The problem that you face is that Round-Up is without question the least toxic herbicide ever discovered. By a lot. It is unique. So much so most agronomists feel that nothing in it's class will ever be found again. It is less toxic than many other commonly ingested compounds such as aspirin.
"Giesy, J.P., Dobson, S., & Solomon, K.R. (2000). Ecotoxicological risk assessment for roundup herbicide. Reviews of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology, (167), 35-120."
Non-Roundup using agriculture will have to be either pesticide free organic methods which are known to have lower crop yields, or they will have to use other, more toxic pesticides.
So perhaps Round-Up concentrations are higher in GMO corn. However the alternatives are either higher agricultural costs or use of alternatives that are much more toxic.
We have had plant patents since 1930 It hasn't caused the end of civilization yet. The idea that it is immoral is horse manure.
As far as labeling goes, people are NOT informed of what the real issues are. All most people know is what they get in the popular press which is in fact mostly wrong.
Read the OP. He wants to make maintenance managers paid like ditch diggers.
Maintenance managers are not ditch diggers. Typically they have supervisory responsibility over 15 maintenance crews, and are required to understand project management, and accounting IT systems, tort liability, interpret engineering specifications and drawings, etc.
In fact I am a rocket scientist - my graduate engineering work involved simulations of chemical reactions on space shuttle heat shield tiles under re-entry conditions to evaluate catalysts to try to prevent exothermic recombination of atomic radicals on the surface.
So shut the hell up. You have no idea who you are talking to or what their knowledge and experience base is. And you got caught blowing out a stereotype straight out of a conservative radio talk show which was utterly and completely wrong in every possible way.
The education level of the average government employee is well above that of the population average. It is not at all unreasonable that the average pay level would be higher.
It is amazing how many neocon talking points go up in smoke when their basis are investigated.
Yes, let's ignore the 2nd law of thermodynamics and stop funding for road repairs. And yes lets make maintenance management a job that someone who attended college (and accumulated tuition debt) to get a civil engineering education can't afford to take. Everyone knows things like concrete design and construction surveying are just a useless waste of money, especially in an area that has a history of earthquakes.
It is quite amazing how downright STUPID Tea Party members can be.
Decimal units were actually put into practice first in the US, thanks to Thomas Jefferson who was an ardent proponent of the idea.
He was successful in giving the US had the first decimal currency in the world, and later proposed decimalization of the units of measure.
"to reduce every branch to the same decimal ratio already established for the coin, and thus bring the calculation of the principal affairs of life within the arithmetic of every man who can multiply and divide plain numbers." -Thomas Jefferson
The French picked up the idea when Franklin and Jefferson promoted the idea while in France as ambassadors.
The problem was (like in many things) Congress didn't cotton to a good idea and failed to adopt it when Jefferson proposed it after the adoption of the Constitution.
Jefferson actually advocated the measures be based on the motion of a pendulum at 38 degrees, something that predated the definition of units in the metric system in physical units by almost 200 years.
> But I suspect a lot of the uber rich would move out of the U.S.
There are two kinds of uber rich. Successful entrepreneurs and their children.
The first kind would flock to the US because their corporations would be untaxed. The second kind might leave the US but who cares they don't do much useful. They still have to pay taxes on the income they earn in the US, just like I have to pay taxes in France on the dividends I receive from French companies that I own stock in.
You are thinking along the right line. I'm a big advocate of not taxing corporations, and instead taxing individuals.
The current situation causes corporations to be far too involved in the political process and to make decisions such as location based on a venue shopping process that is generally quite corrupt.
I think the result would be a much more efficient economy and better political process.
I have a similar problem with the Hobbit. I want to go see it in 2D IMAX.
Nope. The theaters around me give the choices of 3D IMAX, 3D IMAX HFR, conventional 3D, and conventional 2D.
So rather than accepting the extra money for IMAX that I'm willing to pay for the better projection and sound, they are pushing something I don't want.
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The problem that you face is that Round-Up is without question the least toxic herbicide ever discovered. By a lot. It is unique. So much so most agronomists feel that nothing in it's class will ever be found again. It is less toxic than many other commonly ingested compounds such as aspirin.
"Giesy, J.P., Dobson, S., & Solomon, K.R. (2000). Ecotoxicological risk assessment for roundup herbicide. Reviews of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology, (167), 35-120."
Non-Roundup using agriculture will have to be either pesticide free organic methods which are known to have lower crop yields, or they will have to use other, more toxic pesticides.
So perhaps Round-Up concentrations are higher in GMO corn. However the alternatives are either higher agricultural costs or use of alternatives that are much more toxic.
We have had plant patents since 1930 It hasn't caused the end of civilization yet. The idea that it is immoral is horse manure.
As far as labeling goes, people are NOT informed of what the real issues are. All most people know is what they get in the popular press which is in fact mostly wrong.
I wonder if the grades that are being compared are corrected by the mean grade in the courses taken.
I seem to remember C being the average in Organic Chem and A being the average in Psych.
Read the OP. He wants to make maintenance managers paid like ditch diggers.
Maintenance managers are not ditch diggers. Typically they have supervisory responsibility over 15 maintenance crews, and are required to understand project management, and accounting IT systems, tort liability, interpret engineering specifications and drawings, etc.
Sorry, but you couldn't be more wrong.
In fact I am a rocket scientist - my graduate engineering work involved simulations of chemical reactions on space shuttle heat shield tiles under re-entry conditions to evaluate catalysts to try to prevent exothermic recombination of atomic radicals on the surface.
So shut the hell up. You have no idea who you are talking to or what their knowledge and experience base is. And you got caught blowing out a stereotype straight out of a conservative radio talk show which was utterly and completely wrong in every possible way.
The education level of the average government employee is well above that of the population average. It is not at all unreasonable that the average pay level would be higher.
It is amazing how many neocon talking points go up in smoke when their basis are investigated.
Yes, let's ignore the 2nd law of thermodynamics and stop funding for road repairs. And yes lets make maintenance management a job that someone who attended college (and accumulated tuition debt) to get a civil engineering education can't afford to take. Everyone knows things like concrete design and construction surveying are just a useless waste of money, especially in an area that has a history of earthquakes.
It is quite amazing how downright STUPID Tea Party members can be.
Increase the gas tax to compensate. Gasoline should already be taxed more highly that it is because of it's numerous externalities.
That will just incent the purchase of higher mileage vehicles, reinforcing a virtuous cycle.
Eventually I suppose the time will come when taxation of high mileage vehicles will be needed, but clearly that isn't now.
The Hobbit was also shot (and maybe shown?) at 4K resolution.
That's another bump in the data size.
In Texas non-solicitation covenants are covered by the same law as non-competes.
It's actually a benefit to the employee because non-compete covenants are required to be fairly narrow.
So much depends on the state and the wording of the contract.
If it's California the employer is wasting his time.
Texas is less likely to void such clauses, but even then it has fairly restrictive rules about what the employer can put in a contract.
Georgia - you might get away with indentured servitude.
Just hope that the issuer of the CDS doesn't go tits up when you try to collect.
Especially at the board of directors level.
The problem is that the employees you would rather keep are the ones that are most likely to leave a dysfunctional employer.
If I were a recruiter I'd look at HP as a wonderful place, bountiful and full of talent ready and in fact desperate to be harvested.
That's just a trade measure, not a legal standard adopted on a national basis.
1 chain = 100 links.
Uh no. That would be a centimal system, not a decimal system.
Been to the supermarket recently? Most packages have both US and metric labels. Many have metric only.
Decimal units were actually put into practice first in the US, thanks to Thomas Jefferson who was an ardent proponent of the idea.
He was successful in giving the US had the first decimal currency in the world, and later proposed decimalization of the units of measure.
"to reduce every branch to the same decimal ratio already established for the coin, and thus bring the calculation of the principal affairs of life within the arithmetic of every man who can multiply and divide plain numbers." -Thomas Jefferson
The French picked up the idea when Franklin and Jefferson promoted the idea while in France as ambassadors.
The problem was (like in many things) Congress didn't cotton to a good idea and failed to adopt it when Jefferson proposed it after the adoption of the Constitution.
Jefferson actually advocated the measures be based on the motion of a pendulum at 38 degrees, something that predated the definition of units in the metric system in physical units by almost 200 years.
It isn't a matter of checking every object.
Just the ones that come from outside.
That takes lazy^stupid to miss, not just lazy/stupid.
> But I suspect a lot of the uber rich would move out of the U.S.
There are two kinds of uber rich. Successful entrepreneurs and their children.
The first kind would flock to the US because their corporations would be untaxed. The second kind might leave the US but who cares they don't do much useful. They still have to pay taxes on the income they earn in the US, just like I have to pay taxes in France on the dividends I receive from French companies that I own stock in.
You are thinking along the right line. I'm a big advocate of not taxing corporations, and instead taxing individuals.
The current situation causes corporations to be far too involved in the political process and to make decisions such as location based on a venue shopping process that is generally quite corrupt.
I think the result would be a much more efficient economy and better political process.
So? The people of Great Britain are generally NOT part of the 60% you talk about.
And the digestion issue you are talking about is mostly a problem dealing with lactose, which can be handled in a variety of ways.
The fact is that your argument is a non-sequiter in the context of this article.
I have a similar problem with the Hobbit. I want to go see it in 2D IMAX.
Nope. The theaters around me give the choices of 3D IMAX, 3D IMAX HFR, conventional 3D, and conventional 2D.
So rather than accepting the extra money for IMAX that I'm willing to pay for the better projection and sound, they are pushing something I don't want.
Nonense. The comparisons that have been done with the original IPCC report vs current data are showing their predictions were suprisingly accurate.
http://www.livescience.com/25367-first-ipcc-climate-report-accurate.html