Thanks for the info, I must have missed the press release that helium-cooled superconductors are free now.

Interesting. It looks like yeast should be up to the job though,
apparently folks have had it produce ~50 kDa proteins;
as best as I can tell, android browser won't let me access the other pages of that 4-page chunk.

Rice is a plant seed and contains an embryo, it satisfies dictionary definitions of organism:

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

          2. (Biol.) An organized being; a living body, either
                vegetable or animal, composed of different organs or parts
                with functions which are separate, but mutually dependent,
                and essential to the life of the individual.
                [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 :

    organism
              n 1: a living thing that has (or can develop) the ability to act
                        or function independently

Yeah, about an order of magnitude less (~11 megaliters; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_serum_albumin),
but presumably you can extract other useful factors from that as well. The rice might be suitable for fodder after,
if we're lucky.

Rice yield is about 4 tonnes per acre, so this would take 400 km2 to meet current demand.

It does seem a pathetically low yield. Why rice, and not bacteria like insulin?
TFA doesn't say, and the linked DOI does not exist.

Yes, Congress can pass laws to fix judicial fuck-ups; and especially the constituion can be ammended.
No prominent examples come to mind, but then IANAL.

An attempt to rewrite the constiution like France does would be doomed to fail before it began;
not the reason why, but oh noes1! lawyers would have to learn something new.

Free as in unallocated or available, not free as in beer; which the "copious" modifier works better with.

Yes, it has been linked to other issues besides esoteric and/or relatively curable cancers,
but that still is not enough to suggest that it is a worthwhile place to assign scarce resources...
be that as a requirement or a recommendation for others to consider in allocation of their own.

No, I want a cost-benefit analysis of sinking copious free health resources into the profits of a company that
appears to be making a mountain out of a mole hill (low mortality cancer, low-effectiveness/variant-coverage
vaccine) versus other matters like accessible dental care, produce subsidies what have you....

Don't be obtuse, he was clearly referring to natural persons vs legal persons...
or wait, is that (obfuscant) you Wehrhauser?

Sorry, at the time of reading there were over a thousand comments and feedly was having issues scrolling through them.

The commerce department is not named in the constitution, but the (in)famous commerce clause does specify a right to regulate interstate commerce, which would naturally be done with some sort of agency or department.

As another commenter has pointed out, NOAA appears to be the majority of the Dept. of Commerce budget (in non-census years)---5.5 of 9 billion... less than half of what it was two years ago--so keeping the agency but killing the parent is doubly pointless.

NOAA (incl. NWS) is Dept of Commerce, one of the agencies on this jackhole's hit list,
despite the constitution's explicit granting of powers to regulate commerce to the feds.

Not really. If you are speaking of Firefox, that requires you to effectively close and reopen the browser.
Multifox allows you to have separate simultaneous windows run under the same instance of the binary
with different sets of cookies.

In MA at least, it's asked for onthe income tax form, but you get to ignore it unless you buy a shitload of stuff online.

Multifox lets you keep multiple windows with different sets of cookies open in FF.

Except that they already have, sort of, they call it a constant http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faraday_constant>