Talking about the "free market" and about legislation at the same time is (oxy)moronic. If people care about GMO, they can petition companies to label their products, or they can stick to those who already label of their own volition.
If there is ever a health risk associated with GMO, we can worry about labelling.
A lot of people opposing these laws do so because these laws are promoting ignorance and stupidity. In no way or form is a free market intended to affect societal change, so who the fuck cares if it does so? In fact, if one were to use a free market to enact such a change, these anti-science groups should petition the producers directly to label their products. They should organize boycotts and similar free-market actions. Forcing an action through legislation is the precise opposite of a free market.
Subverting a market to promote one's pet cause is not, in fact, promoting a free market.
Of course it's anti-science. Science is about formulating a hypothesis and conducting experiments to prove or disprove it. An anti-GMO stance is about forming a hypothesis and forcing everyone else in the world to validate it by fiat. No experimentation in sight.
The default for right turns in NYC is that it's illegal on red. There are two intersections in the entire city with explicit signs to allow it. The default outside of NYC is the opposite.
Building a product that another company does not wish to build is not, in fact, competing with that company.
(I suppose, in the grossest sense of competing for dollars, you could claim to be competing. But that's like saying a panhandler is competing with Land Rover.)
If that's the way you read it, you need to go (back) to school. Or, you need to commit suicide, taking as much of your family with you as is practical.
Wouldn't the time equivalent of MM/DD/YYYY be minutes/seconds/hours?
MM = 2nd most frequently changing unit = minutes DD = 1st most frequently changing unit = seconds YYYY = 3rd most frequently changing unit = hours
In any event, MM/DD is equivalent hours:minutes, so it makes perfect sense. Putting the least important information at the end (YYYY) also makes sense. Therefore, the assertion that MM/DD/YYYY is stupid could only be made by someone with absolutely no ability to reason.
Most people live in the present. Unless one is speaking of an event in a different year, it's completely superfluous. The month can also be superfluous, but that doesn't happen as often because the span is only 28-31 days.
There were people in 1999, just as there are today, who trade in $50K+ cars every year or two. $799 every two years for a phone is nothing. It's not like those people keep their old phones, you know. Most get sold for at least half the cost of the new one. (Apple devices tend to have high resale value.)
Of course it's the money that matters. Apple doesn't care what their marketshare is. They never have. Samsung is a lot more than just mobile phones, but I'd bet they'd sacrifice half their marketshare for Apple's profits on the iPhone.
That must be wrong. Deaths from nuclear weapons and power plant accidents, combined, haven't killed that many people. Dams are clean energy producers and have to be way safer than that evil nuclear stuff. The estimates must be off by a few orders of magnitude. Nothing else makes sense.
The shit-faces such as the GP don't know or care about anyone not in the their little bubble. I use WhatsApp to communicate with family, all of whom live overseas. I have practically unlimited data (20GB/month, never used more than a couple), and unlimited free SMS, but not internationally. WhatsApp is a better messaging app than the native SMS app anyway. I can send images and video without any problems. In contrast, MMS is a pain to set up and it's not always compatible across carriers.
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Talking about the "free market" and about legislation at the same time is (oxy)moronic. If people care about GMO, they can petition companies to label their products, or they can stick to those who already label of their own volition.
If there is ever a health risk associated with GMO, we can worry about labelling.
A lot of people opposing these laws do so because these laws are promoting ignorance and stupidity. In no way or form is a free market intended to affect societal change, so who the fuck cares if it does so? In fact, if one were to use a free market to enact such a change, these anti-science groups should petition the producers directly to label their products. They should organize boycotts and similar free-market actions. Forcing an action through legislation is the precise opposite of a free market.
Subverting a market to promote one's pet cause is not, in fact, promoting a free market.
It's probably fairly safe to say that food picked by Mexican immigrants was not grown in Mexico.
We have monocultures without GMO. No GMO intellectual property rights have ever caused any farmer any problems, anywhere.
If you fall for FUD, you're a willfully ignorant savage, and you deserve food poisoning from your precious non-GMO vegetables.
Of course it's anti-science. Science is about formulating a hypothesis and conducting experiments to prove or disprove it. An anti-GMO stance is about forming a hypothesis and forcing everyone else in the world to validate it by fiat. No experimentation in sight.
I find remote locking is more useful than remote entry.
The default for right turns in NYC is that it's illegal on red. There are two intersections in the entire city with explicit signs to allow it. The default outside of NYC is the opposite.
You may need to pick a better example.
Tell that to Samsung Gear makers.
If I meet any, I will happily do so.
Building a product that another company does not wish to build is not, in fact, competing with that company.
(I suppose, in the grossest sense of competing for dollars, you could claim to be competing. But that's like saying a panhandler is competing with Land Rover.)
If that's the way you read it, you need to go (back) to school. Or, you need to commit suicide, taking as much of your family with you as is practical.
Wouldn't the time equivalent of MM/DD/YYYY be minutes/seconds/hours?
MM = 2nd most frequently changing unit = minutes
DD = 1st most frequently changing unit = seconds
YYYY = 3rd most frequently changing unit = hours
In any event, MM/DD is equivalent hours:minutes, so it makes perfect sense. Putting the least important information at the end (YYYY) also makes sense. Therefore, the assertion that MM/DD/YYYY is stupid could only be made by someone with absolutely no ability to reason.
Most people live in the present. Unless one is speaking of an event in a different year, it's completely superfluous. The month can also be superfluous, but that doesn't happen as often because the span is only 28-31 days.
You know the anecdote is fiction from the point where he states his wife was poking around in data files.
Tamar doesn't live in Turkey. What are you going on about?
There were people in 1999, just as there are today, who trade in $50K+ cars every year or two. $799 every two years for a phone is nothing. It's not like those people keep their old phones, you know. Most get sold for at least half the cost of the new one. (Apple devices tend to have high resale value.)
Of course it's the money that matters. Apple doesn't care what their marketshare is. They never have. Samsung is a lot more than just mobile phones, but I'd bet they'd sacrifice half their marketshare for Apple's profits on the iPhone.
Have you thought that through. At all?
That must be wrong. Deaths from nuclear weapons and power plant accidents, combined, haven't killed that many people. Dams are clean energy producers and have to be way safer than that evil nuclear stuff. The estimates must be off by a few orders of magnitude. Nothing else makes sense.
Do you really expect an anti-religion or anti-catholic bigot to understand nuances like that?
Keep going, Australia! Committing economic suicide makes it better for everyone else. Thanks for taking one for the team!
You'd think sky-high walls would be hard to miss. Huh, I guess not.
Have you ever considered that you're an ignorant savage who refuses to learn any facts that might contradict your bigotry?
So, when will you start the Native American insurrection against the Occupiers? When will you condemn the Occupation of Cypress?
You are either easily confused, or you've never made a right turn from a road with a shoulder.
The shit-faces such as the GP don't know or care about anyone not in the their little bubble. I use WhatsApp to communicate with family, all of whom live overseas. I have practically unlimited data (20GB/month, never used more than a couple), and unlimited free SMS, but not internationally. WhatsApp is a better messaging app than the native SMS app anyway. I can send images and video without any problems. In contrast, MMS is a pain to set up and it's not always compatible across carriers.