The GMO salmon will be initially grown inland on a small scale. Once it is no longer a novelty, the operation will be scaled up and the fish will be raised in the ocean. They are taking it slow to avoid a backlash.
The objection to gmo in plants has been about increased use of pesticide, namely Roundup
1. Roundup/Glyphosate is not a pesticide. It is an herbicide.
2. Roundup-Ready crops allow herbicides to be applied more effectively after germination, rather than using much harsher herbicides to kill weeds in the seed stage. In many cases, herbicide use goes down, and Roundup is much less persistent in the environment than the chemicals it replaced.
3. Roundup-Ready crops allow for much less environmentally damaging "no-till" farming methods, that reduce erosion, and improve soil nutrient and carbon retention.
Let's see why don't we alter the natural progression of growth and see what happens.
If you compare almost any crop or animal grown for food, to the wild type it came from, there are dramatic differences, especially in the progression of growth. We have been adapting food crops to our needs for at least 10,000 years.
These salmon are bred to grow quickly, but that means they are more dependent than ever on a steady supply of food and an absence of predators. So if there is an accidental release, they are less likely to survive in the wild than non-GMO salmon, and less likely to interbreed with wild fish, so they are environmentally safer.
This will just make corporations even more obsessed with ever growing profits.
More likely it will have the opposite effect. Management prefers to invest for the long run, and they hate the pressure for ever higher quarterly profits. The pressure for short term profits and divestiture comes from big activist shareholders. Small holders and day traders don't get involved in corporate governance, they don't go to shareholder meetings, and they make it harder for activists to get a quorum for change.
No, I don't remember because I wasn't born yet. But I have read about it. The market fell 12% on Oct 29th, 1929. That was a big decline, but there have been bigger single-day declines. The difference is that in 1929, the government responded by raising interest rates, exactly the opposite of what they should have done. This decrease in liquidity froze up financial markets, pushed the dollar into deflation, and bankrupted businesses and farms trying to to service fixed loans in the face of falling prices. As businesses cut back on wages, workers had less to spend, so prices were forced even lower, in a spiral of unemployment and deflation.
The Great Depression was made in Washington, not Wall Street.
Think of the dumpster fire that would be a global stock exchange that can't close, can't halt trading, and offers always-on instant electronic trading of tiny fractions of a stock for cheap, to anybody.
Dark pools already have some of these characteristics.
Most stock transactions do not happen on the public exchanges.
She was a 17 year old high school student. She was kidnapped, and horrifically tortured and gang raped for weeks. She begged her tormentors to kill her, as they became more and more sadistic. They eventually murdered her and threw her body in a dumpster.
The perpetrators walk free today. Some of them served as little as 3 years in prison.
The best argument for DST got killed by better lamps.
It was also killed by the wide adoption of air conditioning. The power saved by people using less light in the evening is swamped by the power used to run air conditioners for an extra hour in the afternoon, since people come home from work an hour earlier in the summer.
Guess what? I only go there a few times a year now instead of once a week.
Sure, they lose a few potential repeat customers. But most of their customers are not coming back regardless of the quality. So it is better to hire an unskilled chef, understaff the waitstaff, and serve low quality food that can be precooked and warmed in the microwave. The only fixed expense is rent, but you can save on that by skimping on seating and the leave the windows open to catch the breeze off the bay. Customers don't linger when they are freezing, so you can turn around your tables every 30 minutes.
So you cut costs by 30% and lose the 10% of your potential customers who are locals. That is a clear win.
It is like going to a restaurant and you get terrible service. You get up and walk out. They will be around for awhile. Eventually enough people will do that same thing. Where as the restaurant that gives good consistent service gets repeat customers and stays in business longer.
Not all restaurants rely on repeat business. For instance, restaurants that rely on tourists. In San Francisco, the worst restaurants are at Fisherman's Wharf, and along Grant Street in Chinatown. If you go down the side streets to where the locals eat, you will have a much better experience.
This is JV level retarded, not something that should be seriously endorsed by a reasonable statesman.
You need to look at the political realities. She is in a very crowded primary field, against people like Bernie that are even further to the left. She has to do what she can to stand out.
Stances like this will help her win the nomination, especially in caucus states like Iowa. If she wins, it will hurt her in the general election, but she has no choice. All she can do is veer left for the nomination, and then try to backtrack to more sensible policies after the convention.
Unfortunately, it is looking more and more likely that Trump will win a 2nd term.
people honestly don't understand that some bins are for recycling and some are for trash.
The problem is apathy, not ignorance. Some people do care, but enough people don't, that they screw it up for all of us.
Recycling is not going to work if it relies on mass altruism. We need to either make it profitable (as it is for aluminum) or we need robots to sort the trash.
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The GMO salmon will be initially grown inland on a small scale. Once it is no longer a novelty, the operation will be scaled up and the fish will be raised in the ocean. They are taking it slow to avoid a backlash.
The objection to gmo in plants has been about increased use of pesticide, namely Roundup
1. Roundup/Glyphosate is not a pesticide. It is an herbicide.
2. Roundup-Ready crops allow herbicides to be applied more effectively after germination, rather than using much harsher herbicides to kill weeds in the seed stage. In many cases, herbicide use goes down, and Roundup is much less persistent in the environment than the chemicals it replaced.
3. Roundup-Ready crops allow for much less environmentally damaging "no-till" farming methods, that reduce erosion, and improve soil nutrient and carbon retention.
Let's see why don't we alter the natural progression of growth and see what happens.
If you compare almost any crop or animal grown for food, to the wild type it came from, there are dramatic differences, especially in the progression of growth. We have been adapting food crops to our needs for at least 10,000 years.
These salmon are bred to grow quickly, but that means they are more dependent than ever on a steady supply of food and an absence of predators. So if there is an accidental release, they are less likely to survive in the wild than non-GMO salmon, and less likely to interbreed with wild fish, so they are environmentally safer.
This will just make corporations even more obsessed with ever growing profits.
More likely it will have the opposite effect. Management prefers to invest for the long run, and they hate the pressure for ever higher quarterly profits. The pressure for short term profits and divestiture comes from big activist shareholders. Small holders and day traders don't get involved in corporate governance, they don't go to shareholder meetings, and they make it harder for activists to get a quorum for change.
Remember?
No, I don't remember because I wasn't born yet. But I have read about it. The market fell 12% on Oct 29th, 1929. That was a big decline, but there have been bigger single-day declines. The difference is that in 1929, the government responded by raising interest rates, exactly the opposite of what they should have done. This decrease in liquidity froze up financial markets, pushed the dollar into deflation, and bankrupted businesses and farms trying to to service fixed loans in the face of falling prices. As businesses cut back on wages, workers had less to spend, so prices were forced even lower, in a spiral of unemployment and deflation.
The Great Depression was made in Washington, not Wall Street.
The most famous example is Berkshire Hathaway. A single share currently costs $300,000.
Warren Buffett keeps it high to discourage short term investors.
Think of the dumpster fire that would be a global stock exchange that can't close, can't halt trading, and offers always-on instant electronic trading of tiny fractions of a stock for cheap, to anybody.
Dark pools already have some of these characteristics.
Most stock transactions do not happen on the public exchanges.
Sherman was on the winning side. Only losers are tried for war crimes.
So why not just phone call?
This basically was a phone call. Phones are used to deliver bad news all the time. Just because this phone was called a "robot" doesn't make it evil.
Actually civilians usually weren't purposely targeted before WWII.
You may want to talk to the people of Georgia about General Sherman.
Sanity and morality is what the group decides.
Ethics are decided by the group. Morality is up to the individual.
You don't like it? Don't go there.
She was born there. So she didn't have a choice.
Freedom of expression is a universal right. We should speak out if it is denied anywhere.
Citation or crawl back under your bridge on the "lack of shortage of child murderers in Japan".
Citation: Murder of Junko Furuta
She was a 17 year old high school student. She was kidnapped, and horrifically tortured and gang raped for weeks. She begged her tormentors to kill her, as they became more and more sadistic. They eventually murdered her and threw her body in a dumpster.
The perpetrators walk free today. Some of them served as little as 3 years in prison.
The best argument for DST got killed by better lamps.
It was also killed by the wide adoption of air conditioning. The power saved by people using less light in the evening is swamped by the power used to run air conditioners for an extra hour in the afternoon, since people come home from work an hour earlier in the summer.
most juvenile crime was committed after school and before the parents get home.
Supposedly, that is also when most teenage pregnancies are initiated.
Start school later: What's the big deal?
The original reason for DST: Stores and parks did not want to change the signs that said when they would open
The park nearest to my house has a sign that says "Closed one hour after sunset".
Guess what? I only go there a few times a year now instead of once a week.
Sure, they lose a few potential repeat customers. But most of their customers are not coming back regardless of the quality. So it is better to hire an unskilled chef, understaff the waitstaff, and serve low quality food that can be precooked and warmed in the microwave. The only fixed expense is rent, but you can save on that by skimping on seating and the leave the windows open to catch the breeze off the bay. Customers don't linger when they are freezing, so you can turn around your tables every 30 minutes.
So you cut costs by 30% and lose the 10% of your potential customers who are locals. That is a clear win.
It is like going to a restaurant and you get terrible service. You get up and walk out. They will be around for awhile. Eventually enough people will do that same thing. Where as the restaurant that gives good consistent service gets repeat customers and stays in business longer.
Not all restaurants rely on repeat business. For instance, restaurants that rely on tourists. In San Francisco, the worst restaurants are at Fisherman's Wharf, and along Grant Street in Chinatown. If you go down the side streets to where the locals eat, you will have a much better experience.
unless you presume that Israel=Jews.
Actually, the presumption would need to go even further to Likud=Jews.
municipalities should tax each robot at a rate commensurate with the wages they would have lost from employees living in the area.
Everyone with a dishwasher can pay taxes for the scullery maid they didn't hire.
We should also tax every phone with a keypad, since no switchboard operator is being paid.
Printed books should be taxed to make up for the unemployed scribes.
They have half the online sales in the US
"Online" is a different channel, not a different market. If they raise prices, people will drive to Walmart instead.
Why wait until they've completely taken over the economy
They are now at 5%. I think we can afford to wait. They are only going to "take over" by giving consumers a better deal than their competitors.
... when they're already breaking the law?
What law are they breaking?
Amazon has about 5% of American retail sales. So it may be premature to label them a monopoly.
So far, they are not even the market leader. Walmart has more than twice their revenue.
Amazon: $239B
Walmart: $514B
Small business doesn't stand much of a chance when you will be undercut by Amazon on pricing. Every time.
Amazon's prices are not very good. Walmart is almost always cheaper, if they carry the product. Amazon wins on convenience and selection, not price.
I guess splitting it into Search, Andriod, and Advertising network components probably makes sense.
Except the advertising revenue is what makes the other two possible.
This is JV level retarded, not something that should be seriously endorsed by a reasonable statesman.
You need to look at the political realities. She is in a very crowded primary field, against people like Bernie that are even further to the left. She has to do what she can to stand out.
Stances like this will help her win the nomination, especially in caucus states like Iowa. If she wins, it will hurt her in the general election, but she has no choice. All she can do is veer left for the nomination, and then try to backtrack to more sensible policies after the convention.
Unfortunately, it is looking more and more likely that Trump will win a 2nd term.
people honestly don't understand that some bins are for recycling and some are for trash.
The problem is apathy, not ignorance. Some people do care, but enough people don't, that they screw it up for all of us.
Recycling is not going to work if it relies on mass altruism. We need to either make it profitable (as it is for aluminum) or we need robots to sort the trash.