He was found guilty for gathering and using the seeds from a field originally planted with Monsanto seed, not from a field "naturally pollinated", although this is what he claimed when he was caught. Farmers who buy the special Monsanto seed have to sign a contract that they will not use the seed from the next generation. I grew up in the area, and I asked a few local farmers about it back when it happened. They have no love for Monsanto, but none of them believe him that his entire field was naturally contaminated.
My family recently returned from Idaho, where we saw the world's first nuclear power plant. Tours are provided of the entire plant, including the control room, the rod storage area, and even the actual core. You can also play with the fuel-handling control arms. The tour guide was great as she knew a ton of engineering details and many anecdotes about the people who made history there. Check it out at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Experimental_Breeder_Reactor_I
I do know people with cancer, diabetes, and other "horrible" conditions. If those conditions had been screened for, none of them would have been born. I doubt they would have preferred that.
Excellent point. I worked at home for 7 years, which was > 400 miles from the office. The company itself did most of it's work implementing network protocols for a large telecommunications company > 1000 miles away. It worked great as long as we were only dealing with other technical people. It only became a problem when a marketing guy joined the company who didn't like to write or read documents or couldn't be specific on the phone.
Anyway, the company disappeared 3 years ago directly because of compeition from India, who were charging one-fifth to one-tenth of what we were.
My son is severely autistic. He's missed out on much (or even most) of the learning that a preschooler does between the ages of 2 and 6, largely because of his missing social and imitation skills. Most experts believe people do most of their learning about the world during those formative years. Even if he could be cured, he could never get that back. Also, I've read and studied a lot over the years, and I've never heard the above theory that "some experts believe" in which the brain cannot get rid of connections between neurons. This sounds like something that would be easily proved or disproved, at least in animals, and I would guess it's overly simplistic.
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I know that it has to be later in life, since I'm already 46, and I haven't even had mine yet.
I don't remember the NGC 1365. Who was it's captain and which series and episode did it appear in?
...they should contact Magrathea
I believe they have experience with this, but they're not cheap.
Sure, they want you to believe that it's 20 years old and born in Finland, but if that's true, why won't they make the birth certificate public?
Now, I'm not saying that it was necessarily created in the Soviet Union in the 60s as a communist plot, but you never know.
Regolith? Is that something like the monolith they found buried there about 10 years ago?
I have found that handling the anxiety comes with experience. For example, I no longer care if the rest of the business comes to a screeching halt.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/11/23/coders_insomnia_mental_hygiene/
Gotta watch your sleep hygiene!
Man, $160000 for an old Apple I? I would never pay that, especially since you can get a brand new Apple computer for slightly less.
I don't really care about Blender, but I would like to hear more about terrywallwork's issues reading his email.
For about an hour on Saturday, it was somewhat harder to launch about 50 nuclear missiles, making the world temporarily a teeny bit safer.
I suppose GPS would work for outdoor data centres, but I haven't run across many of those ...
He was found guilty for gathering and using the seeds from a field originally planted with Monsanto seed, not from a field "naturally pollinated", although this is what he claimed when he was caught. Farmers who buy the special Monsanto seed have to sign a contract that they will not use the seed from the next generation. I grew up in the area, and I asked a few local farmers about it back when it happened. They have no love for Monsanto, but none of them believe him that his entire field was naturally contaminated.
My family recently returned from Idaho, where we saw the world's first nuclear power plant. Tours are provided of the entire plant, including the control room, the rod storage area, and even the actual core. You can also play with the fuel-handling control arms. The tour guide was great as she knew a ton of engineering details and many anecdotes about the people who made history there. Check it out at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Experimental_Breeder_Reactor_I
FTFS:
build smaller, even microscopic drones with smaller weapons
But what kind of weapons could a microscopic drone ...
OMG! They're planning biological weapons!
The /. summary proves it!
As a Canadian, I assume that if I don't comply with Homeland Security's request, I would be deported. But how?
I do know people with cancer, diabetes, and other "horrible" conditions. If those conditions had been screened for, none of them would have been born. I doubt they would have preferred that.
Wonderful. I can just imagine being in a restaurant or an elevator with a group of people with phones all saying "Low Power - please speak louder."
>We could support roughly 10 times more people with >the same amount of arable land if everyone was >vegetarian.
That assumes that non-vegetarians eat nothing but meat.
Yeah, but because of timezones, it's already tomorrow over there, right?
Excellent point. I worked at home for 7 years, which was > 400 miles from the office. The company itself did most of it's work implementing network protocols for a large telecommunications company > 1000 miles away. It worked great as long as we were only dealing with other technical people. It only became a problem when a marketing guy joined the company who didn't like to write or read documents or couldn't be specific on the phone.
Anyway, the company disappeared 3 years ago directly because of compeition from India, who were charging one-fifth to one-tenth of what we were.
Sounds like a good concept, but I don't understand how to get a monkey on the other side of the world to think about getting me my beer and pizza?
After they clean up the over-reaching copyright notices, maybe they could go after the EULAs next?
My son is severely autistic. He's missed out on much (or even most) of the learning that a preschooler does between the ages of 2 and 6, largely because of his missing social and imitation skills. Most experts believe people do most of their learning about the world during those formative years. Even if he could be cured, he could never get that back.
Also, I've read and studied a lot over the years, and I've never heard the above theory that "some experts believe" in which the brain cannot get rid of connections between neurons. This sounds like something that would be easily proved or disproved, at least in animals, and I would guess it's overly simplistic.
Creating new standards takes time. After some searching, I found the minutes from their annual meetings since they started in 2000.
2001 Chair: "How about we double it?" Vote: Nay
2002 Chair: "How about we triple it?" Vote: Nay
2003 Chair: "How about 4x?" Vote: Nay
2004 Chair: "How about 5x?" Vote: Nay
(minutes from intervening years were tragically lost)
2007 Chair: "How's about 8x?" Vote: Yay
Wow. Windows 95 must be the most secure OS ever.
I haven't seen any patches for it in ages!