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  1. Re:but all food is now GM on Battle Brewing Over Labeling of Genetically Modified Food · · Score: 1

    Well I might be wrong, but bread might simply by a product of civilization. Personally, I think too many steps are involved for people to do it themselves.

  2. Re:but all food is now GM on Battle Brewing Over Labeling of Genetically Modified Food · · Score: 2

    Not a bad idea, but a unrealistic goal to come about just because of GMO labelling.

    Also I would suggest you look into other grains if you are doing this from a health perspective. Wheat really is the worst of the lot for you, participially the modern varieties. It is like any modern agriculture plants, it has been bred to increase some attributes at the expense of being a healthy food.

  3. Re:but all food is now GM on Battle Brewing Over Labeling of Genetically Modified Food · · Score: 1

    I believe those names are based on when the wheat is planted.
    At least in Canadian like climates, and I am 99% sure the US as well, you only harvest grains once a year.

    Some times you plant at the end of the year and it grows in the spring, and for others you plant at the beginning of the year and it grows right away.

  4. Re:but all food is now GM on Battle Brewing Over Labeling of Genetically Modified Food · · Score: 0

    So how do you tell which GMO produced foods are anti-GMO/Monsanto at heart?

    Or did your comment not have anything to do with mine, like it seems.

  5. Re:but all food is now GM on Battle Brewing Over Labeling of Genetically Modified Food · · Score: 0

    Steps to Make Bread:
    Plant grain, harvest, shell it, grind it.
    Raise chick, harvest eggs.
    Cultivate Yeast.
    Acquire water.
    Plant some oil producing plant, harvest, press seeds.
    Plant sugar cane, harvest, somehow turn into sugar. (Honey or maple syrup are more likely substitutes for most climates)
    Combine, and hope it works.

    Like I said, impossible.

    And of course I meant from scratch, we were talking about growing your own food?

  6. Re:but all food is now GM on Battle Brewing Over Labeling of Genetically Modified Food · · Score: 0

    Yes, but no.
    You cannot grow your own soda, bread (technically possible), ect, ect, ect, and so on a so forth until 99.5% of your entire diet has been listed.

    SO yes, but you would still have to change your diet drastically, and for the items your could grow yourself you could even easier buy non GMOs from someone else.

    You can still buy the bare essentials anyway you want. You can get a cow that was not fed GMO corn, but probably not a premade beef burger form such a cow.

  7. Re:but all food is now GM on Battle Brewing Over Labeling of Genetically Modified Food · · Score: -1

    And it is simply too late. There is no way to avoid it even if you know. While whole swatches of the market might be GMO free, whole other swatches will be GMO only. Unless you are willing to change your diet drastically, there is no way to avoid it.

  8. They have a point. on Are Porn and Video Games Ruining a Generation? · · Score: 1

    If porn did not exist there probably would be more dating. It is a cheaper, easer, and faster alternative.
    And video games really are so fun as to by an alternative to social interaction. If I did not have video games, I probably would spend at least a few more hours a week socializing.

  9. Re:Bullshit on Sales of Unused IPv4 Addresses Gaining Steam · · Score: 1

    Well most places have property tax. Can that be considered rent, might depend on the country.
    "with no restrictions on transfer or use except by the laws of the land", exactly and there are a lot of those laws.
    And the government can take back that land if it needs it, and will pay you for it of course.

    All in all I do not see were you are coming from, that definition fits land "ownership" perfectly.

  10. Re:Bullshit on Sales of Unused IPv4 Addresses Gaining Steam · · Score: 2

    Do you have no idea how property works?
    You don't actually own your own land in most cases/countries, you lease it from the government (or something to that same effect).

  11. What is there to hide? on Facebook, Zuckerberg Sued Over IPO · · Score: -1

    It is got that complicated of a company.

  12. Re:Well, they couldn't prove... on EU Blocks France's Ban of Monsanto's GM Maize · · Score: 4, Insightful

    You do realize that if everyone started producing cash crops that the demand for food would go up at the same time that less was being produced?

  13. Worst way to identify combatents on Sci-fi Writer Elizabeth Moon Believes Everyone Should Be Chipped · · Score: 1

    Even in the future when everyone is barcoded and chipped they will not use them in war on the battle field.
    Because it would be far too easy to fake and to jam and to intercept.

    Loved her fantasy books, but I guess it was a good thing that i never read her scifi because she is obviously not very good at it.

  14. Re:I was surprised he was convicted on hate charge on Rutger's Student Dharun Ravi Sentenced To 30-Day Jail Time · · Score: 1

    "If you assault someone because you hate gays/minorities/etc, why is that worse than assaulting someone because you hate them individually?"
    Individuals don't have lobby groups?

  15. Re:No wrongful death? on Rutger's Student Dharun Ravi Sentenced To 30-Day Jail Time · · Score: 1

    Yes and crazy people do crazy things that cannot be blamed on others.
    In reality this guy did NOT give him no other options other than suicide.
    In reality all he did was invade his privacy and post an sensitive video of him online. This caused numerous ass-holes to make fun of him (you could call it democratic bullying, my point being that no singe one of them was responsible for the outcome), and he committed suicide.

  16. Re:No wrongful death? on Rutger's Student Dharun Ravi Sentenced To 30-Day Jail Time · · Score: 1

    I completely agree.

  17. Re:No wrongful death? on Rutger's Student Dharun Ravi Sentenced To 30-Day Jail Time · · Score: 1

    So the punishment a person receives should not be based on what they did but on (something completely out of their control) how the victim took it?

    And we can never know why anyone does anything, in fact even if the guy who did the act tells us truthfully why he did it, psychology tells us that he is probably mistaken.

    People are not psychologically aware of other people or even mostly themselves, how/why would should anyone be sentenced based on either of these factors?

  18. Re:No wrongful death? on Rutger's Student Dharun Ravi Sentenced To 30-Day Jail Time · · Score: 1

    More like we cannot know exactly what sequence of events ultimately caused him to commit suicide. We know this guy did not help the matter, but even if he left a suicide note completely blaming this guy that is still far from conclusive evidence that it was actually any more his fault then hundreds of other contributing factors.

  19. Re:Creativity on Allowing the Mind To Wander Aids Creative Problem Solving · · Score: 1

    So by your logic steroids should be legal since they have a positive side effects?
    And since Speed (I think that is the name) makes you stronger and able to work faster it should be as well?
    I don't think there exists an illegal act/substance in existence that does not have some benefit.

  20. Re:The Supremely Stupid Court on SCOTUS Refuses To Hear Tenenbaum Appeal · · Score: 1

    Well ultimately it sounds like the jury decided this case (not that it could not of been appealed), and they are not bound by too many laws in how they rule. Maybe this is actually what the US democratically ruled, and then all we have left to blame is the sources who are "informing" the public in such a way as to make this ruling seem reasonable.

  21. Re:Blocked for being post-mediaeval on Pakistan Blocks Twitter Over 'Blasphemous' Images · · Score: 1

    If anything the age of the law lends it credit. Let me guess, the concept that murder is immoral is outdated because it was considered bad since the beginning of civilization?

  22. Re:drunk drivers don't sober up while drving on Quantifying the Risk of Texting Drivers · · Score: 1

    Yes, except drunk driving is not that distracting to begin with.

    Texting is considerably more dangerous to do while driving.

  23. Re:This is too simple to fix on Your Passwords Don't Suck — It's Your Policies · · Score: 1

    But if a website is already that insecure that they keep unsalted passwords in their insecure database then their is not much you can do. Maybe they keep your passwords as pure text.

    Hashes have to be salted if you want any amount of security.

  24. Re:This is too simple to fix on Your Passwords Don't Suck — It's Your Policies · · Score: 1

    From my understanding of hashes and rainbow tables I cannot say that that makes too much sense.
    But I cannot say I am an expert.

    What I would question is how easy it is to get an unsalted hash in the first place.

  25. Re:This is too simple to fix on Your Passwords Don't Suck — It's Your Policies · · Score: 1

    "How about people like me who can't memorize random things because of some neurological disorder?"
    Write it down and stick it in your wallet, unless you believe your wife is trying to steal your accounts then it is as safe there as in your brain.

    Normal passwords cannot be brute forced because you are talking about online accounts that will lock after 5 tries.
    6 is enough from all I have ever heard from experts.

    And remember if the password lacks in randomness then that is just enough word for it can be cleverly guessed.
    Changing your password to "p4ssword" instead of "das6%Gh9{" might be easier to remember and it might take the exact same amount of time to brute force but that does not make it safe.