GMO's are designed to increase the effective food output of our land
No they are not. GMOs are designed to make money to the corporation selling them. If it happens that a GMO crop has higher yields, it's just a nice side benefit. One common trait of GMO crops are that they are immune to certain poisons (herbicides and insecticide) sold by the same corporation. Thus, the farmers can use more poison on their fields without killing their crops. This may increase crop yields, but it also has a nasty side effect. Even though the corporation claims that the poison will never be able to find its way into the ground water, most eventually do find their way.
Yes, they're designed to make money, we live in a Capitalistic society, everything that companies do is designed to maximize profit. Now, how do farmers make money? I think they sell stuff. I wonder what they sell and where it comes from.... oh, right, food, made in the land.
GMO crops cost more to the farmers due to R&D and them not legally being able to reuse many of the seeds, and not only that, but their value is about half of that for the organics at stores. You'd think that there is some way that farmers recuperate these additional losses, like maybe they can sell more stuff.
GMOs are linked to diseases and cancer. Google France GMO recent news. Best way to kill people(depopulation) is through the food, water, vaccines, and pharmaceutical drugs. I don't want the kool-aid Jim Jones.
Oh, I get it... All those technologies invented over the last century. Vaccines, genetically modified crops, artificial fertilizer, fluorine, and medical drugs... these have all been apart of science's greatest failure of reducing the world's population.
Maybe this is why we keep that last bit of smallpox, so that we can refine it's lethality and finally scientists will kill off humanity.
It's good thing you're AC, otherwise the government might be able to track you down.
If u want "depopulation" u can start with yourself. Supports GMOs but won't eat it himself.
How are GMO's related to depopulation? GMO's are designed to increase the effective food output of our land, which is a requirement for continued population growth. Maybe you're thinking about the sterility gene that Monsanto patented, but this is designed to be used by the plants and you've never inherited a gene from food so their attempts at patent protection don't impact you're ability to compete with the Dougars.
Not that I particularly like Obama, but wouldn't this analogy be the Ruling Class (Obama) be turning against the Bourgose (Romney)*. We also have the issue in that a company being subpoenaed is not even close to being comparable to being thrown in jail.
*At a net worth of 10M, Obama's hardly not a member of the Bourgose, but when you compare it to Romney's 200M, the analogy works alright in my books.
...and just one of the many reasons I have hundreds of CDs lying around. I've bought some music and videos from iTunes. I prefer buying CDs because they're physical and tangible. Google or Apple can't decide to "close the service" and take all of my CDs away.
For that matter, there are still recordings only to be found on vinyl. There's either too weak of a modern interest in certain albums or "not enough profit" for record companies in re-releasing them. Either way, I don't see physical media going away anytime soon.
If you are 35 right now, and you live to 80, you are going to die around the year 2055. Optical media is dying in this decade and we're at the point that my car doesn't have a CD player, laptops don't, and I don't own one because I threw mine out 5 years ago, and there are 50 tutorials on how to convert your legitimate windows disks to bootable flash drives along with all of your software install disks.
There was a Cowboy Bebop about going to the ends of the solar system to find the last Betamax player, the only thing that might save a CD player built today is the possibility that the USB specification remains backwards compatible with devices 5 decades old, except that we're getting short range wireless communication in every device so I don't even know if that's going to last.
57 thousand new jobs in the last 3 months, with 18 thousand last month. This leaves 39k for the other 2 months, netting an average growth rate of 19.5k jobs/month for those 2, in other words, the rate of growth is is nearly 10% slower than it was a month ago.
Does this mean that fluoridating our water and/or using a fluoride mouthwash are useless?
Fluoridation replaces the highly reactive hydroxyl group in our teeth's enamel (hydroxyapatite) with a much less reactive fluoride bond which reduces it's vurnability to acid, it's not done to improve the physical durability of our teeth.
My proposed definition: A binary system comprises two objects whose common center of gravity is above the surface of either object and the components of the system are similar in size and/or mass. This would Pluto-Charon a binary system and the Sun-Jupiter not a binary system.
The barycenter for the Sun-Jupiter system is 1.07 times the radius of the sun, it's about 50k miles above it's surface.
For the Earth, if the moon were to recede about 100k more miles, which will be the next billion years or so. Our barycenter will drift outside the surface as well since it grows linearly with the objects' distances from each other.
The goal of OLPC was to produce a sub-hundred dollar netbook to be distributed to the poor at a price point where charity is possible. This a $234 dollar laptop. Not only is this greater than the $100 goldilocks price point, but their for profit competitors are now cheaper!
At 3.5E billion miles, the gravitational acceleration from the black hole, which is about 3 million times the size of the sun is 12 meter per second squared, roughly the same as the Earth's gravity.
The star was described as being a red giant, using generous assumptions here favoring the star, the mass of the star being 10 times our own size and it's radius being 50 million miles, the surface gravity is about 0.2 meters per second squared, which is lower than Pluto's.
The star's orbital momentum helps it here since the acceleration due to this would roughly cancel out all of the gravitational acceleration, however this is at the center of mass, 50 million miles away from the surface. At this distance, the core of the star is only experiencing 97% of the gravity as the outside. That difference of 3% amounts to 0.36 meters / second squared of acceleration that was not canceled out at the surface.
Gee, this is new, how many times have we seen officials make statements about this regarding any of the current 'War on ______' policies? Hey, how about you fix the damn thing before you had 'Former' amended onto your title.
Why not liberate the source and let other companies continue bugfixing?
Oh... doesn't fit the business model?
open source ftw and for long term maintenance.
An, operating system contains something on the order of tens of millions of lines of code. No company is going to handle a maintenance project like that for free and there is no incentive for Microsoft to pay them for it. As for releasing it in the wild, those tens of millions of lines are not the exclusive product of Microsoft, they almost certainty incorporated code that still belongs to other companies into the final package and this code can not be released even if Microsoft wanted to.
The debacle of the 2000 Florida election was because of paper ballots. If it was illegitimate (I am taking no position on this regard), then it proves that you don't need an electronic system to steal the election if there is systematic corruption already in place. Having an electronic election doesn't help or hurt election fraud in this case, however it does remove a few hundred (thousand?) people involved in counting/reading ballots, each of whom could be corrupt.
If they're planning on limiting the resale value of games, then they better plan on lowering the price. I know a lot of people who justified spending $40 or $50 on a game because they knew they could sell it for $20 or $30 in 6 months when they got tired of it, making the end cost a reasonable $20 or so. A move like this might end up hurting sales in spite of forcing more people to buy directly from Sony (or Sony's retailers) because a large segment of the market can no longer use the money from selling older games to buy newer ones.
Big companies seem to think that consumers have an endless supply of money to spend on anything and everything they want... no concept of a consumer has $100 to spend on games this year. If titles are $50 each, then only two get sold. If titles are $50, but they can resell each for $25 then three games get sold.
I agree with this argument, but playing devils advocate, I can get $100 from a given customer in this year. One way I have to make 3 games, the other, 2. The thing that makes supply and demand curves work is that not everyone has $100 a year for games, my budget may be a few hundred dollars, other people may only save up a few dozen. By putting more variety in the game prices rather than having every one cost the same on release day, the guy with $90 can now buy 2 games rather than 1.
In theory, you could do it with an entire chromosome since these have bonds connecting the entire structure in some way, but the problem is that the wavelength is proportional to it's mass and for something like a chromosome, you're dealing with something with an atomic mass on the order of billions of AMU. This isn't really too big of a problem, the issue comes from that larger molecules have other interactions that interfere with the measurement. A segment of DNA for instance consists of the deoxyribose double helix and base pairs... every single molecule in this chain is going to have it's own signature and not only that, but the atoms too. Getting though all of that noise will be hard.
Over the course of downloading several terabytes of materials in several thousand torrents, I've received 2 letters neither of which threatened legal action but were along the lines of, 'we caught you, it's illegal, stop doing it'. One was for a movie I had never downloaded, the other was for a tv series which is available freely on the Internet from their website that I had been downloading.
My response to both is the same. I've never seen the movie I was accused of torrenting and never will and I stopped watching the tv series.
Ignoring the fact that there's no such thing as "regular sunlight" due to variances in season/geography: LED lights can come in any of an enormous variety of spectra, be combined, or not even be a single wavelength at all and be an ultraviolet light with an LED UV emitter (white LEDs). What meaningless numbers and broad statements...
Translations since you want to be an obnoxious dick.
"Regular Sunlight" - The spectrum of light emitted by the sun which makes it though to the surface under normal atmospheric conditions consisting of a distribution of all wavelengths within the visible spectrum along with limited radiation outside this range which have near negligible effect on photosynthesis.
"LED lighting" - Controlled, artificial lighting used in laboratories which have been designed to produce a desired light spectrum. This is used to produce the ideal lighting conditions with the highest achievable efficiency (most likely a combination of red and violet LEDs).
"Efficiency" - The ratio of energy put into a system to the ratio of energy put out
So basically Ajiaz Arshad Qasmi won a promotion from random zealot in India to random zealot in India who gets a paycheck for saying things like this. Not much change there but I do stand corrected on which religion he's representing.
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Yes, because Google Maps is such an open standard. /s
They provide access to their API, anyone can freely integrate it into their software, websites, or Android apps and even insert their own maps.
https://developers.google.com/maps/
GMO's are designed to increase the effective food output of our land
No they are not. GMOs are designed to make money to the corporation selling them. If it happens that a GMO crop has higher yields, it's just a nice side benefit. One common trait of GMO crops are that they are immune to certain poisons (herbicides and insecticide) sold by the same corporation. Thus, the farmers can use more poison on their fields without killing their crops. This may increase crop yields, but it also has a nasty side effect. Even though the corporation claims that the poison will never be able to find its way into the ground water, most eventually do find their way.
Yes, they're designed to make money, we live in a Capitalistic society, everything that companies do is designed to maximize profit. Now, how do farmers make money? I think they sell stuff. I wonder what they sell and where it comes from.... oh, right, food, made in the land.
GMO crops cost more to the farmers due to R&D and them not legally being able to reuse many of the seeds, and not only that, but their value is about half of that for the organics at stores. You'd think that there is some way that farmers recuperate these additional losses, like maybe they can sell more stuff.
GMOs are linked to diseases and cancer. Google France GMO recent news. Best way to kill people(depopulation) is through the food, water, vaccines, and pharmaceutical drugs. I don't want the kool-aid Jim Jones.
Oh, I get it... All those technologies invented over the last century. Vaccines, genetically modified crops, artificial fertilizer, fluorine, and medical drugs... these have all been apart of science's greatest failure of reducing the world's population.
Maybe this is why we keep that last bit of smallpox, so that we can refine it's lethality and finally scientists will kill off humanity.
It's good thing you're AC, otherwise the government might be able to track you down.
If u want "depopulation" u can start with yourself. Supports GMOs but won't eat it himself.
How are GMO's related to depopulation? GMO's are designed to increase the effective food output of our land, which is a requirement for continued population growth. Maybe you're thinking about the sterility gene that Monsanto patented, but this is designed to be used by the plants and you've never inherited a gene from food so their attempts at patent protection don't impact you're ability to compete with the Dougars.
You lose credibility when you call the largest television news network, owned by the largest media company, non-mainstream.
Not that I particularly like Obama, but wouldn't this analogy be the Ruling Class (Obama) be turning against the Bourgose (Romney)*. We also have the issue in that a company being subpoenaed is not even close to being comparable to being thrown in jail.
*At a net worth of 10M, Obama's hardly not a member of the Bourgose, but when you compare it to Romney's 200M, the analogy works alright in my books.
There are 10 kinds of people in the world. Those who understand binary and those who don't.
That joke ceased being funny, 10 years ago...
Eh, I'm only twenty-four months behind the times then.
...and just one of the many reasons I have hundreds of CDs lying around. I've bought some music and videos from iTunes. I prefer buying CDs because they're physical and tangible. Google or Apple can't decide to "close the service" and take all of my CDs away.
For that matter, there are still recordings only to be found on vinyl. There's either too weak of a modern interest in certain albums or "not enough profit" for record companies in re-releasing them. Either way, I don't see physical media going away anytime soon.
If you are 35 right now, and you live to 80, you are going to die around the year 2055. Optical media is dying in this decade and we're at the point that my car doesn't have a CD player, laptops don't, and I don't own one because I threw mine out 5 years ago, and there are 50 tutorials on how to convert your legitimate windows disks to bootable flash drives along with all of your software install disks.
There was a Cowboy Bebop about going to the ends of the solar system to find the last Betamax player, the only thing that might save a CD player built today is the possibility that the USB specification remains backwards compatible with devices 5 decades old, except that we're getting short range wireless communication in every device so I don't even know if that's going to last.
57 thousand new jobs in the last 3 months, with 18 thousand last month. This leaves 39k for the other 2 months, netting an average growth rate of 19.5k jobs/month for those 2, in other words, the rate of growth is is nearly 10% slower than it was a month ago.
Does this mean that fluoridating our water and/or using a fluoride mouthwash are useless?
Fluoridation replaces the highly reactive hydroxyl group in our teeth's enamel (hydroxyapatite) with a much less reactive fluoride bond which reduces it's vurnability to acid, it's not done to improve the physical durability of our teeth.
What's wrong with panda's?
Oh.... my
Why would people share hearing aid settings with others? Isn't this the type of device set by the operator's preferences?
Having a short range communication between hearing aids and external devices has advantages in calibration, but I just don't get the social part.
My proposed definition: A binary system comprises two objects whose common center of gravity is above the surface of either object and the components of the system are similar in size and/or mass. This would Pluto-Charon a binary system and the Sun-Jupiter not a binary system.
The barycenter for the Sun-Jupiter system is 1.07 times the radius of the sun, it's about 50k miles above it's surface.
For the Earth, if the moon were to recede about 100k more miles, which will be the next billion years or so. Our barycenter will drift outside the surface as well since it grows linearly with the objects' distances from each other.
Question: How many Georgetown Law School students would this $560M cover?
Answer: At an estimated $3,000/year it would cover about 187,000 Georgetown Law School students.
We're trying to make the planet better, how does creating 200,000 new lawyers help the world?
The goal of OLPC was to produce a sub-hundred dollar netbook to be distributed to the poor at a price point where charity is possible. This a $234 dollar laptop. Not only is this greater than the $100 goldilocks price point, but their for profit competitors are now cheaper!
At 3.5E billion miles, the gravitational acceleration from the black hole, which is about 3 million times the size of the sun is 12 meter per second squared, roughly the same as the Earth's gravity.
The star was described as being a red giant, using generous assumptions here favoring the star, the mass of the star being 10 times our own size and it's radius being 50 million miles, the surface gravity is about 0.2 meters per second squared, which is lower than Pluto's.
The star's orbital momentum helps it here since the acceleration due to this would roughly cancel out all of the gravitational acceleration, however this is at the center of mass, 50 million miles away from the surface. At this distance, the core of the star is only experiencing 97% of the gravity as the outside. That difference of 3% amounts to 0.36 meters / second squared of acceleration that was not canceled out at the surface.
Gee, this is new, how many times have we seen officials make statements about this regarding any of the current 'War on ______' policies? Hey, how about you fix the damn thing before you had 'Former' amended onto your title.
Why not liberate the source and let other companies continue bugfixing?
Oh... doesn't fit the business model?
open source ftw and for long term maintenance.
An, operating system contains something on the order of tens of millions of lines of code. No company is going to handle a maintenance project like that for free and there is no incentive for Microsoft to pay them for it. As for releasing it in the wild, those tens of millions of lines are not the exclusive product of Microsoft, they almost certainty incorporated code that still belongs to other companies into the final package and this code can not be released even if Microsoft wanted to.
Brother Jeb Bush, and friends ring a bell?
The debacle of the 2000 Florida election was because of paper ballots. If it was illegitimate (I am taking no position on this regard), then it proves that you don't need an electronic system to steal the election if there is systematic corruption already in place. Having an electronic election doesn't help or hurt election fraud in this case, however it does remove a few hundred (thousand?) people involved in counting/reading ballots, each of whom could be corrupt.
If they're planning on limiting the resale value of games, then they better plan on lowering the price. I know a lot of people who justified spending $40 or $50 on a game because they knew they could sell it for $20 or $30 in 6 months when they got tired of it, making the end cost a reasonable $20 or so. A move like this might end up hurting sales in spite of forcing more people to buy directly from Sony (or Sony's retailers) because a large segment of the market can no longer use the money from selling older games to buy newer ones.
Big companies seem to think that consumers have an endless supply of money to spend on anything and everything they want... no concept of a consumer has $100 to spend on games this year. If titles are $50 each, then only two get sold. If titles are $50, but they can resell each for $25 then three games get sold.
I agree with this argument, but playing devils advocate, I can get $100 from a given customer in this year. One way I have to make 3 games, the other, 2. The thing that makes supply and demand curves work is that not everyone has $100 a year for games, my budget may be a few hundred dollars, other people may only save up a few dozen. By putting more variety in the game prices rather than having every one cost the same on release day, the guy with $90 can now buy 2 games rather than 1.
DNA is large. Hasn't it been tested?
In theory, you could do it with an entire chromosome since these have bonds connecting the entire structure in some way, but the problem is that the wavelength is proportional to it's mass and for something like a chromosome, you're dealing with something with an atomic mass on the order of billions of AMU. This isn't really too big of a problem, the issue comes from that larger molecules have other interactions that interfere with the measurement. A segment of DNA for instance consists of the deoxyribose double helix and base pairs... every single molecule in this chain is going to have it's own signature and not only that, but the atoms too. Getting though all of that noise will be hard.
That's My Senator!!!
And I couldn't be prouder!!
I wish I had the mod points to rep this... sadly I can't say the same thing about mine.
Over the course of downloading several terabytes of materials in several thousand torrents, I've received 2 letters neither of which threatened legal action but were along the lines of, 'we caught you, it's illegal, stop doing it'. One was for a movie I had never downloaded, the other was for a tv series which is available freely on the Internet from their website that I had been downloading.
My response to both is the same. I've never seen the movie I was accused of torrenting and never will and I stopped watching the tv series.
Ignoring the fact that there's no such thing as "regular sunlight" due to variances in season/geography: LED lights can come in any of an enormous variety of spectra, be combined, or not even be a single wavelength at all and be an ultraviolet light with an LED UV emitter (white LEDs). What meaningless numbers and broad statements...
Translations since you want to be an obnoxious dick.
"Regular Sunlight" - The spectrum of light emitted by the sun which makes it though to the surface under normal atmospheric conditions consisting of a distribution of all wavelengths within the visible spectrum along with limited radiation outside this range which have near negligible effect on photosynthesis.
"LED lighting" - Controlled, artificial lighting used in laboratories which have been designed to produce a desired light spectrum. This is used to produce the ideal lighting conditions with the highest achievable efficiency (most likely a combination of red and violet LEDs).
"Efficiency" - The ratio of energy put into a system to the ratio of energy put out
So basically Ajiaz Arshad Qasmi won a promotion from random zealot in India to random zealot in India who gets a paycheck for saying things like this. Not much change there but I do stand corrected on which religion he's representing.