Farmers have to buy new hybrid seed every year too. Are hybrid seed companies "monopolizing" food production too? Or is it simply that farmers like the properties of the hybrid plants, so they choose to buy seed every year?
We don't know the long term effects of say, introducing Buffalo Wings to the American diet either.
Or the long term effects of creating jobs where you sit in a chair all day.
Plus, how do we know that some change won't be beneficial over 10, 100, and 1000 year time periods, but totally screw you after 10,000 years? We had better prohibit all change until we know for sure.
Wait, prohibiting change is itself a change. Maybe the government should regulate it. Wait, do we know the long term effects of government?
Damn, you'd better sleep outside tonight. Tomorrow you can root for grubs and forage for berries. It's the only way to be sure you're safe. If you get eaten instead by a wild animal, be assured that this is completely natural.
IQ is an old measure. It's not surprising that you could develop a better measure.
But is IQ useful? Last I checked, it correlated well to things like years of completed education, unemployment rate, lifetime earnings, etc.
Part of the problem with our government policies is that they don't account for the fact that 1/2 the people are dumbasses, by definition. Or, as George Carlin said, "Imagine how smart the average person is. Now realize that half the people are stupider than him."
So we spend billions of dollars to . . . more precisely measure the mass of the Higgs boson? Oh, that's worth it.
But wait! There's important spin-off technologies, like . . . high speed trains.
Only one problem - we don't need any freaking high speed trains!
Now, if you could promise to figure out how to power cars with the Higgs boson, or create a Higgs boson bomb, that might draw some interest. But to spend billions of dollars to add a few decimal places to the mass of the Higgs? Physicists will soon have to accept that some of the knowledge they seek is too expensive to acquire.
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The frozen corpses are already dead â" what worse thing could possibly happen to them?
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Then you don't gave 1 standard - you have 2.
Wrong. A microwave oven is a dielectric heater.
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dielectric_heating
Good: that means it's not Progressive.
I've always thought it looked like a giant Space Carrot.
Farmers have to buy new hybrid seed every year too. Are hybrid seed companies "monopolizing" food production too? Or is it simply that farmers like the properties of the hybrid plants, so they choose to buy seed every year?
We don't know the long term effects of say, introducing Buffalo Wings to the American diet either.
Or the long term effects of creating jobs where you sit in a chair all day.
Plus, how do we know that some change won't be beneficial over 10, 100, and 1000 year time periods, but totally screw you after 10,000 years? We had better prohibit all change until we know for sure.
Wait, prohibiting change is itself a change. Maybe the government should regulate it. Wait, do we know the long term effects of government?
Damn, you'd better sleep outside tonight. Tomorrow you can root for grubs and forage for berries. It's the only way to be sure you're safe. If you get eaten instead by a wild animal, be assured that this is completely natural.
"labeling the food" does nothing except enrich trial lawyers. So you protect yourself by labeling *every* food product with "contains GMOs".
Just like everything in California has a label on it saying this product has chemicals in known by the State of California to cause cancer.
He had a better year.
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Put a sign on your computer declaring it a "Virus Free Zone"
and Do Not Taunt Happy Fun Ball
IQ is an old measure. It's not surprising that you could develop a better measure.
But is IQ useful? Last I checked, it correlated well to things like years of completed education, unemployment rate, lifetime earnings, etc.
Part of the problem with our government policies is that they don't account for the fact that 1/2 the people are dumbasses, by definition. Or, as George Carlin said, "Imagine how smart the average person is. Now realize that half the people are stupider than him."
So we spend billions of dollars to . . . more precisely measure the mass of the Higgs boson? Oh, that's worth it.
But wait! There's important spin-off technologies, like . . . high speed trains.
Only one problem - we don't need any freaking high speed trains!
Now, if you could promise to figure out how to power cars with the Higgs boson, or create a Higgs boson bomb, that might draw some interest. But to spend billions of dollars to add a few decimal places to the mass of the Higgs? Physicists will soon have to accept that some of the knowledge they seek is too expensive to acquire.
. . . you'd better link cars to erectile dysfunction. Otherwise, we're driving.