Unfortunately the Japanese fishing industry has a long history of ignoring laws.

There factory ships aren't allowed to operate in American waters, but they do anyhow. Turns out the Coast Guard has to give them 24 hour notice before boarding, and have to find the fish in a non-canned state. Since they can process the fish in just a couple hours, they continue fishing until just a little while before the Coast Guard can board. Despite everyone being able to see what they are doing, the Coast Guard can not legally do anything unless they find the fish after they board.

This isn't just speculation. I've heard plenty of Coast Guard complain about it in the bar. For that matter, I've watched the ships do it. Sometimes you don't even need binoculars or a telescope since they are so close to shore.

I know fishing and whaling are two different fleets, but they are both on the waters and considered 'fishing' by many.

Japan is only allowed to hunt for scientific purposes. A clause they abuse to hunt for commercial purposes and just say it's scientific. If the international laws required them to dispose of the the carcasses as biohazard and forbid selling them (or giving them away to avoid transfer to a wholly owned subsidiary or shell), Japan would stop whaling all together.

I can't say anything about anyones EEZs.

Player generated content = marketing spiel for "we don't actually put in any content, we just let the anti-social types attack everyone".

I'm surprised it hasn't happened earlier.
Or perhaps that it wasn't noticed earlier.

The article stated FUSION reactor, not FISSION reactor.
All the nuclear reactors and batteries you people are talking about are FISSION reactors.
You know, Uranium or Plutonium or some other radioactive material breaking down in to lighter elements.
A FUSION reactor takes light elements, like hydrogen or helium and fuses them into heavier elements like helium or lithium, etc.

Fusion is currently only experimental. I wonder if the article got it wrong and he was actually doing fission, but fissionable materials tend to make the feds go ballistic, so who knows. (Other than the kid.)

Can't save images? Then how is it that they have found TSA personnel with collections of images from the machine, not to mention the ones printed out and posted in the breakroom? Subjects were apparently females with better than average anatomical traits of course.

At least they recently fired the one caught masturbating to the screens while on monitor duty.

They'll snatch the money from your hand faster than you can see, but as to doing actual work, even if it was bribed and paid for, their fat asses don't waddle all faster than a snails pace at best. Not to mention, all the ones that didn't get paid off who try to slow things down as incentive for the delivery of their own Benjamin Salad.
 

Some of the seeds Monsanto sells are either 'Terminator' crops, or sterile hybrids, but by no means all of them.
Please note that they've sold various sterile hybrids for a very long time before the 'Terminator' variety was developed, so they are two different things.

those complex natural defense mechanisms don't come out of thin air.
GMOs won't have those, unless they were engineered to have those.

<quote>In fact, if Monsanto did destroy all of it and it came back then we're staring in the face of the first seeds of the Zombie Apocalypse: Zombie Wheat</quote>

They failed to destroy all of it. It's been known for a very long time that plants use a variety of distribution techniques for their seeds, especially of the animal distribution variety. Since the 'test field' wasn't in a sealed building, some critters got in and carried seeds someplace else. It was obvious that would happen.

The surprising thing is that it was spotted and identified as such. It must have been a roundup ready variant. If it had been another strain, I doubt the farmer would have recognized it as being different.

Zombies need not apply. :)

Depends on the level of the cleric :p

The first Xbox came out, it was named Xbox, and everyone called it Xbox.
The second Xbox came out, it was named Xbox 360, everyone called it xbox, and started calling the previous one Xbox 1 to differentiate since nobody wanted to say Xbox three sixty.
The third Xbox is announced, it is named Xbox One, everyone realizes that Microsoft should stop hiring brain dead monkeys for their naming division.

The dive button is stuck on :)

How about displacement tons :)

Even the WBC has some standards and morality.
Countable on one hand and needing a microscope to view, but still.
Besides, they may enter into a symbiotic relationship if forced together, so it's better for those parasites to be dealt with separately.