Huh? DNA is unique to an individual organism. The more different the type of organism, the more different the contents of their DNA. Compare the DNA of 2 humans, not much difference. Compare the DNA of a human and a tomato, a big difference.
dangerous to take Microsoft code and put it in Linux
Actually, that is a quite good example. After the MS code is injected, Linux is now tainted. It would probably be easier to remove MS code from Linux than removing GM organisms from the environment once let loose.
giant Killer Tomatoes
I'm not worried about giant killer tomoatoes. I am worried about tomatoes that have no flavor. I am worried about tomatoes that have lower nutrient value. I am worried about subtle, unknown, untested changes in the nature of tomoatoes that may not manifest for a number of generations. I am worried that once these modified tomoatoes cross breed with unmodified tomatoes, I have no option, no choice, to grow or purchase an unmodified tomato.
You may not care whether that choice exists. Does that mean that I should not have that choice?
GM food has been shown to have negative impact on the environment where it's grown and it's effect on our health would best be described as "disputable", since the GM companies are actively lobbying the government for exclusive access to our kids food supply.
Sheer nonsense. First off, most of the food you eat has been genetically modified. It's just that silly buggers who don't know anything tend to get more upset about those eeeevil scientists in their crazy white coats than they do about farmer bob and his descendants selectively breeding plants for their own purposes. Anyone who eats seedless fruit while complaining about "GM food" is a fucking idiot.
Genetic modification is not the same as selective breeding. Do you honestly think that shooting fish DNA into a tomato to give it (hopefully) better resistance to cold is the same thing as saving seeds from a tomato plant that was least damaged by an early frost?
The risks involved with selective breeding are small to non-existant. It was going on before humans dreamed of dabbling in agriculture. Poor adaptations died and were removed from the gene pool.
GM plants are completely unseen before combinations of disparate species. Their effect on similar species and on humans when ingested are untested. But hey, let's just let 'em loose on the world and you know, see what happens.
Having used the interwebs, I'm sure you've noticed the large number of folksnot in their right mind. They did use a '65 instead of a '67, so maybe they aren't as crazy as you had hoped.
And then there is the former Ford engineer modding new style 'Stangs
I'll see your APP Eye in the Sky, and raise you 1 Judas Priest Electric Eye.
Up here in space
Im looking down on you
My lasers trace
Everything you do
You think you've private lives
Think nothing of the kind
There is no true escape
I'm watching all the time
You left out, like most (if not all) judges, the concept of jury nullification.
Citizens do still have influence on the actual implementation of unjust laws. When enough juries refuse to convict a defendant obviously guilty of a law they consider unjust, prosecutors will quit attempting to bring such cases to trial.
In optimal conditions, goldfish may live more than 20 years, but most household goldfish generally live less than six to eight years, due to sub-optimal living conditions (such as being kept in bowls). The oldest recorded goldfish lived to 49 years.
Interesting that you should mention Dachau and IBM in the same post. Without the help of IBM, the holocaust probably wouldn't have been nearly as successful.
No corporation has any allegiance to a country. The only goal of any for-profit corporation is increasing shareholder value, i.e. making money. If the people of any given country have to be sacrificed to that goal, it WILL be done.
IMNSHO, this is one of the main problems in America today. Corporations are given all the rights of citizens, but have none of the responsibilities.
I for one welcome our new plutocratic overlords!
Having people who use more of a resource pay more to use it? Brilliant!
Maybe the tax could be built into the price of the fuel purchased by the users.
1. Why doesn't anyone want to talk about the known increase in solar radiation over the last 30 years? AFAIK, we don't have numbers going back any further, but it seems fairly obvious that if there is more solar radiation entering the earths atmosphere, the climate will change.
2. Maybe we won't run out of oil because it isn't really made from dead trees and dinosaurs. I've been meaning to find some numbers, but I have a hard time understanding the amount of decaying organic matter necessary to create the 80+ million barrels/day of oil pumped from the ground in 2005. I know were talking about geologic time scales here, so I'd be interested in seeing some numbers about how many trees and dinos that adds up to.
I'd also be interested to find out how trees and dinos ended up 10k+ feet below the surface of the earth. Some of these are 35k+ feet (7+miles) deep.
3. I doubt there were many trees or dinosaurs on Hyperion or Titan, 2 of Saturns moons. Yet, they have pools of hydrocarbons, hmmmm.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not interested in the world getting so polluted that we can't breathe or grow food. I'm just concerned that global warming is really another scam to take more of my money in the form of taxes to "save the earth". If I remember correctly, when I was a kid, the big fear was we were going into a new ice age. Now we have the same data providing proof for the exact opposite hypothesis. Now get off my lawn.
Our Subaru has a presets for 5-6 of the common frequencies the National Weather Service tends to broadcast on. There are buttons for tape, AM/FM, and Weather. Hit the weather button, and then the preset buttons all go to the common NWS frequencies.
Ummm, glycol bases systems with a heat exchanger are pretty common in areas that see freezing temperatures. They use propylene glycol, not ethylene glycol.
A nice summary of solar hot water systems can be found here.
I have a systematic way of giving unique email addresses to website/mailing list/usenet group that I sign up with. Its called sneakemail, and its pretty nifty.
At sites where I am buying something, I have tried using the site name in the second line of the address, but they never seem to use it. I need to come up with a way to put something like:
attn: p09869jpiuy
in there so they will use it and I can cross reference to figure out who sells my meatspace info. Everything I have tried so far seems to get ignored or dropped
It wasn't from a movie, I read it all on a web site. Although the same PI might have been involved in the documentary. I will try to see if I can dig up some more info, its been a long time.
I am also going to see if I can dig up this documentary that you speak of.
You are obviously not familiar with the disk swap trick for using copied PS1 games. I haven't had to do it in a while, so please excuse any missing steps in the procedure. It went something like this:
1. crack the cover open, and install a jumper across the sensor that reports when the top is open.
2. boot the system with a real PS game.
3 at the appropriate time, pop open the top, and swap in your copied game.
Done with the correct timing, the system reads the copy protection info from the real disk and then boots with the copy.
P.S. Who ever claimed that you won't be able to get recordable 80mm cds, you are way off base. The disks are available NOW, and are not much more expensive than regular sized blanks. The 80mm disks are also able to be recorded in many tray based cd recorders. They are mostly intended for use in your portable mp3 player, but I bet there will be another soon.
The CD-recorders that sit in your audio rack, with the dolby digital 5.1 reciever, the 5 disk cd-audio changer, the tape deck, the dvd player, and the vcr, can only record to media with the "Digital Audio" label. These recordable cds has an additional tax on them that is fed back to the mafia^H^H^H^H^HRIAA members, to compensate them for the supposed revenue loss caused by these recorders.
These cdrs can be used for ordinary data, but that wouldnt make sense, as you can get the same quality data cd for a 25% or lower pricetag. The cds produced in these recorders are just like regular cds, and should have no problems playing in any car, home, portable, or computer cd player.
I remember reading a web page a few years ago, written by a PI investigating Kurt Cobains death. He presented a pretty good case that Courtney had him killed because Mr. Cobain was about to file for divorce and was expected to get custody of their child. One of the most convincing parts of the theory was the "suicide" note, which appeared to be non-suicidal up to the end, where, curiously, the handwriting changed and the tone of the letter turned suicidal.
There was also the [suppressed, lost, destroyed] police report that explained how the body appeared to have been arranged very neatly, with the hair being recently(like after death) brushed and styled.
I printed the note out, and have it laying around somewhere. If you cant find it on google, I might be convinced to scan it and post it on the web somewhere.
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BTDT
Steven Spielberg could surely elaborate on the benefits of multiple releases of the same movie.
Honestly, I'm amazed we still have public libraries. I mean, they let people read FOR FREE for crying out loud.
I agree. Especially since my local library loans not only books, but also VHS tapes, music CDs, and DVDs.
I'm actually surprised that it hasn't been firebombed as a pirate den.
DNA is DNA,
Huh? DNA is unique to an individual organism. The more different the type of organism, the more different the contents of their DNA. Compare the DNA of 2 humans, not much difference. Compare the DNA of a human and a tomato, a big difference.
dangerous to take Microsoft code and put it in Linux
Actually, that is a quite good example. After the MS code is injected, Linux is now tainted. It would probably be easier to remove MS code from Linux than removing GM organisms from the environment once let loose.
giant Killer Tomatoes
I'm not worried about giant killer tomoatoes. I am worried about tomatoes that have no flavor. I am worried about tomatoes that have lower nutrient value. I am worried about subtle, unknown, untested changes in the nature of tomoatoes that may not manifest for a number of generations. I am worried that once these modified tomoatoes cross breed with unmodified tomatoes, I have no option, no choice, to grow or purchase an unmodified tomato.
You may not care whether that choice exists. Does that mean that I should not have that choice?
GM food has been shown to have negative impact on the environment where it's grown and it's effect on our health would best be described as "disputable", since the GM companies are actively lobbying the government for exclusive access to our kids food supply.
Sheer nonsense. First off, most of the food you eat has been genetically modified. It's just that silly buggers who don't know anything tend to get more upset about those eeeevil scientists in their crazy white coats than they do about farmer bob and his descendants selectively breeding plants for their own purposes. Anyone who eats seedless fruit while complaining about "GM food" is a fucking idiot.
Genetic modification is not the same as selective breeding. Do you honestly think that shooting fish DNA into a tomato to give it (hopefully) better resistance to cold is the same thing as saving seeds from a tomato plant that was least damaged by an early frost?
The risks involved with selective breeding are small to non-existant. It was going on before humans dreamed of dabbling in agriculture. Poor adaptations died and were removed from the gene pool.
GM plants are completely unseen before combinations of disparate species. Their effect on similar species and on humans when ingested are untested. But hey, let's just let 'em loose on the world and you know, see what happens.
You forgot the unicorns and ponies.
Having used the interwebs, I'm sure you've noticed the large number of folks not in their right mind.
They did use a '65 instead of a '67, so maybe they aren't as crazy as you had hoped.
And then there is the former Ford engineer modding new style 'Stangs
I'll see your APP Eye in the Sky, and raise you 1 Judas Priest Electric Eye.
Up here in space
I'm looking down on you
My lasers trace
Everything you do
You think you've private lives
Think nothing of the kind
There is no true escape
I'm watching all the time
Oh, and whoever thought putting the Preview and Submit buttons right next to each other, suck it.
I'll see your APP Eye in the Sky, and raise you 1 Judas Priest Electric Eye. Up here in space Im looking down on you My lasers trace Everything you do You think you've private lives Think nothing of the kind There is no true escape I'm watching all the time
A common definition of analogies. FTFY
You left out, like most (if not all) judges, the concept of jury nullification.
Citizens do still have influence on the actual implementation of unjust laws. When enough juries refuse to convict a defendant obviously guilty of a law they consider unjust, prosecutors will quit attempting to bring such cases to trial.
In optimal conditions, goldfish may live more than 20 years, but most household goldfish generally live less than six to eight years, due to sub-optimal living conditions (such as being kept in bowls). The oldest recorded goldfish lived to 49 years.
Interesting that you should mention Dachau and IBM in the same post. Without the help of IBM, the holocaust probably wouldn't have been nearly as successful.
No corporation has any allegiance to a country. The only goal of any for-profit corporation is increasing shareholder value, i.e. making money. If the people of any given country have to be sacrificed to that goal, it WILL be done.
IMNSHO, this is one of the main problems in America today. Corporations are given all the rights of citizens, but have none of the responsibilities. I for one welcome our new plutocratic overlords!
Me fail English? That's unpossible.
Having people who use more of a resource pay more to use it? Brilliant! Maybe the tax could be built into the price of the fuel purchased by the users.
If it will also work through regular phone lines, I'll be the first one in line to buy it.
there simply is no third possibility.
I think there are other possibilities.
1. Why doesn't anyone want to talk about the known increase in solar radiation over the last 30 years? AFAIK, we don't have numbers going back any further, but it seems fairly obvious that if there is more solar radiation entering the earths atmosphere, the climate will change.
2. Maybe we won't run out of oil because it isn't really made from dead trees and dinosaurs. I've been meaning to find some numbers, but I have a hard time understanding the amount of decaying organic matter necessary to create the 80+ million barrels/day of oil pumped from the ground in 2005. I know were talking about geologic time scales here, so I'd be interested in seeing some numbers about how many trees and dinos that adds up to.
I'd also be interested to find out how trees and dinos ended up 10k+ feet below the surface of the earth. Some of these are 35k+ feet (7+miles) deep.
3. I doubt there were many trees or dinosaurs on Hyperion or Titan, 2 of Saturns moons. Yet, they have pools of hydrocarbons, hmmmm.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not interested in the world getting so polluted that we can't breathe or grow food. I'm just concerned that global warming is really another scam to take more of my money in the form of taxes to "save the earth". If I remember correctly, when I was a kid, the big fear was we were going into a new ice age. Now we have the same data providing proof for the exact opposite hypothesis. Now get off my lawn.
Our Subaru has a presets for 5-6 of the common frequencies the National Weather Service tends to broadcast on. There are buttons for tape, AM/FM, and Weather. Hit the weather button, and then the preset buttons all go to the common NWS frequencies.
Ummm, glycol bases systems with a heat exchanger are pretty common in areas that see freezing temperatures. They use propylene glycol, not ethylene glycol. A nice summary of solar hot water systems can be found here.
Or even better, the history of Jynnan Tonnyx
Their website is here.
At sites where I am buying something, I have tried using the site name in the second line of the address, but they never seem to use it. I need to come up with a way to put something like:
in there so they will use it and I can cross reference to figure out who sells my meatspace info. Everything I have tried so far seems to get ignored or dropped
I am also going to see if I can dig up this documentary that you speak of.
1. crack the cover open, and install a jumper across the sensor that reports when the top is open.
2. boot the system with a real PS game.
3 at the appropriate time, pop open the top, and swap in your copied game.
Done with the correct timing, the system reads the copy protection info from the real disk and then boots with the copy.
P.S. Who ever claimed that you won't be able to get recordable 80mm cds, you are way off base. The disks are available NOW, and are not much more expensive than regular sized blanks. The 80mm disks are also able to be recorded in many tray based cd recorders. They are mostly intended for use in your portable mp3 player, but I bet there will be another soon.
The CD-recorders that sit in your audio rack, with the dolby digital 5.1 reciever, the 5 disk cd-audio changer, the tape deck, the dvd player, and the vcr, can only record to media with the "Digital Audio" label. These recordable cds has an additional tax on them that is fed back to the mafia^H^H^H^H^HRIAA members, to compensate them for the supposed revenue loss caused by these recorders.
These cdrs can be used for ordinary data, but that wouldnt make sense, as you can get the same quality data cd for a 25% or lower pricetag. The cds produced in these recorders are just like regular cds, and should have no problems playing in any car, home, portable, or computer cd player.
I remember reading a web page a few years ago, written by a PI investigating Kurt Cobains death. He presented a pretty good case that Courtney had him killed because Mr. Cobain was about to file for divorce and was expected to get custody of their child. One of the most convincing parts of the theory was the "suicide" note, which appeared to be non-suicidal up to the end, where, curiously, the handwriting changed and the tone of the letter turned suicidal.
There was also the [suppressed, lost, destroyed] police report that explained how the body appeared to have been arranged very neatly, with the hair being recently(like after death) brushed and styled.
I printed the note out, and have it laying around somewhere. If you cant find it on google, I might be convinced to scan it and post it on the web somewhere.