Projections. TFA follows advances in cruise control, with newer tech added in slowly -- the technology already exists. It's social pressures and fear of litigation that's really what's holding it back.
It looked credible, read an article before you dismiss it as hogwash.
The only thing bad found (aside from the already known resistance weeds evolve for) was the headline. The real story is that these have higher yields than non-GM even in the absence of glyphosate.
No, I read the article when I saw it in the firehose. The headline is exactly backwards and doesn't even jibe with the summary. It doesn't pass any benefits to weeds at all. It does confer benefits when glysophate is used, as TFA notes. After all, that's what this rice was engineered for.
The interesting thing is that rather than unintended consequences, there were unexpected benefits.
The digital projector for a theater has to project an image that will cover over a hundred square feet without being so dim that it's unpleasant and the screen is most likely fifty to a hundred feet away depending on the size of the theater.
Back in the '60ss when I worked at one, the projector had no bulb, it had an arc lamp.
That was a development that came after FM radios were in cars, before 1970 the only FM car radios were aftermarket radios. There were wired speakers hanging from poles that you hung on the car's window. It was the '80s before the FM broadcasts in drive ins started, and they've been around since 1932.
With the windshield wipers... er, windscreen wipers, of course. I've done it lots of times. I was working at one the night Armstrong and Aldren too their stroll. Business was usually down when it rained, but rain never kept people away like the moon landing did. As chronicled in the linked journal, we had one car, and they came in to the concession stand asking "is there a TV in here?"
We all watched on my little black and white 12 inch set I'd brought. IIRC the projectionist missed a reel change that night, only time old Bill ever did that.
Bring out your dead!
CUSTOMER: Here's one -- nine pence.
DRIVE IN: I'm not dead!
MORTICIAN: What?
CUSTOMER: Nothing -- here's your nine pence.
DRIVE IN: I'm not dead!
MORTICIAN: Here -- he says he's not dead!
CUSTOMER: Yes, he is.
DRIVE IN I'm not!
MORTICIAN: He isn't.
CUSTOMER: Well, he will be soon, he's very ill.
DRIVE IN I'm getting better!
CUSTOMER: No, you're not -- you'll be stone dead in a moment.
MORTICIAN: Oh, I can't take him like that -- it's against regulations.
I worked at a drive-in theater as a teenager. Drive ins aren't the only ones having trouble, a few weeks ago the local paper had a story about a theater in a small town that may have to close if they can't raise the money. If I remember correctly, if this particular theater closes, people in that town would have to drive 40 miles to see a movie. I'm sure they're not the only one.
The end user would be a supermarket. Single-household ones should be soon, the article said (one of them, anyway).
It wouldn't run out of fuel, have you ever run out of natural gas? Of course, gas is cheap right now in the US, my heat bill last year was a third what it was just a few years ago. This thing might not be such a good deal if gas prices go back up.
Of course, the environmental advantages of this won't go away; little exhaust and no CO2.
Yahoo has a policy that they close your account if they die.
Thank you for that information. I want my daughter Patty to have my slashdot account when I die, and it's registered with a yahoo email address. I'll be sure to tell her to change the/. preferences when I die (and post an obit in my journal).
Thank you for that, I wish it were like that here -- my youngest daughter just finished her first semester (and got straight As!!). She has it pretty rough, working+school.
College is not free in Europe. The people's taxes pay for it.
"The cost of everything and the value of nothing." You have to separate expenditures from investments. Spending $100k on a car is an expenditure; you will not get that money back. That same amount on a house is an investment; you will make a profit. If you wind up with more than you spent, you didn't spend anything.
Taxes pay for civilization. When society benefits, you benefit. Those taxes for education are investments, not expenditures. School is not only free, there's a return on that investment.
There is no such thing as free except for the breaths you take.
Rain is free, ask a farmer how much irrigation costs. I have a fruit tree in my front yard. Those nectarines are free, they cost no one anything. Then there are sunsets, nature... From one of my Paxil Diaries, after describing an incredibly beautiful sunset:
I looked around at the people in their cars, and a few on foot with their heads down, all frowning, and not a single one of them noticed the show. What in the hell is wrong with people? They'll pay millions of dollars for a piece of cloth stapled or tacked to a wooden frame with some paint smeared on it, but they won't bother to look at beauty no human artist could ever dream of coming close to matching. I just don't understand.
So the sky's colors fade as I get to Marleyâ(TM)s, and I see the dorky kid bartender from Dempseyâ(TM)s, only instead of the backwards hat, he's wearing a white shirt and tie, yelling into a cell phone and gesturing wildly, completely oblivious to his surroundings. "Listen goddamned it you fucking asshole, I'm going to have all your fucking teeth pulled out, you got me? Now get the goddamned shit straight and no more fuckups!"
There are some guys carrying musical equipment back and forth across the street, cursing. "Damn it! God DAMN what a shitty day this is," one guy putting a case into a car exclaims.
"Dude, you're the band," I say. "That doesn't exactly put me in the best partying mood, you know?"
"Fucking shitty day job, ya know?"
"Yeah, did you see that fantastic sunset?" I ask.
"I ain't got time for no fucking sunsets, man! I gotta work!"
The cost of everything and the value of nothing. If nothing you value is free, I pity your empty existence.
So did I, but it was rough -- and it was 1975. School was dirt cheap back then. You might have missed the fact that college is now too expensive for middle class kids, let alone the poor.
However, if he's onto something, then you'd expect people who regularly raise their heart rates (eg: with large daily caffine intakes), to live a bit shorter lives than everyone else on average.
If that's the case than people who get a lot of exercise should die young. Note that this study said more folks died "of all causes". That suggests to me that it's the lack of sleep that does it; someone who gets 4 hours of sleep and drinks that coffee on the way to work is in some deadly danger (as are all the people on the same highway). And face it, people who get little sleep usually drink LOTS of coffee to compensate.
But I am over 55, so I have nothing to worry about.
Yes you do, just not death. I'm 61 and for the last year or so if I drink too much coffee I get the shakes. I've cut my consumption down... a little. When I get the shakes I have to pour out the rest of the cup.
This reminds me of decades ago when I was poor and they decided butter was bad for you. The price of butter plummeted and the price of margarine shot up, which was a GOOD thing, as I love butter but couldn't afford it when it wasn't bad for you and I had to settle for (yech) margarine.
Like the studies you point out, then it was margarine that was bad for you, but by then I was no longer poor and could afford butter.
As to coffee, perhaps this will bring the price of coffee down, it's doubled in price in the last decade. I hope so, anyway. I can't believe people pay Starbucks prices when a whole can of Maxwell House or Folger's costs less and lasts a month (and I drink a pot every day).
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Projections. TFA follows advances in cruise control, with newer tech added in slowly -- the technology already exists. It's social pressures and fear of litigation that's really what's holding it back.
It looked credible, read an article before you dismiss it as hogwash.
The only thing bad found (aside from the already known resistance weeds evolve for) was the headline. The real story is that these have higher yields than non-GM even in the absence of glyphosate.
No, I read the article when I saw it in the firehose. The headline is exactly backwards and doesn't even jibe with the summary. It doesn't pass any benefits to weeds at all. It does confer benefits when glysophate is used, as TFA notes. After all, that's what this rice was engineered for.
The interesting thing is that rather than unintended consequences, there were unexpected benefits.
You'll still be able to shut the gas off ate the road, which would shut down your fuel cell.
It is if you're with a girl.
The digital projector for a theater has to project an image that will cover over a hundred square feet without being so dim that it's unpleasant and the screen is most likely fifty to a hundred feet away depending on the size of the theater.
Back in the '60ss when I worked at one, the projector had no bulb, it had an arc lamp.
Part of the problem is that they're seasonal in a lot of parts of the country.
The one I worked in as a teenager was closed from Thanksgiving to March.
That was a development that came after FM radios were in cars, before 1970 the only FM car radios were aftermarket radios. There were wired speakers hanging from poles that you hung on the car's window. It was the '80s before the FM broadcasts in drive ins started, and they've been around since 1932.
With the windshield wipers... er, windscreen wipers, of course. I've done it lots of times. I was working at one the night Armstrong and Aldren too their stroll. Business was usually down when it rained, but rain never kept people away like the moon landing did. As chronicled in the linked journal, we had one car, and they came in to the concession stand asking "is there a TV in here?"
We all watched on my little black and white 12 inch set I'd brought. IIRC the projectionist missed a reel change that night, only time old Bill ever did that.
Bring out your dead!
CUSTOMER: Here's one -- nine pence.
DRIVE IN: I'm not dead!
MORTICIAN: What?
CUSTOMER: Nothing -- here's your nine pence.
DRIVE IN: I'm not dead!
MORTICIAN: Here -- he says he's not dead!
CUSTOMER: Yes, he is.
DRIVE IN I'm not!
MORTICIAN: He isn't.
CUSTOMER: Well, he will be soon, he's very ill.
DRIVE IN I'm getting better!
CUSTOMER: No, you're not -- you'll be stone dead in a moment.
MORTICIAN: Oh, I can't take him like that -- it's against regulations.
I worked at a drive-in theater as a teenager. Drive ins aren't the only ones having trouble, a few weeks ago the local paper had a story about a theater in a small town that may have to close if they can't raise the money. If I remember correctly, if this particular theater closes, people in that town would have to drive 40 miles to see a movie. I'm sure they're not the only one.
Imagine a firefighter's worse nightmare
You already have natural gas and electricity in the buildings.
Also: this does not solve the problem of needing carbon neutral energy sources.
RTFA, it emits no carbon.
Read your own link; Betterige has broken his own "law".
Patents aren't like copyright, it expires in 20 years.
The end user would be a supermarket. Single-household ones should be soon, the article said (one of them, anyway).
It wouldn't run out of fuel, have you ever run out of natural gas? Of course, gas is cheap right now in the US, my heat bill last year was a third what it was just a few years ago. This thing might not be such a good deal if gas prices go back up.
Of course, the environmental advantages of this won't go away; little exhaust and no CO2.
Yahoo has a policy that they close your account if they die.
Thank you for that information. I want my daughter Patty to have my slashdot account when I die, and it's registered with a yahoo email address. I'll be sure to tell her to change the /. preferences when I die (and post an obit in my journal).
So where's the mirror?
There are several in comments posted before yours.
Thank you for that, I wish it were like that here -- my youngest daughter just finished her first semester (and got straight As!!). She has it pretty rough, working+school.
I think you got the wrong guy.
The cost of a pot of coffee is less than about any other beverage except water if you brew it yourself.
College is not free in Europe. The people's taxes pay for it.
"The cost of everything and the value of nothing." You have to separate expenditures from investments. Spending $100k on a car is an expenditure; you will not get that money back. That same amount on a house is an investment; you will make a profit. If you wind up with more than you spent, you didn't spend anything.
Taxes pay for civilization. When society benefits, you benefit. Those taxes for education are investments, not expenditures. School is not only free, there's a return on that investment.
There is no such thing as free except for the breaths you take.
Rain is free, ask a farmer how much irrigation costs. I have a fruit tree in my front yard. Those nectarines are free, they cost no one anything. Then there are sunsets, nature... From one of my Paxil Diaries, after describing an incredibly beautiful sunset:
The cost of everything and the value of nothing. If nothing you value is free, I pity your empty existence.
So did I, but it was rough -- and it was 1975. School was dirt cheap back then. You might have missed the fact that college is now too expensive for middle class kids, let alone the poor.
Read the link I posted.
However, if he's onto something, then you'd expect people who regularly raise their heart rates (eg: with large daily caffine intakes), to live a bit shorter lives than everyone else on average.
If that's the case than people who get a lot of exercise should die young. Note that this study said more folks died "of all causes". That suggests to me that it's the lack of sleep that does it; someone who gets 4 hours of sleep and drinks that coffee on the way to work is in some deadly danger (as are all the people on the same highway). And face it, people who get little sleep usually drink LOTS of coffee to compensate.
But I am over 55, so I have nothing to worry about.
Yes you do, just not death. I'm 61 and for the last year or so if I drink too much coffee I get the shakes. I've cut my consumption down... a little. When I get the shakes I have to pour out the rest of the cup.
Not a good thing. I love coffee.
This reminds me of decades ago when I was poor and they decided butter was bad for you. The price of butter plummeted and the price of margarine shot up, which was a GOOD thing, as I love butter but couldn't afford it when it wasn't bad for you and I had to settle for (yech) margarine.
Like the studies you point out, then it was margarine that was bad for you, but by then I was no longer poor and could afford butter.
As to coffee, perhaps this will bring the price of coffee down, it's doubled in price in the last decade. I hope so, anyway. I can't believe people pay Starbucks prices when a whole can of Maxwell House or Folger's costs less and lasts a month (and I drink a pot every day).