Based just on the title, I was already agreeing, thinking that is the most arrogant yet stupid headline I've ever seen. And I guess now we can start creating designer babies by removing all this junk, until the human race needs to cope with something those genes provided.
I have a friend with Friedrich's Ataxia, and CRISPR is one of the silver bullets she's praying for. FA cripples then kills you: wheel chair by 25, dead by 40 is often the case (it hardens the heart so it can't pump). While CRISPR has some unknowns and risks, having FA is a certainty. FA affects a single gene pair, so if you can replace either side of that gene, you have solved the problem, the mitochondria will start producing frataxin again, and the nerves will stop being slowly destroyed.
There are no treatments and since it is so rare (1 in 50,000 have it in the US, 1 in 30k in Europe, almost no one in Africa or Asia), few are investing in finding a cure or treatment. FA isn't the only orphan disorder like this. So yes, I'm quite happy to see CRISPR move forward.
You forgot margin. They have incredible margin on their products. Their concern is total profit, not units sold. They could easily drop their prices in other markets to keep market share, but the net profit to them might be lower. It isn't like iPhones prices are anything relative to their cost. Their price is based on what people will pay.
At 240VAC, that is less than 17 amps, so a dedicated 20 amp circuit with 12 guage wire would do it (NEMA 6-20). No bigger than a standard computer plug. Still, that is a shitload of power.
That is the real problem, and why some 3rd world countries won't use them. You become a slave to Monsanto. If you are willing, and you can make good money, then fine: you are a well compensated slave, but a slave nonetheless.
Amazon reviews (assuming there are enough for the tool you want, say 50+) are very reliable, from my perspective. And their prices are usually competitive enough to at least serve as a reference.
Bill the city/state? Are you an idiot? The police department doesn't just "fix crime" and send a bill to the tax payers. They ask for more and more funds all the time, so that would get lost.
Whether or no 36k is reasonable or not, the courts can decide. It sounds a little high, but not extraordinarily high.
You are mistaking an actual example (my office) with a stereotype. I didn't say all offices are like mine, I'm saying his stereotype is inherently false and gave a specific example to refute his central claim that the stereotype exists. In the world of Graham's Hierarchy of Disagreement , that would be considered in the top tiers of how to debate a topic, ie: using more than contradiction and instead providing evidence.
You would be shocked how often that backfires. They have lawyers on staff, paid to take chicken shit threats and shove them back down your throat. They can outspend you in a second flat, and run you into the poor house defending yourself. No, threatening a company and making claims they intentionally did something bad (particularly when you really don't know the whole story) is just a good way to end up broke and defeated.
Women are not any worse than men when it comes to security and apps. At my (small) office, the opposite is true, it is always the guys getting viruses, usually from trying to check out porn.
They aren't followed up my malicious activity unless their is a vulnerability to exploit. My guess is all this port scanning has forced the guy to lock his system down pretty tight. It might now be safer due to all the port scanning.
Excessive port scanning is abuse, but your ISP isn't going to address it, only the other guy's ISP is going to because that is where it originates, and only they can threaten to pull their access if they don't stop it. Efforts on this end are useless; keep hammering their ISP and their company, but don't expect a lot of result.
Expect the CEO to send it to IT because he doesn't understand it, and for it to simply disappear. CEOs are about making money, they don't like being the complaint dept. unless it is a complaint from a huge customer that is threatening to not give them money. They don't make the big bucks because they can deal with port scans.
Great idea, and as soon as you suspend all patents, every company trying to make money off of this will say "fuck it" and go do something else.
Greed is a bitch, but it can drive innovation. The whole idea of patents is that you have to give your invention away after 17 years, so society has benefited greatly by the patent system. It isn't perfect (like stupid software patents, which aren't "things"), but you fix a system, you don't erase it and all the gains.
That is very likely. Dealerships contract out people all the time to install pin striping and other specialty logos. Remember all those fancy graphics on Toyota trucks in the 80s? They didn't leave the factory like that, I worked in a dealership then. These guys know exactly how to remove the old sticks from other dealerships or company logos without leaving a film or scratch. The dealer just got lazy and wholesaled it out. It probably isn't illegal (although it probably was a lie), but it is very bad business.
As an admin there who fights to prevent this, I have to agree. It isn't an easy battle when the warriors have more time than the skilled editors and admin combined. Some things we do right, controversial or complicated topics, we do poorly.
No, they explain this in the article. This might account for maybe 1% difference due to the actual distance between the Moon and Earth, but that is about it.
Ironic, I was watching "The Universe" on Netflix earlier, the exact episode that covered most of this. Good stuff.
You've just answered your own question. If there is no difference, there is no truth in advertising issue, sot he FTC won't do anything. Whether there is a difference or not, I really can't say and I don't avoid GMO myself, and not preachy about GMO.
My concern is the the fact that some people ARE concerned, and simply have the right to know if itis GMO or not. The controversy and lack of long term science means people have the right to choose, but can only do so if they have information. Technically, that is what the FTC should be fore, but they tend to be spineless when it comes to stuff like this.
They also might not care until there are enough complaints, and there is almost no way to tell if something labeled "Non-GMO" really is, and if there is no current law on it, doing so in seemingly good faith has no consequences. Plus, it is doubtful any government agency is going to go out and look for extra work. Don't hold your breath on the FTC doing anything.
Quite respectable, and a few months ago, was my best pick under 100 bucks. My girlfriend uses it, and she didn't want anything expensive, just basic Android apps, internet, etc. By anyone's standard, this is a smart phone.
The best product is meaningless if you don't have someone like Jobs shoving it down people's throats to get them to buy. Same with Woz, if you don't have something really cool to sell, then no one would have listened to Steve for very long. Two sides of the same coin. I'm not an Apple or Jobs fan, but obviously Steve did a lot of things right for a long time.
I doubt Woz was very good at sales. I doubt Steve was very good at building computers. No product "sells itself", and anyone who really believes that is an idiot.
Yes, because everyone knows that war didn't exist until the United States was created....
The US has done plenty of stupid things, but war has always existed and always will. The US is the whipping boy only because it is the biggest. Go look at the atrocities committed by Russia, Japan and Germany (and others) over the last 100 years, then see see how much you still cry about America. There are plenty of crimes to go around, saying America is the "worst" just shows you don't know how to crack open a history book.
I look younger than my age and smoked until I was 45, partied my ass off in the 20s (award winning partying...), sleep 4 hours a night most of the time. I don't doubt that these things can affect how old you look, but they aren't the defining things. Like with most things, genetics is probably the key.
No, we don't. If you don't have the water, or at least the hydrogen and oxygen, you don't have a large body of water to moderate the temperature and host cyanobacteria to create oxygen, which takes hundreds of thousands to millions of years, assuming you have enough bound oxygen to begin with. We don't have the technology. We can't even filter out a little carbon dioxide in our own atmosphere.
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Based just on the title, I was already agreeing, thinking that is the most arrogant yet stupid headline I've ever seen. And I guess now we can start creating designer babies by removing all this junk, until the human race needs to cope with something those genes provided.
I have a friend with Friedrich's Ataxia, and CRISPR is one of the silver bullets she's praying for. FA cripples then kills you: wheel chair by 25, dead by 40 is often the case (it hardens the heart so it can't pump). While CRISPR has some unknowns and risks, having FA is a certainty. FA affects a single gene pair, so if you can replace either side of that gene, you have solved the problem, the mitochondria will start producing frataxin again, and the nerves will stop being slowly destroyed.
There are no treatments and since it is so rare (1 in 50,000 have it in the US, 1 in 30k in Europe, almost no one in Africa or Asia), few are investing in finding a cure or treatment. FA isn't the only orphan disorder like this. So yes, I'm quite happy to see CRISPR move forward.
You forgot margin. They have incredible margin on their products. Their concern is total profit, not units sold. They could easily drop their prices in other markets to keep market share, but the net profit to them might be lower. It isn't like iPhones prices are anything relative to their cost. Their price is based on what people will pay.
At 240VAC, that is less than 17 amps, so a dedicated 20 amp circuit with 12 guage wire would do it (NEMA 6-20). No bigger than a standard computer plug. Still, that is a shitload of power.
That is the real problem, and why some 3rd world countries won't use them. You become a slave to Monsanto. If you are willing, and you can make good money, then fine: you are a well compensated slave, but a slave nonetheless.
Amazon reviews (assuming there are enough for the tool you want, say 50+) are very reliable, from my perspective. And their prices are usually competitive enough to at least serve as a reference.
Bill the city/state? Are you an idiot? The police department doesn't just "fix crime" and send a bill to the tax payers. They ask for more and more funds all the time, so that would get lost.
Whether or no 36k is reasonable or not, the courts can decide. It sounds a little high, but not extraordinarily high.
You are mistaking an actual example (my office) with a stereotype. I didn't say all offices are like mine, I'm saying his stereotype is inherently false and gave a specific example to refute his central claim that the stereotype exists. In the world of Graham's Hierarchy of Disagreement , that would be considered in the top tiers of how to debate a topic, ie: using more than contradiction and instead providing evidence.
You would be shocked how often that backfires. They have lawyers on staff, paid to take chicken shit threats and shove them back down your throat. They can outspend you in a second flat, and run you into the poor house defending yourself. No, threatening a company and making claims they intentionally did something bad (particularly when you really don't know the whole story) is just a good way to end up broke and defeated.
Because he is a sexist douchebag.
Women are not any worse than men when it comes to security and apps. At my (small) office, the opposite is true, it is always the guys getting viruses, usually from trying to check out porn.
They aren't followed up my malicious activity unless their is a vulnerability to exploit. My guess is all this port scanning has forced the guy to lock his system down pretty tight. It might now be safer due to all the port scanning.
Excessive port scanning is abuse, but your ISP isn't going to address it, only the other guy's ISP is going to because that is where it originates, and only they can threaten to pull their access if they don't stop it. Efforts on this end are useless; keep hammering their ISP and their company, but don't expect a lot of result.
Expect the CEO to send it to IT because he doesn't understand it, and for it to simply disappear. CEOs are about making money, they don't like being the complaint dept. unless it is a complaint from a huge customer that is threatening to not give them money. They don't make the big bucks because they can deal with port scans.
Great idea, and as soon as you suspend all patents, every company trying to make money off of this will say "fuck it" and go do something else.
Greed is a bitch, but it can drive innovation. The whole idea of patents is that you have to give your invention away after 17 years, so society has benefited greatly by the patent system. It isn't perfect (like stupid software patents, which aren't "things"), but you fix a system, you don't erase it and all the gains.
That is very likely. Dealerships contract out people all the time to install pin striping and other specialty logos. Remember all those fancy graphics on Toyota trucks in the 80s? They didn't leave the factory like that, I worked in a dealership then. These guys know exactly how to remove the old sticks from other dealerships or company logos without leaving a film or scratch. The dealer just got lazy and wholesaled it out. It probably isn't illegal (although it probably was a lie), but it is very bad business.
As an admin there who fights to prevent this, I have to agree. It isn't an easy battle when the warriors have more time than the skilled editors and admin combined. Some things we do right, controversial or complicated topics, we do poorly.
No, they explain this in the article. This might account for maybe 1% difference due to the actual distance between the Moon and Earth, but that is about it.
Ironic, I was watching "The Universe" on Netflix earlier, the exact episode that covered most of this. Good stuff.
You've just answered your own question. If there is no difference, there is no truth in advertising issue, sot he FTC won't do anything. Whether there is a difference or not, I really can't say and I don't avoid GMO myself, and not preachy about GMO.
My concern is the the fact that some people ARE concerned, and simply have the right to know if itis GMO or not. The controversy and lack of long term science means people have the right to choose, but can only do so if they have information. Technically, that is what the FTC should be fore, but they tend to be spineless when it comes to stuff like this.
Then you didn't read it.
"They might".
They also might not care until there are enough complaints, and there is almost no way to tell if something labeled "Non-GMO" really is, and if there is no current law on it, doing so in seemingly good faith has no consequences. Plus, it is doubtful any government agency is going to go out and look for extra work. Don't hold your breath on the FTC doing anything.
I paid 80 bucks new from Amazon for this now discontinued phone.
http://smile.amazon.com/gp/pro...
Quite respectable, and a few months ago, was my best pick under 100 bucks. My girlfriend uses it, and she didn't want anything expensive, just basic Android apps, internet, etc. By anyone's standard, this is a smart phone.
Lara Croft types wouldn't have fit through the 8" crevice.
The best product is meaningless if you don't have someone like Jobs shoving it down people's throats to get them to buy. Same with Woz, if you don't have something really cool to sell, then no one would have listened to Steve for very long. Two sides of the same coin. I'm not an Apple or Jobs fan, but obviously Steve did a lot of things right for a long time.
I doubt Woz was very good at sales. I doubt Steve was very good at building computers. No product "sells itself", and anyone who really believes that is an idiot.
Yes, because everyone knows that war didn't exist until the United States was created....
The US has done plenty of stupid things, but war has always existed and always will. The US is the whipping boy only because it is the biggest. Go look at the atrocities committed by Russia, Japan and Germany (and others) over the last 100 years, then see see how much you still cry about America. There are plenty of crimes to go around, saying America is the "worst" just shows you don't know how to crack open a history book.
I look younger than my age and smoked until I was 45, partied my ass off in the 20s (award winning partying...), sleep 4 hours a night most of the time. I don't doubt that these things can affect how old you look, but they aren't the defining things. Like with most things, genetics is probably the key.
No, we don't. If you don't have the water, or at least the hydrogen and oxygen, you don't have a large body of water to moderate the temperature and host cyanobacteria to create oxygen, which takes hundreds of thousands to millions of years, assuming you have enough bound oxygen to begin with. We don't have the technology. We can't even filter out a little carbon dioxide in our own atmosphere.