I'm posting this on behalf of my friend Dr Debal Deb, an environment and agriculture scientist of international renown, who asked me to submit the following because he doesn't have an account on Slashdot, and doesn't want to post as AC. Quote begins:
in GMO, you're making a very deliberate change to some 200 (or less) nucleotides, and you know exactly what that change does, because you've already observed its results before putting it on the market.
Oh, really? Please tell us then why the Golden Rice (the GM rice with a transgene for pro-vitamin A)
(a) produces large amounts of zeaxanthine
(b) the maturation period is lengthened;
(c) grain yield is reduced.
none of these traits were known until this rice was produced.
Need more examples? Take the Bt gene in GM crops. The Bt toxin is known to exude from the roots of Bt rice and Bt corn, but NOT from the roots of Bt cotton and Bt canola.
Yet another example of your EXACT predictability: the transgene for pectin synthesis does no harm in GM tobacco containing it, but in the GM apple with the same transgene, premature leaf shedding is reported.
And then there are a plethora of examples of gene silencing, gene overexpression, and variable expression of the transgene in different tissues of the same plant. Enough with the technophilic triumphalism and the hubris of "Exact knowledge", "precision" and "predictability", already.
You may be interested to read all references to high-profile scientific literature, in my article "Genetic engineering in agriculture: Uncertainties and risks" [in GMO Food: A Reference Handbook (ed. D. Newton), ABC-Clio: Santa Barbara/Denver/Oxford (2014)].
I was with you until the Milk part. My ancestors worked hard at animal husbndry and shoving milk down thier guys to ensure I was lactose tolarante. Ok to be fair they didn't care about me they just wanted to surivive, but its a niec side effect at any rate,
Momento Mori
Seems to have had a rather unexpected side-effect, too!
Since our Hubble volume will contain finite amount of matter-energy forever, the Bekenstein bound applies and thus the Hubble volume can only contain a finite number of distinguishable quantum states. After some point, all possible thoughts in that Hubble volume would have been thought, and any new ones will be repeats of ones that previously occurred. Even if you could be alive in this situation, would you want to?
Thanks for the interesting post. It reminds me about Nietzsche's theory of eternal recurrence. But here is what the philosopher Georg Simmel had to say on this matter (as summarised by Nietzsche scholar Walter Kaufman):
Even if there were exceedingly few things in a finite space in an infinite time, they would not have to repeat in the same configurations. Suppose there were three wheels of equal size, rotating on the same axis, one point marked on the circumference of each wheel, and these three points lined up in one straight line. If the second wheel rotated twice as fast as the first, and if the speed of the third wheel was 1/pi of the speed of the first, the initial line-up would never recur.
Please read the Wikipedia page on "eternal return" and cyclic concepts of time; you'll find it interesting.
I came to this page specifically to see how close to the top the reference to Mr Spock appeared. Alas, it seems I'm the first to mention it. What's happening to Slashdot???
Of course, if the information on your computer isn't highly sensitive and you aren't doing anything illegal, and you are not super paranoid about your privacy, then you probably shouldn't be using this, because it is suspicious. This isn't for the general public.
On the contrary, if enough people start using this that it becomes a fairly common practice, the police can no longer single out one person and claim that their behaviour is suspicious. This absolutely should be adopted by everyone.
I finally downgraded my 2012 Nexus 7 today back to KitKat. It was essentially unusable running Lollipop
My experience on the Nexus 10 has been the opposite. KitKat was so bad that I had to go back to jellybean after a couple of days. Lollipop, on the other hand, has been smooth, light, and rock-solid; no issues at all. Best release for this device ever.
Every Nexus back to the Nexus 4/7(2012) has images for 5.1.0 or 5.1.1. That means, every Google released device released in the last 3 years is up to date. You can argue about whether 3 years is enough time to support their devices, but they are supporting their own devices. Devices sold by manufacturers, instead of Google, are not Google's direct responsibility for upgrades. At least be straight forward about your claims. Google's devices are Nexus devices. GPE or whatever it is you're talking about aren't Google devices. They're just not manufacturer themed. The updates for those devices still originate from the manufacturers and not Google.
Indeed. My Nexus 10 dating from 2012 is running better than ever on 5.1.1. If Apple had other companies selling iOS devices, I doubt they'd have done any better at preventing fragmentation.
Now if your company policy says "50% must be of minority" you end up hiring the top 5% of white and top 50% of minority. Of course the new white employees will outperform the minority ones simply because you got crÃme-de-la-crÃme of the whites and merely "above average" of the minorities. And of course the disparity will cause frictions, rift in the team, disparity of handled workload and worse code quality on the average. Oh, and the company policies will protect the minority employees, punishing the whites who confront them for worse performance.
Perhaps this is the price society must pay until the historical consequences of white supremacy are reversed?
Makes me think - if Congress has negative popularity in USA, and zero popularity at location mentioned in TFA, then they are more popular in a subantarctic aquifer than in their home country.
Suppose I have a couple of patent-worthy ideas, but not the resources to apply for patents. Will Google buy my ideas for (price that they would pay for my patent, if I had one) minus (the cost of patenting my idea)?
Also consider how we mostly hear about Edmund Hillary, and not so much about Tenzing Norgay the Sherpa who was Hillary's partner, and was arguably the first to reach the summit.
I've even seen indications that you could use osmosis as a power source for reverse osmosis, so that you could desalinate seawater from the power of the salinization of the wastewater.
Slashdot Mirror
Well since you're supposed to get wiser with age, does this accelerate the wising-up process?
Well, it does wizen you up.
Yes, the US has some dumb people, and past presidents, but they are not really in the same league.
Aren't you forgetting GW Bush?
in GMO, you're making a very deliberate change to some 200 (or less) nucleotides, and you know exactly what that change does, because you've already observed its results before putting it on the market.
Oh, really? Please tell us then why the Golden Rice (the GM rice with a transgene for pro-vitamin A)
(a) produces large amounts of zeaxanthine
(b) the maturation period is lengthened;
(c) grain yield is reduced.
none of these traits were known until this rice was produced.
Need more examples? Take the Bt gene in GM crops. The Bt toxin is known to exude from the roots of Bt rice and Bt corn, but NOT from the roots of Bt cotton and Bt canola.
Yet another example of your EXACT predictability: the transgene for pectin synthesis does no harm in GM tobacco containing it, but in the GM apple with the same transgene, premature leaf shedding is reported.
And then there are a plethora of examples of gene silencing, gene overexpression, and variable expression of the transgene in different tissues of the same plant. Enough with the technophilic triumphalism and the hubris of "Exact knowledge", "precision" and "predictability", already.
You may be interested to read all references to high-profile scientific literature, in my article "Genetic engineering in agriculture: Uncertainties and risks" [in GMO Food: A Reference Handbook (ed. D. Newton), ABC-Clio: Santa Barbara/Denver/Oxford (2014)].
End quotes.
The word "arbitrarily" leaves a pretty big loop hole.
And 'his'. Don't forget 'his'.
I was with you until the Milk part. My ancestors worked hard at animal husbndry and shoving milk down thier guys to ensure I was lactose tolarante. Ok to be fair they didn't care about me they just wanted to surivive, but its a niec side effect at any rate,
Momento Mori
Seems to have had a rather unexpected side-effect, too!
imagine a Beowulf cluster of these...
It's called a law firm.
Say, could I make a Beowulf cluster of rats to start my own law firm?
Read "The Maxwell Equations" by Anatoly Dneprov: http://www.arvindguptatoys.com...
yeah, they worked great for Steve Jobs, as i recall.
They didn't work for Steve Jobs because nothing would please Steve Jobs.
Okay, how much is the kiddie paying you???
Thanks for the interesting post. It reminds me about Nietzsche's theory of eternal recurrence. But here is what the philosopher Georg Simmel had to say on this matter (as summarised by Nietzsche scholar Walter Kaufman):
Please read the Wikipedia page on "eternal return" and cyclic concepts of time; you'll find it interesting.
I came to this page specifically to see how close to the top the reference to Mr Spock appeared. Alas, it seems I'm the first to mention it. What's happening to Slashdot???
Worst pun ever :(
Of course, if the information on your computer isn't highly sensitive and you aren't doing anything illegal, and you are not super paranoid about your privacy, then you probably shouldn't be using this, because it is suspicious. This isn't for the general public.
On the contrary, if enough people start using this that it becomes a fairly common practice, the police can no longer single out one person and claim that their behaviour is suspicious. This absolutely should be adopted by everyone.
I finally downgraded my 2012 Nexus 7 today back to KitKat. It was essentially unusable running Lollipop
My experience on the Nexus 10 has been the opposite. KitKat was so bad that I had to go back to jellybean after a couple of days. Lollipop, on the other hand, has been smooth, light, and rock-solid; no issues at all. Best release for this device ever.
Indeed. My Nexus 10 dating from 2012 is running better than ever on 5.1.1. If Apple had other companies selling iOS devices, I doubt they'd have done any better at preventing fragmentation.
Perhaps this is the price society must pay until the historical consequences of white supremacy are reversed?
Makes me think - if Congress has negative popularity in USA, and zero popularity at location mentioned in TFA, then they are more popular in a subantarctic aquifer than in their home country.
Now that would interest me.
I think he would be appointed head of Google's products division, if he applied.
Battery storage?
Also consider how we mostly hear about Edmund Hillary, and not so much about Tenzing Norgay the Sherpa who was Hillary's partner, and was arguably the first to reach the summit.
climbing Mr. Everest
My wife does every this every night, yeah!!
He's using his iPhone to power the vacuum cleaner.
Perpetual motion machine!