You do realize that it's illegal to manufacture drugs without FDA approval, right?
If a drug is unregulated you can take it all you want. just don't expect your insurance to cover it.
I'm not sure what you mean by "unregulated". All drugs in the US are regulated by the FDA. Even over-the-counter drugs. Making your own Aspirin is a federal crime.
Suppose you (or a loved one) as some sort of pernicious disease, either with no treatment or none of the approved treatments have been successful.
Ok, suppose I have cancer.
Someone close does a google search on the condition, and comes up with a site peddling some treatment that doesn't appear on the FDA website.
I googled "magic cancer treatment" and this is the first result.
What do you do now? Without access to the test data (if any exists) nor the education to evaluate it, how do you make any sensible decision under extremely emotional conditions?
With GMO you can certainly have a mix of crops. It's just that with Monsanto's particular brand of bullshit you can't mix and match.
I think you're talking past each other.
Yes, in the larger sense, you can technically have a mix of GMO crops, but in the US Monsanto is GMO and there will be no mix of Monsanto GMO crops.
If Monsanto were to disappear tomorrow, they still will have poisoned the name of GMO for years, perhaps decades to come.
Monsanto have 90% marketshare in US GMO seeds. But 90% isn't 100%; Monsanto isn't GMO. If Monsanto were to disappear tomorrow, the companies that make up the other 10% will have 100% of the market to compete in by definition.
Those other companies might be as corrupt as Monsanto. They might even be worst than Monsanto. But that still doesn't mean GMO as a technology should be blamed.
they still will have poisoned the name of GMO for years, perhaps decades to come.
I agree that's the case for the general population. However it's easy to see the fallacy here. Just because a knife was used to murder someone doesn't mean that all knife owners are murderers. Rational people can differentiate between Monsanto the corporation and GMO the technology.
Troy Roush a 5th generation farmer and Vice President of the American Corn Growers Association is the expert look him up.
Argument from authority.
Actually no you cannot. The GMO stuff you have License from Monsanto and they have special rules about what you are supposed to do in the license agreement. Also in practice the GM Corn and Soy are dominant and they cross-pollinate the conventional corn and soy. If your corn or soy gets contaminated by GM corn or soy then you have to pay for a license from Monsanto plus purchase seed from them.
With GMO you can certainly have a mix of crops. It's just that with Monsanto's particular brand of bullshit you can't mix and match. While what Monsanto is doing might be morally hideous and broader-line racketeering, that doesn't mean GMO as a technology is flawed or inherently immoral. Attack the evil-doer, not the technology.
Perhaps, but the DNS requires infrastructure to operate. That infrastructure isn't free.
The infrastructure isn't free, but there are thousands of organizations out there willing to should that cost for free. So for all intents and purposes it's free for the average user.
Unfortunately some of the people who have forgotten are those who pushed the conversion to all mail-in voting, with postage required by the voter. Sure, it's a small tax, but it's going up almost every year, will matter for some group of people, and is a speed-bump in the road to voting.
In Canada mail to and from Members of Parliament and other key government official are completely postage free. You can drop the mail off at any mailbox. So it's a natural extension that all ballots are postage free as well. I'm extremely surprised to discover that this is not the case in US. You must pay the government in order to contact the government by mail? Huh?
Making all political mail and ballots postage free (without going through the post office) is probably pocket change to the USPS.
...the scientists compared those data with estimates of total black carbon based on expected black carbon emissions of diesel- and gasoline-burning vehicles.
Historically those trips (if they were possible at all) took months or years and almost always were subject to delays perhaps lasting weeks.
Actually for the majority of history you didn't need papers to cross national borders. This "papers please" mentality didn't start until WWI. In that respect international travel was easier back then, baring the whole spending a year on a boat thing.
I totally agree with your sentiments though. It's the responsibility of the traveler to make sure they don't get stuck in a foreign land.
Exactly. Given the current life expectancy of 78, each voter will participate in 15 elections on average. Voting third party may seem "wasted" at first, but it makes the rest of your votes down the road that much more effective.
He plans to eliminate the Department of Education. In the 200 years before the Department of Education was established, the fine public schools of our country produced millions of brilliant scientists, artists, and freethinkers. I think our public schools will do fine without the Department of Education, considering that every state already has its own Department of Education.
I'm curious, how would you prevent reverse engineering without patents? I'm against software patents but if you're proposing that we scrap all patents I'd like to hear your alternative measures.
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The literature is there. Go make the drug.
You do realize that it's illegal to manufacture drugs without FDA approval, right?
If a drug is unregulated you can take it all you want. just don't expect your insurance to cover it.
I'm not sure what you mean by "unregulated". All drugs in the US are regulated by the FDA. Even over-the-counter drugs. Making your own Aspirin is a federal crime.
Suppose you (or a loved one) as some sort of pernicious disease, either with no treatment or none of the approved treatments have been successful.
Ok, suppose I have cancer.
Someone close does a google search on the condition, and comes up with a site peddling some treatment that doesn't appear on the FDA website.
I googled "magic cancer treatment" and this is the first result.
What do you do now? Without access to the test data (if any exists) nor the education to evaluate it, how do you make any sensible decision under extremely emotional conditions?
I ignore it because it's not FDA approved.
Simply, wasn't that?
With GMO you can certainly have a mix of crops. It's just that with Monsanto's particular brand of bullshit you can't mix and match.
I think you're talking past each other.
Yes, in the larger sense, you can technically have a mix of GMO crops, but in the US Monsanto is GMO and there will be no mix of Monsanto GMO crops.
If Monsanto were to disappear tomorrow, they still will have poisoned the name of GMO for years, perhaps decades to come.
Monsanto have 90% marketshare in US GMO seeds. But 90% isn't 100%; Monsanto isn't GMO. If Monsanto were to disappear tomorrow, the companies that make up the other 10% will have 100% of the market to compete in by definition.
Those other companies might be as corrupt as Monsanto. They might even be worst than Monsanto. But that still doesn't mean GMO as a technology should be blamed.
they still will have poisoned the name of GMO for years, perhaps decades to come.
I agree that's the case for the general population. However it's easy to see the fallacy here. Just because a knife was used to murder someone doesn't mean that all knife owners are murderers. Rational people can differentiate between Monsanto the corporation and GMO the technology.
Prescriptions can be eliminated in that case. The pharmacy will just have you sign a waiver form.
There are millions of items on store shelves that can kill you. How come only prescription drugs need a permission slip from the government?
I heard they gave out free LSD back in the 50's. Anyone handing out free drugs is awesome in my books.
The CIA was caught off guard about the dissolution of the Soviet Union as well. Was there a deeper reason for that too?
The law on this is exceedingly clear.
No one ever breaks the laws, am I right? Especially not the government.
The IC broke the laws countless times before. What makes you think it won't happen again?
Good thing we have public funded universities and the NSF then.
I'm no expert, but I can tell you aren't either.
Troy Roush a 5th generation farmer and Vice President of the American Corn Growers Association is the expert look him up.
Argument from authority.
Actually no you cannot. The GMO stuff you have License from Monsanto and they have special rules about what you are supposed to do in the license agreement. Also in practice the GM Corn and Soy are dominant and they cross-pollinate the conventional corn and soy. If your corn or soy gets contaminated by GM corn or soy then you have to pay for a license from Monsanto plus purchase seed from them.
With GMO you can certainly have a mix of crops. It's just that with Monsanto's particular brand of bullshit you can't mix and match. While what Monsanto is doing might be morally hideous and broader-line racketeering, that doesn't mean GMO as a technology is flawed or inherently immoral. Attack the evil-doer, not the technology.
Perhaps, but the DNS requires infrastructure to operate. That infrastructure isn't free.
The infrastructure isn't free, but there are thousands of organizations out there willing to should that cost for free. So for all intents and purposes it's free for the average user.
In case you didn't know, he was referring to the Communist Party USA, not the CCP.
Unfortunately some of the people who have forgotten are those who pushed the conversion to all mail-in voting, with postage required by the voter. Sure, it's a small tax, but it's going up almost every year, will matter for some group of people, and is a speed-bump in the road to voting.
Absentee ballots require no postage. The catch is that you must drop it off at a post office.
In Canada mail to and from Members of Parliament and other key government official are completely postage free. You can drop the mail off at any mailbox. So it's a natural extension that all ballots are postage free as well. I'm extremely surprised to discover that this is not the case in US. You must pay the government in order to contact the government by mail? Huh?
Making all political mail and ballots postage free (without going through the post office) is probably pocket change to the USPS.
...the scientists compared those data with estimates of total black carbon based on expected black carbon emissions of diesel- and gasoline-burning vehicles.
This paper covers both gasoline and diesel.
tracked by their government.
This story is about the UK, where government GPS tracking has not been sanctioned yet AFAIK.
So you're saying it was the Department of Education that introduced women's rights to schooling?
Historically those trips (if they were possible at all) took months or years and almost always were subject to delays perhaps lasting weeks.
Actually for the majority of history you didn't need papers to cross national borders. This "papers please" mentality didn't start until WWI. In that respect international travel was easier back then, baring the whole spending a year on a boat thing.
I totally agree with your sentiments though. It's the responsibility of the traveler to make sure they don't get stuck in a foreign land.
Open your passport. Look above your photo. See where it says "NOT VALID UNTIL SIGNED" in all caps?
You do realize that the TSA does surprise inspections on both highways and railways, right?
A federal or state law enforcement agency may request the denial of a passport on several regulatory grounds under 22 CFR 51.70 and 51.72. The principal law enforcement reasons for passport denial are a federal warrant of arrest, a federal or state criminal court order, a condition of parole or probation forbidding departure from the United States (or the jurisdiction of the court), or a request for extradition. The HHS child support database and the Marshals Service WIN database are checked automatically for entitlement to a passport. Denial or revocation of a passport does not prevent the use of outstanding valid passports.
historically unprecedented obstruction.
But the Democrats controlled both chambers in the 111th Congress.
Eisenhower had a Democrat controlled House and Senate oppose him for 6 years. That's "historically unprecedented obstruction".
Exactly. Given the current life expectancy of 78, each voter will participate in 15 elections on average. Voting third party may seem "wasted" at first, but it makes the rest of your votes down the road that much more effective.
He plans to eliminate the Department of Education. In the 200 years before the Department of Education was established, the fine public schools of our country produced millions of brilliant scientists, artists, and freethinkers. I think our public schools will do fine without the Department of Education, considering that every state already has its own Department of Education.
Forgetting to place quotation marks around another writer’s words.
These seem pretty straightforward and hard to fuck up
Oh, the irony.
Why not get a fleet of armored drones and get people to PAY to shoot at them?
Why not get a fleet of armed drones with first person cameras and have aerial combat? It would be like BattleBots except 100 times better.
(Not possible with the current gun laws unfortunately. An electronic firing mechanism would be classed as a machine gun under the NFA.)
I'm curious, how would you prevent reverse engineering without patents? I'm against software patents but if you're proposing that we scrap all patents I'd like to hear your alternative measures.