Is there a law against putting a "contains no GMO" label food if it provably doesn't?
Anyway, even if there is, it is still bullshit. Only a handful or two GM versions of plant species is in production. Check the ingredients, and if any of those is there and the product is not organic, you can assume it contains GMO. It really isn't that hard to tell.
The GPP posits that there are cases where " farmers who did not kill everything but GMO in their fields with Roundup ", and you back it up with a case where the farmer sprayed a portion of his field with glyphosate and told his farmhands to SPECIFICALLY keep seeds from that part fields for regrowing.
there have been instances of Monsanto claiming that farmers who simply have their seeds in their field, even through natural spreading, owe them a fee.
We need to get the technology for better assessment of the composition of asteroids when they're still a distance away before trying to figure out how to harvest them when they're nearby.
Which seems to be the two first points on DSI's agenda: Build small space-based telescopes to scout for interesting asteroids, and build slightly larger retrieving vehicles to bring back samples from the most interesting ones.
It seems their plan is not to bring the materials to Earth, but to use them to build things in space, where things are much more valuable (is it something like 10.000$ per kg to launch a satellite?). IIRC, the first part of their scheme is simply to extract water and other volatiles, which can be used for propellants. The required investment would be much smaller than for producing objects, and the cost in orbit is still at least what it costs to launch it on a rocket.
Their job is also to uphold the constitution*, quite the opposite of passing intelligent design laws.
In addition, the inevitable lawsuit will cost the state loads of money, and will lead to the law being deemed unconstitutional, so it really is just wasting a lot of state money without changing anything. Not that that would necessarily make it treason, but it does raise the question of why the people who are formally against a big government are so eager to waste tax money.
*I think, but I suppose that is dependent on the state constitution.
If your are being strict about definitions, it's a stretch to call teaching intelligent design seditious or treasonous. It does harm the state by mandating the propagation of stupid religious dogma, but it is not overtly trying to overthrow the rule of law.
Every time these laws end up in court, the are thrown out as being against the first amendment. Shouldn't knowingly passing a law that is against the constitution be considered " trying to overthrow the rule of law"?
It would shift brute force to try the same password for different accounts in stead of the different passwords for the same account. It would make breaking a particular account harder, but not breaking just any account, which might be the goal.
Thank you for that post. I thought it was wrong, as I haven't been taught any number theory for the last 10 years, but reading the WP article on AKS primality test instead taught me something new. Thank you.
"affirmative action" where the only reason one person was hired over another is fear of reprisals from a minority group and not because the person who was hired is more qualified for the job.
And colleagues who do not know this are reinforced in the belief that people from $minority are, actually, worse performers.
IIRC, the colorblind solution is based on lightness, where the non-colorblind one is based on hue. That means that everybody can see the colorblind solution, it is just that if you are not colorblind, the other solution is much clearer.
So perhaps you are partly colorblind*, to the degree where the two solutions are equally clear?
*If such a thing exists, I didn't think so, but some other posters in this thread have mentioned it.
Nothing about the US bailouts was Keynesian. It may look Keynesian, but the underlying motive and effect is US Crazy Randian. What is Keynesian about tax cuts for the rich and attacking the middle class?
Cutting overall taxes is Keynesian*. In general, the Keynesian recipe to getting out of a crisis is to do everything that makes the states deficit larger, from the theory that crises are an effect of too little money in circulation. This means increasing expenditure AND cutting taxes. Somehow, people who claim to be Keynesian today forget the last part, but then, everybody seems to forget that to decrease public expenditure when we are not having a crisis is also part of the Keynesian model.
*I don't know whether the overall taxes was cut in the US recently, though I doubt it, as getting fewer money to spend is not politicians favorite thing.
Wow, an AC using a third derivative to argue his case. That's gotta be a first (though oinly for ACs, not for sitting US presidents). Actually, from the first chart I found when googling, it looks as if the userbase has been linearly rising since November 2010, so the rise is not growing, much less accelerating.
If it makes you feel better, I am working in a group that is trying to asses the toxicity of alkylated PAHs and their degradation products. Whether that should be comforting because we are doing something, or because I probably see the problem as larger than it is is left as an exercise to the reader;-)
Worse, even when we figure out where it goes, we don't know how toxic those compounds are. But even that is getting ahead of ourselves, we don't even know how toxic the compounds in oil are. We know how toxic PAH's are, because they are the major component of soot. In oil, however, the amount of alkylated PAH is much higher, and we don't know how toxic they are. Today, we measure the total petroleum hydrocarbon and a few of the PAH's to estimate the severity of pollution, which is fine if you have spilled paraffin and soot, but is probably not a very good probe for the toxicity of crude oil.
Well, the atmosphere will do, I guess. Or, to be more specific, oxygen. My point was that, barring some very special circumstances, all organic C is in equilibrium with the atmosphere on at least a decade or century timescale. Unless your backyard was a bog or otherwise under water until very recently, I doubt very much of the carbon is old. If there is oxygen present, life will make carbon into CO2, and there is oxygen present in most soil, at least in some parts of the year.
If they do in fact go home, (highly questionable), they more likely start selling stuff into your country, lowering the prices, and freeing people to do things they do more effectively. Buying stuff from France, (or wherever they were educated is usually not economically possible.
FTFY. Both processes exist, but assuming that is is easy to change career, trade helps everybody. In the short term, it mostly helps the people in the poor country, but as they are poorer to start with, that should increase total human happiness. The only way this can be a bad thing is if you weigh the happiness of people in your country higher than you do the happiness of people elsewhere.
My experience is that the Japanese pronunciation is somewhere between R and L, meaning that it can be interpreted as both, depending on context. But there might be regional differences.
Your points are generally correct, but your test for the non-GC-able prtion is not accurate. Compounds with boiling points well above the temperature of the column can be eluted from GC by having a high enough phase ratio, or a high enough flow, or waiting for a long enough time. A boiling point of 450 degrees C is reached at around C-30 , and I have seen presentations of GC of alkanes up to C-60, in I think I have heard about GC of up to C-100. In that range, it becomes more a question of thermal stability, but anything present in oil will have experienced prolonged periods of elevated temperature, so nothing particularly thermally labile should be left. However, this does not go for the degradation products.
The half-life of C-14 is 5730 years, and unless you have upwelling of very old deep sea water or an oil spill, organic matter exposed to the sun is not that old. Still, a clean beach sample would have been a nice blank sample to compare with.
The incorporation of oxygen into the oil’s hydrocarbons, which we
refer to as oxyhydrocarbons, was confirmed from the detection of hydroxyl and carbonyl
functional groups and the identification of long chain (C
10 - C32
) carboxylic acids as well as
alcohols. On the basis of the diagnostic ratios of alkanes and polycyclic aromatic
hydrocarbons, and the context within which these samples were collected, we hypothesize
that biodegradation and photooxidation share responsibility for the accumulation of oxygen in the oil residues.
So would releasing tons of O2 under/in the affected area, bubbling up O2 and diffusing in the water cause more rapid decay of the oil?
Yes
Would that make it easier or harder to clean up?
Yes
Or, to be less snarky, oxygen is important in degrading oil, and oxygen depletion makes the oil degrade much slower. And we don't really know how toxic these compounds are. They are more hydrophilic than hydrocarbons, so they are more rapidly taken up and more rapidly excreted by organisms.
here's no need to even tamper with the boot sector because said malware can simply re-exploit the OS after it's booted up.
I think the point of secure boot is that today, once the system is rooted, you can install a hypervisor and own the system forever. Repairing the original hole does not save an already rooted system. With secure boot, if the hole is repaired, the system cannot be re-rooted, so any exploits that used that hole are now gone.
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Is there a law against putting a "contains no GMO" label food if it provably doesn't?
Anyway, even if there is, it is still bullshit. Only a handful or two GM versions of plant species is in production. Check the ingredients, and if any of those is there and the product is not organic, you can assume it contains GMO. It really isn't that hard to tell.
The GPP posits that there are cases where " farmers who did not kill everything but GMO in their fields with Roundup ", and you back it up with a case where the farmer sprayed a portion of his field with glyphosate and told his farmhands to SPECIFICALLY keep seeds from that part fields for regrowing.
there have been instances of Monsanto claiming that farmers who simply have their seeds in their field, even through natural spreading, owe them a fee.
Do you have a source for that?
Why wouldn't building (parts of) satellites out of them work?
Because nobody needs satellites?
We need to get the technology for better assessment of the composition of asteroids when they're still a distance away before trying to figure out how to harvest them when they're nearby.
Which seems to be the two first points on DSI's agenda: Build small space-based telescopes to scout for interesting asteroids, and build slightly larger retrieving vehicles to bring back samples from the most interesting ones.
It seems their plan is not to bring the materials to Earth, but to use them to build things in space, where things are much more valuable (is it something like 10.000$ per kg to launch a satellite?). IIRC, the first part of their scheme is simply to extract water and other volatiles, which can be used for propellants. The required investment would be much smaller than for producing objects, and the cost in orbit is still at least what it costs to launch it on a rocket.
Their job is also to uphold the constitution*, quite the opposite of passing intelligent design laws.
In addition, the inevitable lawsuit will cost the state loads of money, and will lead to the law being deemed unconstitutional, so it really is just wasting a lot of state money without changing anything. Not that that would necessarily make it treason, but it does raise the question of why the people who are formally against a big government are so eager to waste tax money.
*I think, but I suppose that is dependent on the state constitution.
If your are being strict about definitions, it's a stretch to call teaching intelligent design seditious or treasonous. It does harm the state by mandating the propagation of stupid religious dogma, but it is not overtly trying to overthrow the rule of law.
Every time these laws end up in court, the are thrown out as being against the first amendment. Shouldn't knowingly passing a law that is against the constitution be considered " trying to overthrow the rule of law"?
It would shift brute force to try the same password for different accounts in stead of the different passwords for the same account. It would make breaking a particular account harder, but not breaking just any account, which might be the goal.
Thank you for that post. I thought it was wrong, as I haven't been taught any number theory for the last 10 years, but reading the WP article on AKS primality test instead taught me something new. Thank you.
"affirmative action" where the only reason one person was hired over another is fear of reprisals from a minority group and not because the person who was hired is more qualified for the job.
And colleagues who do not know this are reinforced in the belief that people from $minority are, actually, worse performers.
IIRC, the colorblind solution is based on lightness, where the non-colorblind one is based on hue. That means that everybody can see the colorblind solution, it is just that if you are not colorblind, the other solution is much clearer.
So perhaps you are partly colorblind*, to the degree where the two solutions are equally clear?
*If such a thing exists, I didn't think so, but some other posters in this thread have mentioned it.
Nothing about the US bailouts was Keynesian. It may look Keynesian, but the underlying motive and effect is US Crazy Randian. What is Keynesian about tax cuts for the rich and attacking the middle class?
Cutting overall taxes is Keynesian*. In general, the Keynesian recipe to getting out of a crisis is to do everything that makes the states deficit larger, from the theory that crises are an effect of too little money in circulation. This means increasing expenditure AND cutting taxes. Somehow, people who claim to be Keynesian today forget the last part, but then, everybody seems to forget that to decrease public expenditure when we are not having a crisis is also part of the Keynesian model.
*I don't know whether the overall taxes was cut in the US recently, though I doubt it, as getting fewer money to spend is not politicians favorite thing.
their userbase growth is still accelerating.
Wow, an AC using a third derivative to argue his case. That's gotta be a first (though oinly for ACs, not for sitting US presidents). Actually, from the first chart I found when googling, it looks as if the userbase has been linearly rising since November 2010, so the rise is not growing, much less accelerating.
If it makes you feel better, I am working in a group that is trying to asses the toxicity of alkylated PAHs and their degradation products. Whether that should be comforting because we are doing something, or because I probably see the problem as larger than it is is left as an exercise to the reader ;-)
Worse, even when we figure out where it goes, we don't know how toxic those compounds are. But even that is getting ahead of ourselves, we don't even know how toxic the compounds in oil are. We know how toxic PAH's are, because they are the major component of soot. In oil, however, the amount of alkylated PAH is much higher, and we don't know how toxic they are. Today, we measure the total petroleum hydrocarbon and a few of the PAH's to estimate the severity of pollution, which is fine if you have spilled paraffin and soot, but is probably not a very good probe for the toxicity of crude oil.
What does sunlight have to do with it?
Well, the atmosphere will do, I guess. Or, to be more specific, oxygen. My point was that, barring some very special circumstances, all organic C is in equilibrium with the atmosphere on at least a decade or century timescale. Unless your backyard was a bog or otherwise under water until very recently, I doubt very much of the carbon is old. If there is oxygen present, life will make carbon into CO2, and there is oxygen present in most soil, at least in some parts of the year.
If they do in fact go home, (highly questionable), they more likely start selling stuff into your country, lowering the prices, and freeing people to do things they do more effectively. Buying stuff from France, (or wherever they were educated is usually not economically possible.
FTFY. Both processes exist, but assuming that is is easy to change career, trade helps everybody. In the short term, it mostly helps the people in the poor country, but as they are poorer to start with, that should increase total human happiness. The only way this can be a bad thing is if you weigh the happiness of people in your country higher than you do the happiness of people elsewhere.
My experience is that the Japanese pronunciation is somewhere between R and L, meaning that it can be interpreted as both, depending on context. But there might be regional differences.
Your points are generally correct, but your test for the non-GC-able prtion is not accurate. Compounds with boiling points well above the temperature of the column can be eluted from GC by having a high enough phase ratio, or a high enough flow, or waiting for a long enough time. A boiling point of 450 degrees C is reached at around C-30 , and I have seen presentations of GC of alkanes up to C-60, in I think I have heard about GC of up to C-100. In that range, it becomes more a question of thermal stability, but anything present in oil will have experienced prolonged periods of elevated temperature, so nothing particularly thermally labile should be left. However, this does not go for the degradation products.
The half-life of C-14 is 5730 years, and unless you have upwelling of very old deep sea water or an oil spill, organic matter exposed to the sun is not that old. Still, a clean beach sample would have been a nice blank sample to compare with.
The incorporation of oxygen into the oil’s hydrocarbons, which we refer to as oxyhydrocarbons, was confirmed from the detection of hydroxyl and carbonyl functional groups and the identification of long chain (C 10 - C32 ) carboxylic acids as well as alcohols. On the basis of the diagnostic ratios of alkanes and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, and the context within which these samples were collected, we hypothesize that biodegradation and photooxidation share responsibility for the accumulation of oxygen in the oil residues.
So would releasing tons of O2 under/in the affected area, bubbling up O2 and diffusing in the water cause more rapid decay of the oil?
Yes
Would that make it easier or harder to clean up?
Yes
Or, to be less snarky, oxygen is important in degrading oil, and oxygen depletion makes the oil degrade much slower. And we don't really know how toxic these compounds are. They are more hydrophilic than hydrocarbons, so they are more rapidly taken up and more rapidly excreted by organisms.
here's no need to even tamper with the boot sector because said malware can simply re-exploit the OS after it's booted up.
I think the point of secure boot is that today, once the system is rooted, you can install a hypervisor and own the system forever. Repairing the original hole does not save an already rooted system. With secure boot, if the hole is repaired, the system cannot be re-rooted, so any exploits that used that hole are now gone.