Depreciated, while a past participle, is not an example of such a verb.
Incorrect. Depreciated also describes a present state. To say that "x is [fully] depreciated" is not only gramatically correct, it is the predominant usage.
Now take your prescriptive gammarian ass to France, because English grammar is not dictated by a regulator.
If he repeatedly called himself an engineer, that would imply that he felt using the title would convince people that they should follow his advice because he has the requisite knowledge and experience.
Show that the inference is untrue. Why do you presume that he does not have the requisite knowledge? What requisite experience is required to determine that yellow light timing does not comply with a transportation agency guideline?
I could easily see someone considering that to be providing a professional service.
I could not, since by definition professional services must be provided to the public, which is categorically different than petitioning a governmental body to address an issue.
I don't think it's unreasonable to argue either side.
Well, I do. But then again I'm an attorney actually licensed to provide opinions on such matters, and you'd apparently argue that it's not unreasonable to accuse you of engaging in the practice of law without a license (hint: it's not; you're not providing a service, you're merely spouting off).
Whether it be selfcloned seeds or grafted sterile bananas, the problem is the same: you have no genetic diversity and a particularly well adapted disease/parasite can wipe out your whole population.
But we don't actually do that with crops that have sexual parent stock, or even with most crops that are developed through grafted clones. Research how many varieties of corn there are, or how many varieties of apples (a grafted-clone crop with parentage that does not breed true due to horrendously complex genetics).
Of course, if they repeated the editing in different rice varieties, and distributed them in batches...
Which is exactly what is done with hybrid corn development, sans the CRISPR editing...
then a disease could adapt to one or more of those but not all.
Exactly.
In the end, we could monitor the diversity after a few generations and know when we need to edit a new one to fill the pool.
There's not nearly the need that you think -- each of the major food crops has varieties coming out of the woodwork. If you read the linked article, the issue is not with an actual monoculture taking over the world, it is with large oligocultures developing (because any modern cultivated crop will become so uniform and widespread in production) and a threatened failure to preserve wild-type progenitor stock that could be used as inputs to production stock to develop resistance to developing or future threats.
Exactly. Bananas use asexual reproduction. ( info for those who are unaware of the connection)
Bananas do not use asexual reproduction. Human producers seeking a fruit that can be easily harvested and shipped internationally have propogated a sterile mutant variety that, being a sterile mutant, doesn't have a wide range of alternatives.
Already we have very few species (as few as 6) providing 60% of the calories used by the entire human population. We are already very vulnerable to something like Irish Potato famine, only orders of magnitude more devastating. And, replace these species with genetically identical clones?....
Who is suggesting that anyone replace entire species with genetically identical clones? What makes you think that the creation of cloneable hybrids is going to replace the hundreds of varieties of sweet corn, as just one example, that exist within each of those "very few species."
Hint: We've replaced a "species" with collections of genetically identical clones - for hundreds of years. You know them as Malus pumila, the apple tree.
But, it would be the dream of agri-chem business.
High yield hydrids that can be repropogated by seed? Yes, that's certainly the dream of agri-chem. Oh, wait, it was high yield hybrids that could not be repropogated by seed that was the dream of agri-chem. Activists told me so. Reusing seed good. Hybrids and terminator genes bad.
They will write staid professional dry proposals and forecasts...
Got it. "All change is bad. I don't even have to argue why, just trust me."
I'd be hesitant about using this practice, especially in small markets where everyone knows each other. Our college placement office had a story of a student who accepted an offer from a company but continued to go on interviews afterward. They got another offer, but the partners of the two companies (accounting firms) talked to each other and found out what happened and both rescinded their offers.
How dare someone shop for competitive offers. Did your college placement office notify applicants that those employers colluded with each other to limit competition for prospective employees? Did it permit those employers to continue to interview on campus? If so, why?
If you get a reputation of being unreliable and leaving without any contact, it may haunt you in the next downturn. Two weeks isn't much time to stick it out, and if you have an immediate offer, at least tell the previous employer why (and probably expect to not work there again).
How does your anecdote demonstrate unreliability? Did they accept the offer and continue to interview? I'm genuinely curious as to how you're connecting a job search in which an applicant has no obligation to accept an offer of employment, much less apply exclusively at an employer like some sort of early-decisions admission at a college, with failing to appear at a job that one is already working at after failing to provide notice.
Wrong. Our roads were built for horse and wagon and bicycle and streetcar. Cars came later.
Look, there are pictures of Seattle up till World War I...
So Seattle has not built any new roads or rebuilt and widened roads since World War I.... Good to know.
Cars came much later.
And infrastructure was purpose-built and upgraded to match. Horse and wagon and bicycle and streetcar do not require 8" thick pavements and foot plus subbases.
Nope, that was all the suburban drivers doing park and hide in Fremont so we set up a Residential Parking Zone to stop them from doing that. Most of us don't drive to work, actually, half the parking garages in our townhouses only have bikes and kayaks in our garages now. Only n00bZ drive, and old people.
Love the logical self-consistency here. Only n00bZ and old people drive, which explains why Freemont needed to set up a Residential Parking Zone to ensure that all of that empty street parking stayed empty.
Actually, you don't need title for any vehicle under $500
What percentage are those?
you don't use gasoline
What percentage are those?
a lot of places charge for parking bikes (bike lockers, bike cages)
Which negates the charges paid by vehicles (including the electric vehicles costing less than $500) how?
everyone pays sales taxes
Which negates the sales taxes paid on vehicles (including the electric vehicles costing less than $500) how?
WE HAVE NO STATE COUNTY OR CITY INCOME TAX
You have federal income tax and federal transportation "matching" funds (which make up more like 80-90% of funds on many projects)....
, and our property taxes (which renters pay too) are what pay for roads here.
I'm sure that nobody, including renters, will object to the share of their taxes that are going to car infrastruture being expropriated for other purposes while they are told that their "handouts" are over and they should pay even more. If you aren't paying a tax specifically earmarked for something, then that something is obviously a handout. Like bike lanes, and sidewalks, and policing...
Bikes aren't allowed to ride on highways, which is where the state gas tax goes.
WRONG. "'Those taxes go to pay for Washington highways and local roads,' said [Washington State Department of Agriculture spokesperson Mike] Louisell."
Try again, comrade.
No, you try again, comrade. Those roads and that infrastructure have been paid for by car owners. If you think that tax rates could have been set as high as they have been without those services, then I have a bridge to sell you.
Roads, parking, car infrastructure are a handout to car owners.
Who, shockingly, don't pay gas taxes, title taxes, parking fees, sales taxes on their vehicles, income taxes, and other amounts that they expect to go in part towards roads, public parking, and car infrastruture...
You miss the point that citing one particular English translation of an ancient text, and doing it badly at that, does nothing to inform concerning the beliefs of "the primary religions of Europe."
The language is what it is. The philosophy behind the language is not proven by it.
To use your example of God, the primary religions of Europe all have a male god who made the first man in his image.
27 And God created man in His own image, in the image of God created He him; male and female created He them.
The text goes back and forth between singular and plural, but it's pretty clear that both male and female humans are created "in the image of God".
You literally copied the gendered pronouns, and then ignored them and the semicolon that separates clauses based upon the lame excuse that some other words are plural?
No. Even an atheist like me can see that you need a grammar review.
You're assuming that the paranoid person has valid evidence that someone is after them.
Upthread: "Does that actually negate the GP's point? Symptoms of paranoia aren't really indicative of paranoia if there is a demonstrable threat or attack."
"Has paranoid delusions" and "someone is after them" can be independent facts
Upthread: "They are independent facts!"
Can be != are.
I'm not going to repeat every premise in the thread simply because people cannot be bothered to read for context.
Yes. The fact someone is after you does not affirm nor refute the fact you are paranoid. They are independent facts! Therefore, the original point is not accurate, because it implies a relationship that does not exist.
They're dependent facts, and the relationship does exist by definition.
When someone is "after you" it is no longer a delusion, and also not necessarily excessive or irrational to distrust them.
[T]he Court has also emphasized that an invention is not considered to be ineligible for patenting simply because it involves a judicial exception. Alice Corp., 134 S. Ct. at 2354, 110 USPQ2d at 1980-81 (citing Diamond v. Diehr, 450 U.S. 175, 187, 209 USPQ 1, 8 (1981)). See also Thales Visionix Inc. v. United States, 850 F.3d. 1343, 1349, 121 USPQ2d 1898, 1902 (Fed. Cir. 2017) (âoeThat a mathematical equation is required to complete the claimed method and system does not doom the claims to abstraction.â). Accordingly, the Court has said that an application of an abstract idea, law of nature or natural phenomenon may be eligible for patent protection. Alice Corp., 134 S. Ct. at 2354, 110 USPQ2d at 1980 (citing Gottschalk v. Benson, 409 U.S. 63, 67, 175 USPQ 673, 675 (1972)).
He only slapped a 25% tariff on steel, which is a significant input for each of these automakers and which has cost both of them more than $1B per year, but he's "not to blame."
Not if you believe there's merit to the allegations and you're dealing with a foreign national that has made it clear he's about to leave the country. Then they release you from custody but keep your passport.
Why should they? Have they done that before? Do they normally offer guarantees to such treatment to people that they question?
Do you comment on many subjects at length where you have a comical level of ignorance, or just this one?
Answer the questions.
In 2001, Sweden arrested a couple of men and handed them over to the CIA to be tortured. That by itself makes Assange's fear of extradition a matter of common sense, not paranoia. Since then, Obama launched more prosecutions of whisteblowers than all previous presidents combined, had one tortured for eighteen months before finding her guilty in a kangaroo court. The current Secretary of State is a big fan of torture, and the current head of the CIA is a torturer.
Not answers to the questions. Show how Sweden is acting differently in wanting to question Assange in Sweden. Or continue to not do so. Your evasion speaks volumes.
Hell, not only is Assange in the right...
Blah blah irrelevant blah...
) See above 2) see recent case where UK courts blocked the extradition of an accused hacker to the United States because of America's brutal prison system.
First sentence: "A British computer hacker accused by the United States of causing more than $700,000 damage to U.S. military systems will not be extradited because of the high risk he could kill himself." Where's the mention of "America's brutal prison system"?
The same prison system that saw Manning tortured
Citation needed. Desperately.
Can't even make up your own insult. Sad.
Obviously, it was throwing your BS back in your face. Obviously.
By failing to identify one iota of falsity. Kudos, dilettante internet vigilante man
Oh, by the way, you skipped the whole "bail jumping" thing... probably because that act is indefensible.
You think UK police...
Blah blah irrelevant blah. "Doing essentially the same thing Daniel Ellsberg and the NYT" would involve fighting it out in court. Not jumping bail and hiding out in a foreign embassy. That's why one man is a celebrated hero, and the other is a reviled douche on the verge of being thrown out of his chosen refuge.
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Incorrect. Depreciated also describes a present state. To say that "x is [fully] depreciated" is not only gramatically correct, it is the predominant usage.
Now take your prescriptive gammarian ass to France, because English grammar is not dictated by a regulator.
It's a past participle being used as an adjective, as allowed by proper grammar, and you're not only wrong, but a twit.
Show that the inference is untrue. Why do you presume that he does not have the requisite knowledge? What requisite experience is required to determine that yellow light timing does not comply with a transportation agency guideline?
I could not, since by definition professional services must be provided to the public, which is categorically different than petitioning a governmental body to address an issue.
Well, I do. But then again I'm an attorney actually licensed to provide opinions on such matters, and you'd apparently argue that it's not unreasonable to accuse you of engaging in the practice of law without a license (hint: it's not; you're not providing a service, you're merely spouting off).
But we don't actually do that with crops that have sexual parent stock, or even with most crops that are developed through grafted clones. Research how many varieties of corn there are, or how many varieties of apples (a grafted-clone crop with parentage that does not breed true due to horrendously complex genetics).
Which is exactly what is done with hybrid corn development, sans the CRISPR editing...
Exactly.
There's not nearly the need that you think -- each of the major food crops has varieties coming out of the woodwork. If you read the linked article, the issue is not with an actual monoculture taking over the world, it is with large oligocultures developing (because any modern cultivated crop will become so uniform and widespread in production) and a threatened failure to preserve wild-type progenitor stock that could be used as inputs to production stock to develop resistance to developing or future threats.
Bananas do not use asexual reproduction. Human producers seeking a fruit that can be easily harvested and shipped internationally have propogated a sterile mutant variety that, being a sterile mutant, doesn't have a wide range of alternatives.
Who is suggesting that anyone replace entire species with genetically identical clones? What makes you think that the creation of cloneable hybrids is going to replace the hundreds of varieties of sweet corn, as just one example, that exist within each of those "very few species."
Hint: We've replaced a "species" with collections of genetically identical clones - for hundreds of years. You know them as Malus pumila, the apple tree.
High yield hydrids that can be repropogated by seed? Yes, that's certainly the dream of agri-chem. Oh, wait, it was high yield hybrids that could not be repropogated by seed that was the dream of agri-chem. Activists told me so. Reusing seed good. Hybrids and terminator genes bad.
Got it. "All change is bad. I don't even have to argue why, just trust me."
Let's not count Thousand Oaks, because that music was pre-recorded...
Let's not count San Diego's attempted shooting, because the concert hadn't started and only the gunman died...
Let's not count threats against concerts, because that concert was cancelled...
Yep. No problems in 2018.
Dangit. You nailed it. Completely blew by that, as demonstrated by where I asked that exact question.
How dare someone shop for competitive offers. Did your college placement office notify applicants that those employers colluded with each other to limit competition for prospective employees? Did it permit those employers to continue to interview on campus? If so, why?
How does your anecdote demonstrate unreliability? Did they accept the offer and continue to interview? I'm genuinely curious as to how you're connecting a job search in which an applicant has no obligation to accept an offer of employment, much less apply exclusively at an employer like some sort of early-decisions admission at a college, with failing to appear at a job that one is already working at after failing to provide notice.
But you don't have it, do you? Bus lines now cross it, don't they.
So Seattle has not built any new roads or rebuilt and widened roads since World War I.... Good to know.
And infrastructure was purpose-built and upgraded to match. Horse and wagon and bicycle and streetcar do not require 8" thick pavements and foot plus subbases.
Love the logical self-consistency here. Only n00bZ and old people drive, which explains why Freemont needed to set up a Residential Parking Zone to ensure that all of that empty street parking stayed empty.
What percentage are those?
What percentage are those?
Which negates the charges paid by vehicles (including the electric vehicles costing less than $500) how?
Which negates the sales taxes paid on vehicles (including the electric vehicles costing less than $500) how?
You have federal income tax and federal transportation "matching" funds (which make up more like 80-90% of funds on many projects)....
I'm sure that nobody, including renters, will object to the share of their taxes that are going to car infrastruture being expropriated for other purposes while they are told that their "handouts" are over and they should pay even more. If you aren't paying a tax specifically earmarked for something, then that something is obviously a handout. Like bike lanes, and sidewalks, and policing...
WRONG. "'Those taxes go to pay for Washington highways and local roads,' said [Washington State Department of Agriculture spokesperson Mike] Louisell."
No, you try again, comrade. Those roads and that infrastructure have been paid for by car owners. If you think that tax rates could have been set as high as they have been without those services, then I have a bridge to sell you.
Who, shockingly, don't pay gas taxes, title taxes, parking fees, sales taxes on their vehicles, income taxes, and other amounts that they expect to go in part towards roads, public parking, and car infrastruture...
It's all just a "handout."
You miss the point that citing one particular English translation of an ancient text, and doing it badly at that, does nothing to inform concerning the beliefs of "the primary religions of Europe."
The language is what it is. The philosophy behind the language is not proven by it.
You literally copied the gendered pronouns, and then ignored them and the semicolon that separates clauses based upon the lame excuse that some other words are plural?
No. Even an atheist like me can see that you need a grammar review.
Upthread: "Does that actually negate the GP's point? Symptoms of paranoia aren't really indicative of paranoia if there is a demonstrable threat or attack."
Upthread: "They are independent facts!"
Can be != are.
I'm not going to repeat every premise in the thread simply because people cannot be bothered to read for context.
They're dependent facts, and the relationship does exist by definition.
When someone is "after you" it is no longer a delusion, and also not necessarily excessive or irrational to distrust them.
No, "we all" do not, and you're a fool if you believe so to begin with. Math itself cannot be patented. Applications of math can be patented.
It's not like any of this is hidden, you just have to research and read:
No, it really won't. That's before I even have to remind you that people cannot be privately owned any longer.
You're literally cited no sources. "They've interviewed dozens of suspects. Just take my word for it." Not going to happen.
Loser.
Still 5th. Not taking your fact-free word for it either.
Those reasons are figments of your imagination, since there's been a monotonic increase in both population and, excepting nationwide recessions, GDP.
Where's the flight, pray tell, you disingenuous hack.
He only slapped a 25% tariff on steel, which is a significant input for each of these automakers and which has cost both of them more than $1B per year, but he's "not to blame."
Yes, he is to blame.
Prove that. Everyone else disagrees.
Prove that. Because it's not universal, including in Europe.
Answer the questions.
Not answers to the questions. Show how Sweden is acting differently in wanting to question Assange in Sweden. Or continue to not do so. Your evasion speaks volumes.
Blah blah irrelevant blah...
First sentence: "A British computer hacker accused by the United States of causing more than $700,000 damage to U.S. military systems will not be extradited because of the high risk he could kill himself." Where's the mention of "America's brutal prison system"?
Citation needed. Desperately.
By failing to identify one iota of falsity. Kudos, dilettante internet vigilante man
Blah blah irrelevant blah. "Doing essentially the same thing Daniel Ellsberg and the NYT" would involve fighting it out in court. Not jumping bail and hiding out in a foreign embassy. That's why one man is a celebrated hero, and the other is a reviled douche on the verge of being thrown out of his chosen refuge.