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US bans good cheeses if they are ripened on wooden boards
Semi-solid oils with colouring and artificial 'cheese' flavouring is not banned yet though, and can continue being sold as 'cheese products' without ever having had a trace of cheese in it
The import of actual, real cheese is also banned
US bans good cheeses if they are ripened on wooden boards
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Semi-solid oils with colouring and artificial 'cheese' flavouring is not banned yet though, and can continue being sold as 'cheese products' without ever having had a trace of cheese in it
The import of actual, real cheese is also banned
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Since a friend of mine noted Americans don't seem to get the news on this potentially important story
ISIS, a group even Al-Qaeda considers too extreme to work with(Or maybe they're just clashing ideologies within Islam, I'm not entirely sure), is fighting to take over Iraq.
They are, in fact, very close to an important Shia mosque, and it seems the Iraqi army does not have a lot of luck in fighting them. Things are pretty close to getting even more messed up around there
Since a friend of mine noted Americans don't seem to get the news on this potentially important story
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ISIS, a group even Al-Qaeda considers too extreme to work with(Or maybe they're just clashing ideologies within Islam, I'm not entirely sure), is fighting to take over Iraq.
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They are, in fact, very close to an important Shia mosque, and it seems the Iraqi army does not have a lot of luck in fighting them. Things are pretty close to getting even more messed up around there
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Some more on ISIS
Iran (maybe) wants to cooperate with the US to get them out.
As Iran is Shi'te and ISIS is Sunni, Iran will be in a bit of trouble if Iraq is completely taken over by them
ISIS controlled cities have new rules
Among them:
All drugs and alcohol and cigarettes banned
All stealing carries a death penalty or amputation of a limb as penalty
All graves and mausoleums will be destroyed. All shrines to be destroyed as well. Possibly all monuments as well
All police officers and military personnel is to repent and join or be executed
Women not allowed outside without full body coverings. And even then, they may only leave the house when it is absolutely neccesary
All heretics and heathens are to repent or get executed
No gun ownership for anyone except ISIS members
And no organisations allowed except them. Only ISIS has the right to have any sort of gathering
For the rest, there is Sharia law only
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Iran (maybe) wants to cooperate with the US to get them out.
As Iran is Shi'te and ISIS is Sunni, Iran will be in a bit of trouble if Iraq is completely taken over by them
ISIS controlled cities have new rules
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Among them:
All drugs and alcohol and cigarettes banned
All stealing carries a death penalty or amputation of a limb as penalty
All graves and mausoleums will be destroyed. All shrines to be destroyed as well. Possibly all monuments as well
All police officers and military personnel is to repent and join or be executed
Women not allowed outside without full body coverings. And even then, they may only leave the house when it is absolutely neccesary
All heretics and heathens are to repent or get executed
No gun ownership for anyone except ISIS members
And no organisations allowed except them. Only ISIS has the right to have any sort of gathering
For the rest, there is Sharia law only
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Either way, some more news
Tesla opens all its electric car patents for anyone to use in an effort to spur innovation and kill off gasoline powered cars.
Generally good news for everyone when a corporation just comes out and says "Guys, the patent system is awful, lets not use it"
They really are. They're considered extremists even by extremists
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Tesla opens all its electric car patents for anyone to use in an effort to spur innovation and kill off gasoline powered cars.
Generally good news for everyone when a corporation just comes out and says "Guys, the patent system is awful, lets not use it"
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Yeah, that sounds pretty darn good. I'm really hoping it means a brighter future for transportation, gas is crazy over here right now(Florida, it averages at around $4.00 a gallon, sometimes a bit more or less depending on the gas station). No idea how it's like in other places, but I've heard it's ridiculous all over the US.
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Here in the UK the average price per litre is currently £1.30 (£5.85 per gallon). So $9.94 per gallon. Alternatively, try a third world nation like Pakistan, where it costs approximately 58 cents more per gallon than in the US, but where the average persons wages are literally less than a twelfth of the amount. Which could be compared to paying over $48 per gallon.
Could always move to Syria though, where they get to enjoy prices of $0.27 per gallon. Not the nicest neighbourhood though, and there's also that stuff about exterior super powers being strangely interested in sending troops in. Strange.
The sooner we manage to progress onto adopting electric cars the better in my opinion. >_>
I'm not sure what I can say to this. Just makes me sigh. It's certainly a busy and difficult time for internet based rights issues.
Heh. I keep hearing Americans saying stuff like this, and it's always amusing. You really don't know how good you've got it. '-'
Here in the UK the average price per litre is currently £1.30 (£5.85 per gallon). So $9.94 per gallon. Alternatively, try a third world nation like Pakistan, where it costs approximately 58 cents more per gallon than in the US, but where the average persons wages are literally less than a twelfth of the amount. Which could be compared to paying over $48 per gallon.
Could always move to Syria though, where they get to enjoy prices of $0.27 per gallon. Not the nicest neighbourhood though, and there's also that stuff about exterior super powers being strangely interested in sending troops in. Strange.
The sooner we manage to progress onto adopting electric cars the better in my opinion. >_>
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It DID jump up about 20 cents more per gallon in the past like week or two, which is a bigger change than we're used to.
It DID jump up about 20 cents more per gallon in the past like week or two, which is a bigger change than we're used to.
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gas here in the alberta oilsands works out to 4.75 a gallon, or somesuch. canadian dollars, convert that to american if somebody wants. i can drive twenty minutes and find the closest plant that turns it into gasoline. i find it annoying that we then spend thousands of dollars to ship it south, so it can be sold for the same or cheaper in the states.
gas here in the alberta oilsands works out to 4.75 a gallon, or somesuch. canadian dollars, convert that to american if somebody wants. i can drive twenty minutes and find the closest plant that turns it into gasoline. i find it annoying that we then spend thousands of dollars to ship it south, so it can be sold for the same or cheaper in the states.
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And then messing it up, of course. Sad to see, but not terribly surprised, really.
As for gas, I don't know the exact prices over here, especially if you're talking imperial units of measurement. But I do know its expensive enough to make a lot of people just not get a car. And that's with the public transport being messed up.
Also, some news I got linked
It's about Israel being Israel again. They're about as legitimate a country as Atlantis these days. Nothing unusual, really
And spiders being spiders
Fish eating spiders, to be exact
Old men who don't understand the internet, making rules about the internet
And then messing it up, of course. Sad to see, but not terribly surprised, really.
As for gas, I don't know the exact prices over here, especially if you're talking imperial units of measurement. But I do know its expensive enough to make a lot of people just not get a car. And that's with the public transport being messed up.
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It's about Israel being Israel again. They're about as legitimate a country as Atlantis these days. Nothing unusual, really
And spiders being spiders
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Fish eating spiders, to be exact
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WOAH WOAH! I totally expected fish eating spiders, not fish-eating spiders!
WOAH WOAH! I totally expected fish eating spiders, not fish-eating spiders!
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Happening right now:
Swedish man with bomb belt has forced himself into the headquarters of "The Civil Rights Defender" and stated threats against the parties "Socialdemokraterna" and "Moderaterna"
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The latest trade agreement designed to make sure your countries can't stop corporations and bankers from looting your economy and resources dry like usual (All agreed on in secret by old men in suits who have their own asses covered, of course)
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Swedish man with bomb belt has forced himself into the headquarters of "The Civil Rights Defender" and stated threats against the parties "Socialdemokraterna" and "Moderaterna"
Also, welcome to TISA
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The latest trade agreement designed to make sure your countries can't stop corporations and bankers from looting your economy and resources dry like usual (All agreed on in secret by old men in suits who have their own asses covered, of course)
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You know, for all the talk, and proof, that some of our government officials don't know what they're doing(especially evident with online privacy related stuff), I'm kind of glad it's attempting to improve things. Someone I know literally has had the mindset lately that this country is doomed to either be take over or destroyed by another country or collapse in on itself due to instability within 20-30 years from now, but fuck a lot can happen, good or bad, in that amount of time. I still have some hope for this nation.
From the looks of it, the government is trying to limit the NSA as you said, and also trying to fight Obama's attempts to shut down Guantanamo Bay and take further action in Iraq. And according to this, the government's actually sort of winning. They also seem to be investigating the president's lawless release of the five Taliban dudes, seeing as he didn't notify them.
You know, for all the talk, and proof, that some of our government officials don't know what they're doing(especially evident with online privacy related stuff), I'm kind of glad it's attempting to improve things. Someone I know literally has had the mindset lately that this country is doomed to either be take over or destroyed by another country or collapse in on itself due to instability within 20-30 years from now, but fuck a lot can happen, good or bad, in that amount of time. I still have some hope for this nation.
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Yeah, the largest problem with politics is that its a cycle
Politicians don't have a clue what the people actually want
Listen to corporations, special interest groups, and lobbies instead of the people
The people are upset and say the politicians don't listen to them anyway
They stop trying to tell the politicians what they want, thinking they won't listen anyway
Then the politicians, again, don't have a clue what the people want
And so on until nobody trusts them anymore, voting attendance goes down, because people think 'hey, it's not like they listen! It's all pointless!'
Ukraine stuff:
It's pretty much just more of the same
And Ebola news
It's getting pretty bad there
Yeah, the largest problem with politics is that its a cycle
Politicians don't have a clue what the people actually want
Listen to corporations, special interest groups, and lobbies instead of the people
The people are upset and say the politicians don't listen to them anyway
They stop trying to tell the politicians what they want, thinking they won't listen anyway
Then the politicians, again, don't have a clue what the people want
And so on until nobody trusts them anymore, voting attendance goes down, because people think 'hey, it's not like they listen! It's all pointless!'
Ukraine stuff:
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It's pretty much just more of the same
And Ebola news
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It's getting pretty bad there
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