The scary thing is that the scientific studies that are peer reviewed about gmo's is shockingly close to zero.
But they are greater than zero. They do typically test the basic, obvious safety concerns. Are GMOs toxic? No. Do they cause cancer? Difficult to test for obviously, but I haven't heard of a positive result on that.
There are some interesting studies I've heard of looking at all the metabolites produced by GMOs and comparing them to naturally produced varieties. The tests are showing that GMOs are much closer to the parental strain than the natural strains are to each other, which indicates there's nothing dramatically different about what you're eating.
It's amazing to me that current science fails to appreciate the power of nature to overcome our tweaking and fiddling.
It's not lack of understanding, it's greed. We've all seen Jurassic Park. This isn't that we honestly thought it would work like a dream with no possible downsides forever and ever. How it went was undoubtedly "This spreading resistance... that will happen AFTER we've already made a boatload of money selling it, right?"
If a doctor has a patient with hypertension that continues to smoke and eat lots of salt, I'd rather that doctor tell that patient to fuck off rather than putting him on expensive medications that come out of taxpayer money or an insurance pool.
If you're going to kill yourself slowly, don't expect the rest of us to pay to make it even slower.
When the questions are along the lines of "YOU say vaccines are healthy, but Michelle Bachmann and Jenny McCarthy and I think Tom Cruise say otherwise. So we're not getting a vaccine, you greedy slimeball! Also, my kid is sick with the flu: I want some antibiotics NOW!" can you really blame them?
The patients who afford more authority to celebrities and quacks than real doctors, yes, those patients should run in the opposite direction, right off a cliff, with their children.
BTW, some of these diseases really are quite extinct in the US. Getting infected is about as likely as getting hit by lightening.
We were informed by our doctor that if we did not allow him to inject our son with something that he is highly allergic to we would no longer be allowed to be a part of his practice.
Well then go to a doctor that follows the Hippocratic oath.
So you're objecting to him calling Fox out specifically why? Me saying "Fox is a terrible propaganda machine" doesn't imply that I think MSNBC is solid journalism.
Unfortunately both sides of this subject have gotten far too emotional...
What does that matter? You have one side coming up with science and another better funded side out to smear them. If the scientists take it in stride and meet the smearers at the bar after, or if the scientists throw a hissy fit only affects how professional they look. It does not change the fact that one side is doing real science and the other is providing cover for coal and oil industry barons.
You know what? I'm tired of these apathetic replies that say "Yeah so? Bad stuff happens. Nothing new".
I usually read them as "This actually bothers me, but I'm going to tell myself it's no big deal because it's easier to convince myself of that than actually take action."
There was evidently an update that allowed netflix without the disc being in the wii. I briefly plugged the wii back in a few weeks ago when the other netflix machine was down, and that was a surprise. However, as I couldn't update the system, I have no idea whether that actually works.
I read "SOPA" first. It was like in some horror movie where toward the end, the bad guy stands up, and the good guy is like "YOU!?!? BUT... BUT WE KILLED YOU!!!! NOOOOOOOOOOOoh wait, my mistake, I thought you were someone else. Sorry."
There is NOTHING ironic about it! Don't muddy the waters even a little bit. None of us fighting against censorship and government control are pro-piracy. The people stealing music who can't be bothered to cough up a dollar for that pop song they like don't give two shits about the long-term damage they're causing to freedom of expression. They're not on our side, they're one side of the war of greed, the mafIAA is on the other. Our rights and the artists are stuck in between.
A thousand times: being opposed to draconian schemes to crack down on your freedom like this DOES NOT MAKE YOU PRO-PIRACY.
Not just image quality. A lot of people in initially hate fast-refresh video that some of the HDTVs are capable of. Movement doesn't look like what they expect TV motion to look like, it's smoother than they are used to.
All I want or need is something that displays a 1080p signal well
Having switched to an OLED phone, I'm convinced there's actually room for improvement beyond the 1080p. Those OLED TVs at CES looked gorgeous.
3D, no, manufacturers can leave that crap where it belongs: at overpriced movies I don't go to. And I also agree that my TV doesn't need to do anything besides power, source, and volume.
Updates for the wii were mostly to try to keep ahead of pirated copies of games and break chipped consoles. The first year, every time I turned on the wii, it needed to update, and I was playing it every other day. It did not gain any real features in that time. The games started requiring the update as well. A friend of mine had a chipped wii and couldn't play legally purchased games as a result. At least until he took it back to the place he got it chipped for an update.
Minor inconvenience for him, slightly annoying to me, and an absolutely shitty thing to do to a kid who wants to play his legally-purchased game on his console but isn't fortunate enough to have a wifi connection to update.
By now the wii does have more features, though I don't know about a TON.
I've occasionally thought they should have a "practice run" security gate before the real one.
(BEEP)
TSA: "Okay, ma'am, are you wearing any metal"
Clueless grandmother: "No! Let me go through three or four more times, I think your machine is broken!"
TSA: "Ma'am, you sure about that?"
Clueless grandmother:" I... no... I... um... Oh, I'm wearing like 30 dangly neclaces aren't I?""
TSA: "Thats' RIGHT! And you're also holding your purse which is no doubt filled with coins, nail clippers, and other bits of metalic crap. Make sure you don't do that when you go through real security, or else you'll hold up traffic and the other passengers are legally able to grope you to death. Next!"
I objected to this one very strongly indeed - the noise was outright painful (my hearing is odd - I'm bad at sorting conversation from background noise, but seem to have retained my ability to hear very high ranges) and it was indiscriminate
Me too. I had assumed that my useless ability to hear old TVs turning on would disappear by the time I hit 30. Nope. Meanwhile, I've considered teaching myself how to lip-read.
I would love to have classical music at my train stations.
Headphones. Some of us who are not teenagers or ne'er-do-wells don't like pointless noise pollution. Sure, it's mostly harmless and there's already a lot of noise pollution anyway, but quieter is better.
I thought this was taxpayer money being spent. Airports are loath to offer so much as an electrical outlet without charging you for it, I can't imagine they'd be coughing up for those utterly useless naked cancer scanners.
Federal funds for security, on the other hand, no politician ever got voted out for spending too much in the name of security.
So good news: it won't directly increase the price of the ticket, bad news: you'll pay for it even if you DON'T fly.
I could be wrong, but I seem to recall some official acknowledging that this was a bigger security risk a few years back. Since then I haven't come across any massive pre-security lines, though that could be pure chance.
Denver was the worst that I can remember. Seems like every time I went through security there, there were more people in the line than would be on the plane. They still had the massive labyrinth set up for a huge line, but I haven't seen it actually being used in quite a while.
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I meant insisting that he inject someone with something they are allergic to.
The scary thing is that the scientific studies that are peer reviewed about gmo's is shockingly close to zero.
But they are greater than zero. They do typically test the basic, obvious safety concerns. Are GMOs toxic? No. Do they cause cancer? Difficult to test for obviously, but I haven't heard of a positive result on that.
There are some interesting studies I've heard of looking at all the metabolites produced by GMOs and comparing them to naturally produced varieties. The tests are showing that GMOs are much closer to the parental strain than the natural strains are to each other, which indicates there's nothing dramatically different about what you're eating.
It's amazing to me that current science fails to appreciate the power of nature to overcome our tweaking and fiddling.
It's not lack of understanding, it's greed. We've all seen Jurassic Park. This isn't that we honestly thought it would work like a dream with no possible downsides forever and ever. How it went was undoubtedly "This spreading resistance... that will happen AFTER we've already made a boatload of money selling it, right?"
No, sorry, he was criticizing Fox news, not making a case for anything more complex. You're reading things that aren't there.
If a doctor has a patient with hypertension that continues to smoke and eat lots of salt, I'd rather that doctor tell that patient to fuck off rather than putting him on expensive medications that come out of taxpayer money or an insurance pool.
If you're going to kill yourself slowly, don't expect the rest of us to pay to make it even slower.
The patients who afford more authority to celebrities and quacks than real doctors, yes, those patients should run in the opposite direction, right off a cliff, with their children.
BTW, some of these diseases really are quite extinct in the US. Getting infected is about as likely as getting hit by lightening.
Yeah, not the diseases we're talking about here. Smallpox is virtually extinct. The vaccine has a chance of negative health side effects, so people aren't vaccinated against it anymore.
Measles though, that is still around, and the vaccine has no downsides. You'd be a moron not to get your kid vaccinated.
We were informed by our doctor that if we did not allow him to inject our son with something that he is highly allergic to we would no longer be allowed to be a part of his practice.
Well then go to a doctor that follows the Hippocratic oath.
So you're objecting to him calling Fox out specifically why? Me saying "Fox is a terrible propaganda machine" doesn't imply that I think MSNBC is solid journalism.
Unfortunately both sides of this subject have gotten far too emotional...
What does that matter? You have one side coming up with science and another better funded side out to smear them. If the scientists take it in stride and meet the smearers at the bar after, or if the scientists throw a hissy fit only affects how professional they look. It does not change the fact that one side is doing real science and the other is providing cover for coal and oil industry barons.
You know what? I'm tired of these apathetic replies that say "Yeah so? Bad stuff happens. Nothing new".
I usually read them as "This actually bothers me, but I'm going to tell myself it's no big deal because it's easier to convince myself of that than actually take action."
Context always matters to everyone. Usually in the sense of "Does this part of a quote fit in the context of me proving my point?"
Hey landlord that owns my offices, here's my rent! What's that? No, see, it's in bitcoins which is even BETTER than...(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvJeATp31dw)
There was evidently an update that allowed netflix without the disc being in the wii. I briefly plugged the wii back in a few weeks ago when the other netflix machine was down, and that was a surprise. However, as I couldn't update the system, I have no idea whether that actually works.
Quick, someone copyright "the No-shit-we-ain't-joking-around organized crime agency" so they'll have to buy it from you.
I read "SOPA" first. It was like in some horror movie where toward the end, the bad guy stands up, and the good guy is like "YOU!?!? BUT... BUT WE KILLED YOU!!!! NOOOOOOOOOOOoh wait, my mistake, I thought you were someone else. Sorry."
There is NOTHING ironic about it! Don't muddy the waters even a little bit. None of us fighting against censorship and government control are pro-piracy. The people stealing music who can't be bothered to cough up a dollar for that pop song they like don't give two shits about the long-term damage they're causing to freedom of expression. They're not on our side, they're one side of the war of greed, the mafIAA is on the other. Our rights and the artists are stuck in between.
A thousand times: being opposed to draconian schemes to crack down on your freedom like this DOES NOT MAKE YOU PRO-PIRACY.
Not just image quality. A lot of people in initially hate fast-refresh video that some of the HDTVs are capable of. Movement doesn't look like what they expect TV motion to look like, it's smoother than they are used to.
All I want or need is something that displays a 1080p signal well
Having switched to an OLED phone, I'm convinced there's actually room for improvement beyond the 1080p. Those OLED TVs at CES looked gorgeous.
3D, no, manufacturers can leave that crap where it belongs: at overpriced movies I don't go to. And I also agree that my TV doesn't need to do anything besides power, source, and volume.
Updates for the wii were mostly to try to keep ahead of pirated copies of games and break chipped consoles. The first year, every time I turned on the wii, it needed to update, and I was playing it every other day. It did not gain any real features in that time. The games started requiring the update as well. A friend of mine had a chipped wii and couldn't play legally purchased games as a result. At least until he took it back to the place he got it chipped for an update.
Minor inconvenience for him, slightly annoying to me, and an absolutely shitty thing to do to a kid who wants to play his legally-purchased game on his console but isn't fortunate enough to have a wifi connection to update.
By now the wii does have more features, though I don't know about a TON.
Bottles of water on the other side of security. They'll give you a dixie cup of water on the plane, but that's not enough to ward off jet-lag.
I've occasionally thought they should have a "practice run" security gate before the real one.
(BEEP)
TSA: "Okay, ma'am, are you wearing any metal"
Clueless grandmother: "No! Let me go through three or four more times, I think your machine is broken!"
TSA: "Ma'am, you sure about that?"
Clueless grandmother:" I... no... I... um... Oh, I'm wearing like 30 dangly neclaces aren't I?""
TSA: "Thats' RIGHT! And you're also holding your purse which is no doubt filled with coins, nail clippers, and other bits of metalic crap. Make sure you don't do that when you go through real security, or else you'll hold up traffic and the other passengers are legally able to grope you to death. Next!"
I objected to this one very strongly indeed - the noise was outright painful (my hearing is odd - I'm bad at sorting conversation from background noise, but seem to have retained my ability to hear very high ranges) and it was indiscriminate
Me too. I had assumed that my useless ability to hear old TVs turning on would disappear by the time I hit 30. Nope. Meanwhile, I've considered teaching myself how to lip-read.
I wonder if the two are somehow linked.
I would love to have classical music at my train stations.
Headphones. Some of us who are not teenagers or ne'er-do-wells don't like pointless noise pollution. Sure, it's mostly harmless and there's already a lot of noise pollution anyway, but quieter is better.
I thought this was taxpayer money being spent. Airports are loath to offer so much as an electrical outlet without charging you for it, I can't imagine they'd be coughing up for those utterly useless naked cancer scanners.
Federal funds for security, on the other hand, no politician ever got voted out for spending too much in the name of security.
So good news: it won't directly increase the price of the ticket, bad news: you'll pay for it even if you DON'T fly.
I could be wrong, but I seem to recall some official acknowledging that this was a bigger security risk a few years back. Since then I haven't come across any massive pre-security lines, though that could be pure chance.
Denver was the worst that I can remember. Seems like every time I went through security there, there were more people in the line than would be on the plane. They still had the massive labyrinth set up for a huge line, but I haven't seen it actually being used in quite a while.