2100 is 89 years away. Believing that current trends will continue for that long is ridiculous. Believing that technology won't advance enough to completely invalidate the assumptions essential to the extrapolation is as funny as Malthus.
Plant varieties have been patented for a long time, ask any rose grower. If it pisses you off that a plant you want to grow is under patent, then wait for the patent to expire. Why are you so impatient?
Food isn't the only thing that comes from a variety of species. There are many types of trees which make wood for different uses and have different qualities when alive. There is a huge variety of plants grown for their flowers. There are plants useful for erosion control, plants for local climate modification. "The low thousands" just won't cut it.
Biodiversity IS a worthy goal in and of itself, just not the highest goal. Lots of different plants and animals makes the world a nicer place..
For decades, most Radio Shacks have been mom-and-pop franchises. They can survive in areas where as few as 10 thousand people, maybe less, are within easy driving distance. Fry's stores are huge, and need to be in areas where perhaps a couple hundred thousand people are within easy driving distance. Almost every aspect of each company is markedly different.
If you live in the sticks and RS goes to the Fry's model, say goodbye to any retail RS that you can reach.
Cool idea, but why ship to the store? Most small PCBs will fit in an envelope, and the cost of postage is swamped by the cost of driving to the store plus paying the cashier.
Judging just by the number, 2N249 was introduced about 50 years ago. I've never heard of it; I doubt that it could be considered common. Common small signal transistors are the 2N3904/6, "plastic 2N2222/2N2907" (oxymoron), and the lower noise 2N4401 family, and even those are ancient.
The forward velocity is not stated. We don't know "the pilots had slowed the plane quite a bit" What is stated is than the engines were running at near full thrust, the plane was 40 degrees nose up, and the plane was falling at 120 mph. This would appear to be a stall condition, and either the person at the controls lacked the skill to pull out of the stall (or didn't realize his predicament) or the airplane itself lacked the ability to recover from such as stall.
The problem with random selection is that as bad as most politicians are, at least at the federal level most are a bit above average intelligence. The biggest advantage I see is that we'd be likely to get a much more moral bunch. The question becomes, how rapidly will power corrupt them?
If more than 50% of the voters wanted (fill in the blank)...
It's just not true. Some things stay in place because it's advantageous for politicians to keeps them there (a.k.a. arrogance of power). There was obvious majority opposition to ObamaCare, which didn't stop it from becoming law. For something like the "Patriot Act" to be repealed or discontinued, opposition would have to be both numerous and VERY LOUD. Or the people in the legislature would have to be honorable, fat chance.
There are so many errors in your post I hardly know where to begin
No photo process of any type that relies on broadband white light passing through or reflecting off the produced image can be "perfect": this is just the spectral limit of chemical compounds. Replenishers don't extend solution capacity a little. When used at manufacturer's recommendations, they extend it many times. Kodachrome is not forever, it is one of the worst processes for resistance to fading from exposure to light. The image in Kodachrome is formed by three developers each of which forms a particular color when acting on exposed silver halide. Other silver based color processes form an image using a color-coupling developer which reacts with exposed silver in each layer, forming colored dyes with the chemicals embedded in each particular layer. Truly archival color images require different processes, such as gum-bichromate or the azo dyes of the ilfochrome (cybachrome) process. The causes of image degradation vary by process, but it is true that generally speaking chemical purity (and freshness) and good washing are necessary. Some photo paper is still wood based, but modern photo paper is easier to use and easier to get long-lived results. Some inkjet printers use pigments instead of dyes, and (generally speaking) pigments provide much better longevity than dyes.
Alas, that wave is the same gesture that bimbos use when they drive in a particularly egregious manner. It's as is they're saying, "It's silly for you to be angry just because I almost killed you."
Get rid of the Title Bar. Move the Close, Maximize, Minimize, Menu and Pin buttons somewhere else. Use smaller icons, and get rid of every last pixel of buffer space above and below them.
Developers add stuff that management demands, ignoring users and warnings from developers. Bugs are fixed when large customers threaten to take their business elsewhere. Source, of course, is unavailable, so the user can't fix bugs.
My desktop has 2x1920x1080 in an over/under setup. It took two days to build a holder so that I could do that, and it is worth every bit of the effort.
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As long as they are running, they'll make the day either longer or shorter.
The concept of entropy is lost on you.
2100 is 89 years away. Believing that current trends will continue for that long is ridiculous. Believing that technology won't advance enough to completely invalidate the assumptions essential to the extrapolation is as funny as Malthus.
Plant varieties have been patented for a long time, ask any rose grower. If it pisses you off that a plant you want to grow is under patent, then wait for the patent to expire. Why are you so impatient?
The Universe in which "liberal" means stealing from those who are financially successful.
Food isn't the only thing that comes from a variety of species. There are many types of trees which make wood for different uses and have different qualities when alive. There is a huge variety of plants grown for their flowers. There are plants useful for erosion control, plants for local climate modification. "The low thousands" just won't cut it.
Biodiversity IS a worthy goal in and of itself, just not the highest goal. Lots of different plants and animals makes the world a nicer place..
You call it protest, I call it trespass with intent to murder the people these advanced foods would feed.
You can't possibly be that stupid. Please spend however long it takes to figure out that not only is your conclusion wrong, it's self-contradictory.
By whom? The Russians. Yup, there's a trustworthy group.
There are rational standards that can be applied for nuclear reactors. Chernobyl never met them.
For decades, most Radio Shacks have been mom-and-pop franchises. They can survive in areas where as few as 10 thousand people, maybe less, are within easy driving distance. Fry's stores are huge, and need to be in areas where perhaps a couple hundred thousand people are within easy driving distance. Almost every aspect of each company is markedly different.
If you live in the sticks and RS goes to the Fry's model, say goodbye to any retail RS that you can reach.
Cool idea, but why ship to the store? Most small PCBs will fit in an envelope, and the cost of postage is swamped by the cost of driving to the store plus paying the cashier.
Judging just by the number, 2N249 was introduced about 50 years ago. I've never heard of it; I doubt that it could be considered common. Common small signal transistors are the 2N3904/6, "plastic 2N2222/2N2907" (oxymoron), and the lower noise 2N4401 family, and even those are ancient.
The forward velocity is not stated. We don't know "the pilots had slowed the plane quite a bit" What is stated is than the engines were running at near full thrust, the plane was 40 degrees nose up, and the plane was falling at 120 mph. This would appear to be a stall condition, and either the person at the controls lacked the skill to pull out of the stall (or didn't realize his predicament) or the airplane itself lacked the ability to recover from such as stall.
The problem with random selection is that as bad as most politicians are, at least at the federal level most are a bit above average intelligence. The biggest advantage I see is that we'd be likely to get a much more moral bunch. The question becomes, how rapidly will power corrupt them?
If more than 50% of the voters wanted (fill in the blank)...
It's just not true. Some things stay in place because it's advantageous for politicians to keeps them there (a.k.a. arrogance of power). There was obvious majority opposition to ObamaCare, which didn't stop it from becoming law. For something like the "Patriot Act" to be repealed or discontinued, opposition would have to be both numerous and VERY LOUD. Or the people in the legislature would have to be honorable, fat chance.
If you're printing quality photos using the manufacturer's best paper, the cost of the paper can easily exceed the cost of the ink.
There are so many errors in your post I hardly know where to begin
No photo process of any type that relies on broadband white light passing through or reflecting off the produced image can be "perfect": this is just the spectral limit of chemical compounds. Replenishers don't extend solution capacity a little. When used at manufacturer's recommendations, they extend it many times. Kodachrome is not forever, it is one of the worst processes for resistance to fading from exposure to light. The image in Kodachrome is formed by three developers each of which forms a particular color when acting on exposed silver halide. Other silver based color processes form an image using a color-coupling developer which reacts with exposed silver in each layer, forming colored dyes with the chemicals embedded in each particular layer. Truly archival color images require different processes, such as gum-bichromate or the azo dyes of the ilfochrome (cybachrome) process. The causes of image degradation vary by process, but it is true that generally speaking chemical purity (and freshness) and good washing are necessary. Some photo paper is still wood based, but modern photo paper is easier to use and easier to get long-lived results. Some inkjet printers use pigments instead of dyes, and (generally speaking) pigments provide much better longevity than dyes.
What part of "prebate" do you not understand?
30 years ago Siemens made an inkjet plotter that shot out the ink at a high enough velocity that it could drive the ink into your skin.
Alas, that wave is the same gesture that bimbos use when they drive in a particularly egregious manner. It's as is they're saying, "It's silly for you to be angry just because I almost killed you."
Get rid of the Title Bar. Move the Close, Maximize, Minimize, Menu and Pin buttons somewhere else. Use smaller icons, and get rid of every last pixel of buffer space above and below them.
Developers add stuff that management demands, ignoring users and warnings from developers. Bugs are fixed when large customers threaten to take their business elsewhere. Source, of course, is unavailable, so the user can't fix bugs.
Try telling people in Hungary and Vietnam that the cold war was nonsense.
My desktop has 2x1920x1080 in an over/under setup. It took two days to build a holder so that I could do that, and it is worth every bit of the effort.