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The National Commission on Terrorist Attacks

Sunday, March 2nd, 2008

While there is assurance from the largest cosmetic companies that their various ingredients are safe to use, there is a growing preference for cosmetics that are without any “synthetic” ingredients, especially those derived from petroleum. Once a niche market, certified organic products are becoming more mainstream. Few had made any attempt to disguise their names on flight and credit card records, and they were some of the few people of Arabic descent on the flights.

Ingredients’ listings in cosmetics are highly regulated in many countries. The testing of cosmetic products on animals is a subject of some controversy. It is now illegal in the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, and Belgium, and a ban across the European Union is due to come into effect in 2009.

The Second Rule of Program Optimization

Tuesday, February 19th, 2008

Since the program counter is (conceptually) just another set of memory cells, it can be changed by calculations done in the ALU.  Fortunately, it is often the case that the greatest improvements come early in the process. Adding 100 to the program counter would cause the next instruction to be read from a place 100 locations further down the program. Instructions that modify the program counter are often known as “jumps” and allow for loops (instructions that are repeated by the computer) and often conditional instruction execution (both examples of control flow).
Higher-order functions are closely related to first-class functions, in that higher-order functions and first-class functions both allow functions as arguments and results of other functions. The distinction between the two is subtle: “higher-order” describes a mathematical concept of functions that operate on other functions, while “first-class” is a computer science term that describes programming language entities that have no restriction on their use (thus first-class functions can appear anywhere in the program that other first-class entities like numbers can, including as arguments to other functions and as their return values). Higher-order functions enable currying, a technique in which a function is applied to its arguments one at a time, with each application returning a new (higher-order) function that accepts the next argument.

KIG postuluje, aby w Polsce można było legalnie uprawiać wszystkie GMO

Wednesday, December 19th, 2007
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Komitet Rolnictwa Krajowej Izby Gospodarczej wystąpił do rządu o dopuszczenie
do wolnego obrotu w Polsce soi i kukurydzy modyfikowanej genetycznie.
Ponadto KIG postuluje, aby w Polsce można było legalnie uprawiać wszystkie
modyfikowane rośliny (GMO), które są dopuszczone przez Komisję Europejską.
Izba jest zdania, że bez dopuszczenia GMO Polsce nie uda się zrównoważyć
bilansu zbóż, rzepaku i buraków cukrowych. Przypomnijmy, że poprzedni
rząd był przeciwny GMO, stanowisko to podtrzymał także nowy minister
środowiska Maciej Nowicki.