I take their "may be recorded" as telling me what the company consents to my doing.

At other times, companies are providing caveats, fineprints, and EULAs. Should phone calls be any different?

Probably more like lightning preceeding earthquakes:

https://www.google.com/search?...

Not only that, but they're known to give display preference to negative reviews if the company in question doesn't pay membership fees.

Internet is for cr0n!

FTFY

What containers? /waves arm like jedi mind-trick

I dunno if that's true across the board. Fracking releases natural gas, which can captured and sold. I've read one mention (perhaps it was an opinion piece?) that the 'oil companies' are hopeful for the Trans Pacific Partnership to create new export markets for natural gas, but the timing needs to happen rather fast before would-be importers get their domestic capabilities going.

With all of the obligatory redundancies.

There was some television "news" saying the protections of debit and credits cards today were the same as far as zero liability in the case of fraud goes, but it may take longer to remedy if it was a debit card. Personally, I have no reason to vouch for this as I've only used credit cards in my life.

The work (i.e., content) should still be the authors'. Technically, it's the format of the content that the journal owns. Requiring camera-ready formatting from the authors is just added insult to an exploitive economic model.

Or /eng/ if you follow a particular alternative rock band.

The smallest, simplest forms of life are nevertheless far more complex than the most complex device ever constructed by people. It is a form of institutional hubris to suggest or believe that new life can be created by stitching together some DNA. The best we can manage at the present is to modify some tiny function of an existing life form in a hopefully beneficial direction. Anyone who thinks otherwise can volunteer to deal with the next influenza outbreak.

I seem to recall a "minimal genome" project that now seems as though it involved catenating a selection of genes sufficient for life. I'd have to search what came of it, but if you or anyone else could shed some light on it, I'd welcome it.

Certain companies, notably those dealing as real estate trusts or energy companies, already do not pay taxes on taxable income if they distribute almost all of it to shareholders within a designated 12-month period. In the case of mREITs, at least 90% has to be paid out, which is done so in the form of monthly or quarterly dividends.
 

Ripple effects are pretty scary. Good thing trading can be halted to let problems subside.

to that of Toshi Station power converters? I think I could manager to pick up a few on my way home before dinner.

Why aren't our bodies producing venom with which we can kill live prey to eat it?
The gene(s) has to be there, and it has to be activated.
Currently not having the gene doesn't necessarily mean we cannot acquire it.