But roundup ready rapeseed (canola) IS cross-breeding with related weeds. Being recently cultivated, canola still has a lot of close relatives around.
To say that GMOs, as a whole, represent a Black Swan is akin to claiming that the theory of gravity is a Black Swan because some day it may invert and we will all be shot off of the face of the Earth.
You should look into what a black swan event is. That was non-sequitur.
Actually no. That comparison would be against poison berries. Which can in a single generation be combined with corn and ruin a staple crop for humanity.
And conversely, they don't tend to make healthy food poisonous. But insert the wrong gene and you can achieve crazy health problems in a single season.
Because we have never made something we thought was absolutely safe and then had decades of remediation and lawsuits when it turned out to be a very bad idea.
The people who pit asbestos in everything thought it was 'just a mineral' and a non-toxic one at that, so what could go wrong with that durable, effective, and fireproof insulation?
Wrong question. We do know that if an unapproved or undesired strain does get out, we won't be able to get it back. It has happened several times so far including one crop that is claimed to have only ever been grown under controlled conditions on a small plot. The roundup ready gene has spread to a number of weeds now that grow wild at the roadside.
So we now have real evidence that if a poorly chosen modification is made, it will spread and we will not be able to rein it in at all. THAT is a black swan event.
It is connected. There's a lot of sugar in processed foods today because they took the fats out and had to do something to make it not taste like salted cardboard.
Then there's all of those people who consumed great quantities of artery clogging transfats because they were told it was the 'healthy choice' and butter would kill them.
But note the people who made those claims aren't paying for the stents and bypasses.
Because changing things slowly over decades is exactly the same thing as changing it in a single generation, only you don't get any warning that you're about to screw up big time coupled with the ability to make changes that would otherwise be astronomically unlikely.
If peeing behind a dumpster is enough to get someone on the sex offender's list, surely sharing private nude photos without authorization should get them listed.
I live near where the incident happened and that article is a total white wash.
1) the cops were raiding a regular old residential home where no drugs had ever been made or sold. The child belonged to another couple staying there after their house burned down. The person they were supposedly after was the son of the owners. He did not live there.
2) The door wasn't barricaded at all. If they had trouble entering it's because they need more time in the gym.
3) They moved a variety of toys that were in the yard aside before the entry was attempted. They KNEW (or at least any adult of normal intelligence would know) there were probably young children in the house.
As for the character of the department, they haven't made a public apology and claim it is illegal for them to pay any of the child's million dollar medical bill.
TL;DR version, the department is packed full of exactly the sort of human refuse they claim to be fighting against.
The ruling is such that it only works if Windows is offered without any sort of EULA. I can't see MS signing off on that.
The central idea is that the two agreements are seperate and cannot be joined, so it is perfectly reasonable for the user to reject the EULA but not the hardware.
It's important to keep in mind that for the purposes of market theory, competition requires much more than 2 players. When Smith wrote about competition, he meant dozens of small businesses, each barely bigger than the customers they serve.
In the ISP market, this was briefly true in the dial-up days. It was effective enough to kill hourly rates and made $9/month a standard offer. This was possible because the barrier to entry was low. The massive infrastructure was already provided by a regulated natural monopoly. All you needed was a T1, a few phone lines and a few servers (occasionally installed in your basement).
Unfortunately, the regulators are asleep at the switch and so now we have only one or two competing ISPs in most places. Perhaps if their actual understanding of markets went deeper than the brief overview they learned in elementary school, things would be better.
In previous tests of photoreceptor transplants, it took several months for the recipient to notice a difference. Even if this does have an effect, we won't know for a while.
You can test for evidence of critical thinking but if you standardize the test, you will get rote memorization instead.
So step one, get someone who is a critical thinker to do the hiring. Step two, hire critical thinkers who value education to be teachers.
Here is the first issue. Critical thinking teachers will think critically about the administration's pet policies that generally rely on no thinking at all.
On the bright side, it may cause schools to understand that there is a real and significant difference between a student that forgets about a box knife in his trunk and a student that brings a live grenade into the classroom, even though the zero tolerance policy claims they are the same violation. Or if you prefer, that two OTC aspirins are not the same as a gram of cocaine.
THEN you have some hope of teaching students to think critically.
What I want to see is a smarter card. Ideally it has a few indicator leds and a membrane keypad on it.
It should support ssh style security and a simple agent protocol so that you can plug it into a reader, enter a pin directly on the card (so no intercepting the PIN from a hostile terminal). This should log you in and allow you to use agent forwarding to connect to other machines you are authorized on.
Possibilities when you pull the card out include locking the screen or logging you out.
It should have persistent storage as well so it can be used as a payment card as well. Enter a maximum amount of payment you are willing to make using a wallet device, then insert into a reader on the POS. POS presents it with a transaction record and if the amount is correct, it signs it and hands it back. The record should contain a sequence number so that the bank will only accept the transaction record once.
Restrict the record to ASCII so that it can be cut-pasted if you want to complete a web based transaction without a browser plug-in. At that point, the account number is strictly for identification, the crypto signature is what authorizes the transaction.
More advanced features can be carried out on a trusted computer such as your home PC.
but what's the point in creating a retina with the same defective DNA?
Another 70 years of functional vision?
And furthermore, is the retina connected to the nerves somehow?
If it goes like other experimental retina transplants, yes.
The brain will cope the same way it does with other changes in the eye. Your retina contains none of the cells that were there when you were a child. Can you see?
Why would they be replaced? Will those supposedly more productive workers just materialize out of the aether or do you think for some reason they'll decide $15 is cool and quit their $25/hour jobs to go work at McD's?
I'm sure if a better job comes along, the adults working minimum wage will happily jump on them. Surely you don't think they're beating recruiters with a stick so they can avoid better pay and working conditions!
Submit your proposal for making those jobs available and we will drop the minimum wage thing.
McDonald's is leaching off of the taxpayer by using food stamps as a payroll subsidy. They have to spend enough to keep their worker units operational. What do you suppose happens if they cut the kiosk's 'pay' by providing less electricity than it requires to run?
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But roundup ready rapeseed (canola) IS cross-breeding with related weeds. Being recently cultivated, canola still has a lot of close relatives around.
To say that GMOs, as a whole, represent a Black Swan is akin to claiming that the theory of gravity is a Black Swan because some day it may invert and we will all be shot off of the face of the Earth.
You should look into what a black swan event is. That was non-sequitur.
Actually no. That comparison would be against poison berries. Which can in a single generation be combined with corn and ruin a staple crop for humanity.
And conversely, they don't tend to make healthy food poisonous. But insert the wrong gene and you can achieve crazy health problems in a single season.
It does, but since that doesn't seem to be forthcoming, we'll have to do the best we can with a technological fix for now.
Because we have never made something we thought was absolutely safe and then had decades of remediation and lawsuits when it turned out to be a very bad idea.
The people who pit asbestos in everything thought it was 'just a mineral' and a non-toxic one at that, so what could go wrong with that durable, effective, and fireproof insulation?
Wrong question. We do know that if an unapproved or undesired strain does get out, we won't be able to get it back. It has happened several times so far including one crop that is claimed to have only ever been grown under controlled conditions on a small plot. The roundup ready gene has spread to a number of weeds now that grow wild at the roadside.
So we now have real evidence that if a poorly chosen modification is made, it will spread and we will not be able to rein it in at all. THAT is a black swan event.
It is connected. There's a lot of sugar in processed foods today because they took the fats out and had to do something to make it not taste like salted cardboard.
Then there's all of those people who consumed great quantities of artery clogging transfats because they were told it was the 'healthy choice' and butter would kill them.
But note the people who made those claims aren't paying for the stents and bypasses.
Because changing things slowly over decades is exactly the same thing as changing it in a single generation, only you don't get any warning that you're about to screw up big time coupled with the ability to make changes that would otherwise be astronomically unlikely.
If all of that would actually keep you from getting a ticket, it would be great. Too bad it won't in some areas.
Perhaps it's clearer if I say putting the photos into circulation./
There's also the matter of the sex crime.
If peeing behind a dumpster is enough to get someone on the sex offender's list, surely sharing private nude photos without authorization should get them listed.
I live near where the incident happened and that article is a total white wash.
1) the cops were raiding a regular old residential home where no drugs had ever been made or sold. The child belonged to another couple staying there after their house burned down. The person they were supposedly after was the son of the owners. He did not live there.
2) The door wasn't barricaded at all. If they had trouble entering it's because they need more time in the gym.
3) They moved a variety of toys that were in the yard aside before the entry was attempted. They KNEW (or at least any adult of normal intelligence would know) there were probably young children in the house.
As for the character of the department, they haven't made a public apology and claim it is illegal for them to pay any of the child's million dollar medical bill.
TL;DR version, the department is packed full of exactly the sort of human refuse they claim to be fighting against.
The ruling is such that it only works if Windows is offered without any sort of EULA. I can't see MS signing off on that.
The central idea is that the two agreements are seperate and cannot be joined, so it is perfectly reasonable for the user to reject the EULA but not the hardware.
It's important to keep in mind that for the purposes of market theory, competition requires much more than 2 players. When Smith wrote about competition, he meant dozens of small businesses, each barely bigger than the customers they serve.
In the ISP market, this was briefly true in the dial-up days. It was effective enough to kill hourly rates and made $9/month a standard offer. This was possible because the barrier to entry was low. The massive infrastructure was already provided by a regulated natural monopoly. All you needed was a T1, a few phone lines and a few servers (occasionally installed in your basement).
Unfortunately, the regulators are asleep at the switch and so now we have only one or two competing ISPs in most places. Perhaps if their actual understanding of markets went deeper than the brief overview they learned in elementary school, things would be better.
In previous tests of photoreceptor transplants, it took several months for the recipient to notice a difference. Even if this does have an effect, we won't know for a while.
You can test for evidence of critical thinking but if you standardize the test, you will get rote memorization instead.
So step one, get someone who is a critical thinker to do the hiring. Step two, hire critical thinkers who value education to be teachers.
Here is the first issue. Critical thinking teachers will think critically about the administration's pet policies that generally rely on no thinking at all.
On the bright side, it may cause schools to understand that there is a real and significant difference between a student that forgets about a box knife in his trunk and a student that brings a live grenade into the classroom, even though the zero tolerance policy claims they are the same violation. Or if you prefer, that two OTC aspirins are not the same as a gram of cocaine.
THEN you have some hope of teaching students to think critically.
They named one particular program and then 'critical thinking skills' (not a particular program).
In other words, it's fine if the kids learn critical thinking as long as they don't learn to apply it to the cows we hold sacred.
That would translate to being able to parrot "facts" about critical thinking but not actually learning to think critically.
In other words, it necessarily produces results consistent with what GP portrayed it to mean.
What I want to see is a smarter card. Ideally it has a few indicator leds and a membrane keypad on it.
It should support ssh style security and a simple agent protocol so that you can plug it into a reader, enter a pin directly on the card (so no intercepting the PIN from a hostile terminal). This should log you in and allow you to use agent forwarding to connect to other machines you are authorized on.
Possibilities when you pull the card out include locking the screen or logging you out.
It should have persistent storage as well so it can be used as a payment card as well. Enter a maximum amount of payment you are willing to make using a wallet device, then insert into a reader on the POS. POS presents it with a transaction record and if the amount is correct, it signs it and hands it back. The record should contain a sequence number so that the bank will only accept the transaction record once.
Restrict the record to ASCII so that it can be cut-pasted if you want to complete a web based transaction without a browser plug-in. At that point, the account number is strictly for identification, the crypto signature is what authorizes the transaction.
More advanced features can be carried out on a trusted computer such as your home PC.
but what's the point in creating a retina with the same defective DNA?
Another 70 years of functional vision?
And furthermore, is the retina connected to the nerves somehow?
If it goes like other experimental retina transplants, yes.
The brain will cope the same way it does with other changes in the eye. Your retina contains none of the cells that were there when you were a child. Can you see?
Why would they be replaced? Will those supposedly more productive workers just materialize out of the aether or do you think for some reason they'll decide $15 is cool and quit their $25/hour jobs to go work at McD's?
I'm sure if a better job comes along, the adults working minimum wage will happily jump on them. Surely you don't think they're beating recruiters with a stick so they can avoid better pay and working conditions!
Submit your proposal for making those jobs available and we will drop the minimum wage thing.
McDonald's is leaching off of the taxpayer by using food stamps as a payroll subsidy. They have to spend enough to keep their worker units operational. What do you suppose happens if they cut the kiosk's 'pay' by providing less electricity than it requires to run?
Nice sleight of hand there. How about if wages go up by $x% and prices go up by $x-1%?
As for janitors, how ever did we survive the economic black hole created by janitors making a living wage?
Perhaps it's because that is the rational thing to do.