It doens't really matter that they managed to get it through. I can't imagine someone else making a perpetual motion machine, trying to sell it, and then these guys going to court to get an injunction or seek royalties. And if it did happen, it would be great fodder for the comics.
On one level no, gene flow and hybridisation are as old as plants themselves. Short of creating sterile male plants, it's simply impossible to stop crops releasing pollen to fertilise related neighbours. But government scientists had thought that GM oilseed rape and charlock were too distantly related for it to occur.
The dangers of hybridisation where it does happen are well documented - experts from the Dorset centre behind the latest research published a high-profile paper in 2003 in the US journal Science showing widespread gene flow from non-GM oilseed rape to wild flowers.
The GM crop was modified to have resistance to herbicide. That trait was likely transferred to a weed via cross-pollination. It is of course, impossible to "prove" exactly that this is what happened, just as you cannot "prove" that gravity exists. But if something happens often enough, we know that something is up.
BTW, your symptoms will clear up in a couple of months if you stop watching Fox News.
The link between science and military goes back to the dawn of science.
Galileo based his design for a telescope on that of a military field glass (used for seeing enemies from afar). He used it to study the motion of the stars, the first one to do so, and helped to usher in the age of enlightenment.
The article is just silly fluff. The "inventor" doesn't matter all that much to the USPTO. They focus on validity of claims, etc.. One thing they do keep good track of, and for good reason, is who is the assignee or "owner" of each issued patent.
A UH-Haul I drove from Pennsylvania to Tennessee had one of these. If the speed got over 65, the pedal would shove my back against my foot to "un-press" the pedal.
Not only was it an extremely tiring drive, but it would also require me to actively push back again on the pedal once it quit fighting me. Otherwise, I'd putt along at 45 until I realized it...
Great, another case of "here is your $15 settlement payment and one free month of service, while we collect our $5 million lawyer fee from the defendent."
You forgot "and the offending sites will stop the fraudulent practices." Which is the real point of the exercise.
And, as Dave Barry pointed out a week or so ago: You can't use the songs you purchase from Sprint(TM) as ringtones. Those you must purchase separately, for about $2.50. Yes, you can buy the same song twice for a single device!!! Nuts.
A whole lot of people spend around 4 to 5h in front of a TV every day...
Yes, yes, yes! The researchers used a "startle reflex" to rate addiction - gamers viewing a DOOM screenie would be harder to startle. By that metric, TV is as bad or worse.
Ever have trouble getting someone's attention while they were "glued to the tube?"
Ever have someone become irritated once you were able to startle them from the stupor?
But that's not new, is i.... Ooh! Time for the Friends rerun...
Okay, everyone, please try to look past the straw man.
Unsuspecting reader, "Hey, hybrids really aren't cheaper. Guess I can ignore all of that hype now..."
Hybrids were never intended to be cheaper. They are designed to have lower environmental impact. Hybrid hype ==> fuel efficiency.
Taking pieces like this at face value only adds to the noise and consumer confusion. I expected mre from you guys.
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Unlike the mad cow disease (which is caused by [very rare] self-replicating proteins, not virii),...
Not so fast. It is of course, illegal to feed cow brains to cows, because that food can be a source of prion infection. But, it is not illegal to feed such things to pigs or fowl. These animals do not develop signs of the disease (BSE) - they don't become infected. But, there is no evidence that they are not (uninfected) carriers. They could be. There is no prohibition on processing pork and poultry matter that might contain high prion concentrations (unknown), not is there any prohibition against feeding cow-brain-fed chickens back to cows.
At least one animal has been demonstrated to be a prior carrier, a rat I think. If pigs or poultry were found to be carriers, it could lead to a circle of infection. It's an unknown, so caution is in order.
So maybe skip ordering those yummy chicken brains next time you're at Denny's. Mmmmn!
Lux from Sillysoft has tons of user-made maps based on satellite images. And not just the "standard" Risk world map, but many others, too. It's a generalization of Risk-type game play, allowing just about any kind of map.
Of all of the Risk clones around, Lux probably draws the most tweakers and programmers. Users make maps, AIs, and random-map generators. Players rate them. Ranked online play, too, just in case you had a social life you needed to get rid of.
The Risk-clone Lux from Silysoft has an active developer community, including AI writers, and provides an SDK for them. There are some great user-made bots to check out - Nefarious, Killbot, BotOfDoom, Boscoe. Some bots will even play team-style, just like humans.
I desperately want to continue doing science for the rest of my career. I can easily get such a job. But the pay is just too low. The guy building my deck makes as much as a tenure-track professor, and he works fewer hours, too. I'm probably leaving for law or industry.
It's feels like our society actively discourages science.
In short, what the fuck to videogames have to do with reality? Aren't they about escapism, just like almost everything else we spend our money on?
Yes, they are often about escapism (fantasy). Good fantasy is convincing enough that it might be real. Photorealism is just one of many ways to make fantasy seem real, though.
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When we get to the stage where the evidence is conclusive there is no health impact I have no problem putting wireless in place," said Gilbert.
Until you prove that ghosts are not secretly eating my food at night, then I will continue to believe that they are.
What's that logical fallacy called?
It doens't really matter that they managed to get it through. I can't imagine someone else making a perpetual motion machine, trying to sell it, and then these guys going to court to get an injunction or seek royalties. And if it did happen, it would be great fodder for the comics.
After I read this story, I couldn't get a line from Blade Runner out of my head: "A candle that burns twice as bright, burns half as long."
And some candles are bigger than others.
The GM crop was modified to have resistance to herbicide. That trait was likely transferred to a weed via cross-pollination. It is of course, impossible to "prove" exactly that this is what happened, just as you cannot "prove" that gravity exists. But if something happens often enough, we know that something is up.
BTW, your symptoms will clear up in a couple of months if you stop watching Fox News.
Ugh. Blatant and heavy-handed slashvertisement.
BTW, opening the case of a device does not void the warranty, although manufacturers would like you to think so. (Magnusson-Moss warranty act)
And "special cooling liquid?" What suckers would fall for such a coarse pitch?
Go read some of the old newspapers in the library to confirm this.
Viral marketing. Move along. Nothing to see here...
The link between science and military goes back to the dawn of science.
Galileo based his design for a telescope on that of a military field glass (used for seeing enemies from afar). He used it to study the motion of the stars, the first one to do so, and helped to usher in the age of enlightenment.
I've personally never seen anyone being escorted to the door unless it was something they were being fired for.
You're new here, aren't you?
The article is just silly fluff. The "inventor" doesn't matter all that much to the USPTO. They focus on validity of claims, etc.. One thing they do keep good track of, and for good reason, is who is the assignee or "owner" of each issued patent.
A UH-Haul I drove from Pennsylvania to Tennessee had one of these. If the speed got over 65, the pedal would shove my back against my foot to "un-press" the pedal.
Not only was it an extremely tiring drive, but it would also require me to actively push back again on the pedal once it quit fighting me. Otherwise, I'd putt along at 45 until I realized it...
Bad bad.
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1) Embrace
2) Extend
3) Extinguish
Great, another case of "here is your $15 settlement payment and one free month of service, while we collect our $5 million lawyer fee from the defendent."
You forgot "and the offending sites will stop the fraudulent practices." Which is the real point of the exercise.
And, as Dave Barry pointed out a week or so ago: You can't use the songs you purchase from Sprint(TM) as ringtones. Those you must purchase separately, for about $2.50. Yes, you can buy the same song twice for a single device!!! Nuts.
A whole lot of people spend around 4 to 5h in front of a TV every day...
Yes, yes, yes! The researchers used a "startle reflex" to rate addiction - gamers viewing a DOOM screenie would be harder to startle. By that metric, TV is as bad or worse. But that's not new, is i.... Ooh! Time for the Friends rerun...
Okay, everyone, please try to look past the straw man.
Unsuspecting reader, "Hey, hybrids really aren't cheaper. Guess I can ignore all of that hype now..."
Hybrids were never intended to be cheaper. They are designed to have lower environmental impact. Hybrid hype ==> fuel efficiency.
Taking pieces like this at face value only adds to the noise and consumer confusion. I expected mre from you guys.
Unlike the mad cow disease (which is caused by [very rare] self-replicating proteins, not virii),...
Not so fast. It is of course, illegal to feed cow brains to cows, because that food can be a source of prion infection. But, it is not illegal to feed such things to pigs or fowl. These animals do not develop signs of the disease (BSE) - they don't become infected. But, there is no evidence that they are not (uninfected) carriers. They could be. There is no prohibition on processing pork and poultry matter that might contain high prion concentrations (unknown), not is there any prohibition against feeding cow-brain-fed chickens back to cows.
At least one animal has been demonstrated to be a prior carrier, a rat I think. If pigs or poultry were found to be carriers, it could lead to a circle of infection. It's an unknown, so caution is in order.
So maybe skip ordering those yummy chicken brains next time you're at Denny's. Mmmmn!
Lux from Sillysoft has tons of user-made maps based on satellite images. And not just the "standard" Risk world map, but many others, too. It's a generalization of Risk-type game play, allowing just about any kind of map.
Of all of the Risk clones around, Lux probably draws the most tweakers and programmers. Users make maps, AIs, and random-map generators. Players rate them. Ranked online play, too, just in case you had a social life you needed to get rid of.
The Risk-clone Lux from Silysoft has an active developer community, including AI writers, and provides an SDK for them. There are some great user-made bots to check out - Nefarious, Killbot, BotOfDoom, Boscoe. Some bots will even play team-style, just like humans.
So you won't hire people who believe in a deity, then? They do believe in an invisible Sky Daddy, you know.
Religion and science are two different things. Don't take my word for it, ask the Vatican.
I've had the same iPod for almost 2.5 years now. Still runs fine, still without scratches
I have an original iPod, too. Never took any precautions to prevent scratching, so it's scratched all over, but I don't care. Still runs fine.
Nanotubes disintegrate in water. (Humans are bags of mostly water.) So you'll have to look elsewhere for your asbetos-like lung-daggers.
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2. Pay More....
Yes, yes, yes!
I desperately want to continue doing science for the rest of my career. I can easily get such a job. But the pay is just too low. The guy building my deck makes as much as a tenure-track professor, and he works fewer hours, too. I'm probably leaving for law or industry.
It's feels like our society actively discourages science.
In short, what the fuck to videogames have to do with reality? Aren't they about escapism, just like almost everything else we spend our money on?
Yes, they are often about escapism (fantasy). Good fantasy is convincing enough that it might be real. Photorealism is just one of many ways to make fantasy seem real, though.