Many plants are naturally becoming tolerant of round-up even before monsanto developed the RR crops. It naturally happens to all herbicides over time (by weeds, not by crops, which are harvested, and not intentionally exposed to herbicides that would kill them.) Presumably this is how RR crops were developed, we are not good enough to encode the DNA of a pesticide into a plant, we pretty much have to find a strain that shows the traits we want and compare the dna to those that don't, then introduce that change to the crops dna.
He didn't even know that cop killer bullets and hollow points are polar opposites. Hollow points mushroom on contact and thus wont go through windshields, metal, or bullet proof vests. the Cop killer ammo is a full metal jacketed ammo that doesn't mushroom, and thus can penetrate those. Although never confirmed, I am sure the reason the congresswoman lived, was because the shooter was probably using the "cop killer" ammo, definitely not hollow points that would have made a much bigger mess.
That is annoying, forcing me to change my password at the end of the month from H@cker1 to H@cker2 to H@cker3, and H@cker4 before I can go back to the password I like, but they IT work preventers at my work are really good, so when I am working on the road for 2 weeks, they make sure I can't change my login password without being on the intra-net, and once I am 2 days passed the expire date, the prevent me from launching VPN, joining web meetings... So then I have to use gmail to email a co-worker my passwords so he can change them for me on connected laptop first. Lots of fun.
sure things scale, but so do the problems. A good lesson were the early computers, like ENIAC, they took 17,000 tubes that individually have life of years, when added together even with redundancy the computer would fail every couple days. Also since all of the solar options are more resource intensive than nuclear plants per watt, your going to need to open up a lot more mining operations... They will also be competing with existing manufacturing, impacting a lot more than just the cost of electric. Not saying that we can't do renewable as well, but we still need to be increasing nuclear power. Since world wide power from coal is around 50% of the electric production, with demand growing, their is no way renewable can be realistically implemented to replace nuclear and coal within 20 years, without a major cost impact (as well as a large negative shot term environmental impact, if not done on a more realistic time frame.)
> . If Apple's value had gone down, he'd have made $1/year That would be nice, but not how options generally work for CEO's, they are generally written below the stock price at issue, and then they are usually re-priced to still pay off if the stock price goes down. By paying in this way, as long as you only exercise the options over a year old, then most of the risk free gains will then be at capital gains rates...
I think vacating banks, and thus stripping them of power has potential as a much more powerful voice than you give credit for. We only get the chance every couple years to vote out, and even then we don't get a clear message sent from that. But if we can send the message first to the banks, you went to far and there are consequences. If that works, every group gets the message, and if they don't and we actually do organize again, and educate them, we start to take back our voice. IE when the government isn't the only one with power, they have to treat the majority better.
Looks like the effectiveness article you linked was pretty well shot down in the comments in that article, it is clear cut that the vaccine is very effective in preventing HPV, and that HPV is very clearly the major cause of the worst cervical cancer cases. As far as mandatory, that is where the big pay-off comes, if you got a significant % vaccinated now, you would wipe out HPV for decades and thus minimizing the total number of people getting the vaccine over the long run. This being vastly cheaper, and more effective than just having the well off people getting vaccinated forever.
Yet it cost $.05 / kwhr to generate electric from natural gas, yet the average cost of electric in the USA is now closer to $.15/kwhr. So cost efficiency of delivering electric appears to be less than 30% efficient. While gasoline delivery from much further away is more like 75% efficient (where I live YRMV) Actually this kills the efficiency claims of Tesla as well, they claim $.02 per mile, but that is the $.05/kwhr cost of electric. Use the more realistic $.15 and there 120 MPG equivilent MPG of $4 fuel becomes a 40 MPG eqivilent, not so impressive.
Read up on "money multiplier" basically when you have 100 pounds of gold deposited into a bank, they loan it out. Eventually gets deposited again... repeat 100* With only that 100 pounds you end up with 10000 pounds deposited in the bank, and with interest 10500 owed to the bank. The only way to then recover then is a bunch of defaults,or a increased supply of gold is found. Strong government enforcement of fractional reserve system is much more important under a gold economy, not less.
I agree with you for the most part, but by debate and logic he does more of a presidential debate where we each repeat our position. Not a debate where we lay out the facts and choose a results based direction. He is definitely a expert at defending his positions, and boiling everything down to a very simple platform that leaves the other side with no response. Honest intellectual arguments will not win in a presidential type debate like he is willing to engage. Examples of his logic debates are seen in his evolution arguments, basically he says evolution is only a theory with weak evidence, as far as he knows, but that doesn't matter because he doesn't need to know about evolution and government shouldn't be involved in science. Try to debate on evolution alone his answer is yep, I have no idea I don't care doesn't matter. Similar with the gold standard his position is a complete joke because paper money is such a small potion of our economy and shrinking, replace with gold, or make it gold backed makes no difference when everything is going electronic, and money multipliers, you will get nothing but boiling back to mismanagement, and take the fed out... Try to talk facts of money multipliers, and reserve requirements... you will get blank response only bashing on legitimate problems that sound like they would be solved by a gold standard, but mostly un-related. I could go on...
They may not be the same rehearsed Republican/Democratic lines, but all I have ever heard from him is well rehearsed lines. Everything I have heard from him is very black and white, and is completely closed to any compromise, argument, logic or additional information. He already knows all he needs to know and is proud of it. If you like the current republican gridlock where nothing gets done, because no one is willing to compromise, then choose Ron Paul for prez, he will not compromise and being out of line with the other parties, nothing will get changed.
>full distribution of Android, with the market, on it in the first damned place? Google charges for that, and keeps some design control on specifications for those who they allow. I am sure B&N would have been required to put GPS and a microphone into the device as well, to be allowed a full google license. The payoff for licensing android from google is full access to navigation, and voice IMHO but then you need mobile internet... All of that now pushes them into the IPAD cost. For those that want, B&N was nice to give a memory card, download CM7 to the card and it is all available with ease (share GPS, internet from your smart phone if you have one...) But then B&N doesn't have to support or pay.
keep in mind, the survival rate for Cevical cancer is something like 92%. So fate nearly as bad as death is more like 40 per 100k. But to achieve that every woman over 40 without the vaccination has to go through several invasive doctor screenings to get treatment in time. If we man up now, and wipe out HPV, for every person who gets the shot now, you should save a hundreds from having to worry about it ever. So vaccinate all now you may get a few hundred deaths. You will save a few hundred deaths per year, and save a thousand almost as bad as deaths per year. And a few million tests to prevent the above per year.
I guess it depends on what you call better. Autonomous with faster lap times than a professional drivers, absolutely not even close currently. Can a computer assist improve breaking, yes. improve acceleration, or a corner, yes. Can a computer system be put into a car that is autonomous, weighs under 180 pounds with all sensors... and be competitive in a race, nope. It has been tried, and not even on a closed track can it beat the best (some times they beat a average driver, but not much more.)
Thats what gets me, you pay for insurance to cover the cost of a accident, correct? If part of the cost of the accident is that insurance cost goes up, then that should be covered by your insurance, otherwise your just paying for the right to finance your next accident. I guess that is why I only have the state minimum liability. I understand the insurance companies do claim someone who has had a accident is more likely to have another accident. But if the accident was within the probability of your current risk assessment, then they shouldn't be allowed to place you into a higher risk category IMHO.
half its value compared to the USD. If you wanted to buy some acid from Silk Road tomorrow that costs 50 bitcoins last weak, and costs 50 bitcoins tomorrow, and all you had was USD, you would be pissed at the loss of value of the US currency if bitcoins go from $2 to $3 tomorrow. It all depends on what you want to buy, and what they are willing to accept as payment. Since silk road doesn't take Paypal...
FYI, Racism is the belief that another race is inferior, to another. 1) Muslim isn't a race 2) Fearful that someone could be succeeded at a difficult task is not indicating a belief of inferiority (at least not in my book.)
We were all told by the Al Quida, that it is a muslims job to kill Americans, most understand that listing to Al Quida is a mistake, and you can call Juan stupid for listing to them, but the Al Quida are the ones to blame the most.
As a counter example, Do you believe if a black man was scared of 2 white people wearing KKK uniforms that the black guy is thus a racist? He believes what he has been told that people wearing those outfits want to hurt black people, and is thus afraid of them. The people wearing the outfits may have another belief causing them to wear the outfit, or the may indeed hate black people. But it isn't the black man's racism causing the fear, it is the reputation of the KKK.
So I am curious, how do we know they did not just measure the speed of the earth? Ie if a obsticle traveling.75 C is headed directly towards 2 observers also traveling at.75 C towards it. Those 2 observers could be a constant distance apart, and observe the time the obsticle passed each observer, divide by distance between observers and record a speed of 1.5C. With no other frame of reference, the observers will assume they were stationary, and the particle was going that fast. Until you can shot particles faster than light from point A to point B and from point B to A at the same time, I don't see the proof.
The 3rd generation rx7 beats same year Corvettes in Autocrosses with ease, that's the car being talked about as a sports car, not the much much cheaper 80's model you drove.
>Long before we run out oil will simply get too expensive to burn in cars.
Sure, but almost every new car currently being sold in the US can burn either E85, or Bio-Diesel, neither require Oil. E85's link to ethanol may make it sound bad, but you can make your own from rotting corn, and yeast you can but at any homebrew store, just smash, mix with water, wait a week, then add heat to distill (Illegal in the US without a revenuer permit.) Make sure it isn't mixed with gasoline, and your good. Hybrid still makes sense, I am not sure if a pure EV is even close to making sense for the majority in the US.
>own a car that hasn't needed significant repair in 12 years?
Very believable. I have a 98 chevy Cavalier 5spd with 180,000 miles. Added up the maintenance (not including tires, windshield wipers, AC compressor, paint job) that would be common with electric. I came up with $1460 in lifetime maint, add in the 9000 gallons of fuel, and purchase price new of $8900 I am under $36,000 lifetime cost. (maint items inc: 60 oil changes, 4 spark plug changes, key switch replacement, 2 fuel filters, Antifreeeze flush, 3 brake changes, 1 pair CV joint replacements.) I am over due for timing chain, and transmission oil change, but still...
A lawyer can't represent for a client in small claims, since a out of state company isn't going to send a CEO to court. Thus the only possibilies in this case is a default judgement on a company/person that can't be found to pay up. Or a instate lawyer who takes it to civil court, since that is his only option to defend the client.
right, but then they file a counter suit (almost guaranteed) greater than $2500 and it is then (at least in AZ, KY, probably most states) escalated to civil court. At this point the loser often pays both lawyers fees, pushing the need for your own lawyer higher...
If they have accounts on your local machine, especially if it is a laptop, then just send a note to IT, why do I have a user "jimjones" with password "jimj0nes" with access to my laptop... I basically did this to my IT dept a few years back. They pushed out a update that installed VNC in a hidden mode on all PC's. When I found it on my PC, I cracked the password (very week rot-13 type of storage mechanism) emailed one of them a message, "why is vnc installed on my machine with password "hex0515." They realized I could also access every machine in the company, and removed the vnc client the next day on all of them. I gave no threats, no mention of other repercussions, just a note wondering, has my machine been hacked, and should I be worried (but we both new better)...
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Many plants are naturally becoming tolerant of round-up even before monsanto developed the RR crops. It naturally happens to all herbicides over time (by weeds, not by crops, which are harvested, and not intentionally exposed to herbicides that would kill them.) Presumably this is how RR crops were developed, we are not good enough to encode the DNA of a pesticide into a plant, we pretty much have to find a strain that shows the traits we want and compare the dna to those that don't, then introduce that change to the crops dna.
He didn't even know that cop killer bullets and hollow points are polar opposites. Hollow points mushroom on contact and thus wont go through windshields, metal, or bullet proof vests. the Cop killer ammo is a full metal jacketed ammo that doesn't mushroom, and thus can penetrate those. Although never confirmed, I am sure the reason the congresswoman lived, was because the shooter was probably using the "cop killer" ammo, definitely not hollow points that would have made a much bigger mess.
That is annoying, forcing me to change my password at the end of the month from H@cker1 to H@cker2 to H@cker3, and H@cker4 before I can go back to the password I like, but they IT work preventers at my work are really good, so when I am working on the road for 2 weeks, they make sure I can't change my login password without being on the intra-net, and once I am 2 days passed the expire date, the prevent me from launching VPN, joining web meetings... So then I have to use gmail to email a co-worker my passwords so he can change them for me on connected laptop first. Lots of fun.
sure things scale, but so do the problems. A good lesson were the early computers, like ENIAC, they took 17,000 tubes that individually have life of years, when added together even with redundancy the computer would fail every couple days. Also since all of the solar options are more resource intensive than nuclear plants per watt, your going to need to open up a lot more mining operations... They will also be competing with existing manufacturing, impacting a lot more than just the cost of electric.
Not saying that we can't do renewable as well, but we still need to be increasing nuclear power. Since world wide power from coal is around 50% of the electric production, with demand growing, their is no way renewable can be realistically implemented to replace nuclear and coal within 20 years, without a major cost impact (as well as a large negative shot term environmental impact, if not done on a more realistic time frame.)
> . If Apple's value had gone down, he'd have made $1/year
That would be nice, but not how options generally work for CEO's, they are generally written below the stock price at issue, and then they are usually re-priced to still pay off if the stock price goes down. By paying in this way, as long as you only exercise the options over a year old, then most of the risk free gains will then be at capital gains rates...
I think vacating banks, and thus stripping them of power has potential as a much more powerful voice than you give credit for. We only get the chance every couple years to vote out, and even then we don't get a clear message sent from that. But if we can send the message first to the banks, you went to far and there are consequences. If that works, every group gets the message, and if they don't and we actually do organize again, and educate them, we start to take back our voice. IE when the government isn't the only one with power, they have to treat the majority better.
Looks like the effectiveness article you linked was pretty well shot down in the comments in that article, it is clear cut that the vaccine is very effective in preventing HPV, and that HPV is very clearly the major cause of the worst cervical cancer cases.
As far as mandatory, that is where the big pay-off comes, if you got a significant % vaccinated now, you would wipe out HPV for decades and thus minimizing the total number of people getting the vaccine over the long run. This being vastly cheaper, and more effective than just having the well off people getting vaccinated forever.
Yet it cost $.05 / kwhr to generate electric from natural gas, yet the average cost of electric in the USA is now closer to $.15 /kwhr. So cost efficiency of delivering electric appears to be less than 30% efficient. While gasoline delivery from much further away is more like 75% efficient (where I live YRMV) /kwhr cost of electric. Use the more realistic $.15 and there 120 MPG equivilent MPG of $4 fuel becomes a 40 MPG eqivilent, not so impressive.
Actually this kills the efficiency claims of Tesla as well, they claim $.02 per mile, but that is the $.05
Read up on "money multiplier" basically when you have 100 pounds of gold deposited into a bank, they loan it out. Eventually gets deposited again... repeat 100* With only that 100 pounds you end up with 10000 pounds deposited in the bank, and with interest 10500 owed to the bank. The only way to then recover then is a bunch of defaults,or a increased supply of gold is found. Strong government enforcement of fractional reserve system is much more important under a gold economy, not less.
I agree with you for the most part, but by debate and logic he does more of a presidential debate where we each repeat our position. Not a debate where we lay out the facts and choose a results based direction. He is definitely a expert at defending his positions, and boiling everything down to a very simple platform that leaves the other side with no response. Honest intellectual arguments will not win in a presidential type debate like he is willing to engage. Examples of his logic debates are seen in his evolution arguments, basically he says evolution is only a theory with weak evidence, as far as he knows, but that doesn't matter because he doesn't need to know about evolution and government shouldn't be involved in science. Try to debate on evolution alone his answer is yep, I have no idea I don't care doesn't matter. Similar with the gold standard his position is a complete joke because paper money is such a small potion of our economy and shrinking, replace with gold, or make it gold backed makes no difference when everything is going electronic, and money multipliers, you will get nothing but boiling back to mismanagement, and take the fed out... Try to talk facts of money multipliers, and reserve requirements... you will get blank response only bashing on legitimate problems that sound like they would be solved by a gold standard, but mostly un-related.
I could go on...
They may not be the same rehearsed Republican/Democratic lines, but all I have ever heard from him is well rehearsed lines. Everything I have heard from him is very black and white, and is completely closed to any compromise, argument, logic or additional information. He already knows all he needs to know and is proud of it. If you like the current republican gridlock where nothing gets done, because no one is willing to compromise, then choose Ron Paul for prez, he will not compromise and being out of line with the other parties, nothing will get changed.
>full distribution of Android, with the market, on it in the first damned place?
Google charges for that, and keeps some design control on specifications for those who they allow. I am sure B&N would have been required to put GPS and a microphone into the device as well, to be allowed a full google license. The payoff for licensing android from google is full access to navigation, and voice IMHO but then you need mobile internet... All of that now pushes them into the IPAD cost. For those that want, B&N was nice to give a memory card, download CM7 to the card and it is all available with ease (share GPS, internet from your smart phone if you have one...) But then B&N doesn't have to support or pay.
keep in mind, the survival rate for Cevical cancer is something like 92%. So fate nearly as bad as death is more like 40 per 100k. But to achieve that every woman over 40 without the vaccination has to go through several invasive doctor screenings to get treatment in time.
If we man up now, and wipe out HPV, for every person who gets the shot now, you should save a hundreds from having to worry about it ever. So vaccinate all now you may get a few hundred deaths. You will save a few hundred deaths per year, and save a thousand almost as bad as deaths per year. And a few million tests to prevent the above per year.
I guess it depends on what you call better. Autonomous with faster lap times than a professional drivers, absolutely not even close currently. Can a computer assist improve breaking, yes. improve acceleration, or a corner, yes. Can a computer system be put into a car that is autonomous, weighs under 180 pounds with all sensors... and be competitive in a race, nope. It has been tried, and not even on a closed track can it beat the best (some times they beat a average driver, but not much more.)
Thats what gets me, you pay for insurance to cover the cost of a accident, correct? If part of the cost of the accident is that insurance cost goes up, then that should be covered by your insurance, otherwise your just paying for the right to finance your next accident. I guess that is why I only have the state minimum liability.
I understand the insurance companies do claim someone who has had a accident is more likely to have another accident. But if the accident was within the probability of your current risk assessment, then they shouldn't be allowed to place you into a higher risk category IMHO.
half its value compared to the USD. If you wanted to buy some acid from Silk Road tomorrow that costs 50 bitcoins last weak, and costs 50 bitcoins tomorrow, and all you had was USD, you would be pissed at the loss of value of the US currency if bitcoins go from $2 to $3 tomorrow. It all depends on what you want to buy, and what they are willing to accept as payment. Since silk road doesn't take Paypal...
Which has nothing to do with the statement by Juan, he never said he was afraid of all Muslims.
FYI, Racism is the belief that another race is inferior, to another.
1) Muslim isn't a race
2) Fearful that someone could be succeeded at a difficult task is not indicating a belief of inferiority (at least not in my book.)
We were all told by the Al Quida, that it is a muslims job to kill Americans, most understand that listing to Al Quida is a mistake, and you can call Juan stupid for listing to them, but the Al Quida are the ones to blame the most.
As a counter example, Do you believe if a black man was scared of 2 white people wearing KKK uniforms that the black guy is thus a racist? He believes what he has been told that people wearing those outfits want to hurt black people, and is thus afraid of them. The people wearing the outfits may have another belief causing them to wear the outfit, or the may indeed hate black people. But it isn't the black man's racism causing the fear, it is the reputation of the KKK.
So I am curious, how do we know they did not just measure the speed of the earth? Ie if a obsticle traveling .75 C is headed directly towards 2 observers also traveling at .75 C towards it. Those 2 observers could be a constant distance apart, and observe the time the obsticle passed each observer, divide by distance between observers and record a speed of 1.5C. With no other frame of reference, the observers will assume they were stationary, and the particle was going that fast. Until you can shot particles faster than light from point A to point B and from point B to A at the same time, I don't see the proof.
The 3rd generation rx7 beats same year Corvettes in Autocrosses with ease, that's the car being talked about as a sports car, not the much much cheaper 80's model you drove.
>Long before we run out oil will simply get too expensive to burn in cars.
Sure, but almost every new car currently being sold in the US can burn either E85, or Bio-Diesel, neither require Oil. E85's link to ethanol may make it sound bad, but you can make your own from rotting corn, and yeast you can but at any homebrew store, just smash, mix with water, wait a week, then add heat to distill (Illegal in the US without a revenuer permit.) Make sure it isn't mixed with gasoline, and your good.
Hybrid still makes sense, I am not sure if a pure EV is even close to making sense for the majority in the US.
>own a car that hasn't needed significant repair in 12 years?
Very believable. I have a 98 chevy Cavalier 5spd with 180,000 miles. Added up the maintenance (not including tires, windshield wipers, AC compressor, paint job) that would be common with electric. I came up with $1460 in lifetime maint, add in the 9000 gallons of fuel, and purchase price new of $8900 I am under $36,000 lifetime cost. (maint items inc: 60 oil changes, 4 spark plug changes, key switch replacement, 2 fuel filters, Antifreeeze flush, 3 brake changes, 1 pair CV joint replacements.) I am over due for timing chain, and transmission oil change, but still...
A lawyer can't represent for a client in small claims, since a out of state company isn't going to send a CEO to court. Thus the only possibilies in this case is a default judgement on a company/person that can't be found to pay up. Or a instate lawyer who takes it to civil court, since that is his only option to defend the client.
right, but then they file a counter suit (almost guaranteed) greater than $2500 and it is then (at least in AZ, KY, probably most states) escalated to civil court. At this point the loser often pays both lawyers fees, pushing the need for your own lawyer higher...
If they have accounts on your local machine, especially if it is a laptop, then just send a note to IT, why do I have a user "jimjones" with password "jimj0nes" with access to my laptop... I basically did this to my IT dept a few years back. They pushed out a update that installed VNC in a hidden mode on all PC's. When I found it on my PC, I cracked the password (very week rot-13 type of storage mechanism) emailed one of them a message, "why is vnc installed on my machine with password "hex0515." They realized I could also access every machine in the company, and removed the vnc client the next day on all of them. I gave no threats, no mention of other repercussions, just a note wondering, has my machine been hacked, and should I be worried (but we both new better)...