Why should the government have any reasons to lie about the moon landings? The astronauts were there, several times, they landed, and they came back. Nothing to lie about, as far as I can tell.
In legislations, where it is "loser pays", this first reference point is important for the later outcome. Google was sued for 6.1bn, valuing the lawsuit at 6.1bn. If Oracle manages to get the 230mil awarded, this means that there were 5.87bn, which they didn't get. That would mean that Oracle has to pay 96% of the whole costs for the lawsuit.
Tell that to my ancestors, of which some have been convicted to death for not being christian enough. Or as the christian religion says: Matt 7:20: Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them.
So are all religions which are proselytizing. They see world domination as their goal. And they count every other belief or the lack of any belief as inferior. Christianity currently has about all of the most powerful countries on their side (with the exception of China), so Christianity can have a pretty laid back attitude right now. Islam is not in that position, so it tries more aggressively to gain power.
Are there any examples of that kind of GM organism making it to the field? There are plenty of examples in the lab, but I thought none of them were used where they can spread.
Monsanto and their "RoundUp Ready" line of plants are the prime example here.
The gene that allows for glyphosate resistance (glyphosate being the actual weedkiller in RoundUp) was taken out of the Salmonella genus of bacteria, and transferred into the plant by using the Agrobacterium tumefaciens bacterium as the gene shuttle.
Breeding only selects on the allele level (except for the seldom situation of an actual and not life threatening gene mutation). That means you don't get any new genes into your lifestock, you just recombine the alleles and then select for the best combinations.
There is a way to actually get new genes into your lifestock, it's called hybridization. It works pretty well for plant species that are closely related, so are most citrus fruits actually hybrids. It does not work so well for animals, the few wellknown examples of hybrids are almost all sterile, like the mule.
Genetic engineering puts genes that come from completely different livings into the genome, e.g. bacterial genes into plants, vertebrate genes into bacteria etc.pp. You don't get that type of modifications with breeding.
You are talking like someone living in a region with regular rainfall (e.g. like someone with not much of a clue about water).
Otherwise you would know that in regions with long dry periods, if you get too much water from wells, the wells fall dry. If you irrigate too much by dropping water from above, the earth starts to collect salt, because all natural water contains at least a little bit of salt, and if you just drop it onto the earth and let it evaporate, the salt starts to form a small crust on top of the soil - rendering your farmland worthless.
There are large regions already fallen to this, around the Lake Aral in centra asia, most of the land is now a salt desert, while about 20 years ago, it was either lake, or cotton and wheat fields.
Not exactly. Agriculture can consume locally available water. And that's all what counts. If you pump water from ground depots which are not fully refilled, then most water used in agriculture ends up as clouds which the wind blows somewhere else. This water is completely lost for local use. For most of the Central U.S., the amount of water that comes in via rain or rivers, is less than the amount of water lost due to evaporation. And most of the water gets lost due to the amount of water used for agriculture. In this case, agriculture literally sucks the earth dry, because ground water, water from lakes and water enclosed in the last ice age in natural reservoirs below the surface is pumped up and evaporates. Those resources are not unlimited, and they will dry up sooner or later. The case is different for the East Coast or for most of Europe, where more fresh water comes in via rainfall or rivers, than gets lost due to evaporation. Here you can use as much water as you want, the resources will never dry up, you just have to make sure that used water will not intoxicate fresh water wells, so you have to build an extensive drainage system and water treatment plants.
A talib (taliban being the plural) is someone who is educated at a religions school, the word "talib" just meaning "student" or "searcher". I don't see anything demonizing about that word except for the fact that one might find a worldview solely based on religious teachings per se demonic.
I don't understand the problem. The status quo is maintained with the gay marriage too.
The same people that were allowed to marry before, still can marry. The benefits from marriage have not changed to them in any way. So for them, nothing changes. The status quo is upheld.
Why are they making a fuss about something what in no conceivable way has anything to do with them? They weren't interested in having a gay marriage before, they still don't want to be married to someone from the same sex, gay marriage does not affect them in any way. They are just trying to meddle in other peoples life with for no reason.
PS: I come from a country where a religious marriage ceremony is not recognized anyway. If you want your marriage to be recognized, you have to show a governmental certificate of marriage. Anything else is invalid. So any argument about how some religions define marriage is completely beside the point here.
Basicly you are describing how the politically communist China found in a very capitalist manner a market niche and made a living - so you are just supporting my claim. A politically non-democratic country can be as capitalist and successful as a democratic one.
Except that a) the Depression was over in 1931, and Germany was well back into recovery in 1933, when Hitler became chancellor, and b) the economic powerhouse was paid for in debt for the first six years till 1939, and then from the loots and booties he took from the conquered countries.
Except that in France, on the same area three australian police men are patrolling, three times the inhabitants of the whole of Australia are living.
(And if we start bragging about sizes, the Nordeast Greenland National Park is about 1.5 times the size of France, and there are only 31 people living there, of which 14 are members of the Slædepatruljen SIRIUS [sledge patrol SIRIUS]).
Between the first occurance of the Barbarians at the roman borders (Brennus, occupying Rome in 387 BC) and the fall of the last Roman Emperor (Romulus Augustulus, dethroned in AD 476), it took a whopping 862 years for the Roman Empire to finally break down. If you count Constantinople as the continuation of the Roman Empire (which it was from a legal point of view), the Roman Empire managed to hold out for 1839 years against the Barbarians. Beat that! (The only state that comes close in the western hemisphere is France, with 1505 years and counting.)
How many flight hours were done on the SR-71? Oh yeah... 53,490 flight hours, and 11,008 mission flight hours. Compare that to the numbers of F-16 flight hours and the numbers of F-16s ever shot down.
Please explain how a 14 year old is able to confiscate anything! He was not even able to sign any legal binding contract, how should he be able to "confiscate" anything?
That's purely bullshit. Whoever told you that was pulling you a leg.
Listen yourself! What he was actually saying that the experience of constant change, of constant danger was for some strange reason making this experience the happiest time of his life, because he as a 14 year old never assumed someone was out to get him.
(For you I'll even do a transcript of the snippet:
"It was actually probably the happiest time of my life, this year of the German occupation. For me, it was a very positive experience. It's a strange thing, because, you see, this incredible something around you, and in fact, you were in considerable danger yourself. But you are 14 years old, and you don't believe that it can actually touch you. You have a belief in yourself, a belief in your father. It's a very happy making, exilarating experience.")
I was right from the beginning. You either felt for a smear campaign, or you are part of the smear campaign.
It's easy to see what's so terrible about that concept.
Those who have the money, make the rules. And one of the first rules will be: make sure no one else will ever make enough money to get the same protection. Forget about "being equal before the law".
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Why should the government have any reasons to lie about the moon landings? The astronauts were there, several times, they landed, and they came back. Nothing to lie about, as far as I can tell.
Luckily for Oracle, Oracle sued in an U.S. court.
In legislations, where it is "loser pays", this first reference point is important for the later outcome. Google was sued for 6.1bn, valuing the lawsuit at 6.1bn. If Oracle manages to get the 230mil awarded, this means that there were 5.87bn, which they didn't get. That would mean that Oracle has to pay 96% of the whole costs for the lawsuit.
Tell that to my ancestors, of which some have been convicted to death for not being christian enough.
Or as the christian religion says: Matt 7:20: Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them.
So are all religions which are proselytizing. They see world domination as their goal. And they count every other belief or the lack of any belief as inferior. Christianity currently has about all of the most powerful countries on their side (with the exception of China), so Christianity can have a pretty laid back attitude right now. Islam is not in that position, so it tries more aggressively to gain power.
Are there any examples of that kind of GM organism making it to the field? There are plenty of examples in the lab, but I thought none of them were used where they can spread.
Monsanto and their "RoundUp Ready" line of plants are the prime example here.
The gene that allows for glyphosate resistance (glyphosate being the actual weedkiller in RoundUp) was taken out of the Salmonella genus of bacteria, and transferred into the plant by using the Agrobacterium tumefaciens bacterium as the gene shuttle.
Not exactly.
Breeding only selects on the allele level (except for the seldom situation of an actual and not life threatening gene mutation). That means you don't get any new genes into your lifestock, you just recombine the alleles and then select for the best combinations.
There is a way to actually get new genes into your lifestock, it's called hybridization. It works pretty well for plant species that are closely related, so are most citrus fruits actually hybrids. It does not work so well for animals, the few wellknown examples of hybrids are almost all sterile, like the mule.
Genetic engineering puts genes that come from completely different livings into the genome, e.g. bacterial genes into plants, vertebrate genes into bacteria etc.pp. You don't get that type of modifications with breeding.
You are talking like someone living in a region with regular rainfall (e.g. like someone with not much of a clue about water).
Otherwise you would know that in regions with long dry periods, if you get too much water from wells, the wells fall dry. If you irrigate too much by dropping water from above, the earth starts to collect salt, because all natural water contains at least a little bit of salt, and if you just drop it onto the earth and let it evaporate, the salt starts to form a small crust on top of the soil - rendering your farmland worthless.
There are large regions already fallen to this, around the Lake Aral in centra asia, most of the land is now a salt desert, while about 20 years ago, it was either lake, or cotton and wheat fields.
Not exactly. Agriculture can consume locally available water. And that's all what counts.
If you pump water from ground depots which are not fully refilled, then most water used in agriculture ends up as clouds which the wind blows somewhere else. This water is completely lost for local use. For most of the Central U.S., the amount of water that comes in via rain or rivers, is less than the amount of water lost due to evaporation. And most of the water gets lost due to the amount of water used for agriculture. In this case, agriculture literally sucks the earth dry, because ground water, water from lakes and water enclosed in the last ice age in natural reservoirs below the surface is pumped up and evaporates. Those resources are not unlimited, and they will dry up sooner or later.
The case is different for the East Coast or for most of Europe, where more fresh water comes in via rainfall or rivers, than gets lost due to evaporation. Here you can use as much water as you want, the resources will never dry up, you just have to make sure that used water will not intoxicate fresh water wells, so you have to build an extensive drainage system and water treatment plants.
A talib (taliban being the plural) is someone who is educated at a religions school, the word "talib" just meaning "student" or "searcher". I don't see anything demonizing about that word except for the fact that one might find a worldview solely based on religious teachings per se demonic.
I don't understand the problem. The status quo is maintained with the gay marriage too.
The same people that were allowed to marry before, still can marry. The benefits from marriage have not changed to them in any way. So for them, nothing changes. The status quo is upheld.
Why are they making a fuss about something what in no conceivable way has anything to do with them? They weren't interested in having a gay marriage before, they still don't want to be married to someone from the same sex, gay marriage does not affect them in any way. They are just trying to meddle in other peoples life with for no reason.
PS: I come from a country where a religious marriage ceremony is not recognized anyway. If you want your marriage to be recognized, you have to show a governmental certificate of marriage. Anything else is invalid. So any argument about how some religions define marriage is completely beside the point here.
There are excuses for not being transparent. One is called "birthday present".
Basicly you are describing how the politically communist China found in a very capitalist manner a market niche and made a living - so you are just supporting my claim. A politically non-democratic country can be as capitalist and successful as a democratic one.
Then why is the politically communist yet economically capitalist China an economic powerhouse?
Except that a) the Depression was over in 1931, and Germany was well back into recovery in 1933, when Hitler became chancellor, and b) the economic powerhouse was paid for in debt for the first six years till 1939, and then from the loots and booties he took from the conquered countries.
Except that in France, on the same area three australian police men are patrolling, three times the inhabitants of the whole of Australia are living.
(And if we start bragging about sizes, the Nordeast Greenland National Park is about 1.5 times the size of France, and there are only 31 people living there, of which 14 are members of the Slædepatruljen SIRIUS [sledge patrol SIRIUS]).
The austrian one is actually called The Nonseum.
Between the first occurance of the Barbarians at the roman borders (Brennus, occupying Rome in 387 BC) and the fall of the last Roman Emperor (Romulus Augustulus, dethroned in AD 476), it took a whopping 862 years for the Roman Empire to finally break down. If you count Constantinople as the continuation of the Roman Empire (which it was from a legal point of view), the Roman Empire managed to hold out for 1839 years against the Barbarians. Beat that! (The only state that comes close in the western hemisphere is France, with 1505 years and counting.)
How many flight hours were done on the SR-71? Oh yeah... 53,490 flight hours, and 11,008 mission flight hours. Compare that to the numbers of F-16 flight hours and the numbers of F-16s ever shot down.
Please explain how a 14 year old is able to confiscate anything! He was not even able to sign any legal binding contract, how should he be able to "confiscate" anything?
That's purely bullshit. Whoever told you that was pulling you a leg.
Listen yourself! What he was actually saying that the experience of constant change, of constant danger was for some strange reason making this experience the happiest time of his life, because he as a 14 year old never assumed someone was out to get him.
(For you I'll even do a transcript of the snippet:
"It was actually probably the happiest time of my life, this year of the German occupation. For me, it was a very positive experience. It's a strange thing, because, you see, this incredible something around you, and in fact, you were in considerable danger yourself. But you are 14 years old, and you don't believe that it can actually touch you. You have a belief in yourself, a belief in your father. It's a very happy making, exilarating experience.")
I was right from the beginning. You either felt for a smear campaign, or you are part of the smear campaign.
Ok, you are claiming that an hungarian jew, which was 15 at the end of World War II, was a Nazi collaborateur?
Somehow I feel less enclined to even read or check your other statements.
It is named thus, because it is in fact extremely dry. If it was in Asia or in Africa, we would classify the Extremadura as a desert.
You messed up Sweden with Norway. They aren't an union anymore since 1905.
It's easy to see what's so terrible about that concept.
Those who have the money, make the rules. And one of the first rules will be: make sure no one else will ever make enough money to get the same protection. Forget about "being equal before the law".