Comment Re:i'd be happy if... (Score 1) 196
You're not the only one. The new style won't stay in for either me or my wife. The old style was slightly better, but I stick with my Sennheiser headphones when I can.
but starting a car company from the ground up isn't easy, especially when you're taking over a century of auto industry tradition and standing it on its head.
I'm sure Preston Tucker would agree with that thought.
I loathe the Himalayan Blackberry. The berries, while large and numerous, are bland. They store a lot of energy in their roots quickly, so once they get a foothold, they send out shoots everywhere- especially after you cut them back.
Aye -- and the canes grow and branch quickly. I used to own close to 20ac and battled them constantly. They tend to grow in a fountain shape, which when sufficiently large makes it difficult to get at the base for cutting. The canes also branch and intertwine, which coupled with the nasty-ass thorns makes control a battle at any scale. I had a commercial front-mower with a 72" deck and got reasonably good at death from a thousand cuts -- I'd hook a clump around the spindle on the deck's front wheels, then back up to lay it out flat (a move I learned from snakes), then run over it with the deck and repeat. I still have scars on my arms from the inevitable thorn attacks, and never found anything that would stop them. There are evergreen blackberries too, the ones with lacy / dissected leaves, but they seem less aggressive. There's also actually a delicious native, the dewberry, but it's small and much better behaved, so it can't compete.
Goats are the best remedy. I had a single goat clear an acre of 8-10' tall bramble in a span of a few months. For good. They eat new shoots as soon as they appear until the blackberry roots have expended all their stored energy.
Agreed, it is astounding to watch goats go after this preferred yet armored delicacy, especially since they have no upper teeth. I still don't know how a Nubian can stand on its spindly hind legs to reach up.
If you don't have a goat, then you must remain vigilant. I have a zero tolerance policy towards blackberries. If I see one on my property, it dies.
I hadn't the time/energy/$ to be that extreme about blackberries there, but I sure was about the @#$@#$@# japanese knotweed. Dumbass previous owner planted it because he thought it was friggin' bamboo. Blackberries are nasty, but knotweed, that shit is just plain the devil incarnate, and nearly impossible to kill short of nuking the site from orbit.
Of course, a cynic might point out (and I might be one) that the carbon in the fossil fuel was also in the atmosphere at one time, to the tune of no less than 1500 ppm in the Carboniferous period
Maybe, for some. The Deep Hot Biosphere makes an interesting case for a non-biological source for at least some fossil fuel.
"One Architecture, One OS" also translates as "One Egg, One Basket".
