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So as it stands, you've...

presented 2 cases as evidence to support your claims;

claimed to have intimate knowledge of Monsanto/Bayer vs. farmer cases;

claimed that the 2 cases you've presented as evidence are representative of Monsanto/Bayer vs. farmer cases;

failed to present any further cases to support your claim that they're representative;

I'm left wondering if these 2 cases are the exceptions that do not reflect the nature of Monsanto/Bayer's litigious relationship with farmers.

If we're interested in establishing facts and getting to the truth of the situation, I think we need to look impartially at a broader range of evidence and more than just 2 cases, which is just under 1.4% of cases that Monsanto/Bayer has brought against farmers. Monsanto/Bayer has a successful prosecution rate against farmers of just 7.6%, i.e. the percentage of cases that Monsanto/Bayer initiates against farmers that actually end in a successful conviction.

Yay! You found a Wikipedia article all by yourself. Didn't cite it as you should have, but still a remarkable feat for you. Now take that "7.6%... actually end in a successful conviction" (judgment of infringement, thank you, these are not criminal cases brought by the U.S. government) and contrast that with the fact that on average 95% of Federal civil actions are settled prior to trial, and you suddenly lose the conclusion that "[t]his may be indicative of an overly aggressive legal policy designed to intimidate farmers."

...who are vulnerable to the legal expenses, time lost, and stress caused by being prosecuted by Monsanto/Bayer. In plain English, Monsanto/Bayer appear to bully farmers into compliance by threatening to bankrupt them and ruin their lives. It wouldn't matter if a farmer was in the right or not.;They simply can't win at this game.

Yes, yes, assume that all of the settlements were procured by financial duress because that is convenient for you, despite it being even more likely that those settling were caught with their hands in the cookie jar (hint: 35 USC 285 authorizes attorney fee shifting, i.e., English rules for fees, and these farmers are running multimillion dollar businesses).

Pointing at 2 of the 11 successful cases for Monsanto/Bayer, which are intended to paint Monsanto/Bayer in a favourable light (or conversely, the farmers in a negative light), AKA "cheery picking evidence," is intentionally misleading PR nonsense.

Omitting the fact that the 11 successful cases were all of the cases that went to trial, with no losses, is even more intentionally misleading.

Again, name an "innocent" farmer -- even one that you contend settled because "they simply can't win at this game."

For all the fledgling nerds-to-be in AR, I hope they can find a good, long-term solution to the problem.

Indeed. Programs like EAST, which were originated in AR, are a good approach. They're offering training to help teachers for things like AP Computer Science via the state universities.

And if they succeed in their CS education goals, maybe they'll find a way to get tech companies to set up shop in the state for more than just tech support. Lack of interesting work was one of the reasons I ended up leaving after finishing college, and (shock) I ended up in NorCal.

A hundred years of typing pools, and several hundred years of piano playing tell you how to sit and work, and it is no accident that proper typing posture is the same as proper piano posture.

I just Googled up an interesting site that discusses both issues.

Are you sure you're not thinking of the Odessa Steps scene from the Battleship Potemkin?

An open-source word processor with many features, including autotext and overline. Read how you can type Arabic, Cyrillic, or Hebrew. Users of Windows 95/98/ME need a third-party CJK enabler such as NJStar Communicator or AsianSuite X2 to input Chinese, Japanese or Korean.

Windows 2000 and XP support right-to-left languages at the system level.
Users of Windows 95, 98 or ME can type right-to-left in bidirectional applications such as

• Browsers and Email Clients
• Internet Explorer and Outlook Express 5.01 or later
• Mozilla 1.0 or later
• Netscape6.2 or later

• Word Processors and Text Editors
• Microsoft Word 2000 or XP
• WordPad for Windows Millenium
• WordPad for Windows 98 with the RichEdit3.0 update
• AbiWord BiDi
• DingDang Write 2000
• Sharmahd Computing UniPad

You're right, the poster you quoted was mistaking reflected and absorbed light. However, since there has already been a good deal of confusion in this series of posts, I should point out that using the phrase, "most energetic" will probably confuse many people.

The peak of the intensity (numbers of photons per unit area) versus wavelength curve is at the green wavelengths (around 500nm), but the energy per photon is h*(speed of light/wavelength).

The graph of intensity vs. wavelength here is useful. (Graph is halfway down the page. Divide by 10 to change from Angstroms to nanometers. Visible light is ~400 to 700 nm, with very blue at 400nm and very red at 700nm.) However, intensity is number of photons, not total energy, so the power vs. wavelength peak (energy contribution) is shifted to the left because shorter-wavelength photons have more energy (blue photons are more energetic than red).

Further info on photosynthesis is here.
Note that there is a blue absorption peak and a red absorption peak. For some reason, green is not absorbed, but looking at the energy versus wavelength graph instead of the intensity versus wavelength peak shows this isn't as bad as it sounds.

Previous posters have said this is a sign of a suboptimal solution, but ignores the fact that there are other factors involved in the optimization of plant leaf design besides light-gathering efficiency.

Especially since he didn't first discover it.

--Stephen

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Well technically true :)

The Richter Scale isn't really used anymore. It's originaly purpose was to measure vertical ground motion and it loses its accuracy above something like an 8.5

What is used now is something called the Moment Magnitude Scale that actually computes the amount of energy released in an earthquake. It is fairly similiar to the Richter Scale when you compare magnitudes of earthquakes. Obligatory linkage. One thing to note though is that each step up in the MMS is an increase of 30 the amount of energy an earthquake releases. So a 6.0 releases 30 times more energy than a 5.0

Basically what this comes down to is that people will think "Oh good! We had a 6.0 on the San Andreas Fault! So that should release some energy built up!" The SAF is capable of producing about an 8.0 here in Southern California, so it would take 900 6.0's to equal the energy of an 8.0 :)

Not sure if anyone has heard of the SMURFO project, but the DoD commissioned it a few years ago, and it's been research by the cream of the University of Arkansas.

A picture from the project can be viewed here: http://www.ualr.edu/~isdept/snp/systems/images/tin can.jpg

So, just as daylight savings time supposedly reminds us to change our smoke detector batteries (because otherwise that annoying 'low battery' beeping always start at 4am), tiny earthquakes remind us about our earthquake kits and preparation. Includes...

• 3+ days of food, water, clothing, tools (ability to turn off the gas if needed) flashlights etc etc.
• especially if you're female: comfortable clothing in your car, with a good change of shoes (vs hiking in high heels)
• knowing where your important papers and backup disks are (some sites advise having copies in a bag you can grab on the way out), and having copies in a safe / safety deposit box.
• cell phone always charged and gas tank always at least 1/2 full

And unless you live in Scottsdale, AZ, don't feel smug about the safety of your own location- St. Louis has had an 8.0, and New York State has seen 6.0's.

Don't get me wrong, LR and especially Hot Springs have reasonably active, sophisticated artistic communities, but not what you'd find in some places. Add to that the general, nearly universal disdain with which "real" artists and critics regard computer art, and you're in a nearly no-win situation. Not only does CG have a stigma attached to it to begin with, but you're unlikely to find an appreciative crowd in Little Rock, either for really new art forms or for CG, much less the combination of the two.

In short, I wouldn't take it too personally. If you're really serious about exhibiting your work, I'd suggest trying to go through some of the departments at UALR to arrange an exhibit, like the Computer Science and Art departments, and maybe even the Math department. At least in the CSCI and Math departments you might find some who would appreciate the technical sophistication of what you've done, and in the Art department you might find at least a few people who would be forward-thinking enough to give your art a look. Good luck!

"Sure, Thag, it was really hard to paint that stuff on the wall of a cave, by torchlight, using only clays and berry juices...but come on! It doesn't even really look like a buffalo!"
--Unknown Prehistoric Art Critic

Don't get me wrong, LR and especially Hot Springs have reasonably active, sophisticated artistic communities, but not what you'd find in some places. Add to that the general, nearly universal disdain with which "real" artists and critics regard computer art, and you're in a nearly no-win situation. Not only does CG have a stigma attached to it to begin with, but you're unlikely to find an appreciative crowd in Little Rock, either for really new art forms or for CG, much less the combination of the two.

In short, I wouldn't take it too personally. If you're really serious about exhibiting your work, I'd suggest trying to go through some of the departments at UALR to arrange an exhibit, like the Computer Science and Art departments, and maybe even the Math department. At least in the CSCI and Math departments you might find some who would appreciate the technical sophistication of what you've done, and in the Art department you might find at least a few people who would be forward-thinking enough to give your art a look. Good luck!

"Sure, Thag, it was really hard to paint that stuff on the wall of a cave, by torchlight, using only clays and berry juices...but come on! It doesn't even really look like a buffalo!"
--Unknown Prehistoric Art Critic

Don't get me wrong, LR and especially Hot Springs have reasonably active, sophisticated artistic communities, but not what you'd find in some places. Add to that the general, nearly universal disdain with which "real" artists and critics regard computer art, and you're in a nearly no-win situation. Not only does CG have a stigma attached to it to begin with, but you're unlikely to find an appreciative crowd in Little Rock, either for really new art forms or for CG, much less the combination of the two.

In short, I wouldn't take it too personally. If you're really serious about exhibiting your work, I'd suggest trying to go through some of the departments at UALR to arrange an exhibit, like the Computer Science and Art departments, and maybe even the Math department. At least in the CSCI and Math departments you might find some who would appreciate the technical sophistication of what you've done, and in the Art department you might find at least a few people who would be forward-thinking enough to give your art a look. Good luck!

"Sure, Thag, it was really hard to paint that stuff on the wall of a cave, by torchlight, using only clays and berry juices...but come on! It doesn't even really look like a buffalo!"
--Unknown Prehistoric Art Critic

Don't get me wrong, LR and especially Hot Springs have reasonably active, sophisticated artistic communities, but not what you'd find in some places. Add to that the general, nearly universal disdain with which "real" artists and critics regard computer art, and you're in a nearly no-win situation. Not only does CG have a stigma attached to it to begin with, but you're unlikely to find an appreciative crowd in Little Rock, either for really new art forms or for CG, much less the combination of the two.

In short, I wouldn't take it too personally. If you're really serious about exhibiting your work, I'd suggest trying to go through some of the departments at UALR to arrange an exhibit, like the Computer Science and Art departments, and maybe even the Math department. At least in the CSCI and Math departments you might find some who would appreciate the technical sophistication of what you've done, and in the Art department you might find at least a few people who would be forward-thinking enough to give your art a look. Good luck!

"Sure, Thag, it was really hard to paint that stuff on the wall of a cave, by torchlight, using only clays and berry juices...but come on! It doesn't even really look like a buffalo!"
--Unknown Prehistoric Art Critic

actually grdb at http://bucket.pp.ualr.edu/~bit/grdb.html will allow you to take the colors and fonts from your gtk themes and apply them
thru X app-defaults to Xt, motif, and tcltk applications.