When i first started coding, i listened to the senior coders for hours on how the reservations, sales, and acct software worked together. That told me what files to code.
Then i went and stayed in the Sales floor for a month and found out how it really worked. I went to the Accounting dept. and found the workarounds they used every day, to bypass our software. I even made a sale to test the whole thing!
Long story short, coders don't use software. Seriously, they don't. They don't know how, because they know how it works. they bypass things in their head, they don't answer to anybody. Go find the Standard Operating Procedures and see how closely they are followed. Go do the job, be the tester. Everything else is useless assumption.
How do I disagree with thee?
Let me count the ways.
1> Censorship BAD.
For me, you cannot justify any form of censorship. Beyond the the beleif of freedom for its own sake, it always causes more problems than cures. In the days before Roe vs. Wade, the climate was one where there wasn't any information about sex available. You know what that creates?
Women that think things like kissing can get them pregnant.
Drinks sold to the public that use cocaine.
Cigarettes with poison.
Militaries that test drugs on soldiers.
Scientists who arbitrarily detonate nuclear weapons, for testing.
Governments who test polio cures on unwitting victims of color.
(For those outside U.S. borders, this is a drop in the bucket)
When you fail to defend one right, you fail them all.
2. Sex is GOOD
The very basis of your latter argument, you seem to be under some impression that sex can destroy someone. That it can be an addiction on the psyche. That it can twist someone's mind until the breaking point.
I don't disagree. I can personally verify this.
HOWEVER...
Anything can be an addictive. (sic?)
Sex, money, power, food, drugs, fame, chocolate(mmm), or even flame wars.
Humans tend to do these things in "healthy" ways. Unfortunately, humans are impulsive, irrational animals by nature, and sophisticated intelligences when not acting like wolves. The only viable, workable solution is to teach them, and WELL.
(Again, to those outside U.S. the sex education here is a joke. Children can tell when they are being fed a line of BS)
By denying truth, by censoring, you CREATE situations where people think that because they have natural instinct, they must be different, bad, ashamed. If you don't suppress something, then you won't have to fight the extremes that you create.
Not only will this reflect on other farmers, it is a valid point of law. A patent is a patent. Hopefully the patent will work against Monsanto.
European anti-gene-engineering groups should have a field day with this, if they're smart. It's a lost cause that needs attention. When did growing naturally go out of fashion?
On the same note, almost all American food being engineered doesn't inspire me with confidence.
Stop growing our seeds!
Stop planting them here!
You owe us your plants!
You owe me soil nutrients.
Don't make us sue!
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When i first started coding, i listened to the senior coders for hours on how the reservations, sales, and acct software worked together. That told me what files to code.
Then i went and stayed in the Sales floor for a month and found out how it really worked.
I went to the Accounting dept. and found the workarounds they used every day, to bypass our software.
I even made a sale to test the whole thing!
Long story short, coders don't use software. Seriously, they don't. They don't know how, because they know how it works.
they bypass things in their head, they don't answer to anybody. Go find the Standard Operating Procedures and see how closely they are followed. Go do the job, be the tester. Everything else is useless assumption.
How do I disagree with thee?
Let me count the ways.
1> Censorship BAD.
For me, you cannot justify any form of censorship. Beyond the the beleif of freedom for its own sake, it always causes more problems than cures. In the days before Roe vs. Wade, the climate was one where there wasn't any information about sex available. You know what that creates?
Women that think things like kissing can get them pregnant.
Drinks sold to the public that use cocaine.
Cigarettes with poison.
Militaries that test drugs on soldiers.
Scientists who arbitrarily detonate nuclear weapons, for testing.
Governments who test polio cures on unwitting victims of color.
(For those outside U.S. borders, this is a drop in the bucket)
When you fail to defend one right, you fail them all.
2. Sex is GOOD
The very basis of your latter argument, you seem to be under some impression that sex can destroy someone. That it can be an addiction on the psyche. That it can twist someone's mind until the breaking point.
I don't disagree. I can personally verify this.
HOWEVER...
Anything can be an addictive. (sic?)
Sex, money, power, food, drugs, fame, chocolate(mmm), or even flame wars.
Humans tend to do these things in "healthy" ways. Unfortunately, humans are impulsive, irrational animals by nature, and sophisticated intelligences when not acting like wolves. The only viable, workable solution is to teach them, and WELL.
(Again, to those outside U.S. the sex education here is a joke. Children can tell when they are being fed a line of BS)
By denying truth, by censoring, you CREATE situations where people think that because they have natural instinct, they must be different, bad, ashamed. If you don't suppress something, then you won't have to fight the extremes that you create.
Free information destroys thoughtlessness.
Not only will this reflect on other farmers, it is a valid point of law. A patent is a patent. Hopefully the patent will work against Monsanto. European anti-gene-engineering groups should have a field day with this, if they're smart. It's a lost cause that needs attention. When did growing naturally go out of fashion? On the same note, almost all American food being engineered doesn't inspire me with confidence. Stop growing our seeds! Stop planting them here! You owe us your plants! You owe me soil nutrients. Don't make us sue!