You could make that case to mandate all kinds of irrelevant information be included on product labels. If the GMO product is nutritionally identical to the non-GMO, the only reason to differentiate them via labeling would be to suggest that there is a substantive difference between the two products, which is false.
Now you could certainly make that case for, for example, a crop that was modified to be pesticide resistant. The fact that the product may contain traces of a pesticide is relevant information.
I've been fortunate enough to not have broken the micro-USB port on my Android phones, but I can see how easy is for one errant push of the plug to snap that little plastic guide piece. As a new iPhone owner, I am glad to be without that risk (however marginal) behind.
I'd love to see Apple use a standard connector so I don't have to pay $40 for a second/replacement cable that probably costs a penny to manufacture. That's not the Apple way, though, and in this case they have the superior design.
How many people voted for Obama believing that he wouldn't use the executive powers expanded by the previous administration? How many were dumb enough to believe he'd actually try to roll them back?
Worse yet, how many are OK with their guy abusing his new authority?
I used to run something like this (might have been the same thing) years ago, but I became concerned over what impact it has on my electricity usage and the longevity of my computer hardware. Can you shed any light on these concerns?
"No political appointees in an Obama-Biden administration will be permitted to work on regulations or contracts directly and substantially related to their prior employer for two years."
If he hasn't been a lobbyist within the past two years, I suppose we ought to give him a pass. Right?
I still find the old fashioned way, "whack the drive real hard with a hammer and shatter the platter" combines the best parts of effectiveness and gratification.
Considering the benefits that unmanned drones offer for the price, we can afford to lose a few at the cost of $4.5 million per. A $161 airplane + pilot, not so much.
IMHO anyone who wants to "blame" something that has no will of its own for the acts committed by something that does should not be included in the conversation.
The USPS's primary role these days seems to be cramming my mailbox with unsolicited and unwanted advertisements, and providing landfills with a limitless supply of dead trees.
Remind me again why we're still spending $billions to keep this going?
It's been 60 years since institutional racism was (supposedly) outlawed. What made it OK again for a government entity to establish that certain races are inherently inferior to others?
Since I have a decidedly white perspective on this issue, I'd be interested to get a different take on how governments are subscribing to this notion that minorities cannot compete on an even playing field. I'm more interested in understanding why people in these demographics aren't mad as hell at what these policies insinuate.
"Our societies are now based on rampant consumerism and the freedom of the individual to do whatever they want, so long as it's not illegal and they can pay for it."
The majority of the people on Earth already live under repressive governments with horrendous environmental protection laws in place (if any). Your "solution" is to further restrict individual freedom. I think your idea needs some work.
For what my anecdotal account is worth, I'm completely satisfied with my CFLs. I've had nothing but CFLs in my house since about '04 and have only had to replace a half-dozen or so.
The energy savings justified the cost of the switch from incandescent bulbs to CFLs. Going from CFLs to LEDs, it isn't even close.
I've come a long way from the anti-tax Republican I used to be, but come on buddy, you aren't doing ANYTHING to dispel the "tax-every-problem-away-Democrat" cliche.
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If I'm not mistaken (and I'm not a patent lawyer) the patent is on the genetic engineering process, not the end-product.
You could make that case to mandate all kinds of irrelevant information be included on product labels. If the GMO product is nutritionally identical to the non-GMO, the only reason to differentiate them via labeling would be to suggest that there is a substantive difference between the two products, which is false.
Now you could certainly make that case for, for example, a crop that was modified to be pesticide resistant. The fact that the product may contain traces of a pesticide is relevant information.
I've been fortunate enough to not have broken the micro-USB port on my Android phones, but I can see how easy is for one errant push of the plug to snap that little plastic guide piece. As a new iPhone owner, I am glad to be without that risk (however marginal) behind.
I'd love to see Apple use a standard connector so I don't have to pay $40 for a second/replacement cable that probably costs a penny to manufacture. That's not the Apple way, though, and in this case they have the superior design.
How many people voted for Obama believing that he wouldn't use the executive powers expanded by the previous administration? How many were dumb enough to believe he'd actually try to roll them back?
Worse yet, how many are OK with their guy abusing his new authority?
The law is something the government creates, not follows.
Don't these crackpots realize they are doing more harm to their (supposed) cause than good?
I used to run something like this (might have been the same thing) years ago, but I became concerned over what impact it has on my electricity usage and the longevity of my computer hardware. Can you shed any light on these concerns?
"No political appointees in an Obama-Biden administration will be permitted to work on regulations or contracts directly and substantially related to their prior employer for two years."
If he hasn't been a lobbyist within the past two years, I suppose we ought to give him a pass. Right?
Oh, so this article submission is NOT a repeat from 1997?
I still find the old fashioned way, "whack the drive real hard with a hammer and shatter the platter" combines the best parts of effectiveness and gratification.
Considering the benefits that unmanned drones offer for the price, we can afford to lose a few at the cost of $4.5 million per. A $161 airplane + pilot, not so much.
IMHO anyone who wants to "blame" something that has no will of its own for the acts committed by something that does should not be included in the conversation.
"Idiot submitters ... are turning Slashdot into a anti-Microsoft tabloid rather than any place for serious discussion."
Hello there, and welcome to Slashdot!
The USPS's primary role these days seems to be cramming my mailbox with unsolicited and unwanted advertisements, and providing landfills with a limitless supply of dead trees.
Remind me again why we're still spending $billions to keep this going?
It's been 60 years since institutional racism was (supposedly) outlawed. What made it OK again for a government entity to establish that certain races are inherently inferior to others?
Since I have a decidedly white perspective on this issue, I'd be interested to get a different take on how governments are subscribing to this notion that minorities cannot compete on an even playing field. I'm more interested in understanding why people in these demographics aren't mad as hell at what these policies insinuate.
ALSA.
That's a meaningless point when the "average user" doesn't know which distros are meant for him/her.
Your defensive impulse sounds a lot like "You're holding the phone wrong."
I'm not making any claims about their overall reliability. Just sharing my own positive experience with them.
"Our societies are now based on rampant consumerism and the freedom of the individual to do whatever they want, so long as it's not illegal and they can pay for it."
The majority of the people on Earth already live under repressive governments with horrendous environmental protection laws in place (if any). Your "solution" is to further restrict individual freedom. I think your idea needs some work.
For what my anecdotal account is worth, I'm completely satisfied with my CFLs. I've had nothing but CFLs in my house since about '04 and have only had to replace a half-dozen or so.
The energy savings justified the cost of the switch from incandescent bulbs to CFLs. Going from CFLs to LEDs, it isn't even close.
I imagine there will be plenty of people who read this and regard it as a "Good Idea". That's how a "movement" starts.
Or as I call it, "Saturday".
Such as? I didn't read anything in the article that would suggest any such thing was crossing state lines.
"No, this is regulating the shipment of potentially biohazardous material across state lines."
A curious theory considering nothing in the article mentioned transporting stem cells across state lines.
I've come a long way from the anti-tax Republican I used to be, but come on buddy, you aren't doing ANYTHING to dispel the "tax-every-problem-away-Democrat" cliche.