>and stockpile it to offset the risk of hostilities
That would be cheaper, but 1/ I am not sure how it will play long term (having local system of production can last longer than any stockpile). 2/ And strategic military consideration rarely take into account price.
Exactly. Putting into one "addictive/bad" group products that do not constitute a necessity for a human: alcohol, tobacco, drugs and products that do that: sugar, fat (this also includes list of things we excrete: CO2, for example) is ridiculous.
As you noted, for the first group, only consumers of that unnecessary products are taxed, for the second group, everybody else taxed.
>If cigarettes are so bad for the individual (as the government states - and anyone with a fucking brain knows) why is the government in the cigarette business
Because "pursuit of happiness" is guaranteed by declaration of independence. In this case, I guess by independence we mean "independence of common sense". The tea we dropped into Atlantic ocean was common-sense flavored, I guess.
Farm subsidies are not intended to make our food cheaper. They are intended so local farmers can compete with cheaper import from underdeveloped countries.
Without farm subsidies we will still have cheap food, but local farmers will disappear and the country will face a strategic risk (in case of hostilities to the rest of the world that in the case will be feeding us, we being on the verge of that case anyway).
If you want our food to be expensive you will have to not only remove subsidies from local farmers, but also tax heavily imported food.
sugar is one of the only two things brain needs: oxygen and sugar. Using the same terminology for sugar (and sex) and products that are not necessity for humans - alcohol, drugs - is misleading.
In real additction (the latter row), one has to completely withdraw to be able to fight it. Addcits should never consume the product, otherwise additcion will return.
For sugar and sex "addicts" sugar and sex continues to be a necessity.
then they came for anti-Semites, then they came for Taliban supporters, and when they came for soda drinkers, everybody was so involved in following zillion channels on the internet to choose from, that nobody gave a damn about it.
Banning plastic bags in LA was one of them, now NYC banning soda...
NYC ban is a disgrace epitomizes nanny state transition US is undergoing, stomping at elementary liberties: including a freedom to eat whatever I want, and private transaction between consenting adults: not about selling drugs, not about exchanging sexual favors, Taliban literature, arms, bombs or anything else, just an item of food.
With Chinese dude loudly smacking three times a morning, putting industrial headphones on is the only option to maintain productivity. That and not logging into Slashdot.
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I am going to say something unpopular here: corporate farming is more effective
>and stockpile it to offset the risk of hostilities
That would be cheaper, but 1/ I am not sure how it will play long term (having local system of production can last longer than any stockpile).
2/ And strategic military consideration rarely take into account price.
Exactly. Putting into one "addictive/bad" group products that do not constitute a necessity for a human: alcohol, tobacco, drugs and products that do that: sugar, fat (this also includes list of things we excrete: CO2, for example) is ridiculous.
As you noted, for the first group, only consumers of that unnecessary products are taxed, for the second group, everybody else taxed.
>If cigarettes are so bad for the individual (as the government states - and anyone with a fucking brain knows) why is the government in the cigarette business
Because "pursuit of happiness" is guaranteed by declaration of independence. In this case, I guess by independence we mean "independence of common sense". The tea we dropped into Atlantic ocean was common-sense flavored, I guess.
Farm subsidies are not intended to make our food cheaper. They are intended so local farmers can compete with cheaper import from underdeveloped countries.
Without farm subsidies we will still have cheap food, but local farmers will disappear and the country will face a strategic risk (in case of hostilities to the rest of the world that in the case will be feeding us, we being on the verge of that case anyway).
If you want our food to be expensive you will have to not only remove subsidies from local farmers, but also tax heavily imported food.
>Sugar addicts
sugar is one of the only two things brain needs: oxygen and sugar. Using the same terminology for sugar (and sex) and products that are not necessity for humans - alcohol, drugs - is misleading.
In real additction (the latter row), one has to completely withdraw to be able to fight it. Addcits should never consume the product, otherwise additcion will return.
For sugar and sex "addicts" sugar and sex continues to be a necessity.
Except instead of arresting right away and facing slightly longer legal battles, say arrange entrapment.
How about Guantanamo? Or how about solitary confinement 23/7?
>What Google actually means is that it will warn Gmail users about state-sponsored "attacks" from countries the US isn't on perfect terms with
Bingo.
Do teaching or software development
>I assume you're in or near L.A
I used to live in SoCal, but I understand your outrage.
But it's misdirected. FOr a long time I used to hate American government, but giving an excuse for American people, as being oppressed.
The problem is not American government, the problem is American people, because in democracy you get exactly the government you deserve.
First, they came for KKK, then they came for Storm front, then they came for Taliban supporters, and only then they came for soda.
then they came for anti-Semites, then they came for Taliban supporters, and when they came for soda drinkers, everybody was so involved in following zillion channels on the internet to choose from, that nobody gave a damn about it.
Banning plastic bags in LA was one of them, now NYC banning soda...
NYC ban is a disgrace epitomizes nanny state transition US is undergoing, stomping at elementary liberties: including a freedom to eat whatever I want, and private transaction between consenting adults: not about selling drugs, not about exchanging sexual favors, Taliban literature, arms, bombs or anything else, just an item of food.
Where are all the Niemoller loudmouths?
With Chinese dude loudly smacking three times a morning, putting industrial headphones on is the only option to maintain productivity. That and not logging into Slashdot.
With that type of connection, data should go straight to memory without hard disk buffering for may types of hard disk drives.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serial_ATA#Comparison_to_other_interfaces
Exactly
This hadith has nothing to do with education or with poisoning girls. It's about witnessing in court.
The apostate is strong in you today.
That's how they chose to economize?
>Personally, I don't think it was Great Britain
Good, otherwise you would remind many Russian readers of Galkovsky - the most famous Russian anti-British conspiracy theorist of our time.
>are what any lovers of freedom should fear
Not only that phrase but the whole history of freedom loving in US, brings to mind that those freedom loves play quite passive role in the lovemaking.
Meaning, you are being screwed in this process.
http://www.quickmeme.com/meme/3phkay/
Like we do not have enough trouble with crappy reads right now, frameshifts right in the middle of universal proteins, etc.
Good like fighting against adherents of sustainable ideology. Thank God, anarchy is not one of those.
In fact you don't want even one scientist ganging up against you. You know, the kind that gets into the dark side.