Man, mod this guy up. Fox has been at work in the last 15 years on getting out angry mobs against anything that did not strictly follow the Bush-Cheney-Rumsfeld dogma. The "teabaggers" are mostly FOX's creatures (with the help of neocon think tanks and their money). BTW, did we hear FOX yelling at the PATRIOT Act, which really instated a Big Brother police state ? No we didn't. Duh !
Express'd in the EULA, let the forfeit
Be nominated for an equal pound
Of your fair flesh, to be cut off and taken
In what part of your body pleaseth Steve.
How do we change the system to alter these two bad side effects?
Here is my suggestion : the US system needs "more state" (as libertarians hate to say) into academic research, education funding (more grants), and it also needs more incentives to make the outcomes of public-funded research available to the public (we paid for it after all), instead of favoring patents, NDAs and pay-per-read fees for their works.
And the system also needs "less state" in over-protecting so-called intellectual property. I name it "so-called" because the IP laws upheld by the justice system allow corporations to put patents on crops that have been carefully selected before by generations of farmers before (maize, Basmati rice, and so on), thereby stealing their work. IP laws need a complete rework in the interest of the public, not corporations.
Otherwise, as long as being an IP lawyer remains more profitable than being a scientific researcher, it's no rocket science to predict that science will not be doing well in the US in the next few decades.
Phil: C++ is java's uncle that never comes to visit, and had half his face blown off when he stepped on a landmine, also he's a pedophile. Phil: But he's the industry standard. David: and runs much faster Phil: He has to be able to run fast, he's a pedophile.
... seems prone to shorten the lifespan of the engine.
On the other hand, another improvement in internal combustion engines seems much more promising : variable compression ratio as implemented in the MCE-5 engine, which could yield 15% to 35% improvements in mileage, while being cheaper to produce than equivalent diesel engines.
Several car brands have acquired licenses for those engines, and a few cars should equipped by 2015.
Rep. Heinz, Inc. (D, Mass.), Rep. Monsanto (R, Ky), Rep. General Motor Corp (R, Mi), Rep. Apple, Inc (D, Ca) have all agreed on a law proposal forbidding non-corporations from voting in general elections.
Rep. Diebold (R, OH) intends to filibuster on that bill.
The infamous "away" place that you mention is actually called NIMBY. Look it up on Google Maps.
Jokes aside, it would actually be a good thing to recycle the nitrogen and phosphorous from wastewater using algae or plants instead of costly chemical processes. Reaping biofuel on top of this would be a bonus.
Currently, in some places (like here in Brittany) we have proliferations of green algae due to abnormally high rates of nitrogen and phosphorous in coastal waters. Industrial farming is to blame here, with farmer spreading manure over their fields and having it washed down by rains into rivers and the sea. Unfortunately, no efficient way to transform these algae into biofuels has been found to this day...
This is patently false, and is evidences buy the farmers global that have had higher yields do to genetic modification.
Have you cared to actually read further than the 3-lines summary? The writers actually quote 10 studies to support their standing point. Would you care to provide at least *one* to support yours ?
I'm not saying that GM plants and research should be discarded, or that they can't be used to actually get better yields and use less pesticides. I'm just saying that for now, a few corporations are focused on making piles of money by making farmers entirely depend on their seeds and their pesticides, no matter what it takes. And that particular use of GM crops (and of patents lawsuits over crops) should be outlawed.
Hell, Tony Blair even picked up his phone to have researchers at the University of Aberdeen fired, just because their own research proved that the GMOs were not as innocuous as Monsanto pretended them to be...
The Gauls was a Celtic people as the English and Spanish was.
Calling them "British" or "Britons" instead of "English" would make more sense. The Angles and Saxons kicked the Britons out of England and pushed them to the West (Cornwall, Wales) and North (Strathclyde, Scotland) of the main island.
(Mais bon, on va pas couper les chevaux en quatre, hein...)
Caveman Gaor hears fellow caveman Ourgah has piled buffalo meat on few branches tied together.
Ourgah asks if there be some invention he calls "weal" to fix under his brancard and carry meat around with no effort.
Gaor says problem solved long time ago: just pick a big piece of leather, wrap the meat in it, carry it around on your shoulder. Problem solved. Anything else, waste of time.
There be worse fates than carrying heavy bag on your shoulders.
I *know* this is Slashdot, but if I see yet another intahwebz-style lolcat-Schrödinger-cat-in-the-bag-of-worms metaphor beneath this comment... I swear I'll kill your dog.
Absolutely. Anyway, the first guy who gets his Internet service suspended because of this law can drag the case to a court, and the court will certainly make that law moot, since it does not abide by European directives.
I still keep thinking to myself: How the hell did Sarkozy get elected? Nobody in France ever seemed to really like him.
As a Frenchman, it seems to that Sarkozy has won on two accounts:
He reaped on what Jean-Marie Le Pen has sowed before him: racism, hatred against ethnic minorities and against foreigners in general. He also baited working-class voters with promises of "reinstating the values of hard work", which is pretty hilarious from someone who only cares, as G.W. Bush did, for the "haves and have-mores". Now that these workers are being massively laid off with Sarkozy not even blinking, some of them are opening their eyes on what they really voted for...
His opponent, Ségolène Royal, was presented by the Sarkozy-leaning media (owned or directed by friends of him) to be inadequate as a presidential candidate.
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Man, mod this guy up. Fox has been at work in the last 15 years on getting out angry mobs against anything that did not strictly follow the Bush-Cheney-Rumsfeld dogma. The "teabaggers" are mostly FOX's creatures (with the help of neocon think tanks and their money). BTW, did we hear FOX yelling at the PATRIOT Act, which really instated a Big Brother police state ? No we didn't. Duh !
Headbutts. Very efficient. Especially when your competition is offending your sister.
Who else but an Anonymous Coward could bravely offense an entire nation with that tired, old, lame joke ? ;-)
Oh, I see they have it in a sort of "geek gadget" shop too...
Flying pigs spotted here too.
Express'd in the EULA, let the forfeit
Be nominated for an equal pound
Of your fair flesh, to be cut off and taken
In what part of your body pleaseth Steve.
How do we change the system to alter these two bad side effects?
Here is my suggestion : the US system needs "more state" (as libertarians hate to say) into academic research, education funding (more grants), and it also needs more incentives to make the outcomes of public-funded research available to the public (we paid for it after all), instead of favoring patents, NDAs and pay-per-read fees for their works.
And the system also needs "less state" in over-protecting so-called intellectual property. I name it "so-called" because the IP laws upheld by the justice system allow corporations to put patents on crops that have been carefully selected before by generations of farmers before (maize, Basmati rice, and so on), thereby stealing their work. IP laws need a complete rework in the interest of the public, not corporations.
Otherwise, as long as being an IP lawyer remains more profitable than being a scientific researcher, it's no rocket science to predict that science will not be doing well in the US in the next few decades.
Here's somme ammo from bash.org:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Size_Me
On the other hand, another improvement in internal combustion engines seems much more promising : variable compression ratio as implemented in the MCE-5 engine, which could yield 15% to 35% improvements in mileage, while being cheaper to produce than equivalent diesel engines.
Several car brands have acquired licenses for those engines, and a few cars should equipped by 2015.
Rep. Heinz, Inc. (D, Mass.), Rep. Monsanto (R, Ky), Rep. General Motor Corp (R, Mi), Rep. Apple, Inc (D, Ca) have all agreed on a law proposal forbidding non-corporations from voting in general elections.
Rep. Diebold (R, OH) intends to filibuster on that bill.
The infamous "away" place that you mention is actually called NIMBY. Look it up on Google Maps.
Jokes aside, it would actually be a good thing to recycle the nitrogen and phosphorous from wastewater using algae or plants instead of costly chemical processes. Reaping biofuel on top of this would be a bonus.
Currently, in some places (like here in Brittany) we have proliferations of green algae due to abnormally high rates of nitrogen and phosphorous in coastal waters. Industrial farming is to blame here, with farmer spreading manure over their fields and having it washed down by rains into rivers and the sea. Unfortunately, no efficient way to transform these algae into biofuels has been found to this day...
This is patently false, and is evidences buy the farmers global that have had higher yields do to genetic modification.
Have you cared to actually read further than the 3-lines summary? The writers actually quote 10 studies to support their standing point. Would you care to provide at least *one* to support yours ?
GM crops are already doing more harm than good. Just ask the Indian cotton farmers, for instance...
It has been proved that they also have lower yields and require more pesticides in the long run than conventional crops.
I'm not saying that GM plants and research should be discarded, or that they can't be used to actually get better yields and use less pesticides. I'm just saying that for now, a few corporations are focused on making piles of money by making farmers entirely depend on their seeds and their pesticides, no matter what it takes. And that particular use of GM crops (and of patents lawsuits over crops) should be outlawed.
FDA and Monsanto ? Mind the revolving door on your way out...
Hell, Tony Blair even picked up his phone to have researchers at the University of Aberdeen fired, just because their own research proved that the GMOs were not as innocuous as Monsanto pretended them to be...
Calling them "British" or "Britons" instead of "English" would make more sense. The Angles and Saxons kicked the Britons out of England and pushed them to the West (Cornwall, Wales) and North (Strathclyde, Scotland) of the main island.
(Mais bon, on va pas couper les chevaux en quatre, hein...)
Doo yoo reeallee sink maee haksent eez ootrajuice ?
You might want to take a look at Better Place whose core business plan is based on developing battery swapping stations.
Did I miss something ?
Spoken like a true Slashdotter. \o/
I *know* this is Slashdot, but if I see yet another intahwebz-style lolcat-Schrödinger-cat-in-the-bag-of-worms metaphor beneath this comment... I swear I'll kill your dog.
Absolutely. Anyway, the first guy who gets his Internet service suspended because of this law can drag the case to a court, and the court will certainly make that law moot, since it does not abide by European directives.
As a Frenchman, it seems to that Sarkozy has won on two accounts :
You mean, "shooting Brazilian subway passengers in the back" ?