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Taxes are the things you pay, in concert with your neighbour, to commit to SHARING the common costs of supporting your community. Stop paying taxes and the capitalists will be happy to reap a profit off of all your essential community services (think: phone, water, gas, elec... then think roads, police, courts, elections, schools). You can bet that the right capitalist will offer these services, with lower real value, at higher prices and with zero certainty. If you havnt got the money, you havnt got the service. Now, this everything-in-the-free-market idea might appeal to a fiercly-individual-self-centered-myopic-egotist but the rest of the world (everyone outside the USA) like the idea of sharing a fuck of alot. Taxes == sharing the costs of maintaining your community for the good of all. !Taxes == entrenching capitalist control of your life && fueling the race to the bottom as everything gets sucked into the free-market.
I know its tough - but please choose wisely.
Re:The only thing that helps is taxes
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Here Here! I particularily like the idea of the UN collecting taxes, I say we move a portion of our corporate tax collection to the UN - this will help avoid the *race to the bottom* that we will soon enter as we all start begging for corporate-table scraps.... excellent point.
I always hate hearing shallow vapid arugments like of logging equipment, effectively releasing all sorts of toxins into the air and spilling diesel and motor oil all over the ground
You shouldnt off-handedly dismiss this action. I do not think spilling chemicals in the forest (buring the equipment) is a *good* thing either - BUT - I understand their motivation, i never the less also support their action. The damage that that equipment could cause is a greater tragedy than the smaller chemical spill. Is this rationalizing - yes. But what you fail to admit is that calling someone a hypocrite and dismissing their arguments is cheap and lazy - it becomes easier for you to use this escape hatch (the hypocrite-arugment you used above) than dealing with the real issues.
Re:Environmentalist wackos ...
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from getting people to agree with them, drive people away
I wonder why their media-coverage has shot up recently... maybe The Man would like the moderate support to begin associating radical (non-violent type) environmentalists with the image of The Terrorist that they have been cleverly cultivating in American Media.. This will keep the masses from joining the pro-sustainability advocates. This is nott a conspiracy it is self-motivated, self-directing self-interest from all members of the American Plutocracy. If the masses stop buying needless crap - what happens to all their made-up-economics
In one sentance you admit that Americans are fed a steady stream of Enemy-du-jour figures (binladin, china, boogy-man) *AND* then in the next breath you say *other national threats* as if these threats actually exist!. America has no natural-historical enemies, where are these threats coming from... is there even the remotest threat of someone coming to america and harming citizens - no.
Re:Kubrick films not meant to be entertainment
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Like Clockwork Orange and 2001, this film is more about exploration than entertainment
Agreed. But Im glad for it, We really need more opportunity to think, lest we entertain ourselves to death.
See:
"Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business", by Neil Postman, Methuen, f.p.1985, new imprint 1998, 184pp., paper.
http://chapters.indigo.ca/books/details/default.as p?ISBN=0140094385&mscssid=WM6H569WPWT99MM6MS06WHN2 55SADMJF&WSID=1307FEBA8D114200466C8A9EFCA0DB221A35 1201
This is the inquiry I sent and replies I received in return from the two principles in the article, CFIA and monsanto.
To the CBC, Monsanto and CFIA I sent:
Please see the article filed by the CBC located at
http://cbc.ca/cgi-bin/templates/view.cgi?/news/200 1/06/21/gm_canola010621.
A quote by the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA), which is unaccredited
in the article, says "advised farmers to "use another chemical." The CFIA
is suggesting a protocol be followed, may I please have a copy? Can I have
the name/number and/or email address of the agent of the CFIA that the quote
should be accredited to, and/or someone who is familiar with the protocol.
In addition, the article says "Monsanto, which created one of the GM canola
strains, says that if farmers' call the company, they'll send out a team to
manually pull up the weeds. " Exactly which variety (brand name/part
number) of Canola is being described in the article? What policy statement,
press release or otherwise did the agent (who?) of Monsanto makes this
statement. Who is the contact person for the program? What is the
procedure to request Monsanto to have 'a team to manually pull up the
weeds'?
If you are unable to provide this information, any constructive direction is
appreciated. The staff member from CBC Online who filed the report would
probably be very helpfull.
Thank you all for your help.
Best Regards,
MEMEMEMEME
xxx.xxx.xxxx Day
xxx.xxx.xxxx Eve
To which I received this reply from a Monsanto rep, after I had requested that the other (TJordan), whom I had spoke with on the phone, send me the details of the procedure to remove these rogue plants - she agreed, but did not fullfill her commitment:
Mr xxxx:
In reference to your questions concerning Monsanto, I would offer the
following:
If you are a farm customer of Monsanto, I would encourage you to contact
your local farm business representative for assistance.
For general information on the agronomy of canola, I would refer you to
information available from provincial government extension personnel, or the
Canola Council of Canada.
Dr LA Murphy
Director, Public and Industry Affairs
Monsanto Canada
Winnipeg, Manitoba Canada
R3T 4H8
Phone: 204-985-1011
Fax: 204-488-9599
Later I received this fairly disarming message from the CFIA:
Your e-mail to Bart Bilmer was passed onto me. I was interviewed by Kelly Crowe, CBC National TV News, last week, over the telephone, about reports of RoundUp-Ready canola volunteers cropping up in farmers fields. I explained that volunteers are a widespread phenomenon in farming, they are a nuisance and that there is not much new in this story. The only difference is that farmers cannot use RoundUp herbicide to get rid of these particular volunteers, but can deal with them through other agronomic practises, including using other herbicides. I discussed that the CFIA has more or less warned developers and growers of these sort of new crops that careful agronomic methods should be employed when cultivating them, to minimize the occurrance of multiple herbicide tolerant volunteers, that of course, would be trickier, to get rid of. I do not have any particular protocols at my fingertips - these issues are agronomic in nature and do not pose any significant increase in environmental risks.
I hope this is of some help in clarifying the background to this story. Please do not hesitate to contact me if you need further information/elaboration.
Stephen Yarrow, Ph.D.
National Manager
Plant Biosafety Office
CFIA
I am not wholly satisfied. Although this specific and distinct event does not pose any immediate and dire circumstance, the opportunity for this to get out of control (our reliance on few GMO-herbicide/pesticide varieties - forgoing all else) is obvious.
Basically, the attitude from monsanto is "piss off" and the CFIA is "nothing to see here, move along".
If you notice above, you'll see I said "for profit" bio-engineering. When we see people motivated by selfishness and greed beholden to shareholders and *not* to citizens we have irresponsible decisions made. Monsanto does not ultimately care about farmers, food, environment, or people, really, in the end, their decisions are always tainted by myopic greed. We cannot entrust such a potentially explosive technology to capitalists - they *will* compromise safety (and whatever else) for profit. And the "whatever else" things are the only ones that are important! I would be willing to accept bioengineering from non-profits because I believe they can be trusted to be transparent, follow the scientific method and allow peer-review. Furthermore, I sincerely believe a non-profit would not be motivated to steer their work towards anything except food-supply and food-safety. Simple.
What I would like to do is get my hands on some of this canola and help it become a greater nuisance - and Invite Monsanto to come and pick it up.. bastards. How are ORGANIC farmers going to deal with these rogue-invasive canola plants? I hope monsanto has lots of people to do pulling...
I invite anyone concerned with this to contact Monsanto directly:
A third's cell phone was on the kitchen counter, unhearable from the bedroom, and the fourth one's cell phone battery had fallen out. It was a frustrating comedy of errors, and an unusual one.
Yeah! And a dog ate my book report. And I was abducted by aliens. And my tyre was flat. And I forgot to feed the dog. And And And - and these two techs are full of it. they were probably smoking weed and playing nintendo.
To those interested in the license situation of this software, I sent the following email to him about the 'bolded' comment on his website:
http://www.linuxdevices.com/articles/AT8073314981. html
'Unfortunately, Linux is a multitasking OS, which
means that real-time applications like pitou suffer
from this.'
This likely goes without saying, but Linux has some
RTOS conversions/ports. The link above is a link to
a bunch of projects to make Linux an x86 RTOS.
Ive got an H card that was damaged beyond repair
some months ago, i was looking at firing it up again
under an emulator - but using Linux && emulating
from a served card has a certain appeal... best of
luck with your refinement efforts.
BTW, excellent hack. good show.
Is bitou licensed GPL?
Regards,
Xxxx
received this response:
ll, I based myself on a GPL'ed program, so I will
have to release the source eventually. I want to get
it out of beta first.
nerg343
Fyi: Hope nerg343 dosnt mind my posting this here - im at 50 karma, so whoring is not the motivation...
Scott is a successful comic artist who's had work in print, on shelves, and is now looking to on-line media to increase his income by doing an end-run around conservative comic book publishing houses
If you read the article you will see that Tycho assertions are not true - those being the false ones you repeat above - Scott himself has problems with money, as an artist, with a heatlhy and responsive audience, he is angry there is no method for him to make a living - like PVPs Tycho.
Scott feels the publishing houses are fat thieves (like the RIAA & MPAA they are unnecessary in the citizen->artist relationship the net provides).
He just wants a simple system, with low overhead (less 'intrusive fat capitalist' and more 'tolerable-silent-inconvenience') so he can put a 'tip-jar' out on the net and help at least pay for the endevour... or perharps pay for some necessities for his family-of-four. I feel for the guy - he is very bright and talented, instead of work like his most of the net is destined(sp) to be a puff-bladdy-mcblondalds-brand-themed-mega-cross-ti e-in-promotional fucking wasteland.. instead of the means to liberation for artists it can be..
Let's face it: people do not run a company [like, oh, RedHat or Caldera] because they are philanthropists. They do it because they want to make money.
Lets face it, the majority of Free Software coders are doing it to provide a Libre and Gratis alternative to proprietary products. Caldera and RH arent responsible for GNU/Linux - why is it that the people who *really* are, are supposed to bend over to their will simply because they have a profit motive, is the profit motive somehow *more* important (and over-riding) than altruism..! Your complete non-sequitor speaks nothing to a world of REAL priorities and REAL motivations... the abstract pursuit of profit in the corporate world is *NOT* a forgone truth, nor a irrefutably deserving goal.
I say fuck Caldera, they have been the glaring whores in the GNU/Linux world for 18 months.. i hope they collapse under a pile of thier own greed.
Start thinking about what are the *REAL* priorities you support.
When you get there, for gosh sakes, dont start rambling about how terrible spam is (because if its not spam it will be something else tomorrow...) ask him SPECIFICALLY to support the effor to repeal Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railroad Company [118 U.S. 394 (1886)], Read more here
If you are American, this is the greatest gift you can give to the world.
Its not congresspeople - its case law, specifically its:
Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railroad Company [118 U.S. 394 (1886)], Read more here
And please, for the sake of us all (literally) would you Yankees *PLEASE* do something about this... the rest of the world is watching your government get more and more corrupt and your corporations using your (wonderfull) bill-of-rights as tools of imperialism.
The *right* to do this stems from Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railroad Company [118 U.S. 394 (1886)], Read more here
This is the wellspring of power from which most of America s ills originate. This is why you will not be able to stop Spammers (or pollutors or corrupt congresspeople or warmongers) Close this well and take back control of your country...
Simple - Anyone who values Democracy and dislikes the class-based rule (your present plutocratic government) should join with those who seek to repeal this case. This is the brass-ring with which Americans can restore their Democracy... otherwise, we wait for the next revolution.
"Amos forgot to place American and Canadian performance in a comparative context. She failed to tell her audience (or did not know) that Canada insured 100 percent of its citizens for $2,250 per person in l998 while the United States expended $4,270 per person insuring only 84 percent of our citizens. This oversight was convenient. One would look rather foolish asserting that Canada's medical care costs half what ours does and insures everyone, but is, nonetheless, "inefficient BR>What exactly are you talking about? Im DAMN happy we have Nationalized Health Care. The free-market does not a healthy (vibrant/educated/aware) community make. Stop with the anti-gummint mccarthyism and move beyond the capitalism-religion...
Furthermore, I pay CDN$40 for 500K ADSL, have had it for 2 years, it was installed and functional on the day it was made available (as in "service is available 06.01 - I scheduled myself on 06.01 - it was running 06.01), the support techs/line techs are terrific, and its not been down once. I would love if we (the Canadian People) decided to put fiber to every home. It would run well, be reasonably priced and be adminstered competently.
Unfortunately, the problem with a government funded Internet infrastructure is that you have to abide by government rules.
Let me tell you, Canadians trust their government and value its social institutions - unlike Americans, who have fetishized the free market and sufficiently McCarthy-ized the idea of their gummint enough to Confuse the unwashed...
I would *MUCH* rather see the plan be handled independantly and owned by the nations people - *not* see our government enter some bastard plan to extort us.
Maybe CmdrTaco, Roblimo, Jamie (or some other editor) would like to do something like the following:
Add a Update to this posting and invite the following:
Users can submit a comment, as AC or under there normal account, with a Subject of "petition"
Then each user adds there comments they wish to be included.
Each user signs his/her name && address (city/province/country would suffice). Possibly including some credentials (education/experience/knowledge/position-at-work)
Then our faithful editors will do a "select body from comments where topic = '%this_story%" and subject = 'petition'" (or somesuch). Our Editor friends can then print out these comments, collectively write a thesis outlining the major points against the USPTO land grab, a description of Slashdot (its purpose/history/reputation/etc). Append our 'petition' comments and fire it off to the USPTO..
I know were not supposed to take this site too seriously, but all 'preaching to the choir' that goes on here I believe is not very productive. This could be an opportunity for Slashdot's forums to actually try and amount to something - other than our amusement. Not everyone will take the time to write a major article and mail it to the USPTO - we know that... but based on the responses that this article will likely illicit, maybe we can get the Slashdot editors to agree to do something constructive on our behalf...
I will reply to this message below as an example to be included.
No - he did it because he was backed by the pharmecudical industry
Bullshit. BigPharm *WANTS* a for-profit health-care system. Otherwise, how do you convince the American people that they should be making profit while the public co-operates on their Health-care?
and they knew it would be easier to scam the US government rather than the individual HMO companies out of millions each year.
Bullshit. Canada regulates prices to BigPharm. The entire country sets a price, everyone buys at this price and it is SIGNIFICANTLY lower than what HMOs and US Citizens pay. BigPharm can make up the difference in marketing/sales bullshit... all unnecessary in for Health Care. (BTW: BigPharm spends 3X (thats 300%) more on Marketing than they do R&D... just in case you wanted to say something about 'supporting research')
So what if he wants to drill the oil out of the ANWR?
Pristine, unmolested natural habitat is necessary to support bio-diversity. Humans are animals - we cannot pave and pollute the entire planet and expect to be able to live here ourselves... try running your car in a garage with the door closed...while sitting in a kiddie-pool of oil... Id bet you wont feel too well for to long.
What is it going to do sitting in the ground?
Whats it going to do above ground? And at what cost? Fuel *another* mCBlOnDaLds McCrappyMeal kid-toy factory? *ANOTHER* pair of Tommy Hillfiger Jeans for your vapid teenage brat? We dont need a greater *SUPPLY*! We need to wake up and start using what we already have *more wisely*! C-O-N-S-E-R-V-A-T-I-O-N. If Californians stopped watering their lawns in the dessert, you'd probably save more energy (water/processing/transport/etc/etc/etc) than some small countries use every year. Unfortunately American corporate leadership is accelerating in a direction totally opposite.. America, through its lowest-common-denominator-mass-market-consumer-hyp er-consumption "culture" is being directed by self-serving Capitalists who are more interested in building markets and profit than communities and sustainable and healthy futures. Leaders indeed.
Will it solve the Energy Crisis in California?
Hello - Earth to confused American. Welcome back to reality. There is *no* energy crisis. What does exist is a powerful Corporate effort to kill the Community-Centered laws and regulations that Californians fought to win for themselves. There is no need to increase supply at the expense of everything else when simple and wise initiatives to conserve will far outstrip any effort to increase supply. Rolling Blackouts? Ha! Try 'corporate muscle flexing extortion'. Do you really believe that was necessary? Do you really believe the Bush-BigMedia-BigOil propaganda? They turned off the power on Californians to extort more money from them - not because they didn't have enough power available. Privitization and De-Regulation have delivered exactly the opposite of what 'they' (plutocrats) promised: Higher Prices, Low Supply, Poor Service and Degredation of the Commons. Californians should demand their non-profit public utilities be returned to the people who could run them!
Will it keep gas prices down here in the US. No, it won't. Keeping us from that oil is what keeps us dependant on foreign countries for our energy
Well, frankly, you dont even understand the crux and contradiction of the problem. You do understand that America purchases its 'energy' in an international market. If some American Company increases supply, you will influence international prices. You will not create a lower price for Americans and magically insulate yourself from the evil rogue nations and terrorists who are trying to starve you of the 'energy' you desire... There will be *no* marked difference in price for Americans vs. Canadians vs. Ozzies vs. Brits vs. Ugandans vs. Columbians vs %your_country_here%. We would rather you start waking up to your rampant consumption than continue to pollute without any effort to address your root problem... (Kyoto would have been a good start).
at least until I have a nuclear reactor in my car (we have a lock on Uranium and Plutonium)
Do you want to hear my arguments about urban-sprawl, alien-communities that are only hospitable to cars (and what that does to people) and the detachment humanity perpetuates on itself by using the Automobile to move themselves away from work, food and family??? Let alone how stupid an idea it is to have a billion opportunities for nuclear-fucking-disaster. But oh yeah, a Nuclear Powered SUV would be Sooooo Coooool!
if he doesn't repeal laws that hurt business.
You are lost pal. "Whats good for GM is good For America" translates to "Fuck you America, we're gonna do as we please. Try and stop us." And you believe it.
But really - you must be kidding or a troll or something.. but if you *really* believe these things, I almost feel sorry for you. +1 Insightful? Try McCarthy inspired-Gummint fearing delusion, and a really unhealthy understanding of the nature and reality of the free market - and what it means to our collective future. The California 'Energy Crisis' is a test case Against where you are headed.
I live in Windsor, ON. You have to deal with these morons every day. You wouldnt believe how ignorant they really are. Ive asked people *who are standing in Windsor Bars/Restaurants* what province they were in (in a ask an american-kinda-way) and they didnt know. Ive asked them what the capital was - they didnt know. I had someone, who has lived in Detroit, MI all their lives, someone with an "important" job, that he was surprised that there was a Mall in Windsor - he didnt know how large the city was.. he had been to the downtown dozens of times for food/drink, but he didnt know there were 250,000 people outside the downtown...
The angst is justified. Based on what America's priorities are, how they interact in the international community, and the level of clue-fullness present in the public - Id say it is all warrented. You have no idea what its like living so close to the monster.
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Taxes are the things you pay, in concert with your neighbour, to commit to SHARING the common costs of supporting your community. Stop paying taxes and the capitalists will be happy to reap a profit off of all your essential community services (think: phone, water, gas, elec... then think roads, police, courts, elections, schools). You can bet that the right capitalist will offer these services, with lower real value, at higher prices and with zero certainty. If you havnt got the money, you havnt got the service. Now, this everything-in-the-free-market idea might appeal to a fiercly-individual-self-centered-myopic-egotist but the rest of the world (everyone outside the USA) like the idea of sharing a fuck of alot. Taxes == sharing the costs of maintaining your community for the good of all. !Taxes == entrenching capitalist control of your life && fueling the race to the bottom as everything gets sucked into the free-market.
I know its tough - but please choose wisely.
Here Here! I particularily like the idea of the UN collecting taxes, I say we move a portion of our corporate tax collection to the UN - this will help avoid the *race to the bottom* that we will soon enter as we all start begging for corporate-table scraps.... excellent point.
Your opinion is in the minority. But so is mine. Im just chiming in to offer solidarity - I agree with you completely.
I always hate hearing shallow vapid arugments like of logging equipment, effectively releasing all sorts of toxins into the air and spilling diesel and motor oil all over the ground
You shouldnt off-handedly dismiss this action. I do not think spilling chemicals in the forest (buring the equipment) is a *good* thing either - BUT - I understand their motivation, i never the less also support their action. The damage that that equipment could cause is a greater tragedy than the smaller chemical spill. Is this rationalizing - yes. But what you fail to admit is that calling someone a hypocrite and dismissing their arguments is cheap and lazy - it becomes easier for you to use this escape hatch (the hypocrite-arugment you used above) than dealing with the real issues.
from getting people to agree with them, drive people away
I wonder why their media-coverage has shot up recently... maybe The Man would like the moderate support to begin associating radical (non-violent type) environmentalists with the image of The Terrorist that they have been cleverly cultivating in American Media.. This will keep the masses from joining the pro-sustainability advocates. This is nott a conspiracy it is self-motivated, self-directing self-interest from all members of the American Plutocracy. If the masses stop buying needless crap - what happens to all their made-up-economics
In one sentance you admit that Americans are fed a steady stream of Enemy-du-jour figures (binladin, china, boogy-man) *AND* then in the next breath you say *other national threats* as if these threats actually exist!. America has no natural-historical enemies, where are these threats coming from... is there even the remotest threat of someone coming to america and harming citizens - no.
Like Clockwork Orange and 2001, this film is more about exploration than entertainment
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Agreed. But Im glad for it, We really need more opportunity to think, lest we entertain ourselves to death.
See:
"Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business", by Neil Postman, Methuen, f.p.1985, new imprint 1998, 184pp., paper. http://chapters.indigo.ca/books/details/default.a
I am soundly against for-profit genetic bioengineering. Here is the reason:0 1/06/21/gm_canola010621
0 1/06/21/gm_canola010621.
http://cbc.ca/cgi-bin/templates/view.cgi?/news/20
This is the inquiry I sent and replies I received in return from the two principles in the article, CFIA and monsanto.
To the CBC, Monsanto and CFIA I sent:
Please see the article filed by the CBC located at http://cbc.ca/cgi-bin/templates/view.cgi?/news/20
A quote by the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA), which is unaccredited in the article, says "advised farmers to "use another chemical." The CFIA is suggesting a protocol be followed, may I please have a copy? Can I have the name/number and/or email address of the agent of the CFIA that the quote should be accredited to, and/or someone who is familiar with the protocol.
In addition, the article says "Monsanto, which created one of the GM canola strains, says that if farmers' call the company, they'll send out a team to manually pull up the weeds. " Exactly which variety (brand name/part number) of Canola is being described in the article? What policy statement, press release or otherwise did the agent (who?) of Monsanto makes this statement. Who is the contact person for the program? What is the procedure to request Monsanto to have 'a team to manually pull up the weeds'?
If you are unable to provide this information, any constructive direction is appreciated. The staff member from CBC Online who filed the report would probably be very helpfull.
Thank you all for your help.
Best Regards, MEMEMEMEME xxx.xxx.xxxx Day xxx.xxx.xxxx Eve
CC: rfiset-Canadian Food Inspection Agency, Nepean, Ontario. bbilmer-Canadian Food Inspection Agency. Doug Kirkaldy-CBC, Senior Editor, CBC Online. Ken Wolff-CBC, Executive Producer, CBC Online, Toronto, Ontario. Lee Anne Murphy-PR, monsanto, Winnipeg, Manitoba. Trish Jordan-PR, monsanto, Winnipeg, Manitoba.
To which I received this reply from a Monsanto rep, after I had requested that the other (TJordan), whom I had spoke with on the phone, send me the details of the procedure to remove these rogue plants - she agreed, but did not fullfill her commitment:
Mr xxxx:
In reference to your questions concerning Monsanto, I would offer the following:
If you are a farm customer of Monsanto, I would encourage you to contact your local farm business representative for assistance.
For general information on the agronomy of canola, I would refer you to information available from provincial government extension personnel, or the Canola Council of Canada.
Dr LA Murphy
Director, Public and Industry Affairs
Monsanto Canada
Winnipeg, Manitoba Canada
R3T 4H8
Phone: 204-985-1011
Fax: 204-488-9599
Later I received this fairly disarming message from the CFIA:
Your e-mail to Bart Bilmer was passed onto me. I was interviewed by Kelly Crowe, CBC National TV News, last week, over the telephone, about reports of RoundUp-Ready canola volunteers cropping up in farmers fields. I explained that volunteers are a widespread phenomenon in farming, they are a nuisance and that there is not much new in this story. The only difference is that farmers cannot use RoundUp herbicide to get rid of these particular volunteers, but can deal with them through other agronomic practises, including using other herbicides. I discussed that the CFIA has more or less warned developers and growers of these sort of new crops that careful agronomic methods should be employed when cultivating them, to minimize the occurrance of multiple herbicide tolerant volunteers, that of course, would be trickier, to get rid of. I do not have any particular protocols at my fingertips - these issues are agronomic in nature and do not pose any significant increase in environmental risks.
I hope this is of some help in clarifying the background to this story. Please do not hesitate to contact me if you need further information/elaboration.
Stephen Yarrow, Ph.D.
National Manager
Plant Biosafety Office
CFIA
I am not wholly satisfied. Although this specific and distinct event does not pose any immediate and dire circumstance, the opportunity for this to get out of control (our reliance on few GMO-herbicide/pesticide varieties - forgoing all else) is obvious. Basically, the attitude from monsanto is "piss off" and the CFIA is "nothing to see here, move along".
If you notice above, you'll see I said "for profit" bio-engineering. When we see people motivated by selfishness and greed beholden to shareholders and *not* to citizens we have irresponsible decisions made. Monsanto does not ultimately care about farmers, food, environment, or people, really, in the end, their decisions are always tainted by myopic greed. We cannot entrust such a potentially explosive technology to capitalists - they *will* compromise safety (and whatever else) for profit. And the "whatever else" things are the only ones that are important! I would be willing to accept bioengineering from non-profits because I believe they can be trusted to be transparent, follow the scientific method and allow peer-review. Furthermore, I sincerely believe a non-profit would not be motivated to steer their work towards anything except food-supply and food-safety. Simple.
What I would like to do is get my hands on some of this canola and help it become a greater nuisance - and Invite Monsanto to come and pick it up.. bastards. How are ORGANIC farmers going to deal with these rogue-invasive canola plants? I hope monsanto has lots of people to do pulling...
I invite anyone concerned with this to contact Monsanto directly:
monsanto CANADA, WINNIPEG Manitoba (204)985-1000
lee anne murphy
lee.anne.murphy@monsanto.com
trish jordan, monsanto
trish.jordan@monsanto.com
A third's cell phone was on the kitchen counter, unhearable from the bedroom, and the fourth one's cell phone battery had fallen out. It was a frustrating comedy of errors, and an unusual one.
Yeah! And a dog ate my book report. And I was abducted by aliens. And my tyre was flat. And I forgot to feed the dog. And And And - and these two techs are full of it. they were probably smoking weed and playing nintendo.
To those interested in the license situation of this software, I sent the following email to him about the 'bolded' comment on his website:
. html
http://www.linuxdevices.com/articles/AT8073314981
'Unfortunately, Linux is a multitasking OS, which means that real-time applications like pitou suffer from this.'
This likely goes without saying, but Linux has some RTOS conversions/ports. The link above is a link to a bunch of projects to make Linux an x86 RTOS. Ive got an H card that was damaged beyond repair some months ago, i was looking at firing it up again under an emulator - but using Linux && emulating from a served card has a certain appeal... best of luck with your refinement efforts.
BTW, excellent hack. good show.
Is bitou licensed GPL?
Regards,
Xxxx
received this response:
ll, I based myself on a GPL'ed program, so I will have to release the source eventually. I want to get it out of beta first.
nerg343
Fyi: Hope nerg343 dosnt mind my posting this here - im at 50 karma, so whoring is not the motivation...
ouch - my mistake. merci.
Scott is a successful comic artist who's had work in print, on shelves, and is now looking to on-line media to increase his income by doing an end-run around conservative comic book publishing houses
i e-in-promotional fucking wasteland.. instead of the means to liberation for artists it can be..
If you read the article you will see that Tycho assertions are not true - those being the false ones you repeat above - Scott himself has problems with money, as an artist, with a heatlhy and responsive audience, he is angry there is no method for him to make a living - like PVPs Tycho.
Scott feels the publishing houses are fat thieves (like the RIAA & MPAA they are unnecessary in the citizen->artist relationship the net provides).
He just wants a simple system, with low overhead (less 'intrusive fat capitalist' and more 'tolerable-silent-inconvenience') so he can put a 'tip-jar' out on the net and help at least pay for the endevour... or perharps pay for some necessities for his family-of-four. I feel for the guy - he is very bright and talented, instead of work like his most of the net is destined(sp) to be a puff-bladdy-mcblondalds-brand-themed-mega-cross-t
Let's face it: people do not run a company [like, oh, RedHat or Caldera] because they are philanthropists. They do it because they want to make money.
Lets face it, the majority of Free Software coders are doing it to provide a Libre and Gratis alternative to proprietary products. Caldera and RH arent responsible for GNU/Linux - why is it that the people who *really* are, are supposed to bend over to their will simply because they have a profit motive, is the profit motive somehow *more* important (and over-riding) than altruism..! Your complete non-sequitor speaks nothing to a world of REAL priorities and REAL motivations... the abstract pursuit of profit in the corporate world is *NOT* a forgone truth, nor a irrefutably deserving goal.
I say fuck Caldera, they have been the glaring whores in the GNU/Linux world for 18 months.. i hope they collapse under a pile of thier own greed.
Start thinking about what are the *REAL* priorities you support.
Its called corproate welfare - its the way the corrupt US plutocracy works. read some chomsky.
just post his email somewhere on alt.erotica.hermaphrodite... that will get some attention.
When you get there, for gosh sakes, dont start rambling about how terrible spam is (because if its not spam it will be something else tomorrow...) ask him SPECIFICALLY to support the effor to repeal Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railroad Company [118 U.S. 394 (1886)], Read more here
If you are American, this is the greatest gift you can give to the world.
It is not your senator doing this...
The "right" to do this stems from Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railroad Company [118 U.S. 394 (1886)], Read more here
Its not congresspeople - its case law, specifically its:
Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railroad Company [118 U.S. 394 (1886)], Read more here
And please, for the sake of us all (literally) would you Yankees *PLEASE* do something about this... the rest of the world is watching your government get more and more corrupt and your corporations using your (wonderfull) bill-of-rights as tools of imperialism.
The *right* to do this stems from Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railroad Company [118 U.S. 394 (1886)], Read more here
This is the wellspring of power from which most of America s ills originate. This is why you will not be able to stop Spammers (or pollutors or corrupt congresspeople or warmongers) Close this well and take back control of your country...
Simple - Anyone who values Democracy and dislikes the class-based rule (your present plutocratic government) should join with those who seek to repeal this case. This is the brass-ring with which Americans can restore their Democracy... otherwise, we wait for the next revolution.
How will this kind of scheme avoid the same kind of pitfalls that plague nationalized health schemes?
I just read (thanks to a terrrific article linked above):
"Amos forgot to place American and Canadian performance in a comparative context. She failed to tell her audience (or did not know) that Canada insured 100 percent of its citizens for $2,250 per person in l998 while the United States expended $4,270 per person insuring only 84 percent of our citizens. This oversight was convenient. One would look rather foolish asserting that Canada's medical care costs half what ours does and insures everyone, but is, nonetheless, "inefficient
BR>What exactly are you talking about? Im DAMN happy we have Nationalized Health Care. The free-market does not a healthy (vibrant/educated/aware) community make. Stop with the anti-gummint mccarthyism and move beyond the capitalism-religion...
Furthermore, I pay CDN$40 for 500K ADSL, have had it for 2 years, it was installed and functional on the day it was made available (as in "service is available 06.01 - I scheduled myself on 06.01 - it was running 06.01), the support techs/line techs are terrific, and its not been down once. I would love if we (the Canadian People) decided to put fiber to every home. It would run well, be reasonably priced and be adminstered competently.
Unfortunately, the problem with a government funded Internet infrastructure is that you have to abide by government rules.
Let me tell you, Canadians trust their government and value its social institutions - unlike Americans, who have fetishized the free market and sufficiently McCarthy-ized the idea of their gummint enough to Confuse the unwashed...
I would *MUCH* rather see the plan be handled independantly and owned by the nations people - *not* see our government enter some bastard plan to extort us.
http://www.newgrounds.com has an article on their front page.
Add a Update to this posting and invite the following:
Users can submit a comment, as AC or under there normal account, with a Subject of "petition"
Then each user adds there comments they wish to be included.
Each user signs his/her name && address (city/province/country would suffice). Possibly including some credentials (education/experience/knowledge/position-at-work)
Then our faithful editors will do a "select body from comments where topic = '%this_story%" and subject = 'petition'" (or somesuch). Our Editor friends can then print out these comments, collectively write a thesis outlining the major points against the USPTO land grab, a description of Slashdot (its purpose/history/reputation/etc). Append our 'petition' comments and fire it off to the USPTO..
I know were not supposed to take this site too seriously, but all 'preaching to the choir' that goes on here I believe is not very productive. This could be an opportunity for Slashdot's forums to actually try and amount to something - other than our amusement. Not everyone will take the time to write a major article and mail it to the USPTO - we know that... but based on the responses that this article will likely illicit, maybe we can get the Slashdot editors to agree to do something constructive on our behalf...
I will reply to this message below as an example to be included.
No - he did it because he was backed by the pharmecudical industry
.while sitting in a kiddie-pool of oil... Id bet you wont feel too well for to long.
p er-consumption "culture" is being directed by self-serving Capitalists who are more interested in building markets and profit than communities and sustainable and healthy futures. Leaders indeed.
Bullshit. BigPharm *WANTS* a for-profit health-care system. Otherwise, how do you convince the American people that they should be making profit while the public co-operates on their Health-care?
and they knew it would be easier to scam the US government rather than the individual HMO companies out of millions each year.
Bullshit. Canada regulates prices to BigPharm. The entire country sets a price, everyone buys at this price and it is SIGNIFICANTLY lower than what HMOs and US Citizens pay. BigPharm can make up the difference in marketing/sales bullshit... all unnecessary in for Health Care. (BTW: BigPharm spends 3X (thats 300%) more on Marketing than they do R&D... just in case you wanted to say something about 'supporting research')
So what if he wants to drill the oil out of the ANWR?
Pristine, unmolested natural habitat is necessary to support bio-diversity. Humans are animals - we cannot pave and pollute the entire planet and expect to be able to live here ourselves... try running your car in a garage with the door closed..
What is it going to do sitting in the ground?
Whats it going to do above ground? And at what cost? Fuel *another* mCBlOnDaLds McCrappyMeal kid-toy factory? *ANOTHER* pair of Tommy Hillfiger Jeans for your vapid teenage brat? We dont need a greater *SUPPLY*! We need to wake up and start using what we already have *more wisely*! C-O-N-S-E-R-V-A-T-I-O-N. If Californians stopped watering their lawns in the dessert, you'd probably save more energy (water/processing/transport/etc/etc/etc) than some small countries use every year. Unfortunately American corporate leadership is accelerating in a direction totally opposite.. America, through its lowest-common-denominator-mass-market-consumer-hy
Will it solve the Energy Crisis in California?
Hello - Earth to confused American. Welcome back to reality. There is *no* energy crisis. What does exist is a powerful Corporate effort to kill the Community-Centered laws and regulations that Californians fought to win for themselves. There is no need to increase supply at the expense of everything else when simple and wise initiatives to conserve will far outstrip any effort to increase supply. Rolling Blackouts? Ha! Try 'corporate muscle flexing extortion'. Do you really believe that was necessary? Do you really believe the Bush-BigMedia-BigOil propaganda? They turned off the power on Californians to extort more money from them - not because they didn't have enough power available. Privitization and De-Regulation have delivered exactly the opposite of what 'they' (plutocrats) promised: Higher Prices, Low Supply, Poor Service and Degredation of the Commons. Californians should demand their non-profit public utilities be returned to the people who could run them!
Will it keep gas prices down here in the US. No, it won't. Keeping us from that oil is what keeps us dependant on foreign countries for our energy
Well, frankly, you dont even understand the crux and contradiction of the problem. You do understand that America purchases its 'energy' in an international market. If some American Company increases supply, you will influence international prices. You will not create a lower price for Americans and magically insulate yourself from the evil rogue nations and terrorists who are trying to starve you of the 'energy' you desire... There will be *no* marked difference in price for Americans vs. Canadians vs. Ozzies vs. Brits vs. Ugandans vs. Columbians vs %your_country_here%. We would rather you start waking up to your rampant consumption than continue to pollute without any effort to address your root problem... (Kyoto would have been a good start).
at least until I have a nuclear reactor in my car (we have a lock on Uranium and Plutonium)
Do you want to hear my arguments about urban-sprawl, alien-communities that are only hospitable to cars (and what that does to people) and the detachment humanity perpetuates on itself by using the Automobile to move themselves away from work, food and family??? Let alone how stupid an idea it is to have a billion opportunities for nuclear-fucking-disaster. But oh yeah, a Nuclear Powered SUV would be Sooooo Coooool!
if he doesn't repeal laws that hurt business.
You are lost pal. "Whats good for GM is good For America" translates to "Fuck you America, we're gonna do as we please. Try and stop us." And you believe it.
But really - you must be kidding or a troll or something.. but if you *really* believe these things, I almost feel sorry for you. +1 Insightful? Try McCarthy inspired-Gummint fearing delusion, and a really unhealthy understanding of the nature and reality of the free market - and what it means to our collective future. The California 'Energy Crisis' is a test case Against where you are headed.
I live in Windsor, ON.
You have to deal with these morons every day. You wouldnt believe how ignorant they really are. Ive asked people *who are standing in Windsor Bars/Restaurants* what province they were in (in a ask an american-kinda-way) and they didnt know. Ive asked them what the capital was - they didnt know. I had someone, who has lived in Detroit, MI all their lives, someone with an "important" job, that he was surprised that there was a Mall in Windsor - he didnt know how large the city was.. he had been to the downtown dozens of times for food/drink, but he didnt know there were 250,000 people outside the downtown...
The angst is justified. Based on what America's priorities are, how they interact in the international community, and the level of clue-fullness present in the public - Id say it is all warrented. You have no idea what its like living so close to the monster.