Selective breeding relies on random changes to DNA. Over the past 60 years, we've accelerated the process through mutation breeding. That involves exposing plant tissues or seeds to radiation or mutagenic chemicals. Many of our most popular crop varietals have been generated this way, and are often grown and cheerfully marketed as 'organic'.
In contrast, genetically engineered plants have been modified at specific points on their DNA, incorporating known sequences of DNA that code for specific desired changes.
Which seems safer to you? A randomly scrambled DNA that, for all anyone knows, also expresses a slow cumulative poison, or a specifically modified DNA that expresses exactly the intended change with no other alterations?
The organic food industry, unable to succeed by running the race better, faster or smarter, now seeks to win by tripping the other runners. The whole anti-GMO effort is without scientific merit, and is simply a calculated money-grab by the organic food industry. Unfortunately, this shambling anti-GMO monster created by the organic food industry is now killing people by the hundreds of thousands.
The parallel of cracking enigma and how important it was to keep that secret breaks down when you look at the value actually derived from NSA domestic spying. Sure, the NSA will say they have to keep their results hush-hush, but Snowden doesn't. Have any of the leaked documents revealed any value from all this spying whatsoever? Any damage done by these NSA revelations would be damage to an unproductive set of tools. Unlike the NSA, actual damages are accruing to US companies who are now unable to sell products or services because of their potential involvement in the NSA's unproductive toolchest.
What we don't see in the Snowden revelations is any scrap of value derived from the NSA's blatant power-grab. As I understand it, the essence of NSA's defense is "but...TERRORISTS!", yet they have failed to produce any results that come even close to justifying their extraordinary usurpation of power. Even if the NSA could demonstrate real value in the data they've stolen, they would still have to justify their process for taking it from us. Last I knew, the constitution does not state "the ends justify the means".
Broken? I just punched their "Buy Online" link and was taken to a shopping cart that had both their $660 Enterprise version and their $45 single-user version in it. I removed the Enterprise version from my cart and it sure appeared ready to let me complete my order for the individual version. What was broken about it?
Buddy of mine used to own a gaming cafe. He ran DeepFreeze on all of his computers. This allowed customers to have admin rights, so they could bring in their own games, install whatever they like, surf the seamy underbelly of the net and intentionally try to infect or sabotage the machines to their little black heart's content. All he had to do was press the reset button and the machine would return to its pristine state. With DeepFreeze on a computer, you don't even need to install antivirus software.
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The FDA should be required to perform some sort of cost/benefit analysis of shutting 23andMe down. I was made aware of a potentially life-threatening response I am likely to have to an antibiotic that is used outside the US. If the FDA had prevented me from discovering this, I could end up dead if I travel and am given that antibiotic. How many people will the FDA kill through this action?
Government measures success by whether a candidate is more or less re-electable. So the product of government is a series of 'positions' their candidate appears to adopt to communicate their feelings about an issue that polls have shown is dear to the hearts of their electorate, thereby increasing their re-electability.
Business measures success by whether the owners of the company are buying or selling more or fewer shares of the company. When more people wish to be owners than sellers, the share price rises and the management of the company is free to reward themselves lavishly. When fewer people wish to be owners, the management of the company plays musical chairs and the loser must make do with exercising a pile of options to become, briefly, much more prominent owners of the company themselves.
Neither power structure is optimized for creation of overall human happiness.
Dude, you need some medication or something. You seem to think the DNA was writ by the immortal hand of god and is therefore sacrosanct. It ain't. Mutation is natural. DNA is thermodynamically unstable. The mechanisms by which DNA is replicated induces errors. Each of us has a dozen or so mutations to our own DNA. Every organism is constantly undergoing mutation. It is possible, though very tedious, to simply use selective breeding and wait for nature to provide the qualities we seek, whether it is increased shelf-life or Roundup resistance. All that adding radiation or mutagenic chemicals does is speed up the clock to give us these desirable mutations, (along with thousands of useless mutations), faster. All that genetic engineering does is give us the exact changes we want more or less immediately.
It's not just selective breeding. Many of the varieties on offer at your local "organic" food stall are the product of radioactive mutation. There's nothing in the standards for designating food "organic" that bars using crops whose DNA has been randomly scrambled by radiation or mutagenic chemicals. So it's no surprise that many of them are.
I'll add my voice to the chorus suggesting Google Voice. By the time the user is asked to give their name and wait while Google Voice rings all of your phones, telemarketers give up. At least, I haven't gotten a single telemarketer since switching. Now, some of your friends may not have the patience to wait a few extra seconds either, but maybe that just proves they're not real friends.
The whole anti-GMO "movement" is funded in large part by the organic food industry. Finding themselves unable to win the race for consumer's hard-earned money by being better than their competition, the organic food industry is trying to win by tripping the other runners. There is essentially no scientific support for anti-GMO propaganda.
I wonder whether doctors could prescribe a periodic test, to keep track of a particular metabolite or something? I wonder whether insurance would pay for it?
It's all about money. There are a number of variables that can reliably predict the probability that a particular transaction is fraudulent. Connecting by an anonymized path is one of them. Probably a damn good predictor, at that. I'm sure they can show you on powerpoint slides exactly how many millions of dollars their predictive model that uses that variable is saving the company. If a sufficient volume of legitimate shoppers connect using anonymized path, the predictive value of that variable will decline, and only then will businesses stop using it.
No, changing from buying bandwidth (mbps) to buying individual bits caves into the racket that ISPs have set up, where they count on you not actually using the bandwidth you're paying them for. If I signed up for 10 mbps down, 5 mbps up, that's what I should get. End of story. Wait, you're telling me my ISP can only transport about 10% of the bandwidth they've actually sold? There's a word for that, isn't there? When someone sells you something they don't actually have?
Sure, when people actually use all the bandwidth they're paying for, ISPs have to increase their physical plant. But that bandwidth is already paid for. When I sign up for 10 mbps down / 5 mbps up, that's what I'm buying. I should have a reasonable expectation of being able to receive or send that many bits every second from any data provider I wish, at any time I wish. When an ISP balks at the bandwidth needed to supply its customers with the multiple simultaneous Netflix feeds their contract says they should be able to support, they are merely whinging because they are no longer able to get away with effectively stealing the unused bandwidth that customer signed up for and has been paying for but hasn't been using.
Cool Planet is doing something very similar. They add an additional step wherein the carbon is treated to have a biofilm before using it as a soil amendment.
In our evolutionary past, we had to specialize in order to be competitive in a particular niche. That specialization prevented our earliest forbears from being competitive in the radically changed environments of both day and night. So all the way back in the evolutionary tree to bacteria, we see a circadian rhythm. Some creatures are better adapted to night, others to day. They spend their off-cycle conserving energy and being difficult to spot. Holding still accomplishes both. So sleeping became a strong selective advantage. Since sleep is built in at a fundamental level, any later specializations have to be compatible. So brainwashing while we're asleep is a compatible and advantageous adaptation.
It may also have to do with Facebook not wanting to field emails from Jimmy's Grandma after Jimmy visits and installs Social Fixer on Grandma's browser, and Grandma wants to know where the ticker went and how to change the fuchsia color bar Jimmy set up.
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Selective breeding relies on random changes to DNA. Over the past 60 years, we've accelerated the process through mutation breeding. That involves exposing plant tissues or seeds to radiation or mutagenic chemicals. Many of our most popular crop varietals have been generated this way, and are often grown and cheerfully marketed as 'organic'.
In contrast, genetically engineered plants have been modified at specific points on their DNA, incorporating known sequences of DNA that code for specific desired changes.
Which seems safer to you? A randomly scrambled DNA that, for all anyone knows, also expresses a slow cumulative poison, or a specifically modified DNA that expresses exactly the intended change with no other alterations?
The organic food industry, unable to succeed by running the race better, faster or smarter, now seeks to win by tripping the other runners. The whole anti-GMO effort is without scientific merit, and is simply a calculated money-grab by the organic food industry. Unfortunately, this shambling anti-GMO monster created by the organic food industry is now killing people by the hundreds of thousands.
I would add The Mind's I. It has a way of inverting one's ego, or perhaps molding it into a Klein bottle.
Obama has never said that. At least, Google doesn't know of such a statement. Anybody got a reference?
The parallel of cracking enigma and how important it was to keep that secret breaks down when you look at the value actually derived from NSA domestic spying. Sure, the NSA will say they have to keep their results hush-hush, but Snowden doesn't. Have any of the leaked documents revealed any value from all this spying whatsoever? Any damage done by these NSA revelations would be damage to an unproductive set of tools. Unlike the NSA, actual damages are accruing to US companies who are now unable to sell products or services because of their potential involvement in the NSA's unproductive toolchest.
What we don't see in the Snowden revelations is any scrap of value derived from the NSA's blatant power-grab. As I understand it, the essence of NSA's defense is "but...TERRORISTS!", yet they have failed to produce any results that come even close to justifying their extraordinary usurpation of power. Even if the NSA could demonstrate real value in the data they've stolen, they would still have to justify their process for taking it from us. Last I knew, the constitution does not state "the ends justify the means".
Broken? I just punched their "Buy Online" link and was taken to a shopping cart that had both their $660 Enterprise version and their $45 single-user version in it. I removed the Enterprise version from my cart and it sure appeared ready to let me complete my order for the individual version. What was broken about it?
Buddy of mine used to own a gaming cafe. He ran DeepFreeze on all of his computers. This allowed customers to have admin rights, so they could bring in their own games, install whatever they like, surf the seamy underbelly of the net and intentionally try to infect or sabotage the machines to their little black heart's content. All he had to do was press the reset button and the machine would return to its pristine state. With DeepFreeze on a computer, you don't even need to install antivirus software.
The case made for withdrawal bases its objections on bad science. The response from the authors was an ad-hominem attack against one of the editors.
Albanian - misër
Cebuano - mais
Danish - majs
Dutch - maïs
Esperanto - maizo
Estonian - mais
Filipino - mais
Finnish - maissi
French - maïs
German - Mais
Haitian Creole - mayi
Italian - mais
Norwegian - mais
Spanish - maíz
Swedish - majs
Turkish - misir
The FDA should be required to perform some sort of cost/benefit analysis of shutting 23andMe down. I was made aware of a potentially life-threatening response I am likely to have to an antibiotic that is used outside the US. If the FDA had prevented me from discovering this, I could end up dead if I travel and am given that antibiotic. How many people will the FDA kill through this action?
Government measures success by whether a candidate is more or less re-electable. So the product of government is a series of 'positions' their candidate appears to adopt to communicate their feelings about an issue that polls have shown is dear to the hearts of their electorate, thereby increasing their re-electability.
Business measures success by whether the owners of the company are buying or selling more or fewer shares of the company. When more people wish to be owners than sellers, the share price rises and the management of the company is free to reward themselves lavishly. When fewer people wish to be owners, the management of the company plays musical chairs and the loser must make do with exercising a pile of options to become, briefly, much more prominent owners of the company themselves.
Neither power structure is optimized for creation of overall human happiness.
Dude, you need some medication or something. You seem to think the DNA was writ by the immortal hand of god and is therefore sacrosanct. It ain't. Mutation is natural. DNA is thermodynamically unstable. The mechanisms by which DNA is replicated induces errors. Each of us has a dozen or so mutations to our own DNA. Every organism is constantly undergoing mutation. It is possible, though very tedious, to simply use selective breeding and wait for nature to provide the qualities we seek, whether it is increased shelf-life or Roundup resistance. All that adding radiation or mutagenic chemicals does is speed up the clock to give us these desirable mutations, (along with thousands of useless mutations), faster. All that genetic engineering does is give us the exact changes we want more or less immediately.
It's not just selective breeding. Many of the varieties on offer at your local "organic" food stall are the product of radioactive mutation. There's nothing in the standards for designating food "organic" that bars using crops whose DNA has been randomly scrambled by radiation or mutagenic chemicals. So it's no surprise that many of them are.
No, I don't think you've jinxed it yet. What's your number?
I'll add my voice to the chorus suggesting Google Voice. By the time the user is asked to give their name and wait while Google Voice rings all of your phones, telemarketers give up. At least, I haven't gotten a single telemarketer since switching. Now, some of your friends may not have the patience to wait a few extra seconds either, but maybe that just proves they're not real friends.
The whole anti-GMO "movement" is funded in large part by the organic food industry. Finding themselves unable to win the race for consumer's hard-earned money by being better than their competition, the organic food industry is trying to win by tripping the other runners. There is essentially no scientific support for anti-GMO propaganda.
Pilots are not permitted to fly more than 100 hours per month. They could work a full 40-hour week by spending their remaining hours in simulation.
I wonder whether doctors could prescribe a periodic test, to keep track of a particular metabolite or something? I wonder whether insurance would pay for it?
It's all about money. There are a number of variables that can reliably predict the probability that a particular transaction is fraudulent. Connecting by an anonymized path is one of them. Probably a damn good predictor, at that. I'm sure they can show you on powerpoint slides exactly how many millions of dollars their predictive model that uses that variable is saving the company. If a sufficient volume of legitimate shoppers connect using anonymized path, the predictive value of that variable will decline, and only then will businesses stop using it.
No, changing from buying bandwidth (mbps) to buying individual bits caves into the racket that ISPs have set up, where they count on you not actually using the bandwidth you're paying them for. If I signed up for 10 mbps down, 5 mbps up, that's what I should get. End of story. Wait, you're telling me my ISP can only transport about 10% of the bandwidth they've actually sold? There's a word for that, isn't there? When someone sells you something they don't actually have?
Sure, when people actually use all the bandwidth they're paying for, ISPs have to increase their physical plant. But that bandwidth is already paid for. When I sign up for 10 mbps down / 5 mbps up, that's what I'm buying. I should have a reasonable expectation of being able to receive or send that many bits every second from any data provider I wish, at any time I wish. When an ISP balks at the bandwidth needed to supply its customers with the multiple simultaneous Netflix feeds their contract says they should be able to support, they are merely whinging because they are no longer able to get away with effectively stealing the unused bandwidth that customer signed up for and has been paying for but hasn't been using.
Cool Planet is doing something very similar. They add an additional step wherein the carbon is treated to have a biofilm before using it as a soil amendment.
You also live somewhere other than the bay area. Probably someplace like Memphis Tennessee, where the median household income is $37K?
In our evolutionary past, we had to specialize in order to be competitive in a particular niche. That specialization prevented our earliest forbears from being competitive in the radically changed environments of both day and night. So all the way back in the evolutionary tree to bacteria, we see a circadian rhythm. Some creatures are better adapted to night, others to day. They spend their off-cycle conserving energy and being difficult to spot. Holding still accomplishes both. So sleeping became a strong selective advantage. Since sleep is built in at a fundamental level, any later specializations have to be compatible. So brainwashing while we're asleep is a compatible and advantageous adaptation.
It may also have to do with Facebook not wanting to field emails from Jimmy's Grandma after Jimmy visits and installs Social Fixer on Grandma's browser, and Grandma wants to know where the ticker went and how to change the fuchsia color bar Jimmy set up.