This reminds me of the cases where they used Curare for anesthesia. Turns out all it was doing was paralyzing the motor systems so the still fully conscious patients couldn't scream or otherwise react as the surgeons operated.
Might be a good idea to ask the octopuses afterwards if they remember from during the anesthetized time period. This can be done and would find out if they're really out cold or if they're just locked in.
Lighting is not nearly as random, or unlikely as people seem to think. We live along a lightning prone ridge where copper ore veins come to the surface. I can tell where not to stand, provided you want to live, and where to go if you want to get hit by lightning. One can feel the charges building. It is not random but rather physics.
I know very well what a hybrid is. I do genetics. Part of doing farming. I think you don't have much connection with the real topic. Theory only takes you so far.
What I'm seeing in many of the comments is a complete disconnect from the realities of farming. The farmers in Africa don't need Big Ag heavy iron intensive farming. They need small scale sustainable practices, seed stock and livestock that they can work with at low overheads without a whole lot of high tech and annual costs. Because people on SlashDot have become so disconnected from the land they don't tend to understand what small scale farming, the type done at the 4H level, really means. These aren't 10,000 acre wheat fields with dozens of huge combines. It's small scale. Different world. Sustainable. Reality. Something that will last through each collapse.
Yet just because it has become uncommon in Big Ag does not change how important and valid it is. Don't confuse the practices of the Big Ag producers with best practices. Small farmers are still doing selective breeding of their own stock, both plants and animals. I do. I now a lot of other farmers that do. It's a very common practice - just not at the Big Ag level.
I get the feeling you didn't actually read my original post carefully but instead just reacted based on your own emotional state having to do with other issues on your mind.
"Why is the farmer responsible for saving the best seed to improve the next generation instead of a big corporation?"
Simple: Vertical integration. The more I do as the farmer the more money that sticks to my palm rather than getting paid out to "Big Corporations" and out as taxes. Farmers use vertical integration for the exact same reasons Big Corporations use it - we improve our bottom line.
"Why shouldn't farmers best seeds possible"
And there's the quandary. You see the seed that I save and select over the generations is the BEST seed for my growing conditions, soils and management. The seed provided by Big Corp is designed to work with their pesticides and herbicides, their artificial fertilizers and equipment which the farmer must then buy into as well increasing the farmer's costs. Best does not mean the same thing in all situations. My seed stock, be it plant or animal, is far better than Big Corp's, for my situation. This also gives me control over my systems rather than putting me under the thumb of Big Corp.
"We don't expect farmers to build their own tractors"
Funny you should mention that because actually farmers tend to be engineers and inventors, often building machinery and systems for their own use. Farmers tend to be on that leading edge of technology while the big manufacturers like John Deere are producing for the masses. If a machine doesn't do what I need I either modify it or build my own. Standard Operating Procedure on many farms.
You and several of the other posters are demonstrating your disconnect with agriculture. We've been using hybrids for thousands of years. Hybrids are not new. Seed doesn't go bad using it year after year. Good selective breeding involves saving your best seed and stock to make the next generation and with each generation it gets better. Crossing to gain new traits is standard operating procedure.
Don't buy into the Big Ag mantra that you can't do this stuff yourself. It really isn't all that difficult.
You are demonstrating a classic lack of understanding about farming and agriculture. Reality is not the either or situation that you hypothesize.
In the real world we save our best seed and livestock year to year using that to grow the next generation. With each generation the plants and animals become more adapted, stronger and do better with the local conditions. The seed and livestock are free, other than having to save some back from the harvest. This is how we have traditionally improved our stock, both plants and animals, for thousands of years. It works without paying high prices for fancy seeds.
Thus the option is #0, which you completely neglected to consider.
Standard Operating Procedure on things that might be security risks or violate privacy is to have a time delay before the materials can be released under the Freedom of Information Act and typically heavy redaction. I can just see the delivery:
"Your request for the video will arrive in 30 years. The 10 billion seconds of video you requested will be redacted to all zeros for privacy and national security reasons. Since it will be MPEG compressed this will allow us to deliver in a single byte. Watch your email box. G'day."
Obviously they've finally found the cause of global warming! And it is all man kind's fault right to the core! Specifically the fault of the White Male [Republican | Democrat] majority!
Glad to get that all cleared up. Now we can go back to blowing our top and spouting nonsense like normal Vulcans.
Actually, there is already a significant state and federal gas tax as well as transportation taxes. It is amazing that people like you aren't aware of this.
While you may hate my idea, out of miss-informed reasons, it is interesting to see how much discussion it has generated. I'm quite serious.
What we need is a $7/gallon fuel tax. That would fully fund the highway departments and vastly encourage fuel efficiency and conservation. Part of that could go to promoting research and installation of wind, hydro and solar.
We also need a mileage tax and it needs to apply not just to all cars using the roads (electric, gas, diesel, etc) but also to airplane travel on a per ticket basis with the goal of discouraging so much wasteful air travel.
"All it takes is a pair of siblings to prove that there's no such thing as "provably fair," non-mathematically."
Obviously you did it wrong, you raised your kids wrong. They should be cooperating because they are fundamentally pack, team members and because they are mathematicians. You are illogical.
Scientists have developed vaccine against Ebola that is 100% effective in trials. They did this by genetically engineering in the genes from the common cold.
The common cold, one of the most infectious and easily spread diseases.
Ebola, one of the most lethal and devestating diseases known to mankind.
Real Reason Dark Matter Can't Be Seen: The reason scientist can't find Dark Matter is that they're not looking in the right place. As soon as they look at it then it is not dark matter but normal matter. This is because the Universe is very much like a game simulation in the computer where it only displays what you are looking at, not the things you're not looking at. This selective display saves computational resources allowing a higher, more realistic frame rate. Although the objects aren't displayed they still have to be accounted for in terms of gravitational and other force calculations because they are there. In the real Universe there are many people all looking in many directions, much like a multiuser game, so many more different places are being displayed. Yet, still not all of the Universe has observers at the same time because there just aren't enough people looking or, as the case often is, they're looking at the same think like the Kardashians or a soccer game rather than the dark matter they meant to be looking at. The result is that even with the trillions of trillions of trillions of observers in the Universe not all parts of the Universe are being observed at any given moment. These unobserved portions are simply not displayed. That's where the Dark Matter is. If you look really quickly you might... oops, you looked and it got displayed so now it's no longer Dark Matter... And that is why the scientists can't see Dark Matter.
News blast! Most people are average. Smart is not what really matters. We want intelligence plus smart. If you don't know the difference then figure it out.
Very good, Children. You have made the next step towards understanding our instantaneous communications and teleportation device methods for traveling from the stars to visit you. Soon we will welcome you to the Galactic Community.
Your next step is to quell your war like tendencies so we can let you out of your playpen.
The bigger problem is that Apple (and others) abandon software and make their OS incompatible with legacy software so that we can't continue using our old tools. If the software followed the API rules in the past it should continue working with the new operating system and the OS vendor should not abandon it. If they want to get rid of old APIs they should provide cross-recompilers for older software or emulation. There is a tremendous legacy of software that is lost because Apple and other companies change their OSs on a whim.
The reason scientist can't find dark matter is that they're not looking in the right place. As soon as they look it is not dark matter but normal matter. This is because the Universe is very much like a game simulation in the computer where it only displays what you are looking at, not the things you're not looking at. This selective display saves computational resources allowing a higher, more realistic frame rate. Although the objects aren't displayed they still have to be accounted for in terms of gravitational and other force calculations because they are there, right? Now in the real Universe there are many people all looking in many directions, much like a multiuser game, so many different places are being displayed. Yet, still not all of the Universe has observers at the same time because there just aren't enough people looking or, as the case often is, they're looking at the same think like the Kashardians or a soccer game. The result is that even with the trillions of trillions of trillions of observers in the Universe not all parts of the Universe are being observed at any given moment. These unobserved portions are simply not displayed. That's where the Dark Matter is. If you look really quickly, oops, you looked and it got displayed so now it's no longer Dark Matter...
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This reminds me of the cases where they used Curare for anesthesia. Turns out all it was doing was paralyzing the motor systems so the still fully conscious patients couldn't scream or otherwise react as the surgeons operated.
Might be a good idea to ask the octopuses afterwards if they remember from during the anesthetized time period. This can be done and would find out if they're really out cold or if they're just locked in.
What you see as random I see deeper causes. It is really not random. There are probability curves, but it's still not random.
Lighting is not nearly as random, or unlikely as people seem to think. We live along a lightning prone ridge where copper ore veins come to the surface. I can tell where not to stand, provided you want to live, and where to go if you want to get hit by lightning. One can feel the charges building. It is not random but rather physics.
I know very well what a hybrid is. I do genetics. Part of doing farming. I think you don't have much connection with the real topic. Theory only takes you so far.
What I'm seeing in many of the comments is a complete disconnect from the realities of farming. The farmers in Africa don't need Big Ag heavy iron intensive farming. They need small scale sustainable practices, seed stock and livestock that they can work with at low overheads without a whole lot of high tech and annual costs. Because people on SlashDot have become so disconnected from the land they don't tend to understand what small scale farming, the type done at the 4H level, really means. These aren't 10,000 acre wheat fields with dozens of huge combines. It's small scale. Different world. Sustainable. Reality. Something that will last through each collapse.
Yet just because it has become uncommon in Big Ag does not change how important and valid it is. Don't confuse the practices of the Big Ag producers with best practices. Small farmers are still doing selective breeding of their own stock, both plants and animals. I do. I now a lot of other farmers that do. It's a very common practice - just not at the Big Ag level.
I get the feeling you didn't actually read my original post carefully but instead just reacted based on your own emotional state having to do with other issues on your mind.
"Why is the farmer responsible for saving the best seed to improve the next generation instead of a big corporation?"
Simple: Vertical integration. The more I do as the farmer the more money that sticks to my palm rather than getting paid out to "Big Corporations" and out as taxes. Farmers use vertical integration for the exact same reasons Big Corporations use it - we improve our bottom line.
"Why shouldn't farmers best seeds possible"
And there's the quandary. You see the seed that I save and select over the generations is the BEST seed for my growing conditions, soils and management. The seed provided by Big Corp is designed to work with their pesticides and herbicides, their artificial fertilizers and equipment which the farmer must then buy into as well increasing the farmer's costs. Best does not mean the same thing in all situations. My seed stock, be it plant or animal, is far better than Big Corp's, for my situation. This also gives me control over my systems rather than putting me under the thumb of Big Corp.
"We don't expect farmers to build their own tractors"
Funny you should mention that because actually farmers tend to be engineers and inventors, often building machinery and systems for their own use. Farmers tend to be on that leading edge of technology while the big manufacturers like John Deere are producing for the masses. If a machine doesn't do what I need I either modify it or build my own. Standard Operating Procedure on many farms.
You and several of the other posters are demonstrating your disconnect with agriculture. We've been using hybrids for thousands of years. Hybrids are not new. Seed doesn't go bad using it year after year. Good selective breeding involves saving your best seed and stock to make the next generation and with each generation it gets better. Crossing to gain new traits is standard operating procedure.
Don't buy into the Big Ag mantra that you can't do this stuff yourself. It really isn't all that difficult.
You are demonstrating a classic lack of understanding about farming and agriculture. Reality is not the either or situation that you hypothesize.
In the real world we save our best seed and livestock year to year using that to grow the next generation. With each generation the plants and animals become more adapted, stronger and do better with the local conditions. The seed and livestock are free, other than having to save some back from the harvest. This is how we have traditionally improved our stock, both plants and animals, for thousands of years. It works without paying high prices for fancy seeds.
Thus the option is #0, which you completely neglected to consider.
Standard Operating Procedure on things that might be security risks or violate privacy is to have a time delay before the materials can be released under the Freedom of Information Act and typically heavy redaction. I can just see the delivery:
"Your request for the video will arrive in 30 years. The 10 billion seconds of video you requested will be redacted to all zeros for privacy and national security reasons. Since it will be MPEG compressed this will allow us to deliver in a single byte. Watch your email box. G'day."
Obviously they've finally found the cause of global warming! And it is all man kind's fault right to the core! Specifically the fault of the White Male [Republican | Democrat] majority!
Glad to get that all cleared up. Now we can go back to blowing our top and spouting nonsense like normal Vulcans.
That was incoherent.
Actually, there is already a significant state and federal gas tax as well as transportation taxes. It is amazing that people like you aren't aware of this.
While you may hate my idea, out of miss-informed reasons, it is interesting to see how much discussion it has generated. I'm quite serious.
What we need is a $7/gallon fuel tax. That would fully fund the highway departments and vastly encourage fuel efficiency and conservation. Part of that could go to promoting research and installation of wind, hydro and solar.
We also need a mileage tax and it needs to apply not just to all cars using the roads (electric, gas, diesel, etc) but also to airplane travel on a per ticket basis with the goal of discouraging so much wasteful air travel.
The photos are bad enough. Video will be even worse. Hopefully he's wrong.
"All it takes is a pair of siblings to prove that there's no such thing as "provably fair," non-mathematically."
Obviously you did it wrong, you raised your kids wrong. They should be cooperating because they are fundamentally pack, team members and because they are mathematicians. You are illogical.
Scientists have developed vaccine against Ebola that is 100% effective in trials.
They did this by genetically engineering in the genes from the common cold.
The common cold, one of the most infectious and easily spread diseases.
Ebola, one of the most lethal and devestating diseases known to mankind.
What could possibly go wrong?
Real Reason Dark Matter Can't Be Seen: The reason scientist can't find Dark Matter is that they're not looking in the right place. As soon as they look at it then it is not dark matter but normal matter. This is because the Universe is very much like a game simulation in the computer where it only displays what you are looking at, not the things you're not looking at. This selective display saves computational resources allowing a higher, more realistic frame rate. Although the objects aren't displayed they still have to be accounted for in terms of gravitational and other force calculations because they are there. In the real Universe there are many people all looking in many directions, much like a multiuser game, so many more different places are being displayed. Yet, still not all of the Universe has observers at the same time because there just aren't enough people looking or, as the case often is, they're looking at the same think like the Kardashians or a soccer game rather than the dark matter they meant to be looking at. The result is that even with the trillions of trillions of trillions of observers in the Universe not all parts of the Universe are being observed at any given moment. These unobserved portions are simply not displayed. That's where the Dark Matter is. If you look really quickly you might... oops, you looked and it got displayed so now it's no longer Dark Matter... And that is why the scientists can't see Dark Matter.
News blast! Most people are average. Smart is not what really matters. We want intelligence plus smart. If you don't know the difference then figure it out.
Virgin Galactic's 55 successful flights is damn good.
Well, 54... Still those are good odds.
Better than most people play in the lotto.
Very good, Children. You have made the next step towards understanding our instantaneous communications and teleportation device methods for traveling from the stars to visit you. Soon we will welcome you to the Galactic Community.
Your next step is to quell your war like tendencies so we can let you out of your playpen.
Police 'offers' should probably be 'officers' instead.
The bigger problem is that Apple (and others) abandon software and make their OS incompatible with legacy software so that we can't continue using our old tools. If the software followed the API rules in the past it should continue working with the new operating system and the OS vendor should not abandon it. If they want to get rid of old APIs they should provide cross-recompilers for older software or emulation. There is a tremendous legacy of software that is lost because Apple and other companies change their OSs on a whim.
Snob.
Are you really serious.
Perhaps you're writing satire. Poor quality. Poor taste.
The Real Reason Dark Matter Can't Be Seen
The reason scientist can't find dark matter is that they're not looking in the right place. As soon as they look it is not dark matter but normal matter. This is because the Universe is very much like a game simulation in the computer where it only displays what you are looking at, not the things you're not looking at. This selective display saves computational resources allowing a higher, more realistic frame rate. Although the objects aren't displayed they still have to be accounted for in terms of gravitational and other force calculations because they are there, right? Now in the real Universe there are many people all looking in many directions, much like a multiuser game, so many different places are being displayed. Yet, still not all of the Universe has observers at the same time because there just aren't enough people looking or, as the case often is, they're looking at the same think like the Kashardians or a soccer game. The result is that even with the trillions of trillions of trillions of observers in the Universe not all parts of the Universe are being observed at any given moment. These unobserved portions are simply not displayed. That's where the Dark Matter is. If you look really quickly, oops, you looked and it got displayed so now it's no longer Dark Matter...