Phi for All

Now I'm paranoid as well.

According to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, the amount of land (in hectares) devoted to opium (heroin) production in Afghanistan in 2000 was aprox. 82,000. In 2001, the Taliban burned most of the poppy fields and declared war on the opium trade since they are fundamentalists and drugs are not permitted by Islamic law. The land devoted to opium growth plummeted to less than 8000 hectares. The US invaded in November 2001 (opium planting season) and by 2002 the amount of opium land jumped to 74,000 hectares.

Shouldn't the US military have been a bit more anti-drug minded? I guess not since the figures jumped to 80,000 hectares in 2003 and a whopping 131,000 hectares in 2004. Drug money laundering, it turns out, is a trillion-dollar business worldwide.

UNODC Afghanistan Poppy Fields Report 2004

It looks like both communism and capitalism lead to totalitarianism, just capitalism takes longer to get there.

I'll post closeup pics as soon as my new Dell[/b'] gets hooked up.

all the pictures i can find online seem to show a feeding tube going back under the head. its hard to tell, but the creature in your picture doesnt seem to have one.

are there species of assassin bug that dont have this?

Have you seen him feed? If he injects prey for external digestion, he could be an assassin bug. Assassin bugs usually have one combo injection/feeding tube to do this instead of two seperate ones. There's over 3000 species of them.

Phi: I think you know the riddle...

I know a lot of these yes or no riddles, i.e. the man with the pack on his back, the man who asks for a glass of water, the man in the elevator, the dead man and the bicycles, etc, so I know how they work. This was a new one for me.

In the future, leave out the emaciation, it tipped me off.

Okay, I think I've got it. My next question is a spoiler if I'm right, so I'll hide it. I'm going to sleep, so I'll check in the morning. Uncool is the only one who should check the highlight.

[hide]Was there at least one other person on the island with the two men?[/hide]

Had the men been eating nothing but seagull while they were on the island?

No.

Them being "emaciated" gives that part away. They had to be stranded somewhere with not much food, either on the boat or on an island.

Had the men been eating nothing but seagull while they were on the island?

Had they been stranded on small island before finding the boat?

Men are pressumably more expendable than women, even when both are equal to any occassion.

Chatha, can you suggest a direction that would give this thread a reason to stay in Philosophy & Religion instead of Ecology/Populations/Habitats/Environment?

Were the men emaciated from having been adrift at sea for quite a while?

Cool, one of these yes or no types I've never heard. Did you mean a boat instead of a ship (a ship is anything over 100 tons, which I would assume would have facilities for keeping passengers from emaciation)?

I was just wiondering, am I respected here? Or am I viewed as a moron?

People regard phi and sayo as demigods

YT2095 has more knowledge than my whole graduating class. He is next on the list for ascension.

Sayonara³ actually is a demigod, his mother having been seduced by the Norse god Loki. He will now strike me down, but it explains a lot, doesn't it?

Sur Ströming is basically a kind of fermented fish.

 

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The cans are all bulging and swollen too' date=' so Australian customs

have a nasty habit of destroying it.[/quote']Does the smell kill the salmonella bacteria? Have any customs workers been killed by the off-gassing of these swollen cans?

 

Can ecoli make chili out of it? The production of can-swelling gases may help his constipation problem.

We have an Official Jokes Thread stickied in General Discussion (and this joke is in it, too).

This sub-forum is for... brain teasers... and puzzles.

Things that can actually be figured out.

Sur Ströming.

 

When you open the tin' date=' bend your nose real close to ahhh,

savour its [i']impressive[/i] aroma.

Is this some sort of Swedish meatbleh?

I can't help but think that lowering the AoC helps only those few young people who begin their sexually active phase earlier than most. It also seems as if pedophiles are looking for those very children. I can respect that pedophiles are not out there cruising for just any child, but I can't justify allowing even those children who may be more mature in their sexual outlook to be mentored by a pedophile.

I can see where these early bloomers might resent a puritanical approach to sex, but we don't need necessarily to tip the scales even further by having a mentor who is sexually attracted to the child.

Nitric oxide forms acids in the lungs which can result in depleted oxygen in the bloodstream. Anything which produces a cyanotic effect can cause you to lose consciousness, which could be deadly.

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Finally, one I got right away! That's a first.

Wicked, animal-loving, dominatrix/cheerleader = funny

Reformed, former cheerleader = zzzzzzzzzzz

They may be nerds, but this crowd will eat you alive if you're zzzzzzzzzzz.

Ants! Honey! Woo-hoooo!

Uh-oh' date=' you're gonna be constipated later.[/quote'']It came out really good.

Too much information.

I made chili for dinner, it tastes awesome!

This thread is open again, and will be closed permanently on Friday night (roughly 10pm GMT-7).

Please wrap up your thoughts, bring forth any studies you might have found, and let's keep the hostilities minimal. Name-calling is not necessary.

We need to close threads of this length eventually because they have a tendency to be bumped every three months or so by new members who haven't bothered to actually read what was already written. Then other new members feel free to bring up all the old issues again. It's a vicious cycle.

Again, I want to thank all who are participating for expanding our knowledge.