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Comment Re:Statues (Score 1) 38

There have been multiple approaches. One was selective breeding that actually lead to another mechanism for resistance. Another was cross breeding with roundup ready canola to transfer the gene into a new line.

Both put the lie to Monsantos' that any round-up resistance in Canola was necessarily replanting their seed.

If you can get it to cross breed, then it can cross breed due to pollen blown from a nearby field, as happened with closely related weeds along roads.

So yes, they were wrong. Quite possibly knowingly, and they pulled the wool over the courts eyes.

Comment Re:society is the cause of depression (Score 1) 70

In the '70s, people were worried about the environment. But they were still able to buy a house, start a family, and afford (most) health care. Some were starting to worry that computers would take jobs.

Some took out loans for school, but working your way through school was still seen as a mostly debt-free option. Especially if you could get a scholarship.

The oil embargo certainly frightened a lot of people but it didn't leave them feeling totally helpless. They had the option of going to smaller and more efficient cars. Even my dad the car guy got a Datsun.

Real deep depression is a combination of bad circumstances, no sense that it will change any time soon, and powerlessness to make it change.

Comment Re:Stopped Trusting Medical Science after Covid LI (Score 1) 34

Wow, given that bending over backwards, you must be really good at yoga!

Now consider how many of that handful would have likely died of COVID anyway. The people who had adverse reaction to the shot were reacting to the very same protein that COVID itself would have flooded their systems with had they gotten COVID instead.

Enjoy your diet of horse paste and all-natural pork tapeworms.

I'll just be over here enjoying my COVID and measles free life.

Comment Re:Statues (Score 1) 38

There's an even larger elephant in the room, but the courts don't want to see it. Monsanto's "seed piracy" claims hinged on the "impossibility" of breeding a roundup ready canola without their gene splicing tricks. Years later, farmers did exactly that. Other farmers in South America did the same with coca and so the DEA provided them with years of weed control and better yields.

Then weeds were discovered on road sides that had Monsantos' gene in them. The weeds were relatives of canola and the gene had jumped through natural cross breeding.

Notably, the courts have not revised their devastating rulings.

Comment Re:Vertical Integration (Score 1) 17

All of the really big manufacturers have got to be thinking right now, "maybe I should have my own fab".

A better solution, IMHO, I to invest in a fab to ensure supply. That allows them to get access quickly to the latest fab tech, ensure some level of supply, as well as get a return form high demand products to teh point of constricting supply of stuff they make if the other stuff has a better ROI. A much lower investment risk, but I suspect anything available for investment may be overvalued right new due to RAM demand.

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