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Comment Re:level 1 to level 3 (Score 1) 274

If you're using the recorded details of the two known Level 7 Incidents, Fukushima's still not QUITE as bad as Chernobyl by the numbers. The thing is, though, it's going to probably have a farther reaching impact than land-locked Chernobyl- and it's still not over with (they can claim it's a new incident with this "leak", but it's still part of that level 7 that started with the Tsunami.) and it's reaching the 1/6th the total radiation at this point and no signs of being over and has signs of possibly being worse or getting worse than they're claiming.

Comment Re:fair use (Score 2) 215

Sue 'em for breach of agreement. Quite simple, really. Much like the horse boarding facility in Texas found out- you breach the agreement on YOUR end, you can't expect anything from the other party in return.

Here's some of the news involved with what I'm talking to:

Court Affirms Judgement Allowing Boarders to Move Horses Due to Stable Employees Smoking In Barn

Comment Re:Greed knows no bounds (Score 2) 164

Actually, they allow it- you just can't register the foal in the AQHA registry at that point.

You'll see part-bred Arabians all the time and the AHA allows them to be registered as Partbred-Arabians in a seperate segment of the whole registry.

Why would you want to do this? Simple. You very often get the best of both worlds when you do it. It's just not a breed unto itself and won't "breed true".

Comment Re:Ok, sure... (Score 1) 164

Nature sets the stage. Nurture turns it into the product they are trying to clone.

Unless the clone goes through the exact same process of growth, training, etc. it's not going to be the same horse. Genetically, it will be- but it won't show/race/etc. the same way as the original.

Comment Re:Ok, sure... (Score 1) 164

It's not just to race. There's quite a bit more to the Registries than that.

Let's see... It's to...

- Race.
- Show in Working Cow
- Show in Cutting
- Show in Ranch Sorting
- Looking for specific characteristics for a horse for the task you're looking at one for.

There's a whole host of things. Say, for example, you want to get a good-to-awesome Cutting horse to do real cattle work with. You're not going to just buy a horse and hope for the best (though some do...)- you're going to go look at who's won out of the registry roles for that breed and then look for horses that tie back to those bloodlines. A clone kinda will work for that, but it really muddies up the whole registry.

Comment Re:Ok, sure... (Score 1) 164

The main reasoning they have for this is to have a clone for a major producer under their own control (hint: Cloning a horse is rather expensive, really...quarter of a million) or if one were to die due to old age or accident to have a "backup" of something like Rocking Rodder or King so they can continue showing and breeding a prize stallion.

Honestly, I'd love to have a "backup" of my $500 gem (She took the first-ever Arabian Horse Association Youth Nationals in the Half-Arabian division and is 2012's Reserve National Champion- I bought her as a minimum bid at one of the big Arabian Horse auctions... Oh, little did they know about her... :-D )- but I can't see where it's a monopoly to exclude them like the Judge and the Jury saw it. The registry's purpose is to verify and certify parentage (A clone has but one "parent"- the animal being cloned) and to manage things like competitions. The rules state a purebred foal/horse is one of two purebred parents, a dam and a sire, a mare and a stallion. A clone doesn't HAVE that. Genetically, it's a purebred, so long as you're not genesplicing it as well- and how do you prove that one out?

There's a mess there and it's not something where the decision is a good one. Worse, the suit was brought by a group of individuals that are really solely doing it for financial gains- they're involved with one of the main companies doing the horse cloning. It wasn't a case of someone wanting to clone a Rocking Rodder...it was a case of the bunch doing the cloning to open the floodgates for their business.

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