Can they just take your blood? Here in Canada taking your blood is considered the most serious form of search and not lightly allowed. It is only allowed (with a search warrant which can be faxed and presented to you the next day) in the case of an accident where the driver is unconscious. Also they have to take 2 samples so you can ask for one to get independently tested. Refusing to give a breath sample means being charged with failure to blow which carries the same penalties as DUI. Also note that impaired and failure to blow are Federal criminal statutes (as are all criminal statutes).
I always thought that statute law overrode common law and would like to see some evidence that says different. And the not withstanding clause has been used by Saskatchewan to break a strike and Alberta to symbolically define marriage as heterosexual. (Marriage is federal) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Charter_of_Rights_and_Freedoms about 1/4 of the way down.
First, private company can do what it wants -- I own three.
Only due to the benevolence of the government who can take away your property any time or just stop protecting it so someone with bigger weapons can take it.
Actually the Nazi party wasn't too bad before Hitler, just another run of the mill socialist party. When Hitler became leader he purged all the socialists and turned it into the fascist party.
We're talking Microsoft here, there is no way they would do what you say. I mean I can't believe that you think that lowly of MS. This is actually what they issue to the press.
I am so excited about %NEXT_VERSION% of Windows. It will go beyond just solving all of the problems with %CURRENT_VERSION%, it will be an entirely new paradigm. Forget about security problems, those are all fixed in %NEXT_VERSION%. And they're finally ridding themselves of %ANCIENT_LEGACY_STUFF%.
Also, there'll be %DATABASE_FILESYSTEM%. It'll be awesome!
I wonder how %NEXT_VERSION% will compare to %NEXT_NEXT_VERSION%.
Yes you could, and that is the promise of GMO's. Unluckily it seems that big business is not interested in a Cox's Pippin that ships. Instead they are just interested in very short term profits. To often the genes that express flavour also come with negatives such as easy bruising. Big business is more interested in something like Red Delicious that any idiot can throw into the bin. GMO's have a lot of promise but the developers have to think about more then tomorrows profits. Personally I think that capitalism could work great as long as there are multiple competitors who aren't run by committee. Now we have a situation where these GMO's are being pushed by a committee who are only interested in the very short term. And they will happily fuck us all so they can get a bigger yacht.
So what you are saying is that it is better if the soil is only anaerobic? Perhaps like the neighborhood swamp that takes forever to break down organic matter to a point that other organisms can use it as well as pumping out lots of methane. I can always tell when people are echoing talking points when they use a brand name instead of the proper name, glyphosate in this case. Personally what I see happen when over treating crops with glyphosate is that glyphosate resistant plants flourish, partially due to the fact that the resistant plants such as horse tails can handle the anaerobic conditions that come about from having a hard compact soil. Also note that glyphosate, especially when sold by Monsanto is fucking expensive.
Perhaps you don't get this, but everything is what it is because of genetics. A Red Delicious apple is sweeter than a wild apple for one reason alone: genetics. You control that and we could massively increase what land is usable for farmland and can cut back on a shitload of resources. What could possibly go wrong if we use GMOs? Not as much as what could go wrong if we don't.
I'm glad that you picked Red Delicious apples as an example as it shows all that is wrong with todays commercial farming industry. I was going to go by my experience but figured maybe you'd like some citations. So from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Delicious
As the cultivar was optimized for color and durability for major supermarket chains, taste and texture were sacrificed, and consumers began to reject the Red Delicious.[1]
...
In the 1980s Red Delicious represented three-quarters of the harvest in Washington state. In the 1990s reliance on Red Delicious pushed Washington state's apple industry to the edge of bankruptcy.[2] In 2000 Congress approved and President Bill Clinton signed a bill that bailed out the apple industry, after apple growers had lost $760 million since 1997.[1] By 2000, this cultivar made up less than one half of the Washington state output, and in 2003, the crop had shrunk to 37 percent of the state's harvest, which totaled 103 million boxes. Red Delicious still remains the single largest cultivar produced in the state, but others are growing in popularity, notably Fuji apples and Gala apples.[2]
So the apple farming industry was close to bankrupted due to choosing genes that were good for shipping and looking nice. This is the danger of GMO's especially with large corporate farming. Note that here in BC where most orchids are owned by individual farmers red delicious never were that big of a deal. They are handy for cross pollinating (apples should have a couple of strains for pollination purposes) and the fact that they are later then the rest allows the harvest to be spread out. But still they taste like wood. The worst is that the BC orchiders are now going out of business as they can't compete with an industry that gets bailed out of its bad decisions. Also you should note that most all cultivators of apples were just wild apples that had good qualities and so were cloned.
Look at your UID number, close to 1.5 million people joined slashdot before you did. There is a huge variety of people here. Some go apeshit when the NSA are mentioned, but the scary thing is that a good number have the attitude that any invasion of privacy is OK if it means catching the bad guys. Personally this kind of shit scares me. Not only is DNA testing very unreliable but it may also make it easier to catch me, a political dissenter. I'll admit it here, I grow plants that are illegal and ingest them. I should probably stick to the legal deadly water hemlock but that is scary. Anyways I'm going to roll a joint and ingest it and go to bed.
Here in BC food has never been taxed by the province. The GST (national sales tax) does apply to some food, eg, IIRC less then a dozen donuts, small containers of milk most junk food and other small containers. Not sure about restaurants though I'd think they'd be taxed. Also taxes are also taxed like at the gas pump we pay various taxes then pay GST on the total.
Also, at least here in Canada which probably works the same as the UK, there are representatives from all the interested political parties watching the vote counting like hawks.
Why can't Americans accept that they couldn't beat the French-Canadians? FYI the last time they surrendered was something like 1759. They beat George Washington in 1754. They didn't surrender when you tried to force them to join your war of separation in 1775, once again beating Washington and burned down the White House in 1814 when you also tried to invade.
Actually I wonder how copyrights are even constitutional? The main body does say that congress can create copyright laws but the very first amendment to the constitution says that congress will make no law limiting speech. Don't the amendments amend the constitution? Copyright is obviously being used to stifle free speech.
Jupiter (and Saturn and Neptune) puts out quite a bit more energy then it receives from the Sun. So it is hard to say if weather there is driven by solar or internal heat.
I guess I should of looked at the bug:) Usually security bugs are hidden from most of us. I've also seen the opposite, where a bug was hidden even though it was not a security risk.
MFSA 2009-13: Security researcher Nils reported via TippingPointâ(TM)s Zero Day Initiative that the XUL tree method _moveToEdgeShift was in some cases triggering garbage collection routines on objects which were still in use. In such cases, the browser would crash when attempting to access a previously destroyed object and this crash could be used by an attacker to run arbitrary code on a victimâ(TM)s computer. This vulnerability does not affect Firefox 2, Thunderbird 2, or released versions of SeaMonkey.
Actually with legalization as shown by the Dutch, there is a decrease in usage. That is counting the locals and not the tourists. Also drugs were perfectly legal and available before prohibition and there was no major problem. Of course you are going to get the odd person who just has a tendency to get addicted to things. Still being addicted to heroin is a lot more healthy (given clean heroin, needles etc) then being addicted to alcohol and most drug store drugs.
Drug prohibition is a particularly good example; it's hard to get rid of because now enforcing it is a multi-billion dollar industry, but it wasn't at first, and it seems unlikely that that was the primary motivation of the people who originally pushed it through decades ago.
Actually in the case of hemp, one of the motivations was that with the end of alcohol prohibition there was a lot of G-men out of a job.
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Can they just take your blood? Here in Canada taking your blood is considered the most serious form of search and not lightly allowed.
It is only allowed (with a search warrant which can be faxed and presented to you the next day) in the case of an accident where the driver is unconscious. Also they have to take 2 samples so you can ask for one to get independently tested.
Refusing to give a breath sample means being charged with failure to blow which carries the same penalties as DUI. Also note that impaired and failure to blow are Federal criminal statutes (as are all criminal statutes).
I always thought that statute law overrode common law and would like to see some evidence that says different.
And the not withstanding clause has been used by Saskatchewan to break a strike and Alberta to symbolically define marriage as heterosexual. (Marriage is federal)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Charter_of_Rights_and_Freedoms about 1/4 of the way down.
First, private company can do what it wants -- I own three.
Only due to the benevolence of the government who can take away your property any time or just stop protecting it so someone with bigger weapons can take it.
Actually the Nazi party wasn't too bad before Hitler, just another run of the mill socialist party. When Hitler became leader he purged all the socialists and turned it into the fascist party.
America is quite capable of outlawing political parties, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communist_Control_Act as an example and also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communist_Party_USA#History.
As a democracy if enough people wanted to be communist to amend the constitution (over 2/3rds) then the will of the people should be respected.
Actually mostly just on blank audio media. That is why blank DVDs are cheaper than CDRs
We're talking Microsoft here, there is no way they would do what you say. I mean I can't believe that you think that lowly of MS.
This is actually what they issue to the press.
I am so excited about %NEXT_VERSION% of Windows. It will go beyond just solving all of the problems with %CURRENT_VERSION%, it will be an entirely new paradigm. Forget about security problems, those are all fixed in %NEXT_VERSION%. And they're finally ridding themselves of %ANCIENT_LEGACY_STUFF%.
Also, there'll be %DATABASE_FILESYSTEM%. It'll be awesome!
I wonder how %NEXT_VERSION% will compare to %NEXT_NEXT_VERSION%.
Yes you could, and that is the promise of GMO's. Unluckily it seems that big business is not interested in a Cox's Pippin that ships. Instead they are just interested in very short term profits. To often the genes that express flavour also come with negatives such as easy bruising. Big business is more interested in something like Red Delicious that any idiot can throw into the bin.
GMO's have a lot of promise but the developers have to think about more then tomorrows profits.
Personally I think that capitalism could work great as long as there are multiple competitors who aren't run by committee. Now we have a situation where these GMO's are being pushed by a committee who are only interested in the very short term. And they will happily fuck us all so they can get a bigger yacht.
So what you are saying is that it is better if the soil is only anaerobic? Perhaps like the neighborhood swamp that takes forever to break down organic matter to a point that other organisms can use it as well as pumping out lots of methane.
I can always tell when people are echoing talking points when they use a brand name instead of the proper name, glyphosate in this case.
Personally what I see happen when over treating crops with glyphosate is that glyphosate resistant plants flourish, partially due to the fact that the resistant plants such as horse tails can handle the anaerobic conditions that come about from having a hard compact soil.
Also note that glyphosate, especially when sold by Monsanto is fucking expensive.
Perhaps you don't get this, but everything is what it is because of genetics. A Red Delicious apple is sweeter than a wild apple for one reason alone: genetics. You control that and we could massively increase what land is usable for farmland and can cut back on a shitload of resources. What could possibly go wrong if we use GMOs? Not as much as what could go wrong if we don't.
I'm glad that you picked Red Delicious apples as an example as it shows all that is wrong with todays commercial farming industry.
I was going to go by my experience but figured maybe you'd like some citations.
So from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Delicious
As the cultivar was optimized for color and durability for major supermarket chains, taste and texture were sacrificed, and consumers began to reject the Red Delicious.[1]
...
In the 1980s Red Delicious represented three-quarters of the harvest in Washington state. In the 1990s reliance on Red Delicious pushed Washington state's apple industry to the edge of bankruptcy.[2] In 2000 Congress approved and President Bill Clinton signed a bill that bailed out the apple industry, after apple growers had lost $760 million since 1997.[1] By 2000, this cultivar made up less than one half of the Washington state output, and in 2003, the crop had shrunk to 37 percent of the state's harvest, which totaled 103 million boxes. Red Delicious still remains the single largest cultivar produced in the state, but others are growing in popularity, notably Fuji apples and Gala apples.[2]
So the apple farming industry was close to bankrupted due to choosing genes that were good for shipping and looking nice. This is the danger of GMO's especially with large corporate farming.
Note that here in BC where most orchids are owned by individual farmers red delicious never were that big of a deal. They are handy for cross pollinating (apples should have a couple of strains for pollination purposes) and the fact that they are later then the rest allows the harvest to be spread out. But still they taste like wood.
The worst is that the BC orchiders are now going out of business as they can't compete with an industry that gets bailed out of its bad decisions.
Also you should note that most all cultivators of apples were just wild apples that had good qualities and so were cloned.
Look at your UID number, close to 1.5 million people joined slashdot before you did. There is a huge variety of people here. Some go apeshit when the NSA are mentioned, but the scary thing is that a good number have the attitude that any invasion of privacy is OK if it means catching the bad guys.
Personally this kind of shit scares me. Not only is DNA testing very unreliable but it may also make it easier to catch me, a political dissenter. I'll admit it here, I grow plants that are illegal and ingest them. I should probably stick to the legal deadly water hemlock but that is scary. Anyways I'm going to roll a joint and ingest it and go to bed.
That sounds like corruption, not basic government inefficiency.
Here in BC food has never been taxed by the province. The GST (national sales tax) does apply to some food, eg, IIRC less then a dozen donuts, small containers of milk most junk food and other small containers. Not sure about restaurants though I'd think they'd be taxed.
Also taxes are also taxed like at the gas pump we pay various taxes then pay GST on the total.
Also, at least here in Canada which probably works the same as the UK, there are representatives from all the interested political parties watching the vote counting like hawks.
Why can't Americans accept that they couldn't beat the French-Canadians?
FYI the last time they surrendered was something like 1759. They beat George Washington in 1754. They didn't surrender when you tried to force them to join your war of separation in 1775, once again beating Washington and burned down the White House in 1814 when you also tried to invade.
How old are you? Perhaps if you can document your age you can get in the Guiness book of records, probably beat the age record by at least double.
Shouldn't the first amendment trump the main body of the constitution?
Actually I wonder how copyrights are even constitutional? The main body does say that congress can create copyright laws but the very first amendment to the constitution says that congress will make no law limiting speech.
Don't the amendments amend the constitution? Copyright is obviously being used to stifle free speech.
Jupiter (and Saturn and Neptune) puts out quite a bit more energy then it receives from the Sun. So it is hard to say if weather there is driven by solar or internal heat.
I guess I should of looked at the bug :) Usually security bugs are hidden from most of us.
I've also seen the opposite, where a bug was hidden even though it was not a security risk.
Bugzilla won't show certain critical bugs unless you have the right privileges. Hopefully the bad guys aren't developers with those privelages.
MFSA 2009-13: Security researcher Nils reported via TippingPointâ(TM)s Zero Day Initiative that the XUL tree method _moveToEdgeShift was in some cases triggering garbage collection routines on objects which were still in use. In such cases, the browser would crash when attempting to access a previously destroyed object and this crash could be used by an attacker to run arbitrary code on a victimâ(TM)s computer. This vulnerability does not affect Firefox 2, Thunderbird 2, or released versions of SeaMonkey.
Don't know about the dailies though.
And where do they get the money for lawyers, court costs etc? Especially when the suite is appealed and delayed for years
Actually with legalization as shown by the Dutch, there is a decrease in usage. That is counting the locals and not the tourists.
Also drugs were perfectly legal and available before prohibition and there was no major problem.
Of course you are going to get the odd person who just has a tendency to get addicted to things. Still being addicted to heroin is a lot more healthy (given clean heroin, needles etc) then being addicted to alcohol and most drug store drugs.
Drug prohibition is a particularly good example; it's hard to get rid of because now enforcing it is a multi-billion dollar industry, but it wasn't at first, and it seems unlikely that that was the primary motivation of the people who originally pushed it through decades ago.
Actually in the case of hemp, one of the motivations was that with the end of alcohol prohibition there was a lot of G-men out of a job.