After all, the manufacture, distribution and use of Monsanto's GM product is presumably regulated by some governmental agency? I tend to think that FDA is involved, at least? Monsanto's seed got onto that farmer's land without his knowledge or consent, and the potential damages he could suffer as a result of Monsanto's technology being inadvertently deployed on his land are demonstrably quite large. The ultimate fault is Monsanto's, for failing to adequately control their genetically modified produce's growth and proliferation.
First off, this is an editorial from the opinion section of the New York Times - hardly considered the once and future source of "News for Nerds - Stuff that Matters".
Second, this is not a scientific article. It is an editorial. Yes, I suppose Mister Bittman has a valid opinion, even some good supporting information to demonstrate that he has some understanding of the subject under discussion. Nonetheless, I don't think Mr. Bittman is even remotely what would be considered an expert in the areas of horticulture, agriculture, food production, nutrition, animal husbandry or any of at least a dozen other disciplines which might make his opinion any more informed than my own.
Not to criticize Mr. Bittman - he is an editorial author providing articles for a major news outlet. He has written a well thought-out, interesting editorial - but that's all. He doesn't have direct evidence to refute the findings of the Stanford Study - he doesn't even have any direct criticisms of the methodology employed by the Stanford group (which he should have, IMHO). What he has is an editorial opinion - well expressed, thoughtful, but at the end of the day still just his opinion.
Add to this the allegation that he made public threats against an F.B.I. agent and the agent's family . . .
But everyone here is right . . . the F.B.I. shouldn't have gone all S. S. on this guy. Now, if the agent who was threatened had come alone and blown Brown's brains out I would've found that perfectly acceptable. Of course, that agent would now be in custody facing charges of murder; but I'd like to think that a self-defense plea would work for him there.
Yes, I know - I'm not supposed to RTFA before posting. Man, am I gonna get downmodded and flamed for this . . . but again, just because B. Brown is a hacker doesn't give him a free ticket to issue threats (which no matter how veiled they are were still threats) agains an F.B.I. agent and his children. If it had been the F.B.I. agents threating Mr. Brown and his family, everyone here would be organizing for war; but since it's Mr. Brown who made the threats, everyone here appears to be mobilizing for war.
Just stop and think for with your heads instead of your endocrine systems for a minute, will ya folks?
20mW x (conservatively) 50,000,000 devices nationwide (what, you thought this was just about cell phones? Don't forget LameBoys, PeeS2's and the NoMindO DS) ~= 100,000W.
TCP/IP doesn't really care that much about symmetrical speeds, just two-way communication. TCP doesn't care if upload and download speeds are different.
The overriding issue is that once incarcerated in Britain (or even Sweden), it would be a simple thing for the US to extradite him to face charges of espionage for leaking confidential US information via Wikileaks. And of course the government here would never bring the death penalty into such conversations (at least, not until we had him safely and cozily wrapped up in our own grubby meat-beaters), so those countries would blithely hand him over to our custody to suffer "death by bunda", despite the fact that both countries should refuse extradition on precisely those grounds.
Ecuador is taking a startlingly appropriate and laudable position here, IMHO.
Now you Brits know how we Americans feel when we wipe with our Constitution. Based on my read of BBC's coverage, looks like this guy was guilty until proven innocent.
You really should upgrade from the 0.97 kernel and associated OS. Most of your complaints seem to be about usability, an issue which has steadily been decreasing for Linux users since the mid-90's.
Or is it that you make a living working with the OS from Redmond?
I normally don't do anything to bolster A/C's, but A Canticle for Leibowitz was the first title that sprang to my mind, followed by The Lathe of Heaven.
Yes, as long as your vehicle is lighter than the quantity of air it displaces (i.e., lighter than air). It's not like that tube will "suck" atmosphere up into space - after all, our atmosphere is directly exposed to space everywhere, and yet it hasn't been "sucked" up. (There is no such thing as "suction" - only lower pressure)
Now, once you get several miles up, yes, there will be a vacuum in the tube up there (again, more accurately, not a "vacuum" - just way less air pressure than you and I are used to).
Incidentally, it's physically impossible to suck water up a straw beyond around thirty-odd feet (depending on the barometric pressure). BTW, if building a space elevator is beyond our current technological ability, a space straw is really beyond us.
It's a couple hours shy of quittin' time here, so my brain hasn't started firing yet.
Age of our planet: ~4.3 billion years (plus or minus)
Age of our race: ~150 thousand years (plus or minus)
Total reliable empirical data (i.e., direct observation of meteorological phenomena and events): ~150 years
Yes, it is true that we have garnered a great deal more data from archaeological and other sources, but that data is imprecise (with regards to actual weather conditions) and subject to analysis and debate. Yes, analysis of this extended weather data reveals trends. The first trend to jump right out is that our planet's environment is an incredibly complex mechanism - it has changed radically several times in the history of the planet. We don't even understand its current day-to-day operation completely; many highly intelligent and reputable scientists provide theories and predictions based on the aforementioned data, and this is a very good thing.
Why do people (including the presumably intelligent crowd here) insist on thinking of these as facts? They're theories. When I was young, the prevailing theory was that we were entering an ice age. Now, the CW is that we're heading for a runaway greehouse effect. Both are valid theories. Let me know when one makes sufficient accurate predictions to be considered a reliable theory.
Oh and by the way - we ought to reduce as much as possible our impact on the global ecology (i.e., cut pollution). You don't need a theory for that - common sense should do nicely, I would think?
My son owns a tablet running WebOS. Well, it still does sometimes - but since I got done tinkering with it, he tends to boot to Android. Really, I don't know why he doesn't let me just nuke the WebOS partition and go pure Droid, but it is his tablet.
This is an al-quaeda operative we're talking about here. I mean after all, they were pictures of women, not goats. The German authorities had to know something was amiss.
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After all, the manufacture, distribution and use of Monsanto's GM product is presumably regulated by some governmental agency? I tend to think that FDA is involved, at least? Monsanto's seed got onto that farmer's land without his knowledge or consent, and the potential damages he could suffer as a result of Monsanto's technology being inadvertently deployed on his land are demonstrably quite large. The ultimate fault is Monsanto's, for failing to adequately control their genetically modified produce's growth and proliferation.
Second, this is not a scientific article. It is an editorial. Yes, I suppose Mister Bittman has a valid opinion, even some good supporting information to demonstrate that he has some understanding of the subject under discussion. Nonetheless, I don't think Mr. Bittman is even remotely what would be considered an expert in the areas of horticulture, agriculture, food production, nutrition, animal husbandry or any of at least a dozen other disciplines which might make his opinion any more informed than my own.
Not to criticize Mr. Bittman - he is an editorial author providing articles for a major news outlet. He has written a well thought-out, interesting editorial - but that's all. He doesn't have direct evidence to refute the findings of the Stanford Study - he doesn't even have any direct criticisms of the methodology employed by the Stanford group (which he should have, IMHO). What he has is an editorial opinion - well expressed, thoughtful, but at the end of the day still just his opinion.
'Nuff said.
. . . you seem to be talking to yourself. :)
Better things to do than arrest people who threaten their officers and their families? In a HIGH VISIBILITY, PUBLIC FORUM, no less?
But everyone here is right . . . the F.B.I. shouldn't have gone all S. S. on this guy. Now, if the agent who was threatened had come alone and blown Brown's brains out I would've found that perfectly acceptable. Of course, that agent would now be in custody facing charges of murder; but I'd like to think that a self-defense plea would work for him there.
Yes, I know - I'm not supposed to RTFA before posting. Man, am I gonna get downmodded and flamed for this . . . but again, just because B. Brown is a hacker doesn't give him a free ticket to issue threats (which no matter how veiled they are were still threats) agains an F.B.I. agent and his children. If it had been the F.B.I. agents threating Mr. Brown and his family, everyone here would be organizing for war; but since it's Mr. Brown who made the threats, everyone here appears to be mobilizing for war.
Just stop and think for with your heads instead of your endocrine systems for a minute, will ya folks?
You grew up in a home under high-tension power lines, didn't you? 8^)
20mW x (conservatively) 50,000,000 devices nationwide (what, you thought this was just about cell phones? Don't forget LameBoys, PeeS2's and the NoMindO DS) ~= 100,000W.
Physical
Data
Network
Transport
Session
Protocol
Application
Which layer looks like it cares about symmetry?
There. Fixed that for you.
Just sayin'
Ecuador is taking a startlingly appropriate and laudable position here, IMHO.
No, they're ahead of it.
Now you Brits know how we Americans feel when we wipe with our Constitution. Based on my read of BBC's coverage, looks like this guy was guilty until proven innocent.
Or is anybody here naive enough to believe that nobody will want to fill the incredibly lucrative market which Google appears ready to abandon?
Or is it that you make a living working with the OS from Redmond?
I normally don't do anything to bolster A/C's, but A Canticle for Leibowitz was the first title that sprang to my mind, followed by The Lathe of Heaven.
Can I have some of what you're smoking?
Jealous much?
Now, once you get several miles up, yes, there will be a vacuum in the tube up there (again, more accurately, not a "vacuum" - just way less air pressure than you and I are used to). Incidentally, it's physically impossible to suck water up a straw beyond around thirty-odd feet (depending on the barometric pressure). BTW, if building a space elevator is beyond our current technological ability, a space straw is really beyond us.
It's a couple hours shy of quittin' time here, so my brain hasn't started firing yet.
Age of our race: ~150 thousand years (plus or minus)
Total reliable empirical data (i.e., direct observation of meteorological phenomena and events): ~150 years
Yes, it is true that we have garnered a great deal more data from archaeological and other sources, but that data is imprecise (with regards to actual weather conditions) and subject to analysis and debate. Yes, analysis of this extended weather data reveals trends. The first trend to jump right out is that our planet's environment is an incredibly complex mechanism - it has changed radically several times in the history of the planet. We don't even understand its current day-to-day operation completely; many highly intelligent and reputable scientists provide theories and predictions based on the aforementioned data, and this is a very good thing.
Why do people (including the presumably intelligent crowd here) insist on thinking of these as facts? They're theories. When I was young, the prevailing theory was that we were entering an ice age. Now, the CW is that we're heading for a runaway greehouse effect. Both are valid theories. Let me know when one makes sufficient accurate predictions to be considered a reliable theory.
Oh and by the way - we ought to reduce as much as possible our impact on the global ecology (i.e., cut pollution). You don't need a theory for that - common sense should do nicely, I would think?
Talk about a mouse messin' with a gorilla! Go get 'em, boys!
My son owns a tablet running WebOS. Well, it still does sometimes - but since I got done tinkering with it, he tends to boot to Android. Really, I don't know why he doesn't let me just nuke the WebOS partition and go pure Droid, but it is his tablet.
This is an al-quaeda operative we're talking about here. I mean after all, they were pictures of women, not goats. The German authorities had to know something was amiss.
Just askin'