A nautical mile is curved, and is a unit of measure designed for long distances on a spherical object. Meters and kilometers are strait-line measures, and can only approximate distance on Earth (unless you want to bore through the earth).
It's checking who they called when, not the content of the calls. It's the difference between reading a log file to determine login times and using a keylogger to record everything typed. Sorry, that's not a car analogy. It's the difference between checking your car's computer's blackbox for acceleration info and installing GPS and hidden cameras in your car. Both are bad. One is worse.
I know all about it; they shouldn't be doing that either. It's not an either-or situation, but a "neither" situation. I would be fine preventing them from using the terminator gene and preventing them from suing folks who grow their own round-up ready seeds. Monsanto has other ways to make money (like selling Round-up for one, although they own many food-related mega-corps).
Yeah, right. 'Unknowingly'. Uh-huh. Because, you know, farmers regularly spray their entire crop with Roundup, hoping to kill off their whole crop. The only thing 'likely' here is that you are an idiot.
Not their whole crop, but if they're willing to take a gamble, they might have a few plants that naturally survive, and those plants might pass on their round-up resistance to their offspring. Is there anything in the round-up herbicide contract that says you can't use it to apply selective pressure on your crops and produce your own variety of round-up ready crops Gregor Mendel style?
Terminator genes convey an evolutionary advantage?
No, but if the genes transfer, they'll reduce future seed yields for any nearby farmers. By a lot if they're dominant, by a little if they're recessive (although by more for generations if recessive because the trait will only crop up rarely; pun intended).
Your full of shit.
Well, I did just get back from a big lunch. FYI, "you're" is a contraction of "you are".
But unlike your example VNM, this machine is designed to create one specific thing: machines just like it. And that's the only value to having the thing. At best, the farmer who bought the seed from Monsanto violated his contract ("I won't sell product as seed"), and the farmer who bought from the first farmer might be guilty of tortious interference of a contract depending on whether he knew about the contract etc. but that's contract law, not Patent law. *I am not a lawyer
And rightly so; the genes can spread, devastating natural crops, leaving Monsanto as the controlling entity of all food seed. "But how is Monsanto supposed to make money if it can't control gene spreading by either force of patents or by use of dangerous terminator genes?" That's not society's problem. Monsanto owns PepsiCo et al. They have sufficient assets to make profit without having to turn to comic book super villainy.
Music doesn't make copies of itself if let alone. Life does. Plant a few of these in a field (maybe near natural soybeans), leave them alone for a few years, and you might have a lot more of them. Actively cultivate them and you can multiply them exponentially. If Monsanto wanted to be the sole seller of these beans, they should never sell them until gathered and sterilized via gamma radiation. Selling them as seed is inviting someone to do exactly what this farmer did.
Sounds like Monsanto is at fault here. Not the farmer who "produced" the seeds nor the farmer who bought them. If they wanted to be the sole producer, they shouldn't have been selling self-contained seed factories with every seed purchased.
"Emotional problems" light enough that someone doesn't need help can be easily handled alone, thus the 73% stat (assuming it's true). Once someone feels bad enough that they seem help, it probably is harder to handle even with the help.
You don't need friends or relatives. I have hundreds of friends, but thousands of acquaintances who know who I am. Half might be willing to swear to it. The number I chose was arbitrary, but I'm sure a smaller number would work too.
Fifty people willing to commit perjury for $1,000,000 and no one blabs later? I'm sure Bill Gates can get thousands of people to swear that he's Bill Gates for free. If two people are fighting over an identity, the truth will out in a short amount of time.
But it can be made into a "papers please" very easily. It's just that the "papers" are your face. "Sir, the camera didn't get a good angle; look this way please. Thank you, Mr. Jones."
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A nautical mile is curved, and is a unit of measure designed for long distances on a spherical object. Meters and kilometers are strait-line measures, and can only approximate distance on Earth (unless you want to bore through the earth).
The first autocomplete is "Deutschland über alles!"
Now that's offensive.
It would finally prove the UN/alien/illuminati/Yeti/Hollow-Earth/Egyptian theory.
It's checking who they called when, not the content of the calls. It's the difference between reading a log file to determine login times and using a keylogger to record everything typed. Sorry, that's not a car analogy. It's the difference between checking your car's computer's blackbox for acceleration info and installing GPS and hidden cameras in your car. Both are bad. One is worse.
I know all about it; they shouldn't be doing that either. It's not an either-or situation, but a "neither" situation. I would be fine preventing them from using the terminator gene and preventing them from suing folks who grow their own round-up ready seeds. Monsanto has other ways to make money (like selling Round-up for one, although they own many food-related mega-corps).
They don't produce seed, but they can produce pollen.
Yeah, right. 'Unknowingly'. Uh-huh. Because, you know, farmers regularly spray their entire crop with Roundup, hoping to kill off their whole crop. The only thing 'likely' here is that you are an idiot.
Not their whole crop, but if they're willing to take a gamble, they might have a few plants that naturally survive, and those plants might pass on their round-up resistance to their offspring. Is there anything in the round-up herbicide contract that says you can't use it to apply selective pressure on your crops and produce your own variety of round-up ready crops Gregor Mendel style?
Terminator genes convey an evolutionary advantage?
No, but if the genes transfer, they'll reduce future seed yields for any nearby farmers. By a lot if they're dominant, by a little if they're recessive (although by more for generations if recessive because the trait will only crop up rarely; pun intended).
Your full of shit.
Well, I did just get back from a big lunch. FYI, "you're" is a contraction of "you are".
But unlike your example VNM, this machine is designed to create one specific thing: machines just like it. And that's the only value to having the thing. At best, the farmer who bought the seed from Monsanto violated his contract ("I won't sell product as seed"), and the farmer who bought from the first farmer might be guilty of tortious interference of a contract depending on whether he knew about the contract etc. but that's contract law, not Patent law. *I am not a lawyer
Hey, some folk consider corn cobs to be the product. Seedless corncobs would make excellent pipes.
And rightly so; the genes can spread, devastating natural crops, leaving Monsanto as the controlling entity of all food seed. "But how is Monsanto supposed to make money if it can't control gene spreading by either force of patents or by use of dangerous terminator genes?" That's not society's problem. Monsanto owns PepsiCo et al. They have sufficient assets to make profit without having to turn to comic book super villainy.
Music doesn't make copies of itself if let alone. Life does. Plant a few of these in a field (maybe near natural soybeans), leave them alone for a few years, and you might have a lot more of them. Actively cultivate them and you can multiply them exponentially. If Monsanto wanted to be the sole seller of these beans, they should never sell them until gathered and sterilized via gamma radiation. Selling them as seed is inviting someone to do exactly what this farmer did.
Sounds like Monsanto is at fault here. Not the farmer who "produced" the seeds nor the farmer who bought them. If they wanted to be the sole producer, they shouldn't have been selling self-contained seed factories with every seed purchased.
Didn't the UN read about the guy that died after the roach-eating contest?
Whether or not you buy it from the UK?
And the health-issues variety. "Vat grown meat exacerbates my wifi allergy!"
From Better Off TED: http://youtu.be/ezEMnzmDYZU
"Emotional problems" light enough that someone doesn't need help can be easily handled alone, thus the 73% stat (assuming it's true). Once someone feels bad enough that they seem help, it probably is harder to handle even with the help.
I fondly recall things he did that reminded me of thuggery
I don't think that word means what you think it means.
Who is Benghazi?
You don't need friends or relatives. I have hundreds of friends, but thousands of acquaintances who know who I am. Half might be willing to swear to it. The number I chose was arbitrary, but I'm sure a smaller number would work too.
Fifty people willing to commit perjury for $1,000,000 and no one blabs later? I'm sure Bill Gates can get thousands of people to swear that he's Bill Gates for free. If two people are fighting over an identity, the truth will out in a short amount of time.
TV volume and a la carte TV channel selection. These are the things their constituents really care about. It's about time they did something.
That's when you get fifty people who know who you are, go into a judge's chambers and let them all testify that you are you under oath.
But it can be made into a "papers please" very easily. It's just that the "papers" are your face. "Sir, the camera didn't get a good angle; look this way please. Thank you, Mr. Jones."