also a Marco Polo joint!
edit: i was referring to the black market dark web silk road, but i know y’all already got that.
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Here’s another source for the story:
Schubarth provided a deposit of $4,200 for the cloning in 2015, according to the indictment, and received 165 cloned Marco Polo embryos on Nov. 22, 2016.
I honestly have no idea about the costs, risks, and ethics of biotechnology in Kyrgyzstan circa 2015, but $4,200 sounds like a bargain to me. He could have recouped the cost with a single successful “hunt”, not to mention all that ram semen he apparently sold.
- Obtain parts of a Marco Polo argali sheep.
- Clone 165 Marco Polo argali sheep from DNA.
- ???
- PROFIT
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What i’m curious about is the lab that helped him. Wouldn’t this kind of thing require permits on the customer side? Way out of my field so i don’t know, but curious why there seems to be a lack of oversight here. If there isn’t one what’s to stop someone from trying to make… i dunno… sabertooth hydrids or some other nonsense.
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why yes, yes it is.
i may have fallen for that once.
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This is going to take some time to sort out legally.
A propos of nothing, do we already have an “assholes” thread?
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Not the brightest thing to do from a legal standpoint. The vigilante will be in more trouble than the porch pirate.
I would not want to be in a Cybertruck in a crash, and not just for financial reasons. I hope everyone stumbled away OK.
(Given the season, I wonder which way that knee-jerk vigilante will vote?)
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I can think of no better person to start one.
because you’re a topic-starter
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They’re a class, not an endangered species, FFS…
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Useless parasites, just like the billionaires supplanting them.
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Ooh, do you ever go to Higher Love? I’ve never been to the Menominee location, but I really like the one I’ve been to.
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Schneider Electric ransomware crew demands $125k paid in baguettes
Schneider Electric confirmed that it is investigating a breach as a ransomware group Hellcat claims to have stolen more than 40 GB of compressed data — and demanded the French multinational energy management company pay $125,000 in baguettes or else see its sensitive customer and operational information leaked.
And yes, you read that right: payment in baguettes. As in bread.
Schneider Electric declined to answer The Register’s specific questions about the intrusion, including if the attackers really want $125,000 in baguettes or if they would settle for cryptocurrency.
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Unauthorized bread?
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It’s a painful demand.
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Suddenly I dream of decentralized version of Discourse.
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That’s one huge co- ermm… chicken
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Cool, but… personally, I think milk can be off long before it becomes chunky.
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under RFKjr’s FDA, that is the extent of food safety.
something, something, 5G waves, raw milk, all good… see!?
never mind 5g is somehow bad, but just trust your mobile phone to tell you your food is safe, and no need for food safety regulations.
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