Of course, he can. And he does. Sure he does it to support an agenda. But cherry picking science is how the anarchists manage to convince everyone that they are on the side of reason. Don't bother arguing actual scientific method with anyone against-GM-crops, pro-AGW, against-fraking, etc. They are not out to establish scientific facts. They are out to justify their own ineptness.
This needs to mentioned every 5 years since most people don't realize how Europe works. The main political force in the European Union is France. The main political force in France is the french farmers. French take industrial competition to be a state affair. They do so as a matter of fact. The French industry is far behind the US industry as far as genetic engineering. This puts French farmers at a market-place disadvantage. This is the sole driving reason behind all European anti-genetic engineering propaganda. Everything else is excuses. Are there occasional problems with some ge crops? Sure. Just like there are bugs in programs. They get fixed. It's not a disaster. It's a nuisance.
The main reason for this is how unrestricted the legitimate debt collectors are. When there is an unchallenged predator in any environment, there will always be those trying to masquerade as one. The only way to stop this is to make it illegal to have debt collectors outside of the jurisdiction of the callee. But that's not going to happen. Local police can always verify that a certain so-and-so is a private detective. Why shouldn't they be able to verify that a certain so-and-so is a legitimate debt collector? As it stands, even the mob can get into this business. As long as the callers are outside of the jurisdiction, there is no way to challenge them in case of abuse. This is why many people feel vulnerable enough to submit to such scams.
That paper talks about mercury in food products. Specifically, they are talking about an outdated food preparation methods. The mercury in question can only make it into food supply during processing (and not during growing). At no point do they discuss ethanol In fact, the word ethanol does not appear even once in the paper. So I'll ask again. Do you have any reference which shows that a process which creates ethanol uses mercury? Or (more specifically) that it has a potential to leak mercury into the environment? Or are you just making stuff up?
As I mentioned in gp, the roots of the corn remain in the soil. They fix the carbon from the air by converting it into top soil. By making roots longer and wider, more carbon can be fixed while at the same time increasing the increasing the quality of the top soil. It's not the burning that would help the CO2 level, but the growing of the corn.
Even if ethanol provide a 1-to-1 substitute for oil (1 gallon of ethanol produced from 1 gallon of oil), it becomes a potential for curtailing future global warming. Corn can be engineered to have long roots thus trapping more CO2 in the soil. Since this corn is not going to be consumed (only processed into gasoline), it's not a food safety problem. And it is a solution to a potential AGW problem.
It's flawed. It tries to argue that the initial spike in demand (due to obvious decrease in cost) is indicative of a long-term trend. But it's not. It's an impulse response. And in impulse response the steady state is what controls the long term effect. The steady state, in this case, is the natural level of demand.
Universal acceptance is one of the requirements. If a token is only useful for enumerating some exchange but not others, than it's indistinguishable from grocery store coupons.
So anyone who is a "top performer" can now charge for adding people to their circles. Star power gets you hired. Nothing new there. This is sort of the same as celebrities supporting "social causes" without understanding the underlying issues. This is just celebrities endorsing you.
That's not racism as much as it is older generation of immigrants feeling entitled to get ahead of the new generation of immigrants. It's more akin to the conflicts between Irish and Italians in NY at the beginning of the 20th century.
Only governments try to change those. They stay the same though. Money is just a token for enumerating exchange. You can pretend it's something else, but all such pretense is just fiction.
I suppose you mean Kurdistan and the genocide of the Armenians? Yes, both subjects are openly debated here.
Openly debated, ha? Well, that's good. How is that comparable to the guttural visceral reaction to Israel's not treating with the utmost care the Palestianians who are shooting at them? How is that reaction justified from the likes of France, which would invade an African country on a whim; or from Britain which would bomb Argentina over a territorial dispute over an island? During times of open hostilities Israel treats the hostiles as hostiles. That's not racism. That's life.
Reason doesn't account for disproportionate emphasis. It may be true that I have a mole, but if that's all anyone talks about and tries characterize me solely based on the presence of the mole, then they are trying to smear. The relationship between Jews and Arabs in Israel is at the very least "complicated." Israelis are much more akin to Arabs in their sentiments, food choices, etc. than they are to Europeans. But they are viewed as if they were some overlords trying to tower over an indigenous (think native American) population. It's not even remotely the case though.
Genocide? Israel has affirmative action programs for arabs with minimum (minimum, as in at least X have to be accepted) quotas for university acceptance and for government employment... not exactly a staple of ethnic cleansing or genocide.
Pretty sure everyone is trying to control the banks and the media. You might as well try to argue that Jews are trying to control Physics. Many try. They succeed.
One of the rules for thinking for yourself while not being a lemming are #2: realize that a man's hatred or love of a group of people has nothing to do with the factual truth of what is being said. #1 is to let racism or ethnocentrism be HIS problem and stop anointing yourself the arbiter of all that is righteous.
That's cute and all, except European antisemitism is as endemic and as ingrained in their culture as racism is in America. It's a cultural no-no, but it's often still the guttural reaction of choice. And criticizing Israel is the natural outlet for this reaction. That is not to say that Israel doesn't have problems of its own that are worth criticism, but it certainly doesn't deserve all the shit it gets.
So this is the "let's accuse the Israelies so that the US would have no choice but to admit that it was really us" trick? Thanks. I think I already saw that episode of West Wing.
So they won't study answer a scientific question which was asked and which they were paid to answer unless they also get to answer a different question. As if eliminating some of the variables from a scientific inquiry were a legitimate method of inquiry. They are not refusing to political pawns. They are acting as political operatives in that they are putting their politics above answering a legitimate scientific question.
Outlaw is the best, most descriptive, term. It contains in it the underlying premise that the law is a social contract. And those who choose not to abide by this social contract are outside of its protections.
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You can't extrapolate that to others.
Of course, he can. And he does. Sure he does it to support an agenda. But cherry picking science is how the anarchists manage to convince everyone that they are on the side of reason. Don't bother arguing actual scientific method with anyone against-GM-crops, pro-AGW, against-fraking, etc. They are not out to establish scientific facts. They are out to justify their own ineptness.
This needs to mentioned every 5 years since most people don't realize how Europe works. The main political force in the European Union is France. The main political force in France is the french farmers. French take industrial competition to be a state affair. They do so as a matter of fact. The French industry is far behind the US industry as far as genetic engineering. This puts French farmers at a market-place disadvantage. This is the sole driving reason behind all European anti-genetic engineering propaganda. Everything else is excuses. Are there occasional problems with some ge crops? Sure. Just like there are bugs in programs. They get fixed. It's not a disaster. It's a nuisance.
The main reason for this is how unrestricted the legitimate debt collectors are. When there is an unchallenged predator in any environment, there will always be those trying to masquerade as one. The only way to stop this is to make it illegal to have debt collectors outside of the jurisdiction of the callee. But that's not going to happen. Local police can always verify that a certain so-and-so is a private detective. Why shouldn't they be able to verify that a certain so-and-so is a legitimate debt collector? As it stands, even the mob can get into this business. As long as the callers are outside of the jurisdiction, there is no way to challenge them in case of abuse. This is why many people feel vulnerable enough to submit to such scams.
That paper talks about mercury in food products. Specifically, they are talking about an outdated food preparation methods. The mercury in question can only make it into food supply during processing (and not during growing). At no point do they discuss ethanol In fact, the word ethanol does not appear even once in the paper. So I'll ask again. Do you have any reference which shows that a process which creates ethanol uses mercury? Or (more specifically) that it has a potential to leak mercury into the environment? Or are you just making stuff up?
As I mentioned in gp, the roots of the corn remain in the soil. They fix the carbon from the air by converting it into top soil. By making roots longer and wider, more carbon can be fixed while at the same time increasing the increasing the quality of the top soil. It's not the burning that would help the CO2 level, but the growing of the corn.
Do you have a link describing this process? Or are you making this up?
Even if ethanol provide a 1-to-1 substitute for oil (1 gallon of ethanol produced from 1 gallon of oil), it becomes a potential for curtailing future global warming. Corn can be engineered to have long roots thus trapping more CO2 in the soil. Since this corn is not going to be consumed (only processed into gasoline), it's not a food safety problem. And it is a solution to a potential AGW problem.
It's flawed. It tries to argue that the initial spike in demand (due to obvious decrease in cost) is indicative of a long-term trend. But it's not. It's an impulse response. And in impulse response the steady state is what controls the long term effect. The steady state, in this case, is the natural level of demand.
Only if we are in disagreement on what it means to be in agreement.
Universal acceptance is one of the requirements. If a token is only useful for enumerating some exchange but not others, than it's indistinguishable from grocery store coupons.
So anyone who is a "top performer" can now charge for adding people to their circles. Star power gets you hired. Nothing new there. This is sort of the same as celebrities supporting "social causes" without understanding the underlying issues. This is just celebrities endorsing you.
Yes, but if you don't know how to do it faster and clearer with an IDE, you are wasting your time and your employer's money.
That's not racism as much as it is older generation of immigrants feeling entitled to get ahead of the new generation of immigrants. It's more akin to the conflicts between Irish and Italians in NY at the beginning of the 20th century.
Only governments try to change those. They stay the same though. Money is just a token for enumerating exchange. You can pretend it's something else, but all such pretense is just fiction.
I suppose you mean Kurdistan and the genocide of the Armenians? Yes, both subjects are openly debated here.
Openly debated, ha? Well, that's good. How is that comparable to the guttural visceral reaction to Israel's not treating with the utmost care the Palestianians who are shooting at them? How is that reaction justified from the likes of France, which would invade an African country on a whim; or from Britain which would bomb Argentina over a territorial dispute over an island? During times of open hostilities Israel treats the hostiles as hostiles. That's not racism. That's life.
Now, because of WW2, being antisemitic in Europe is associated with being fascist
Which is why it's a cultural no-no. Just like racism is a cultural no-no in the US because of the lynchings.
Reason doesn't account for disproportionate emphasis. It may be true that I have a mole, but if that's all anyone talks about and tries characterize me solely based on the presence of the mole, then they are trying to smear. The relationship between Jews and Arabs in Israel is at the very least "complicated." Israelis are much more akin to Arabs in their sentiments, food choices, etc. than they are to Europeans. But they are viewed as if they were some overlords trying to tower over an indigenous (think native American) population. It's not even remotely the case though.
Genocide? Israel has affirmative action programs for arabs with minimum (minimum, as in at least X have to be accepted) quotas for university acceptance and for government employment... not exactly a staple of ethnic cleansing or genocide.
Pretty sure everyone is trying to control the banks and the media. You might as well try to argue that Jews are trying to control Physics. Many try. They succeed.
One of the rules for thinking for yourself while not being a lemming are #2: realize that a man's hatred or love of a group of people has nothing to do with the factual truth of what is being said. #1 is to let racism or ethnocentrism be HIS problem and stop anointing yourself the arbiter of all that is righteous.
That's cute and all, except European antisemitism is as endemic and as ingrained in their culture as racism is in America. It's a cultural no-no, but it's often still the guttural reaction of choice. And criticizing Israel is the natural outlet for this reaction. That is not to say that Israel doesn't have problems of its own that are worth criticism, but it certainly doesn't deserve all the shit it gets.
So this is the "let's accuse the Israelies so that the US would have no choice but to admit that it was really us" trick? Thanks. I think I already saw that episode of West Wing.
So they won't study answer a scientific question which was asked and which they were paid to answer unless they also get to answer a different question. As if eliminating some of the variables from a scientific inquiry were a legitimate method of inquiry. They are not refusing to political pawns. They are acting as political operatives in that they are putting their politics above answering a legitimate scientific question.
So that when you fail to get an exact match, you'd get embarrassed and stay quite? You can't prove a negative, you know.
Hey, first time submitter... just one question: From what IP?
Outlaw is the best, most descriptive, term. It contains in it the underlying premise that the law is a social contract. And those who choose not to abide by this social contract are outside of its protections.