...everybody knows that the only right way to connect to the on-board systems is to deliver a team of "operatives" led by Steven Seagal and Kurt Russell on board an aircraft that looks like an F-117A on the outside, but is really a TARDIS by docking with the airliner in-flight.
Oh, and don't forget, folks, that F-117A/TARDIS was invented by Mr. O'Brien himself.
Hmmm....after some thought, I'm less inclined to think that Steele is running short on funds for a couple of reasons - the refusal to disclose his finances to the court, and the fact that he's enough of a scumbag to still be attempting to collect settlements - can anyone tell me if this is happening, or of a way to determine if this is happening?
My theory is that he's contracted the same suddenly-no-longer-able-to-afford-a-certain-way-of-life-syndrome that afflicts many retired professional athletes. I don't think Steele ever envisioned that his money well would ever dry up, and was spending money as fast or faster than he was pulling it in, even when it looked like the well was going to get capped. And now that it's happened, he's looking at a growing mountain of debt.
For better or worse, many businesses have a wage gap between the labor and management forces. Corporate agriculture isn't any different.
Your example is a bit of hyperbole, and not all that concerning. Fifty people per small farm is quite a bit of a stretch. I don't have exact numbers, but I'm fairly confident that there are many 100s, if not 1,000s of custom harvest companies operating just within the Midwestern states alone. Plus, custom harvest outfits wouldn't exist if the farmers that hire them weren't able to come out ahead somehow.
As for what will these displaced people do? Mostly, they've re-trained themselves to do other jobs, and I suspect that's what they'll continue to do.
I wish this venture all the best. Hopefully, they are competitive with the copyrighted GMO crops in terms of yield - because that is really what matters to the vast majority of people raising these crops.
I don't really come down fully supporting anyone here. Yes, Mr. Miller is entitled to his First Amendment rights. Once it was confirmed that what he was doing was legitimate, the matter should have ended there. On the other hand, a reasonable person should assume that showing up and recording a secure location like a prison without prior notice will generate some attention.
As far as his gun ownership is concerned - I am in favor of a inspection system where responsible ownership can be verified (think OSHA inspections for food places). But as it is, no such system exists, and this obviously was a pretense to invade his privacy, harass him, and/or fishing for something to be used in order to bring charges against him.
In the end, I get the feeling that Mr. Miller is trolling for reaction, and DHS is giving it to him in spades.
Crop dusters, perhaps unwisely so, do not avoid power lines while dusting. Well - they usually do manage not to hit the lines, but they fly damn close to them.
Or the effect just isn't there to begin with - I can't say as I've noticed any difference between crops growing under power lines and those that don't, and I pass fields under high-energy power lines on my work transit. Besides my observations, high energy power lines usually have tens of feet of clearance, and the lower energy lines (ie. the ones that service homes and such) run in the right-of-ways of public roads, either outside of or within the first couple of feet on the edge of a given field. Which makes sense, of course, because having easy access to the lines makes it much easier to work on them.
I've seen different variations of how crops are planted under low energy lines. Sometimes, the farmer decides it isn't worth going around each of the poles, and just doesn't plant those few feet. This is especially the case where the edge is relatively short. On longer fields, the farmer may decide not to let that space go to waste.
I can only think of one or two places where those low power line actually cross over a field - I know in at least one of those cases, the farmer attempts to plant every inch of his fields he possibly can, so I'm pretty sure he plants under those lines, but I can't recall if I've ever noticed any difference in plant size.
High energy line pylons take up considerably more area, and run across property in any direction. Farmers almost always opt to plant under the lines and go around the pylons.
But, maybe I just haven't paid enough attention. I'll pay closer attention this summer, and see if I can see whatever differences there are.
Farming is a business, just like any other. It is in their best interests to raise whichever crop/strain will net them the most profit. It is not their fault that they will generally get a higher profit for GMO field corn than non-GMO sweet corn given the same bit of ground.
Oh, and Monsanto (or any other nefarious seed company) can already set different price points in any given region because: 1) Last year's weather is public knowledge. 2) The USDA publishes yield estimates on per-county basis every year.
I agree that patenting DNA sequences is a very bad thing. I just want to point out that, from a farmer's point of view, yield is the driving factor in variant selection. That is, volume (with weight and moisture content usually interpreted as signs of quality) over area. It is also the one they will use as measurement of crop success or failure, and not usually a closely guarded secret. If you asked a farmer, they'd probably even tell you the average yields from each field harvested: 100 bushels/acre for this 300 acres, 97 for that 80 acres, and so on.
Now, having said all that, I still think any sort of private yield reporting program or system should be strictly opt-in. Will it? Well, let's just say that I do not have a great deal of confidence in Mansanto to do the right thing for the right reasons.
As far as I can tell, the only thing for which Chintella is facing sanctions is for crowdfunding Lutz's deposition. It looks like Nazaire's argument is pretty weak here, so Chintella has a pretty good chance of actually avoiding sanctions.
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Oh, and don't forget, folks, that F-117A/TARDIS was invented by Mr. O'Brien himself.
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Your example is a bit of hyperbole, and not all that concerning. Fifty people per small farm is quite a bit of a stretch. I don't have exact numbers, but I'm fairly confident that there are many 100s, if not 1,000s of custom harvest companies operating just within the Midwestern states alone. Plus, custom harvest outfits wouldn't exist if the farmers that hire them weren't able to come out ahead somehow.
As for what will these displaced people do? Mostly, they've re-trained themselves to do other jobs, and I suspect that's what they'll continue to do.
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As far as his gun ownership is concerned - I am in favor of a inspection system where responsible ownership can be verified (think OSHA inspections for food places). But as it is, no such system exists, and this obviously was a pretense to invade his privacy, harass him, and/or fishing for something to be used in order to bring charges against him.
In the end, I get the feeling that Mr. Miller is trolling for reaction, and DHS is giving it to him in spades.
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I've seen different variations of how crops are planted under low energy lines. Sometimes, the farmer decides it isn't worth going around each of the poles, and just doesn't plant those few feet. This is especially the case where the edge is relatively short. On longer fields, the farmer may decide not to let that space go to waste.
I can only think of one or two places where those low power line actually cross over a field - I know in at least one of those cases, the farmer attempts to plant every inch of his fields he possibly can, so I'm pretty sure he plants under those lines, but I can't recall if I've ever noticed any difference in plant size.
High energy line pylons take up considerably more area, and run across property in any direction. Farmers almost always opt to plant under the lines and go around the pylons.
But, maybe I just haven't paid enough attention. I'll pay closer attention this summer, and see if I can see whatever differences there are.
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1) Last year's weather is public knowledge.
2) The USDA publishes yield estimates on per-county basis every year.
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Now, having said all that, I still think any sort of private yield reporting program or system should be strictly opt-in. Will it? Well, let's just say that I do not have a great deal of confidence in Mansanto to do the right thing for the right reasons.
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