I don't understand how they're going to stop it anyway. Unless this law makes it illegal for an individual to buy a car from an out-of-state individual, how are they going to stop me from buying a Tesla (or any other new or used car) from any legal out-of-state vendor or individual? Are they going to stop me at the state line and slap the cuffs on me? Refuse to license any car in the state unless I can prove it was bought from an in-state dealer?
There is no way Fox is cancelling COPS and launching Cosmos. Expect the execs there to come to their senses pretty quickly and replace this with a reality show following the lives of transsexual meth-addicted circus performers.
I just assumed it was par for the course now. I thought that pretty much every newspaper and magazine photo was photoshopped at least some these days. I certainly haven't seen a magazine cover since the 80's that I didn't think was photoshopped to within an inch of its life.
Yes, because there is certainly no pattern there. It's not like these were all moderate Muslim countries whose dictators were overthrown and whose populace elected radical Muslims into power the second they got democracy.
If private companies and groups can threaten stuff this heavy-handed, what is the point of extortion and creditor laws then? My creditors can't threaten to call my neighbors, but this group can?
I suspect Gates is being magnanimous here. It seems quite likely that Gates was trying to talk with Jobs about the Gates Foundation and to seek his support in his waning days. The fact that Jobs (who had a notoriously anti-charity reputation) only wanted to talk about his damned yacht is telling. If that is true, then Gates is being quite generous to only mention the detail about his yacht, and not the part about Jobs rebuffing his charitable request.
Just remember that without those higher crop yields, people will probably die (the poorest first, if history is any indication). Growing 19th-century pre-GM/pre-pesticide crops is going to mean 19th century yields, which barely supported a 19th century population that was a fraction of what it is today.
Modern mechanization isn't going to help either. You would be lucky it that even made up for the much smaller farm labor force.
So if you have no moral objection to telling people in the third-world "Hey sorry, but most of you are going to have to die" just to thumb your nose at Monsanto, then go right ahead. Hell, I don't live there.
Well, of course, no one is going to stand against the idea of eliminating poverty. I'm just saying that it may not be the magic bullet many expect. If you have a criminal culture in a given neighborhood or region, simply throwing more income at them probably isn't going to change them (not for a long time anyway). Hell, I've got relatives who are criminals and trash--and I can ASSURE you that more money isn't going to help them. A mental (and preferably spacial) change has to take place too.
They could always go back to the lower crop yield seeds they were using before Monsanto spend millions developing pesticide resistant strains. Nothing at all is stopping them from returning to the good old days if they don't want to buy Monsanto seeds.
Ravitch said elsewhere that the most significant factor in student achievement is parent income. Raise the parent income and you raise the student achievement.
The second sentence does not necessarily follow from the first. If the parent is some druggie or gangbanger piece of shit, then yes, their income (at least their reported income) is going to be shit too. And they're probably going to be an awful parent, with kids who perform poorly in school. But it does not follow (in this case, or many others) that giving said parent higher income is going to make them any better a parent. It's not like a higher income is going to get a meth-head or crack-head to quit drugs and clean themselves up, or make a gangbanger parent quit the gang and become a proper parent. There is without a doubt a CORRELATION between low-income families and kids in those families performing poorly in school (and being more likely to end up in prison). But I suspect the low-income is just another symptom of a larger disease, not the root cause.
Too often, it's the neighborhood itself that's the biggest causative factor. I expect you would get better much results from removing those families from their neighborhoods and putting them some place where crime was the considered unacceptable, not normative, behavior.
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This is akin to not allowing digital books because they hurt book stores.
Hush! Don't give them any ideas!
blatant act of political corruption
In the South, we just call that "politics."
I don't understand how they're going to stop it anyway. Unless this law makes it illegal for an individual to buy a car from an out-of-state individual, how are they going to stop me from buying a Tesla (or any other new or used car) from any legal out-of-state vendor or individual? Are they going to stop me at the state line and slap the cuffs on me? Refuse to license any car in the state unless I can prove it was bought from an in-state dealer?
And also a leader of the second largest party in the Egyptian Parliament.
ill informed racists
As opposed to the well-informed, who think Islam is a race?
But he's a black scientist! No arrest record or anything!
I was hoping for Amy Mainzer!
To do what?
There is no way Fox is cancelling COPS and launching Cosmos. Expect the execs there to come to their senses pretty quickly and replace this with a reality show following the lives of transsexual meth-addicted circus performers.
This actually happens more often than you think.
I just assumed it was par for the course now. I thought that pretty much every newspaper and magazine photo was photoshopped at least some these days. I certainly haven't seen a magazine cover since the 80's that I didn't think was photoshopped to within an inch of its life.
Yes, because there is certainly no pattern there. It's not like these were all moderate Muslim countries whose dictators were overthrown and whose populace elected radical Muslims into power the second they got democracy.
Oh, wait....
The Saudi's could learn a lot from us.
You can bet they already have. The CIA has been actively propping up the ruling regime there for decades.
If private companies and groups can threaten stuff this heavy-handed, what is the point of extortion and creditor laws then? My creditors can't threaten to call my neighbors, but this group can?
You mean no doctor is Stephen Colbert!
Stephen Colbert is the only psychologist I need to tell me that I can get off my lazy ass and achieve greatness!
This isn't about "higher crop yields". This is about selling more Roundup.
And what do you think Roundup is designed to do? You do know that weeds are one of the biggest hindrances to crop yields, no?
Even when we begged him not to in front of people.
I suspect Gates is being magnanimous here. It seems quite likely that Gates was trying to talk with Jobs about the Gates Foundation and to seek his support in his waning days. The fact that Jobs (who had a notoriously anti-charity reputation) only wanted to talk about his damned yacht is telling. If that is true, then Gates is being quite generous to only mention the detail about his yacht, and not the part about Jobs rebuffing his charitable request.
Jobs' charity efforts?
Just remember that without those higher crop yields, people will probably die (the poorest first, if history is any indication). Growing 19th-century pre-GM/pre-pesticide crops is going to mean 19th century yields, which barely supported a 19th century population that was a fraction of what it is today.
Modern mechanization isn't going to help either. You would be lucky it that even made up for the much smaller farm labor force.
So if you have no moral objection to telling people in the third-world "Hey sorry, but most of you are going to have to die" just to thumb your nose at Monsanto, then go right ahead. Hell, I don't live there.
Well, of course, no one is going to stand against the idea of eliminating poverty. I'm just saying that it may not be the magic bullet many expect. If you have a criminal culture in a given neighborhood or region, simply throwing more income at them probably isn't going to change them (not for a long time anyway). Hell, I've got relatives who are criminals and trash--and I can ASSURE you that more money isn't going to help them. A mental (and preferably spacial) change has to take place too.
it must be tough to be a farmer nowadays.
They could always go back to the lower crop yield seeds they were using before Monsanto spend millions developing pesticide resistant strains. Nothing at all is stopping them from returning to the good old days if they don't want to buy Monsanto seeds.
IIRC, they got all kinds of flack from the farmers when they threatened to sell "terminator" seeds.
http://www.monsanto.com/newsviews/Pages/terminator-seeds.aspx
Ravitch said elsewhere that the most significant factor in student achievement is parent income. Raise the parent income and you raise the student achievement.
The second sentence does not necessarily follow from the first. If the parent is some druggie or gangbanger piece of shit, then yes, their income (at least their reported income) is going to be shit too. And they're probably going to be an awful parent, with kids who perform poorly in school. But it does not follow (in this case, or many others) that giving said parent higher income is going to make them any better a parent. It's not like a higher income is going to get a meth-head or crack-head to quit drugs and clean themselves up, or make a gangbanger parent quit the gang and become a proper parent. There is without a doubt a CORRELATION between low-income families and kids in those families performing poorly in school (and being more likely to end up in prison). But I suspect the low-income is just another symptom of a larger disease, not the root cause.
Too often, it's the neighborhood itself that's the biggest causative factor. I expect you would get better much results from removing those families from their neighborhoods and putting them some place where crime was the considered unacceptable, not normative, behavior.
Yeah, but to extend the simile, the Spartan won't go down without a helluva fight. And he'll be kicking, screaming, and biting the whole time.
Isn't that a disclaimer appropriate for pretty much everything said on /.? Well, except for what *I* say, of course.