I was horrified too. In the past year I have learned that for every real and beneficial advance in public heath or modern medicine there is a fringe group somewhere that thinks that this advance is wrong, detrimental and should be opposed as much as possible.
The internet has given all of these opinions a forum and I am amazed at how many people are such uncritical consumers of and adulterants to these ideas.
I have done just that. In general the sites that are promoting raw milk are also promoting all sorts of other nonsense as well including homeopathy, high cholesterol diets, and that you shouldn't get your children vaccinated. They are seriously screwed up.
There is a reason that it is generally illegal to sell raw milk products. People get sick and sometimes die from drinking it. It spreads serious diseases including some forms of tuberculosis.
I was fortunately enough to go to a good high school in an affluent community where a lot of the parents worked in technology related fields. The parents of most of my friends had advanced degrees in STEM fields so the school was set up to deal with high performers because they had a LOT of them. The real problems occur when you are unique in a school.
My wife (from Chile) had a rather different experience. She was home schooled until age 10 when she won a scholarship to an elite private school in Chile by competitive exam. By age 14 she had graduated from high school, and by age 17 she had graduated university. She then went on to win a Fulbright which allowed her to come to the US where I met her. Her success was mostly due to her parents who really were dedicated to the education of their children.
However I also believe that the primary difference between good schools and inferior schools is in how serious the parents are about the whole process.
The difference is that in this country such things were reported on the news, you can read reports about what happened, and many laws were changed as a result.
1. Read up on SQL injection attacks. Escape all parameters coming in on the pipes.
2. Put the db on a different server and firewall it so it cannot be accessed from the internet. Ideally you would have a 3 layer design with the web host passing requests to an application running on a firewalled server not accessible to the internet, and the application would pass requests through another firewall to the db server running on a machine not accessible to the web host.
3. Don't store anything you don't have to.
4. If you have to store it, encrypt it.
5. Use SSL whenever receiving or transmitting private information.
6. Teach you end users about password security.
7. Under no circumstances store unhashed passwords or send passwords out via email.
Patent coverage is read according to a theory of strict construction, so that in principle if you have a patented trait showing up in your crops you are considered to be infringing.
However US case law has established the principle that accidental contamination of your plants by wind blown pollen etc. is not infringement. As such any lawsuits that are brought involving accidental contamination are not being decided for the plaintiff.
As far as I have been able to determine there has never been a case where accidental transfer of a trait has resulted in a finding of infringement. There has always been some intent such as seed saving or further selection of the accidental contamination.
Patent coverage of food crops is not a new phenomena.
Where were the protests prior to the development of GMOs?
As far as transfer of RoundUp resistance from Canola, the only evidence I have seen is transfer to other varieties of Canola. This doesn't rise to the standard of transfer to weeds. If you have references to scientific articles please let me know.
And Monsanto claiming in court that evolution of RoundUp ready weeds is not possible? Seems unlikely given their public statements as published here:
BULLSHIT. I used to run an experimental farm. Unless you are running the experiment under realistic conditions you are always going to have unanswered questions.
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Yes, and you are free to sue them for false arrest afterwards. Like in this case.
Not that much effort compared to the savings of writing in a portable language like Java.
I said SUCCESSFUL claim.
There is a Federal Investigation ongoing.
You go in with as many claims as you can make up. It may be that it only takes one successful claim to ruin Android.
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It's a sign that you are doing something right. I am particularly proud of posts that get moderated both up and down several times.
The news still covers these events, and in fact the accounts are more available due to the internet. Just go to Google News and see it yourself.
Your personal anecdotal experiences don't amount to acceptable countervailing evidence that it is an unhealthy practice.
Here is a link to a recent article on the topic.
http://cid.oxfordjournals.org/content/48/1/93.full
Please note that the increased consumption raw milk post 2005 has led to several disease outbreaks in the US.
Advocacy of the consumption of raw milk is a VERY wrong-headed position.
I was horrified too. In the past year I have learned that for every real and beneficial advance in public heath or modern medicine there is a fringe group somewhere that thinks that this advance is wrong, detrimental and should be opposed as much as possible.
The internet has given all of these opinions a forum and I am amazed at how many people are such uncritical consumers of and adulterants to these ideas.
Perhaps, although this is a highly controversial area at the moment.
What is clear is that:
1. There is no apparent health benefit from using antibacterial soaps.
2. There are no apparent health consequences from the induced antibiotic resistances found in some in vitro experiments.
All in all the best thing would be to not have these products as there is no benefit from them.
I have done just that. In general the sites that are promoting raw milk are also promoting all sorts of other nonsense as well including homeopathy, high cholesterol diets, and that you shouldn't get your children vaccinated. They are seriously screwed up.
There is a reason that it is generally illegal to sell raw milk products. People get sick and sometimes die from drinking it. It spreads serious diseases including some forms of tuberculosis.
Yes, but if I only have one phrase to remember I can make it pretty annoying to crack.
Uh how about KeyPass?
I was fortunately enough to go to a good high school in an affluent community where a lot of the parents worked in technology related fields. The parents of most of my friends had advanced degrees in STEM fields so the school was set up to deal with high performers because they had a LOT of them. The real problems occur when you are unique in a school.
My wife (from Chile) had a rather different experience. She was home schooled until age 10 when she won a scholarship to an elite private school in Chile by competitive exam. By age 14 she had graduated from high school, and by age 17 she had graduated university. She then went on to win a Fulbright which allowed her to come to the US where I met her. Her success was mostly due to her parents who really were dedicated to the education of their children.
Yes.
However I also believe that the primary difference between good schools and inferior schools is in how serious the parents are about the whole process.
This is why private schools get better results.
The difference is that in this country such things were reported on the news, you can read reports about what happened, and many laws were changed as a result.
Raw milk is quite dangerous.
http://www.cdc.gov/healthypets/cheesespotlight/cheese_spotlight.htm
Maybe this will put a stop to the raw milk nonsense.
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Dig the one with 45,000 sq ft. No worry about wind velocity here.
1. Read up on SQL injection attacks. Escape all parameters coming in on the pipes.
2. Put the db on a different server and firewall it so it cannot be accessed from the internet. Ideally you would have a 3 layer design with the web host passing requests to an application running on a firewalled server not accessible to the internet, and the application would pass requests through another firewall to the db server running on a machine not accessible to the web host.
3. Don't store anything you don't have to.
4. If you have to store it, encrypt it.
5. Use SSL whenever receiving or transmitting private information.
6. Teach you end users about password security.
7. Under no circumstances store unhashed passwords or send passwords out via email.
Patent coverage is read according to a theory of strict construction, so that in principle if you have a patented trait showing up in your crops you are considered to be infringing.
However US case law has established the principle that accidental contamination of your plants by wind blown pollen etc. is not infringement. As such any lawsuits that are brought involving accidental contamination are not being decided for the plaintiff.
As far as I have been able to determine there has never been a case where accidental transfer of a trait has resulted in a finding of infringement. There has always been some intent such as seed saving or further selection of the accidental contamination.
Patent coverage of food crops is not a new phenomena.
http://cls.casa.colostate.edu/transgeniccrops/patent.html
Where were the protests prior to the development of GMOs?
As far as transfer of RoundUp resistance from Canola, the only evidence I have seen is transfer to other varieties of Canola. This doesn't rise to the standard of transfer to weeds. If you have references to scientific articles please let me know.
And Monsanto claiming in court that evolution of RoundUp ready weeds is not possible? Seems unlikely given their public statements as published here:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/04/business/energy-environment/04weed.html?pagewanted=all
Violence with a political motive intended to intimidate is the definition of terrorism.
Look it up. You might learn something.
BULLSHIT. I used to run an experimental farm. Unless you are running the experiment under realistic conditions you are always going to have unanswered questions.
So you have some evidence that this experiment was legally or morally wrong?
Please provide it. And no bullshit about potato pollen either.
> Asshat
I am stunned by the cogency and insight of your arguments. I am sure you will influence many with such ideas.