On the one hand... GMO foods can be used for good. There's no scientific proof (prove me wrong please) that GMO foodstuff leads to horrible things for either human physiology or the environment...
On the other... GMO producers use IP and Copyright laws to protect their product and harass their competition. They use loose campaign finance laws to influence the political and legislative processes in their favor. If they were truly concerned about consumers, wouldn't they encourage copying? If they were truly concerned about their product, wouldn't they encourage transparency?
Take the good with the bad, imho. YES, research should continue, and so should testing on whether its good or bad. NO, foodstuff manufacturers are going to have to get away from calling their "stuff of life" intellectual property. When your product becomes what humans or the planet take(s) for a necessity, that necessity becomes a utility. This is where food is heading... the same direction as water, electricity, the internet and telephone service before it.
And, seriously, nobody should utilize the campaign finance system to their economic advantage. It's anti-capitalist, anti-meritorious, and anti-competitive, and all of that is just amoral. The weakness of humans should not be tested just so you can make a buck, rather your own ingenuity.
As more and more content producers flock to online services who will actually publish their creations, all tv networks are now switching to a 100% advertising format. Nothing but adverts, all the time.
I wonder if these robots need to have breakable encryption... if the government can't learn about what they're delivering and where to, what's the point?
Should be the size of the yearly lawsuit to pay the people back the money earned off the snooping. You make 24 billion off me and my peers? I expect a fucking check. Who wants to start the lawsuit? Let's make a class. Where you at, lawyers?
does the stuff on my cell phone seem like it should be protected by the 5th? Much of the data on my cell phone is data I wouldn't want created in the first place, and odds are it's damning enough to land me in prison regardless of whether I did the crime I'm being investigated for or not. If that unintentional byproduct of device usage is going to incriminate me, then how can I invoke the privilege? I feel like if there is a judicial body investigating me, there are places where I can invoke the 5th and draw the line, and my cell phone is one of those. These things are becoming part of us. I say, encrypt the shit out of them automatically. All of them.
... ask Yourself how much You donated to campaigns last time around. If the answer is zero, You are a politically lazy fuck and have no ethical right to complain.
Narcissist. You don't have to contribute to a thing to critique it. I don't contribute to child labor but I sure as shit hate it. I have every ethical right to complain, a moral obligation in fact. Go back to your cave asshole.
I don't see a reason to use that software. Acceptable or not, if I don't agree with your independent board decision, I still want the advert gone. Ghostery is pretty good, works on android / chrome and even IE on older machines. Great software - and it uses an independent board of 1 to make those acceptable advert decisions. Export my black/white lists just like my favorites when porting to a new machine.
$8,238,756,155,750.4 (8.2 QUADrillion) per year to estimated 245,201,076.07 americans above 18 years old (per http://quickfacts.census.gov/q...) at $2800/month.
If you tax every square mile of land $2.3 million per year it would pay for 100% of this program.
At 10% sales tax (in addition to what is current) it would estimate pay for 5% of this program.
USA military spending is ~0.001% of what this would cost per annum.
The money has to come from somewhere and that somewhere is the taxpayers.
I disagree - I say the money doesn't exist yet (if like the swiss, $2800 per year). Instead of a basic income, I support basic needs being met without monetary exchange.
for a new amendment to the US constitution guaranteeing the right to privacy? Sure it's really tough to pass an amendment, really tough to enforce such a thing, but tough things need to be talked about prior to action. At least in this community I'm sure people would agree that privacy should be guaranteed - that people have the right to self-determine without undue influence - and that companies that want to sell software or that want people to use their software should agree to the users' terms, and not the other way around.
Would love to use an OS I have source for on my gaming machine. Game developers should be migrating to open source OS platforms imho. For now though I'm stuck with dual booting. I have upgraded to win10 - to play games without hassle (actually converted my pirated win8.1 with kms activation lol)... yeah can't think of that other thing. The rest of my compute is a reboot away.
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On the one hand... GMO foods can be used for good. There's no scientific proof (prove me wrong please) that GMO foodstuff leads to horrible things for either human physiology or the environment...
... GMO producers use IP and Copyright laws to protect their product and harass their competition. They use loose campaign finance laws to influence the political and legislative processes in their favor. If they were truly concerned about consumers, wouldn't they encourage copying? If they were truly concerned about their product, wouldn't they encourage transparency?
... the same direction as water, electricity, the internet and telephone service before it.
On the other
Take the good with the bad, imho. YES, research should continue, and so should testing on whether its good or bad. NO, foodstuff manufacturers are going to have to get away from calling their "stuff of life" intellectual property. When your product becomes what humans or the planet take(s) for a necessity, that necessity becomes a utility. This is where food is heading
And, seriously, nobody should utilize the campaign finance system to their economic advantage. It's anti-capitalist, anti-meritorious, and anti-competitive, and all of that is just amoral. The weakness of humans should not be tested just so you can make a buck, rather your own ingenuity.
He can predict the future of our species from now until the end of time. The words never and ever seem irresponsible in science.
As more and more content producers flock to online services who will actually publish their creations, all tv networks are now switching to a 100% advertising format. Nothing but adverts, all the time.
I wonder if these robots need to have breakable encryption ... if the government can't learn about what they're delivering and where to, what's the point?
This is not the answer. This is no time for individualism. The problem is that they're spying on anyone, not that they're spying on ME.
Should be the size of the yearly lawsuit to pay the people back the money earned off the snooping. You make 24 billion off me and my peers? I expect a fucking check. Who wants to start the lawsuit? Let's make a class. Where you at, lawyers?
does the stuff on my cell phone seem like it should be protected by the 5th? Much of the data on my cell phone is data I wouldn't want created in the first place, and odds are it's damning enough to land me in prison regardless of whether I did the crime I'm being investigated for or not. If that unintentional byproduct of device usage is going to incriminate me, then how can I invoke the privilege? I feel like if there is a judicial body investigating me, there are places where I can invoke the 5th and draw the line, and my cell phone is one of those. These things are becoming part of us. I say, encrypt the shit out of them automatically. All of them.
... ask Yourself how much You donated to campaigns last time around. If the answer is zero, You are a politically lazy fuck and have no ethical right to complain.
Narcissist. You don't have to contribute to a thing to critique it. I don't contribute to child labor but I sure as shit hate it. I have every ethical right to complain, a moral obligation in fact. Go back to your cave asshole.
I don't see a reason to use that software. Acceptable or not, if I don't agree with your independent board decision, I still want the advert gone. Ghostery is pretty good, works on android / chrome and even IE on older machines. Great software - and it uses an independent board of 1 to make those acceptable advert decisions. Export my black/white lists just like my favorites when porting to a new machine.
The money has to come from somewhere and that somewhere is the taxpayers.
I disagree - I say the money doesn't exist yet (if like the swiss, $2800 per year). Instead of a basic income, I support basic needs being met without monetary exchange.
for a new amendment to the US constitution guaranteeing the right to privacy? Sure it's really tough to pass an amendment, really tough to enforce such a thing, but tough things need to be talked about prior to action. At least in this community I'm sure people would agree that privacy should be guaranteed - that people have the right to self-determine without undue influence - and that companies that want to sell software or that want people to use their software should agree to the users' terms, and not the other way around.
Would love to use an OS I have source for on my gaming machine. Game developers should be migrating to open source OS platforms imho. For now though I'm stuck with dual booting. I have upgraded to win10 - to play games without hassle (actually converted my pirated win8.1 with kms activation lol) ... yeah can't think of that other thing. The rest of my compute is a reboot away.