Seems like it, except when commodity prices fall, and suddenly the cost of recycling (much less sorting) rises above the cost of the end products, meaning that you have used more energy than you saved, and your recycling mandate thus winds up hurting the planet.
By a better logic, why are "we" forced to take garbage at all? Anyone can own land, so there is absolutely no reason that trash collection should be a monopoly by any stretch of the imagination (beyond simple state-worship).
Why is this modded flamebait? Is refusing to force people to do things they don't want to, or don't have time to do considered to be wrong or evil in these parts?
You do know that we went from the founding of this country to 1913 without an income tax, right? Contrary to the popular meme, taxes!=civilization, nor do they buy it. Indeed, the great Khans, who were the opposite of civilized, loved taxes. Apropos to the yurt comment.
Well, the President, for one (who signed a death warrant for an American citizen, authorizing assassination without a trial). With the new laws coming into place setting up a dual judicial system, where the military can arrest anyone at any time anywhere for any reason with zero due process and hold them indefinitely, Id' say they aren't safe from the long arm of the "law". Of course, neither are any of us.
Remember that the United States was founded as a confederation of separate nations, each with their own laws. Laws originally existed at the national level to prevent flouting of state laws by movement across the open borders of the individual states, as well as to provide a single system of regulations for commerce, preventing individual states from becoming isolationist within the union. Of course, ever since the Civil War, and the establishment of a powerful, supreme central government, their authority has been creeping, to the point that they can now prosecute people for drugs that are grown by a person for their own personal use (not even for intrastate commerce, much less interstate commerce). That does not detract from the fact that there are three or more different governments in any given area of the United States, each with their own jurisdiction.
The drugs are super cheap. We could manufacture enough to cure the entire world of a given disease for about $50,000 (that is just the synthesis cost). It's the development cycle and more annoyingly, the FDA new drug regulations that are the problem. The cost of development is maybe five times that, including salaries for the microbiologists and chemists. The compliance costs, however, are in the millions.
That's the point, lots of doctors don't, for the reasons described. They would rather use antibiotic ointments.
And FYI, corporations are "all over it". Silver based technologies comprise about 90% of the medical device antimicrobial field ex systemic antibiotics, with the remainder being slow release antibiotic coatings or quaternary amines.
Considering it is my line of work, yes, I am an expert.
Find me a species of bacteria that can develop an immunity to direct oxidation of its membrane. Just one. Such an organism could live in fire, and swim in bleach. Evolution isn't magic, and poison is different from fire. You can become immune to poison, but only in fiction can you become immune to fire while remaining alive. Oxidative attack is the molecular equivalent of fire, the only difference is you don't get persistent plasma off of wet oxidation.
Actually, it does. Use of sound systems, or late night phone calls can be regulated at the local level, but congress shall make no law inhibiting the use of such things for speech.
Actually, it's terrible. It interferes with protein folding, and accumulates in the liver, even when applied topically. Doctors hate the stuff because the silver bandages they use for burn wounds turns black due to the moisture associated with the wound, which makes it so that they can't tell if there is necrosis or not.
IANAD(octor), but my office is directly across from the department of surgery, and I have had discussions about this with them in the past. Silver is the best thing they have commercially available, but it is terrible. My company is developing better antimicrobials for them--non-leeching ones.
You do realize that phage co-evolves with bacteria, and as such bacteria never gain immunity to them, right?
It's like saying that Little Johnny got a cold, so now he is immune to all viruses.
Further, current antibiotics lead to resistance only because they act as poisons, and must get into the cell, and stick around long enough to do their damage. They can be pumped out. If you have a material that attacks the membrane, then you can't breed resistance. Not without a sudden dramatic leap to a new type of membrane, which would be a new species of bacteria, if not a whole new kingdom.
They exist, but they are only used in the clinic in Russia and nearby nations, so far as I know. A friend of mine works at a phage research company, and is working on FDA approval for use of the system in the USA. The problem is that phage is an undefined form of medicine, as it is evolved to work against a given infection on the fly. The FDA doesn't like that. They want defined medicines, and seem to be loathe to approve something as disorganized and effective as phage therapy.
My own company has developed a small catalyst that can be covalently bound to a targeting molecule. When released into the bloodstream, the catalyst gathers around the targeted cells and catalyzes the production of superoxide, which directly oxidizes the cell membrane. If you target virulence factors, or certain vital proteins in the membrane, there is no method by which they can develop immunity. Either they evolve to no longer have virulence factors (and are thus no longer a problem), or they have to change their entire membrane structure to an as yet unseen one that resists oxidative damage while still allowing water in, which would make it not only a new species, but a new kingdom.
Small businesses are the only ones left doing actual innovative R&D. The MBAs slashed all funding for R&D at most of the big firms. Now they just wait around for a small company to come up with a good technology/product, then sweep in and buy them up.
I doubt it. Empty words like that don't work against demographic trends, and the fact is that as nations get richer, their birth rates decline. The USA is only barely above replacement, and the nation of Italy is well below replacement rates. So much for RIGHT wing nutjobs and religious fools, eh?
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Seems like it, except when commodity prices fall, and suddenly the cost of recycling (much less sorting) rises above the cost of the end products, meaning that you have used more energy than you saved, and your recycling mandate thus winds up hurting the planet.
Whoops.
By a better logic, why are "we" forced to take garbage at all? Anyone can own land, so there is absolutely no reason that trash collection should be a monopoly by any stretch of the imagination (beyond simple state-worship).
So you want to force people out onto the streets, huh?
Very progressive of you.
Why is this modded flamebait? Is refusing to force people to do things they don't want to, or don't have time to do considered to be wrong or evil in these parts?
Pretty much. I doubt they considered the cost of regulatory enforcement and compliance in their brilliant scheme.
You do know that we went from the founding of this country to 1913 without an income tax, right? Contrary to the popular meme, taxes!=civilization, nor do they buy it. Indeed, the great Khans, who were the opposite of civilized, loved taxes. Apropos to the yurt comment.
Pretty sure boiling means the phase transition between liquid and gas.
I love it when people don't even accept the premise of the title of the summary, much less RTFA.
Well, the President, for one (who signed a death warrant for an American citizen, authorizing assassination without a trial). With the new laws coming into place setting up a dual judicial system, where the military can arrest anyone at any time anywhere for any reason with zero due process and hold them indefinitely, Id' say they aren't safe from the long arm of the "law". Of course, neither are any of us.
So are the lazy slubs not doing anything. Why take from one group of poor people and give to another?
Floating minerals would be mighty valuable. Hell, I bet we'd fly to a nearby system with a moon populated with wild and fantastic creatures to get it.
Does that make Osama bin Laden Bilbo Baggins?
Remember that the United States was founded as a confederation of separate nations, each with their own laws. Laws originally existed at the national level to prevent flouting of state laws by movement across the open borders of the individual states, as well as to provide a single system of regulations for commerce, preventing individual states from becoming isolationist within the union. Of course, ever since the Civil War, and the establishment of a powerful, supreme central government, their authority has been creeping, to the point that they can now prosecute people for drugs that are grown by a person for their own personal use (not even for intrastate commerce, much less interstate commerce). That does not detract from the fact that there are three or more different governments in any given area of the United States, each with their own jurisdiction.
Yes, it is, but it is unconstitutional.
Don't assume the system works.
The drugs are super cheap. We could manufacture enough to cure the entire world of a given disease for about $50,000 (that is just the synthesis cost). It's the development cycle and more annoyingly, the FDA new drug regulations that are the problem. The cost of development is maybe five times that, including salaries for the microbiologists and chemists. The compliance costs, however, are in the millions.
That's the point, lots of doctors don't, for the reasons described. They would rather use antibiotic ointments.
And FYI, corporations are "all over it". Silver based technologies comprise about 90% of the medical device antimicrobial field ex systemic antibiotics, with the remainder being slow release antibiotic coatings or quaternary amines.
Considering it is my line of work, yes, I am an expert.
Find me a species of bacteria that can develop an immunity to direct oxidation of its membrane. Just one. Such an organism could live in fire, and swim in bleach. Evolution isn't magic, and poison is different from fire. You can become immune to poison, but only in fiction can you become immune to fire while remaining alive. Oxidative attack is the molecular equivalent of fire, the only difference is you don't get persistent plasma off of wet oxidation.
Actually, it does. Use of sound systems, or late night phone calls can be regulated at the local level, but congress shall make no law inhibiting the use of such things for speech.
Freedom of Assembly legitimizes peaceful protests. Same difference.
Actually, it's terrible. It interferes with protein folding, and accumulates in the liver, even when applied topically. Doctors hate the stuff because the silver bandages they use for burn wounds turns black due to the moisture associated with the wound, which makes it so that they can't tell if there is necrosis or not.
IANAD(octor), but my office is directly across from the department of surgery, and I have had discussions about this with them in the past. Silver is the best thing they have commercially available, but it is terrible. My company is developing better antimicrobials for them--non-leeching ones.
You do realize that phage co-evolves with bacteria, and as such bacteria never gain immunity to them, right?
It's like saying that Little Johnny got a cold, so now he is immune to all viruses.
Further, current antibiotics lead to resistance only because they act as poisons, and must get into the cell, and stick around long enough to do their damage. They can be pumped out. If you have a material that attacks the membrane, then you can't breed resistance. Not without a sudden dramatic leap to a new type of membrane, which would be a new species of bacteria, if not a whole new kingdom.
They exist, but they are only used in the clinic in Russia and nearby nations, so far as I know. A friend of mine works at a phage research company, and is working on FDA approval for use of the system in the USA. The problem is that phage is an undefined form of medicine, as it is evolved to work against a given infection on the fly. The FDA doesn't like that. They want defined medicines, and seem to be loathe to approve something as disorganized and effective as phage therapy.
Not if done properly.
My own company has developed a small catalyst that can be covalently bound to a targeting molecule. When released into the bloodstream, the catalyst gathers around the targeted cells and catalyzes the production of superoxide, which directly oxidizes the cell membrane. If you target virulence factors, or certain vital proteins in the membrane, there is no method by which they can develop immunity. Either they evolve to no longer have virulence factors (and are thus no longer a problem), or they have to change their entire membrane structure to an as yet unseen one that resists oxidative damage while still allowing water in, which would make it not only a new species, but a new kingdom.
Small businesses are the only ones left doing actual innovative R&D. The MBAs slashed all funding for R&D at most of the big firms. Now they just wait around for a small company to come up with a good technology/product, then sweep in and buy them up.
I doubt it. Empty words like that don't work against demographic trends, and the fact is that as nations get richer, their birth rates decline. The USA is only barely above replacement, and the nation of Italy is well below replacement rates. So much for RIGHT wing nutjobs and religious fools, eh?
Perhaps you could learn to hate people less?