN FOR ME!"
Most women (I would claim the vast majority) would gladly pick "Not being objectified, cat-called, occasionally terrorized, and generally humiliated based on my gender" over "Not having to open doors or pay for dinner". I'm not saying that some women don't want it both ways (and who can blame them? I like it when someone pays for my dinner, too!), but that gets back to the fact that you don't seem to have a very clear understanding of what feminists really want, as opposed to what some random women you know want.
There's a lot of FUD surrounding gender issues, mainly because everyone thinks they understand "men" and "women" as social classes based solely on their own interpersonal experience.
It's a lot bigger than that.