Bullshit, my brother owned a wholesale nursery for almost 20yrs, the Aussie mega-drought killed it a few years ago. Plants sold in department stores and supermarkets are grown on contract, often the buyer supplies the patented seed/rootstock via a third party to the contract. At harvest time the buyer's insurance company sends out an assessor to make sure the crop is in good health. The plants leave the "farm" in excellent condition, from that point onwards they start to die unless they are properly taken care of in terms of light, temperature, and moisture. Warehouses, the insides of shipping containers, vans, etc, are normally dark, dry places, there's also a limit as to how long you can keep an outside plant displayed inside a supermarket, which (unlike the insurer) the store generally ignores until the leaves start falling off. I've found that supermarkets that sell poor quality plants also tend to sell poor quality fruit and veg, most likely for similar reasons.

Agreed, but they get a lot of their stock from the same wholesalers, just like the local fruit and veg shop gets their stock from the same wholesale market the big supermarkets shop at.

Just to be clear, I wasn't suggesting barefoot was superior, did you notice the guy in the video is wearing synthetic joggers? Also, wolves, dogs and hyenas ARE persistence hunters but they generally do it tag team style, apes and lions are not built for it. The video shows them targeting a healthy bull because it's horns slow it down, but in prehistoric times the kills were more likely weaker members of the heard, ie: the young, old or sick.

There are fossils of tall hominids in Africa, the species is said to have been capable of 30mph+, it's though that it practiced persistence hunting with nothing more than a fist sized rock for a weapon, they were obviously superior at that type of hunting but died out? - Thing is there is no "silver bullet" for survival, humans survived over other hominids not because we were "experts" at anything, rather it's because we were well adapted to many forms of hunting, fishing, sheltering, gathering, territorial defense, etc, etc.

Apparently DA anointed Mark Cox as his successor when accepting some lifetime achievement award, but his real achievement is the production company, he often calls the behind the scenes talent that work with him the "heroes", he has a current series that uses his old and new footage to demonstrate the technological changes as well as changes in our understanding of the rock we live on. My dad is 80 and has started to walk like Attenborough, but nobody is immortal and you simply can't replace a beloved role model who has been with you for all of your personal eternity.

You make a good point, some individuals wake up one morning and find themselves owning a thriving business, they built it from the ground up and pride themselves on being able to competently perform any and every role (yes, in many cases these people are delusional). However....

Here's another anecdote along similar lines..

I drove taxis for a few years, the guy I worked for had one of the biggest taxi fleets in the city (Melbourne), his personal wealth was around $AU30 million, he also sat on the board of the city's taxi directorate. He was normally at the depot 12 hours a day, 7 days a week, he and his son did all the repairs and servicing of the cabs, his standard attire was a pair of oily green overalls and steel cap boots. New sales reps often wandered in and asked him where "his boss" was.

His work ethic set a great example, he worked harder and longer than anyone else in the company, consequently he knew the industry inside out and top to bottom. The only job he would no longer do was driving. Unfortunately the rest of his personality was that of a complete *arsehole, he used his depth of knowledge and experience in the industry to bully his son, his workers, other board members, the local council, basically everyone on his radar. Any driver with half a brain avoided the old man and dealt with the son for shift changeover, but if you wanted your overheating cab back on the road fast then you went to the old man with the big screwdriver hung on his right thigh like a six-shooter.

*arsehole - He was a smart, honest, hard working guy, if these traits had been weaker I suspect he would have been "top dog" in a prison somewhere. I'm now roughly the same age as he was when I knew him, the "suffer no fools" attitude has its uses but it just doesn't scale to accommodate people who firmly believe everyone else is a fool.

Ditto, I have 15yrs blue collar experience and 20+yrs white collar, never had to ask about wages during an interview. If they are unwilling to ask/tell me about remuneration upfront then I'm unwilling to talk to them any further. I prefer them to ask me what I want rather than tell me what they are offering, but the headhunting heydays of the 90's are gone forever.

The way I see it is: If you turn up to a "pig in the poke" interview, you have already told your future boss that you're desperate and/or naive.

Yep, and pre-WW2 the word "computer" meant somebody who calculated artillery tables by hand. Compiling artillery tables was a very early use for the first "real" computers.

It's called persistence hunting, basically you (marathon) run down your prey, humans are superbly adapted for doing it barefoot on warm dry plains.

Defamation is a deliberate untruth spoken for the purpose of harming your reputation, it causes material harm by diminishing your capacity to earn, your feelings about it are irrelevant. You cannot accidentally defame someone, you cannot defame anyone if you or they do not have a reputation to protect. Google does not deliberately defame until it refuses to take down a defamatory association, if they leave it up then as the publisher with a reputation to protect they have deliberately endorsed .the defamatory association. As it is now a competitor with enough money can hire someone to game the system and get whatever association they want to appear in autocomplete, be it good association for themselves or bad associations for their competitors. Stronger defamation laws would help remove some of the most egregious propaganda currently plaguing the MSM.

"Delicious" is an opinion, not a fact. It can't be false but it can be offensive, "offensive" is also an opinion. My own opinion is that the US goes too far with free speech and Germany does not go far enough.

If reporters come to understand that the administration came after them on a fishing expedition, which is what this was, they will not be happy.

Reporters are, on the whole, pretty unintelligent and shallow people who write the stories they are told, in the way they are told, by their editors, and who without such direct instruction quickly lapse back into gossip, lattes, and twitter feeds. I doubt most journalists have even heard of this story.

If Holder knew about Breuer's decision not to prosecute any bankers -- he did -- then he should fired for that alone. Unfortunately, Holder is in his position precisely because he did know this, and because he will uphold the law in as dysfunctional a manner as the administration desires.

Sometimes I think the only reason they are getting away with this is because Obama is the President and liberals and progressives are unwilling to challenge him, and conservatives are secretly cheering the whole thing on. But secretly, deep down, I understand that this is all just fallout from September 11th 2001, and that the United States of America will never be able to go back to the way it was.

Which is a big problem for the rest of us.

It really is blackmail. This is a threat with menances in order to get someone to comply with the sender, and it is not a reasonable way of enforcing the request. If they simply send out the letters, while questionable in other ways it is not blackmail. These threats however are genuine straight up blackmail. I'm not sure whether this is criminal or civil offence in the US, but in the UK you'd be in a lot of trouble for this.

Corporations pay tax and the people who own the corporations make all of its decisions, corporations do not have a vote since that would be "double dipping" for the owners. I'm not from the US but it makes me sick to see the FF industry can buy a lying sack of shit like senator Inhofe and put him in charge of a federal environmental committee, but social organizations such a businesses, churches, unions, special interest groups, private watchdogs, mass media, suicide cults, etc, etc, are what makes us a civilization as opposed to a tribe, silencing one particular type of organization won't fix anything. What needs to be done in the US has been pointed out by others - cap campaign spending and force political ads to comply with "truth in advertising" style laws. Taking the megaphones and amplifiers away from groups that can afford them allows others to be heard. Drowning out a speaker is one of the oldest political tactics in existence, we should not be making it easier for wealthy groups to use it.

It's not all bad in the US, "town hall" style politics is still alive and kicking and with modern communications it's much easier to see what a particular politician is telling different audiences. The US also has many of the worlds top scientist, engineers, etc, working for (or with) their public service in support of evidence based policy.

I accidentally ate chocolate coated ants once. My wife had left half a mars bar neatly wrapped in the console, I spotted it while driving and with one deft movement popped the whole thing into my mouth without taking my eyes off the road. At first I thought I had hair on my face but it soon became apparent some ants were also feasting on the chocolate. I wound down the window and spat the ball of half chewed insects and toffee out the window. For the next half hour if felt like I had hair stuck at the back of my throat.

"H will be stripped from H2O in the upper atmosphere and bleed into space, the O2 will bond with C to form CO2" I'm obviously not a chemist, WP will put you straight on what I'm trying to say.