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I wonder if Kodak's Ascorbic Acid-Based XTOL Developer was inspired by this idea.

I’ve made the same basic comment before, but we need to ban the residential use of herbicides and pesticides. I spoke to a beekeeper who had two hives wiped out by Mosquito Squad spraying on an adjacent property.

I recently came across a 1997 paper called: "Producing and Consuming Chemicals: The Moral Economy of the American Lawn". They cite a higher per hectare usage for residential over agriculture. We need to get rid of our lawns they are literally destroying the planet and they are greenhouse gas emitters when you factor in gas powered mowers and leaf blowers. Fertilizer emits nitrogen oxides that are potent greenhouse gases.

The paper is interesting as it talks about how lawns are marketed. Unfortunately lawns are a multibillion dollar industry. If we are going to fight climate change and environmental degradation, we need to seriously rethink letting business needs take priority over the environment and not just for lawns.

We need to allow people to have native plant yards. I've seen great results with insects. Unfortunately it's illegal where I live and probably most non-rural places. In order to allow this would mean changing state and local ordinances across the US. I honestly don’t think that will happen until it’s too late. By then lawns will be the last thing we will care about.

There’s some great comedy by the late Bill Hicks about his drug and alcohol use and that by rock and roll bands like the Rolling Stones and The Beatles and what music would sound like without drugs.

Not to disparage the author but I see he is selling a book called: Real Artists Don’t Starve.

I haven’t read the book, I have to ask myself what if that was the approach taken by Van Gogh? What would his art look like? My guess is probably pre-Impressionist Manet.

Carl Sagan was a famous pot head who said something like re-evaluate the ideas that you come up when you high after you’ve come down.

I find the ideas can flow when I drink. I have heard other people say that that doesn’t happen for them.

There’s a great quote on the floor of the Guggenheim in New York: LET EACH MAN EXERCISE THE ART HE KNOWS

I think it’s really, find what works for you.

Sorry to hear that. I guess in a sense I am lucky as the ordinances only restrict height not species. I suspected HOA's were worse. I'm with you. Hopefully this madness will end.

> Every bag of the stuff says, "It is a violation of federal law to use this product in a manner inconsistent with its labeling." Sounds like regulation to me. You don't have to ask permission to put it on your lawn, but you've got plenty of rope to hang yourself with a warning label like that.

I meant in terms of application. I did try to find ordinances on this at the state and municipal level. They may exist, but even so is there any oversight?

Good point, compared to 40 million for lawns. Maybe proportional to usefulness. ;)

And water is a huge issue too. The native plants thrive in wet and dry conditions without attention.

I used aggressive native plants from my area. These included Jerusalem artichokes, Indian Hemp, Joe Pye Weed, etc. in the sunny areas. Virginia knot weed, etc. in the shady areas. They colonized my yard very well and even kept the English Ivy at bay.

I had no issues with erosion. The plants lived for years and established rhizomes and extensive root systesms.

They are if you get them fresh. They are almost like coconut meat.

First off I hate these types of analogies as I feel they cloud the issue. You can really think of this as two different semantic domains: the solution domain and the problem domain. You can break them down as (controllers, errors, storage, templates, validators) vs (posts, comments, users), respectively. His layout is pretty consistent with standard Java/Spring/Hibernate project structures. In my experience when you work on a project like this you are working on something in the problem domain like users and when you make a change you have to go hunt down each solution domain component in a separate package. It has always seemed to me that it is better to organize using the problem domain as it clusters functionality that you are likely to work on concurrently.

I have yet to replace my 19 year old low mileage car. I'd rather have a 1000 spiders and 1000 flower flies and a 1000 bees than another gallon of gasoline. Of course what organisms originally died to create that gallon of gasoline that you buy today?

He covered it from Bob Dylan.