Oil came into its own without a ton of federal help, so why can't alternative forms of energy?
Seriously?
A quick Google tells me that the oil industry has been receiving subsidies since essentially day one, by being allowed to write off the full cost of drilling new wells. Even to this day the oil industry in the US gets $4 billion per year in subsidies one way or another.
=Smidge=
Don't forget all the money spent to build and maintain roads for cars (most of which use and burn petroleum products)!
This. GMOs are just the next step in something we've been doing for thousands of years, just on a much smaller scale. Rather than blundering about with trial and error trying to make better plants, we finally have enough knowledge to tinker directly with their DNA to get what we want. Why is this a bad thing?
Because it's not true. Yes, we may have the knowledge to tinker directly with their DNA, but we lack the knowledge (and probably wisdom) to get only what we want.
The original design was sovereign States who delegated a small, well-defined subset of their powers to a common body
That common body was structured so as to make it somewhat self-limiting, somewhat difficult to expand its reach..
It was also structured with layers of increasing responsibility that theoretically would help elevate the finest people to higher offices, even as it filtered out to a degree some of the more extremist voices.
The U.S tried that. It was called the Articles of Confederation. And it was so dysfunctional they scrapped it for the U.S. Constitution.
1. Cut delivery in most areas, definitely the rural ones to every other day. M-W-F and T-Th-Sa. This will cut number of mail carriers and fuel and vehicles needed, as 1 carrier now will get two routes. Express mail has it's own carrier so that will be unaffected for the people that pay for it.
Ok, now get that plan through Congress (might be hard due to the representatives from those rural areas).
Good luck.
2) Offer free service to anyone who agrees to "share" their home wired internet connection by installing a special Apple router, which provides service to any i* devices in the area
And what about areas without homes (or offices, etc.), such as highways between cities?
What, no post for the old, white guy in Michigan with over 4K lbs. of explosives? Whose plan was "when the government gets taken over, we will be mercenaries".
In December 2007, many of these state efforts became moot when the federal government enacted the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007, which requires all general-purpose light bulbs that produce 310–2600 lumens of light[8] be 30% more energy efficient (similar to current halogen lamps) than current incandescent bulbs by 2012 to 2014. The efficiency standards will start with 100-watt bulbs in January 2012 and end with 40-watt bulbs in January 2014.
Light bulbs outside of this range are exempt from the restrictions (historically, less than 40 Watts or more than 150 Watts). Also exempt are several classes of specialty lights, including appliance lamps, rough service bulbs, 3-way, colored lamps, and plant lights.
By 2020, a second tier of restrictions would become effective, which requires all general-purpose bulbs to produce at least 45 lumens per watt (similar to current CFLs). Exemptions from the Act include reflector flood, 3-way, candelabra, colored, and other specialty bulbs. (emphasis mine)
This is not just like leaving a door unlocked or a window un-blinded (which is inaction), there is a positive action of transmitting that information in such a way that anyone can read it.
It's more like leaving your door wide open and then complaining about privacy when people passing by look in.
If the NHTSA didn't exist Toyota would have had to spend money to fix the problem instead of paying ex-regulators to quash multiple investigations.
That's a nice false dichotomy you've set up. There is no proof, zero, that without the NHTSA Toyota would have spent any money on a fix. It's just as likely the executives would have spent it on their bonuses (or replacing worn out office chairs or investing in newer tech or hookers and blow, etc.).
MozillaNews has a post describing how to unconditionally turn on the location bar in a window. This reveals that the popup comes from Secunia.com (Having the Spoofstick extension for Firefox also reveals the originating site.
Also the Mozilla bug number is 273699.
...and the protein (which is the stuff actually injected into the patient).
tkt caused cells to produce epo w/o using the epo sequence to coerce bacteria into producing it -- instead they coerced cells into producing it, without ever introducing the epo sequence into those cells. they then harvested the epo protein and (wanted to) sell it for serious $$$.
I'm not being argumentative, but, how can Amgen patent a protein that has been "made" by "Nature" (vis-a-vis gene splicing, molecular engineering, etc./whatever by humans). I understand that tkt coerced the bacteria; however, I don't think that should disqualify tkt's protein. What if Amgen patented Protein X and tkt, instead of coercing bacteria to make PX, found an previously-unknown spieces of bacteria that produced Protein X? I tried to use an example that wasn't too contrived; I'm assuming a finite set of proteins (based on current tech and what bateria can produce) and that administrating the protein is no more complicated that a needle prick. Granted, IANAL, (I assume) YANAL, etc.
Actually they do get money from the video stores. Most tapes sold to rental chains run arounf $100 or so. Slashdot ran a story about DVDs in.au (main article).
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Oil came into its own without a ton of federal help, so why can't alternative forms of energy?
Seriously?
A quick Google tells me that the oil industry has been receiving subsidies since essentially day one, by being allowed to write off the full cost of drilling new wells. Even to this day the oil industry in the US gets $4 billion per year in subsidies one way or another. =Smidge=
Don't forget all the money spent to build and maintain roads for cars (most of which use and burn petroleum products)!
Just trolling and threatening? It could have been much worse.
This. GMOs are just the next step in something we've been doing for thousands of years, just on a much smaller scale. Rather than blundering about with trial and error trying to make better plants, we finally have enough knowledge to tinker directly with their DNA to get what we want. Why is this a bad thing?
Because it's not true. Yes, we may have the knowledge to tinker directly with their DNA, but we lack the knowledge (and probably wisdom) to get only what we want.
The lack of concrete action against NK might be a lesson for Iran.
If you don't want to be fucked with, actually having nukes is the best bet.
...or just be able to shell the shit out of the capital of a US ally.
The original design was sovereign States who delegated a small, well-defined subset of their powers to a common body
That common body was structured so as to make it somewhat self-limiting, somewhat difficult to expand its reach..
It was also structured with layers of increasing responsibility that theoretically would help elevate the finest people to higher offices, even as it filtered out to a degree some of the more extremist voices.
The U.S tried that. It was called the Articles of Confederation. And it was so dysfunctional they scrapped it for the U.S. Constitution.
(and probably a crypto racist)
Probably? Crypo? You are being way too generous.
1. Cut delivery in most areas, definitely the rural ones to every other day. M-W-F and T-Th-Sa. This will cut number of mail carriers and fuel and vehicles needed, as 1 carrier now will get two routes. Express mail has it's own carrier so that will be unaffected for the people that pay for it.
Ok, now get that plan through Congress (might be hard due to the representatives from those rural areas). Good luck.
Why not build them here?
Because the rest of the supply chain (LCDs, RAM, etc) is still in East Asia?
Remember, though, corporations are people.
2) Offer free service to anyone who agrees to "share" their home wired internet connection by installing a special Apple router, which provides service to any i* devices in the area
And what about areas without homes (or offices, etc.), such as highways between cities?
What, no post for the old, white guy in Michigan with over 4K lbs. of explosives? Whose plan was "when the government gets taken over, we will be mercenaries".
Who's chairman of the board over there?
Let's see.
Surprise! It's Reed Hastings.
What's your dismissive quip for the court in Michigan?
More crap from Florian Mueller?
Yes.
Hmmm, it looks like this is another (successful) troll by a Congressional Republican.
Hopefully they're hardened against EMPs.
This is not just like leaving a door unlocked or a window un-blinded (which is inaction), there is a positive action of transmitting that information in such a way that anyone can read it.
It's more like leaving your door wide open and then complaining about privacy when people passing by look in.
That's a nice false dichotomy you've set up. There is no proof, zero, that without the NHTSA Toyota would have spent any money on a fix. It's just as likely the executives would have spent it on their bonuses (or replacing worn out office chairs or investing in newer tech or hookers and blow, etc.).
It is a feature, for their iTunes partners.
Except when it is.
Exactly. I received just such an email last night...the attachment was 'voicemail.mp3'.
Here's the full list of sponsors. I too will be sending a letter to Ms Eshoo.
MozillaNews has a post describing how to unconditionally turn on the location bar in a window. This reveals that the popup comes from Secunia.com (Having the Spoofstick extension for Firefox also reveals the originating site. Also the Mozilla bug number is 273699.
tkt caused cells to produce epo w/o using the epo sequence to coerce bacteria into producing it -- instead they coerced cells into producing it, without ever introducing the epo sequence into those cells. they then harvested the epo protein and (wanted to) sell it for serious $$$.
I'm not being argumentative, but, how can Amgen patent a protein that has been "made" by "Nature" (vis-a-vis gene splicing, molecular engineering, etc./whatever by humans). I understand that tkt coerced the bacteria; however, I don't think that should disqualify tkt's protein. What if Amgen patented Protein X and tkt, instead of coercing bacteria to make PX, found an previously-unknown spieces of bacteria that produced Protein X? I tried to use an example that wasn't too contrived; I'm assuming a finite set of proteins (based on current tech and what bateria can produce) and that administrating the protein is no more complicated that a needle prick. Granted, IANAL, (I assume) YANAL, etc.
-MKD
-MKD