California only has about one year’s supply of water left

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Grey Fox

#120
April 20, 2015, 12:50:39 PM
Quote from: grumbler on April 20, 2015, 08:59:01 AM
Quote from: Grey Fox on April 20, 2015, 08:53:58 AM
In my dad girlfriend's house, all the meters are facing a concrete wall, mere inches away. All impossible to read. (3 meters in the house, same city)

Again, as cal noted, meters aren't "read" any more.  They are accessed wirelessly.

Not meters installed in 1979.
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Razgovory

#121
April 20, 2015, 01:04:18 PM
Quote from: grumbler on April 20, 2015, 07:43:09 AM
Quote from: jimmy olsen on April 19, 2015, 10:16:16 PM
Bleed the Agripigs!  :menace:


Exactly. Fuck the farmers; all they do is raise overpriced subsidized food.  Who needs that? :contract:

Fixed your post.
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Valmy

#122
April 20, 2015, 01:06:08 PM
How is it overpriced? Our food production is pretty efficient. I mean assuming we are not talking about cage free organic goodness and light stuff.
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grumbler

#123
April 20, 2015, 01:13:20 PM
Quote from: garbon on April 20, 2015, 11:50:26 AM
:hmm:

In NYC, a person from ConEdison would come weekly to each individual apartment, wanting access so that they could read the meter (electric).  Mind you, not a water meter as I've actually never before now had to pay that directly.

Those guys weren't from ConEdison.  :ph34r:

You are lucky you didn't have anything worth stealing.
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Razgovory

#124
April 20, 2015, 01:18:22 PM
Quote from: Valmy on April 20, 2015, 01:06:08 PM
How is it overpriced? Our food production is pretty efficient. I mean assuming we are not talking about cage free organic goodness and light stuff.

There are price floors and subsidies to reduce surplus.
I've given it serious thought. I must scorn the ways of my family, and seek a Japanese woman to yield me my progeny. He shall live in the lands of the east, and be well tutored in his sacred trust to weave the best traditions of Japan and the Sacred South together, until such time as he (or, indeed his house, which will periodically require infusion of both Southern and Japanese bloodlines of note) can deliver to the South it's independence, either in this world or in space.  -Lettow April of 2011

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grumbler

#125
April 20, 2015, 01:28:17 PM
Quote from: Valmy on April 20, 2015, 01:06:08 PM
How is it overpriced? Our food production is pretty efficient. I mean assuming we are not talking about cage free organic goodness and light stuff.

Are you really challenging an argument by assertion?
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Razgovory

#126
April 20, 2015, 01:39:21 PM
You really need to get over me.  We aren't going to fuck, it just ain't happening.
I've given it serious thought. I must scorn the ways of my family, and seek a Japanese woman to yield me my progeny. He shall live in the lands of the east, and be well tutored in his sacred trust to weave the best traditions of Japan and the Sacred South together, until such time as he (or, indeed his house, which will periodically require infusion of both Southern and Japanese bloodlines of note) can deliver to the South it's independence, either in this world or in space.  -Lettow April of 2011

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Valmy

#127
April 20, 2015, 02:44:34 PM
I thought the price floors were mainly for grain and wheat products are not exactly known for their expense.

But I could be wrong. Any food products actually being charged at those floors? Transportation and so forth usually make up a large portion of the cost anyway.
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Razgovory

#128
April 20, 2015, 04:13:31 PM
Quote from: Valmy on April 20, 2015, 02:44:34 PM
I thought the price floors were mainly for grain and wheat products are not exactly known for their expense.

But I could be wrong. Any food products actually being charged at those floors? Transportation and so forth usually make up a large portion of the cost anyway.

I don't know enough about the history of crop prices to say if the prices every hit that floor., I do know these laws exist along with subsidies to not plant crops.  These policies exist to keep farmers in business, who would otherwise be forced out do to low prices.  Or at least that's the logic of the laws.
I've given it serious thought. I must scorn the ways of my family, and seek a Japanese woman to yield me my progeny. He shall live in the lands of the east, and be well tutored in his sacred trust to weave the best traditions of Japan and the Sacred South together, until such time as he (or, indeed his house, which will periodically require infusion of both Southern and Japanese bloodlines of note) can deliver to the South it's independence, either in this world or in space.  -Lettow April of 2011

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Admiral Yi

#129
April 20, 2015, 04:26:04 PM
I thought the acreage restrictions got eliminated a couple Agriculture Bills ago.

jimmy olsen

#130
April 20, 2015, 05:02:05 PM
Quote from: grumbler on April 20, 2015, 07:43:09 AM
Quote from: jimmy olsen on April 19, 2015, 10:16:16 PM
Bleed the Agripigs!  :menace:


Exactly. Fuck the farmers; all they do is raise food.  Who needs that? :contract:
They can choose to grow something other than almonds, that doesn't suck up so much water.
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Razgovory

#131
April 20, 2015, 05:19:53 PM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on April 20, 2015, 04:26:04 PM
I thought the acreage restrictions got eliminated a couple Agriculture Bills ago.

I think the legal requirement to set aside acreage disappeared but I don't know if the subsidy did.
I've given it serious thought. I must scorn the ways of my family, and seek a Japanese woman to yield me my progeny. He shall live in the lands of the east, and be well tutored in his sacred trust to weave the best traditions of Japan and the Sacred South together, until such time as he (or, indeed his house, which will periodically require infusion of both Southern and Japanese bloodlines of note) can deliver to the South it's independence, either in this world or in space.  -Lettow April of 2011

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Eddie Teach

#132
April 20, 2015, 05:32:17 PM
Quote from: jimmy olsen on April 20, 2015, 05:02:05 PM
Quote from: grumbler on April 20, 2015, 07:43:09 AM
Quote from: jimmy olsen on April 19, 2015, 10:16:16 PM
Bleed the Agripigs!  :menace:


Exactly. Fuck the farmers; all they do is raise food.  Who needs that? :contract:
They can choose to grow something other than almonds, that doesn't suck up so much water.

Almonds are one of the lamest nuts anyway.
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Caliga

#134
April 20, 2015, 06:09:05 PM
Quote from: Peter Wiggin on April 20, 2015, 05:32:17 PM
Almonds are one of the lamawesomest nuts anyway.
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