"For a decade their user agreements have explicitly forbidden the use of the seeds for any independent research. Under the threat of litigation, scientists cannot test a seed to explore the different conditions under which it thrives or fails. They cannot compare seeds from one company against those from another company. And perhaps most important, they cannot examine whether the genetically modified crops lead to unintended environmental side effects."
First off, crop growth is not the issue causing most people to starve. Geo-politics is. This is why freight cars of food rots while people starve in 3rd world countries.
GMOs are also failing as insects are adapting quickly.
Futhermore, the issue of "ownership" prevents a lot of independent testing because companies like Mosanto "own" their seeds. And even Scientific American questioned whether this was being used to prevent the publication of studies unflattering to GMOs.
First off, RoundUp is the most talked about, but far from the only pesticide used
Second, the whole big thing with pesticide resistant crops is that it allows you to use more of the pesticide on your farm. This is leading to increased pesticides in soil.
Manufacturers have a history of toxic pesticides being used than proven dangerous decades later only to be replaced by new products.
We are now getting reports that manure compost is testing at times with high enough levels of herbicides to post a problem.
"But for stem cells first 20 years of exsistence we couldnt do anything because christians cock blocked the research"
Actually, there was a lot that could be done. Just not with public funds for fetal research. Oh, and please show me significant medical successes involving fetal stem cells.
The truth is, almost ALL the successes have been with adult or auxilliary stem cells. Which are less reactive, and less prone to turning into raging tumors and growth.
I actually like to err on the side of life. Humanity has a poor record when it doesn't do so.
Children reduce the efficiency of workers. From now on, any of my employees will be mandated to have abortions if they get pregnant - or they will be fired.
1. Flu Vaccine's effectiveness is questionable. Irony, almost everyone I know who gets the flu vaccine, still gets the flu. And they always seem to be told "Oh the problem was this year, the vaccine didn't match up well to the active strains". But I hear this EVERY year.
2. Flu Vaccine can still cause a few days worth of flu like symptoms.
3. How often are people actually catching the flu? particularly a strain of illness they would not get if they had the vaccine.
4. Where does it stop and at what risk? We have employers mandating vaccines. Which do pose risks, albeit usually very slim. But do we support the removal of personal liberty to choose what to do with one's own body? Really? Are we sure? Is pro-choice philosophy bunk...why is it I we hear we should have the right to choose for our bodies...but then are often told we don't have that right. Sure, one might say, well you have a choice. You can choose to get the vaccine per your employer's requirement or loose your job. What if an employer said "Children reduce productivity of my workers. If any woman gets pregnant and chooses to keep the child. She will be fired." Is that likewise fair? It's really not that different in scope of "right to your own body".
It was hear...it was superior and more intelligent than Java in many ways. Strongly typed. And could have been adapated to the HTML DOM if Adobe's CEO had half a brain. Yes, abandon Flash, but ActionScript is actually a nifty language.
One that 98% of the complainers have never looked at. I think it's funny once a programmer actually starts looking at AS3 and exclaims "wow, that's kind of cool".
Look what they did with Spark components in Flex. HTML5 went and created all these stupid new input types. AS3/Flex4 went the other way and reduced their input types. What's the difference between a radio button and a drop down? Nothing but presentation. Both are simply selectable lists. Checkboxes and mult-select box? Nothing. They're just a multi-select list. So Adobe went and remove the visual layer from the model and control layers. Now you just "style" the appearance as desired.
This was the RIGHT PATH to move in Programming. And where HTML5 SHOULD HAVE GONE, but did not.
"It includes six items that rate the child's attentiveness, task persistence, eagerness to learn, learning independence, flexibility and organization. I think that anybody who's a parent of boys and girls can tell you that girls are more of all of that.'"
Bullcrap, boys very often exceed girls on eagerness to learn, learning independence, flexibility. They often fail at "attentiveness", "task persistence", and "organization". Largely because more often than not, they want a more hands on practical learning environment. And our present education system utterly fails to provide this.
For example, after chem lab, it was usually the boys hanging around - not the girls. Why? Because it was practical learning.
Seriously, there is plenty of science that shows issues related to GMO crops. If not the crops themselves, the fact that a round up ready corn means several times more round up applied to the ground. This is scienfitically documented.
So I am of the opinion this guy is probably just some bought out loon.
Science, and advocate of real science, would concede there is far too much we just do not know at this point. And MANY fears that were pointed to, have been proved valid. Like infection of wild specieis.
I keep hearing this. 3D is dead. No one watches it. Etc. Etc.
Except I love it. I feel that it's a sharper image for me. In fact I just bought an LG passive 3D TV.
I've for some friends who don't like the effect. But I have many who do.
In fact, I pretty much feel its blithering critics who keep making these comments and articles. But these were the same folks downing Netflix since 2000.
Well, gee, than MAYBE the summary should post clearly what he is doing. Instead of saying
"Well, I am not doing anything illegal and really really it's not spam"
There is NOT a single thing in that WHOLE post that says he's doing this for freedom. Nearly every spammer claims their list is double opt-in. So how the !@#$% is anyone to know. There is one link to Circumventor List - sorry, that's blocked by work. So it gave no info.
Don't frickin flame me....flame the idiots who post a slashdot entry without giving an iota of background info.
Whine whine whine....singing: "I'm a SPAMMER and I KNOW it."
So this guy is complaining that Yahoo and Microsoft are colluding to stop the annoyance of spam. Seriously, any site sending emails that has to register non-sensical domains in order to get out their next batch of emails, should be blocked. Heck, not for nothing, and I am going on a limb. But to me it sounds like the author should very well be sitting in jail - as an annoyance to society.
You are correct, correct term I should have used was biomass accumulation. Sorry, I was typing quickly. Bioaccumulation is more properly used for the concentrating of agents in the body that are not passed out the waste systems. (Usually heavy metals and toxins stored in fat cells.)
Oh, the cries....thankfully, you were smart enough to understand from context. Hoorah!!!
bio accumulation vs biomass accumulation, so you are right. I should have had my period to denote the abbreviation of bio. accumulation. I apologize....I figured my context was sufficient.
Places like Florida are in danger, because it's flat, and built over with cement.
But I am curious about soil accumulation and natural biosystems. The 1 meter rise, does it account for a century of soil growth?
My old hometown of New Haven was built in the late 1600's. The town "green" is now almost 1-2 meters higher than it was in the 1700's. Thanks to bio accumulation. Most can see this happen. We had an area that we put dirt and gravel on. Over two years, weeds grew and were chopped down. We probably added a 1/2"-1" or more of top soil over those couple of years. This is a natural biological system.
Problem is, we cement over everything and prevent that natural process.
Hmm, I thought the redwoods were growing more these days. Thanks to that extra CO2. Most plants seem to do better with higher CO2. And there are some who argue we've seen plant growth reductions during this period of lower CO2 levels.
How is that different from "I vaccinated my daughter for pertussis" and she almost died from the vaccination? And had to be brought in for several breathing treatments...
Slashdot Mirror
"For a decade their user agreements have explicitly forbidden the use of the seeds for any independent research. Under the threat of litigation, scientists cannot test a seed to explore the different conditions under which it thrives or fails. They cannot compare seeds from one company against those from another company. And perhaps most important, they cannot examine whether the genetically modified crops lead to unintended environmental side effects."
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=do-seed-companies-control-gm-crop-research
First off, crop growth is not the issue causing most people to starve. Geo-politics is. This is why freight cars of food rots while people starve in 3rd world countries.
GMOs are also failing as insects are adapting quickly.
http://kojoreport.com/gmos-bt-corn-dangerous-failure-to-our-environment-and-health/
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2012/05/29/genetically-modified-crops-insects-emerged.aspx
Futhermore, the issue of "ownership" prevents a lot of independent testing because companies like Mosanto "own" their seeds. And even Scientific American questioned whether this was being used to prevent the publication of studies unflattering to GMOs.
It's a very bad implementation...
a) the residue has been shown in soil to persist in various forms and other degraded elements for years.
b) the stuff is sprayed between crop cycles, and is not being used to saturate the the soils.
First off, RoundUp is the most talked about, but far from the only pesticide used
Second, the whole big thing with pesticide resistant crops is that it allows you to use more of the pesticide on your farm. This is leading to increased pesticides in soil.
Manufacturers have a history of toxic pesticides being used than proven dangerous decades later only to be replaced by new products.
We are now getting reports that manure compost is testing at times with high enough levels of herbicides to post a problem.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/10/02/us-usa-study-pesticides-idUSBRE89100X20121002
http://www.motherjones.com/tom-philpott/2012/10/how-gmos-ramped-us-pesticide-use
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/02/genetically-modified-crops-pesticides_n_1931020.html
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/04/pesticides-gmo-monsanto-roundup-resistance_n_1936598.html
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/08/090817143610.htm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8308903.stm
http://www.motherearthnews.com/killer-compost-herbicide-contamination-zl0z1211zkin.aspx
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glyphosate#Human
GMOs infected non GMO products. Yes, we were originally told this wasn't a risk.
The SCIENCE is there...you just want to be ignorant.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=129010499
Hep-B is not optional. My kids could not attend pre-school because it was the one vaccine we did NOT get them.
Children reduce employee efficiency. From now on, any female employees at my company will be required to choose an abortion, or lose employment.
Thank you for showing me my rights as an employer to dictate to my employees what they can or cannot do with their own bodies.
"But for stem cells first 20 years of exsistence we couldnt do anything because christians cock blocked the research"
Actually, there was a lot that could be done. Just not with public funds for fetal research. Oh, and please show me significant medical successes involving fetal stem cells.
The truth is, almost ALL the successes have been with adult or auxilliary stem cells. Which are less reactive, and less prone to turning into raging tumors and growth.
I actually like to err on the side of life. Humanity has a poor record when it doesn't do so.
Children reduce the efficiency of workers. From now on, any of my employees will be mandated to have abortions if they get pregnant - or they will be fired.
You are working and being paid to do so...
There are a few problems as I see it...
1. Flu Vaccine's effectiveness is questionable. Irony, almost everyone I know who gets the flu vaccine, still gets the flu. And they always seem to be told "Oh the problem was this year, the vaccine didn't match up well to the active strains". But I hear this EVERY year.
2. Flu Vaccine can still cause a few days worth of flu like symptoms.
3. How often are people actually catching the flu? particularly a strain of illness they would not get if they had the vaccine.
4. Where does it stop and at what risk? We have employers mandating vaccines. Which do pose risks, albeit usually very slim. But do we support the removal of personal liberty to choose what to do with one's own body? Really? Are we sure? Is pro-choice philosophy bunk...why is it I we hear we should have the right to choose for our bodies...but then are often told we don't have that right. Sure, one might say, well you have a choice. You can choose to get the vaccine per your employer's requirement or loose your job. What if an employer said "Children reduce productivity of my workers. If any woman gets pregnant and chooses to keep the child. She will be fired." Is that likewise fair? It's really not that different in scope of "right to your own body".
It was hear...it was superior and more intelligent than Java in many ways. Strongly typed. And could have been adapated to the HTML DOM if Adobe's CEO had half a brain. Yes, abandon Flash, but ActionScript is actually a nifty language.
One that 98% of the complainers have never looked at. I think it's funny once a programmer actually starts looking at AS3 and exclaims "wow, that's kind of cool".
Look what they did with Spark components in Flex. HTML5 went and created all these stupid new input types. AS3/Flex4 went the other way and reduced their input types. What's the difference between a radio button and a drop down? Nothing but presentation. Both are simply selectable lists. Checkboxes and mult-select box? Nothing. They're just a multi-select list. So Adobe went and remove the visual layer from the model and control layers. Now you just "style" the appearance as desired.
This was the RIGHT PATH to move in Programming. And where HTML5 SHOULD HAVE GONE, but did not.
What the movie "Idiocracy" already taught us...
"That result suggests that bigger brains are somehow associated with smaller broods "
"It includes six items that rate the child's attentiveness, task persistence, eagerness to learn, learning independence, flexibility and organization. I think that anybody who's a parent of boys and girls can tell you that girls are more of all of that.'"
Bullcrap, boys very often exceed girls on eagerness to learn, learning independence, flexibility. They often fail at "attentiveness", "task persistence", and "organization". Largely because more often than not, they want a more hands on practical learning environment. And our present education system utterly fails to provide this.
For example, after chem lab, it was usually the boys hanging around - not the girls. Why? Because it was practical learning.
Seriously, there is plenty of science that shows issues related to GMO crops. If not the crops themselves, the fact that a round up ready corn means several times more round up applied to the ground. This is scienfitically documented.
So I am of the opinion this guy is probably just some bought out loon.
Science, and advocate of real science, would concede there is far too much we just do not know at this point. And MANY fears that were pointed to, have been proved valid. Like infection of wild specieis.
That's SCIENCE...
I keep hearing this. 3D is dead. No one watches it. Etc. Etc.
Except I love it. I feel that it's a sharper image for me. In fact I just bought an LG passive 3D TV.
I've for some friends who don't like the effect. But I have many who do.
In fact, I pretty much feel its blithering critics who keep making these comments and articles. But these were the same folks downing Netflix since 2000.
I think it'll grow...
Well, gee, than MAYBE the summary should post clearly what he is doing. Instead of saying
"Well, I am not doing anything illegal and really really it's not spam"
There is NOT a single thing in that WHOLE post that says he's doing this for freedom. Nearly every spammer claims their list is double opt-in. So how the !@#$% is anyone to know. There is one link to Circumventor List - sorry, that's blocked by work. So it gave no info.
Don't frickin flame me....flame the idiots who post a slashdot entry without giving an iota of background info.
Whine whine whine....singing: "I'm a SPAMMER and I KNOW it."
So this guy is complaining that Yahoo and Microsoft are colluding to stop the annoyance of spam. Seriously, any site sending emails that has to register non-sensical domains in order to get out their next batch of emails, should be blocked. Heck, not for nothing, and I am going on a limb. But to me it sounds like the author should very well be sitting in jail - as an annoyance to society.
Just saying....
You are correct, correct term I should have used was biomass accumulation. Sorry, I was typing quickly. Bioaccumulation is more properly used for the concentrating of agents in the body that are not passed out the waste systems. (Usually heavy metals and toxins stored in fat cells.)
Oh, the cries....thankfully, you were smart enough to understand from context. Hoorah!!!
bio accumulation vs biomass accumulation, so you are right. I should have had my period to denote the abbreviation of bio. accumulation. I apologize....I figured my context was sufficient.
Places like Florida are in danger, because it's flat, and built over with cement.
But I am curious about soil accumulation and natural biosystems. The 1 meter rise, does it account for a century of soil growth?
My old hometown of New Haven was built in the late 1600's. The town "green" is now almost 1-2 meters higher than it was in the 1700's. Thanks to bio accumulation. Most can see this happen. We had an area that we put dirt and gravel on. Over two years, weeds grew and were chopped down. We probably added a 1/2"-1" or more of top soil over those couple of years. This is a natural biological system.
Problem is, we cement over everything and prevent that natural process.
Love that this gets modded down. But it's so true....
Are coral reefs shrinking due to CO2/global warming or are they shrinking due to toxins, pesticides and other run off.
Hmm, I thought the redwoods were growing more these days. Thanks to that extra CO2. Most plants seem to do better with higher CO2. And there are some who argue we've seen plant growth reductions during this period of lower CO2 levels.
It's like the joke...
A Republican says that whenever he ate at a restaurant, he left a $20 tip and said "Vote Republican".
A Democrat responded that whenever he ate at a restaurant, he left no tip and said "Vote Republican".
Yes, but I thought no one read my Slashdot posts either....but you did.
I am now happy. :-)
How is that different from "I vaccinated my daughter for pertussis" and she almost died from the vaccination? And had to be brought in for several breathing treatments...
I just believe the FDA should mandate ALL incidents within 48 hours of a vaccination should be reported to VAERS.
But not HepB...