As I recall, the agricultural pesticide industry was initially derived from the chemical weapons industry, not the other way around. Poisons had been known for centuries, but weren't widely applied as they were toxic to both humans and pests. Large scale agricultural applications of pesticides began with DDT, which wasn't developed until 1939.
However in war, most of the time, you are trying to claim that that spot of land is your territory. So depending on the outcome, you are either the the aggressor or defendor.
The second you approve of a policy that restricts action X based on moral grounds, you have defined a vulnerability that a less ethical enemy will exploit.
Furthermore, when you're in a war, it's chaos. Bad stuff happens. Collateral damage happens. You certainly don't plan to inflict 1000 civilian casualties, but you can predict that in a city of 1 million people undergoing an all out conflagration, there will statistically be civilians killed, displaced, wounded, orphaned, starving, etc. You don't stop a war just because you're better at math.
War also isn't the first choice of a rational society. Diplomacy, negotiations, sanctions, pressure, demonstrations, all these kinds of activities are intended to solve the problem before it degenerates into war. But there is always another side, and if it degenerates to war, it's because at least one side was acting in bad faith. ISIL isn't even acting as a rational society. They don't negotiate - they enter an area, kidnap and rape the girls and take them forcibly as wives, and kill, conscript, or indenture the males. They use civilians as human shields, betting that an opposing force won't bomb their headquarters if they have them located in a schoolhouse full of children.
An outside society can do two things: allow the continued expansion of slavery and genocide, or attempt to stop it. If non-military resolutions fail, what would you have them do? "Sorry, you can't fight those insurgents because they duct-tape kidnapped children to the front of their vehicles." "Right, we'll just let them continue on their homicidal path because we can't place those children at risk."
It's not like anyone in the West wants civilian casualties. The moral high ground may not be perfect, and it may not be absolutely 100% civilian casualty free, but you can't claim a millimeter of moral high ground if you let the atrocities continue unchecked.
However if your business is integrated with your home, then you have a different set of issues.
1. Customers will need to travel further to work with you, So we will need more expensive last mile infrastructure.
2. Large business will buy your home. If a business wants to expand, they will probably target your home more than they would if you live in a residential district. As well you get the issues of company owned housing. Where you are a slave to the company, as if you get fired or laid off you loose your job and your home.
It's a shame the company didn't offer a retrofit kit to bring the old design into compliance.
They don't have to do this stuff to sell their stoves anywhere else, so why bother? Just drop the market, and keep selling the old design which works fine as long as you don't overdamp it. But sadly, most of us have no idea that overdamping is what causes excessive wood stove emissions. I mean, nobody ever taught me anything about starting a fire, or maintaining one, even though I grew up in a house with a fireplace.
You can have end-to-end encryption right now if you are willing to do some work. Your Android phone has a built-in SIP client. Well, in theory; my SIP settings seem to have disappeared with Lollipop. I hope they'll come back by 5.1, if not sooner. But there's various SIP softphones available for all mobile platforms, probably even including windows phone. Android at least, and probably the others too, supports IPSEC. Everything you need is right there. The problem then becomes whether you can actually trust your phone. The answer is probably no.
If you truly want to protect against things like this, you're going to need a portable device with wifi and an open CPU. Best of luck finding one. It'll also need an IOMMU and a driver which prohibits the NIC from stepping out of line, or a NIC with open firmware. Otherwise, someone could (theoretically) own your NIC and then browse your memory from it.
Wait, you mean they were using the same equation? Did they discover it on stone tablets chiseled by ALIENS?
How about, ancient and modern cities follow same mathematical pattern? Because that could actually be true. Both ancient and modern cities weren't built from the same city planning manual, because most cities (even modern ones) aren't planned at all, except haphazardly and as they go.
Not irrelevant, because you can't impose these kinds of burdens (financial and otherwise) on people without the certainty that they'll make things better.
Why not? Of course you can. It's done all the time.
Most Unix stuff doesn't follow the Unix "way of doing things"...
Most of the stuff that the system depends on and that actually makes it Unix does follow the Unix Way. Maybe your favorite application doesn't, but we're talking about the actual system here.
Sex isn't trademarked, so domain squatting doesn't apply.
Uh no. That's not how it works. Domain squatting is buying a domain for the purposes of speculation, and trademark is irrelevant. It would help if you knew what we were talking about.
I'm sure jobless people in Ireland will be happy to lose a few trees if they can put some food on the table of their families.
Right. At the expense of others. The whole system is rotten, it's not just Apple.
If the US wants to keep jobs in the US then they also need to be more competitive
It's hard to be more competitive than someone willing to sell out their country's future and everyone else's too. I thought we the USA had already proven that?
Can no one see that not messing with the climate any more than we have to is the conservative position, at least as "conservative" is properly defined?
There are two fairly rational rebuttals to that, at least that I know of, and I'm on your side. The first is that we're already messing with the environment, so we might as well try to mess with it in a way that improves it. The second is that we're not going to stop messing with the environment, it's kind of what we do, so again, let's try to do it right. So both inertia and our nature work against the idea of not doing something.
Now, with that said, there are a couple of patents on making chemtrails- uh, excuse me, "persistent contrails" which have been tested by the DoD. One of them is special fuel additives. The other is spraying powder. Of course, reducing albedo by spraying aerosols is itself patented. And yeah, the things the patents describe using are not things you want to be using.
The easy way to turn things white is to make roads out of concrete instead of asphalt. The catch is that
...concrete roads are bullshit. They are basically unrepairable. When they start to go to hell, and they will eventually because everything does, then they are the worst things ever.
By the way - one would have to keep it sane; making the freeways and parking lots white may keep heat down and increase albedo, but I damn sure wouldn't want to drive on such a glare-factory, let alone try to navigate it in the Winter.
Is there even anything that roadways can feasibly be made of that isn't black? We have a long stretch of concrete freeway very near where I live, which I drive on regularly. It's the US 101 between cloverdale and someplace around healdsburg or santa rosa, I forget when it goes back to blacktop since I so rarely head down that way. And it is, bar none, the absolute worst stretch of freeway in the state, for a lot of reasons which ought to be obvious and have to do largely with repairability. About the only way to get a smooth ride out of it is to get into the left lane and go 75-80, at which point a vehicle with decent suspension will sort of float and sort of bounce over the bumps. You can't go slower because you'll just be an obstacle, and anyway it's not smooth at lower speeds.
I doubt it would do much of anything to affect climate though, since (aside from tenured profs seeking prominence, politicians making megabucks off of AGW, and quasi-religious zealots who refuse to admit otherwise) most climate science is still grossly incomplete, too immature to predict much of anything with any accuracy.
Irrelevant. We don't need to make specific predictions to predict that things will be bad.
I've got to say that there has been fairly annoying fallout from that decision. The house I rent has a very efficient and clean-burning stove if you operate the damper correctly, but it's possible to do it wrong so you can't sell these stoves any more. So the manufacturer pulled out of the USA and now they don't even want to talk to Americans and it's impossible to get parts.
It's really too bad that people aren't held personally responsible for their behavior, so that we could have nice things
I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning. -- Plato
