What makes you think any of this is unconstitutional? The constitution places a lot of limits on what the FEDERAL government can do. State governments not so much.
If Californians behaved in a more rational manner less of this nonsense would be needed. Like if you have electricity supply issues build some power plants instead of exporting the electrical supply problem to Texas. If air pollution from burning gasoline is a problem, tax the hell out of gasoline. As far as street racers modding their cars in violation of state laws, cry me a river.
I will be really pissed if this nonsense makes it hard for me to buy a really really big TV next year. Right now I have a 60" set and when I replace it I will be extremely unhappy if I have to downsize when I want to upsize because of some fruit loops living in California who don't want a power plant or transmission line their neighborhood.
Not necessarily. The police chief is a public figure, which means he also has to prove that the defamation was also accompanied by malice. That is notoriously difficult to do in a court of law.
The other question is who is going to pay for the legal fees. If I was a citizen I would seriously question this. In addition most lawyers won't take defamation suits on contingency because of the small settlements usually gained.
All in all I suspect that this is mostly an effort to intimidate.
Religious zealots have been trying to suppress scientists for their writings for thousands of years. Be it that the Earth is the center of the universe or evolution the record is long and grisly. Why do you think Copernicus didn't publish De revolutionibus orbium coelestium until he was near death? Giordano Bruno didn't hide his ideas well enough and was burned at the stake in part for proposing heliocentrism and inhabitation of other planets. Has there ever been an inquisition led by scientists?
To this day the attitudes are the same. The Catholics just got around to apologizing to Galileo and they are one of the more progressive religious sects. Muslims are creationists too.
Science does not read to prime causes or God. But it sure reads a lot between then and now, and the sacred cows are many.
Go ask Hypatia of Alexandria (assassinated 415 AD) about the dangers of writings that disagree with religious doctrine.
Acquired knowledge and intelligence is unpopular in America. Not just science. Look at the signs - Americans who can speak more than one language? Rare. Americans with a good knowledge of geography or history - rare too. Mathematics? Americans are mostly drooling imbeciles.
We have a generation lobotomized by easy prosperity and the mindless media piped into homes day and night.
Famine in these countries is nowhere near the scale of say the Chinese famine of 1959-1961 which killed 15 million, and is clearly the result of political actions, wars, etc. rather than problems with food supply.
Like I said, famine does not exist to any great extent today. If it did you would hear about it, and the dead would number in the 10's of millions per year rather than a few hundreds.
Bolaug is one of two Americans and the only scientist to have won:
The Congressional Gold Medal The Presidential Medal of Freedom The Nobel Peace Prize
The other winners are Martin Luther King, Mother Teresa, Nelson Mandela and Elie Wiesel.
The following is a list of Norman E. Borlaug's major awards and honors:
- Nobel Peace Prize, 1970.
- Election to the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, 1970 and nine Foreign Academies.
- Aztec Eagle, Government of Mexico, 1970.
- Outstanding Agricultural Achievement Award, World Farm Foundation (USA), 1971.
- Presidential Medal of Freedom (USA), 1977.
- Jefferson Award, American Institute for Public Service, 1980.
- Distinguished Achievement Award in Food and Agricultural Sciences, Council for Agricultural Science and Technology (USA), 1982.
- The Presidential World without Hunger Award: Educator/Scientist category (USA), 1985.
- The 1988 Americas Award, The Americas Foundation (USA).
- Jefferson Lifetime Achievement Award (USA), 1997.
- Altruistic Green Revolution Award, Indian Council of Agricultural Research, 1998.
- Recognition Award for Contributions to World Wheat and Maize Research and Production, Republic of El Salvador, 1999.
- Dedication of Norman E. Borlaug Center for Southern Crop Improvement, Texas A&M University, 1999.
- Vannevar Bush Award, National Science Foundation (USA), 2000.
- Memorial Centennial Medial of the N.I. Vavilov Research Institute of Plant Industry (Russia), 2000.
- Public Welfare Medal, National Academy of Sciences (USA), 2002.
- The 2002 Rotary International Award for World Understanding and Peace, Barcelona, Spain.
- The Philip Hauge Abelson Prize, American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2002.
- Award for Distinguished Achievements to Science and Medicine, American Council of Science and Health, 2003.
- National Medal of Science (USA), 2004.
- Padma Vibhushan in Science and Engineering, awarded by the Government of India, 2006.
- Norman Borlaug Institute for International Agriculture created as part of the Texas A&M University System, 2006.
- Congressional Gold Medal, 2006.
- Honorary Degrees:
Punjab Agricultural University (India), 1969 Royal Norwegian Agricultural College (Norway), 1970 Luther College (USA), 1970 Kanpur University (India), 1970 Uttar Pradesh Agricultural University (India), 1971 Michigan State University (USA), 1971 Universidad de la Plata (Argentina), 1971 University of Arizona (USA), 1972 University of Florida (USA), 1973 Universidad Católica de Chile (Chile), 1974 Universität Hohenheim (Germany), 1976 Punjab Agricultural University, (Pakistan), 1978 Columbia University, (USA), 1980 Ohio State University (USA), 1981 University of Minnesota (USA), 1982 University of Notre Dame (USA), 1987 Oregon State University (USA), 1988 University of Tulsa (USA), 1991 Washington State University (USA) 1995 Andhra Pradesh Agricultural University (India), 1996 Indian Agricultural Research Institute (India), 1996 De Montfort University, (United Kingdom), 1997 Emory University, (U.S.A) 1999 University of the Philippines, 1999 University of Missouri, (USA), 2002 Williams College, (USA), 2002 Wartburg College (USA), 2003 Dartmouth College (USA), 2005
Doctor of Agricultural Sciences: University of Agricultural Sciences (Godollo, Hungary), 1980 Tokyo University of Agriculture (Japan), 1981 Doctor en Ciencias Agropecuarias Honoris Causa, Universidad Nacional Pedro Henríquez Turena, República Dominicana, 1983 Doctor en Ciencias, Honoris Causa Universidad Central del Este de la República Dominicana, 1983
Doctor Humane Letters: Gustavus Adolphus College (USA), 1971 Iowa State University (USA), 1992 Cape Coast University (Ghana), 2000
Doctor of Law: New Mexico State University (USA), 1973
Actually reduced fertilizer use is one of them because the varieties grown are more efficient in producing food in the following ways:
Less land in cultivation = less wasted fertilizer Better grain rust resistance = less losses of crops (and therefore fertilizer) Better plant structure (stronger shorter stems) = more efficient harvesting
The so called green revolution if anything had no net impact on global hunger and starvation as it simply does not address the core cause: overpopulation.
Your statement is completely incorrect. Famine does not exist to any great extent today, 40 years after Borlaug's seeds went to Pakistan. At the very least Borlaug bought us 40 years to solve the popultion problem, and probably longer since the growth rate of world population has decreased due to improved economic conditions in much of the world.
As far as pesticides, there is no epidemiological study that backs up your wild claims. And as far as topsoil erosion, that issue has largely been resolved by no or low till farming. And in any case why would Borlaug's work have any negative impact on that at all - in fact by reducing the amount of land in cultivation it has had a remarkable beneficial effect on stopping desertification and soil erosion that we saw so dramatically in the American Midwest in the 1930s, and we still see in the sub-saraha where politics has kept traditional farming techniques and rampant famines ongoing.
If we were to go back to traditional farming methods we would have to reduce the world population by a factor of 4 in order to keep the amount of cultivated land where it is today.
Since you seem to feel so strongly about this issue I STRONGLY recommend that you do your personal best to reduce the overpopulation problem immediately.
His work increased the yields of most major crops by a factor of 4. That simply means that in order to get the same food output you would have to increase the amount of land under cultivation by a factor of 4.
That this would exceed the area of Canada should not be a great surprise.
The environmental and human impact of this work is left as an exercise to the reader.
Borlaug is firmly in the running as the greatest human benefactor.
Well yes 5GHz would be very nice for the reason you mention. I've moved my home wifi net to 5GHz to get it out of the 2.4 muck and it would be nice if I could get an iPod touch that would operate there.
However it won't be until they show up with a camera too.
For thumb drives I use FAT32 because I often stick these into devices like car stereos, BluRay players and whatnot for firmware updates and to play media. These devices know FAT and that is about all they are likely to ever support.
For external hard drives it is ext3. 95% of the time my drives are attached to Linux, and the other 5% I use an ext2/3 driver.
So what has changed over 40 years that make the arguments for/against shift in favor of doing it?
How about massive improvements in just about every field of technology combined with huge increases in energy consumption and fuel costs? In 1970 the only electrical consumption a typical home on a gas line had was lighting, a TV and maybe a couple of electric motors for appliances.
I live in a house built in 1968. The electrical service was sized for 30 amps. It has since been updated by me to 100 amps. New homes with the same square footage are being built with 200 amp panels.
Pay a visit to Monoprice.com. Home theater owners love this site's quality cables of many types that are available at prices 1/3 or less than in stores. A good HDMI cable is $3-4 + shipping from these guys.
Look at the patent. Changing anything except the Google logo would avoid the patent.
In fact since the Google home page design has changed (privacy link etc.) since this patent was filed in 2004, this patent does not even cover Google's current home page.
Slashdot Mirror
What makes you think any of this is unconstitutional? The constitution places a lot of limits on what the FEDERAL government can do. State governments not so much.
If Californians behaved in a more rational manner less of this nonsense would be needed. Like if you have electricity supply issues build some power plants instead of exporting the electrical supply problem to Texas. If air pollution from burning gasoline is a problem, tax the hell out of gasoline. As far as street racers modding their cars in violation of state laws, cry me a river.
I will be really pissed if this nonsense makes it hard for me to buy a really really big TV next year. Right now I have a 60" set and when I replace it I will be extremely unhappy if I have to downsize when I want to upsize because of some fruit loops living in California who don't want a power plant or transmission line their neighborhood.
Not necessarily. The police chief is a public figure, which means he also has to prove that the defamation was also accompanied by malice. That is notoriously difficult to do in a court of law.
The other question is who is going to pay for the legal fees. If I was a citizen I would seriously question this. In addition most lawyers won't take defamation suits on contingency because of the small settlements usually gained.
All in all I suspect that this is mostly an effort to intimidate.
The guy should be sacked.
Oh poppycock. The Federal Government can easily raise taxes $3800 (or whatever) and then issue a tax credit to those who purchase of health care.
It has exactly the same financial effect as a 'fine'.
This is exactly how the state of Massachusetts implements their health care coverage requirement.
The fact is that Federal tax code has been used to encourage people to buy certain things for ages.
I don't know where your ideas are coming from but they are clearly very very wacked.
I don't find text messaging rip-off to be particularly offensive because I just don't do that.
But I do find the various equipment and service bundling agreements so be extraordinarily annoying.
Fortunately it sounds like enough people are pissed about it that it may get regulated.
Religious zealots have been trying to suppress scientists for their writings for thousands of years. Be it that the Earth is the center of the universe or evolution the record is long and grisly. Why do you think Copernicus didn't publish De revolutionibus orbium coelestium until he was near death? Giordano Bruno didn't hide his ideas well enough and was burned at the stake in part for proposing heliocentrism and inhabitation of other planets. Has there ever been an inquisition led by scientists?
To this day the attitudes are the same. The Catholics just got around to apologizing to Galileo and they are one of the more progressive religious sects. Muslims are creationists too.
Science does not read to prime causes or God. But it sure reads a lot between then and now, and the sacred cows are many.
Go ask Hypatia of Alexandria (assassinated 415 AD) about the dangers of writings that disagree with religious doctrine.
Mod parent up.
Acquired knowledge and intelligence is unpopular in America. Not just science. Look at the signs - Americans who can speak more than one language? Rare. Americans with a good knowledge of geography or history - rare too. Mathematics? Americans are mostly drooling imbeciles.
We have a generation lobotomized by easy prosperity and the mindless media piped into homes day and night.
Famine in these countries is nowhere near the scale of say the Chinese famine of 1959-1961 which killed 15 million, and is clearly the result of political actions, wars, etc. rather than problems with food supply.
Like I said, famine does not exist to any great extent today. If it did you would hear about it, and the dead would number in the 10's of millions per year rather than a few hundreds.
And they would all be leading meaningful lives advancing the human condition.
Cablevision is gradually WiFi'ing their entire subscription area.
Bolaug is one of two Americans and the only scientist to have won:
The Congressional Gold Medal
The Presidential Medal of Freedom
The Nobel Peace Prize
The other winners are Martin Luther King, Mother Teresa, Nelson Mandela and Elie Wiesel.
The following is a list of Norman E. Borlaug's major awards and honors:
- Nobel Peace Prize, 1970.
- Election to the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, 1970 and nine Foreign Academies.
- Aztec Eagle, Government of Mexico, 1970.
- Outstanding Agricultural Achievement Award, World Farm Foundation (USA), 1971.
- Presidential Medal of Freedom (USA), 1977.
- Jefferson Award, American Institute for Public Service, 1980.
- Distinguished Achievement Award in Food and Agricultural Sciences, Council for Agricultural Science and Technology (USA), 1982.
- The Presidential World without Hunger Award: Educator/Scientist category (USA), 1985.
- The 1988 Americas Award, The Americas Foundation (USA).
- Jefferson Lifetime Achievement Award (USA), 1997.
- Altruistic Green Revolution Award, Indian Council of Agricultural Research, 1998.
- Recognition Award for Contributions to World Wheat and Maize Research and Production, Republic of El Salvador, 1999.
- Dedication of Norman E. Borlaug Center for Southern Crop Improvement, Texas A&M University, 1999.
- Vannevar Bush Award, National Science Foundation (USA), 2000.
- Memorial Centennial Medial of the N.I. Vavilov Research Institute of Plant Industry (Russia), 2000.
- Public Welfare Medal, National Academy of Sciences (USA), 2002.
- The 2002 Rotary International Award for World Understanding and Peace, Barcelona, Spain.
- The Philip Hauge Abelson Prize, American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2002.
- Award for Distinguished Achievements to Science and Medicine, American Council of Science and Health, 2003.
- National Medal of Science (USA), 2004.
- Padma Vibhushan in Science and Engineering, awarded by the Government of India, 2006.
- Norman Borlaug Institute for International Agriculture created as part of the Texas A&M University System, 2006.
- Congressional Gold Medal, 2006.
- Honorary Degrees:
Punjab Agricultural University (India), 1969
Royal Norwegian Agricultural College (Norway), 1970
Luther College (USA), 1970
Kanpur University (India), 1970
Uttar Pradesh Agricultural University (India), 1971
Michigan State University (USA), 1971
Universidad de la Plata (Argentina), 1971
University of Arizona (USA), 1972
University of Florida (USA), 1973
Universidad Católica de Chile (Chile), 1974
Universität Hohenheim (Germany), 1976
Punjab Agricultural University, (Pakistan), 1978
Columbia University, (USA), 1980
Ohio State University (USA), 1981
University of Minnesota (USA), 1982
University of Notre Dame (USA), 1987
Oregon State University (USA), 1988
University of Tulsa (USA), 1991
Washington State University (USA) 1995
Andhra Pradesh Agricultural University (India), 1996
Indian Agricultural Research Institute (India), 1996
De Montfort University, (United Kingdom), 1997
Emory University, (U.S.A) 1999
University of the Philippines, 1999
University of Missouri, (USA), 2002
Williams College, (USA), 2002
Wartburg College (USA), 2003
Dartmouth College (USA), 2005
Doctor of Agricultural Sciences:
University of Agricultural Sciences (Godollo, Hungary), 1980
Tokyo University of Agriculture (Japan), 1981
Doctor en Ciencias Agropecuarias Honoris Causa, Universidad Nacional Pedro Henríquez Turena, República Dominicana, 1983
Doctor en Ciencias, Honoris Causa Universidad Central del Este de la República Dominicana, 1983
Doctor Humane Letters:
Gustavus Adolphus College (USA), 1971
Iowa State University (USA), 1992
Cape Coast University (Ghana), 2000
Doctor of Law:
New Mexico State University (USA), 1973
Doctor of Agriculture:
If the universe was Euclidean. Which it is not.
Actually reduced fertilizer use is one of them because the varieties grown are more efficient in producing food in the following ways:
Less land in cultivation = less wasted fertilizer
Better grain rust resistance = less losses of crops (and therefore fertilizer)
Better plant structure (stronger shorter stems) = more efficient harvesting
The primary reason for this is interference by environmental groups preventing the dissemination of Borlaug's methods in Africa.
These idiots should have to experience a famine personally.
The so called green revolution if anything had no net impact on global hunger and starvation as it simply does not address the core cause: overpopulation.
Your statement is completely incorrect. Famine does not exist to any great extent today, 40 years after Borlaug's seeds went to Pakistan. At the very least Borlaug bought us 40 years to solve the popultion problem, and probably longer since the growth rate of world population has decreased due to improved economic conditions in much of the world.
As far as pesticides, there is no epidemiological study that backs up your wild claims. And as far as topsoil erosion, that issue has largely been resolved by no or low till farming. And in any case why would Borlaug's work have any negative impact on that at all - in fact by reducing the amount of land in cultivation it has had a remarkable beneficial effect on stopping desertification and soil erosion that we saw so dramatically in the American Midwest in the 1930s, and we still see in the sub-saraha where politics has kept traditional farming techniques and rampant famines ongoing.
If we were to go back to traditional farming methods we would have to reduce the world population by a factor of 4 in order to keep the amount of cultivated land where it is today.
Since you seem to feel so strongly about this issue I STRONGLY recommend that you do your personal best to reduce the overpopulation problem immediately.
His work increased the yields of most major crops by a factor of 4. That simply means that in order to get the same food output you would have to increase the amount of land under cultivation by a factor of 4.
That this would exceed the area of Canada should not be a great surprise.
The environmental and human impact of this work is left as an exercise to the reader.
Borlaug is firmly in the running as the greatest human benefactor.
... is no more.
Future generations will scarcely believe that such a man walked the earth.
Well yes 5GHz would be very nice for the reason you mention. I've moved my home wifi net to 5GHz to get it out of the 2.4 muck and it would be nice if I could get an iPod touch that would operate there.
However it won't be until they show up with a camera too.
For thumb drives I use FAT32 because I often stick these into devices like car stereos, BluRay players and whatnot for firmware updates and to play media. These devices know FAT and that is about all they are likely to ever support.
For external hard drives it is ext3. 95% of the time my drives are attached to Linux, and the other 5% I use an ext2/3 driver.
If you can do that why not just make helium from hydrogen?
So what has changed over 40 years that make the arguments for/against shift in favor of doing it?
How about massive improvements in just about every field of technology combined with huge increases in energy consumption and fuel costs? In 1970 the only electrical consumption a typical home on a gas line had was lighting, a TV and maybe a couple of electric motors for appliances.
I live in a house built in 1968. The electrical service was sized for 30 amps. It has since been updated by me to 100 amps. New homes with the same square footage are being built with 200 amp panels.
Actually HDTV sales are one of the few items that has held up well in the recession.
http://www.audioholics.com/news/industry-news/hdtv-panels-prove-recession-proof-in-us
It is even more fundamental than that. A jerk who is incapable of dealing with people as a boss is failing at the most important part of his job.
He is flat out wrong in most of the things he does.
The idea that a person like this can be always right is a logical fallacy.
Pay a visit to Monoprice.com. Home theater owners love this site's quality cables of many types that are available at prices 1/3 or less than in stores. A good HDMI cable is $3-4 + shipping from these guys.
The first time I read the title I thought it said computational pornography.
Look at the patent. Changing anything except the Google logo would avoid the patent.
In fact since the Google home page design has changed (privacy link etc.) since this patent was filed in 2004, this patent does not even cover Google's current home page.
Here is some reasonably informed discussion:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/09/03/google_patents_its_home_page/