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Easy.
You need me to mow your lawn or pay your bills for you as well? Stand by, I'll do it you lazy fuckers. Do we want to make a little slashdot wager first?
I have the screen grab. I get it by Opening Firefox to my home page of DuckDuckGo. When I leave the page I get a little message that reads "Trackers. LocalStorage from Mozilla.org self destructed."
So what is the wager kids - You gotta make it good, because Ol Olsoc don't cotton to people calling him a liar. Put your honor on the line as you besmirch mine.
The second problem is that many of them don't breed true or, indeed, at all. You must keep buying new seeds from the same company, you can't collect your own seed stock.
Better not eat any apples - a natural food that I've been told has a 1 in 10K chance of seeds from any apple of reproducing true.
This means that your food supply becomes entirely dependent on a small number of companies.
And yet the seed catalogs are full of different varieties, including heirloom varieties that will make for kickass results if you are willing to put in the work. No one is forced to buy Roundup ready seeds. Heck, I've only seen a few in my area that do - certainly many farmers have the breeds vintage posted at the edge of their fields, either as the main or in demo fields.
This is less of a problem for the USA, but the EU spends a lot of money subsidising farmers to ensure that we have an independent food supply and making it dependent on seeds bought from the US seems to counter this quite effectively.
I wonder if the EU today would object to the fine grapes that are living because when their disease prone roots rotted away, were transplanted on to the inferior american rootstocks. They should have stayed pure, and allowed the industry to die out of principle.
I also happen to believe that GMO will eventually completely solve issues like world hunger and foodborne illness, and possibly even chronic disease as well.
Indeed - This is the big takeaway from GMO - we have overpopulated the earth, and since we have produced this many people, we have to figure out a way to feed them all.And some of these foods will provide much better nutrition as well, so yeah.
Most of those organizations are pro business growth at any cost, that's why they like GMO and fund research to sell it.
That, dear sir, is one of the most amazing accusations I've heard in a long time. There are some who would say the opposite.
The farmers of the world that GMO claims to help are so sick of top down reorganization they will not buy it , its that simple.
You seem to think that GMO=Monsanto, and throw all GMO under the bus with Roundup ready seeds. That's really unfortunate, and wrong minded.
GMO farming is buying into a system you don't control that will ultimately control you. Notice the careful wording about the situations where pests become resistant, that's because its not magic. If you offer a choice to indiginous farmers (without destroying their land first) they reject it.
And more of the same. GMO foods, even if you don't buy into my idea that given the inherent nature of sexual reproduction, everything is genetic modification, and we've been doing it manually for a long time. But since a lot of people don't understand genetics, we can narrow it to just modern laboratory based manipulation.
So since anti-GMO kooks are all pissed off at Monsanto - which in itself is not a bad idea, given that they are inadvertently breeding some kickass Roundup resistant weeds - they allow their outrage to extend to fruits and vegetables that have been engineered for better nutrition, longer shelf life, and other very positive aspects that make the produced food actually better in all measurable ways than the base food source.
And even when we don't do it in the lab, we've been doing it since we harvested wheat and corn, selecting for the seeds that stayed on the shafts first by accident, and later by cross breeding for desired characteristics.
And just to be certain, we sometimes created things that were bad for us using this method - enter the Lenape potato: http://boingboing.net/2013/03/...
So in your hatred for Monsanto, and your apparent wish to throw all GM under the bus because of that, do you now want to freeze all genetics in their present form, so that everything stays exactly the same? REduction to absurdit isn't difficult when the basic premise is absurd to begin with.
While I agree with you and GP, that comic infruriates me given how clearly wrong it is (someone read the statistics wrong, plenty of 'cavemen' lived past 30 years of age)
Definitely. There were a few genetically gifted and very lucky individuals that lived to the age that the longest lived individuals do now. Which is testimony to the fact that humans have not really extended lifetime, only average lifespans. Most early humans didn't last that long.
The cartoon is more of an attack upon the idea that many folks have that somehow earlier humans were healthier, and that they had better nutrition.
Its old news, but probably worth pointing out to new people. In most of my dealings on the internet, it's even easier to identify me - because I use my real name.
But yeah - if you do shady stuff, you are best off to not assume your postings can't identify you
Here we are in 2016 and it is STILL impossible for me to play fullscreen video on ANY machine running linux, no matter how fast or in what player - including in firefox's html5 player - without awful video tearing due to fundamental architectural defects that x.org refuses to fix.
Right. As I'm watching Youtube fullscreen HD right now on a Core2Duo Dell Optiplex with a decent but nondescript Video card. Ubuntu Mate. None of what you claim is endemic is happening,
hah, no. I find forking has provided a desktop environment for everyones' tastes instead of a one size fits all in the commercial world.
Linux hasn't been accepted as a desktop platform for the masses because it isn't run by a bunch of sleazy CEOs and marketing firms shoving it down people's throats. The only thing major Linux distros are missing is a modern office suite, and no... Libre Office doesn't even come close unless your definition of modern office suite is 1996.
My definition of the number 1 need of an office suite is cross platform compatibility. Of the two platforms you can get the Microsoft suite for, it doesn't even have that. I can take a file from PC to Mac to Linux and all is good. Microsoft doesn't even come close.
As both Internet Explorer and Edge, and Firefox are heading towards the Netscape dungheap. it's good news the FireFox has 15.6 percent of the Browser market?
And why does Firefox now install tracking cookies?
For those who don't want to follow the link - two cavemen are sitting around a fire. One says to the other:
"Something's just not right - our air is clean, our water is pure, we all get plenty of exercise, everything we eat is organic and free-range, and yet no one lives past thirty."
Given the amount of volunteers that came forth to jump on a rocket for a one-way expedition to Mars, it appears the question of sanity more centers around the concept of staying on this rock.
just sayin'...
Sanity, defined as the deep abiding far of the unknown, and wish fir stasis, and the desire to live as long as possible by being as safe as possible is way overrated. But it is the norm for many.
Until we start talking about abuse towards their employees, then Apple is Foxconn's only client.
Oh, I'd love to see your email moderation notifications - there has to be a nasty war between "Insightful" and "Troll" mods going on right now. Looks like the insigthful is winning out so far.
The whole describing-distance-traveled-in-round-trips-to-mars strategy gets much more pathetic when you realize that all that glorious travel is occurring in an orbit so low it barely clears the atmosphere; rather than actually going anywhere interesting.
Amazing the things that piss people off. So do you get as pissed when the number of plastic bottles used in a year covers some number of times around the earth? Or the old New York to San Diego length comparisons of some thing or another?
It's merely putting things in perspective.
Do you get as spun up about the time dilation effects on the people inside the ISS?
But the Iraq war was worth 1.7 Trillion dollars and counting ? Afghanistan was worth the 1 trillion bill it had run up in 2014 already ? I imagine it's a bit higher now.
Nothing says +10 Insightful than what you just wrote. Not much more to add but well played, sir - well played.
Ah, the good old Internet standby of calling anyone who disagrees with you illiteral/mentally ill. So what mental disorder causes you to be rude to everyone you meet online?
Whoa there cowboy - Asperger's is not in any way shape or form mentally ill.
They are differently abled, and some of those abilities are magnitudes more proficient that "normal" people.
You won't want self-driving cars to circle the block wasting juice. Each ride will be a separate rental from your chosen company's fleet.
This should be marked insightful - but you'll probably be pilloried. Think Uber, now think Uber without drivers. Now think vehicles being dispatched via the internet via an application on your smartphone.
Now think a driverless car version of surge pricing, as well with with a hierarchy of plans, where the more oyu pay, the better, and quicker service you'll get.
The legions of slashdot users that think they are going to all have their personal driverless vehicle are not thinking this through. As driverless vehicles take over, the only people left that know how to drive will be in rural areas.
And, therein lies my problem with any real wireless charging. Watts of power flooding an area. Not a Luddite, but I am reasonably sure that can't be good.
The effects of high volume sound - even if you aren't hearing it, or high powered EM radiation, are well known and well documented. The oddballs that think that a cell phone tower with antennas 100 plus feet above them are kooks, but being in the near field of any of those things can be an issue. Your being reasonably sure is correct.
Jesus, that other guy was right- you are an asshole.
Of course I am. Fortunately, I am surrounded by people with insight and intelligence, and the knowledge that I am wrong. Just another aspect of my priveleged life.
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Print Screen, save screen cap as file, upload on imgur or wherever you prefer, link it here.
Easy.
You need me to mow your lawn or pay your bills for you as well? Stand by, I'll do it you lazy fuckers. Do we want to make a little slashdot wager first?
I have the screen grab. I get it by Opening Firefox to my home page of DuckDuckGo. When I leave the page I get a little message that reads "Trackers. LocalStorage from Mozilla.org self destructed."
So what is the wager kids - You gotta make it good, because Ol Olsoc don't cotton to people calling him a liar. Put your honor on the line as you besmirch mine.
The second problem is that many of them don't breed true or, indeed, at all. You must keep buying new seeds from the same company, you can't collect your own seed stock.
Better not eat any apples - a natural food that I've been told has a 1 in 10K chance of seeds from any apple of reproducing true.
This means that your food supply becomes entirely dependent on a small number of companies.
And yet the seed catalogs are full of different varieties, including heirloom varieties that will make for kickass results if you are willing to put in the work. No one is forced to buy Roundup ready seeds. Heck, I've only seen a few in my area that do - certainly many farmers have the breeds vintage posted at the edge of their fields, either as the main or in demo fields.
This is less of a problem for the USA, but the EU spends a lot of money subsidising farmers to ensure that we have an independent food supply and making it dependent on seeds bought from the US seems to counter this quite effectively.
I wonder if the EU today would object to the fine grapes that are living because when their disease prone roots rotted away, were transplanted on to the inferior american rootstocks. They should have stayed pure, and allowed the industry to die out of principle.
I also happen to believe that GMO will eventually completely solve issues like world hunger and foodborne illness, and possibly even chronic disease as well.
Indeed - This is the big takeaway from GMO - we have overpopulated the earth, and since we have produced this many people, we have to figure out a way to feed them all.And some of these foods will provide much better nutrition as well, so yeah.
Most of those organizations are pro business growth at any cost, that's why they like GMO and fund research to sell it.
That, dear sir, is one of the most amazing accusations I've heard in a long time. There are some who would say the opposite.
The farmers of the world that GMO claims to help are so sick of top down reorganization they will not buy it , its that simple.
You seem to think that GMO=Monsanto, and throw all GMO under the bus with Roundup ready seeds. That's really unfortunate, and wrong minded.
GMO farming is buying into a system you don't control that will ultimately control you. Notice the careful wording about the situations where pests become resistant, that's because its not magic. If you offer a choice to indiginous farmers (without destroying their land first) they reject it.
And more of the same. GMO foods, even if you don't buy into my idea that given the inherent nature of sexual reproduction, everything is genetic modification, and we've been doing it manually for a long time. But since a lot of people don't understand genetics, we can narrow it to just modern laboratory based manipulation.
So since anti-GMO kooks are all pissed off at Monsanto - which in itself is not a bad idea, given that they are inadvertently breeding some kickass Roundup resistant weeds - they allow their outrage to extend to fruits and vegetables that have been engineered for better nutrition, longer shelf life, and other very positive aspects that make the produced food actually better in all measurable ways than the base food source.
And even when we don't do it in the lab, we've been doing it since we harvested wheat and corn, selecting for the seeds that stayed on the shafts first by accident, and later by cross breeding for desired characteristics.
And just to be certain, we sometimes created things that were bad for us using this method - enter the Lenape potato: http://boingboing.net/2013/03/...
So in your hatred for Monsanto, and your apparent wish to throw all GM under the bus because of that, do you now want to freeze all genetics in their present form, so that everything stays exactly the same? REduction to absurdit isn't difficult when the basic premise is absurd to begin with.
While I agree with you and GP, that comic infruriates me given how clearly wrong it is (someone read the statistics wrong, plenty of 'cavemen' lived past 30 years of age)
Definitely. There were a few genetically gifted and very lucky individuals that lived to the age that the longest lived individuals do now. Which is testimony to the fact that humans have not really extended lifetime, only average lifespans. Most early humans didn't last that long.
The cartoon is more of an attack upon the idea that many folks have that somehow earlier humans were healthier, and that they had better nutrition.
And why does Firefox now install tracking cookies?
[citation needed]
Just install a cookie killer, slashdot doesn't accept window caps, so I can't prove it that way. But they do.
But yeah - if you do shady stuff, you are best off to not assume your postings can't identify you
Multiplication and other arithmetic operators are indeed secret as far as the average American high schooler is concerned.
Well, a Mathematician was interrogated because some woman on a plane saw him........
doing math, which in today's America is a sign of trrsm.
Here we are in 2016 and it is STILL impossible for me to play fullscreen video on ANY machine running linux, no matter how fast or in what player - including in firefox's html5 player - without awful video tearing due to fundamental architectural defects that x.org refuses to fix .
Right. As I'm watching Youtube fullscreen HD right now on a Core2Duo Dell Optiplex with a decent but nondescript Video card. Ubuntu Mate. None of what you claim is endemic is happening,
Tell us now about how hard it is to find drivers.
hah, no. I find forking has provided a desktop environment for everyones' tastes instead of a one size fits all in the commercial world.
Linux hasn't been accepted as a desktop platform for the masses because it isn't run by a bunch of sleazy CEOs and marketing firms shoving it down people's throats. The only thing major Linux distros are missing is a modern office suite, and no... Libre Office doesn't even come close unless your definition of modern office suite is 1996.
My definition of the number 1 need of an office suite is cross platform compatibility. Of the two platforms you can get the Microsoft suite for, it doesn't even have that. I can take a file from PC to Mac to Linux and all is good. Microsoft doesn't even come close.
Please let us know how you really feel about Edge.
Actually I thought he was pulling his punches. Edge is the most remarkably awful browser I've ever tried. Might as well try to surf porn with Lynx.
And why does Firefox now install tracking cookies?
For those who don't want to follow the link - two cavemen are sitting around a fire. One says to the other:
"Something's just not right - our air is clean, our water is pure, we all get plenty of exercise, everything we eat is organic and free-range, and yet no one lives past thirty."
It says it's from NBC News, but it reads like the opening speech at the annual Monsanto company picnic.
NBC issued a news story, dullard. The NAtional Academy of Sciences issued the report. I'd bet you still don't care.
3... 2... 1...
Do they say who financed the report ? Who are the scientists that wrote the report ? Full disclosure guys, full disclosure.
If it ends up being financed by Monsanto or written by scientists financed by big agro double lol.
Go to the website and do your own research.
"And Gould said all the vested interests are revealed on the website. "They can look to see if something we reference is funded by industry," he said.
It's from the National Academy of sciences, so you are in denialist class denial if you don't give it some credence.
Given the amount of volunteers that came forth to jump on a rocket for a one-way expedition to Mars, it appears the question of sanity more centers around the concept of staying on this rock.
just sayin'...
Sanity, defined as the deep abiding far of the unknown, and wish fir stasis, and the desire to live as long as possible by being as safe as possible is way overrated. But it is the norm for many.
Until we start talking about abuse towards their employees, then Apple is Foxconn's only client.
Oh, I'd love to see your email moderation notifications - there has to be a nasty war between "Insightful" and "Troll" mods going on right now. Looks like the insigthful is winning out so far.
The whole describing-distance-traveled-in-round-trips-to-mars strategy gets much more pathetic when you realize that all that glorious travel is occurring in an orbit so low it barely clears the atmosphere; rather than actually going anywhere interesting.
Amazing the things that piss people off. So do you get as pissed when the number of plastic bottles used in a year covers some number of times around the earth? Or the old New York to San Diego length comparisons of some thing or another?
It's merely putting things in perspective.
Do you get as spun up about the time dilation effects on the people inside the ISS?
That's assuming those humans still have their sanity when they arrive.
Believe me, time is still our enemy.
That's assuming the had it when they left.
But the Iraq war was worth 1.7 Trillion dollars and counting ? Afghanistan was worth the 1 trillion bill it had run up in 2014 already ? I imagine it's a bit higher now.
Nothing says +10 Insightful than what you just wrote. Not much more to add but well played, sir - well played.
Ah, the good old Internet standby of calling anyone who disagrees with you illiteral/mentally ill. So what mental disorder causes you to be rude to everyone you meet online?
Whoa there cowboy - Asperger's is not in any way shape or form mentally ill.
They are differently abled, and some of those abilities are magnitudes more proficient that "normal" people.
And normal ain't all that anyhow.
You won't want self-driving cars to circle the block wasting juice. Each ride will be a separate rental from your chosen company's fleet.
This should be marked insightful - but you'll probably be pilloried. Think Uber, now think Uber without drivers. Now think vehicles being dispatched via the internet via an application on your smartphone.
Now think a driverless car version of surge pricing, as well with with a hierarchy of plans, where the more oyu pay, the better, and quicker service you'll get.
The legions of slashdot users that think they are going to all have their personal driverless vehicle are not thinking this through. As driverless vehicles take over, the only people left that know how to drive will be in rural areas.
And, therein lies my problem with any real wireless charging. Watts of power flooding an area. Not a Luddite, but I am reasonably sure that can't be good.
The effects of high volume sound - even if you aren't hearing it, or high powered EM radiation, are well known and well documented. The oddballs that think that a cell phone tower with antennas 100 plus feet above them are kooks, but being in the near field of any of those things can be an issue. Your being reasonably sure is correct.
I agree. I avoid it whenever possible. I think I've flown twice since 9/11. I used to love flying.
Careful - agreeing with me will get the troops out after you as well, because they are forced to fly - they have absolutely no choice. I guess.
Jesus, that other guy was right- you are an asshole.
Of course I am. Fortunately, I am surrounded by people with insight and intelligence, and the knowledge that I am wrong. Just another aspect of my priveleged life.