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I didn't ask for a list. It just seems a bit more likely to me that some jerk waiter at a restaurant (or other jerk at another establishment) would steal your number (and security code) and pass it off to a friend.

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Do you guys that limit your online shopping (pawpawdave, et al.) also not use your card locally?

Can I jack this thread too?:D

The taking of something(s) that occur(s) naturally and making something novel and non-obvious out of it/them is precisely what patents should protect. The deployment of the RR genes is as pure an example of this as any. As far as the claims that the patent covers, I refer you to the USPTO...

Shouldn't it be easy to track that idiot down, since he'd have to have registered an account and would be logging in from an IP somewhere? I dunno, maybe I misunderstand this system of tubes.

I already acknowledged this my previous post. This micro-level monopoly does not negatively impact competition on the macro level. It only pushes other companies to innovate. For instance, when Monsanto patented RoundUp Ready (glyphosate resistance) it didn't drive their competitors out of...

Heaven forbid I should distract you from your very important thread about how the marginally pretty girl knows nothing about beer. By all means, please do carry on with your enlightening discussion.

No. Phenotyping requires a great deal of labor and skill. All our challenges are not computational. To verify a potentially useful allele (much less identify one out of the hundreds of thousands across all loci), requires many seasons of testing in replicated field trials at many locations...

Yeah, that ****** don't know shiat. AmIdoinitrite?

I am absolutely against the patenting of naturally-occurring genetic sequences. SCOTUS has ruled against such for humans, and will likely do so for other organisms as well. The patent office is overwhelmed and has issued a large number of bogus patents as a result. Unfortunately, the onus is now...

A wet bunghole can result in some slippage. Sorry, I couldn't resist.

And yet somehow DuPont, Syngenta, and Dow all manage to continue to compete with Monsanto in the corn seed business.

I don't think it's that they didn't take that into account. Resistance, whether from naturally occurring alleles or from transgenic sources, has always been a Red Queen's race. Durable sources of resistance to insects and pathogens are few and far between. The durability of any new source of...

Much better. Sorry, I was a bit harsh before. Your understanding is much better now. However, I must point out that no one puts a gun to a grower's head and forces them to enter a contract with Monsanto et al. Many people complain about not being able to save seed, but corn growers haven't been...

Wheat and corn are vastly different in their reproductive biology. As a result, corn cultivars are F1 hybrids, while wheat varieties are inbred. Hybridity offers intellectual property protection, which makes corn a worthwhile investment for the private sector. In contrast, wheat breeding is...

You know not of what you speak. Are you sure you're not actually FoodBabe?

Read the thread. They did respond. It's a token-based system. MW holds no card info beyond the last four digits of your number.

Wheat is 99% self-pollinated. Incredible isolation is not typically necessary. Just sayin'.

^^^Cool it down. Make a water bath from a plastic tub and some ice / frozen water bottles / ice packs. Then, RDWHAHB repeatedly.