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  1. Re:Neo-Luddite scaremongering wins again on Scotland To Ban GM Crops · · Score: 1

    Economists are basically astrologers, thus charlatans. I can't stand them. Not that psychologists and lawyers are far behind :-)

  2. Re:Coke is bad for you. Plain and simple. on Coca-Cola To Fund Research That Shifts Blame For Obesity Away From Bad Diets · · Score: 1

    I don't see anything particularly 'modern' here, or even particularly human. 'Modern' is that we do everything faster now. Sometimes it's better, sometimes it's not. I'm only taking potshots at the unifying force of the universe that subjugates us all.

  3. Re:Neo-Luddite scaremongering wins again on Scotland To Ban GM Crops · · Score: 1

    I think you'll get a better idea how things are by watching the Animal Planet. Replace Smith, Marx, and Ricardo with Pavlov, Skinner, and Freud... Their tests have proven to be more reproducible.

  4. Re:Neo-Luddite scaremongering wins again on Scotland To Ban GM Crops · · Score: 1

    [I said that wrong]

    It should read, *It only paints over a symptom of human corruption, and not very well.*

  5. Re:Neo-Luddite scaremongering wins again on Scotland To Ban GM Crops · · Score: 1

    Sorry, I want more transparency and oversight than you apparently do. In the meantime all our shortages can be alleviated using the resources we already have at our immediate disposal, that we know are safe. There is no reason to get all hasty with this GMO stuff. It only treats a symptom of human corruption, and not very well.

  6. Re:Neo-Luddite scaremongering wins again on Scotland To Ban GM Crops · · Score: 1

    If you want to advertise to your customers that you're GMO free, knock yourself out.

    :-) Just thought I'd rub it in with another example of the corruption we are dealing with (That one took two years to overcome, and it's still not a complete victory)

    So now you know, if we are not going to be allowed to label our own food without all this resistance, then we must demand the government do it for us. We need the industry to provide the service, not make the rules.

  7. Re:Neo-Luddite scaremongering wins again on Scotland To Ban GM Crops · · Score: 1

    How so? What specifically is being mismanaged?

    Construction (specifically in unsafe locations near the coast on fault lines), operation, maintenance, waste disposal (they're throwing away a lot of free energy there), cost overruns and funds unaccounted for. Pretty much the entire thing. We handed the entire business to used car salesmen, and so we need to fix it!

    If you want to advertise to your customers that you're GMO free, knock yourself out.

    Really now?[pdf] Yeah, I guess, with enough lawyers you can do anything. (luckily that case went the right way)

    Your post reads like a industry press release.

  8. Attn: Slashdot editors on Study: Ad Blocker Use Jumps 41 Percent · · Score: 1

    You should know that posting these kinds of stories is like screaming, "beetlejuice! beetlejuice! beetlejuice!" in a crowded forum.

  9. Re:Fed up on Study: Ad Blocker Use Jumps 41 Percent · · Score: 0

    Oy! and the bandwidth and data usage!

  10. Re:Neo-Luddite scaremongering wins again on Scotland To Ban GM Crops · · Score: 1

    Well then, nobody should complain if I want sell cyanide and heroin on the street corner. Big business has proven to be very corrupt in the way they operate. GMOs by themselves aren't necessarily the problem. But it's being handled badly, kinda like nuclear power, perfectly safe, but grossly mismanaged. Right now we must demand simple transparency and put labeling on the package. People must be allowed the choice of what to ingest. If contamination is a risk, then a ban is the appropriate response, even though this stuff, like Chinese smog, has absolutely no respect for national borders.

  11. Re:Coke is bad for you. Plain and simple. on Coca-Cola To Fund Research That Shifts Blame For Obesity Away From Bad Diets · · Score: 1

    It powered the industrial revolution. People are crazy now, but the food cooks much faster in our shiny new Radarange, so now we have more time to work in the sugar caves!

  12. They are redoing an old experiment on Coca-Cola To Fund Research That Shifts Blame For Obesity Away From Bad Diets · · Score: 1

    Every day we reach new levels of cynicism. It is yet another demonstration of the triumph of public relations over scientific fact. It's slowing down the anti pollution efforts, why not give a try here?

  13. Re:Neo-Luddite scaremongering wins again on Scotland To Ban GM Crops · · Score: 1

    Well, since all food shortages and widespread malnutrition are caused by human corruption and waste, please tell us, why do we need it?

  14. Re:Neo-Luddite scaremongering wins again on Scotland To Ban GM Crops · · Score: 1

    You are absolutely correct, I bring up these points myself occasionally, but there's too much shouting in here. Nobody is going to hear you. They'd rather philosophize and sound all superior 'n stuff.

    We don't need this stuff, when simple good farming practices and an end to widespread war will feed us all many times over. But there is little profit in abundance. We are doing it like bad medical practice, where you need a second drug to reduce the side effects of the first, then you need a third to do the same for the second, and so on and so forth. This also happens to be why computer programs become so bloated. The problem seems to be universal.

  15. Re:Neo-Luddite scaremongering wins again on Scotland To Ban GM Crops · · Score: 1

    Yes really! Will somebody please tell them the war is over?

  16. Re:Wait, what? on Scotland To Ban GM Crops · · Score: 2

    What, humans aren't natural? Where did we come from then?

  17. Re:Often old hardware is more convenient. on Ask Slashdot: How To Safely Use Older Android Phones? · · Score: 1

    the software was unfinished.

    codenamed 'Schubert'?

  18. Re:a paint gun 'does nothing' but on How To Shoot Down a Drone · · Score: 1

    That's why I reload my paintballs with my own special mix...

  19. Re:After working with almost three dozen different on Tech Firm Ubiquiti Suffers $46M Cyberheist · · Score: 1

    You don't have to hide behind the AC moniker. Here you can speak freely, Mr. Madoff...

  20. Re:Companies should say"No clicking links from ema on Tech Firm Ubiquiti Suffers $46M Cyberheist · · Score: 1

    With this level of finances that's completely inexcusable.

    With this level of finances the temptations are overwhelming. Any mark that doesn't demand a cut is an idiot.

  21. Re:Japan does it right on How To Shoot Down a Drone · · Score: 1

    Now that would be a cool contest! Man against nature..

  22. Re:Japan does it right on How To Shoot Down a Drone · · Score: 1

    Who?

  23. Re:I'm sure on Congressional Black Caucus Begs Apple For Its 'Trade Secret' Racial Data · · Score: 1

    Yeah, we do have the right to make corporations comply with the norms of the community it effects, but they are rights we don't enforce. So please save your breath. Your style overwhelms your message, both of which only show you're just a schmuck! You know where to take it...

  24. Re:Japan does it right on How To Shoot Down a Drone · · Score: 1

    You don't have to break the prop. Just get it tangled up in the fish net. The globe can bounce off of it.

  25. Re:Japan does it right on How To Shoot Down a Drone · · Score: 2

    There were six or eight of them. It doesn't look like you need them all to maintain control, and they're also protected inside the cage. The ones around the prop tips and the base were free floating. The overall design just makes much more sense, being safer and far more robust. I am surprised it doesn't dominate the market. It did cost a lot of money to make the first time, but it's an old video, and being a military project, well, you know the routine there. Prices should be comparable now.