"There's a too many mouths too feed without science to improve sustainable agriculture. In this case the oceans are over-farmed, and if this helps lighten the load, I'm all for it."
What you mean is that the oceans are over-fished. Our wild catch at sea is unsustainable, with food species after species diminishing in number. If we still hunted and gathered on land like this, we would already be starving to death. We need to farm the fish we eat instead of strip-mining the ocean. If GM helps us grow fish more efficiently as it does food on land, so much the better.
The flat-earth lobby hates fish farming just as much as it hates GMO-anything, and for the same lack of any valid reason.
I'm actually strongly in favor of using genetic manipulation to improve foods. But as long as the companies developing the technology continue to treat it as something to be concealed from consumers, how do they expect to win hearts and minds?
If any medical effect whatever from genetic modification were to show up in the fish, it would be labeled, just as we label for salt, sugar, and allergens.
They have no idea how real photography works. JPG is a 'final' format. You capture an image on an SLR as RAW so you get all of the information the sensor can give you, and then you process it to pull the JPGs you want to give to the user of your shots. In journalism, many photographs are taken under marginal conditions, such as four stops below optimum in a sandstorm. Shooting RAW gives you the most latitude to recover usable images that might give us the ability to identify a terrorist. You can apply high dynamic range processing to a single RAW frame to show detail not recoverable any other way, and given a bracket of five RAW frames one stop apart, even handheld, you can postprocess them into a great picture.
Yes, today's journalism photography is being done with many devices that shoot JPG as their native mode, and as any photographer will tell you, the best camera in the world is the one you have with you. But anyone who prohibits high-detail RAW imagery is a person who does not deserve to be in journalism. Manufacturers have responded to the phone-photography challenge with formats like Micro Four Thirds, which gives you SLR versatility in a compact body and lens format that you can take to wherever the news is being made.
Kanji are alphabetized by stroke count and base radical, which is the simpler root pictograph that carries the meaning of a character in the same way that old Latin roots are used to form new words in English. For example, a cloud over a field is kaminari, thunder, and adding a vertical stroke through it turns it into inazuma, lightning.
Does this mean that the English language has acquired its first official kanji? We have others, such as the common one for "merging traffic" that could be submitted for consideration.
This is the economics equivalent of screaming "denier" at anyone who quibbles about the fine points of AGW theory. No, the whole idea of open markets and competition was not dreamed up in 1930 by that one Russian chick who all the liberals hate. It is as old as the human species.
Prearranged insurance is our only way of negotiating on emergency services. We just need a wider choice of insurance companies. Don't try to sidetrack this as some sort of plea for ideological purity either; the ACA with its insurance markets actually gives us choices we didn't have before, and why not try a single payer system for those parts of the medical system already controlled by government? If Medicare could save by buying medications in bulk as the Canadian system does, let's try it. And if this does prove more efficient, why not let consumer buying clubs enjoy the same savings?
Competition in medicine doesn't have to mean throwing poor children into snowbanks. Because medicine is a basic need, I don't expect to see the percentage of charity and governmental presence in it change, but all parties, public and private, will save if we use competition to lower costs.
The AMA's working hypothesis is that we're all stupid. This applies to many consumers in any given area, but who are they to prevent the rest of us from exercising intelligent choices? After all, it's not that consumers are going to suddenly start doing their own doctoring, any more than we fix our own computers or work on our own cars. Today's world gives us a huge range of choices by default, except in areas where a monopoly has infiltrated the legal system and prevented us from exercising choice.
We've started Ubering our cab rides now, and the sky has not fallen. Time to disrupt a far more pervasive and pernicious monopoly than the one we get a taxi ride from once a year.
In an open market the advertisers would realize this, and make their ads more attractive. The FDA prevents them from doing so, and prevents advertisers from offering offshore sources, even of the same compounds.
I'm talking about competition in real medicine, not "alternatives." Homeopaths and other quacks already have a protected fiefdom of their own, covered inn a recent article here.
Yes, we need exactly the ability to call around and get a better price. Today we do that when we choose an insurance company to do the negotiating for us. For most people, we have nothing but the 'choice' of the insurance company our employer has picked for us. Why can't patients form buying pools to bid for expensive medications on the global market, just as countries with single-payer systems do? This is exactly how the Canadians achieve their low prices. Bulk purchasing shouldn't be reserved for governments, and American consumers should be legally alowed to benefit by being able to get prescriptions filled anywhere they wish.
You can be sure that if the US were to adopt its own government single-payer system, as Democrats have proposed, that lobbyists would have it restricted to the artificial domestic drug and hospital market, just as the VA and Medicare are now.
What medicine really needs is competition, and that is something the AMA, despite that lip service in this announcement, has always resisted. Instead of banning advertising, give patients the right to get their prescriptions filled on the world market, just as we do when we buy electronics from Amazon.
In 2011 the FDA fined Google half a billion dollars for the crime of letting Canadian pharmacies advertise to Americans. Make the FDA give every stolen dime back to Google, and then slash its budget so it can't pursue any more anti-competitive operations like this. Make the FDA stick to its primary mission of organizing new drug tests, and nothing else.
to land a sample extractor and launch it back to Earth?
Any craft that can extract a sample at Europa is a craft that can do Curiosity-grade microanalysis of the sample on site much more quickly and cost-effectively than it could do any Earth return.
And while we're on the subject, does the forthcoming new Prime Minister's name rhyme with 'garage'? And are we talking the American or British pronunciation? Is there any speculation on how he will get along with Le Pen and Trump?
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"There's a too many mouths too feed without science to improve sustainable agriculture. In this case the oceans are over-farmed, and if this helps lighten the load, I'm all for it."
What you mean is that the oceans are over-fished. Our wild catch at sea is unsustainable, with food species after species diminishing in number. If we still hunted and gathered on land like this, we would already be starving to death. We need to farm the fish we eat instead of strip-mining the ocean. If GM helps us grow fish more efficiently as it does food on land, so much the better.
The flat-earth lobby hates fish farming just as much as it hates GMO-anything, and for the same lack of any valid reason.
I'm actually strongly in favor of using genetic manipulation to improve foods. But as long as the companies developing the technology continue to treat it as something to be concealed from consumers, how do they expect to win hearts and minds?
If any medical effect whatever from genetic modification were to show up in the fish, it would be labeled, just as we label for salt, sugar, and allergens.
So THAT's what Clock Boy was trying to build with that famed high school science fair project!
They have no idea how real photography works. JPG is a 'final' format. You capture an image on an SLR as RAW so you get all of the information the sensor can give you, and then you process it to pull the JPGs you want to give to the user of your shots. In journalism, many photographs are taken under marginal conditions, such as four stops below optimum in a sandstorm. Shooting RAW gives you the most latitude to recover usable images that might give us the ability to identify a terrorist. You can apply high dynamic range processing to a single RAW frame to show detail not recoverable any other way, and given a bracket of five RAW frames one stop apart, even handheld, you can postprocess them into a great picture.
Yes, today's journalism photography is being done with many devices that shoot JPG as their native mode, and as any photographer will tell you, the best camera in the world is the one you have with you. But anyone who prohibits high-detail RAW imagery is a person who does not deserve to be in journalism. Manufacturers have responded to the phone-photography challenge with formats like Micro Four Thirds, which gives you SLR versatility in a compact body and lens format that you can take to wherever the news is being made.
Kanji are alphabetized by stroke count and base radical, which is the simpler root pictograph that carries the meaning of a character in the same way that old Latin roots are used to form new words in English. For example, a cloud over a field is kaminari, thunder, and adding a vertical stroke through it turns it into inazuma, lightning.
Does this mean that the English language has acquired its first official kanji? We have others, such as the common one for "merging traffic" that could be submitted for consideration.
This is the economics equivalent of screaming "denier" at anyone who quibbles about the fine points of AGW theory. No, the whole idea of open markets and competition was not dreamed up in 1930 by that one Russian chick who all the liberals hate. It is as old as the human species.
Prearranged insurance is our only way of negotiating on emergency services. We just need a wider choice of insurance companies. Don't try to sidetrack this as some sort of plea for ideological purity either; the ACA with its insurance markets actually gives us choices we didn't have before, and why not try a single payer system for those parts of the medical system already controlled by government? If Medicare could save by buying medications in bulk as the Canadian system does, let's try it. And if this does prove more efficient, why not let consumer buying clubs enjoy the same savings?
Competition in medicine doesn't have to mean throwing poor children into snowbanks. Because medicine is a basic need, I don't expect to see the percentage of charity and governmental presence in it change, but all parties, public and private, will save if we use competition to lower costs.
The AMA's working hypothesis is that we're all stupid. This applies to many consumers in any given area, but who are they to prevent the rest of us from exercising intelligent choices? After all, it's not that consumers are going to suddenly start doing their own doctoring, any more than we fix our own computers or work on our own cars. Today's world gives us a huge range of choices by default, except in areas where a monopoly has infiltrated the legal system and prevented us from exercising choice.
We've started Ubering our cab rides now, and the sky has not fallen. Time to disrupt a far more pervasive and pernicious monopoly than the one we get a taxi ride from once a year.
In an open market the advertisers would realize this, and make their ads more attractive. The FDA prevents them from doing so, and prevents advertisers from offering offshore sources, even of the same compounds.
I'm talking about competition in real medicine, not "alternatives." Homeopaths and other quacks already have a protected fiefdom of their own, covered inn a recent article here.
Yes, we need exactly the ability to call around and get a better price. Today we do that when we choose an insurance company to do the negotiating for us. For most people, we have nothing but the 'choice' of the insurance company our employer has picked for us. Why can't patients form buying pools to bid for expensive medications on the global market, just as countries with single-payer systems do? This is exactly how the Canadians achieve their low prices. Bulk purchasing shouldn't be reserved for governments, and American consumers should be legally alowed to benefit by being able to get prescriptions filled anywhere they wish.
You can be sure that if the US were to adopt its own government single-payer system, as Democrats have proposed, that lobbyists would have it restricted to the artificial domestic drug and hospital market, just as the VA and Medicare are now.
What medicine really needs is competition, and that is something the AMA, despite that lip service in this announcement, has always resisted. Instead of banning advertising, give patients the right to get their prescriptions filled on the world market, just as we do when we buy electronics from Amazon.
In 2011 the FDA fined Google half a billion dollars for the crime of letting Canadian pharmacies advertise to Americans. Make the FDA give every stolen dime back to Google, and then slash its budget so it can't pursue any more anti-competitive operations like this. Make the FDA stick to its primary mission of organizing new drug tests, and nothing else.
Silver conducts a little better than gold, but interconnects need to be corrosion-free.
But silver is the best conductor.
Hasn't offshore gold dredging been done for years in Alaska? The environmental effects should be well known by now.
"...why Twitter hasn't already disabled these accounts, and why intelligence agencies haven't done anything about them...."
Because NSA analysis - and possible hexing with fake tweets - of working Daesh accounts is better strategy?
to land a sample extractor and launch it back to Earth?
Any craft that can extract a sample at Europa is a craft that can do Curiosity-grade microanalysis of the sample on site much more quickly and cost-effectively than it could do any Earth return.
I'm the furthest thing from an SJW but could this be any more insulting toward women?
Only if you...let's see now..introduced shoe metaphors?
A 'holistic' security strategy does not mean an operating system that's full of holes.
And while we're on the subject, does the forthcoming new Prime Minister's name rhyme with 'garage'? And are we talking the American or British pronunciation? Is there any speculation on how he will get along with Le Pen and Trump?
"Do vegans really count meal worms as counting as things capable of suffering?"
Yes they do, which is why when I found that out my respect for vegans fell to ground state. For the same reason, they will not eat honey.
Remember when sushi was considered weird and adventurous? When I moved to Japan (1975) everybody's reaction was, "Ewww, think of what they eat there!"
"Is that why 90% of vegans are severely undernourished?"
It's not that so much as the correlation between veganism and sanctimony.
"Is this just for shock value to sell ads/papers or serious?"
Whole Paycheck already carries them, and so does Amazon. Search on "insect flour."
"Get us commoners to eat insects while the ruling class gets steak."
Insect cuisine can be raised in a variety of extreme environments. Just try getting locally sourced beef on the ISS.