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by shit_parade 12y ago
Desalination is also currently energy intensive. It is suitable for living needs, like having drinkable water, but would absolutely crush any margins when it comes to growing food.
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by shit_parade 12y ago
Agriculture uses the vast majority of water but most farmers pay very little, sometimes nothing, and sometimes they 'own' water rights which can be very valuable and often worth more than any of the land they farm upon. Farmers ha
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by shit_parade 12y ago
Wheat and other grains, because of how water intensive they are to grow, are considered an international water trading market. Agricultural subsidies are common and significant, especially in rich developed nations. This is for various reas
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by shit_parade 12y ago
We live in a country where our public officials openly state that companies are "too big to jail", and they are unwilling to prosecute them for wrong doing because it could cause "systemic failure". http://www
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by shit_parade 12y ago
It's rather difficult to defend yourself against an organization that can use it's wealth and influence to leverage the government to make it a crime to fight against them, or to make it so expensive to compete that unless you&#x2
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by shit_parade 12y ago
Help me understand, are you claiming that by committing suicide Aaron was unwilling to risk the penalties of breaking the law? Generally laws are changed by disobeying them, did you miss the day in civics when they discussed rosa parks? How
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by shit_parade 12y ago
Do you have a designated freespeech zone for me to use? Where shall I gather the money to run radio ads? You actually believe planting trees is a way to address grievances? My state and national representative will not care one iota for my
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by shit_parade 12y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulatory_capture#United_Stat... See FAA Is anyone familiar with the concept of a revolving door? The FAA isn't magically immune to this process and is in fact a good case study of t
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by shit_parade 12y ago
>Unfortunately, it became a "mere" tragedy that I fear will wind up doing far less to solve the problems he wanted to than if he'd stuck it out. This reads as victim blaming to me, perhaps you didn't intend it such bu
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by shit_parade 12y ago
the author writes, "These experiences prompted me to consider how Aaron Swartz might have pursued a more aggressive public campaign as part of his legal defense." He goes on to mention Mr. Brown, but he also ignores that Brown was
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by shit_parade 12y ago
Very few cases see a jury these days. The typical tactic for a prosecutor is to pile up charges until the defendant is facing many, many, many years of jail time then once the consequences of going to trial is made abundantly clear to the d
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by shit_parade 12y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PhFvZRT7Ds0
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by shit_parade 12y ago
When numerous examples can be found of abuse by government at the township, county, state, and federal levels what else can you say besides the parent comment? Is your defense the usual 'few bad apples' argument because at this po
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by shit_parade 12y ago
banned for everyone who aren't our friends, who give us money, and who write the laws we use.
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by shit_parade 12y ago
wait until he realizes the inherit classicism that exists between wizards and fighters.
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by shit_parade 12y ago
Wow. Do you even know how much time an elected official spends fund raising? Many members of congress fund raise every day, every day they are walking out of capitol hill and across the street to be glorified phone bank monkeys begging some
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by shit_parade 12y ago
>I don't want to live in a panopticon anymore than you do. Probably best to stop showing up to work at the panopticon then, you know, if you actually believe what you write. Lots of scientists fled Nazi Germany, the Manhattan projec
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by shit_parade 12y ago
Many States deflect criticisms of for profit lotteries by advertising that some of the proceeds go toward schools and other 'public' goods. It is well known that lotteries pray upon the poor and uneducated, ironic really. Instead
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by shit_parade 12y ago
meanwhile Obama gives pretty speeches about fighting extremism and tries to drum up more support for killing people an ocean away. American Democracy is a farce.
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by shit_parade 12y ago
>> How is that legal, are you invoking the Bush doctrine[0] of pre-emptive strikes, although to call that legal is a stretch. >The nuclear bombing of Japan was not a pre-emptive strike. Pearl Harbor was a thing. The OP is using the
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by shit_parade 12y ago
How utterly disgusting, you will write that "What exactly is "common sense" in such a world, and why does waterboarding or drone strikes run counter to that "common sense"?" You are simply a stooge, a lawyer in
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by shit_parade 12y ago
Generally the most important move is the first move, a common 'zen' go problem is an empty board with 'black to play to win'. Komi(compensation given to the second player) is a recent invention(1900s) and has only gone u
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by shit_parade 12y ago
>We live in a world where the government can drop a nuke on Japan, vaporizing tens of thousands of civilians (including some American POWs), and that's 100% legal. hahaha, ok maybe you are just insane. How is that legal, are you inv
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by shit_parade 12y ago
> What we've learned about the NSA programs indicates that the government internally tries to toe what well-defined lines exist without crossing them. ?? Is this before or after Clapper lies under oath to congress? is this before or
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by shit_parade 12y ago
I've noticed more blogs using Patreon, interesting to see google joining the scene, always wonder how much VISA et al takes out when you are contributing 1/month or similar.
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by shit_parade 12y ago
What a comedy, and the State strikes again, better behave citizens and do as your government tells you or else they will take away your children and/or put you in jail. You've been warned, and a file has been opened, the State is
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by shit_parade 12y ago
Statistically the world is dramatically safer by almost anyway you slice it.
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by shit_parade 12y ago
McCain would of at least prosecuted torture, but it seems rather academic to argue which warmonger is the nicest warmonger.
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by shit_parade 12y ago
unrelated question, but how does HN rank threads, at time of posting this thread has 89 points, 106 comments, and 1 hour but ranks in the 50s
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by shit_parade 12y ago
How about Abdulrahman al-Awlaki or Samir Khan? I suppose they didn't even get the semblance of due process, just were at the wrong place at the wrong time. EDIT: parent asked for a source for secret courts, the "disposition matrix

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