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The following is something I posted on someone's Google+ thread. Long rant follows the break as it did not there.

100 years ago there weren't laws preventing you from using humanure to grow your food. And no-till agriculture is more efficient than that nonsense using rototillers and tractors and so on. Of course, it's only nonsense if you're only producing enough food for your own consumption; machines have their place in agriculture. I eagerly await further advances in robotics in agriculture, as that is the technology that makes it possible for economically feasible mechanized food production without destruction of the soil, water, air, et cetera. However, we have masses of unemployed in most of our societies worldwide, and such an advance would only exacerbate this problem. (long rant which followed deleted and moved to my blog)

Gawker Sucks. Please stop posting links from Gawker. Go down to the bottom of the article, visit the original URL which will give you better information than they will, read THAT, post THAT.

Here it comes, another attempt to conflate fats and sugars. This is the same lie the NIH and the USDA have been telling since the 1970s, supposedly for our health, but ostensibly to support companies like Nabisco which sell mass loads of sugar and starch. Eating lard will lower your cholesterol count if you don't spread it on toast.

Next time you think you are the 53%, remember that the top taxpayers pay taxes on only 50% of their income because they have access to classes of income which are not taxed, classes of income the rest of us (including you) do not have access to because we do not have sufficient capital to make war in that theater. The people who aren't paying any taxes are living in poverty. A lot of those people are literally going to be burning their furniture to stay warm this winter.

If you're an Ubuntu user who would like to try out the Oneiric Ocelot, but would like to not get cut by the bleeding edge, this might be a good time to give it a go. For me, anyway, it's just begun to work correctly including the nvidia driver, proper shutdown, and so on.