But going back to the subject of bloatware, Smartisan OS will be bundled with just a few apps that Luo considers to be the cream of the crop in the Chinese market: Momo (a local "flirting" app), WeChat (IM app, but still in discussion), Sina Weibo, Youku (video platform) and Sogu input (customized by Smartisan).
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Crop plants like corn and tobacco can now be programmed with gene-splicing techniques to produce precious pharmaceuticals.
With domestic sugar producers deprived of this profitable and protective tool, external producers might be able to sell more of their crop here, and with the profits buy US equipment or goods in return.
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Reagan was concerned about a fence, while the recent crop of would-be-Reagans spout nonsense about walls with moats topped by electrified fences.
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That crop plants do badly in competition with wild species is to be expected.
But, the governance aspect needs to be embraced in parallel or eDiscovery nightmares will crop up down the road and bring with them huge costs and potential sanctions.
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Experts also say the potential savings here may be offset by higher prices somewhere else as farmers use their more crop land to experiment with alternative fuel crops.
It would happen only if a certain gene from the crop confers a selective advantage on the recipient--an occurrence that should be uncommon with biopharming, where most often the added gene would make the plant less fit and less able to proliferate.
Algae at least can be grown, with sufficient engineering, on a large scale that does not require prime crop land in competition with growing food crops (as rules out conventional biofuel strategies beyond grants from governments and the European Union), and there is no demand for freshwater since saline water does even better to promote the growth of certain highly oil-yielding strains.
Worse still would be a combination of a return to higher levels of interest rates combined with a decline in crop prices.
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And it may be possible to engineer a genetic switch, known as an inducible promoter, into the crop, along with the anti-meiosis genes.
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The state used to be among the poorest in the country, relying on the federal government to prop up its farmers with crop insurance and its elderly (who are legion) with Medicare and Social Security.
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Both trends have helped to propel the crop's price to dizzy heights, with the prices of other commodities from which fuel can be made, such as sugar and rapeseed oil.
Notably, Zimbabwe has unearthed a fine crop of young seam bowlers, while Bangladesh will be left ruing the way in which the same old problems with its batting resurfaced with a vengeance.
Some of these might include flying drones with sophisticated cameras like the Draganflyer, which can be used for police search and rescue, or unmanned crop-dusters.
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