El_Mariachi

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by El_Mariachi 13y ago
Remember, not all arguments/debates are exercises in formal logic. A Slippery Slope argument, for instance, might be perfectly valid in a legal context where precedent carries weight. Also, Ad Hominem is not a synonym for “insult.”
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by El_Mariachi 13y ago
1) Okay. 2) What defines “ground-breaking?” 3) Duplication is a cornerstone of the scientific method. The bill as written would preempt funding for any study checking the results of other recipients’ studies.
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by El_Mariachi 13y ago
1) "Ostrich." They’re feeding, not hiding. And 2) "Road Runner."
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by El_Mariachi 13y ago
"Beyond all this, there’s the challenge of reconciling these income data with other things we’ve been hearing about economic trends. For example, I recently read somewhere that Americans are three times richer than they were a few decades a
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by El_Mariachi 14y ago
The little girl selling lemonade is out there in the hot sun hustling lemonade, even if mom helped her make it or buy the ingredients. This KS, on the other hand, was obviously written entirely by the mother. That's the problem. The kid
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by El_Mariachi 14y ago
In 1970 that billion dollar company would have been valued as such based mainly on its assets and cash flow, not its irrational-speculator-fueled market capitalization bubble.
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by El_Mariachi 14y ago
No, he didn't save the seeds he contractually agreed not to when he made his purchase from Monsanto. The case is about commodity seeds he bought from a grain elevator that happened to include Monsanto seeds. Those seeds were not covered b
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by El_Mariachi 14y ago
Those patents are on identifying, isolating, and extracting those sequences. Making a new copy of them in your body (or in the case of soybeans, growing the plant, which obviously involves DNA replication) isn't infringing, but doing anyth
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by El_Mariachi 14y ago
You don't patent things, you patent methods. Monsanto has patented a method of inserting and manipulating certain gene sequences in soybeans. Growing offspring of existing modified beans is not the same as performing the modification. If