One of the reasons this is banned in most nations is that when CRISPR snips out a chunk of DNA or cuts something in they don't fully understand the mechanism of how the cells will put it back together. There is a VERY high possibility that this will result in significant mutations and disruptions as the cells machinery tries to reassemble the CRISPR'd DNA.
These kids could end up with life ending mutations due to the CRISPR edits. It's only been in the last few months that they've found a way to better control the reassembly after CRISPR has done it's thing and nothing is certain, there is a lot of work going into this but we're a long way away from being able to reliably edit DNA in humans.
Plasma is the stuff in blood that's not red blood cells. It's basically everything else other than the oxygen bearing red cells, this includes minerals, salts, proteins, sugars and vitamins along with blood clotting factors anti-bodies and a ton of other stuff. Any blood born pathogens are in the plasma, NOT in the red blood cells themselves (you can count on one hand the number of pathogens that could be inside a red blood cell).
The plasma is also the area where things like antibodies and immune system components are contained. Usually the centrifuge that removes the red blood cells also takes the white cells out too but the risk of a allergic reaction is still high because of all the other components that are unique to the person that generated the plasma.
Apparently you are under the misguided impression that the red blood cells are the only thing in blood and that is where pathogens are. This is not the case, red blood cells have pretty much a single purpose and that's to move oxygen. Everything else is moved in the plasma surrounding the blood cells.
They invented ethernet networking, object orriented programing, WYSIWG, bitmap imaging, laser printers, etc (see the wiki link below). Had Xerox utilized all those developments they would have completely controlled the entire computer marketplace and would probably be the biggest computer company in the world right now.
It's not necessarily the timing but a life safety issue. This needs government regulation and the governments are wary as are the insurance providers. Until someone can demonstrate that they cars won't cause accidents there is likely to be a requirement to have a driver in the car as a safety measure. In addition it's highly likely that insurance providers would require the same thing.
Keep in mind the whole liability of self driving cars is NOT decided. What happens when one kills someone like the Uber in Arizona? Is it the driver's fault? The Owners? The Software provider? The Car company? The Sensor company? Absolutely none of this has been decided.
Yes it has exactly to do with Disney's ownership of Marvel. Netflix recognizes that with Disney going to attempt the streaming market that they will probably take control of the IP or refuse to renew the license at some point as they own it. You can't succeed with someone else's IP because they control the destination. Unfortunately, as I liked all the shows, Netflix could only choose to cancel.
What's ironic is that Google needs Google fiber as a check on national ISP's trying to erect tolls. They are also probably the only company in the country that could successfully overbuild if they weren't so short sighted and quick to abandon everything.
Probably because not all sewers are big enough, are you under the impression that everyone has sewers like the old brick kind in England you can walk through? Sewers in neighborhoods can be extremely small, 4 to 6 inches. You aren't sticking a cable into that because it would take up 10% of the space in the line.
The US Supreme court did no such thing, several states have though and you may be confusing your own states action with the USSC. When the USSC ruled on DUI/DWI checkpoints they placed strict restrictions for them to be legal. Such as you can't stop every car, they have to set a strict random search pattern (such as every 5th car), they have to notify drivers of the checkproint before the checkpoint so the driver can choose not to go through the checkpoint. In addition there are a bunch of other conditions for the checkpoints to be legal.
As I mentioned many of the checkpoints are blatantly illegal. Frequently stopping every driver or picking drivers based on appearance rather than randomly or providing no advance notification until you're in the trap setup. It was because of this that several states made them illegal in their jurisdictions. In some of these states the police try to get around the state restriction by claiming it's not a DUI checkpoint (a frequent tactic in California is to claim it's a public safety checkpoint about broken headlights) or even doing things like partnering with INS if they are within 100miles of the border (which 80% of the US population is).
NSL's require access to information, not assistance by the company is compromising their own hardware. I don't like NSL's either but they have very strict restrictions on their use and installing malware in someones product isn't one of them.
The proof you found is that certain three letter organizations have software that can exploit certain hardware platforms and the ability to intercept shipped hardware to install this software that exploits the commodity hardware.
There is no proof whatsoever that any of the companies participated or assisted these 3 letter groups with the software that compromises their hardware. In addition there is no law or requirement that these companies would have to render assistance. On top of that all the companies involved have publicly denied they have ever assisted these 3 letter groups. This is unlike China or Russia where these foreign service companies are required by law to assist the government including if that government wants, assisting in the deployment of spying or malware on company produced equipment.
It may be a fine difference but the point is Cisco has never publicly assisted the US government nor has any provided any proof that they have unofficially assisted the government, nor are they required by law to assist the government. Huawei on the other hand is required by Chinese law to assist the Chinese communist party in any endeavor the PRC deems necessary.
The courts placed strict restrictions on DUI/DWI checkpoints.Many states also added additional restrictions. I'd be willing to bet that a study done on compliant checkpoints would show that almost every one of these checkpoints is non-compliant with the state and court mandated rules and thus illegal.
Not only are they hazardous they are often deployed in illegal manner. When the Supreme court ruled on these checkpoints they set minimum standards and signing requirements and under no circumstance are you required to participate or assist in these checkpoints (you have an absolute right to refuse to speak the police).
The police routinely violate the standards the courts set down for legal checkpoints and will frequently arrest or harass people that point out the checkpoint is legally insufficient, not only that but they routinely arrest or otherwise violate the rights of people that refuse to participate in these checkpoints.
DUI/DWI checkpoints have a purpose, but they are just a blatant violation of peoples rights if the police aren't following the rules and procedures they are required to follow. And far too often they do.
Firearms do in general tend to result in more successful suicides where they are used, though there is intense debate about how much it affects it and whether it's statistically significant. But it has no effect on the base rate of suicides. People that are suicidal will simply use a different method, potentially something less likely to be lethal but on the other hand could endanger others such as jumping off bridges or in front of moving vehicles which can cause accidents and harm innocent people.
Firearms have nothing to do with suicide or rates. They are simply a means. Suicide is not murder and it shouldn't be included with it's counted numbers of gun crime. No western nation counts suicides in the murder statistic except certain groups in the US, Europe and other nations recognize it's not murder and count it separately.
It's entirely disingenuous to count firearm involved suicides as gun crime and doing so only damages your position on gun control. You should recognize that, because when you do it the people that know you are doing it disregard your comments as lies and exaggerations. Beyond this there is enough real gun crime that you shouldn't even need to muddle the statistics by counting suicides as gun crime.
Do you consider someone killing themselves with a gun to be "American jackoffs with guns kill over 39,000 Americans per year".
Because I'll tell you what, to the majority of Americans, Suicide doesn't count. Does any country in the world include suicides in their murder statistics like you are trying to do? After all, suicide is murder right?
The H1-B was never created to fill a temp job. You are making up what you think it should be not what it was intended for or why congress created it.
It was created to continue to draw in and keep the worlds best and brightest. The H1-B was meant to keep college graduates in the US where they would step up into green cards and then citizenship after a decade or so. America had been a brain drain on the world for decades and that trend began to decline in the 80's and 90's with a number of fields being unable to hire enough people and not enough US citizens graduating in those programs to even replace retirees in the field so Congress created the H1-B program to give an opportunity for graduating foreigners in professions with tight labor markets an opportunity to stay in the US in high paid jobs and an eventual path to citizenship.
The work and wage requirements were specifically to prevent the system being abused for temp positions, exactly what you claim you think it is for. You don't get to just make up whatever rules you think it was created for, it's a matter of congressional record and it's intent and purpose is NOT what you claim. This temp job claim would make H1-B exactly not what they were intended to be, a system to be abused by foreign companies to replace US workers with slave labor. Your very premise is absurd.
Back on topic.
Personally I think it's a foolish example of degree inflation that serves no real purpose to require Masters or PhD's. H1-B's should be available to non-graduate level degrees just like any other field but it should be restricted to fields where there is a real market issue. There are a large number of STEM fields in the US where graduation rates are not sufficient to replace the people retiring in that field every year. These professions should be given preferential H1-B treatment and a direct path to citizenship afterwards, not requiring people to spend an extra $50k and 2 years on an advanced degree they don't need and might actually over qualify them which is just as likely to get the best and brightest to leave rather than put up with the hassle.
Though this proposal might help stem the abuse of H1-B, I doubt it will be effective. You could stop much of the abuse simply by enforcing the laws already on the books. Most of the companies abusing the H1-B system are doing so in ways that are transparently illegal and would be easy to verify with any type of enforcement system. The problem with the H1-B system is that there is no enforcement system. There is literally no risk to the companies abusing this because without enforcement there is zero risk of being caught. Enforce the laws we've already got on the books and you could stop H1-B abuse in less than half a year. Audit the companies, find the ones abusing them and bar them from hiring H1-B's.
You're correct that both parties will fight ranked choice. But Maine voters showed it's possible to over-ride the current politicians with the power of electorate. If more people in other states do the same thing we can have a real effect on this country. Electorate based initiatives have real power to change things.
The Utah electorate, against the wishes of the dominant faith's leaders. this November just voted a medical cannabis law into effect after the legislature reneged on a deal to create a legal medical cannabis market. This was a very powerful act by the electorate in overriding both the legislature and dominant religion (which a majority of the electorate is a member of) in one swoop. Don't underestimate the power of voter driven initiatives.
Not all of it was subsidies. The state purchased the ground (I believe they used eminent domain to do so) and gave the land to foxconn free of charge.
That's several million dollars in free money (tax payer supplied) right there. For the GOP to claim this was free market in any fashion is deluded. This was crony capitalism at it's highest point. No doubt all the politicians involved in this scam got their kickbacks.
It's not just that lawyers are scum of the earth. It's the US has graduated far too many lawyers over the last 2 decades than are needed. The less ethical of these surplus lawyers are suing people for anything they can come up so they can get paid. In essence they abuse the legal system to obtain financial reward for themselves.
There is nothing unique about this, there are people like this with low moral character in almost every profession. The problem is the court system isn't setup to deal with this and the judges that rule on these cases are also lawyers and generally sympathetic to the lawyers. The licensing boards are also complicit in being not nearly active enough in imposing harsh measures against these lawyers, such as revoking their right to practice.
It's something that wont' fix itself and will require legislative action to correct it. Unfortunately the rules needed to fix this would also cause harm to poor people challenging rich and powerful people and corporations. There are no good fixes for people that abuse the rules that seek to make the system fair as any rule to prevent people like this lawyer from abusing the process will also be able to be abused by rich clients to block suits by the poor.
Nobody challenged it because they new if they proceeded all they would get in the end is another pardon. But the president can't actually pardon someone until they are convicted of something and accepting a pardon is admission of guilt. You'll note Nixon never accepted the pardon officially, because he didn't have a valid pardon.
Trump could try the same thing sure, but if he loses in 2020 the prosecutors could turn around and recharge while challenging the pardon.
Trump isn't going to pardon him just like he's not going to Pardon Manafort. He'll use the excuse the crimes were unrelated to him just like he did with Cohen. Trump isn't loyal, he never has been, it's why it's so Ironic that he demands it. He'll gladly throw anyone to the wolves to save himself.
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One of the reasons this is banned in most nations is that when CRISPR snips out a chunk of DNA or cuts something in they don't fully understand the mechanism of how the cells will put it back together. There is a VERY high possibility that this will result in significant mutations and disruptions as the cells machinery tries to reassemble the CRISPR'd DNA.
These kids could end up with life ending mutations due to the CRISPR edits. It's only been in the last few months that they've found a way to better control the reassembly after CRISPR has done it's thing and nothing is certain, there is a lot of work going into this but we're a long way away from being able to reliably edit DNA in humans.
Plasma is the stuff in blood that's not red blood cells. It's basically everything else other than the oxygen bearing red cells, this includes minerals, salts, proteins, sugars and vitamins along with blood clotting factors anti-bodies and a ton of other stuff. Any blood born pathogens are in the plasma, NOT in the red blood cells themselves (you can count on one hand the number of pathogens that could be inside a red blood cell).
The plasma is also the area where things like antibodies and immune system components are contained. Usually the centrifuge that removes the red blood cells also takes the white cells out too but the risk of a allergic reaction is still high because of all the other components that are unique to the person that generated the plasma.
Apparently you are under the misguided impression that the red blood cells are the only thing in blood and that is where pathogens are. This is not the case, red blood cells have pretty much a single purpose and that's to move oxygen. Everything else is moved in the plasma surrounding the blood cells.
Far more came out of PARC than just the GUI.
They invented ethernet networking, object orriented programing, WYSIWG, bitmap imaging, laser printers, etc (see the wiki link below). Had Xerox utilized all those developments they would have completely controlled the entire computer marketplace and would probably be the biggest computer company in the world right now.
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It's not necessarily the timing but a life safety issue. This needs government regulation and the governments are wary as are the insurance providers. Until someone can demonstrate that they cars won't cause accidents there is likely to be a requirement to have a driver in the car as a safety measure. In addition it's highly likely that insurance providers would require the same thing.
Keep in mind the whole liability of self driving cars is NOT decided. What happens when one kills someone like the Uber in Arizona? Is it the driver's fault? The Owners? The Software provider? The Car company? The Sensor company? Absolutely none of this has been decided.
Yes it has exactly to do with Disney's ownership of Marvel. Netflix recognizes that with Disney going to attempt the streaming market that they will probably take control of the IP or refuse to renew the license at some point as they own it. You can't succeed with someone else's IP because they control the destination. Unfortunately, as I liked all the shows, Netflix could only choose to cancel.
The Salton sea is manmade, it was created by a canal failure. It shouldn't even exist.
The funny part is that ANY transfer of bitcoin is going to cost you 8%. That's the standard fee for any transaction.
What's ironic is that Google needs Google fiber as a check on national ISP's trying to erect tolls. They are also probably the only company in the country that could successfully overbuild if they weren't so short sighted and quick to abandon everything.
Probably because not all sewers are big enough, are you under the impression that everyone has sewers like the old brick kind in England you can walk through? Sewers in neighborhoods can be extremely small, 4 to 6 inches. You aren't sticking a cable into that because it would take up 10% of the space in the line.
The US Supreme court did no such thing, several states have though and you may be confusing your own states action with the USSC. When the USSC ruled on DUI/DWI checkpoints they placed strict restrictions for them to be legal. Such as you can't stop every car, they have to set a strict random search pattern (such as every 5th car), they have to notify drivers of the checkproint before the checkpoint so the driver can choose not to go through the checkpoint. In addition there are a bunch of other conditions for the checkpoints to be legal.
As I mentioned many of the checkpoints are blatantly illegal. Frequently stopping every driver or picking drivers based on appearance rather than randomly or providing no advance notification until you're in the trap setup. It was because of this that several states made them illegal in their jurisdictions. In some of these states the police try to get around the state restriction by claiming it's not a DUI checkpoint (a frequent tactic in California is to claim it's a public safety checkpoint about broken headlights) or even doing things like partnering with INS if they are within 100miles of the border (which 80% of the US population is).
NSL's require access to information, not assistance by the company is compromising their own hardware. I don't like NSL's either but they have very strict restrictions on their use and installing malware in someones product isn't one of them.
The proof you found is that certain three letter organizations have software that can exploit certain hardware platforms and the ability to intercept shipped hardware to install this software that exploits the commodity hardware.
There is no proof whatsoever that any of the companies participated or assisted these 3 letter groups with the software that compromises their hardware. In addition there is no law or requirement that these companies would have to render assistance. On top of that all the companies involved have publicly denied they have ever assisted these 3 letter groups. This is unlike China or Russia where these foreign service companies are required by law to assist the government including if that government wants, assisting in the deployment of spying or malware on company produced equipment.
It may be a fine difference but the point is Cisco has never publicly assisted the US government nor has any provided any proof that they have unofficially assisted the government, nor are they required by law to assist the government. Huawei on the other hand is required by Chinese law to assist the Chinese communist party in any endeavor the PRC deems necessary.
The courts placed strict restrictions on DUI/DWI checkpoints.Many states also added additional restrictions. I'd be willing to bet that a study done on compliant checkpoints would show that almost every one of these checkpoints is non-compliant with the state and court mandated rules and thus illegal.
What Waze is doing is clearly and unequivocally free speech.
Google should refuse to comply for this very reason and notify NYPD that such requests are illegal under the first amendment.
Not only are they hazardous they are often deployed in illegal manner. When the Supreme court ruled on these checkpoints they set minimum standards and signing requirements and under no circumstance are you required to participate or assist in these checkpoints (you have an absolute right to refuse to speak the police).
The police routinely violate the standards the courts set down for legal checkpoints and will frequently arrest or harass people that point out the checkpoint is legally insufficient, not only that but they routinely arrest or otherwise violate the rights of people that refuse to participate in these checkpoints.
DUI/DWI checkpoints have a purpose, but they are just a blatant violation of peoples rights if the police aren't following the rules and procedures they are required to follow. And far too often they do.
The rates of suicide do not go way up.
Firearms do in general tend to result in more successful suicides where they are used, though there is intense debate about how much it affects it and whether it's statistically significant. But it has no effect on the base rate of suicides. People that are suicidal will simply use a different method, potentially something less likely to be lethal but on the other hand could endanger others such as jumping off bridges or in front of moving vehicles which can cause accidents and harm innocent people.
Firearms have nothing to do with suicide or rates. They are simply a means. Suicide is not murder and it shouldn't be included with it's counted numbers of gun crime. No western nation counts suicides in the murder statistic except certain groups in the US, Europe and other nations recognize it's not murder and count it separately.
It's entirely disingenuous to count firearm involved suicides as gun crime and doing so only damages your position on gun control. You should recognize that, because when you do it the people that know you are doing it disregard your comments as lies and exaggerations. Beyond this there is enough real gun crime that you shouldn't even need to muddle the statistics by counting suicides as gun crime.
Do you consider someone killing themselves with a gun to be "American jackoffs with guns kill over 39,000 Americans per year".
Because I'll tell you what, to the majority of Americans, Suicide doesn't count. Does any country in the world include suicides in their murder statistics like you are trying to do? After all, suicide is murder right?
The H1-B was never created to fill a temp job. You are making up what you think it should be not what it was intended for or why congress created it.
It was created to continue to draw in and keep the worlds best and brightest. The H1-B was meant to keep college graduates in the US where they would step up into green cards and then citizenship after a decade or so. America had been a brain drain on the world for decades and that trend began to decline in the 80's and 90's with a number of fields being unable to hire enough people and not enough US citizens graduating in those programs to even replace retirees in the field so Congress created the H1-B program to give an opportunity for graduating foreigners in professions with tight labor markets an opportunity to stay in the US in high paid jobs and an eventual path to citizenship.
The work and wage requirements were specifically to prevent the system being abused for temp positions, exactly what you claim you think it is for. You don't get to just make up whatever rules you think it was created for, it's a matter of congressional record and it's intent and purpose is NOT what you claim. This temp job claim would make H1-B exactly not what they were intended to be, a system to be abused by foreign companies to replace US workers with slave labor. Your very premise is absurd.
Back on topic.
Personally I think it's a foolish example of degree inflation that serves no real purpose to require Masters or PhD's. H1-B's should be available to non-graduate level degrees just like any other field but it should be restricted to fields where there is a real market issue. There are a large number of STEM fields in the US where graduation rates are not sufficient to replace the people retiring in that field every year. These professions should be given preferential H1-B treatment and a direct path to citizenship afterwards, not requiring people to spend an extra $50k and 2 years on an advanced degree they don't need and might actually over qualify them which is just as likely to get the best and brightest to leave rather than put up with the hassle.
Though this proposal might help stem the abuse of H1-B, I doubt it will be effective. You could stop much of the abuse simply by enforcing the laws already on the books. Most of the companies abusing the H1-B system are doing so in ways that are transparently illegal and would be easy to verify with any type of enforcement system. The problem with the H1-B system is that there is no enforcement system. There is literally no risk to the companies abusing this because without enforcement there is zero risk of being caught. Enforce the laws we've already got on the books and you could stop H1-B abuse in less than half a year. Audit the companies, find the ones abusing them and bar them from hiring H1-B's.
Your assumption that NK and it's leaders are rational actors could be misplaced.
MAD only works if both sides act rationally.
You're correct that both parties will fight ranked choice. But Maine voters showed it's possible to over-ride the current politicians with the power of electorate. If more people in other states do the same thing we can have a real effect on this country. Electorate based initiatives have real power to change things.
The Utah electorate, against the wishes of the dominant faith's leaders. this November just voted a medical cannabis law into effect after the legislature reneged on a deal to create a legal medical cannabis market. This was a very powerful act by the electorate in overriding both the legislature and dominant religion (which a majority of the electorate is a member of) in one swoop. Don't underestimate the power of voter driven initiatives.
Averages are funny things, they are fairly easy to skew by simply paying a couple people really huge salaries.
It's the reason the agreement didn't use the word MEDIAN salary instead of average. But Scotty Walker knew that when he signed the agreement.
Not all of it was subsidies. The state purchased the ground (I believe they used eminent domain to do so) and gave the land to foxconn free of charge.
That's several million dollars in free money (tax payer supplied) right there. For the GOP to claim this was free market in any fashion is deluded. This was crony capitalism at it's highest point. No doubt all the politicians involved in this scam got their kickbacks.
It's not just that lawyers are scum of the earth. It's the US has graduated far too many lawyers over the last 2 decades than are needed. The less ethical of these surplus lawyers are suing people for anything they can come up so they can get paid. In essence they abuse the legal system to obtain financial reward for themselves.
There is nothing unique about this, there are people like this with low moral character in almost every profession. The problem is the court system isn't setup to deal with this and the judges that rule on these cases are also lawyers and generally sympathetic to the lawyers. The licensing boards are also complicit in being not nearly active enough in imposing harsh measures against these lawyers, such as revoking their right to practice.
It's something that wont' fix itself and will require legislative action to correct it. Unfortunately the rules needed to fix this would also cause harm to poor people challenging rich and powerful people and corporations. There are no good fixes for people that abuse the rules that seek to make the system fair as any rule to prevent people like this lawyer from abusing the process will also be able to be abused by rich clients to block suits by the poor.
Nobody challenged it because they new if they proceeded all they would get in the end is another pardon. But the president can't actually pardon someone until they are convicted of something and accepting a pardon is admission of guilt. You'll note Nixon never accepted the pardon officially, because he didn't have a valid pardon.
Trump could try the same thing sure, but if he loses in 2020 the prosecutors could turn around and recharge while challenging the pardon.
Trump isn't going to pardon him just like he's not going to Pardon Manafort. He'll use the excuse the crimes were unrelated to him just like he did with Cohen. Trump isn't loyal, he never has been, it's why it's so Ironic that he demands it. He'll gladly throw anyone to the wolves to save himself.