The problem has never been the tool. It's the application of the tool, and the people who wield it.
Consider, for instance, a baseball bat. Under normal useage, it's used to play a game. Sure, accidents do happen, sometimes erious, but these are minority cases. For the most part, it's all in fun.
Now consider that baseball bat in the hands of a crazed psychopath who thinks YOUR head is a baseball. See the difference?
Interesting concept. I'm wondering if they can get past the weight that the machine's complexity will add. And there's also the safety aspects when something this complicated breaks down in mid-air. Course, who cares about a robot, but this thing will never get man-rated.
For those of us who aren't omnipotent, who is this guy?
If you're not omnipotent, howcome you're not answering all those spam emails for 'male enhancement products'? According to them, you'll be omnipotent in no time...
Depends on what you're farming. If you're running a beef outfit, definitely. Somebody had done a study on the impact of cow farts on greenhouse gasses once, dunno where, but I'm sure it's Googleable. But if you're just growing a couple square miles of wheat, other than the emissions from your tractor, you're converting that CO2 into useable plant protein and taking it out of the atmosphere.
Works for me. Clamp down on all greenhouse gas emissions, for that matter. Tax CO2 emissions at something like a dollar per kilogram and we could have a budget surplus for the first time in living memory.
Hate to be a killjoy, but as human beings, we expel carbon dioxide as a part of daily life. Want to rethink that?
Ah, so they'll still insist on my credit card number to 'verify' I'm in my 50's.
I'm thinkin this is a good excuse to nail people for 'kiddie porn' if there's no age verification of the performers, especially in the US. Where's the 'Think of the CHILDREN' in this ruling????????????
They already license tvs and radios in Europe, from what I've been told.
Licensing a car, I can see. You're driving it on the road and could possibly run over somebody, so it's in the public interest you have some minimal level of skill to drive it, say, eyesight. But licensing a tv, radio, or computer? How many times they want you to pay for it?
So, since the MafIAA couldn't stop all those 'illegal filesharing piratical thieves' it's now going to be a national security issue like personal encryption was back in the 90's.
How much pr0n does the government have laying around, and why isn't it on Limewire yet?????????
Despite the misleading title in one of the publications,(40) a high gene transfer frequency of 5.8 x 10-2 per recipient bacterium was demonstrated under optimum conditions. But the authors then proceeded to calculate an extremely low gene transfer frequency of 2.0 x 10-17 under extrapolated "natural conditions", assuming that different factors acted independently.
This means a 1 in 50 chance under optimum lab conditions. And 1 in 200,000,000,000,000,000 chance in the wild. See why I'm not too worried about it?
Further:
Transgenic lines are notoriously unstable and often do not breed true (33). There is a paucity of molecular data documenting the structural stability of the transgenic DNA, both in terms of its site of insertion in the genome and its arrangement of genes, in successive generations. Instead, transgenes may be silenced in subsequent generations or lost altogether (34).
If the genes are silenced or lost altogether because they're so notoriusly unstable, why you getting your panties in a bunch? Or did you just skip over these passages?
So instead of arresting the dealer, they're trying to bust the people who visit. It turned out that one of the 2 girls I was giving a ride to had a crack pipe in her purse.
I'm surprised they didn't impound your car for later sale at government auction.
GP was talking about the increased resistance to Roundup that pigweed is developing. Pigweed & corn are two different species. Cross pollination isn't gonna happen.
But cross pollination does happen, even if you want to ignore it. I used to say the same thing however someone else pointed out Horizontal gene transfer. And a few years ago David Quist of UC Berkley found contaminate corn in Mexico, because Mexico is the home of corn they banned GE corn.
I'm not ignoring cross pollination of corn. You keep insisting that corn cross pollinates with pigweed. It doesn't. Period.
Horizontal gene transfer is possible, but not that common. If it were as common as you seem to believe it is, there'd be no species differentiation anywhere below the phylum level.
And I don't mind your source so much as it seems to have a very specific bias against anything that even gives the appearance of genetic modification. Rather biased there, isn't it? Seems to me they came up with a position and gathered facts to support it, totally ignoring anything that might suggest they might be mistaken unless it's to destroy them. Hardly seems to be good science to me.
Actually, the original CIA guys were mostly OSS cowboys from WW2, like 'Wild Bill' Donovan and Alan Dulles, and of course, Tony Poe. They were all Ivy League graduates.
Bush Jr. is smart, damn smart. You have to be smart to become President.
No, you just need to know which political palms to grease to get the Party nomination. That, & 'good looks', the kind that when they publish a picture captioned 'Would you buy a used car from this guy?' and if the answer is overwhelmingly positive, they hire him to sell used cars.
Cross pollination is a basic fact of nature and Monsanto knew any genes inserted into a GMO could cross pollinate with wild plants.
Corn with pigweed??????????? Not bloody likely. Two WAY different species. RR canola with run-of-the-mill canola? Highly likely, if the run of the mill canola is within a few miles. Don't expect pollen to travel a couple thousand miles.
Can you show me where I say anything about pigweed?
GP was talking about the increased resistance to Roundup that pigweed is developing. Pigweed & corn are two different species. Cross pollination isn't gonna happen.
As others have pointed out, and corrected me, gene transfer from one species to another happens regularly. One/.er point me to Horizontal gene transfer. And another brought up virii, a virus can transfer genes from one organism to another, that is one of the methods used in genetic engineering. I made the same mistake earlier, if not in the threads about this article then in another on/. and said genes don't move from one species to a different species.
Yes, I'm aware of horizontal gene transfer. In nature, it's not an easy thing to do above the level of single-celled organisms. The odds are against it, although sometimes you get lucky and hit the jackpot. The kind of odds I'm hearing make the Powerball look like a slam dunk sure thing.
Thus, your crop does not 'half' every year. If there's 200 seeds per cob, you can pick the best 3 or 4 cobs for planting, and eat the rest. You'll still have a good crop next year.
What?!?!? Three or four? I know and have worked with plenty of corn farmers. They are not planting hundreds of seeds, or even thousand, but tens to hundreds of thousands at the least.
GP was talking about a garden. Don't need 160 acres of corn for a single family garden. 3 or 4 ears should do it quite nicely.
Indirectly. Monsanto didn't splice the genes into the weeds.
Cross pollination is a basic fact of nature and Monsanto knew any genes inserted into a GMO could cross pollinate with wild plants.
Corn with pigweed??????????? Not bloody likely. Two WAY different species. RR canola with run-of-the-mill canola? Highly likely, if the run of the mill canola is within a few miles. Don't expect pollen to travel a couple thousand miles.
our MOS, Military Occupational Specialty was 11B, Small Arms Specialist
Back in The Day, '11 Braincells' was Combat Infantryman.
More like directly responsible, if there wasn't Roundup Ready crops then Roundup wouldn't be used so much if at all and without it being as much native plants would have as much an opportunity to become resistant. Therefore no RR crops mean less resistance.
Indirectly. Monsanto didn't splice the genes into the weeds.
Monsanto's GMO crops were only indirectly responsible for this. A RR crop can tolerate more Roundup sprayed on it. Sooner or later you'll find weeds that become resistant to it as well through forced evolution. The weeds with the greatest resistance will be the ones that survive. It's the same principle behind antibiotic-resistant bacteria. Hit bacteria with enough antibiotics and the survivors become immune. Nature has a way of filling ecological voids.
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Kinda gives a whole new dimension to "Reach out and touch someone", doesn't it?
Consider, for instance, a baseball bat. Under normal useage, it's used to play a game. Sure, accidents do happen, sometimes erious, but these are minority cases. For the most part, it's all in fun.
Now consider that baseball bat in the hands of a crazed psychopath who thinks YOUR head is a baseball. See the difference?
Looks to be an order of magnitude more complicated than a helicopter. Otherwise, this thing woulda flown already.
Interesting concept. I'm wondering if they can get past the weight that the machine's complexity will add. And there's also the safety aspects when something this complicated breaks down in mid-air. Course, who cares about a robot, but this thing will never get man-rated.
And the problem (other than to my chloresterol level) with this is???
Oh hell no. Kilby by a landslide.
Reminds me of my #2 ex-wife...
Here's hoping Linux discriminates a bit finer in its definition of 'friend'...
If you're not omnipotent, howcome you're not answering all those spam emails for 'male enhancement products'? According to them, you'll be omnipotent in no time...
Depends on what you're farming. If you're running a beef outfit, definitely. Somebody had done a study on the impact of cow farts on greenhouse gasses once, dunno where, but I'm sure it's Googleable. But if you're just growing a couple square miles of wheat, other than the emissions from your tractor, you're converting that CO2 into useable plant protein and taking it out of the atmosphere.
Hate to be a killjoy, but as human beings, we expel carbon dioxide as a part of daily life. Want to rethink that?
I'm thinkin this is a good excuse to nail people for 'kiddie porn' if there's no age verification of the performers, especially in the US. Where's the 'Think of the CHILDREN' in this ruling????????????
Licensing a car, I can see. You're driving it on the road and could possibly run over somebody, so it's in the public interest you have some minimal level of skill to drive it, say, eyesight. But licensing a tv, radio, or computer? How many times they want you to pay for it?
How much pr0n does the government have laying around, and why isn't it on Limewire yet?????????
This means a 1 in 50 chance under optimum lab conditions. And 1 in 200,000,000,000,000,000 chance in the wild. See why I'm not too worried about it?
Further:
If the genes are silenced or lost altogether because they're so notoriusly unstable, why you getting your panties in a bunch? Or did you just skip over these passages?
I'm surprised they didn't impound your car for later sale at government auction.
I'm not ignoring cross pollination of corn. You keep insisting that corn cross pollinates with pigweed. It doesn't. Period.
Horizontal gene transfer is possible, but not that common. If it were as common as you seem to believe it is, there'd be no species differentiation anywhere below the phylum level.
And I don't mind your source so much as it seems to have a very specific bias against anything that even gives the appearance of genetic modification. Rather biased there, isn't it? Seems to me they came up with a position and gathered facts to support it, totally ignoring anything that might suggest they might be mistaken unless it's to destroy them. Hardly seems to be good science to me.
Medina was never prosecuted. Neither were the members of the chain of command that gave Medina the order to give to Calley.
Actually, the original CIA guys were mostly OSS cowboys from WW2, like 'Wild Bill' Donovan and Alan Dulles, and of course, Tony Poe. They were all Ivy League graduates.
No, you just need to know which political palms to grease to get the Party nomination. That, & 'good looks', the kind that when they publish a picture captioned 'Would you buy a used car from this guy?' and if the answer is overwhelmingly positive, they hire him to sell used cars.
GP was talking about the increased resistance to Roundup that pigweed is developing. Pigweed & corn are two different species. Cross pollination isn't gonna happen.
Yes, I'm aware of horizontal gene transfer. In nature, it's not an easy thing to do above the level of single-celled organisms. The odds are against it, although sometimes you get lucky and hit the jackpot. The kind of odds I'm hearing make the Powerball look like a slam dunk sure thing.
GP was talking about a garden. Don't need 160 acres of corn for a single family garden. 3 or 4 ears should do it quite nicely.
Corn with pigweed??????????? Not bloody likely. Two WAY different species. RR canola with run-of-the-mill canola? Highly likely, if the run of the mill canola is within a few miles. Don't expect pollen to travel a couple thousand miles.
Back in The Day, '11 Braincells' was Combat Infantryman.
Indirectly. Monsanto didn't splice the genes into the weeds.
Monsanto's GMO crops were only indirectly responsible for this. A RR crop can tolerate more Roundup sprayed on it. Sooner or later you'll find weeds that become resistant to it as well through forced evolution. The weeds with the greatest resistance will be the ones that survive. It's the same principle behind antibiotic-resistant bacteria. Hit bacteria with enough antibiotics and the survivors become immune. Nature has a way of filling ecological voids.