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Genetically altered Salmon make me nervous because anything humans are involved with has a downside. And if these fish somehow escape into the wild, I fear that their growth rates may give them an advantage over native species and that would be disastrous.
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Mankind is the engineering master of Earth's surface. We dominate it and make it domour bidding. We can grow, demolish, drain, flood, bore, fly, and orbit at will. We can completely control mighty rivers. Earth is silly putty to us. When we miss the old days, we just build something that looks like that.
It is our inevitable destiny to do the same with genetics. There will be horrible mistakes along the way but, in short time, most of what was once regarded as nature will be superceded by designer substitutes and well-intended proxies.
What I mean: we're not going to save the whales or polar bears or the rainforests. We're going to engineer 'better' ones that can thrive the future we've caused.
It is our inevitable destiny to do the same with genetics. There will be horrible mistakes along the way but, in short time, most of what was once regarded as nature will be superceded by designer substitutes and well-intended proxies.
What I mean: we're not going to save the whales or polar bears or the rainforests. We're going to engineer 'better' ones that can thrive the future we've caused.
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The Hostess story is from the AP and out of New York. Not really "according to the Spokesman-Review." To be nitpicky.
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Just like we're going to use nuclear bombs to dig canals. And special order lizard heads on our babies. Upload our brains to the 'Net. Inevitable.
You get all this reading Wired, right? You do realize Wired is The Weekly World News with big words and a slick graphics department?
Just like we're going to use nuclear bombs to dig canals. And special order lizard heads on our babies. Upload our brains to the 'Net. Inevitable.
You get all this reading Wired, right? You do realize Wired is The Weekly World News with big words and a slick graphics department?
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I see the GMO thing turning into the animal control issues they still battle in Oceania, rats show up so they get cats to kill them, cats kill everything else so they bring something kill the cats, etc. People will probably create animals to kill the animals they created.
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If those Goodwill employees had all had guns, they could have killed the shoplifter before he made it out the door, and nobody would have been hurt.
America #1!
America #1!
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@8 or they just sold handguns, a customer could've used then to stop the bad guy. Assuming that customer was a good guy.
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The Constitution of Pakistan guarantees the right to keep and bear arms. The province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa permits the ownership of heavy weaponry including the use of rocket-propelled grenades, short, medium, and long-range rockets, anti-aircraft guns, mortars, etc.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_politic…
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@5 hehe. I do sound a little doomy gloomy aluminum foil hat.
Nah, nothing pulled from a acience journal. Just semi-educated conjecture. Mankind has little record of changing bahavior to fit the environment. We, instead, change te environment to fit our behavior.
The future: you want to save polar bears? Just engineer them a little bit so that they can enjoy constantly warm weather and to eat the corn husks from the crops we grow to feed our cars. Ez. Done.
Nah, nothing pulled from a acience journal. Just semi-educated conjecture. Mankind has little record of changing bahavior to fit the environment. We, instead, change te environment to fit our behavior.
The future: you want to save polar bears? Just engineer them a little bit so that they can enjoy constantly warm weather and to eat the corn husks from the crops we grow to feed our cars. Ez. Done.
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Games Without Frontiers
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_politic…
Under the Firearms Act (Cap. 114) Laws of Kenya. Anyone who is 12 years or older can apply to privately own a gun.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_politic…
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The NYTimes story about "Super Salm" didn't say why scientists selected the ocean pout. As I wrote on Cornichon this morning, http://www.cornichon.org/2012/12/meet-yo…, it's because the pout's blood contains a sort of fishy antifreeze; it doesn't go dormant in the freezing arctic waters but continues to grow.
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In order to get a gun license, one must:
Prove they are not endangering themselves nor general public by passing a psychological evaluation...The psychological evaluation must be repeated every 5 years.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_politic…
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My dog (who happens to be a formerly stray pitbull) doesn't like dogs, and is good at digging. It's why I don't leave her unattended in my yard or let her run around off leash. Jesus christ, people. If your unattended dog doesn't get in a dogfight, it'll eventually get hit by a car. Do it right or don't have a dog.
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@18, I thought Fight Club was really good. I prefer the more usual movie genres typical of my age and gender (middle-aged female), but I really enjoyed Fight Club.
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"Fight Club." Snort. A story about dudes feeling alienated. BECAUSE THAT STORY HASN'T BEEN TOLD BEFORE.
Wake me up when there's a story about women feeling alienated and finding a way back to wholeness through violence.
Wake me up when there's a story about women feeling alienated and finding a way back to wholeness through violence.
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@1 - Good worry. The ones that are farmed in ocean pens escape a lot. I do wonder though, if it is even possible for farmed salmon to (inter)breed, because they don't have the knowledge to do that whole river of birth struggle. I'd be more worried that the homogenous genetics of the farmed populations are vulnerable to disease, which would affect wild salmon.
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Oh, and gang rapes of women in New Delhi on public bus DOWNTOWN.
Then the protests against that were attacked by police, tear-gassed, and Net feed blocked.
But, hey, not like that matters.
Then the protests against that were attacked by police, tear-gassed, and Net feed blocked.
But, hey, not like that matters.
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I can understand owners, or even valued employees at a small business pursuing shoplifters, but I do not understand minimum wage employees taking any sort of risks beyond simply working for a profit extracting machine.
On top of that, shouldn't Goodwill have a let them go policy? Perhaps even one against reporting shoplifting against anyone except egregious hipsters?
On top of that, shouldn't Goodwill have a let them go policy? Perhaps even one against reporting shoplifting against anyone except egregious hipsters?
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