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  1. Re: Well for once I agree with religious crazies on UAE Clerics' Fatwa Forbids Muslims From Traveling To Mars · · Score: 4, Funny

    "Mars has a much more predictable environment, so the risk of death should be much lower."

    A vat of boiling oil has is also a more predictable environment.

  2. Re:seems a bit strange on Study Linking GM Maize To Rat Tumors Is Retracted · · Score: 1

    So who is going to do it right ? i.e a longer than 90 day trial with enought rats, of the kind used for longer trials not the kind they used which is common practice for 90 day trials.

  3. Re:Computer says no.. on NSA App Ideas To Popularize Spying and Big Data · · Score: 0

    uhn : )

  4. Re: One hole at a time on EPA: No Single Cause For Colony Collapse Disorder · · Score: 1

    Good points.

  5. Re:re: Look in the mirror on Explosions at the Boston Marathon · · Score: 1

    "Too bad both of you were not in Boston today."

    Does that make your comment worse than theirs --considering what happened in Boston today.

  6. Re:Make reasonable laws - AND ENFORCE THEM VIGOROU on Speeding Ticket Robots — Laws As Algorithms · · Score: 1

    " One of the least corrupt countries in the world is Finland, where your traffic fine is proportional to your income."

    +10

  7. Re:Assumptions on What If Manning Had Leaked To the New York Times? · · Score: 2

    the infamous "helicopter video" they'd have published the whole thing instead of editing it down to make it look worse like Assange did. And before the fanboys downmod me YES that's what happened, he admitted to it, and later published the entire video. Which you can still view on Wikileaks but the site "collateralmurder" still links to the edited version.

    The edited video does not seem dishonest, it does not change the message in a significant manner, and as you said they did publish the full raw footage. And the website you mention has both videos up and a third version with commentary by US soldiers.

    Do you have any other footage, or links ?

  8. Re:What the ??? on How EVE Online Dealt With a 3,000-Player Battle · · Score: 1

    Yes, to keep things going as they did, the implied software flow, in a situation like they had, gives me chills.

    Chills just like the ones I get when an emergency vehicle, with sirens blaring, cuts an efficient pathway through traffic.

  9. Re:Fascinating article. on How EVE Online Dealt With a 3,000-Player Battle · · Score: 1

    hmmm
      : )

  10. Re:Unfortunately on Anti-GMO Activist Recants · · Score: 1

    Yeah, it is too bad they used the same strain of rats used by GMO manufacturers.

    Still, independent studies done for longer periods of time on particular GMOs are clearly needed before a particular GMO can be deemed as safe as they are being portrayed by GMO manufacturers' salesmen and their researchers.

  11. Re:Did you notice the legalese? on FDA Closer To Approving Biotech Salmon · · Score: 1

    "Well, yes, since non-serious peanut allergies do not represent a threat, of course it is serious peanut allergies."

    : )

    Well no, it's on a continuum : Very Serious --- Serious --- Moderately-Serious --- Lightly Serious --- Non-serious

  12. Re:Did you notice the legalese? on FDA Closer To Approving Biotech Salmon · · Score: 1

    So it's serious peanut allergies now ? No matter.

    I too think labeling foods that contain ingredients derived from DNA recombination is a good idea and easy to do.

  13. Re:This is a seriously bad idea I think... on FDA Closer To Approving Biotech Salmon · · Score: 1

    http://sandwalk.blogspot.ca/2012/01/plant-micrornas-in-your-blood.html?showComment=1325884165958#c8757155746212485557

    From the link : "Granted, RNA may be less stable, but I'm not at all surprised we find it in the blood after a meal."

    "But it's as safe as any other food."

    Old ones [food stuff involving DNA recombinations] and each new one need to be tested with more stringent standards, for longer terms, and by more independent researchers in more independent labs.

  14. Re:Did you notice the legalese? on FDA Closer To Approving Biotech Salmon · · Score: 1

    "You do know that many foods that humans have eaten for centuries have been discovered to pose a threat in recent years?"

  15. Re:As long as it's labeled on FDA Closer To Approving Biotech Salmon · · Score: 1

    It should be labelled. Please mod parent up.

  16. Re:stop complaining on FDA Closer To Approving Biotech Salmon · · Score: 1

    "A hundred years ago it was said miracles of science would feed the world with an unbelievable array of giant, hearty and delicious foods"

    Because it was said does not make it any closer today. Rhetorical florishes aside.

  17. Re:This is a seriously bad idea I think... on FDA Closer To Approving Biotech Salmon · · Score: 1

    Ingested DNA has been found in the bowel basically intact.

  18. Re:This is a seriously bad idea I think... on FDA Closer To Approving Biotech Salmon · · Score: 1

    Said the piper to his neighbor as they walked over the cliff.

    But seriously, I'm not sure who is being more obtuse, you or the parent?

  19. Re:Did you notice the legalese? on FDA Closer To Approving Biotech Salmon · · Score: 1

    That's not a good example

  20. Re:"didn't appear likely to pose a threat" on FDA Closer To Approving Biotech Salmon · · Score: 1

    Plant or animal husbandry are not the same technique as the direct combining of genetic DNA. They differ in so many ways.

  21. Re:"didn't appear likely to pose a threat" on FDA Closer To Approving Biotech Salmon · · Score: 1

    Bio-genetics are not clear cut as you are implying.

  22. Re:"didn't appear likely to pose a threat" on FDA Closer To Approving Biotech Salmon · · Score: 1

    On the market, in the city of Utopia, on the planet of gross over simplifications, maybe.

  23. Re:I think it's a falsified information. on Anonymous Attacks Israeli Websites In Response To IDF Operation In Gaza · · Score: 1

    I was not looking for an explanation and I'm still doubting the value of your philosophical arguments.

  24. Re:I think it's a falsified information. on Anonymous Attacks Israeli Websites In Response To IDF Operation In Gaza · · Score: 1

    If we pretend, maybe. But the Palestinians are and have been under continuous aggression of one kind or another for decades.

  25. Re:I think it's a falsified information. on Anonymous Attacks Israeli Websites In Response To IDF Operation In Gaza · · Score: 1

    "Once again, I say the world just butts out of the whole mess, and allow the two sides to kill each other off. Winner takes all."

    How can you separate the world from the mess. How can you see only two sides. How can a killed side win, and what is all.