That's because "non-organic" food is *drumroll* completely organic. Oh my god. Seriously, it kills me that these assholes get away with calling their food "organic" (implying other food is not organic) and there are actually regulations on what you can call "organic" (even though it is all, in fact, organic).
I wouldn't mind if they called it pesticide free, or un-modified, or naturally grown (with a description of what exactly they mean by that), etc. But "organic"? WTF? Even the most unnatural, mutated, inedible freak of a plant is organic, because it is made of friggin carbon. That's the definition of organic. There are even organic rocks. Fucking GASOLINE is organic! Diamonds and graphite pencil lead are organic. For heaven's sake, this really pisses me off when I get thinking about it too much.
And people wonder why Americans are getting dumber and dumber, well shit like this certainly doesn't help the problem.
You've hit on one of my pet peeves man. Hell, DIAMONDS are oraganic, and so is pencil lead. They way these people use the term incorrectly drives me nuts.
Seriously.
I have a steering wheel attached to my belt now because of it.
While it would take a few months to get round the Jovian moon system suing gravitational currents (PDF)...
I had never before considered using the power of lawsuits to drive an inter-planetary vehicle, very interesting. But is it feasible? What's the TPL (thrust per lawsuit) against a given gravitational current and how many lawsuits can a lawyer put out during the life of a mission? Does the size of the gravitational current matter? I imagine so since they said the system is much faster suing Jupiter's gravitational currents than Earth's and Mars' currents.
I haven't seen any solid details on this yet, I think this whole plan is still a ways off yet.
Compared to corporate reports, those of both GNOME and KDE are practical, unadorned publications.
No it doesn't, it means their reports are less professional. See, professional writers understand that you need to break up the text by inserting graphs that summarize or support the text, pictures that allow for facial recognition of individuals, etc. because someone with Very Little Time (i.e. your average businessman) is going to skim it first to see if there is anything actually worth reading.
If you don't have these things, they assume it is not worth their time. And they are usually right if the report writers can't be bothered to make graphs and illustrations to support and emphasize their report.
They need to shape this kind of thing up if they want to get more corporate sponsorships. Not that a better report will itself draw much more support, but it is an indication of a complete lack of understanding of the way the business world works. As such they'll never get the funding they need, and will always lag behind the big players in the market.
What part of "A well regulated militia" do you not understand?
I think it's the 'A', definitely. I mean, when someone says "A..." whatever, what exactly are you supposed to infer from that? It has always confused me.
The most fun I had was playing as a Dancer/Bio Engineer. For a while there you could be very creative with BE, and as a Dancer you could use macros to create coreographed dances - I did a few myself which were pretty entertaining. I also did good business building enhanced creatures for creature handlers and superior foods for fighters. Those last two were only possible some six months or more (my memory is a little hazy) into the game's release, because BE started out as utter crap.
It would be fair to say that Star Wars Galaxies had players because of the name, and in spite of itself. As soon as they figured one thing out, they would break another. It was terrible, but some parts were fun and you pretty much played in spite of the overal game. You were there because you loved Star Wars, and maybe had a hope in the back of your mind that you might become a Jedi.
It's not seeds that produce sterile plants that is the problem, the little guys will just continue to use reproducing plants. They get subsidies here in the US so it's no big deal for them one way or the other.
It's the repdroducing GM plants that are the problem, because most of the time they WILL reproduce with non-modified plants, and the result is a modified plant. You can't go back to non-modified once it is modified, it will forever be "changed".
I don't think it's a bad thing, as long as we take care in what we do, but in general humans tend to break stuff first and try to fix it later. The biggest example today is what China is doing to their air, and what the US and Europe did to their's a hundred years ago. We don't tend to make the same mistake in new places, but there are a lot of old places that we may never be able to clean up all the way.
The problem non-GM croppers have (I'm not one of them, btw, I say it's about damn time we had killer tomatoes!), is GM crops almost always genetically compatible with non-GM crops, and most GM crops don't lose the ability to procreate.
In other words, if there is an "organic" (what a bullshit term, btw, if it weren't organic we couldn't eat it!) non-GM farm sitting next a GM farm, within a few years the non-GM farm will become a GM farm at least in part and the farmer may not even realize it. Well, until he starts getting ridiculously good tomatoes even though he uses no pesticides and only natural fertilizers, and most of his tomatoes used to come out sortof "iffy" (I'm exaggerating, of course).
So eventually, given enough time, everything will be at least a partially GM'd crop. That's not cool to non-GM'ers.
Even more than that, it opens it up for everybody else to see in TRUE color, seeing as how even we color-advantaged folk only see a tiny sliver of the EM spectrum.
Could you imagine being able to see halfway down the IR spectrum, or well past UV on the other end? Things would look very different, that's for sure. Even just a little bump in both directions would be amazing.
Lol well, my layman's understanding (which, in this case, merely comes from the parsing of words here and in TFA), is that if you heat plastic in a vacuum at a low heat the polymer breaks down and most of the hydrocarbons are released.
It will be interesting to see if this can scale at all, a $5 million facility is nothing (modern processing facilities push the $1 billion with a "b" figure), the daily output of just one oil facility in the US would probably average several times the yearly output of this facility (I know it's in the neighborhood of 100k barrels per day for most facilities on the North Slope), but if they can start to make a dent in the waste plastic out there that will definitely be a good thing.
If we can take the recycled oil from the plastic and use it to make new plastic, then current oil consumption because of plastic could be greatly reduced, and that would be a very good thing.
That's funny, because the term originated in England, not France. Y'all only have yourselves to blame for a brief, shamefull period of wanting to be just like the French.
We Americans generally put the adjective first also, but we frankly don't care all that much one way or another. Besides, the plural of Attorney General, Attorneys General, is just fun to say.
Until you get pulled over or have a accident I guess it works out ok for lots of folks.
That's the point, it's fine until the government finds out you're driving without it. Then you often end up in jail with hefty fines. I actually hit a guy (very slick roads, company truck, company too cheap for studs) and he was hauled off in the back of a police car for driving uninsured.
With the gov't health care plan, it will be pretty easy for them to find out, and therefore fine, people without insurance. They don't need to wait until you get pulled over, they have everybody with a social security number and a job.
Also, the second amendment never gives you any Constitutionally protected right to revolt. It gives a right to keep arms.
And when they put that in the Bill of Rights, the country had just fought a revolutionary war for their independance from England, with an army made up of regular joe citizens.
I'll tell you one thing they were NOT thinking about when they put that in, and that's hunting. Care to guess what their reasoning may have been for making that provision manditory for the ratification of the Constitution, so soon after overthrowing an oppressive government?
If you guess the ultimate right of the citizenry to overthrow their government, you guessed correctly.
That said, I think the GP is treating it a little (by a little, I mean extremely) lightly, revolution is a terrifying option that would result in mass bloodshed and a broken, weak country. It's not something you do over a state AG claiming bullshit copyright.
I know it is spelled out for the Fed, but I'm not sure it is so for the States. Each State is a semi-independant entity, and copyright law may have left that in the hands of each state. This attitude is common in the Constitution.
The 14% is worldwide growth in the home market, I have not been able to find where I saw those figures, much to my chagrin.
However, here are some similar figures, though not the study I was quoting, and they aren't looking at the exact same segments either. I may have mis-quoted the article I came accross as well, I can't tell, since I can't find it again.
You're right I was a off on the Mac's overall market share, I was thinking of recent sales figures - Mac sales make up about 14% of all PC sales today, which is an even bigger growth than I thought it was, but they will need a sustained growth at that rate to make a sizeable dent in the overall market share. Still, their total market share is around 5% and growing, while total Windows market share is around 93% and shrinking for the time being. Linux makes up part of the leftovers.
It's interesting to note that Win2000 still has more market share than Linux.
So now Steve Ballmer can't be wrong? Now that's a twist.
Granted, Linux is notoriously difficult to track in overall market share, since Linux PCs often spoof themselves as Windows machines, and sales figures are unreliable for obvious reasons, but even if 2/3 of Linux users spoofed their user agent ID, it would still only put Linux at about 1.5% according to recent (August '09, not Feb '09) figures.
In Feb, it certainly looked like Linux would take over the Netbook scene, but MS quickly responded and now most Netbooks come in a Windows flavor, rather than a Linux flavor. So much for that. Seriously, go to a big box computer store and see how many netbooks are of the Linux variety, it is not many.
Linux certainly has the most potential, but honestly I don't see the Linux community getting their act together and creating a truly competitive "product" any time soon. Ubuntu doesn't cut it, not as it stands now.
...(albielt shrinking as linux netbooks gain popularity)...
I don't know where you've been seeing the growth, but linux has held pretty steadily at sub-1% desktop market share for years. Netbooks gave it a slight boost when first released, but MS quickly squashed that and now dominates the netbook market. It's true that Windows has been losing ground, but it's OSX that has been gaining, they are up to almost 10% share last time I looked, just a few years ago they were at less than 5%, so that's pretty darn good.
Linux? Not so much. As for the popularity, ARM is pretty popular as is on small devices, one could say they dominate, and MS already has some software that runs on ARM processors, so if this new breed of ARM is popular then we could see MS make the jump. But it will have to work in that order, the ARM will need to be popular and THEN MS will jump on it, it won't magically happen the other way around (unless MS has a major stake in ARM, which I don't think they do).
I didn't know Apple had an OSX that worked with ARM, I thought they pretty much stuck to their own hardware, and it's x86?
Oh wait, you mean Linux. Right it's "better" in all the ways a masochist would love. Does wanting to push that on everybody else make you a mass-sadist?
It's not as easy as all that, Windows is built on the core x86 instruction set. x64 changed things a bit, but that was still built on x86, so it was not all that big of a deal.
ARM is a completely different architecture altogether, and porting isn't so easy. Not to anywhere near the edge of their capability, but I imagine they will run into quite a few more problems than just re-writing the compilers will fix.
In any case it should be interesting, if ARM can gain some ground and create another alternative in the processor market it will be better for everybody. For MS, this could end up being the big push they need to move their stuff over to ARM, and then they could truly take over the world, as 99% of PC processors would work with windows. It would also be a big push to produce software in.NET, since that's the only way you'll get full Windows compatibility. Then compatibility to other platforms is even easier for Windows software.
...as sickening as that of Fox wrt Obama's health care plan: unashamedly ignorant propaganda, ridiculous talking points, and Godwin galore.
Please, Fox is just voicing the "other opinion". They aren't even that far right, on a whole the news organization is just right of center. They just look "far right" because every other news org is so far left. Instead of looking at Obama as if he can do no wrong, they actually think about what his plan might take to accomplish. And for the record, the plan he espoused last week is not on anybody's agenda, the only bill out there right now he would be unable to sign if he were to keep his word, because it has five or six items in it which he promised, with much sincerity and eloquence, would not be a part of "his plan". "His plan" does not exist yet, and I say calling him a liar, while a bit much and disrespectful, is not untrue from what he has given us so far. He promised a lot and we have so far seen very little.
Anyway, this whole thing in France is disgusting, how is it that the Constitutional Council can void a law as unconstitutional, and then the legislature can simply create virtually the same law again and try to get it passed? Do these people have no scruples? That doesn't even happen in the US, once the SCOTUS says a law is unconstitutional, that's it, and lawmakers have to get really creative to accomplish their ultimate goal. Is it not the same in France? It sounds like this new law has only minor changes in it. What's the deal?
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That's because "non-organic" food is *drumroll* completely organic. Oh my god. Seriously, it kills me that these assholes get away with calling their food "organic" (implying other food is not organic) and there are actually regulations on what you can call "organic" (even though it is all, in fact, organic).
I wouldn't mind if they called it pesticide free, or un-modified, or naturally grown (with a description of what exactly they mean by that), etc. But "organic"? WTF? Even the most unnatural, mutated, inedible freak of a plant is organic, because it is made of friggin carbon. That's the definition of organic. There are even organic rocks. Fucking GASOLINE is organic! Diamonds and graphite pencil lead are organic. For heaven's sake, this really pisses me off when I get thinking about it too much.
And people wonder why Americans are getting dumber and dumber, well shit like this certainly doesn't help the problem.
You've hit on one of my pet peeves man. Hell, DIAMONDS are oraganic, and so is pencil lead. They way these people use the term incorrectly drives me nuts.
Seriously.
I have a steering wheel attached to my belt now because of it.
While it would take a few months to get round the Jovian moon system suing gravitational currents (PDF)...
I had never before considered using the power of lawsuits to drive an inter-planetary vehicle, very interesting. But is it feasible? What's the TPL (thrust per lawsuit) against a given gravitational current and how many lawsuits can a lawyer put out during the life of a mission? Does the size of the gravitational current matter? I imagine so since they said the system is much faster suing Jupiter's gravitational currents than Earth's and Mars' currents.
I haven't seen any solid details on this yet, I think this whole plan is still a ways off yet.
Compared to corporate reports, those of both GNOME and KDE are practical, unadorned publications.
No it doesn't, it means their reports are less professional. See, professional writers understand that you need to break up the text by inserting graphs that summarize or support the text, pictures that allow for facial recognition of individuals, etc. because someone with Very Little Time (i.e. your average businessman) is going to skim it first to see if there is anything actually worth reading.
If you don't have these things, they assume it is not worth their time. And they are usually right if the report writers can't be bothered to make graphs and illustrations to support and emphasize their report.
They need to shape this kind of thing up if they want to get more corporate sponsorships. Not that a better report will itself draw much more support, but it is an indication of a complete lack of understanding of the way the business world works. As such they'll never get the funding they need, and will always lag behind the big players in the market.
What part of "A well regulated militia" do you not understand?
I think it's the 'A', definitely. I mean, when someone says "A..." whatever, what exactly are you supposed to infer from that? It has always confused me.
The most fun I had was playing as a Dancer/Bio Engineer. For a while there you could be very creative with BE, and as a Dancer you could use macros to create coreographed dances - I did a few myself which were pretty entertaining. I also did good business building enhanced creatures for creature handlers and superior foods for fighters. Those last two were only possible some six months or more (my memory is a little hazy) into the game's release, because BE started out as utter crap.
It would be fair to say that Star Wars Galaxies had players because of the name, and in spite of itself. As soon as they figured one thing out, they would break another. It was terrible, but some parts were fun and you pretty much played in spite of the overal game. You were there because you loved Star Wars, and maybe had a hope in the back of your mind that you might become a Jedi.
It's not seeds that produce sterile plants that is the problem, the little guys will just continue to use reproducing plants. They get subsidies here in the US so it's no big deal for them one way or the other.
It's the repdroducing GM plants that are the problem, because most of the time they WILL reproduce with non-modified plants, and the result is a modified plant. You can't go back to non-modified once it is modified, it will forever be "changed".
I don't think it's a bad thing, as long as we take care in what we do, but in general humans tend to break stuff first and try to fix it later. The biggest example today is what China is doing to their air, and what the US and Europe did to their's a hundred years ago. We don't tend to make the same mistake in new places, but there are a lot of old places that we may never be able to clean up all the way.
The problem non-GM croppers have (I'm not one of them, btw, I say it's about damn time we had killer tomatoes!), is GM crops almost always genetically compatible with non-GM crops, and most GM crops don't lose the ability to procreate.
In other words, if there is an "organic" (what a bullshit term, btw, if it weren't organic we couldn't eat it!) non-GM farm sitting next a GM farm, within a few years the non-GM farm will become a GM farm at least in part and the farmer may not even realize it. Well, until he starts getting ridiculously good tomatoes even though he uses no pesticides and only natural fertilizers, and most of his tomatoes used to come out sortof "iffy" (I'm exaggerating, of course).
So eventually, given enough time, everything will be at least a partially GM'd crop. That's not cool to non-GM'ers.
...possibility of seeing PROPER colours...
Even more than that, it opens it up for everybody else to see in TRUE color, seeing as how even we color-advantaged folk only see a tiny sliver of the EM spectrum.
Could you imagine being able to see halfway down the IR spectrum, or well past UV on the other end? Things would look very different, that's for sure. Even just a little bump in both directions would be amazing.
Lol well, my layman's understanding (which, in this case, merely comes from the parsing of words here and in TFA), is that if you heat plastic in a vacuum at a low heat the polymer breaks down and most of the hydrocarbons are released.
It will be interesting to see if this can scale at all, a $5 million facility is nothing (modern processing facilities push the $1 billion with a "b" figure), the daily output of just one oil facility in the US would probably average several times the yearly output of this facility (I know it's in the neighborhood of 100k barrels per day for most facilities on the North Slope), but if they can start to make a dent in the waste plastic out there that will definitely be a good thing.
If we can take the recycled oil from the plastic and use it to make new plastic, then current oil consumption because of plastic could be greatly reduced, and that would be a very good thing.
...when those French terms were translated to English, some of the backwards phrasing like "Attorney General" stuck.
That's the part I was blaming youse guys for. ;)
That's funny, because the term originated in England, not France. Y'all only have yourselves to blame for a brief, shamefull period of wanting to be just like the French.
We Americans generally put the adjective first also, but we frankly don't care all that much one way or another. Besides, the plural of Attorney General, Attorneys General, is just fun to say.
Until you get pulled over or have a accident I guess it works out ok for lots of folks.
That's the point, it's fine until the government finds out you're driving without it. Then you often end up in jail with hefty fines. I actually hit a guy (very slick roads, company truck, company too cheap for studs) and he was hauled off in the back of a police car for driving uninsured.
With the gov't health care plan, it will be pretty easy for them to find out, and therefore fine, people without insurance. They don't need to wait until you get pulled over, they have everybody with a social security number and a job.
Also, the second amendment never gives you any Constitutionally protected right to revolt. It gives a right to keep arms.
And when they put that in the Bill of Rights, the country had just fought a revolutionary war for their independance from England, with an army made up of regular joe citizens.
I'll tell you one thing they were NOT thinking about when they put that in, and that's hunting. Care to guess what their reasoning may have been for making that provision manditory for the ratification of the Constitution, so soon after overthrowing an oppressive government?
If you guess the ultimate right of the citizenry to overthrow their government, you guessed correctly.
That said, I think the GP is treating it a little (by a little, I mean extremely) lightly, revolution is a terrifying option that would result in mass bloodshed and a broken, weak country. It's not something you do over a state AG claiming bullshit copyright.
Try going without car insurance for a while, and see how well that works out for you.
Try not paying taxes for a while, and see how that works out for you.
I know it is spelled out for the Fed, but I'm not sure it is so for the States. Each State is a semi-independant entity, and copyright law may have left that in the hands of each state. This attitude is common in the Constitution.
Any experts out there that can clarify?
He is posting a copyrighted guide to the laws.
Which was paid for by the taxpayers. Why is it copyrightable again?
The 14% is worldwide growth in the home market, I have not been able to find where I saw those figures, much to my chagrin.
However, here are some similar figures, though not the study I was quoting, and they aren't looking at the exact same segments either. I may have mis-quoted the article I came accross as well, I can't tell, since I can't find it again.
You are certainly right to question.
You're right I was a off on the Mac's overall market share, I was thinking of recent sales figures - Mac sales make up about 14% of all PC sales today, which is an even bigger growth than I thought it was, but they will need a sustained growth at that rate to make a sizeable dent in the overall market share. Still, their total market share is around 5% and growing, while total Windows market share is around 93% and shrinking for the time being. Linux makes up part of the leftovers.
It's interesting to note that Win2000 still has more market share than Linux.
So now Steve Ballmer can't be wrong? Now that's a twist.
Granted, Linux is notoriously difficult to track in overall market share, since Linux PCs often spoof themselves as Windows machines, and sales figures are unreliable for obvious reasons, but even if 2/3 of Linux users spoofed their user agent ID, it would still only put Linux at about 1.5% according to recent (August '09, not Feb '09) figures.
In Feb, it certainly looked like Linux would take over the Netbook scene, but MS quickly responded and now most Netbooks come in a Windows flavor, rather than a Linux flavor. So much for that. Seriously, go to a big box computer store and see how many netbooks are of the Linux variety, it is not many.
Linux certainly has the most potential, but honestly I don't see the Linux community getting their act together and creating a truly competitive "product" any time soon. Ubuntu doesn't cut it, not as it stands now.
...(albielt shrinking as linux netbooks gain popularity)...
I don't know where you've been seeing the growth, but linux has held pretty steadily at sub-1% desktop market share for years. Netbooks gave it a slight boost when first released, but MS quickly squashed that and now dominates the netbook market. It's true that Windows has been losing ground, but it's OSX that has been gaining, they are up to almost 10% share last time I looked, just a few years ago they were at less than 5%, so that's pretty darn good.
Linux? Not so much. As for the popularity, ARM is pretty popular as is on small devices, one could say they dominate, and MS already has some software that runs on ARM processors, so if this new breed of ARM is popular then we could see MS make the jump. But it will have to work in that order, the ARM will need to be popular and THEN MS will jump on it, it won't magically happen the other way around (unless MS has a major stake in ARM, which I don't think they do).
Some are even better than Windows! *gasp*
I didn't know Apple had an OSX that worked with ARM, I thought they pretty much stuck to their own hardware, and it's x86?
Oh wait, you mean Linux. Right it's "better" in all the ways a masochist would love. Does wanting to push that on everybody else make you a mass-sadist?
Hmmm... possibly, possibly.
It's not as easy as all that, Windows is built on the core x86 instruction set. x64 changed things a bit, but that was still built on x86, so it was not all that big of a deal.
ARM is a completely different architecture altogether, and porting isn't so easy. Not to anywhere near the edge of their capability, but I imagine they will run into quite a few more problems than just re-writing the compilers will fix.
In any case it should be interesting, if ARM can gain some ground and create another alternative in the processor market it will be better for everybody. For MS, this could end up being the big push they need to move their stuff over to ARM, and then they could truly take over the world, as 99% of PC processors would work with windows. It would also be a big push to produce software in .NET, since that's the only way you'll get full Windows compatibility. Then compatibility to other platforms is even easier for Windows software.
That's what I'm wondering, but I don't know how it works in France.
...as sickening as that of Fox wrt Obama's health care plan: unashamedly ignorant propaganda, ridiculous talking points, and Godwin galore.
Please, Fox is just voicing the "other opinion". They aren't even that far right, on a whole the news organization is just right of center. They just look "far right" because every other news org is so far left. Instead of looking at Obama as if he can do no wrong, they actually think about what his plan might take to accomplish. And for the record, the plan he espoused last week is not on anybody's agenda, the only bill out there right now he would be unable to sign if he were to keep his word, because it has five or six items in it which he promised, with much sincerity and eloquence, would not be a part of "his plan". "His plan" does not exist yet, and I say calling him a liar, while a bit much and disrespectful, is not untrue from what he has given us so far. He promised a lot and we have so far seen very little.
Anyway, this whole thing in France is disgusting, how is it that the Constitutional Council can void a law as unconstitutional, and then the legislature can simply create virtually the same law again and try to get it passed? Do these people have no scruples? That doesn't even happen in the US, once the SCOTUS says a law is unconstitutional, that's it, and lawmakers have to get really creative to accomplish their ultimate goal. Is it not the same in France? It sounds like this new law has only minor changes in it. What's the deal?