Not as funny as you'd think, walking with my grand-daughter and daughter-in-law to kindergarten, I was amazed at how many kids wearing Dora the Explorer backpacks looked mortified to be seen in public with their Goth parent.
From what I'm seeing, my grandkids are rarely accessing the internet with anything as old fashioned as a computer anymore anyways. Most of what they post is listed as via a smartphone now.
go to patent (1315585) google patents then download the PDF which has no drawings in it. That patent is WEIZMANN's original patent for the ABE method of fermentation using C. acetobutylicum. The Butamax patent splices the genes into other organisms more amenable to industrial fermentation.
The vacuum tube stage was back in and before WWII when the ABE fermentation process was widespread, even at that it was still used in South Africa until the 1980's. There's boatloads of scientific papers about how to do it out there on the net. The biggest problems with the process is
1 the feedstocks for the little crittters (C. acetobutylicum) are expensive,
2 The little critters are quite vulnerable to bacteriophages,
3 it's difficult to make the jump from a batch process to a continuous process.
When I was growing up it was 200MPG carburetors that the "Big Oil" companies was suppressing by buying up the patents. Of course now that the patents have expired, and the carburetors are commercially available we see that they don't get anything even close to 200MPG, are too temperamental for normal road car use, have no advantage over computerized fuel injection system we have now, but are actually pretty good for race cars that Joe Average races on weekends for fun.
Gevo has a well developed patent estate consisting of over 250 patents and patent applications. These patents and patent applications cover isobutanol biocatalysts, alcohol recovery, alcohol conversion and use areas.
Doesn't sound like Gevo is an ignorant upstart in the patent game so we're probably not talking about a mouse getting beat-up by an elephant but rather a Woolly mammoth and a Woolly rhinoceros having a go at each other.
Butanol isn't a replacement for Ethanol, it's a replacement for gasoline!
Butanol may be used as a fuel in an internal combustion engine. Because its longer hydrocarbon chain causes it to be fairly non-polar, it is more similar to gasoline than it is to ethanol. Butanol has been demonstrated to work in vehicles designed for use with gasoline without modification.[1] It can be produced from biomass (as "biobutanol")[2] as well as fossil fuels (as "petrobutanol"); but biobutanol and petrobutanol have the same chemical properties.
Historically Butanol and acetone has been produced by fermentation of starches and sugars by Clostridium acetobutylicum what the Butamax patent claims is a method of spicing the genes from C. acetobutylicum that make butanol into other organisms. The patent is very specific about which gene sequences do what and are inserted into the host cell, rather than the typical overly broad patent from typical patent trolls.
And the biggest mammal that gives problem is what mammal, humans.
Sorry but even if all of the mammals left your sand sea to re-vegetate in peace, it would still be a desert and sooner of later there will be a freak thunder-storm and vegetations that hadn't seen rain in years would go poof in a wildfire and two centuries of recovery would be gone in a matter of days!
And the desserts in US, are due to what? Haven't you read what the agriculture there does to the soil?
Deserts Mojave Desert in the United States is caused by being in the desert belt, the Sonoran Desert is Desert belt as well as rain-shadowed by the Rocky mountain range, The North Slope is typical polar desert.
A desert is a landscape or region that receives an extremely low amount of precipitation, less than enough to support growth of most plants. Deserts are defined as areas with an average annual precipitation of less than 250 millimetres (10 in) per year,[1][2] or as areas where more water is lost by evapotranspiration than falls as precipitation.[3] In the Köppen climate classification system, deserts are classed as BWh (hot desert) or BWk (temperate desert). In the Thornthwaite climate classification system, deserts would be classified as arid megathermal climates.
Seems like you think Desert means something different from what it does.
Sand covers only about 20% of Earth's deserts. Most of the sand is in sand sheets and sand seas—vast regions of undulating dunes resembling ocean waves "frozen" in an instant of time. In general, there are five forms of deserts:
* Mountain and basin deserts
* Hamada deserts, which consist of plateau landforms
* Regs, which consist of rock pavements
* Ergs, which are formed by sand seas
* Intermontane Basins
With irrigation and modern land management Deserts are quite productive land.
I read the linked article and it does not refute the fact that the Sahara is in fact a desert but actually supports it,
After 4 Years, a first rainfall came and the area was lush Green again, this vegetation did dye of after the draught set in again, yet the trees and bushes remained even though they seemed dead at first glance! As the second rain came 8 Years latter all was green again, this time however one could see the trees and bushes growing and establishing them self again! The draught returned yet the trees and bushes even though dormant survived until the next rain!
so it rained twice in 12 years;
A desert is a landscape or region that receives an extremely low amount of precipitation, less than enough to support growth of most plants. Deserts are defined as areas with an average annual precipitation of less than 250 millimetres (10 in) per year,[1][2] or as areas where more water is lost by evapotranspiration than falls as precipitation.
I suspect that fits the definition of a desert. In Hawaii there are areas that have more than 300 inches of rain a year and a couple hundred meters away it only gets 3 inches a year so you can find deserts surrounded by rain-forrests!
If you actually look at a globe, you'll notice that there is in fact two desert belts at about 15 degrees N and S. The Sahara, Mojave and Sonoran deserts of the U.S. southwest and Mexico, the Kalahari in southern Africa, the Australian desert, and the Atacama Desert on the west coast of South America all fall within these belts.
Sorry but some of the shittiest shitholes in Africa are selling boatloads of energy to the EU right now; if anything addition money from energy sales increases the depth of the shit in a shithole.
Theft, In criminal law, theft is the illegal taking of another person's property
Propertyis any physical or intangible entity that is owned by a person or jointly by a group of people. Depending on the nature of the property, an owner of property has the right to consume, sell, rent, mortgage, transfer, exchange or destroy their property, and/or to exclude others from doing these things. without that person's freely-given consent.
If you "copy" my work, that I have the exclusive right to sell, rent, mortgage, transfer, exchange or destroy, then by definition my rights are no longer exclusive right to sell, rent, mortgage, transfer, exchange or destroy nor to exclude others from doing these things. Therefore copying copyrighted works without freely-given consent is not theft or stealing of the copyrighted work but theft of the right to exclusively sell, rent, mortgage, transfer, exchange or destroy or to exclude others from doing these things.
I'm not sure, but I think the tanks that the Egyptian army did not turn on protesters are a combo of American and old Soviet tanks.
That's the way I understand it, if memory serves me correctly, in the late 70s or 80s USATACOM was busy installing US M60A1 turrets on Soviet built T72 tank hulls for the Egyptians, so some would even be hybrids of the two.
I'm sure that's what Manuel Noriega thought too. The United States actually has a reputations for prosecuting certain crimes far more aggressively than would be expected and with diminished regard for jurisdictional complications; such as First Degree Murder, Rape and various international organized criminal endeavors. Assange could easily be better off being tried for rape in Sweden and subsequently protected from the US by virtue of the prohibition against double jeopardy.
I believe it isn't an ex post facto law because it's about the publication of names of protected individuals and a big part of it will depend on the legal definition of what a publication date is on an online document. If it goes the online documents are published on demand then things will get interesting.
Why would that be an ex post facto law? That's like saying if you broke a law before it was a law, then can can continue to break the law after it is a law. The real question is whether the publication date is when they post it on the web or when my browser downloads it. Personally it creeps me out when the legality of an action is dependent on the actions of a third party so I'd hope it when posted rather than downloaded, but with legal stuff you just never know.
Where they are hosted is meaningless, unless the law has a phrase like "It is illegal for anyone in the United States, it's Territories.... to" and I'd be surprised if this law has that phrase.
And even if would pass, it wouldn't help convicting Assange for anything even if he had released the materials in the US as a US citizen, unless nullum crimen sine lege is not part of the US system of criminal law..
That would only apply to documents published before the law is passed.
The bill would clarify U.S. law by saying that it is an act of espionage to publish the protected names of American intelligence sources who collaborate with the U.S military or intelligence community.
Documents in their possession but not published would be illegal to publish without the identities of informants redacted and possibly the re-publication of covered documents. Whether it clears constitutional muster under the 1st amendment is another matter.
I think you would have to be pretty gullible to believe either prospective sexual partners or foreign computers;
"sure baby my data is sanitary, i just got tested before that nice Finance Minister in Africa sent me the forms to retrieve the money my long-lost great-grand cousin twice removed left me in his will."
Some how I can't see how this trusted computing platform is going to be compatible with Hillary's new vision of cyber-democracy sweeping out the despotic evil right-wing governments throughout the world when any dictator can specifically and uniquely identify any of their malcontents; unless of course that also means that not only will there be trusted computing platforms, but trusted governments as well. Didn't we just find out about how pissed off the USG was because companies like Sony-Ericsson, Narus and Sandvine were selling telecom-survailence equipment to countries like Iran, so instead we have Microsoft sell them Phone-home software to narc out their citizens without the expense of carrier-grade hardware!
Isn't Italy a parliamentary government? That means it's like the whole government doesn't have a representative who is a better choice for PM than a corupt, seventy year old pedophile. Some Italians actually look up to him because he's still a lecherous bastard at his age.
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Not as funny as you'd think, walking with my grand-daughter and daughter-in-law to kindergarten, I was amazed at how many kids wearing Dora the Explorer backpacks looked mortified to be seen in public with their Goth parent.
From what I'm seeing, my grandkids are rarely accessing the internet with anything as old fashioned as a computer anymore anyways. Most of what they post is listed as via a smartphone now.
go to patent (1315585) google patents then download the PDF which has no drawings in it. That patent is WEIZMANN's original patent for the ABE method of fermentation using C. acetobutylicum. The Butamax patent splices the genes into other organisms more amenable to industrial fermentation.
The vacuum tube stage was back in and before WWII when the ABE fermentation process was widespread, even at that it was still used in South Africa until the 1980's. There's boatloads of scientific papers about how to do it out there on the net. The biggest problems with the process is
1 the feedstocks for the little crittters (C. acetobutylicum) are expensive,
2 The little critters are quite vulnerable to bacteriophages,
3 it's difficult to make the jump from a batch process to a continuous process.
When I was growing up it was 200MPG carburetors that the "Big Oil" companies was suppressing by buying up the patents. Of course now that the patents have expired, and the carburetors are commercially available we see that they don't get anything even close to 200MPG, are too temperamental for normal road car use, have no advantage over computerized fuel injection system we have now, but are actually pretty good for race cars that Joe Average races on weekends for fun.
Doesn't sound like Gevo is an ignorant upstart in the patent game so we're probably not talking about a mouse getting beat-up by an elephant but rather a Woolly mammoth and a Woolly rhinoceros having a go at each other.
Butanol isn't a replacement for Ethanol, it's a replacement for gasoline!
Historically Butanol and acetone has been produced by fermentation of starches and sugars by Clostridium acetobutylicum what the Butamax patent claims is a method of spicing the genes from C. acetobutylicum that make butanol into other organisms. The patent is very specific about which gene sequences do what and are inserted into the host cell, rather than the typical overly broad patent from typical patent trolls.
And the biggest mammal that gives problem is what mammal, humans.
Sorry but even if all of the mammals left your sand sea to re-vegetate in peace, it would still be a desert and sooner of later there will be a freak thunder-storm and vegetations that hadn't seen rain in years would go poof in a wildfire and two centuries of recovery would be gone in a matter of days!
And the desserts in US, are due to what? Haven't you read what the agriculture there does to the soil?
Deserts Mojave Desert in the United States is caused by being in the desert belt, the Sonoran Desert is Desert belt as well as rain-shadowed by the Rocky mountain range, The North Slope is typical polar desert.
Seems like you think Desert means something different from what it does.
With irrigation and modern land management Deserts are quite productive land.
I read the linked article and it does not refute the fact that the Sahara is in fact a desert but actually supports it,
so it rained twice in 12 years;
I suspect that fits the definition of a desert. In Hawaii there are areas that have more than 300 inches of rain a year and a couple hundred meters away it only gets 3 inches a year so you can find deserts surrounded by rain-forrests!
If you actually look at a globe, you'll notice that there is in fact two desert belts at about 15 degrees N and S. The Sahara, Mojave and Sonoran deserts of the U.S. southwest and Mexico, the Kalahari in southern Africa, the Australian desert, and the Atacama Desert on the west coast of South America all fall within these belts.
Sorry but some of the shittiest shitholes in Africa are selling boatloads of energy to the EU right now; if anything addition money from energy sales increases the depth of the shit in a shithole.
If you "copy" my work, that I have the exclusive right to sell, rent, mortgage, transfer, exchange or destroy, then by definition my rights are no longer exclusive right to sell, rent, mortgage, transfer, exchange or destroy nor to exclude others from doing these things. Therefore copying copyrighted works without freely-given consent is not theft or stealing of the copyrighted work but theft of the right to exclusively sell, rent, mortgage, transfer, exchange or destroy or to exclude others from doing these things.
I'm not sure, but I think the tanks that the Egyptian army did not turn on protesters are a combo of American and old Soviet tanks.
That's the way I understand it, if memory serves me correctly, in the late 70s or 80s USATACOM was busy installing US M60A1 turrets on Soviet built T72 tank hulls for the Egyptians, so some would even be hybrids of the two.
I'm sure that's what Manuel Noriega thought too. The United States actually has a reputations for prosecuting certain crimes far more aggressively than would be expected and with diminished regard for jurisdictional complications; such as First Degree Murder, Rape and various international organized criminal endeavors. Assange could easily be better off being tried for rape in Sweden and subsequently protected from the US by virtue of the prohibition against double jeopardy.
I believe it isn't an ex post facto law because it's about the publication of names of protected individuals and a big part of it will depend on the legal definition of what a publication date is on an online document. If it goes the online documents are published on demand then things will get interesting.
Why would that be an ex post facto law? That's like saying if you broke a law before it was a law, then can can continue to break the law after it is a law. The real question is whether the publication date is when they post it on the web or when my browser downloads it. Personally it creeps me out when the legality of an action is dependent on the actions of a third party so I'd hope it when posted rather than downloaded, but with legal stuff you just never know.
Where they are hosted is meaningless, unless the law has a phrase like "It is illegal for anyone in the United States, it's Territories .... to" and I'd be surprised if this law has that phrase.
And even if would pass, it wouldn't help convicting Assange for anything even if he had released the materials in the US as a US citizen, unless nullum crimen sine lege is not part of the US system of criminal law..
That would only apply to documents published before the law is passed.
The bill would clarify U.S. law by saying that it is an act of espionage to publish the protected names of American intelligence sources who collaborate with the U.S military or intelligence community.
Documents in their possession but not published would be illegal to publish without the identities of informants redacted and possibly the re-publication of covered documents. Whether it clears constitutional muster under the 1st amendment is another matter.
I think you would have to be pretty gullible to believe either prospective sexual partners or foreign computers;
"sure baby my data is sanitary, i just got tested before that nice Finance Minister in Africa sent me the forms to retrieve the money my long-lost great-grand cousin twice removed left me in his will."
Some how I can't see how this trusted computing platform is going to be compatible with Hillary's new vision of cyber-democracy sweeping out the despotic evil right-wing governments throughout the world when any dictator can specifically and uniquely identify any of their malcontents; unless of course that also means that not only will there be trusted computing platforms, but trusted governments as well. Didn't we just find out about how pissed off the USG was because companies like Sony-Ericsson, Narus and Sandvine were selling telecom-survailence equipment to countries like Iran, so instead we have Microsoft sell them Phone-home software to narc out their citizens without the expense of carrier-grade hardware!
Isn't Italy a parliamentary government? That means it's like the whole government doesn't have a representative who is a better choice for PM than a corupt, seventy year old pedophile. Some Italians actually look up to him because he's still a lecherous bastard at his age.
Besides if Obama was killed then Biden would become President, which is probably why some whacko hasn't tried so far.
More likely one of these, M61 "Counter-Rocket" gatling gun-on-a-truck shoots down mortars like skeet; why use fans when there are systems that spit out 4500-7000 round a minute pretty much without human intervention! Cool video on the link too.
Oh yeah that's right M$ had Zune, whatever happened with that.