I think eventually there’ll be a lawsuit where the SCotUS rules that banning paparazzi tactics such as chasing celebrities on scooters/taking pics through their windows with magnification lenses/baiting them verbally to get a rise and pic/etc. are not covered by Freedom of the Press and many of their practices will be illegalized (at least I hope).
Being debt-free. UnAmerican! Trying to destroy the economy!
well, maybe not EXACTLY illegal,
For what possible reason?
The advent of modern herbicides and pesticides (and industrial farming) in the second half of the 20th century is linked with increasing life expectancy and general health of the population of developed countries. Before this modern miracle, everything was grown organically and people starved. This is not to mention the pesticides and herbicides that are permitted for use by the various bodies that certify organic food (e.g. The Soil Association) that are not only toxic to humans but environmentally damaging (copper salts, for example, persist in the soil).
The idea that modern biodegradeable herbicides or pesticides would be banned is ridiculous.
Farming without the benefit of modern chemicals will result in environmental catastrophe and widespread hunger.
The popularity of organic food is based on very clever PR, it is neither more environmentally friendly, better for us nutritionally or toxicologically or better for the animals (in the case of organic meat).
EDIT to add: If you were able to eat enough oranges (skin and all) to have some affect from the pesticide residue, you would have long died of vitamin C poisoning. That’s the level of risk to humans involved when pesticides and herbicides are used correctly.
Gasoline and other combustion engines. When the disaster resulting from our largely ignoring global warming gets large enough, I expect that there’ll be a massive reaction in the other direction once it’s too late to matter.
Well, that’s the danger of it… depending on the manufacturer and lot, it might not work or it might work too much. Of course, you don’t get “high” from it. It just chills you out.
Soviet Russia.
I think we will see lots of gun restrictions under the Obama presidency. Maybe not the big flashy kind like the AWB - more disturbingly, we will see weaselly and underhanded tactics instead, chipping away at the second amendment very slowly. For example - ammunition taxes. You think .30-06 is expensive now, wait until there’s a 25 percent tax or more. Reload your own? They’ll go after the primers and powder too.
Do not think that Heller will stop the Democrats from their mission of gun banning. It will just force them to use sneakier and sneakier methods.
Sure. Just like they outlawed alcohol seventy or so years ago in the US. In Australia, in the convict days, rum was used as currency. In both historical and modern-day prisons, cigarettes are used the same way. There will always be some fungible good ready to step in to take the place of cash.
Interesting. So that is why I never, ever, ever get a bag with my purchase.
I don’t see how kava would possibly need government regulation, seeing as the taste is pure unadulterated evil and much scarier than the DEA.
That said, I’ll add kratom to the list of plants soon to be outlawed. If kava is the herbal equivalent of a weak benzo, kratom is the opiate counterpart. Hell it even gives you ‘the itches’.
I’ll go in the opposite direction (or is it really?) and say that at some point, being offline will be illegal or under some form of restriction. With mobile devices, RFID chips, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, etc. becoming so ubiquitous, the idea of requiring everyone to be online and trackable by registered ID would be a paranoid megalomaniac (i.e. government)'s wet dream. Chip implants will be promoted as the most convenient form of ID, leading eventually toward not having one being grounds for suspicion and questioning.
For the sake of the children, because there are people who hate our freedom. And of course, if you’ve done nothing wrong, you’ll have nothing to worry about.
Hey, now, don’t go all Dr. McCoy on me - I didn’t say they should outlaw them, just that they might. I don’t know if that would be for all farming or just in cities; I do know that Calgary is on the brink of banning the use of cosmetic pesticides in the city of Calgary (joining other Canadian cities), and there are a lot of Greenies out there who know just enough junk science to think organic is automatically better than regular-type farming. I think the herbicide/pesticide industry should do a little PR themselves; all people see and hear is organic; they don’t really know anything about the benefits of biodegradable pesticides as you’ve described here.
Why are you tasting the kava? I swallow it in a capsule. Unless you are actually chewing the roots or something…
I’m sorry. I just reread my post and it actually comes across really aggressive, which isn’t what I wanted at all, and I apologise for that.
I think it’s a toss-up whether this or self-driving cars happen first. In fact, the auto manufacturers might even push for it once they have enough self-drivers out there so they can use it as a selling point: “Save time by working on your commute and letting your car do the driving.”
The classic Democrats’ mission of gun banning died the day it sank into the party leaderships’ skulls that, if not for that, Al Gore would be President.
Nah. Carbon footprints are just the latest environmental fad. A few years from now, nobody will even remember the term. I think we might well see plastic bags disappear, however. They generate too much garbage, and they break too easily. Bags made from canvas or mesh or some other durable material will become the norm. They’ll probably sell them at the customer service counter, so the cashiers don’t have to try to figure out if you bought that bag last week, or are trying to shoplift it.
And I will be sorry to see them go. We save all our plastic bags from the grocery store and use them every night when we scoop our four cat boxes. If they outlaw them, we’ll have to go buy plastic bags specifically for this purpose, which seems kind of stupid when we can recycle the ones we have.
This might actually happen. When I first saw the canvas bags a decade ago they were $10 each and only at the high-end grocery store. Now every store has them, they’re $0.50 each, and you get a nickel off your purchase everytime you use one. Some of the ones I have are actually made from recycled plastic bags.
I wouldn’t come to your house even for free beer.