"The safety evaluation process [for MIR162] has not been completed and no imports are allowed at the moment before the safety certificate is issued," said China's vice agricultural minister, Niu Dun.
The Ministry of Agriculture has recently launched a publicity campaign to allay concerns over GM foods and says the criticisms are unfounded.
Seems pretty fair to me. sloppy testing on the US end is all.
The Antarctic Treaty has worked pretty well so far. Something similar would work for the moon, although a Moon Treaty should have stronger controls on those pesky Japanese whalers doing "research".
'of the 18.5 million software developers in the world, about 7.5 million — roughly 40 percent — are so-called hobbyist developers,' which by IDC's definition is 'someone who spends 10 hours a month or more writing computer or mobile device programs, even though they are not paid primarily to be a programmer.'
So if I get paid primarily to to write software I'm a programmer. But If I just hack out a few lines of semi-working code a month I'm a Software Developer? Thanks for clearing that up.
But what am I if I spend a couple hours a week mowing my lawn and planting my garden? A Landscape Developer?
At the briefing in which they announced their decision, government officials said Brazilian aircraft maker Embraer SA would be Saab's principal partner. The transfer of technology is crucial to help Brazil develop future generations of fighter aircraft.
"There isn't necessarily a need to produce all the parts in Brazil," Amorim, the defense minister said. "What's important is that specific aviation technology is transferred to Brazil so we can develop it."
There have been plenty of very wealthy individuals who create foundations Rockefeller, Ford, now Gates and Zuckerberg. They can do a lot of good, arguably more than Ted Turner donating $1B to the UN.
I sure prefer to see it spent this way then surreptitiously funding political activity through tax exempt organizations like George Soros.
In all 3 circumstances, the same root cause is responsible: Big Industry.
1) the medical profession has thousands of careers and work opportunities on the line, influenced by the mere appearance of being negligent.
Not in China.
2) the meat and dairy industry is suffering from the unsavory effects that big name oligopolies introduce when they battle it out for low low prices.
Doesn't really apply here, since the source of the bacteria is poorly managed waste treatment plants.
3) china is trying to enter into a market space where it has to compete with the shit caused by the big names in western marets, and as such, has to be competative against even the sickening shit going on listed above: the only way to do that? Do it themseves, more radically, with no oversights or controls
Closer to the truth. Sewage treatment plants are better than burying it in a shallow hole. But they're still not spending the extra couple of yuan to do it right.
It was an approach that never made much sense, and it's good to know that mounting evidence proves that's the case."
If you read through the article (I know, this is slashdot), you'll see that sales of obscure albums did go up a few thousand when DRM was removed. But the big sellers, where the real profit is for the record companies, were not effected. On the other hand, sales didn't go down. So maybe DRM isn't helping or hurting. Just makes it a little more inconvenient for people who want the product but don't want to pay for it.
Domestic spending on public education or health care is NOT socialism
I'm pretty sure that public schools are indeed owned by the government and the teachers/staff are employed by the government. That sure seems to meet your preferred definition of socialism. Whether the US should follow the same model with health care is an ongoing debate.
Unfortunately it's human nature to be lazy; if people can live in reasonable comfort without having to get up with the alarm clock five days a week, many will choose to do so. A safety net for people who need help is one thing, expecting to be taken care of by the government cradle to grave with no intention to contribute anything in return is something else entirely.
The windscreen wiper has been around since 1903, and its basic design hasn’t changed much since. Coming up with the idea was inventor Mary Anderson, who saw the need for a ‘window cleaning device’ after she saw drivers sticking their heads out of the car to see where they were going during heavy rain.
I wonder if she got rich filing lawsuits against car companies?
Good invention though, because in my personal experience sticking your head out of the window during a heavy rain doesn't significantly improve visibility.
However, richer states are more likely to vote Democrat, and poorer states are more likely to vote Republican
Not quite. Look more closely at voting maps and you'll see that states dominated by big cities tend to have concentrations of wealth in the suburbs and large but very concentrated levels of poverty in the city. The city dwellers vote Democrat in such large numbers it makes the state Democrat in spite of a couple of wealthy counties with high median incomes nearby. Even New York and Massachusetts have plenty of Red counties once you get away from the coast.
It's not the opposite in the US. The difference is that the US has a large, predominately white working middle class. Not rich and no desire to depend on the government. They tend to vote more conservatively than people who expect the government to support them.
If the person next to you is talking on the phone just join in. Comment on what they say, ask what the other person said, etc. Someone rude enough to have a phone conversation in a crowd won't catch the sarcasm, but at least you'll annoy them as much as they annoy you.
After much public outrage and senate hearings, the justice department settled on a $1.92 billion penalty [crainsnewyork.com] (against HSBC $18 billion annual profits).
A $2 Billion fine is hardly trivial. And comparing it to the bank's annual profit is irrelevant, they do lots and lots of legitimate business. Their crime was not monitoring some money transfers, same as this guy. But he was just told to stop instead of being fined a couple of billion.
Getting an ID is only a problem if you don't want to be ID'd. For example if you're an election official and want to vote a half dozen or so times you wouldn't want to show an ID card.
Yet Joseph Akinyede, director of the African Regional Centre for Space Science and Technology Education in Nigeria, an education centre affiliated with the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs, says that the application of space science technology and research to “basic necessities” of life – health, education, energy, food security, environmental management – is critical for the development of the continent.
Yea, send more UN money. I'm confident that the leaders of those countries will spend it wisely.
Other than both happen very quickly in human terms, this has nothing to do with High Frequency Trading. But I suppose that's a buzz word that gets peoples hackles up so they toss it around a few times.
This is just selling advertising space to the highest bidder. The privacy issue is with the companies that collect the data, how they collect it, and who they share it with. Whether they sell that information in real time or the next day isn't particularly relevant.
American capitalism is not at all laissez faire, and every government that's ever existed thru out history has been money-dominated.
No one claims that the US federal government is a perfect system for "promoting social progress and cultural evolution". Everything in life is a compromise.
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"The safety evaluation process [for MIR162] has not been completed and no imports are allowed at the moment before the safety certificate is issued," said China's vice agricultural minister, Niu Dun.
The Ministry of Agriculture has recently launched a publicity campaign to allay concerns over GM foods and says the criticisms are unfounded.
Seems pretty fair to me. sloppy testing on the US end is all.
The Antarctic Treaty has worked pretty well so far. Something similar would work for the moon, although a Moon Treaty should have stronger controls on those pesky Japanese whalers doing "research".
'of the 18.5 million software developers in the world, about 7.5 million — roughly 40 percent — are so-called hobbyist developers,' which by IDC's definition is 'someone who spends 10 hours a month or more writing computer or mobile device programs, even though they are not paid primarily to be a programmer.'
So if I get paid primarily to to write software I'm a programmer. But If I just hack out a few lines of semi-working code a month I'm a Software Developer? Thanks for clearing that up.
But what am I if I spend a couple hours a week mowing my lawn and planting my garden? A Landscape Developer?
At the briefing in which they announced their decision, government officials said Brazilian aircraft maker Embraer SA would be Saab's principal partner. The transfer of technology is crucial to help Brazil develop future generations of fighter aircraft. "There isn't necessarily a need to produce all the parts in Brazil," Amorim, the defense minister said. "What's important is that specific aviation technology is transferred to Brazil so we can develop it."
Brazil has a longstanding policy of spending to develop their own technology infrastructure.. The NSA angle makes for good headlines, but I have to believe the partnership/technology transfer has more to do with it.
I sure prefer to see it spent this way then surreptitiously funding political activity through tax exempt organizations like George Soros.
In all 3 circumstances, the same root cause is responsible: Big Industry.
1) the medical profession has thousands of careers and work opportunities on the line, influenced by the mere appearance of being negligent.
Not in China.
2) the meat and dairy industry is suffering from the unsavory effects that big name oligopolies introduce when they battle it out for low low prices.
Doesn't really apply here, since the source of the bacteria is poorly managed waste treatment plants.
3) china is trying to enter into a market space where it has to compete with the shit caused by the big names in western marets, and as such, has to be competative against even the sickening shit going on listed above: the only way to do that? Do it themseves, more radically, with no oversights or controls
Closer to the truth. Sewage treatment plants are better than burying it in a shallow hole. But they're still not spending the extra couple of yuan to do it right.
two entities that have almost the same name involved in the same story, it makes a different to differentiate the two
That's why we have trademark laws. Oh wait...this is Slashdot (tm) after all.
It was an approach that never made much sense, and it's good to know that mounting evidence proves that's the case."
If you read through the article (I know, this is slashdot), you'll see that sales of obscure albums did go up a few thousand when DRM was removed. But the big sellers, where the real profit is for the record companies, were not effected. On the other hand, sales didn't go down. So maybe DRM isn't helping or hurting. Just makes it a little more inconvenient for people who want the product but don't want to pay for it.
Domestic spending on public education or health care is NOT socialism
I'm pretty sure that public schools are indeed owned by the government and the teachers/staff are employed by the government. That sure seems to meet your preferred definition of socialism. Whether the US should follow the same model with health care is an ongoing debate.
Unfortunately it's human nature to be lazy; if people can live in reasonable comfort without having to get up with the alarm clock five days a week, many will choose to do so. A safety net for people who need help is one thing, expecting to be taken care of by the government cradle to grave with no intention to contribute anything in return is something else entirely.
The windscreen wiper has been around since 1903, and its basic design hasn’t changed much since. Coming up with the idea was inventor Mary Anderson, who saw the need for a ‘window cleaning device’ after she saw drivers sticking their heads out of the car to see where they were going during heavy rain.
I wonder if she got rich filing lawsuits against car companies?
Good invention though, because in my personal experience sticking your head out of the window during a heavy rain doesn't significantly improve visibility.
I always thought that mathematics would have progressed much faster if humans had either four or eight fingers on each hand instead of five.
So now people can't complain that the government's intelligence gathering is illegal. Clever.
However, richer states are more likely to vote Democrat, and poorer states are more likely to vote Republican
Not quite. Look more closely at voting maps and you'll see that states dominated by big cities tend to have concentrations of wealth in the suburbs and large but very concentrated levels of poverty in the city. The city dwellers vote Democrat in such large numbers it makes the state Democrat in spite of a couple of wealthy counties with high median incomes nearby. Even New York and Massachusetts have plenty of Red counties once you get away from the coast.
It's not the opposite in the US. The difference is that the US has a large, predominately white working middle class. Not rich and no desire to depend on the government. They tend to vote more conservatively than people who expect the government to support them.
You mean like when Windows would install with the default user having Administrator privileges. That didn't work out very well.
As far as we know the NSA, et al has been very good at reducing attacks. Or maybe not, we just don't know.
If the person next to you is talking on the phone just join in. Comment on what they say, ask what the other person said, etc. Someone rude enough to have a phone conversation in a crowd won't catch the sarcasm, but at least you'll annoy them as much as they annoy you.
After much public outrage and senate hearings, the justice department settled on a $1.92 billion penalty [crainsnewyork.com] (against HSBC $18 billion annual profits).
A $2 Billion fine is hardly trivial. And comparing it to the bank's annual profit is irrelevant, they do lots and lots of legitimate business. Their crime was not monitoring some money transfers, same as this guy. But he was just told to stop instead of being fined a couple of billion.
At $9 per hour for streaming I doubt they'll overload the link. And for that price they can add more bandwidth if needed.
Getting an ID is only a problem if you don't want to be ID'd. For example if you're an election official and want to vote a half dozen or so times you wouldn't want to show an ID card.
Yet Joseph Akinyede, director of the African Regional Centre for Space Science and Technology Education in Nigeria, an education centre affiliated with the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs, says that the application of space science technology and research to “basic necessities” of life – health, education, energy, food security, environmental management – is critical for the development of the continent.
Yea, send more UN money. I'm confident that the leaders of those countries will spend it wisely.
Other than both happen very quickly in human terms, this has nothing to do with High Frequency Trading. But I suppose that's a buzz word that gets peoples hackles up so they toss it around a few times. This is just selling advertising space to the highest bidder. The privacy issue is with the companies that collect the data, how they collect it, and who they share it with. Whether they sell that information in real time or the next day isn't particularly relevant.
One of the earliest devices connected to the internet (actually ARPANET in those days) was a coke machine in the Carnegie Mellon University Comp Sci department. It's still online today
No one claims that the US federal government is a perfect system for "promoting social progress and cultural evolution". Everything in life is a compromise.
But I hope this therapy works out. Progress against cancer is made one step at a time.