This is how you get e. coli contamination of your vegetable crops. Manure contaminated water gets sucked into the plants and even the bleach washes the salad makers use can't kill it because its captured inside the plant's cellulose matrix.
I agree with the general idea that we don't need reverse-osmosis purified water for every possible water use, and that grey water with minimal filtering (usually just solids) is ideal for many re-use cases.
But if you're gonna re-user water contaminated with sewage of some kind, it's gonna need more intensive filtration or be injected in small quantities at the start of a much longer water cycle so it gets cleansed through natural processes.
Wait, are you really arguing that "manure contaminated water" cannot be used for watering plants? Wait until you hear about how manure has been used for, oh, I don't know, all of agricultural history?
Who makes smartphones in Russia to be affected?
There are some local makes, like YotaPhone, but virtually all popular smartphones are represented. The iPhone is a cultural icon in Russia. On the Android side, Samsungs are ubiquitous. My guess is that this applies to foreign phones imported for the Russian market as well as Russian manufactured devices.
You forgot to put "referendum" in quotes.
Because it really was a referendum. Do you understand Russian politics? Do you speak/read Russian? Do you have friends who lived or live in Crimea? No? Then maybe you shouldn't continue to push anti-Russian propaganda. The residents of Crimea were thrilled to become citizens of Russia. Many of them were hoping for it for a long time. Opportunity and quality of life is up big time in Crimea since they joined the Russian Federation. Why do you think all media suddenly became silent on actual conditions there? Don't you think if things sucked there we would hear about it every day in order to further the anti-Russia story? The worst hit piece they were able to manage was a couple weeks after the transition, where people standing in line to have their passport (national ID) changed, and people were complaining how long it was taking.
By that logic, the only moral problem with Iraq was that the opponent had the audacity to resist invasion. If they'd just surrendered, the US would have been in the right and could have gone further and annexed the territory.
Well sure, if Iraq had put out the red carpet, thrown a big party, then had a referendum where 90% of them voted to join the US as the 51st state, then the two situations would be exactly comparable.
- stares in disbelief at monitor -
Crimea was not a "war", there was no shooting, it was a country waiting to be annexed. As for Eastern Ukraine? Don't believe everything you hear on CNN.
Administrative takeover of corporations by autoritative central state, with intimidation through abuse of executive power, is textbook fascism. Mussolini would be proud.
From TFA:
It’s not clear whether URSC will gain a majority share of Energia during the shareholders meeting. Officials have spoken of increasing the government’s share of the company from 38 to 51 percent.
Ok, so lets step back a minute and consider. The CEO of Energia has problems with corruption. The government is upset because a company of such importance to the national security and national prestige as Energia is no place for corruption. The government starts an investigation into the corruption and moves to buy enough shares to bring the company under state control. What is wrong with this? This is not Chavez-style nationalization, this is a traditional hostile takeover via buying enough shares. Lets all stop buying into the anti-Russian propaganda, shall we?
The US is about the only country that taxes citizens regardless of where they live and work. Which leads to a fun situation where the kids of US citizens born abroad are considered natural US citizens and expected to file taxes, but may not be eligible to vote depending on which state their parents were from. Taxation without representation.
Citation for this? I don't think that any US Citizen can be denied the vote based on the nationality/residency of their parents.
I hope this gets shared widely in school science classes and among the home schooled.
In my experience most of the home-drooled kids get only a very basic bit of science because it's likely to interfere with the wacky creationist/survivalist ideas of their parents.
This is a vile stereotype that doesn't deserve to be propagated. I say this as a home-schooled person currently enrolled in a Computer Science Ph.D. program at a well known state university.
Indeed, the "cover walls with soundproof foam" idea actually seems rather more practical in a dorm than elsewhere because of the typically small size of dorm rooms...
Go to Lowe's or Home Depot and but the foam that is used for sheeting the outside of houses. It comes in manageably sized fan-folded panels, and isn't very expensive.
Apparently they swam away from their trainers ostensibly in search of a 'mate"' out in open waters.
So, they left to get laid?
The Tao is like a stack: the data changes but not the structure. the more you use it, the deeper it becomes; the more you talk of it, the less you understand.
