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Monsanto is also involved with a GM seed technology known as terminator. Terminator involves producing seeds that grow sterile plants, requiring the farmer to aquire new seeds from the company every growing season. It shouldn't take much imagination to realize that if these plants cross-polinate with unmodified plants, the results could be catastrophic.
If the plants are sterile, there's little danger of them cross-pollinating. Alternatively, if they/do/ cross-pollinate, then they weren't sterile, and their offspring should be able to reproduce also.
People don't seem to understand that we (who are alive in 2002) have eaten little but genetically engineered food our entire lives--it's just that now instead of saying "oh, this stalk of corn has characteristic x that we want, and this other stalk has characteristic y--let's mix them and see how many times it takes before we get stalk z that has both characteristics", some stuff can be done on the molecular level. Big deal.
When I was younger, we would drive cross-country, and there would be stalks of corn whose leaves would droop. You will find now that a good 95% of corn has leaves that point up, to catch the rain. Makes taller plants. Cheaper corn. Happier me when I go to the store.
I'm guessing that the same people who don't like genetically modified food are the same people who don't like "chemicals" in their food, ie, the people who failed high school science (or who got passed out of pity) (as though the body cares from where the C6H12O6 is derived).
It's worth going a little into what the rural electrification act did: IIRC, it REQUIRED the electrical companies to serve all rural areas, no matter how remote, as a condition of them being granted a monopoly.
Also IIRC, Verizon has yet to provide DSL in rural areas (and Ohio, which have some overlap but are not in identity with each other).
Babelfish does like PHP and here is the proof: the translation of German article [altavista.com].
Sure thing, Beavis:
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I found a copy of it online, but then I realized how archaic the savegame system is. It saves your game state into the game executable. If you don't exit the game properly, or get stuck between a rock and a hard place, your main game executable is history. This is the main reason why I haven't played StarFlight that much in the past couple of years. It's a major pain in the butt to contend with.
Yeah. That killed my Ultima IV, after I had put in the Dungeon disk in the Overworld (to get treasure chests) and then forgot to go far enough away from the new "Overworld" before saving.
Just brought back my Apple IIe from the folks' garage, too.
Probably because you posted at 10:42, and someone else had already posted the same thing at 10:40. You should have known better, and the moderator should have known that it was redundant, not offtopic.
Hell, @home charged me for the entire year after I cancelled service. "Oh, you wanted to cancel effective July 15, 2000 when you called us on July 1, 2000? We assumed that you wanted to cancel July 15, 2001."
Never mind that I had returned the cable modem in July 2000.
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One of my best seminars, in the religion department (not generally considered to be the most wired bunch), made excellent use of an internal newsgroup: each week, each student was required to post a 2-3 page equivalent essay on the topic of the week. Additionally, if we had opinions on other people's papers, we were expected to post these; and the professor posted feedback in the newsgroup also. Sensitive folks could use email instead, but I don't think anyone did.
If you're going to count Ultima as FPS (my experience being limited to II and IV), it seems that Wizardry was on the same level of sophistication--but that was more of a "wander around the maze, then switch into turn-based fighting" (not that there's anything wrong with that).
Come to think of it, though, there was a coin-op a LONG time ago that was an FPS featuring an innovation that if you rotated the joystick you would turn 90 degrees.
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No, I am not from the bay area, but have many friends who were. The usage is infectious.
It's also fun to say around people from SoCal, who (seem to tend to) get annoyed by the expression.
Whois says it's not commander taco (unless he went to hella trouble):
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Yes, in the US too--but there's nothing ironic about "hey, we're capitalist, and some folks have a whole lot of money compared to others."
(where, you see, theoretical communism touts equal distribution of wealth; while practical communism looks a lot like practical capitalism)
(sometimes posts are like jokes and mice--kind of ruins them when you dissect them)
Monsanto is also involved with a GM seed technology known as terminator. Terminator involves producing seeds that grow sterile plants, requiring the farmer to aquire new seeds from the company every growing season. It shouldn't take much imagination to realize that if these plants cross-polinate with unmodified plants, the results could be catastrophic.
/do/ cross-pollinate, then they weren't sterile, and their offspring should be able to reproduce also.
If the plants are sterile, there's little danger of them cross-pollinating. Alternatively, if they
People don't seem to understand that we (who are alive in 2002) have eaten little but genetically engineered food our entire lives--it's just that now instead of saying "oh, this stalk of corn has characteristic x that we want, and this other stalk has characteristic y--let's mix them and see how many times it takes before we get stalk z that has both characteristics", some stuff can be done on the molecular level. Big deal.
When I was younger, we would drive cross-country, and there would be stalks of corn whose leaves would droop. You will find now that a good 95% of corn has leaves that point up, to catch the rain. Makes taller plants. Cheaper corn. Happier me when I go to the store.
I'm guessing that the same people who don't like genetically modified food are the same people who don't like "chemicals" in their food, ie, the people who failed high school science (or who got passed out of pity) (as though the body cares from where the C6H12O6 is derived).
Wouldn't nuclear radiation be really effective in killing anthrax spores, though?
Just mark everyone as "friend", and congratulate yourself on how many friends you have.
Friendship is not necessarily reciprocal. The object of your friendship does not automatically mark you as a friend in return.
Should be j0 50y, unless you are a p053r.
Estar is for transitory states. Ser is for identity.
It's worth going a little into what the rural electrification act did: IIRC, it REQUIRED the electrical companies to serve all rural areas, no matter how remote, as a condition of them being granted a monopoly.
Also IIRC, Verizon has yet to provide DSL in rural areas (and Ohio, which have some overlap but are not in identity with each other).
Mine hangs on my classroom wall. It's longer than most of my students are tall.
So there.
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So that you can get a referral bonus? What's up with including a cid= with the link that you litter all over this forum?
Looks like an attempt to prevent half-thought out posts.
Good luck, slashdot!
I found a copy of it online, but then I realized how archaic the savegame system is. It saves your game state into the game executable. If you don't exit the game properly, or get stuck between a rock and a hard place, your main game executable is history. This is the main reason why I haven't played StarFlight that much in the past couple of years. It's a major pain in the butt to contend with.
Yeah. That killed my Ultima IV, after I had put in the Dungeon disk in the Overworld (to get treasure chests) and then forgot to go far enough away from the new "Overworld" before saving.
Just brought back my Apple IIe from the folks' garage, too.
Probably because you posted at 10:42, and someone else had already posted the same thing at 10:40. You should have known better, and the moderator should have known that it was redundant, not offtopic.
How dare you miss those two minutes...
Really messes up the balance of your old-school (c. 1989) Game Boy. Does add "back lighting", though.
I guess that's why I can't get OSX to work on my Mac +, maxed out at 4 megs (which, in response to earlier thread, was pretty expensive to do).
GPS works very well far away from military bases. Closer you get to military installations, worse it gets (if you're a civilian).
So I've heard, anyway.
Well there's no hard evidence that osama bin laden had anything to do with the wtc (event 1)
Anyone have a confirmation that he short-sold airline stocks yet?
Hell, @home charged me for the entire year after I cancelled service. "Oh, you wanted to cancel effective July 15, 2000 when you called us on July 1, 2000? We assumed that you wanted to cancel July 15, 2001."
Never mind that I had returned the cable modem in July 2000.
To which I got this response:
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http://www.1tightass.com/fast/vids/movies/r2.mp
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----- Transcript of session follows -----
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>>> RCPT To:
... Deferred: 452 4.2.2 Mailbox full
Warning: message still undelivered after 8 hours
Will keep trying until message is 3 days old
...
Usually as a followup to
Q: What do you get when you cross an elephant with a grape?
A: elephant grape sin(theta)
Nor does the NSA, according to http://www.nsa.gov/about_nsa/faqs_internet.html#cu rrent; moreover, if they did, they would have to be non-US citizens not on US soil (note that it was not the NSA intercepting the message of this USAF individual, as most USAF folk are US citizens or permanent residents). See http://www.nsa.gov/about_nsa/faqs_internet.html#ri ghts
One of my best seminars, in the religion department (not generally considered to be the most wired bunch), made excellent use of an internal newsgroup: each week, each student was required to post a 2-3 page equivalent essay on the topic of the week. Additionally, if we had opinions on other people's papers, we were expected to post these; and the professor posted feedback in the newsgroup also. Sensitive folks could use email instead, but I don't think anyone did.
That was back in '97 or so.
Team Fortress Classic for HalfLife has Pushball, for what it's worth. Kind of a soccer with guns and grenades.
If you're going to count Ultima as FPS (my experience being limited to II and IV), it seems that Wizardry was on the same level of sophistication--but that was more of a "wander around the maze, then switch into turn-based fighting" (not that there's anything wrong with that).
Come to think of it, though, there was a coin-op a LONG time ago that was an FPS featuring an innovation that if you rotated the joystick you would turn 90 degrees.