160,000 “proven winners”
503 “sex leaders”

Googlesez polygamy doesn’t add up

Years ago I bought zipcode domains until I couldn’t afford it anymore.

I wasn’t the first.

A party I do not know bought 100s maybe 1000s of .com zipcodes.

I took up some remainders in the .net, .org.

I had hoped community sites would be built. Where better than where community?

But something else happened. Folks followed fire.

The noise of the new has taken our senses toward selling.

And who bought craigslist? eBay.

Years ago before we had forgotten, there was ‘Community Memory’: get some

Dirt is dirt and we’re mud.
It’s likely unless we’re shut that as we get older issues will expand.

There was a clue I heard once:

“Older men carry out what younger men think will take too much time.”

As if to say, our mind grows, not shrinking; We are not a spending model but an expanding wonder we must learn to share.

Be prepared for bigger and bigger stuff to think.

This is part of why relations are challenging. It’s not always that our mates, friends and allies are less than we had hoped, but also that when we were younger we asked so much less and were pleased in any case.

My word for the day, today, ‘tolerance’.

skipping stones
pebbles
path

For years and years I tease onlookers, bystanders, guiletists and greedaholics:

“I’m nowhere nirvana.”

HA HA

get it?

HA HA
HA HA HA HA

A 25 year ally and friend asks if I can start importing a probiotic animal feed supplement (bags or bulk) into the USA, Canada or the Americas.

We’ve carried on as trade representatives and developers including major term agreements in coal, ore, tech, food commodities, but not technical agriculture products.

This Korean product is a powder containing various cultured beneficial bacteria.

An ISO Japanese firm owns purchase contracts. There are other important customers in Asia.

Studies indicate beneficial “starter bacteria” reduce or eliminate the use of antiobiotics in weaning animals– starting a strong intestinal flora quickly and displacing problems.

Large firms in the USA seem to contract and control formulations in house but it also seems that medium and smaller mills and growers may be interested.

I’m no expert. Can you assist?
Are you raising cattle, pork or poultry?
Are you working in our great feed market?

Can we distribute in the Americas?
Global business logistics isn’t necessary.
I’m asking if you will join with me to build new options.

Is government reactionary? Why isn’t government pro-active?

Finding cash to fund TV commercials is “the only thing that matters in American politics now”, Al Gore says. “The person who has the most money to run the most ads usually wins.”

But there’s something more important.

Gore continues, “…the average American watches television for four hours and 39 minutes a day. Astonishing, really. That’s why candidates spend 80% of their money on advertising campaigns.”

But wait, there’s more.

And he claimed the power of modern advertising had led to the ability to create demand for products “artificially”.

TV commercials lasting 30 seconds were “not thoughtful statements of policy” but were “usually emotive” and “well-tested” on focus groups, he said.

“Now you sometimes see, in extreme cases, advertising created before the product, and then the product is based on what looks as if it’s going to succeed.

“That same phenomenon has now happened to democracy,” he said, suggesting that too often, political parties made decisions based on reactions to their advertising campaigns.

Covered at the BBC

As we react to political advertising and news, popular strings and memes become marketing data for campaign policy and promoting candidates. Is this what our leaders do?

Miners unearth the coal and railroads must move mountains over the next few years to match the demand.

Union Pacific, the largest U.S. railroad, and second-ranked rival Burlington Northern Santa Fe are hauling record amounts of coal in trains longer than a mile-and-a-half.

Power utilities are unimpressed. The demand rises. Yahoo News

If there’s two on top, are they rivals?

A man in Dallas watching a live webcam in the United Kingdom stopped a burglary after spotting thieves trying to break into a store.

The Beatles fan was watching a webcam on Tuesday of Liverpool’s Mathew Street, location of the Cavern Club, the club made famous by the band.

On his computer screen, he saw a group of men climbing a ladder and removing property from a store, reports BBC via CBC News.

He called police in Merseyside County and told them what he saw. Officers went to the scene and arrested three men on suspicion of burglary.

Ontario has a much-heralded mining history. Prospectors are required under Ontario’s mining law to actually walk around the area they plan to stake, placing wood posts at each corner. If several people want to stake the claim, a race can break out. Whoever completes the circuit first and writes the finish time on the starting point would win the claim.

“We’ve actually had some new claims come open where companies have hired track athletes to stake their claims…”

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How can we show that life is not predictably unfriendly?

When a man undertakes to create something, he establishes a new heaven, as it were, and from it the work that he desires to create flows into him… For such is the immensity of man that he is greater than heaven and earth. Philipus Aureolus Paracelsus

Coal has been the world’s fastest growing energy resource in recent years, and demand is projected to climb more than 50 percent in the next two decades, according to the International Energy Agency.

Demand for natural gas is forecast to increase 89 percent, while oil use will grow 57 percent. High prices for natural gas and oil coupled with limited supplies, give coal leverage.

Chris Preston, head of the research cooperative Australian Weed Management, was cited as saying that growing weed resistance would one day push up food prices for consumers.

Dr Preston said the first herbicide-resistant weed was documented in 1982 and the problem had been building over the past 24 years, stating, “Some farmers are down to their last one or two herbicides.

It’s not going to get any better – there aren’t many new herbicides coming along, and as farmers continue to use herbicide they will continue to get resistance. It’s a real problem for farmers and ultimately if nothing gets done, we’ll see a change in the price of food.”

The story says that new research had shown 33 different species of weeds had become resistant to standard herbicides.

About 18 of the 20 weeds that were the most serious problems for farmers had some herbicide resistance, Dr Preston said, with annual ryegrass, wild radish and wild oats the worst.

And resistance has been found for 10 of the 13 families of chemicals used to control weeds.

Farmers are stuck in a catch-22 in which many of the producers battling the increasingly tough weeds were making the problem worse. “The fact they are a problem means farmers target them with herbicide, which means they are more likely to get herbicide resistance – which makes them more of a problem,” he said.

“It’s almost a no-win, unless you can find other ways of managing these weeds.”

While obviously what we do — and who we are — on the Net keeps surprising us, we would be fools not to learn from our experience as selves in the real world. So, here’s something I think the real world teaches us.

The term “anonymity” has a bad connotation because it’s used primarily where there’s an expectation of identification. We don’t say that someone entered a movie theater anonymously unless we’re implying that the person had reason to hide her identity, even though, in truth, anyone who pays cash for a theater ticket is entering it anonymously.

So, because we use the term “anonymous” mainly where identification is expected, this may lead us to think that being identified is the usual state — the default state — in the real world. In fact, the rarity with which we use the term actually indicates that the opposite is the case: Anonymity is the norm in the real world.

Anonymity (including pseudonymity) does much good online.

If mankind minus one were of one opinion,
then mankind is no more justified in silencing the one
than the one – if he had the power -
would be justified in silencing mankind. John Stuart Mill

Raw sewage is being dumped out of broken pieces of almost 1 million miles of sewer pipes in this country, most installed 60 years ago in the great post-war building boom. We might expect more than 70,000 sewage spills per year.

It’s not just a burden on old cities. Los Angeles owns one of the leakiest systems in America, averaging “one spill a day“.

Many of the more popular beaches in Southern California are polluted with sewage as often as one out of every three days. Monitored with obsolete methods and outdated science, data shows 10% of our beachwater can make us sick. Beaches across the country were closed 20,000 times in 2005.

A recent UCLA and Stanford study says water polluted with sewage sickens 1.5 million people a year in Southern California alone.

America has bloated the national output of fast food and restaurant grease to three billion pounds a year causing ‘fat infarctions‘ to plug pipes and divert sewage.

There is a looming $300 billion to $500 billion cost to fix our bursting sewer pipes. Some say, this will require more than a 10% rate increase to cover $10,000 to $25,000 costs per household. Local governments are already raising taxes.

But wait. The country’s water system — much of it installed during the early 1900s — is crumbling, too. Another $250 billion.

The Clean Water Act was signed into law in 1965 to restore and maintain the integrity of America’s water infrastructure, but money seems to have been somewhat diverted. The Bush Administration proposes dramatic cuts to clean water funding. The yet to be confirmed Clean Water Trust Act, a deficit funded drop in the bucket, might provide $7.5 billion annually over two decades to repair or replace leaky, outmoded systems around the country.

With a Sausalito, California partner, for over 10 years we’ve been promoting a method of drying sewage sludge that would then be used as a fuel to convert sewage plants into power plants!! Yes, dried sludge burns.

The cost savings and revenue could truly help local governments and community waste systems. Removing sludge from downstream management saves plenty of money as well.

Managers of the development company seem to have squandered their opportunity, but we’re hoping a new team will bring it back.