They are all lapped up and given great exposure by the mainstream media. They are all pointed at with great glee by the anti-GMO crowd as evidence that GMOs are really really bad for you.
They are all junk science that should have never been published.
The source of most of the funding for this work is Greenpeace.
No doubt there will be more crap like this in the future. Hopefully more people will be able to recognize the fact it's junk science and reject it.
It is amazing that Europe has fallen victim to these jerks. I thought their educational system was better than this. Apparently it's over-rated.
The point has been reached where EU scientists are recognizing the bans on GMOs in Europe are harmful.
Right, and the page you linked to refers to Canadian Police records that are shared with the US that contain information on police incidents involving suicide attempts and other issues and states clearly that Canada is not sharing medical records with the US.
So it appears there is good reason to believe that US Immigration officials are not accessing Canadian Medical Records but are rather basing there entry denial on public records of attempted suicides etc.
Since it's in US Law that people with this history need to be cleared by an agent of the US I really think the border agents are just doing their job here.
Not whether or not you believe the US should be screening based on this sort of thing is another question. But there could be a case made for it.
$7.77 trillion in very short term loans (overnight or similar) and in loan guarantees. There was never anything like 7.77 outstanding at any one time, the loans were very short term, and have all been paid back, and most of it was loan guarantees that were not ever called.
You really need to stop getting your economic information from people grandstanding in front of Congress. Many of them believe things like the moon shines by its own light, dinosaurs coexisted with cavemen and you can't get pregnant from legitimate rape.
You can't beat the averages. People who try always finish behind the averages because their costs are higher or they take on more risk.
Take the pro money managers on Wall Street and track their picks over time and you will find random selection actually gets better results.
There is no persistence in managed investments. There is no correlation year to year in actively managed funds. Major ratings agencies actually find that their ratings are anti-correlated with future performance.
What you can do is control your costs and risk - buy low cost index funds and diversify across several asset classes - S&P 500, international markets, bonds. Stay away from high fees.
Buying individual stocks is a sucker's game. Basically you are taking on something that the statisticians call uncompensated risk when you do it. That risk is why you only made 9% this year.
Much better to invest through low cost index funds.
Eugene Fama baby. 2013 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences.
Corporate profits are up around 20%. There really isn't much multiple expansion.
Really P/Es are pretty much where they should be compared to historical averages. The real question is what the end of QE will do to corp profits.
The people I feel sorry for are those who sold at the bottom or those who don't realize that you buy stocks when everyone else is selling, not at the top of the market.
What I do is pretty simple. Keep about 60% in low cost index funds the rest in bonds or cash. Costs really do matter over the long haul. Twice a year look at the portfolio and adjust it so you are at 60%. If stocks went up sell stocks to get back to 60%. If they went down buy.
Do this and you will beat 99% of actively managed funds over time.
I don't know what incident you are talking about, and you are seriously not presenting facts in a way that anyone can make a judgement about what happened in the context of this discussion.
The fact is the end of life decisions I've faced in conjunction with my family members were handled with sensitivity and great ethical integrity by the medical professionals I worked with. If they had the additional ability to suggest voluntary suicide I cannot believe it would be detrimental. My parent's health care was insured by a government program at the time, Medicare, and it intruded in the process in no way.
Your mention of agencies like the post office are so completely irrelevant to this that I have to draw the conclusion you are just completely irrational about this issue.
I don't regard him as a positive figure. He seems to use people without any ethical concerns. His disregard for the people named in the documents he got from Manning was reckless, and his comments about that issue revealing. I really don't think he cares about anyone except himself. Why else would he court Ecuador and Hezbollah?
Former associates like Heather Brooke have had very harsh criticism of him. It's something to keep in mind.
In fact some scientists are now saying the EU policy toward GMOs is harmful to the overall population quality of crops, agriculture and is leading to more rapid deterioration of the environment in Europe.
What do you expect the US to do? Kiss and make up? Issue him a Congressional Gold Medal?
Assange certainly has not behaved towards the US is a friendly manner. You are expecting the US to be nice towards him anyway?
Why shouldn't it go after Assange within the framework of the various sanctions and actions legally available to a soveriegn power? The guy is a jerk anyway and everyone knows it.
I fully expect the US to put Assange on its persona non gratia list and tell him to kiss off at every opportunity. And to tap his phone, computer and hire proxies to spy on his every move.
In fact I'd say that US intelligence agencies would be derelict of their duty if they didn't do this. You know for sure that Assange would love to get a hold of and publish another bunch of embarrassing revelations and will be working hard to do that if at all possible.
You would have to be completely stupid to not realize that and take actions to prevent it, with a vengeance.
Pallative care just prolongs suffering. I saw my mother die slowly with metastasized cancer and an inoperable broken hip this way. While there were times when the pain medication helped, there were times when it was not that effective.
The fact of the matter is that end of life pain is hard to manage and is often undertreated.
The US has costs 2x higher than the rest of the world, and gets tens of millions uninsured, plus 1.6 million US citizens every year engage in medical tourism looking for affordable care elsewhere.
PLUS a recent study of 17 developed nations ranked the US.... 17th in health.
Well at least Vermont has decided to go Massachusetts one step better and is trying single payer. Maybe the dam has broken and we can fix this cluster fuck.
I signed the DNR orders for both of my parents. It was a fucking hard thing to do. I can see how some people would have a hard time with it. My mother went first. I know my father never would have been able to sign her DNR.
This is why people have to take responsibility for their own lives and set up living wills.
Yes right put making a fucking idiotic political statement ahead of any realization of how the humane treatment that we give to lesser animals might be a benefit to people too.
I've said this several times on Slashdot (and have the moderation scars to prove it).
Assange will not be prosecuted by the US.
However I would be very surprised if he were ever to be granted a Visa if he applied. Which I really doubt he would ever do.
It also completely destroys the conspiracy theories that the Swedish extradition would be a short stopover on the way to the US. Aside from the EU laws that this would break, the US really has nothing to gain and a lot to lose from this sort of action.
State v. Moore (2000), 90 Ohio St. 3d 47 -- Syllabus: "The smell of marijuana, alone, by a person qualified to recognize the odor, is sufficient to establish probable cause to conduct a search." Warrantless search of car valid under the automobile exception. Majority finds warrantless search of the defendant's person was justified by exigent circumstances.
In this case the officers claimed a strong odor of marijuana was observed. If true it's likely they will be able to find residue, and most people would accept that as intent or evidence of past use for this illegal purpose.
I just don't see what the big deal is. It's a law that fits with other statutes of this type, and there is probably cause for further investigation.
Such things follow a long established general pattern where possession of the tools needed to commit a certain type of crime plus intent to use them illegally is sufficient to obtain a criminal conviction.
The classic example of this is the possession of burglary tools - things like crowbars, lock picks etc.
The Ohio law reads:
prohibit designing, building, constructing, fabricating, modifying, or altering a vehicle to create or add a hidden compartment with the intent to facilitate the unlawful concealment or transportation of a controlled substance
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Gilles-Eric Séralini has published a whole series of journal articles purporting to expose the dangers of GMOs, glyposate etc.
They are all lapped up and given great exposure by the mainstream media. They are all pointed at with great glee by the anti-GMO crowd as evidence that GMOs are really really bad for you.
They are all junk science that should have never been published.
The source of most of the funding for this work is Greenpeace.
No doubt there will be more crap like this in the future. Hopefully more people will be able to recognize the fact it's junk science and reject it.
It is amazing that Europe has fallen victim to these jerks. I thought their educational system was better than this. Apparently it's over-rated.
The point has been reached where EU scientists are recognizing the bans on GMOs in Europe are harmful.
http://www.euractiv.com/science-policymaking/chief-eu-scientist-backs-damning-news-530693
Right, and the page you linked to refers to Canadian Police records that are shared with the US that contain information on police incidents involving suicide attempts and other issues and states clearly that Canada is not sharing medical records with the US.
So it appears there is good reason to believe that US Immigration officials are not accessing Canadian Medical Records but are rather basing there entry denial on public records of attempted suicides etc.
Since it's in US Law that people with this history need to be cleared by an agent of the US I really think the border agents are just doing their job here.
Not whether or not you believe the US should be screening based on this sort of thing is another question. But there could be a case made for it.
> replacement parts for these machines are in short supply
Sounds like a job for 3D printing.
http://www.marketplace.org/topics/business/typewriters-somehow-still-demand
> Emergency Economic Stabilization Act committed $7.77 trillion
From Washington Post:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/post/no-the-fed-did-not-hand-out-777-trillion-to-banks/2011/12/07/gIQAT3c8cO_blog.html
$7.77 trillion in very short term loans (overnight or similar) and in loan guarantees. There was never anything like 7.77 outstanding at any one time, the loans were very short term, and have all been paid back, and most of it was loan guarantees that were not ever called.
You really need to stop getting your economic information from people grandstanding in front of Congress. Many of them believe things like the moon shines by its own light, dinosaurs coexisted with cavemen and you can't get pregnant from legitimate rape.
It's completely inaccurate distorted bullshit.
Depends if you are holding your bonds in a tax-deferred account like a 401K or not.
Tax deferred space is something very precious indeed.
If you are accumulating fixed income investments after taxes then yes you should pay down your debts.
I agree. I am far more interested in OLED than I am 4K. 4K is nice to have, but a large screen OLED would be a must have.
85" 4K OLED FTW!!
Yup.
You can't beat the averages. People who try always finish behind the averages because their costs are higher or they take on more risk.
Take the pro money managers on Wall Street and track their picks over time and you will find random selection actually gets better results.
There is no persistence in managed investments. There is no correlation year to year in actively managed funds. Major ratings agencies actually find that their ratings are anti-correlated with future performance.
What you can do is control your costs and risk - buy low cost index funds and diversify across several asset classes - S&P 500, international markets, bonds. Stay away from high fees.
Over time that's best you can do.
Buying individual stocks is a sucker's game. Basically you are taking on something that the statisticians call uncompensated risk when you do it. That risk is why you only made 9% this year.
Much better to invest through low cost index funds.
Eugene Fama baby. 2013 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences.
Corporate profits are up around 20%. There really isn't much multiple expansion.
Really P/Es are pretty much where they should be compared to historical averages. The real question is what the end of QE will do to corp profits.
The people I feel sorry for are those who sold at the bottom or those who don't realize that you buy stocks when everyone else is selling, not at the top of the market.
What I do is pretty simple. Keep about 60% in low cost index funds the rest in bonds or cash. Costs really do matter over the long haul. Twice a year look at the portfolio and adjust it so you are at 60%. If stocks went up sell stocks to get back to 60%. If they went down buy.
Do this and you will beat 99% of actively managed funds over time.
Speak for yourself. The public education system I went through is one of the best in the world.
http://www.doe.mass.edu/news/news.aspx?id=4457
And as far as health care, well we don't have a problem with that either.
I don't know what incident you are talking about, and you are seriously not presenting facts in a way that anyone can make a judgement about what happened in the context of this discussion.
The fact is the end of life decisions I've faced in conjunction with my family members were handled with sensitivity and great ethical integrity by the medical professionals I worked with. If they had the additional ability to suggest voluntary suicide I cannot believe it would be detrimental. My parent's health care was insured by a government program at the time, Medicare, and it intruded in the process in no way.
Your mention of agencies like the post office are so completely irrelevant to this that I have to draw the conclusion you are just completely irrational about this issue.
I don't regard him as a positive figure. He seems to use people without any ethical concerns. His disregard for the people named in the documents he got from Manning was reckless, and his comments about that issue revealing. I really don't think he cares about anyone except himself. Why else would he court Ecuador and Hezbollah?
Former associates like Heather Brooke have had very harsh criticism of him. It's something to keep in mind.
GMO's? Thought they were banned in the EU.
In fact some scientists are now saying the EU policy toward GMOs is harmful to the overall population quality of crops, agriculture and is leading to more rapid deterioration of the environment in Europe.
http://www.euractiv.com/science-policymaking/chief-eu-scientist-backs-damning-news-530693
Interesting thought anyway.
People can and do sue the USPTO.
http://www.patentlyo.com/patent/2012/08/suing-the-uspto-to-cancel-improperly-issued-patents.html
What do you expect the US to do? Kiss and make up? Issue him a Congressional Gold Medal?
Assange certainly has not behaved towards the US is a friendly manner. You are expecting the US to be nice towards him anyway?
Why shouldn't it go after Assange within the framework of the various sanctions and actions legally available to a soveriegn power? The guy is a jerk anyway and everyone knows it.
I fully expect the US to put Assange on its persona non gratia list and tell him to kiss off at every opportunity. And to tap his phone, computer and hire proxies to spy on his every move.
In fact I'd say that US intelligence agencies would be derelict of their duty if they didn't do this. You know for sure that Assange would love to get a hold of and publish another bunch of embarrassing revelations and will be working hard to do that if at all possible.
You would have to be completely stupid to not realize that and take actions to prevent it, with a vengeance.
Pallative care just prolongs suffering. I saw my mother die slowly with metastasized cancer and an inoperable broken hip this way. While there were times when the pain medication helped, there were times when it was not that effective.
The fact of the matter is that end of life pain is hard to manage and is often undertreated.
http://www.aafp.org/afp/2001/1001/p1227.html
Completely STUPID and WRONG.
The US has costs 2x higher than the rest of the world, and gets tens of millions uninsured, plus 1.6 million US citizens every year engage in medical tourism looking for affordable care elsewhere.
PLUS a recent study of 17 developed nations ranked the US.... 17th in health.
http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2013/01/new-health-rankings-of-17-nations-us-is-dead-last/267045/
Well at least Vermont has decided to go Massachusetts one step better and is trying single payer. Maybe the dam has broken and we can fix this cluster fuck.
At least in the blue states anyway.
Fuck all I can't believe the political shit people are spouting.
THE PPACA AND THE INSURANCE INDUSTRY HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH THIS.
It is simply giving the same consideration to their family members that they would a dog.
I signed the DNR orders for both of my parents. It was a fucking hard thing to do. I can see how some people would have a hard time with it. My mother went first. I know my father never would have been able to sign her DNR.
This is why people have to take responsibility for their own lives and set up living wills.
Yes right put making a fucking idiotic political statement ahead of any realization of how the humane treatment that we give to lesser animals might be a benefit to people too.
Living wills only allow people to specify they don't want treatment under some circumstances.
They don't help if you are in a state where you body is slowly dying without treatment.
I've said this several times on Slashdot (and have the moderation scars to prove it).
Assange will not be prosecuted by the US.
However I would be very surprised if he were ever to be granted a Visa if he applied. Which I really doubt he would ever do.
It also completely destroys the conspiracy theories that the Swedish extradition would be a short stopover on the way to the US. Aside from the EU laws that this would break, the US really has nothing to gain and a lot to lose from this sort of action.
Sorry about your bad experience in MA.
It is however probable cause in Ohio.
http://www.opd.ohio.gov/RC_Casebook/search_and_seizure_II.htm
State v. Moore (2000), 90 Ohio St. 3d 47 -- Syllabus: "The smell of marijuana, alone, by a person qualified to recognize the odor, is sufficient to establish probable cause to conduct a search." Warrantless search of car valid under the automobile exception. Majority finds warrantless search of the defendant's person was justified by exigent circumstances.
In this case the officers claimed a strong odor of marijuana was observed. If true it's likely they will be able to find residue, and most people would accept that as intent or evidence of past use for this illegal purpose.
I just don't see what the big deal is. It's a law that fits with other statutes of this type, and there is probably cause for further investigation.
Such things follow a long established general pattern where possession of the tools needed to commit a certain type of crime plus intent to use them illegally is sufficient to obtain a criminal conviction.
The classic example of this is the possession of burglary tools - things like crowbars, lock picks etc.
The Ohio law reads:
prohibit designing, building, constructing, fabricating, modifying, or altering a vehicle to create or add a hidden compartment with the intent to facilitate the unlawful concealment or transportation of a controlled substance
So really there is little new here.