The DNA matched DNA found on a cigarette lighter found in her schoolbag - not DNA from the rape itself apparently.... More details need to come out, this isn't "solved" in my mind unless they have DNA evidence from the rape itself that matches.
Especially when they're admittedly going on a fishing expedition through the entire town. There is no doubt that there would be other peoples DNA on her personal belongings. Probably several peoples DNA from various places. This is exactly the kind of thing people are afraid of when they don't want their DNA in a database.
With plants and crops, the only thing Monsanto (or anyone) can patent is it's own genetic trait stack lines or asexually produced plants from a parent plant.
But Monsanto plants can and do breed with other plants. Monsanto has sued people who have not paid for use of their patents when those peoples crops became tainted. Sure a lot of people pay for and use them, but it's absurd to patent something that is self replicating in the field. The way you describe it, a patent is not needed because only the producer has the secret recipe. And this is entirely beside the points raised by those "scare-mongering" about GMO foods.
Trademarks are relatively harmless and offer the benefits you suggest. However, there is no benefit to bringing copyright or patents into the coffee business. These other two would be improperly applied. Patents in particular are bad news for agriculture - you get some patented genes into the coffee and it will destroy your smaller operations and make everyone pay the patent holder. It's like a big vacuum sucking money out of the local economy. Not at all what the 3rd world needs to pull itself up.
'Context aware' is the key to revolutionizing the TV-watching experience: you can say the name of a TV show, the name of a channel, the description of a show, or the description of a kind of video you'd like to find on YouTube, and the TV will show it to you."
Context aware would suggest to me that it knows something about what you're presently watching or talking about to interpret what you mean when you tell it what you want. Now I have to RTFA to figure out what the summary botched.
You have a flawed understanding of evolution. If a species develops a trait to the point that it makes other traits irrelevant to its survival, that is the very definition of evolutionary progress. In this case, evolution of mental faculties has reduced the usefulness of particular reproductive traits. Your error in logic comes from divorcing mankind's technical progress from its evolutionary journey. I fully expect a future where the immune system also becomes less important as technology takes over for it. At a certain point technology will become as coupled to humanities existence as water is to a fish's. Whether that is a good evolutionary step remains to be seen, but it would be foolish to argue it isn't a step.
Yeah, I was aware of that argument when I posted. My suspicion is that it's either an evolutionary dead end, or a method of control - the process will become regulated and the government will decide who gets to use it. Either way its really my suspicion that it's bad.
Your argument is a few decades late. Instead of having a surrogate mother carry the child to term now a tank "carries" the child to term.
Surrogates are not legal everywhere, and the argument is still valid. If you can't reproduce perhaps you shouldn't - the rest of us don't want your genes in the population with our offspring;-)
No, that was where people artificially decided who was more fit. One should not intervene when nature decides that. And FYI, my wife was unable to carry to term so we adopted instead. It was much simpler than using an artificial womb and came with a tax credit - we're not Nazis. Thanks for playing.
What's uncertain is whether RTS' code is covered by GPL or not — if it is then Red Hat has all the rights to get access to it and it's a serious GPL violation.
No, if Redhat bought or was given a copy AND it's GPL then they are entitled to source. The company apparently claims to have both a commercial AND a GPL version of their stuff. Which one was sold/given to them?
but is it really feasible, desirable or even affordable for the majority of Earth's population?
This will be primarily used by those who can not conceive and those who cannot carry to term. That would be a huge intervention in the evolutionary process, as those are the people we DON'T want to reproduce.
However, I am strongly against drilling for American oil now. I think, when oil starts running really low in other regions, then we should start drilling it.
I agree. This is the lesson to be learned from Age of Empires. The last man standing is the one with remaining natural resources. You gather the remote stuff first and when it's all gone then you mine your local reserves. OTOH if the US soon becomes the largest producer while it's already the largest consumer, that doesn't say much about availability for the rest of the world.
Magicians have been doing that for a long time.OK, the mirrors divert light under the table or whatever, so it's not a free-standing object, but is it in this case?
When you take energy from the oxygen molecules and the radiate it, you don't get to pick a direction. Some will come down, some will go out to space. The net effect (of this phenomena) is cooling.
So global warming has nothing to do with it? It's all about the carbon dioxide buildup?
Yes. In fact the carbon dioxide in this case is causing a cooling of the atmosphere.
FTFA:
The main effects of carbon dioxide up there come from its collisions with oxygen atoms. These impacts excite carbon dioxide molecules, making them radiate heat. The density of carbon dioxide is too thin above altitudes of about 30 miles (50 kilometers) for the molecules to recapture this heat. Cooling the upper atmosphere causes it to contract, exerting less drag on satellites.
Seriously? They put inertial sensors in an add-on instead of in the device itself? I guess in the PC world you never know what hardware configuration people have and they wanted to carry that over.... dumb.
Possibly but where do you draw the line on when evidence is strong enough?
How about when the police have him in custody, or officially filed charges? It's not the medias job to identify criminals, it's their job to report when the proper authorities do that.
and it means people who cause harm to the falsely accused, for example by firing them from work, should be forced to fully and completely compensate them for that harm.
And when someone googles a job applicant and sees the story with name and pictures and decides NOT to hire, then what? Being misinformed is not a crime and can not be enforced - especially when the result is inaction. Spreading the misinformation is a crime - or at least something you can sue for. Lets not blame the people who heard the news instead of those that report it.
How do you plan to ensure that nobody, in a planet with about 7Billion people, that nobody fucks it up?
The first thing to do is to fire the person who fucked up AND the person above them who fucked up. That's at a minimum. This does several things 1) it eliminates one person who fucked up, so they won't do it again. 2) It eliminates another person who fucked up by not paying attention. 3) It sends a solid message to the people who are still there - fuck up, or let someone fuck up on your watch and you're done. Anyone further up the chain is optional on top of this, but IMHO you have to start with the people who did it and those who should have known.
Bah! man at the top resigns while shitheads who "investigated", wrote, and reported the story are all sitting there reporting on the resignation.
It causes devaluation of cash. The only way to avoid it is to invest in something. And with the fed printing money (see QE, QE2, and QE3) we should be seeing it sometime in 2013. I'm hoping late 2013 or early 2014 but that doesn't seem realistic. Now with the type of QE they did, there is supposedly the option of undoing it somehow, but I'm a bit sceptical.
Why isn't it happening yet? My suspicion is that most of the money went nearly directly to the people who are hoarding it. If it's not circulating it ain't going to cause actual inflation. If this is correct, the Fed truely fucked up. A regulatory and tax climate that allows their last ditch effort to go straight into someones pot of gold would not only eliminate their ability to influence the economy, it would hand it over to someone else;-(
It's been said that US multinationals are holding over a trillion dollars in offshore cash. So if we do get some signs of inflation they may just go on a buying spree to the tune of a trillion dollars. Watch for inflation to start small and then spike - at least for prices of things huge companies like to buy.
People like to live next to work. They hate commuting. They'll build houses and offices near the port and then you're right back to where you started.
That's their problem then. The solution is to make any and all insurance and/or government money covering the damage contingent on declaring the property unfit for rebuilding. It's nice not to cut them off, but it's also unfair to subsidize people who insist on building in hazardous areas. The compromise then is to cover it ONCE. Besides, if you did collect a significant portion of the money to cover rebuilding in those locations, you could build something quite nice in many other parts of the country.
So you move the city only as it gets destroyed, by rebuilding somewhere else. No they were not trolling in the least, this has already been done in other flood-prone areas.
In high school. I didn't even have a spring, so I wrapped a piece of wire tightly around a pencil and then slid it off the end. Put this between two pieces of plastic at the ends of a cardboard tube (section of wrapping paper tube). Glued a little 3" speaker to one end and a mic the other. Played some sound through it. It sounded like total crap - as if someone was talking / playing music in a garbage can. But reverberate it did. So the lesson was that it's easy, but as expected using quality components is important. And given that "quality" is going to be difficult to specify, one should probably do this all digitally where it's easy to make changes.
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Especially when they're admittedly going on a fishing expedition through the entire town. There is no doubt that there would be other peoples DNA on her personal belongings. Probably several peoples DNA from various places. This is exactly the kind of thing people are afraid of when they don't want their DNA in a database.
But Monsanto plants can and do breed with other plants. Monsanto has sued people who have not paid for use of their patents when those peoples crops became tainted. Sure a lot of people pay for and use them, but it's absurd to patent something that is self replicating in the field. The way you describe it, a patent is not needed because only the producer has the secret recipe. And this is entirely beside the points raised by those "scare-mongering" about GMO foods.
Trademarks are relatively harmless and offer the benefits you suggest. However, there is no benefit to bringing copyright or patents into the coffee business. These other two would be improperly applied. Patents in particular are bad news for agriculture - you get some patented genes into the coffee and it will destroy your smaller operations and make everyone pay the patent holder. It's like a big vacuum sucking money out of the local economy. Not at all what the 3rd world needs to pull itself up.
And any day now science will discover that meditation actually does something useful.
How does working with a satellite TV provider help one build a cellular phone network?
Being vertically integrated does not make a monopoly.
Context aware would suggest to me that it knows something about what you're presently watching or talking about to interpret what you mean when you tell it what you want. Now I have to RTFA to figure out what the summary botched.
Yeah, I was aware of that argument when I posted. My suspicion is that it's either an evolutionary dead end, or a method of control - the process will become regulated and the government will decide who gets to use it. Either way its really my suspicion that it's bad.
Surrogates are not legal everywhere, and the argument is still valid. If you can't reproduce perhaps you shouldn't - the rest of us don't want your genes in the population with our offspring ;-)
No, that was where people artificially decided who was more fit. One should not intervene when nature decides that. And FYI, my wife was unable to carry to term so we adopted instead. It was much simpler than using an artificial womb and came with a tax credit - we're not Nazis. Thanks for playing.
No, if Redhat bought or was given a copy AND it's GPL then they are entitled to source. The company apparently claims to have both a commercial AND a GPL version of their stuff. Which one was sold/given to them?
This will be primarily used by those who can not conceive and those who cannot carry to term. That would be a huge intervention in the evolutionary process, as those are the people we DON'T want to reproduce.
You know, 'cause they retain the simplicity of manipulation like a mesh, but the smoothness of a NURBS. Oh, and free source code from Pixar ;-)
I suppose the challenge in either method is the "blending" they're doing.
I agree. This is the lesson to be learned from Age of Empires. The last man standing is the one with remaining natural resources. You gather the remote stuff first and when it's all gone then you mine your local reserves. OTOH if the US soon becomes the largest producer while it's already the largest consumer, that doesn't say much about availability for the rest of the world.
Magicians have been doing that for a long time.OK, the mirrors divert light under the table or whatever, so it's not a free-standing object, but is it in this case?
When you take energy from the oxygen molecules and the radiate it, you don't get to pick a direction. Some will come down, some will go out to space. The net effect (of this phenomena) is cooling.
Yes. In fact the carbon dioxide in this case is causing a cooling of the atmosphere.
FTFA:
Seriously? They put inertial sensors in an add-on instead of in the device itself? I guess in the PC world you never know what hardware configuration people have and they wanted to carry that over.... dumb.
How about when the police have him in custody, or officially filed charges? It's not the medias job to identify criminals, it's their job to report when the proper authorities do that.
And when someone googles a job applicant and sees the story with name and pictures and decides NOT to hire, then what? Being misinformed is not a crime and can not be enforced - especially when the result is inaction. Spreading the misinformation is a crime - or at least something you can sue for. Lets not blame the people who heard the news instead of those that report it.
The first thing to do is to fire the person who fucked up AND the person above them who fucked up. That's at a minimum. This does several things 1) it eliminates one person who fucked up, so they won't do it again. 2) It eliminates another person who fucked up by not paying attention. 3) It sends a solid message to the people who are still there - fuck up, or let someone fuck up on your watch and you're done. Anyone further up the chain is optional on top of this, but IMHO you have to start with the people who did it and those who should have known.
Bah! man at the top resigns while shitheads who "investigated", wrote, and reported the story are all sitting there reporting on the resignation.
And QE3 is going to devalue your cash. Where you gonna put that money?
It causes devaluation of cash. The only way to avoid it is to invest in something. And with the fed printing money (see QE, QE2, and QE3) we should be seeing it sometime in 2013. I'm hoping late 2013 or early 2014 but that doesn't seem realistic. Now with the type of QE they did, there is supposedly the option of undoing it somehow, but I'm a bit sceptical.
;-(
Why isn't it happening yet? My suspicion is that most of the money went nearly directly to the people who are hoarding it. If it's not circulating it ain't going to cause actual inflation. If this is correct, the Fed truely fucked up. A regulatory and tax climate that allows their last ditch effort to go straight into someones pot of gold would not only eliminate their ability to influence the economy, it would hand it over to someone else
It's been said that US multinationals are holding over a trillion dollars in offshore cash. So if we do get some signs of inflation they may just go on a buying spree to the tune of a trillion dollars. Watch for inflation to start small and then spike - at least for prices of things huge companies like to buy.
That's their problem then. The solution is to make any and all insurance and/or government money covering the damage contingent on declaring the property unfit for rebuilding. It's nice not to cut them off, but it's also unfair to subsidize people who insist on building in hazardous areas. The compromise then is to cover it ONCE. Besides, if you did collect a significant portion of the money to cover rebuilding in those locations, you could build something quite nice in many other parts of the country.
So you move the city only as it gets destroyed, by rebuilding somewhere else. No they were not trolling in the least, this has already been done in other flood-prone areas.
In high school. I didn't even have a spring, so I wrapped a piece of wire tightly around a pencil and then slid it off the end. Put this between two pieces of plastic at the ends of a cardboard tube (section of wrapping paper tube). Glued a little 3" speaker to one end and a mic the other. Played some sound through it. It sounded like total crap - as if someone was talking / playing music in a garbage can. But reverberate it did. So the lesson was that it's easy, but as expected using quality components is important. And given that "quality" is going to be difficult to specify, one should probably do this all digitally where it's easy to make changes.