>>>I have no sympathy for farmers who steal or lie about their seed.
Please explain how someone steals seed? The seeds produced by Monsanto crops are sterile, so there's no point to sneak into a neighbor's field & steal his sterile seed. It won't grow. Please enlighten us Mr. Monsanto employee how this supposed stealing happens then???
by Anonymous Coward writes: on Friday June 15, @06:09AM They sue farmers who knowingly use seeds with the Monsanto gene in them without paying.
Burn in hell anonymous COWARD and use your actual ID instead of hiding like a little pussy girl. Plus read: http://www.percyschmeiser.com/conflict.htm There are also a TON of videos on youtube documenting Monsanto's RIAA/MPAA-like actions against farmers, destroying them in the process. I don't even know why slashdot allows registered users to post as ACs.
>>>They sue farmers who knowingly use seeds with the Monsanto gene in them without paying. People on the internet seem to think if they keep repeating a lie, it'll become true. >>> TRUTH not lies. They sue people they SUSPECT are using the gene, based upon flimsy evidence like, "Farmer John Does uses a shaking machine to extract seeds from his crop, and saves the seeds for next year." Then they send-round the lawyers to *invade* the man's property, confirm such a machine exists, and start issuing cease-and-desist letters (presumption of guilt just because he saves his seed). If the farmer continues using the machine, the lawyers sue the man. They act VERY much like how RIAA and the MPAA act when they send extortionate letters & file lawsuits against "John Does" who are entirely innocent of any crime (except they used bittorrent).
If I was standing in front of the Monsanto CEO, and someone handed me a gun or knife or hammer, there would be no more CEO. Just a corpse. Tyrants who treat the People like serfs, and destroy their freedom to "pursue happiness" as farmers, deserve nothing less than death.
Or I could just run for Congress and try to change things from the inside, like Senator Rand Paul and Congressman Dennis Kucinich.
Patents are the real problem. Monsanto designed these seeds to be sterile, so you have to keep rebuying the same product year-after-year (instead of just reusing last year's seeds for the new crop). Also the seeds cross-polinate to non-Monsanto seeds, polluting nature's generic seeds with Monsanto genes. And worst of all:
Monsanto has a nasty habit of suing innocent farmers who have decided to continue using the "generic" seeds provided by nature. They send-round lawyers to harass the farmers, issue threatening letters, and file court cases. Oftentimes these lawsuits bankrupt the farmer, which was Monsanto's original intent: To eliminate people who are not using their products. Their tactics are very similar to how the bastards at the RIAA and MPAA act, but very much more destructive.
If you look at the first 3 days, the meals are pretty atrocious. It was on day 4 that the cafeteria suddenly produced quality food (because they were in the spotlight). But before that her father had said she often came home very hungry.
But Beck usually backs-up his stuff with documents. Quoting Bill Ayers or Cloward-Piven from the 70s saying, "We will blow-up government buildings and take over through force," is pretty damning. Quoting the FBI Agent who infiltrated the organization and confirms they were prepared to kill to achieve their ends is also pretty damning.
I think the government should stop hassling the little people and going after the Megacorps/banks that owe billions or even trillions in backtaxes. (But of course the government never does that, because the politicians are corporatists... bought and paid for. The politicians only go after the citizens, not the real billion-dollar thieves.)
Example: Warren Buffett. He owes over a trillion in taxes over the last decade, but do we see President Obama going after him? No. They act like best friends and Obama praises Buffett for creating the "Buffett rule" to be passed in Congress.
I am not obligated to pay California or any other foreign tax, because I don't live there and do not have representation in their government to make my voice heard. (i.e. That I think 9% tax is nuts.) I only have to pay tax to the governments where I have representation.
When I ordered some stuff from the UK, the store tried to scam me into paying VAT. Naturally I refused. I have no voice in the Parliament, and therefore have no reason to pay them a tax.
They THINK there MIGHT be moles inside Microsoft. ("Definitive proof!" says Alex on his radio show.) That's nice. I think their might be moles inside everybody's backyards..... I haven't actually seen any, but let's publish it anyway and scare everyone.
1. Publish some random guy 2. Spin it to make it sound factual "evidence" 3. $profit$
>>>Well, I would probably be pretty pissed off if I was catching all the heat for the school district's poor meal choices. It's not like the lunchroom workers get to choose what the kids are served, they just prepare it. >>> The lunchroom workers weren't the ones being blamed. It was the district. This is just another example of government employees sdcrewing the People by cnesorign free speech. We should rmeijnd theese people their postiion in lfie and FIRE THE DISTRICT DIRECTORS out of their jobs. Lety htem ubr in hell the likmey bastards that would take way a ltitrle fgirls' freedom fo cpsefh. Fcuk thme alkltup their shithfiled aasses. Fucing Governemtn pricks. Burn in hell governent.
My assumption is that the FDA is acting like my daddy, and I'm just a little kid, too stupid to make my own choices and decisions. Maybe I WANT to buy medicine from Canada. Maybe I am VERY aware of the risk, but willing to do it anyway. Maybe I believe if a problem existed, then CANADA would handle it, under their false-advertising laws.
In any case, just as abortion if MY choice, buying pills online should be MY choice, and not have to worry about the FDA sending me to my room like a bad little kid. I am sick-and-tired of this BS where the government thinks citizens are children who have to be cared for.
"to protect the state's telecommunications monopoly." Government are monopolies and the politicians or bureaucrats therein desire to keep that monopoly. Whether it's a monopoly over power or money (or both). The U.S. government doesn't allow any other company to deliver letter mail. Why? Because it's protecting its monopoly. Another example is Comcast which, in many cities or counties, has been given a monopoly by their favorite friend: the government. Nobody else may laydown lines to supply CATV.
There are MANY laws on the books that are about, in essence, the government protecting its or somebody else's monopoly and limiting individuals' freedom of choice. Like forcing us to buy hospital insurance, which precludes other solutions (paying cash directly, forming a health coop, becoming best friends with a doctor, or just simply deciding to trust God, Fate, Whatever).
The problem is that Ebay is not pure income. I didn't sell anywhere near $20,000 last year... more like $5000. But that's NOT really profit. The $5000 of used games/books/video originally cost me ~$7000 to acquire. So the net profit is negative income (a loss). I'd still be entitled to collect welfare or unemployment checks.
I would expect the tax agency to understand that basic principle, but I suspect they are more motivated by the desire to pay-off their budget deficit and will scew a lot of innocent people in the process..... people who are selling-off their possessions in order to survive unemployment, and actually losing money in the process. (Like my cousin who sold-off his $20,000 motorcycle for $10,000 just so he could buy food.)
>>>Apple II, C64 and Atari 800 all had 8-bit CPUs, used fuzzy TVs or miniature monitors for output, and had toylike plastic cases with non-ergonomic keyboards bolted on top. They all had decent graphics and sound for the time. >>> I fail to see the drawback. I would still rather have those machines, then a boring 4-color PC that goes "beep" instead of playing music. If you claim it's because PCs had productive software..... well so too did the Atari and Commodores and Apples. I often hear dBase was popular on the Apples. The common programs of the day like Lotus and WordPerfect were all ported to my Commodore 64, and I used them for writing reports. And let's not forget GEOS which had Mac-style interface. Many people published monthly newsletters using their C64s.
>>> IBM PC came with a top quality detached keyboard and a tank-like metal chassis
I remember. We had some in our college lab. I HATED them. What bulky slow, boring pile of shit.
Disagree. My Amiga with OS 1.2 only crashed when running pirate demos which, by their nature, are fast-coded and not error checked. They used to crash my commodore 64 too.
The Amiga didn't crash when I was single-tasking (games) or multi-tasking (online while typing a document and playing music). Of course later Amigas had 68020s with MMUs to protect from crashes, and halt offending programs, just like a modern OS does.
I don't work well with heiroglyphics. I still haven't figured out the Word's or Excel's Ribbon interface, because it takes 10-15 minutes to scroll through all the tabs & highlight each heiroglyphic to see what it means. (The old menu only took a few seconds.) Now it sounds like Windows 8 is basically a screen-sized version of Ribbon, with a bunch of mystery heiroglyphics splashed across the screen. I will be lost.
>>>You do know that the minimum recommended RAM for Vista was 2GB right (I know 1GB was min required)? So quit complaining
What a dumb fuck. (reading directly off the box) 512MB minimum (which is what my new PC came with because Microsoft told them & all other manufacturers that would be okay). I will complain for Microsoft misleading the PC manufacturers with bad advice.
Well we don't have internet in our homes so we use playboy. I mean... not "we". They. They don't have internet in their homes. Or phones. Or lights. Or cars. Not a single luxury.
>>>After all, Apple's products are assembled by enslaved teenage Chinese girls, sweating for 16 hours a day in [air-conditioned, brightly]-lit, factories.
Beat me to it. The summary "embraced digital distribution" makes it sound like Time, Inc has never provided e-magazines before. But most of them are available through Amazon. Or online websites. The REAL news here is that Jobs was charging 30% and Time said "no" to that. The new Apple arranged for lower rates.
Same way they do it now: Put a police officer on "the beat" and watching for illegal activity like stealking credit numbers, or adults trying to seduce children. OF COURSE the more-likely outcome is 100% recording of everything we do, followed by some Mussolini type leader using the info to "disappear" his online enemies. (Or less onerous, government forcing newssites to publish gov't propaganda & erasing anti-government posts/replies.)
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>>>I have no sympathy for farmers who steal or lie about their seed.
Please explain how someone steals seed? The seeds produced by Monsanto crops are sterile, so there's no point to sneak into a neighbor's field & steal his sterile seed. It won't grow. Please enlighten us Mr. Monsanto employee how this supposed stealing happens then???
by Anonymous Coward writes:
on Friday June 15, @06:09AM
They sue farmers who knowingly use seeds with the Monsanto gene in them without paying.
Burn in hell anonymous COWARD and use your actual ID instead of hiding like a little pussy girl. Plus read: http://www.percyschmeiser.com/conflict.htm There are also a TON of videos on youtube documenting Monsanto's RIAA/MPAA-like actions against farmers, destroying them in the process. I don't even know why slashdot allows registered users to post as ACs.
>>>They sue farmers who knowingly use seeds with the Monsanto gene in them without paying. People on the internet seem to think if they keep repeating a lie, it'll become true.
>>>
TRUTH not lies. They sue people they SUSPECT are using the gene, based upon flimsy evidence like, "Farmer John Does uses a shaking machine to extract seeds from his crop, and saves the seeds for next year." Then they send-round the lawyers to *invade* the man's property, confirm such a machine exists, and start issuing cease-and-desist letters (presumption of guilt just because he saves his seed). If the farmer continues using the machine, the lawyers sue the man. They act VERY much like how RIAA and the MPAA act when they send extortionate letters & file lawsuits against "John Does" who are entirely innocent of any crime (except they used bittorrent).
If I was standing in front of the Monsanto CEO, and someone handed me a gun or knife or hammer, there would be no more CEO. Just a corpse. Tyrants who treat the People like serfs, and destroy their freedom to "pursue happiness" as farmers, deserve nothing less than death.
Or I could just run for Congress and try to change things from the inside, like Senator Rand Paul and Congressman Dennis Kucinich.
Patents are the real problem. Monsanto designed these seeds to be sterile, so you have to keep rebuying the same product year-after-year (instead of just reusing last year's seeds for the new crop). Also the seeds cross-polinate to non-Monsanto seeds, polluting nature's generic seeds with Monsanto genes. And worst of all:
Monsanto has a nasty habit of suing innocent farmers who have decided to continue using the "generic" seeds provided by nature. They send-round lawyers to harass the farmers, issue threatening letters, and file court cases. Oftentimes these lawsuits bankrupt the farmer, which was Monsanto's original intent: To eliminate people who are not using their products. Their tactics are very similar to how the bastards at the RIAA and MPAA act, but very much more destructive.
And those books probably cost you several thousand, so you had a loss. You had no taxable income.
The answer to headlines that end with a question mark:
No.
If you look at the first 3 days, the meals are pretty atrocious. It was on day 4 that the cafeteria suddenly produced quality food (because they were in the spotlight). But before that her father had said she often came home very hungry.
And Rachel Maddow. And Ed Schultz. And .....
But Beck usually backs-up his stuff with documents. Quoting Bill Ayers or Cloward-Piven from the 70s saying, "We will blow-up government buildings and take over through force," is pretty damning. Quoting the FBI Agent who infiltrated the organization and confirms they were prepared to kill to achieve their ends is also pretty damning.
I think the government should stop hassling the little people and going after the Megacorps/banks that owe billions or even trillions in backtaxes. (But of course the government never does that, because the politicians are corporatists... bought and paid for. The politicians only go after the citizens, not the real billion-dollar thieves.)
Example: Warren Buffett. He owes over a trillion in taxes over the last decade, but do we see President Obama going after him? No. They act like best friends and Obama praises Buffett for creating the "Buffett rule" to be passed in Congress.
I am not obligated to pay California or any other foreign tax, because I don't live there and do not have representation in their government to make my voice heard. (i.e. That I think 9% tax is nuts.) I only have to pay tax to the governments where I have representation.
When I ordered some stuff from the UK, the store tried to scam me into paying VAT. Naturally I refused. I have no voice in the Parliament, and therefore have no reason to pay them a tax.
They THINK there MIGHT be moles inside Microsoft. ("Definitive proof!" says Alex on his radio show.) That's nice. I think their might be moles inside everybody's backyards..... I haven't actually seen any, but let's publish it anyway and scare everyone.
1. Publish some random guy
2. Spin it to make it sound factual "evidence"
3. $profit$
>>>Well, I would probably be pretty pissed off if I was catching all the heat for the school district's poor meal choices. It's not like the lunchroom workers get to choose what the kids are served, they just prepare it.
>>>
The lunchroom workers weren't the ones being blamed. It was the district.
This is just another example of government employees sdcrewing the People by cnesorign free speech. We should rmeijnd theese people their postiion in lfie and FIRE THE DISTRICT DIRECTORS out of their jobs. Lety htem ubr in hell the likmey bastards that would take way a ltitrle fgirls' freedom fo cpsefh. Fcuk thme alkltup their shithfiled aasses. Fucing Governemtn pricks. Burn in hell governent.
My assumption is that the FDA is acting like my daddy, and I'm just a little kid, too stupid to make my own choices and decisions. Maybe I WANT to buy medicine from Canada. Maybe I am VERY aware of the risk, but willing to do it anyway. Maybe I believe if a problem existed, then CANADA would handle it, under their false-advertising laws.
In any case, just as abortion if MY choice, buying pills online should be MY choice, and not have to worry about the FDA sending me to my room like a bad little kid. I am sick-and-tired of this BS where the government thinks citizens are children who have to be cared for.
Ultimately this is about this sentence:
"to protect the state's telecommunications monopoly." Government are monopolies and the politicians or bureaucrats therein desire to keep that monopoly. Whether it's a monopoly over power or money (or both). The U.S. government doesn't allow any other company to deliver letter mail. Why? Because it's protecting its monopoly. Another example is Comcast which, in many cities or counties, has been given a monopoly by their favorite friend: the government. Nobody else may laydown lines to supply CATV.
There are MANY laws on the books that are about, in essence, the government protecting its or somebody else's monopoly and limiting individuals' freedom of choice. Like forcing us to buy hospital insurance, which precludes other solutions (paying cash directly, forming a health coop, becoming best friends with a doctor, or just simply deciding to trust God, Fate, Whatever).
The problem is that Ebay is not pure income. I didn't sell anywhere near $20,000 last year... more like $5000. But that's NOT really profit. The $5000 of used games/books/video originally cost me ~$7000 to acquire. So the net profit is negative income (a loss). I'd still be entitled to collect welfare or unemployment checks.
I would expect the tax agency to understand that basic principle, but I suspect they are more motivated by the desire to pay-off their budget deficit and will scew a lot of innocent people in the process..... people who are selling-off their possessions in order to survive unemployment, and actually losing money in the process. (Like my cousin who sold-off his $20,000 motorcycle for $10,000 just so he could buy food.)
>>>Apple II, C64 and Atari 800 all had 8-bit CPUs, used fuzzy TVs or miniature monitors for output, and had toylike plastic cases with non-ergonomic keyboards bolted on top. They all had decent graphics and sound for the time.
>>>
I fail to see the drawback. I would still rather have those machines, then a boring 4-color PC that goes "beep" instead of playing music. If you claim it's because PCs had productive software..... well so too did the Atari and Commodores and Apples. I often hear dBase was popular on the Apples. The common programs of the day like Lotus and WordPerfect were all ported to my Commodore 64, and I used them for writing reports. And let's not forget GEOS which had Mac-style interface. Many people published monthly newsletters using their C64s.
>>> IBM PC came with a top quality detached keyboard and a tank-like metal chassis
I remember. We had some in our college lab. I HATED them. What bulky slow, boring pile of shit.
>>>Amiga was about as reliable as Windows 3.0.
Disagree. My Amiga with OS 1.2 only crashed when running pirate demos which, by their nature, are fast-coded and not error checked. They used to crash my commodore 64 too.
The Amiga didn't crash when I was single-tasking (games) or multi-tasking (online while typing a document and playing music). Of course later Amigas had 68020s with MMUs to protect from crashes, and halt offending programs, just like a modern OS does.
I don't work well with heiroglyphics. I still haven't figured out the Word's or Excel's Ribbon interface, because it takes 10-15 minutes to scroll through all the tabs & highlight each heiroglyphic to see what it means. (The old menu only took a few seconds.) Now it sounds like Windows 8 is basically a screen-sized version of Ribbon, with a bunch of mystery heiroglyphics splashed across the screen. I will be lost.
>>>You do know that the minimum recommended RAM for Vista was 2GB right (I know 1GB was min required)? So quit complaining
What a dumb fuck.
(reading directly off the box)
512MB minimum (which is what my new PC came with because Microsoft told them & all other manufacturers that would be okay). I will complain for Microsoft misleading the PC manufacturers with bad advice.
Well we don't have internet in our homes so we use playboy.
I mean... not "we". They. They don't have internet in their homes. Or phones. Or lights. Or cars. Not a single luxury.
>>>After all, Apple's products are assembled by enslaved teenage Chinese girls, sweating for 16 hours a day in [air-conditioned, brightly]-lit, factories.
Fixed that for you.
Beat me to it.
The summary "embraced digital distribution" makes it sound like Time, Inc has never provided e-magazines before. But most of them are available through Amazon. Or online websites. The REAL news here is that Jobs was charging 30% and Time said "no" to that. The new Apple arranged for lower rates.
Same way they do it now: Put a police officer on "the beat" and watching for illegal activity like stealking credit numbers, or adults trying to seduce children. OF COURSE the more-likely outcome is 100% recording of everything we do, followed by some Mussolini type leader using the info to "disappear" his online enemies. (Or less onerous, government forcing newssites to publish gov't propaganda & erasing anti-government posts/replies.)
>>>pedophile-panic
In the U.S. nudist websites (including kids) are legal. How does the UK handle them? Have they been banned?