FRISH
Wednesday, October 12, 2011
Thursday, October 6, 2011
Bootprints
Eco_h2o wrote:
What about our present abusive bootprint on the extinguishing bodies and habitats of thousands of innocent, nonhuman, beings?
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What about our present abusive bootprint on the extinguishing bodies and habitats of thousands of innocent, nonhuman, beings?
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Eco, as usual(!) we are in violent agreement,
not much can save many of those habitats or those bodies headed for extinction.
Doubt we are doing this ecological damage on purpose, it's "western civilization going global" on purpose.
Bear with me...
I founded a software firm and created a tool used to prepare tests that improve management plans.
How do 24/7 operations respond to "low probability, high impact" events?
Those contingency plans require testing to ensure they will perform when the real thing happens.
Item 12 on the list is the hugely steaming 15 lbs of POLITICS stuffed in a 10 lb bag...and points out why we failed, not for lack of trying, but because of the "political" exposure using our product produces!
Continuous process improvement is attainable,
and could even be placed into existing governmental processes to make them continuously better.
Defining "Better" entails setting goals, those goals are what politics is all about!
Government, "by the people", has the power to do the right thing.
If "by the people" we mean those who live and breathe, not corporations for example.
THE PEOPLE can motivate both corporate moguls and government bureaucrats to do the right thing,
if we can agree on what GOAL we are setting out to achieve.
We VOLUNTEERS are doing our part,
each of us denying our peculiar genetic information from continuing within the human genome.
Seems a good compromise, since never has a government formed
for the purpose of assisting those governed in non-propagation, so as to vanish from the Earth.
As I see it, we volunteers, by our unique natures, can have only one common political purpose.
We must establish (where necessary) and continuously assure (everywhere) the freedom to "just say no" to childbearing.
Frish
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FRISH
Tuesday, October 4, 2011
Overpopulation is a myth (dot com!)
http://overpopulationisamyth.com/
FRISH
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Oy vey. "people are the most valuable resource on the planet, the one resource we cannot do without."
Thought it sounded like a religious based organization, and, I believe it is!
-- FRISH
From an article...regarding eating locally...
http://news.yahoo.com/long-road-farm-fork-worsens-food-outbreaks-090306716.html
"Clearly the food industry has just changed enormously in the last several decades," Olson said. "It would be virtually impossible to sit down and eat a meal and eat food that hasn't come from all over the world."
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FRISH
1. No one is regulating the food industry, worldwide
2. The supply chain, and energy used, to produce and distribute and cook food is long, torturous, tenuous and poisonous.
3. Mostly living in urban settings, humanity doesn't have enough land area to feed itself locally!
4. As the article surmises, the greatly reduced number of suppliers (as corporate farming carves up the countryside)
and the length of the chain from supply to demand causes food borne illness to be more and more common
5. Few if any trends in food production can be considered sustainable
Enjoy whatever ripe fruit from Chile soon.
FRISH
Sunday, October 2, 2011
Forests, CO2, and climate chaos...
The incredibly horrible outcome from our pollution on forests cannot be overestimated.
The implication of climate change for the world's forests is the topic here:
Quote of the year:
"Scientists are not sure how likely this feedback loop is, and they are not eager to find out the hard way"
FRISH
"Scientists are not sure how likely this feedback loop is, and they are not eager to find out the hard way"
If our history is a guide, we'll certainly find out far too late to fix or avoid or even cope with the chaos we've introduced into the Planet Earth's chemistry.
-- FRISH
Saturday, September 24, 2011
Wednesday, September 14, 2011
100 days over 100 degrees
(CBS/AP)
DALLAS - Wichita Falls has become the first Texas city to have 100 days of triple-digit temperatures in one year, the same day the Dallas-Fort Worth area joined the state's long list of cities with a record number of 100-degree days in 2011.
Not far from Oklahoma state line in North Texas and home to the Hotter 'N Hell Hundred bike race every summer, Wichita Falls had already broken its one-year record for 100-degree days weeks ago by Tuesday. The previous mark of 79 came in 1980, which was the benchmark for Texas heat waves before this year.
"When you consider the previous record was 79 and that was considered the monster of all summers, to exceed that by ... (25 percent) is pretty astounding," Victor Murphy of the National Weather Service said.
Meteorologist Garry Seith of CBS News affiliate KTVT-TV in Dallas reported on CBS' "The Early Show" Wednesday that the state's average temperature of 86.8 degrees makes Texas' summer the hottest any state has ever recorded.
FRISHSaturday, September 10, 2011
Natural Gas, Replacing Oil to Reduce Emissions...oops
As many know already, and has been shared here periodically, the energy available from any current alternative to petroleum and coal
without adding to climate change or pollution that lasts for millions of years, or being expensive beyond return, or killing lots of birds, is difficult.
Until our population goes to zero.
Then efficiency will be left to nature.
Wigley's computer simulations indicate that a worldwide, partial shift from coal to natural gas would slightly accelerate climate change through at least 2050, even if no methane leaked from natural gas operations, and through as late as 2140 if there were substantial leaks. After that, the greater reliance on natural gas would begin to slow down the increase in global average temperature, but only by a few tenths of a degree.
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FRISH
Friday, September 9, 2011
Tonight's headlines from Texas
These are appearing, at this moment, as two of the headlines in the USA portion of YAHOO!'s home page. updated 07:20 pm
Tiger in "love triangle" kills mate at Texas zoo
Police: Dallas mom glued daughter's hands to wall
The zoo walls may be more porous than specified...
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FRISHWednesday, August 31, 2011
Hydrogen Fuel Cell for motors to drive vehicles, and airplanes!
I believe that this particular discovery is a game changer...more energy, more people...
"Ours is the first game in town for reusable, air stabile ammonia borane dehydrogenation," Williams said,
adding that the USC Stevens Institute is in the process of patenting the system.
Yes, it says "potential" but even so...this or something similar could put a dent in our dependence on Petroleum.
The system is sufficiently lightweight and efficient to have potential fuel applications ranging from motor-driven cycles to small aircraft, he said.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/08/110830151234.htm
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FRISHSunday, August 28, 2011
Hard Core Dominionists - be afraid, be very afraid
These guys have been infecting right wing politics for over 30 years.
They're dedicated, well funded, and insane.
TAKES ABOUT AN HOUR, sample it and you will find nuggets at every spot.
Try starting at minute 4:45 and see...
Way worth it, know thy enemy.
Podcast Title: NPR: Fresh Air Podcast
Episode: NPR: 08-24-2011 Fresh Air
Media URL:
http://podcastdownload.npr.org/anon.npr-podcasts/podcast/13/139930147/npr_139930147.mp3
Podcast feed URL:
http://www.npr.org/rss/podcast.php?id=13
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FRISHEpisode: NPR: 08-24-2011 Fresh Air
Media URL:
http://podcastdownload.npr.org/anon.npr-podcasts/podcast/13/139930147/npr_139930147.mp3
Podcast feed URL:
http://www.npr.org/rss/podcast.php?id=13
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Monday, August 22, 2011
Sunday, August 21, 2011
Interesting study of when children recognize a RELIABLE source
(I am probably reading far too much into this. Copied the author, so perhaps she can enlighten me further!)
It's a fun study
Essentially, the source who was right without assistance became more trustworthy.
"Three-year-olds were equally likely to choose the puppet who'd known the answers on its own and the puppet that got help from Ted. But four- and five-year-olds were more discriminating: They invested more trust in the puppet whose accuracy reflected independent knowledge rather than being dependent on an external source. "We think it's important that from the age of around four, children are being sophisticated in a way that people hadn't really shown before," Einav says. "They're able to distinguish someone who's truly knowledgeable from someone who's given them a right answer but doesn't necessarily deserve long-term trust." This useful skill allows children to seek out people who are likely to be particularly beneficial for their learning."
SOME people believe things told to them as a personal testimonial MORE SO than a "scientific" source that relies on Multiple People (peer review at least) to come to conclusions.
"They invested more trust in the puppet whose accuracy reflected independent knowledge rather than being dependent on an external source."
AND perhaps why some have no conception that all ideas aren't equal.
Creation science is not equal to evolution for example and deserves a footnote in a political science class perhaps.
Seeming to "leave one's body" then seeing a white light, a tunnel, and a beckoning shadowy glowing figure
before "returning" to tell the tale doesn't mean there is life after death.
Global Warming? It's a hoax to enrich researchers (huh? LOL)
Yet many are taken in by "testimony" not supported by facts!
How does personal "testimony" serve The Religion of Republicans
(TROR - prounounced TERROR - yes, I just thought it up!)
0. Individuals helping themselves is ideal
1. since all government bad
2. since all taxes bad
3. and therefore lower taxes and less government means more work.
4. Work makes you free, since you can then be independent!
"Arbeit macht frei" is a slogan over the entrance of several Nazi Concentration Camps, most famously Auschwitz.
No substantiation for either 1 or 2, and, since taxes have essentially never been lower, 3 certainly doesn't hold either.
But, repeat it enough on enough news outlets and people BELIEVE it.
Don't need any outside help, THIS IS WHAT I BELIEVE (along with the others who were given the same talking points)!
Perry, Palin, Bachmann all benefit from this odd tendency people have when judging reliability of sources.
Fox News Fair and Balanced...
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FRISHAssociation for Psychological Science (2011, August 20). Four-year-olds know that being right is not enough. ScienceDaily. Retrieved
Friday, August 19, 2011
Family size expectations diminished during times of financial stress
Frish Sez:
My parents bugged me plenty (but not overly much) about having kids.
"I can't afford them" I'd say.
They said: "No one can afford them, if you wait til you can afford them you'll never have them!"
GOOD ANSWER, I still can't afford them, and am happier everyday I avoided the pleasures (and anguishes) of parenthood!
I'm happier for my non-existent offspring that is, just as proud as any parent, only more so!
Some of you may know what I mean when I say: "Lowered Expectations" (SNL).
Copied from here:
When men and women talk about getting married and having a family, they usually mean more than one child.
But the economy is changing that for many women in their 20s and 30s.
Many women, CBS News Correspondent Elaine Quijano reported, are scaling back their baby goals.
Melissa Rheinlander told CBS News her plan was to have three children by now and "living the good life."
However, instead of the gaggle of kids she expected, she now has only one daughter.
Rheinlander says it's because of money. She said, "There is a lot of financial responsibility with having one child and honestly, I did not realize how expensive children can be until we had Alexandra."
Quijano reported on "The Early Show" that Rheinlander's response is a common refrain among many women of child bearing age today. With the average cost of raising a child nearly $250,000, many women are putting their plans on hold.
According to a new Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report, the jittery economy is responsible for birthrates falling to their lowest rates since 2007, falling into the same pattern not seen since the Great Depression. Today's birth rates are 65 births per 1,000 women - less than rates found in 1935 when birthrates were 77 per 1,000 women.
Sarah Fowler knows this firsthand. Even though she is only 24 years old, she says like a lot of younger women, mapping out her future family plans already seem like a constant struggle.
Fowler said, "When I was thinking about family, I really looked at my mom, and kind of what she did, and she had her first child when she was 26 and I assumed I would do the same thing."
Her dream of already being married to her boyfriend of five years diminished this past year when their bills and their aspirations stopped adding up.
Fowler said, "As a young woman, it's really difficult to find that balance to really strive towards having a family at a great age."
Waiting too long can be a risk for women.
Dr. Jacques Moritz, director of gynecology at New York's St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center, told CBS News, "They might not be able to get pregnant, or they may need in-vitro services. ... The second thing which we're going to have to think about is: What is the effect of having older mothers with younger children?"
For Rheinlander, she's hoping a change in the economy will come and that their dream family will become a reality.
Rheinlander said, "It's unfortunate right now but I don't want to add to our debt and overextend ourselves."
On "The Early Show," co-anchor Chris Wragge said, "The study did find that there was actually an increase of babies being born last year to women in their 40s."
Thursday, August 18, 2011
Monday, August 15, 2011
Starbuck's CEO needs to cut out the caffeine . . .
Chief Executive Officer Howard Schultz urged other CEOs to boycott donating to U.S. political campaigns to encourage leaders to solve the nation's growing budget deficit.
"I am asking that all of us forego political contributions until the Congress and the President return to Washington and deliver a fiscally disciplined long-term debt and deficit plan to the American people," Schultz wrote in an e-mail sent to business leaders that was obtained by Bloomberg News.
FRISH
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