"Someday, son, people will be sent to re-education to brainwash them for things like not having papers, saying certain things, listening to certain music, or even driving to the store."
"Dad, that sounds like a horror movie. I don't think it will EVER come to that. I mean, people just wouldn't accept something so terrible!"
Bad idea if this is supposed to be for food. It's very arrogant and sociopathic to think you can make such a change, and then feed it to innocent people - not certain if there are serious implications. Reality has proven that there are few real shortcuts (there is always a trade-off). Research has been included and you are welcome to investigate this information for yourself.
Genetically modified organisms (GMOs) have been linked to thousands of toxic or allergic-type reactions, thousands of sick, sterile, and dead livestock, and damage to virtually every organ and system studied in lab animals. [Jeffrey M. Smith, Genetic Roulette: The Documented Health Risks of Genetically Engineered Foods, Yes! Books, Fairfield, IA USA 2007] Herbicide tolerant soy, corn, cotton, and canola plants are engineered with bacterial genes that allow them to survive otherwise deadly doses of herbicides. Herbicide tolerant crops comprise about 80% of all GM plants. The other 20% are corn and cotton varieties that produce a pesticide in every cell. This is accomplished due to a gene from a soil bacterium called Bacillus thuringiensis or Bt, which produces a natural insect-killing poison called Bt-toxin. We ingest these pesticides.
FDA internal memos made public from a lawsuit showed that the overwhelming consensus among the agency scientists was that GM crops can have unpredictable, hard-to-detect side effects. Various departments and experts spelled these out in detail, listing allergies, toxins, nutritional effects, and new diseases as potential dangers. They urged superiors to require long-term safety studies. [For copies of FDA memos, see The Alliance for Bio-Integrity, www.biointegrity.org ]
There are several reasons why GM plants present unique dangers. The first is that the process of genetic engineering itself creates unpredicted alterations, irrespective of which gene is transferred. The gene insertion process, for example, is accomplished by either shooting genes from a "gene gun" into a plate of cells, or using bacteria to infect the cell with foreign DNA. Both create mutations in and around the insertion site and elsewhere. [J. R. Latham, et al., "The Mutational Consequences of Plant Transformation," The Journal of Biomedicine and Biotechnology 2006, Article ID 25376: 1-7; see also Allison Wilson, et. al., "Transformation-induced mutations in transgenic plants: Analysis and biosafety implications," Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering Reviews – Vol. 23, December 2006] The "transformed" cell is then cloned into a plant through a process called tissue culture, which results in additional hundreds or thousands of mutations throughout the plants' genome. In the end, the GM plant's DNA can be a staggering 2-4% different from its natural parent (which is a LOT).
Although the FDA scientists evaluating GMOs in 1992 were unaware of the extent to which GM DNA is damaged or changed, they too described the potential consequences. They reported, "The possibility of unexpected, accidental changes in genetically engineered plants" might produce "unexpected high concentrations of plant toxicants." [Edwin J. Mathews, Ph.D., in a memorandum to the Toxicology Section of the Biotechnology Working Group. Subject: Analysis of the Major Plant Toxicants. Dated October 28, 1991] GM crops, they said, might have "increased levels of known naturally occurring toxins," and the "appearance of new, not previously identified" toxins. [Division of Food Chemistry and Technology and Division of Contaminants Chemistry, "Points to Consider for Safety Evaluation of Genetically Modified Foods: Supplemental Information," November 1, 1991]
The very first crop submitted to the FDA's voluntary consultation process, the FlavrSavr tomato, showed evidence of toxins. Out of 20 female rats fed the GM tomato, 7 developed stomach lesions. [Department of Veterinary Medicine, FDA, correspondence June 16, 1993. As quoted in Fred A. Hines, Memo to Dr. Linda Kahl. "Flavr Savr Tomato:... Pathology Branch's Evaluat
I really do hope they fork the code. The developers seem too arrogant to listen to the myriads of cries from the people who actually use their browser.
The new version 4 already was taking almost 400 megs of ram. That's acceptable?? Hello?
I couldn't agree more! I wish they would fix the bloat and listen to their user base instead of adding more features we don't want (what a crazy idea).
I'm surprised to see all the people jumping to the defense of Microsoft. Wow.
Let's see...
1.) they accidentally turned off all the encryption in all the countries that are trying to overthrow their government
2.) the current governments are very very very rich and powerful
3.) it's all because of a "bug" and has nothing to do with these government at all (a couple of extra countries are thrown in to "prove" it's not on purpose)
Ya right. lol
So you think that Microsoft is now gone completely ethical and wouldn't do such a thing to seal up a bunch of software deals for these countries? And would they do something so visible like turn off encryption? Umm... ya! Look at all the people posting who buy into Microsoft "amazing coincidence" hotmail bug. Point made. Never underestimate marketing, propaganda, and "experts". Also, remember Microsoft track record for arrogance (they think that you are all dumbasses) and thinking they are untouchable.
Let me just make this crystal clear. If it was legal for Microsoft (or any other multinational corporation) to act like a dictator and it would make a ton of cash, they would act just like a dictator.
Google fan boys will always defend Google no matter what the company does.
Google has been censoring information. They have shared information with the government. They are asking for too much personal information and even tailoring your Gmail depending on what's in your email. They track where people surf using Google Analytics. The list goes on and on... they are a corporation out to make money and ethics are a completely separate issue from cash flow.
Seriously... you don't have a problem with any of this? There's always some type of payoff - even if it's an ego problem. And switching to Yahoo is somehow better?
Like it or not, as human animals, men are more controlling and women are more submissive. Andriod gives you more control over the device and iPhone tells you how it's going to be with little configuration.
Even in human sexuality, respective to men and womens' anatomy, man experience joy in their masculinity in the act of romantic dominance (penetration) while women experience their femininity in the act of romantic surrender (being penetrated). Ask women if they like being spanked and having their hair pulled in intercourse. (Understanding that while using generalities, obviously there are always exceptions to the rule.)
How about a hard question?
"Where do you want to eat tonight?" "I don't know. You pick."
Seems to me that we'd be a lot better off if we produced more things locally (even if within the same country) which also creates jobs and helps the local economy.
Oh wait, then we couldn't have our modern day equivalence to "slaves" that are all over seas and out of sight (like the kids who work in sweat shops in China) that work for next to nothing so we can have stuff really cheap at Walmart.
People are not excited because past versions of their OS have had such serious issues, that why would people want to put themselves through that again?
I knew so many people that switched to Android, the Palm Pre, and the iPhone from a Windows Phone because they got tired of rebooting their phone on a daily basis.
So we have the entertainment industry suing little girls and grandmothers over 'piracy', they are lobbying the government to take away our rights, Hollywood has done little except ruin the culture and ethical boundaries with their version of "reality", most people these days do not have the ability to have healthy relationships because they have been brainwashed with fantasy, they throw patent and copyright wars draining our court systems with our own tax money, and now they want to stalk you when you watch a movie where you paid $20 for some popcorn and a drink.
They sure seem to be the wealthiest chain of corporations and organizations in the world. Perhaps that's because the majority of the population has about the shittiest priorities one could imagine. While people are entertaining themselves to death, they know little about education, their government, or the myriads of issues facing humanity.
There is not a lot of difference between doing nothing and joining along. When people get their priorities straight and stop giving these multinational-corporation pieces of human garbage their money, then we'll see this kind of nonsense stop.
Ya, I see where this is going. What, people in the late 20's and up don't listen to music? Oui oui, it's le racism!
And what happens when the cash is gone? They won't need to download any more music?
I honestly can't fathom how this helps anyone except for the same music publishers who have raped us with their music prices for decades.
You know what this really is? Some deal was made behind closed doors.
Sure they're scared of being sued! Just look at the track record.
You know, this wouldn't even be so much of a problem if the music industry (these publishers) charged a reasonable price for a CD that costs them a few cents to make. You know... a CD with 7 songs on it where 5 of the songs suck, 1 song is ok, and you really only wanted that 1 song you paid the $30 bucks for.
Instead, they want to sue Apple over royalties for the 30 second song previews on iTunes.
It's no shocker that Comcast is trying to rip us off. Some people think the government will save us... whatever. They want their power control of the internet as well and we've seen enough evidence of that. Just look at the laws they passed and the new laws they want to pass.
Let's just own up and face it, the democans and the republicrats are all the same garbage. Seriously? We can wrap all of the peoples' needs into two "parties" when they are more loyal to the party than the public?
We don't have freedom of voting. lol What a joke. You know what we have? "Here's a couple of people the Counsel of Foreign Relations and the Federal Reserve picked. Choose one." People wind up voting for the lesser of 2 evils.
Ya, so much for freedom. It's all rigged. We lost most of our rights a long time ago but now they are just being more obvious about it.
People who defend Obama are seriously deluded... just as deluded as the people who defend Bush. When are people gonna wake up and realize that this whole Republican and Democrat scam is a distraction and the clowns all work together, eat together, and make deals behind closed doors together?
Let's just hope people realize before it's too late and we wind up like China.
Actually, I had some in depth talks with some friends from China about WoW.
They still only have level 70 because the government STILL hasn't "filtered" every last quest in WotLK for any themes that might contradict the Chinese government policies. I'm dead serious. The "censorship" is that horrific.
Not only that, but there are some really weird censorship issues you wouldn't expect. For example, there are no undead in Chinese WoW because the Chinese government won't allow any human bones to be shown in the game. So anywhere you see a skeleton, it had to be removed by Blizzard.
The way it's supposed to work is the companies have more customers, which means more money, which means they expand the infrastructures.
I mean, it's not complicated. This is business 101 stuff here.
There's no logic in this... only antisemitism. Some people have no logic when it comes to hatred.
Israel and Iran are not even close to the same thing. One is a country with a form of democrac, voting, women's rights, and many different peoples and religions. The other is a hardcore extremist Islamic state where they have openly promised to wipe us off the map (in Arabic of course), and they are controlled by a lunatic dictator who believes a world war will usher in the messiah.
It never ceases to amaze me the number of racist people who defy logic. I'm, actually, one that thinks the Israeli government sucks and is controlled by a bunch off asshats but you don't see me comparing Israel to Iran. That's ridiculous and you have some serious bias there.
The app store is being replaced by Homebrew applications so it doesn't really matter what Palm does with the app store with the exception of having the application settings backed up. Furthermore, there are hundreds of free apps with new ones popping up every day.
I have used HP printers almost exclusively for nearly 15 years. They last freakin forever. Every time I tried another brand (Epson, Lexmark, etc) they broke within a month.
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"Someday, son, people will be sent to re-education to brainwash them for things like not having papers, saying certain things, listening to certain music, or even driving to the store."
"Dad, that sounds like a horror movie. I don't think it will EVER come to that. I mean, people just wouldn't accept something so terrible!"
Bad idea if this is supposed to be for food. It's very arrogant and sociopathic to think you can make such a change, and then feed it to innocent people - not certain if there are serious implications. Reality has proven that there are few real shortcuts (there is always a trade-off). Research has been included and you are welcome to investigate this information for yourself.
... Pathology Branch's Evaluat
Genetically modified organisms (GMOs) have been linked to thousands of toxic or allergic-type reactions, thousands of sick, sterile, and dead livestock, and damage to virtually every organ and system studied in lab animals. [Jeffrey M. Smith, Genetic Roulette: The Documented Health Risks of Genetically Engineered Foods, Yes! Books, Fairfield, IA USA 2007] Herbicide tolerant soy, corn, cotton, and canola plants are engineered with bacterial genes that allow them to survive otherwise deadly doses of herbicides. Herbicide tolerant crops comprise about 80% of all GM plants. The other 20% are corn and cotton varieties that produce a pesticide in every cell. This is accomplished due to a gene from a soil bacterium called Bacillus thuringiensis or Bt, which produces a natural insect-killing poison called Bt-toxin. We ingest these pesticides.
FDA internal memos made public from a lawsuit showed that the overwhelming consensus among the agency scientists was that GM crops can have unpredictable, hard-to-detect side effects. Various departments and experts spelled these out in detail, listing allergies, toxins, nutritional effects, and new diseases as potential dangers. They urged superiors to require long-term safety studies. [For copies of FDA memos, see The Alliance for Bio-Integrity, www.biointegrity.org ]
There are several reasons why GM plants present unique dangers. The first is that the process of genetic engineering itself creates unpredicted alterations, irrespective of which gene is transferred. The gene insertion process, for example, is accomplished by either shooting genes from a "gene gun" into a plate of cells, or using bacteria to infect the cell with foreign DNA. Both create mutations in and around the insertion site and elsewhere. [J. R. Latham, et al., "The Mutational Consequences of Plant Transformation," The Journal of Biomedicine and Biotechnology 2006, Article ID 25376: 1-7; see also Allison Wilson, et. al., "Transformation-induced mutations in transgenic plants: Analysis and biosafety implications," Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering Reviews – Vol. 23, December 2006] The "transformed" cell is then cloned into a plant through a process called tissue culture, which results in additional hundreds or thousands of mutations throughout the plants' genome. In the end, the GM plant's DNA can be a staggering 2-4% different from its natural parent (which is a LOT).
Although the FDA scientists evaluating GMOs in 1992 were unaware of the extent to which GM DNA is damaged or changed, they too described the potential consequences. They reported, "The possibility of unexpected, accidental changes in genetically engineered plants" might produce "unexpected high concentrations of plant toxicants." [Edwin J. Mathews, Ph.D., in a memorandum to the Toxicology Section of the Biotechnology Working Group. Subject: Analysis of the Major Plant Toxicants. Dated October 28, 1991] GM crops, they said, might have "increased levels of known naturally occurring toxins," and the "appearance of new, not previously identified" toxins. [Division of Food Chemistry and Technology and Division of Contaminants Chemistry, "Points to Consider for Safety Evaluation of Genetically Modified Foods: Supplemental Information," November 1, 1991]
The very first crop submitted to the FDA's voluntary consultation process, the FlavrSavr tomato, showed evidence of toxins. Out of 20 female rats fed the GM tomato, 7 developed stomach lesions. [Department of Veterinary Medicine, FDA, correspondence June 16, 1993. As quoted in Fred A. Hines, Memo to Dr. Linda Kahl. "Flavr Savr Tomato:
I really do hope they fork the code. The developers seem too arrogant to listen to the myriads of cries from the people who actually use their browser.
The new version 4 already was taking almost 400 megs of ram. That's acceptable?? Hello?
I hope it's better than 4.
I couldn't agree more! I wish they would fix the bloat and listen to their user base instead of adding more features we don't want (what a crazy idea).
Version 3.6 takes 176 meg
Version 4.0 took 360+ megs.
I'm back on 3.6.
I don't want those interface "features"! I want the memory issues fixed. Stop trying to copy Chrome.
I have Adobe AcrobatX. I don't need another "PDF Viewer" taking up even more ram!
I'm surprised to see all the people jumping to the defense of Microsoft. Wow.
Let's see...
1.) they accidentally turned off all the encryption in all the countries that are trying to overthrow their government
2.) the current governments are very very very rich and powerful
3.) it's all because of a "bug" and has nothing to do with these government at all (a couple of extra countries are thrown in to "prove" it's not on purpose)
Ya right. lol
So you think that Microsoft is now gone completely ethical and wouldn't do such a thing to seal up a bunch of software deals for these countries? And would they do something so visible like turn off encryption? Umm... ya! Look at all the people posting who buy into Microsoft "amazing coincidence" hotmail bug. Point made. Never underestimate marketing, propaganda, and "experts". Also, remember Microsoft track record for arrogance (they think that you are all dumbasses) and thinking they are untouchable.
Let me just make this crystal clear. If it was legal for Microsoft (or any other multinational corporation) to act like a dictator and it would make a ton of cash, they would act just like a dictator.
Google fan boys will always defend Google no matter what the company does. Google has been censoring information. They have shared information with the government. They are asking for too much personal information and even tailoring your Gmail depending on what's in your email. They track where people surf using Google Analytics. The list goes on and on... they are a corporation out to make money and ethics are a completely separate issue from cash flow. Seriously... you don't have a problem with any of this? There's always some type of payoff - even if it's an ego problem. And switching to Yahoo is somehow better?
Easy.
Like it or not, as human animals, men are more controlling and women are more submissive. Andriod gives you more control over the device and iPhone tells you how it's going to be with little configuration.
Even in human sexuality, respective to men and womens' anatomy, man experience joy in their masculinity in the act of romantic dominance (penetration) while women experience their femininity in the act of romantic surrender (being penetrated). Ask women if they like being spanked and having their hair pulled in intercourse. (Understanding that while using generalities, obviously there are always exceptions to the rule.)
How about a hard question?
"Where do you want to eat tonight?" "I don't know. You pick."
A terse message posted to Novell's website? Look, Novell... you sold patents to Microsoft period. Of course people are worried. Shame on you.
Microsoft wouldn't buy them if the patents were completely worthless.
Seems to me that we'd be a lot better off if we produced more things locally (even if within the same country) which also creates jobs and helps the local economy.
Oh wait, then we couldn't have our modern day equivalence to "slaves" that are all over seas and out of sight (like the kids who work in sweat shops in China) that work for next to nothing so we can have stuff really cheap at Walmart.
People are not excited because past versions of their OS have had such serious issues, that why would people want to put themselves through that again?
I knew so many people that switched to Android, the Palm Pre, and the iPhone from a Windows Phone because they got tired of rebooting their phone on a daily basis.
She doesn't even know how her privacy will completely gone once she plays Farmville.
Not to mention, she'll never be able to delete her Facebook account. She should have gone onto MySpace using an AOL account.
Maybe it's not too late to get her GeoCities page into that 80gig archive file on bit torrent.
You may need to learn about drywall to upgrade your PC.
Not only that, but how many organizations use Post-it notes to write down requirements and call it SCRUM?
And if you ask them if they are using the other parts of these methodologies, they will say they "invented their own version" to suit their business.
So we have the entertainment industry suing little girls and grandmothers over 'piracy', they are lobbying the government to take away our rights, Hollywood has done little except ruin the culture and ethical boundaries with their version of "reality", most people these days do not have the ability to have healthy relationships because they have been brainwashed with fantasy, they throw patent and copyright wars draining our court systems with our own tax money, and now they want to stalk you when you watch a movie where you paid $20 for some popcorn and a drink.
They sure seem to be the wealthiest chain of corporations and organizations in the world. Perhaps that's because the majority of the population has about the shittiest priorities one could imagine. While people are entertaining themselves to death, they know little about education, their government, or the myriads of issues facing humanity.
There is not a lot of difference between doing nothing and joining along. When people get their priorities straight and stop giving these multinational-corporation pieces of human garbage their money, then we'll see this kind of nonsense stop.
Can't wait to see the new Facebook ActiveX control. lol
I wonder if one of the new exploits will be named Facelift or Facefucker.
Ya, I see where this is going. What, people in the late 20's and up don't listen to music? Oui oui, it's le racism! And what happens when the cash is gone? They won't need to download any more music? I honestly can't fathom how this helps anyone except for the same music publishers who have raped us with their music prices for decades. You know what this really is? Some deal was made behind closed doors.
NoScript will protect you from this (XSS) - even if you have it set to globally allow javascript.
Sure they're scared of being sued! Just look at the track record.
You know, this wouldn't even be so much of a problem if the music industry (these publishers) charged a reasonable price for a CD that costs them a few cents to make. You know... a CD with 7 songs on it where 5 of the songs suck, 1 song is ok, and you really only wanted that 1 song you paid the $30 bucks for.
Instead, they want to sue Apple over royalties for the 30 second song previews on iTunes.
It's no shocker that Comcast is trying to rip us off. Some people think the government will save us... whatever. They want their power control of the internet as well and we've seen enough evidence of that. Just look at the laws they passed and the new laws they want to pass.
Let's just own up and face it, the democans and the republicrats are all the same garbage. Seriously? We can wrap all of the peoples' needs into two "parties" when they are more loyal to the party than the public?
We don't have freedom of voting. lol What a joke. You know what we have? "Here's a couple of people the Counsel of Foreign Relations and the Federal Reserve picked. Choose one." People wind up voting for the lesser of 2 evils.
Ya, so much for freedom. It's all rigged. We lost most of our rights a long time ago but now they are just being more obvious about it.
People who defend Obama are seriously deluded... just as deluded as the people who defend Bush. When are people gonna wake up and realize that this whole Republican and Democrat scam is a distraction and the clowns all work together, eat together, and make deals behind closed doors together?
Let's just hope people realize before it's too late and we wind up like China.
Actually, I had some in depth talks with some friends from China about WoW.
They still only have level 70 because the government STILL hasn't "filtered" every last quest in WotLK for any themes that might contradict the Chinese government policies. I'm dead serious. The "censorship" is that horrific.
Not only that, but there are some really weird censorship issues you wouldn't expect. For example, there are no undead in Chinese WoW because the Chinese government won't allow any human bones to be shown in the game. So anywhere you see a skeleton, it had to be removed by Blizzard.
The way it's supposed to work is the companies have more customers, which means more money, which means they expand the infrastructures. I mean, it's not complicated. This is business 101 stuff here.
There's no logic in this... only antisemitism. Some people have no logic when it comes to hatred.
Israel and Iran are not even close to the same thing. One is a country with a form of democrac, voting, women's rights, and many different peoples and religions. The other is a hardcore extremist Islamic state where they have openly promised to wipe us off the map (in Arabic of course), and they are controlled by a lunatic dictator who believes a world war will usher in the messiah.
It never ceases to amaze me the number of racist people who defy logic. I'm, actually, one that thinks the Israeli government sucks and is controlled by a bunch off asshats but you don't see me comparing Israel to Iran. That's ridiculous and you have some serious bias there.
The app store is being replaced by Homebrew applications so it doesn't really matter what Palm does with the app store with the exception of having the application settings backed up. Furthermore, there are hundreds of free apps with new ones popping up every day.
http://www.precentral.net/how-to-install-homebrew-apps
I love my palm pre.
I have used HP printers almost exclusively for nearly 15 years. They last freakin forever. Every time I tried another brand (Epson, Lexmark, etc) they broke within a month.