Aarrrrg, I have been tricked by a urban legend? It bothers me when I get burn't.Thanks for pointing that out.
As far as I know however, the stranger the image the easier it is to remember something. The mental assosiation trick: One=Run, Two=Shoe, Three=Tree, Four=Door, works by connecting things in a odd way.
According to this site.
"The Twelve Days of Christmas" is interesting because, while it seems whimsical, many believe the song was written in England as a catechism song to help young Catholics learn the tenets of their faith during the period when it was a crime to be a Catholic and Catholics were prohibited from practicing any aspect of their faith even in private. The song's gifts originally were hidden references to the teachings of the Catholic faith. The two turtle doves signified the Old and New Testaments, the eight maids a-milking are the Beatitudes and the 10 lords a-leaping the 10 Commandments.
... recommend another good Canadian bank? :
CitizensBank.ca Why not write the Royal Bank and compliment them on their wise investment practice? I'm sure they would love to hear from a customer. E-mail: custrel@rbc.com The Centre will make every effort to ensure that the individuals responsible receive the accolades that are due.
Now your a smart person, I mean you read Slashdot right?
Get some smoke detectors, and check the thing every month to make sure the battery works. Yup I said battery, because the AC one's are not much good if the power goes out, ups fails. I bet 9 out of 10 of you will find a faulty smoke detector. Nothing beats
I would go with the same kind of system used over a fork lift charger. It has a simple 10 pounds of extinguishment with a heat activated autodispensor. This way you can take the whole thing in for maintence, recharging. Why not use CO2 extinguighers?
If you are building make the room more fire resistant, more drywall layers, less fuel for the fire.
Ben Stein was on CNN a while ago, plugging Yes, You Can Time the Market! and the website, perhaps Ballmer was watching too.
I sold my "share" in Microsoft by looking at my Mutual Fund advisor and telling him, "I do not want to hold any fund that contains Microsoft".
We made it happen, last week. My reason: Microsoft does evil things to please the shareholders. I don't want to be part of that inadvertantly.
I feel better now, perhaps Ballmer will too?
By the way, do you get bonus karma points for not owning Microsoft shares?
I live sixty miles from Bruno Saskatchewan, in a small town. I bet I have owned half a dozen ball caps from Monsanto.
"Brown bagging" seed is a problem, and it is not going to go away. If you do something illegal and you get caught, you pay the price.
If you admit you are wrong, you don't get famous.
Everyone who farms reads "The Western Producer" or "Grain News", watches T.V. or listens to CBC radio and or CJVR radio. In the spring and in the fall, you cannot help but learn more about Monsanto and all of their products. You may not care that Kraft makes a lot of your food, but you can't say "I have barely heard of Kraft"
All the 72 year old farmers I know could not say that they had not heard of Monsanto. I could take a poll this morning but they would laugh, and may make a comparison to a dog's hind leg.
This case does not need to be reviewed.
I don't want Roundup sprayed on our food prior to harvest, but I am not going to stop eating bread.
Text from this link:
http://www.producer.com/articles/20000615/news/200 00615news07.html
Farmer's story lacks credibility, says scientist
The world's most prominent canola scientist has testified that Percy Schmeiser's story doesn't make sense.
Keith Downey, one of the men who invented canola, said he doesn't believe it is possible that cross-pollination by wind and bees, or seed blowing off trucks, transformed Schmeiser's 900 acres of canola in 1998 into commercial grade Roundup Ready canola.
"The points made by Mr. Schmeiser in the examination for discovery do not reasonably account for how the quantity of Roundup Ready crop found on his fields actually got there," Downey states in a report given to the federal court judge presiding over Monsanto's lawsuit against Schmeiser.
"Such quantities are only consistent with the placing of Roundup tolerant canola seed on the land in question at or after seed bed preparation."
Schmeiser has not yet testified and his lawyer, Terry Zakreski, had just given his opening statement at press time. But in pre-trial testimony, Zakreski presented Schmeiser's explanation for how 900 acres of his crop came to contain the Roundup Ready gene.
Schmeiser said in 1999 that his 1997 crop was planted from conventional canola seed he grew and saved in 1996. During the 1997 growing season, he hand-sprayed weeds around some power poles on the edge of one of his canola fields, and discovered that most of the volunteer canola growing there did not die.
He then used a sprayer to spray Roundup on a three- to four-acre section of the canola crop, Schmeiser said. About 60 percent of the canola survived the Roundup.
Schmeiser harvested this canola and the canola around it, and kept it in an old grain truck. The rest of the crop was stored separately. The next spring, Schmeiser said he took the 8,014 pounds of seed containing the Roundup tolerant material to be seed treated. He then seeded 900 acres with the treated seed plus some bin run seed he had on the farm. Schmeiser said he did not spray Roundup on the crop in 1998.
Downey said Schmeiser's story is not plausible.
If Schmeiser's canola had been the result of cross-pollination, then 25 percent of its seeds should still have been susceptible to Roundup because of mixed parentage. Each flower on a canola plant is separately pollinated, so plants can have differing mixtures of genes in their seeds.
Instead, the seeds grown out from Schmeiser's canola proved to be 100 percent Roundup tolerant.
"The Roundup tolerant plants observed growing in (the field where Schmeiser collected his 1998 seed) must have arisen from a crop planted with Roundup Ready pedigreed seed and not from outcrossing," wrote Downey.
In another field, all of the seeds grown out of samples gathered by the investigator proved to be Roundup tolerant, Downey said. The chance that the investigator managed to randomly choose one cross-pollinated tolerant plant with no susceptible seeds at all was only one in 10,000.
The chance that he could pick six plants that all had 100 percent Roundup tolerant seeds was only one in 10,000,000,000,000,000,000.
"I consider such odds to be highly improbable," said Downey.
Schmeiser also appeared to have used Roundup much more generally on his fields than he claimed, Downey said, which showed Schmeiser knew his crop was Roundup tolerant.
Zakreski questioned Downey on where he received the information on which he based his opinion. Downey said Monsanto had supplied most of his information.
Downey often seemed bemused by scenarios Zakreski presented to show other ways that Schmeiser's fields could have become Roundup tolerant.
Zakreski suggested uncovered passing trucks, whirlwinds, passing farm machinery, strong winds and rolling swaths could have brought Monsanto's gene into the fields.
Downey replied that it was possible to spread canola pollen and seeds in these ways, but not in the quantities that had appeared in Schmeiser's 1998 crop.
"I've changed the title, since this is really a separate thread and has been for a while. I thought it might be worth summarizing the current state of the argument as I see it.
The case seems to me to raise two separate issues:
1. What legal rule was the judge trying to lay down. This seems to me quite unclear, since he appears to be simultaneously saying that Schmeiser does and does not own the same crop. I think there is a possible intepretation that makes it a sensible rule, but I can't tell if that is the one he intended.
2. What actually happened:
Schmeiser's version, accepted by his supporters:
Schmeiser doesn't want roundup ready canola growing in his fields, doesn't normally use roundup on canola. RR canola showed up in his fields either because pollen blew into them from the fields of other farmers who used RR or because some seed spilled in the road next to his fields and sprouted and pollenized his canola.
This account appears unbelievable for two different reasons:
A. According to Monsanto's testing, the tested plants were over 90% RR, according to Schmeiser they were 60%. Either way, the idea that a field of RR several miles away would provide 90%, or 60%, or 1% of the pollen floating around a 300 acre field of canola is implausible. The idea that accidentally sprouting canola from seeds that happened to fall out in the road could provide 1% probably isn't absurd, at least for plants close to the road, but it's hard to see how they could provide anything close to 60%, given that they are, again, competing with a solid mass of hundreds of acres of canola that has been deliberately planted, presumably watered, etc.
It's worth noting that although the Monsanto testing was of plants right along the road (because they could get them without trespassing), Schmeiser's own testing was not so limited--and he reported 60%.
So Schmeiser's account appears strikingly inconsistent with either side's claim about how much of the canola he was growing was RR. To avoid that, you have to argue that the tiny fraction of RR explained on his account somehow rapidly out competed the ordinary canola. But since Schemeiser wasn't using roundup, and RR's only advantage, apparently, is superior resistence to roundup, it is hard to see how that could happen.
B. According to the testimony at trial, if I understand it correctly, Schmeiser (and his employee) took the following series of actions:
1. They sprayed part of a field of canola with roundup; 60% of the plants survived.
2. They took the seed from the surviving 60%, stored it, used it (along with enough other seed) to plant the whole area he was planting with canola the next year.
That makes perfectly good sense if Schmeiser was deliberately trying to breed his own strain of RR. The only inconsistent element is that it would have made more sense for him not to mix the two seeds, but to use the RR seed for part of his area and the non RR for the rest. But it isn't clear that he didn't--"mix" may merely mean "use some of each." And in any case, doing that would make it even more obvious what he was doing, whereas this way he could produce a high RR crop in one year, repeat to get higher the next.
But it makes no sense at all if he objected to RR, as he claims he does. If he doesn't want it, why does he deliberately use the seed that he knows is high RR--from the plants that didn't die when sprayed with Roundup--instead of deliberately avoiding using that particular seed and planting his next year's crop with seed from other parts of his field?
Looking at both A and B, the obvious explanation is that Schmeiser is lying. Either he planted RR seed bought without license from a neighbor who was growing it--presumably what Monsanto is trying to prevent--or he deliberately tried to breed his own RR canola, or both.
So far, nobody here has offered any other explanation of these facts, although that doesn't prove that no other explanation is possible. Nor has anyone shown that I am misreading the reported facts of the case, although that too is possible.
"Schmeiser barely had heard of Monsanto before 1998,". What? A 72 year old farmer? He said that?
Let me translate that from "Saskatchewan-farm-boy" language into "/." for you: "Before last year, I had barely had heard of Microsoft" or "You mean there is another operating system other than GNU/Linux? Microsoft? Really?"
I doubt that the seeds fell of a truck and grew in the ditch, and I doubt that anyone in 1998 did not know all about Monsanto. You see, you could not open a newspaper, or turn on a radio, or drive into a city without learning all about Monsanto.
A quick Google, http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr= &ie=UTF-8 &selm=ddfr-3E428B.11550004042002%40sea-read.news.v erio.net
Well I can see it now: "Tonight on America's Most Wanted, spammers." or in Canada "I'm Constable Bob of the RCMP, we are requesting your assistance in solving the spam problem."
Not likley. Rewards will not work any better than penalties. But I do like the idea of 2 year sentence of no telecomunication devices for spammers.
While I agree with charging a fee would legitimize the practice of spam, I stop short of agreeing with you.
Where I live, ( Rural Western Canada ) I can demand that the postal office not give me any unsolicited ad mail.
The phone company have rules about when you can phone and offer to clean my carpets. I can tell sales people to have a nice day in person or put up a "Your not welcome" sign.
I'm not ready to live isolated from the world and I don't want any law that would cause that to happen.
The killer flu is something that we have been hearing about, planning for, for years. It is either been averted, postponed, or is just not the threat that it was in the history of the earth.
Let's think what would happen when health and emergency service workers are either home sick or too scared to come to work. Even more threatening are the lack of logistic services, road crews, transportation drivers to deliver medicine to the hospital pharmacy. Oh and the sudden need for extra people to work in the "negative patient care outcome" services. ( Funeral Homes )
As an emergency health care services volunteer, I have heard, "the pandemic is coming", for years and years. It is not related to the lack of peace on earth.
This flu watch website from Health Canada seems like a good spot to watch for scary trends.
http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/pphb-dgspsp/fluwatch/02-03/ w09_03/index.html
The good news, nothing is out of line. Please return to your regularly scheduled activities, and remember to wash your hands, and if it is wet and sticky and not yours, don't touch it.
The snow is stacked up 3.5 feet deep in front of my house where the snow plow cleared the road. Last week it was almost -40 degrees! If you want to play in the snow, hop a flight to Saskatoon Saskatchewan Canada. But remember to pack your thermal underwear, and bring your mittens.
Saint Brieux Saskatchewan Canada, has only 500 people and manufacturing facilities including: metal forging of ag parts at my work and rotational plastic molding and at my neighbours employer "Bourgault is adding almost one acre of manufacturing area. This expansion will provide room for a Tanaka heavy plate laser that can cut up to 1¼" plate steel with unbelievable precision. The laser will be the first of it's kind in Canada. The expansion, along with new welding robots and other CNC equipment implemented earlier in 2002, will allow Bourgault to increase total manufacturing output." Other cool stuff within 60 miles Doepkers and Schulte Sales and more lakes and golf.
Camping and a lake in town with fishing and a 9 hole golf grass green course. Free Tours, camping fishing and golf. Bring your tent, and book your vacation well in advance because our centenial is next summer!
Long before I became a GNU/Linux user I marveled at the some of the managment idea's generated by Microsoft. This resignation is a volunteer managment crisis issue and IMHO managment idea's are Microsoft's best output. Think of the centuries of business history being generated. So with this in mind:
"Let's look at what David Thielen revealed in his book The 12 Simple Secrets of Microsoft Management
1 Hire the best At Microsoft, the single most important contributor to productivity is regarded as the quality of the employees. Without the very best staff, it is unlikely you will realise your full business potential.
2 Bet the company Bill Gates has never been afraid to completely alter the direction of Microsoft if he believes it necessary to maintain the dominant position of the company (consider his heavy gambles on Windows). If you are convinced that your company needs to move into new areas to stay ahead of the game, have the courage of your convictions.
3 Require failure Microsoft not only forgives genuine mistakes by its employees, it positively expects them! Employees are required to show initiative and take responsibility. Reasonable failures are therefore expected.
4 Managers must be qualified Microsoft's managers are required to have a good detailed technical knowledge of the work being carried out by their teams. This means they have the respect of their staff and can make informed decisions.
5 Measure employees on performance The value of a Microsoft employee is judged entirely by his or her actual day-to-day performance. This is valued far above length of service, experience, loyalty or past successes. The highest standards are therefore certain to be maintained.
6 Spend money frugally Microsoft insists on a corporate culture of modest spending on peripherals: employees do not take expensive flights; offices are uniformly simple, even for the top executives; and entertaining is never unnecessarily lavish.
7 Keep it small Microsoft attempts to maintain the advantages enjoyed by small businesses, such as autonomy, good communication and mobility. It divides itself as far as possible into small work groups which, while still pursuing a common goal, are each functionally independent.
8 Think 'Domination' Microsoft cultivates a culture where every employee is focused on 'total world domination'. Encourage your employees to think of every project in terms of winning market share and dominating the marketplace.
9 'Bill is watching' The very top level of Microsoft management, and that includes Bill Gates him-self, exert enormous control over every aspect of the company. They do this by insisting on a hands-on approach and always finding time to investigate the detailed workings of specific projects. They are never wholly 'out-of-touch' with the day-to-day running of the business.
10 Great morale is essential Morale directly affects employee productivity. Microsoft make sure their staff are happy and have a great team spirit. This means allowing them freedom, ownership of projects and good reward packages, including share options."
*You can't get better ownership plan than the SPI.
"11 Cut the bureaucracy Microsoft is very conscious of eliminating any unnecessary red tape that reduces its efficiency. Employee complaints about bureaucracy are taken seriously, and meetings are always expected to produce real decisions.
12 Make staff feel at home"
Pure "Microsoft"? Small managment lesson for SPI? Just make you giggle?
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Aarrrrg, I have been tricked by a urban legend? It bothers me when I get burn't.Thanks for pointing that out.
As far as I know however, the stranger the image the easier it is to remember something. The mental assosiation trick: One=Run, Two=Shoe, Three=Tree, Four=Door, works by connecting things in a odd way.
According to this site. "The Twelve Days of Christmas" is interesting because, while it seems whimsical, many believe the song was written in England as a catechism song to help young Catholics learn the tenets of their faith during the period when it was a crime to be a Catholic and Catholics were prohibited from practicing any aspect of their faith even in private. The song's gifts originally were hidden references to the teachings of the Catholic faith. The two turtle doves signified the Old and New Testaments, the eight maids a-milking are the Beatitudes and the 10 lords a-leaping the 10 Commandments.
If your legal department is on the offensive, you may need to lay off the marketing department.
... recommend another good Canadian bank? : CitizensBank.ca Why not write the Royal Bank and compliment them on their wise investment practice? I'm sure they would love to hear from a customer. E-mail: custrel@rbc.com The Centre will make every effort to ensure that the individuals responsible receive the accolades that are due.
You sound just like my Fire Fighting Instructor. Hmm wonder why that is? Oh, you know what your talking about!
Now I think I will write Microsoft and thank them for those security patches they keep sending me by email.
Get some smoke detectors, and check the thing every month to make sure the battery works. Yup I said battery, because the AC one's are not much good if the power goes out, ups fails. I bet 9 out of 10 of you will find a faulty smoke detector. Nothing beats
I would go with the same kind of system used over a fork lift charger. It has a simple 10 pounds of extinguishment with a heat activated autodispensor. This way you can take the whole thing in for maintence, recharging. Why not use CO2 extinguighers?
If you are building make the room more fire resistant, more drywall layers, less fuel for the fire.So now does that mean that my Google Toolbar will return results from MSN
Joe Barr reads the future of GNU/Linux and the SCO lawsuit is explained in easy to undsertand pictures. WARNING this link contains a link to Photo's from the Dukes of Hazard
Ben Stein was on CNN a while ago, plugging Yes, You Can Time the Market! and the website, perhaps Ballmer was watching too.
I sold my "share" in Microsoft by looking at my Mutual Fund advisor and telling him, "I do not want to hold any fund that contains Microsoft". We made it happen, last week. My reason: Microsoft does evil things to please the shareholders. I don't want to be part of that inadvertantly.
I feel better now, perhaps Ballmer will too? By the way, do you get bonus karma points for not owning Microsoft shares?
I live sixty miles from Bruno Saskatchewan, in a small town. I bet I have owned half a dozen ball caps from Monsanto. "Brown bagging" seed is a problem, and it is not going to go away. If you do something illegal and you get caught, you pay the price. If you admit you are wrong, you don't get famous.
Everyone who farms reads "The Western Producer" or "Grain News", watches T.V. or listens to CBC radio and or CJVR radio. In the spring and in the fall, you cannot help but learn more about Monsanto and all of their products. You may not care that Kraft makes a lot of your food, but you can't say "I have barely heard of Kraft" All the 72 year old farmers I know could not say that they had not heard of Monsanto. I could take a poll this morning but they would laugh, and may make a comparison to a dog's hind leg. This case does not need to be reviewed. I don't want Roundup sprayed on our food prior to harvest, but I am not going to stop eating bread.
Text from this link: http://www.producer.com/articles/20000615/news/200 00615news07.html
Farmer's story lacks credibility, says scientist
The world's most prominent canola scientist has testified that Percy Schmeiser's story doesn't make sense.
Keith Downey, one of the men who invented canola, said he doesn't believe it is possible that cross-pollination by wind and bees, or seed blowing off trucks, transformed Schmeiser's 900 acres of canola in 1998 into commercial grade Roundup Ready canola.
"The points made by Mr. Schmeiser in the examination for discovery do not reasonably account for how the quantity of Roundup Ready crop found on his fields actually got there," Downey states in a report given to the federal court judge presiding over Monsanto's lawsuit against Schmeiser.
"Such quantities are only consistent with the placing of Roundup tolerant canola seed on the land in question at or after seed bed preparation."
Schmeiser has not yet testified and his lawyer, Terry Zakreski, had just given his opening statement at press time. But in pre-trial testimony, Zakreski presented Schmeiser's explanation for how 900 acres of his crop came to contain the Roundup Ready gene.
Schmeiser said in 1999 that his 1997 crop was planted from conventional canola seed he grew and saved in 1996. During the 1997 growing season, he hand-sprayed weeds around some power poles on the edge of one of his canola fields, and discovered that most of the volunteer canola growing there did not die.
He then used a sprayer to spray Roundup on a three- to four-acre section of the canola crop, Schmeiser said. About 60 percent of the canola survived the Roundup.
Schmeiser harvested this canola and the canola around it, and kept it in an old grain truck. The rest of the crop was stored separately. The next spring, Schmeiser said he took the 8,014 pounds of seed containing the Roundup tolerant material to be seed treated. He then seeded 900 acres with the treated seed plus some bin run seed he had on the farm. Schmeiser said he did not spray Roundup on the crop in 1998.
Downey said Schmeiser's story is not plausible.
If Schmeiser's canola had been the result of cross-pollination, then 25 percent of its seeds should still have been susceptible to Roundup because of mixed parentage. Each flower on a canola plant is separately pollinated, so plants can have differing mixtures of genes in their seeds.
Instead, the seeds grown out from Schmeiser's canola proved to be 100 percent Roundup tolerant.
"The Roundup tolerant plants observed growing in (the field where Schmeiser collected his 1998 seed) must have arisen from a crop planted with Roundup Ready pedigreed seed and not from outcrossing," wrote Downey.
In another field, all of the seeds grown out of samples gathered by the investigator proved to be Roundup tolerant, Downey said. The chance that the investigator managed to randomly choose one cross-pollinated tolerant plant with no susceptible seeds at all was only one in 10,000.
The chance that he could pick six plants that all had 100 percent Roundup tolerant seeds was only one in 10,000,000,000,000,000,000.
"I consider such odds to be highly improbable," said Downey.
Schmeiser also appeared to have used Roundup much more generally on his fields than he claimed, Downey said, which showed Schmeiser knew his crop was Roundup tolerant.
Zakreski questioned Downey on where he received the information on which he based his opinion. Downey said Monsanto had supplied most of his information.
Downey often seemed bemused by scenarios Zakreski presented to show other ways that Schmeiser's fields could have become Roundup tolerant.
Zakreski suggested uncovered passing trucks, whirlwinds, passing farm machinery, strong winds and rolling swaths could have brought Monsanto's gene into the fields.
Downey replied that it was possible to spread canola pollen and seeds in these ways, but not in the quantities that had appeared in Schmeiser's 1998 crop.
Text from the Google Groups Link:
"I've changed the title, since this is really a separate thread and has been for a while. I thought it might be worth summarizing the current
state of the argument as I see it.
The case seems to me to raise two separate issues:
1. What legal rule was the judge trying to lay down. This seems to me quite unclear, since he appears to be simultaneously saying that
Schmeiser does and does not own the same crop. I think there is a possible intepretation that makes it a sensible rule, but I can't tell if that is the one he intended.
2. What actually happened:
Schmeiser's version, accepted by his supporters:
Schmeiser doesn't want roundup ready canola growing in his fields, doesn't normally use roundup on canola. RR canola showed up in his fields either because pollen blew into them from the fields of other farmers who used RR or because some seed spilled in the road next to his fields and sprouted and pollenized his canola.
This account appears unbelievable for two different reasons:
A. According to Monsanto's testing, the tested plants were over 90% RR, according to Schmeiser they were 60%. Either way, the idea that a field
of RR several miles away would provide 90%, or 60%, or 1% of the pollen floating around a 300 acre field of canola is implausible. The idea that
accidentally sprouting canola from seeds that happened to fall out in the road could provide 1% probably isn't absurd, at least for plants
close to the road, but it's hard to see how they could provide anything close to 60%, given that they are, again, competing with a solid mass of
hundreds of acres of canola that has been deliberately planted, presumably watered, etc.
It's worth noting that although the Monsanto testing was of plants right along the road (because they could get them without trespassing),
Schmeiser's own testing was not so limited--and he reported 60%.
So Schmeiser's account appears strikingly inconsistent with either side's claim about how much of the canola he was growing was RR. To
avoid that, you have to argue that the tiny fraction of RR explained on his account somehow rapidly out competed the ordinary canola. But since Schemeiser wasn't using roundup, and RR's only advantage, apparently, is superior resistence to roundup, it is hard to see how that could happen.
B. According to the testimony at trial, if I understand it correctly, Schmeiser (and his employee) took the following series of actions:
1. They sprayed part of a field of canola with roundup; 60% of the plants survived.
2. They took the seed from the surviving 60%, stored it, used it (along with enough other seed) to plant the whole area he was planting with
canola the next year.
That makes perfectly good sense if Schmeiser was deliberately trying to breed his own strain of RR. The only inconsistent element is that it would have made more sense for him not to mix the two seeds, but to use the RR seed for part of his area and the non RR for the rest. But it isn't clear that he didn't--"mix" may merely mean "use some of each."
And in any case, doing that would make it even more obvious what he was doing, whereas this way he could produce a high RR crop in one year,
repeat to get higher the next.
But it makes no sense at all if he objected to RR, as he claims he does.
If he doesn't want it, why does he deliberately use the seed that he knows is high RR--from the plants that didn't die when sprayed with
Roundup--instead of deliberately avoiding using that particular seed and planting his next year's crop with seed from other parts of his field?
Looking at both A and B, the obvious explanation is that Schmeiser is lying. Either he planted RR seed bought without license from a neighbor
who was growing it--presumably what Monsanto is trying to prevent--or he deliberately tried to breed his own RR canola, or both.
So far, nobody here has offered any other explanation of these facts, although that doesn't prove that no other explanation is possible. Nor
has anyone shown that I am misreading the reported facts of the case, although that too is possible.
--
David Friedman
www.daviddfriedman.com/"
"Schmeiser barely had heard of Monsanto before 1998,". What? A 72 year old farmer? He said that?
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Let me translate that from "Saskatchewan-farm-boy" language into "/." for you: "Before last year, I had barely had heard of Microsoft" or "You mean there is another operating system other than GNU/Linux? Microsoft? Really?"
I doubt that the seeds fell of a truck and grew in the ditch, and I doubt that anyone in 1998 did not know all about Monsanto. You see, you could not open a newspaper, or turn on a radio, or drive into a city without learning all about Monsanto.
A quick Google,
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr
Well I can see it now: "Tonight on America's Most Wanted, spammers." or in Canada "I'm Constable Bob of the RCMP, we are requesting your assistance in solving the spam problem."
Not likley. Rewards will not work any better than penalties. But I do like the idea of 2 year sentence of no telecomunication devices for spammers.
Nah, Never mind.
http://lists.debian.org/google.html contains a archive of lots of common problems and the fix. This is where I go, but I use Debian GNU/Linux.
I for some reason have better luck restricting my search to the mailing list of my prefered distribution. Your mileage may vary.
Peace
There is nothing funny about the Stapler scene! Can you guess what kind of stapler I have? LOL!
Ah shucks stop it your making me cry. The special effects were so scary in this film!
This is my favorite movie that almost no one else liked. What can I say I loved "Fargo" too!
While I agree with charging a fee would legitimize the practice of spam, I stop short of agreeing with you. Where I live, ( Rural Western Canada ) I can demand that the postal office not give me any unsolicited ad mail. The phone company have rules about when you can phone and offer to clean my carpets. I can tell sales people to have a nice day in person or put up a "Your not welcome" sign. I'm not ready to live isolated from the world and I don't want any law that would cause that to happen.
The killer flu is something that we have been hearing about, planning for, for years. It is either been averted, postponed, or is just not the threat that it was in the history of the earth. Let's think what would happen when health and emergency service workers are either home sick or too scared to come to work. Even more threatening are the lack of logistic services, road crews, transportation drivers to deliver medicine to the hospital pharmacy. Oh and the sudden need for extra people to work in the "negative patient care outcome" services. ( Funeral Homes ) As an emergency health care services volunteer, I have heard, "the pandemic is coming", for years and years. It is not related to the lack of peace on earth. This flu watch website from Health Canada seems like a good spot to watch for scary trends. http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/pphb-dgspsp/fluwatch/02-03/ w09_03/index.html
The good news, nothing is out of line. Please return to your regularly scheduled activities, and remember to wash your hands, and if it is wet and sticky and not yours, don't touch it.
The snow is stacked up 3.5 feet deep in front of my house where the snow plow cleared the road. Last week it was almost -40 degrees! If you want to play in the snow, hop a flight to Saskatoon Saskatchewan Canada. But remember to pack your thermal underwear, and bring your mittens.
Saint Brieux Saskatchewan Canada, has only 500 people and manufacturing facilities including:
metal forging of ag parts at my work and rotational plastic molding and at my neighbours employer "Bourgault is adding almost one acre of manufacturing area. This expansion will provide room for a Tanaka heavy plate laser that can cut up to 1¼" plate steel with unbelievable precision. The laser will be the first of it's kind in Canada. The expansion, along with new welding robots and other CNC equipment implemented earlier in 2002, will allow Bourgault to increase total manufacturing output." Other cool stuff within 60 miles
Doepkers
and Schulte Sales and more lakes and golf.
Camping and a lake in town with fishing and a 9 hole golf grass green course. Free Tours, camping fishing and golf. Bring your tent, and book your vacation well in advance because our centenial is next summer!
Long before I became a GNU/Linux user I marveled at the some of the managment idea's generated by Microsoft. This resignation is a volunteer managment crisis issue and IMHO managment idea's are Microsoft's best output.
Think of the centuries of business history being generated. So with this in mind:
"Let's look at what David Thielen revealed in his book The 12 Simple Secrets of Microsoft Management
1 Hire the best
At Microsoft, the single most important contributor to productivity is regarded as the quality of the employees. Without the very best staff, it is unlikely you will realise your full business potential.
2 Bet the company
Bill Gates has never been afraid to completely alter the direction of Microsoft if he believes it necessary to maintain the dominant position of the company (consider his heavy gambles on Windows). If you are convinced that your company needs to move into new areas to stay ahead of the game, have the courage of your convictions.
3 Require failure
Microsoft not only forgives genuine mistakes by its employees, it positively expects them! Employees are required to show initiative and take responsibility. Reasonable failures are therefore expected.
4 Managers must be qualified
Microsoft's managers are required to have a good detailed technical knowledge of the work being carried out by their teams. This means they have the respect of their staff and can make informed decisions.
5 Measure employees on performance
The value of a Microsoft employee is judged entirely by his or her actual day-to-day performance. This is valued far above length of service, experience, loyalty or past successes. The highest standards are therefore certain to be maintained.
6 Spend money frugally
Microsoft insists on a corporate culture of modest spending on peripherals: employees do not take expensive flights; offices are uniformly simple, even for the top executives; and entertaining is never unnecessarily lavish.
7 Keep it small
Microsoft attempts to maintain the advantages enjoyed by small businesses, such as autonomy, good communication and mobility. It divides itself as far as possible into small work groups which, while still pursuing a common goal, are each functionally independent.
8 Think 'Domination'
Microsoft cultivates a culture where every employee is focused on 'total world domination'.
Encourage your employees to think of every project in terms of winning market share and dominating the marketplace.
9 'Bill is watching'
The very top level of Microsoft management, and that includes Bill Gates him-self, exert enormous control over every aspect of the company. They do this by insisting on a hands-on approach and always finding time to investigate the detailed workings of specific projects. They are never wholly 'out-of-touch' with the day-to-day running of the business.
10 Great morale is essential
Morale directly affects employee productivity. Microsoft make sure their staff are happy and have a great team spirit. This means allowing them freedom, ownership of projects and good reward packages, including share options."
*You can't get better ownership plan than the SPI.
"11 Cut the bureaucracy
Microsoft is very conscious of eliminating any unnecessary red tape that reduces its efficiency. Employee complaints about bureaucracy are taken seriously, and meetings are always expected to produce real decisions.
12 Make staff feel at home"
Pure "Microsoft"?
Small managment lesson for SPI?
Just make you giggle?