You could be het & not be a breeder, like if you're a freemartin.

In what municipality?

I was thinking that they might keep their requirements, but TAFTA being with the EU as a whole, the bans in individual countries would be something separate.

If TAFTA favors GMOs, but people can tell themselves that it doesn't matter because each country can still be anti-GMO at a more local level, that might help keep it from being voted down on account of GMOs alone.

I have to think that this is someone's idea for an end run around USA agribusiness lobbyists in TAFTA negotiations.

A technological innovation that allows a person to actually piss beer. It'll change frat parties forever.

Washington state used to have a law that made it illegal to sell distilled liquor in grocery stores. People voted on a ballot initiative and the law changed. Even if bought politicians stay bought, people can change the politicians. A city might find that a contract is void because the former politicians who made it were not acting in good faith with regard to the public's interest.

I can see them having success with biological machines that replace more cumbersome mechanical machines. I can even see them producing special purpose machines, like something that processes blood alcohol and takes some of the stress from over consumption off of the liver. But replacing undamaged organs with "superorgans" will take a while as people learn what isn't now known about the complexity of the systems in which organs interact. By the time they get there they might end up with distributed organs made of groups of self replicating nano sized biomachines and we'll have to be scared of a whole new class of viruses.

If you pick "do not install now," can you go back and install it in a couple of days?

"automatically push software to the Model S fleet" So, either my car does a software update while I'm doing 50mph or the home office needs to know at any given moment whether I'm driving or not. For a car I own, I'd prefer the option to do manual updates.

So then, it would be reasonable to expect that tenure would be granted to a small minority of the population of academia and that it would be inappropriate to consider tenure a likely outcome when pursuing study in the humanities. I notice that 8 years of $70k tuition plus the cost of a dwelling in the city eats up the direct financial value of a Nobel Prize pretty quickly these days, although I imagine that having won a Nobel Prize still makes it fairly easy to get a job.

Now I'm attempting to imagine experimental work in the humanities. I read about progress in human knowledge in the physical sciences fairly frequently, but it seems that I read about fundamental advances in mathematics more frequently than I do any in the humanities (with the understanding that, although the branches of psychology study humans, they count themselves among the sciences). That article in Slate on the benign transgression theory of humor was fairly interesting. Perhaps if more of the progress being made in the humanities was brought to light, society would have more interest in funding it. I think a lot of the current objection to funding the humanities comes from the feeling that one is paying others so that they can spend their time doing mental masturbation rather than expanding the scope of human knowledge in a manner that anyone else will care about.

I notice the phrase "tenure-track" used a couple of times to describe the desirable jobs that might be obtained with these degrees. I've never heard the word "tenure" used to refer to a job outside an educational institution. If the only job for the degree holder is at the same sort of educational institution where the degree was obtained, perhaps that department could be merged with the other departments that teach people who will end up working within the education industry. Other subsets of the humanities that teach people who become lawyers or human relations consultants branch off into subdivisions or separate schools that specialize in teaching oriented towards those specific jobs. A university department that specializes in pursuit of knowledge for its own sake might best be aimed at teaching those who are independently wealthy. They could teach concurrent courses in patron flattery and high level begging, but I think the courses that teach revenue generating skills would quickly split off and be primarily attended by people without the interest in knowledge for its own sake.

The article says "Antennas developed by companies including Kymeta Corp. have no moving parts and are controlled by software, which reduces manufacturing and maintenance costs." Since the satellites are moving and the antennas have not moving parts, I'm not sure how highly directional they would be. I have a couple of Iridium antennas, and they're certainly omnidirectional.

The article says "180 small, high-capacity satellites orbiting the earth at lower altitudes than traditional satellites." For lower altitude (LEO) satellites, the same satellite doesn't stay fixed over the same area. As far as end users are concerned, you could probably look at Google's fiber optic deployments to see how it is with middle men getting between end users and Google's network hardware.