You're welcome to consume your local propaganda uncritically if you want to. Just don't believe that it makes you well-informed. It's hard work to be well-informed about the world of economics and politics. Always has been. Sitting back and having some friendly, trust-worthy, reassuringly familiar looking and sounding presenter tell you the truth about how the world is today is how we end up with the politicians, policies, wealth inequality, and military conflicts that we have.
I think you'll have a hard time convincing the IMF to make payments in Bitcoin. Christine Lagarde is essentially the USA's stooge within that organisation. She spent much of her formative life studying and working in the US and is very much of the Washington political ilk. BTW, she failed her entrance exam to study as a senior civil servant in France, which may explain a lot. It would seem it's easier to get away with bullshitting your way into power in Washington than in Paris.
"Truth" is in the eye of the beholder. If some news article/item seems like "truth" to you, it's been effective propaganda. All we can do is compare and contrast different sides of a story (i.e. the range of different "truths") from different sources -- domestic & foreign, allies & enemies, left & right -- aligned with different interests and just hope that they aren't all aligned with the same interests.
OK, so according to your intimate knowledge of Monsanto/Bayer's legal history:
How many prosecutions against farmers regarding seed licensing infringement for Roundup Ready and similar products (in the USA alone) have there been?
In the light of a broader selection of legal cases, how representative are the two cases that you've mentioned of the overall pattern of Monsanto/Bayer's legal activities regarding Roundup Ready and similar products?
BTW, Monsanto/Bayer also have a terrifying reputation and simply sending out legal letters to farmers, which implicitly threaten bankruptcy through legal fees, are more than enough to intimidate and threaten farmers into compliance and to prevent them from speaking out publicly against Monsanto/Bayer.
...or PR or fake news or whatever you like to call it nowadays. Every news item has an agenda and every news outlet skews its reporting to favour particular vested interests. It sounds like social media companies are just like traditional newspaper, radio, & TV media companies but with a lot less oversight or responsibility and more prone to being misled because they don't employ skilled, experienced editors.
Looking on the bright side, we can now access propaganda from all over the world, including those not sympathetic to our own governments and corporations. Our governments and corporations hate that and are now crying foul. Apparently, we should only be reading, listening to, and watching their propaganda, not everyone else's.
OK, that's waaay too much detail and specificity. Next questions:
Are you or have you ever been employed in a legal capacity?
Have you ever received payment of any kind from Monsanto/Bayer or any of their affiliates for any services whatsoever?
Before you answer, remember that this isn't a court of law, this is/. where people go to slack-off from work every once in a while just for fun. Try not to make it sound like you're being paid to do this.
I think the most appropriate objection to GMOs is that Monsanto (now Bayer) uses them to lock farmers into hyper-exploitative contracts and uses heavy-handed legal tactics to enforce them, leading to collateral damage (farmers being wrongly sued for using unlicensed seeds) and suicide by farmers crumpling under the pressures exerted by Monsanto/Bayer.
On the GMO topic per se, I'm with the large number of scientists who can't see anything wrong with it. Gene splicing and editing are just new and different ways of doing what we've always done with crops. With technological developments like these, I think we're due for a review of our agricultural policies and laws but in the public interest, i.e. no corporate and lobby money allowed. But I guess that's just a pipe-dream.
This dumbass, for one. The NHS is a national treasure and the vast majority of the British people love it. Yes, it has issues, mostly due to successive governments trying to privatise as much of it as they can, but they're nowhere near as bad as in the USA. Those insurance premiums that come off of people's pay cheques? They're waaay less than what you'd pay in the USA, where medical expenses are the leading cause of bankruptcy, and then there's no deductibles, no denials of treatment, patients are prioritised according to medical needs, etc.. It's a truly socialist system. The healthcare outcomes per $ spent are waaay better too.
I'm running Linux on an old, beat-up 17" Macbook Pro. It does the job but the keyboard is a pain to use, e.g. why don't Apple know the difference between backspace and delete? Why not have an extended keyboard, which includes lots of convenient, time-saving keys, on a 17" laptop?
I swapped out the old HDD for an SSD (Basic Samsung 500GB) as soon as I got it and you know what? The SSD does everything faster than the rest of the laptop.
BTW, super-fast SSDs are only useful if you frequently transfer very large files, e.g. whole disk image backups. You won't notice the difference for normal day-to-day use.
This is a splendid example of capitalism working as it should, i.e. downward pressure on workers' pay that directly benefits shareholders. This is the reason rich people buy shares - in order to get richer.
What the ruling means is that they're an unaccountable extrajudicial agency with similar powers and resources to investigative and law enforcement officers (and they can and are being used to harass and interfere with journalists and lawyers working on human rights cases in the public interest).
In true "poetic justice irony," what US citizens tolerate being done to foreigners eventually comes back home to affect US citizens (Remember the extraordinary rendition "black site" run by the Chicago police?). The USA is turning into one of those banana republics that it originally spent US tax dollars to create at the behest of the corporations (The first one was Honduras).
Meanwhile, congress and the stable genius in the Whitehouse are effectively reducing funding in the sciences and education. Pretty soon, the USA won't have enough people with the knowledge and skills to implement stuff like blockchain RADAR, let alone find out what stuff like Quantum RADAR is and how it works.
Yep, even going back to 8mm and 16mm film formats, VHS & Beta video, hand-held video cameras, webcams, & online streaming video, porn has been at the forefront of implementing and popularising these technologies and formats.
Same here. I use my email client, Thunderbird, to keep me up to date with the RSS feeds I subscribe to. It's far less time-consuming or frustrating than trying to follow anything on social media, even with skilfully organised bookmarks.
The IT giants are lining themselves up to control what we're supposed to believe. They want to be our corporatised "Ministry of Information" that puts us back on the straight and narrow path of groupthink. All news is fake, by definition. It's all biased, skewed, and has hidden or overt agendas, e.g. the UK's Daily Mail and Fox News. Google et al. want to be the gatekeepers who decide. Just imagine how powerful that'd make them.
And remember that Google took money from BP during the Gulf of Mexico disaster to hide news and information that was critical about BP and their responses to the disaster. Do we want to allow them to entrench their commercial and political power even further?
You'll certainly find more bugs in open source code, simply because they're easier to find. It doesn't follow that there are more bugs in open source code. It's probably more true that there are many more undiscovered bugs in closed source code.
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You're welcome to consume your local propaganda uncritically if you want to. Just don't believe that it makes you well-informed. It's hard work to be well-informed about the world of economics and politics. Always has been. Sitting back and having some friendly, trust-worthy, reassuringly familiar looking and sounding presenter tell you the truth about how the world is today is how we end up with the politicians, policies, wealth inequality, and military conflicts that we have.
The Russians have a term for this: Kompromat.
Christians are famous for crucifying their heroes.
I think you'll have a hard time convincing the IMF to make payments in Bitcoin. Christine Lagarde is essentially the USA's stooge within that organisation. She spent much of her formative life studying and working in the US and is very much of the Washington political ilk. BTW, she failed her entrance exam to study as a senior civil servant in France, which may explain a lot. It would seem it's easier to get away with bullshitting your way into power in Washington than in Paris.
Yes, stories published by US news corporations and the US government aren't propaganda at all and are completely accurate, valid, and reliable.
"Truth" is in the eye of the beholder. If some news article/item seems like "truth" to you, it's been effective propaganda. All we can do is compare and contrast different sides of a story (i.e. the range of different "truths") from different sources -- domestic & foreign, allies & enemies, left & right -- aligned with different interests and just hope that they aren't all aligned with the same interests.
OK, so according to your intimate knowledge of Monsanto/Bayer's legal history:
How many prosecutions against farmers regarding seed licensing infringement for Roundup Ready and similar products (in the USA alone) have there been?
In the light of a broader selection of legal cases, how representative are the two cases that you've mentioned of the overall pattern of Monsanto/Bayer's legal activities regarding Roundup Ready and similar products?
BTW, Monsanto/Bayer also have a terrifying reputation and simply sending out legal letters to farmers, which implicitly threaten bankruptcy through legal fees, are more than enough to intimidate and threaten farmers into compliance and to prevent them from speaking out publicly against Monsanto/Bayer.
...or PR or fake news or whatever you like to call it nowadays. Every news item has an agenda and every news outlet skews its reporting to favour particular vested interests. It sounds like social media companies are just like traditional newspaper, radio, & TV media companies but with a lot less oversight or responsibility and more prone to being misled because they don't employ skilled, experienced editors.
Looking on the bright side, we can now access propaganda from all over the world, including those not sympathetic to our own governments and corporations. Our governments and corporations hate that and are now crying foul. Apparently, we should only be reading, listening to, and watching their propaganda, not everyone else's.
OK, that's waaay too much detail and specificity. Next questions:
Are you or have you ever been employed in a legal capacity?
Have you ever received payment of any kind from Monsanto/Bayer or any of their affiliates for any services whatsoever?
Before you answer, remember that this isn't a court of law, this is /. where people go to slack-off from work every once in a while just for fun. Try not to make it sound like you're being paid to do this.
Thanks AC :) Looks like we've got a few Monsanto/Bayer astro-turfers among us.
@DRJlaw, "court and case number"? Seriously? And why not transcripts and the judge's middle name(s) and favourite colour, while you're asking?
Yeah, what the AC just said. Please make your points relevant to what I wrote.
I think the most appropriate objection to GMOs is that Monsanto (now Bayer) uses them to lock farmers into hyper-exploitative contracts and uses heavy-handed legal tactics to enforce them, leading to collateral damage (farmers being wrongly sued for using unlicensed seeds) and suicide by farmers crumpling under the pressures exerted by Monsanto/Bayer.
On the GMO topic per se, I'm with the large number of scientists who can't see anything wrong with it. Gene splicing and editing are just new and different ways of doing what we've always done with crops. With technological developments like these, I think we're due for a review of our agricultural policies and laws but in the public interest, i.e. no corporate and lobby money allowed. But I guess that's just a pipe-dream.
Are they using Windows? Could be the problem right there.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. We should all believe exactly what Google is telling us about Android because they're good people and always tell the truth, right?
This dumbass, for one. The NHS is a national treasure and the vast majority of the British people love it. Yes, it has issues, mostly due to successive governments trying to privatise as much of it as they can, but they're nowhere near as bad as in the USA. Those insurance premiums that come off of people's pay cheques? They're waaay less than what you'd pay in the USA, where medical expenses are the leading cause of bankruptcy, and then there's no deductibles, no denials of treatment, patients are prioritised according to medical needs, etc.. It's a truly socialist system. The healthcare outcomes per $ spent are waaay better too.
I'm running Linux on an old, beat-up 17" Macbook Pro. It does the job but the keyboard is a pain to use, e.g. why don't Apple know the difference between backspace and delete? Why not have an extended keyboard, which includes lots of convenient, time-saving keys, on a 17" laptop?
I swapped out the old HDD for an SSD (Basic Samsung 500GB) as soon as I got it and you know what? The SSD does everything faster than the rest of the laptop.
BTW, super-fast SSDs are only useful if you frequently transfer very large files, e.g. whole disk image backups. You won't notice the difference for normal day-to-day use.
Capitalism doesnt work without regulation.
Capitalism doesn't work without regulatory capture. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
There, I fixed that for you.
This is a splendid example of capitalism working as it should, i.e. downward pressure on workers' pay that directly benefits shareholders. This is the reason rich people buy shares - in order to get richer.
Do they know that their phones do the same and much, much more?
What the ruling means is that they're an unaccountable extrajudicial agency with similar powers and resources to investigative and law enforcement officers (and they can and are being used to harass and interfere with journalists and lawyers working on human rights cases in the public interest).
In true "poetic justice irony," what US citizens tolerate being done to foreigners eventually comes back home to affect US citizens (Remember the extraordinary rendition "black site" run by the Chicago police?). The USA is turning into one of those banana republics that it originally spent US tax dollars to create at the behest of the corporations (The first one was Honduras).
Meanwhile, congress and the stable genius in the Whitehouse are effectively reducing funding in the sciences and education. Pretty soon, the USA won't have enough people with the knowledge and skills to implement stuff like blockchain RADAR, let alone find out what stuff like Quantum RADAR is and how it works.
Yep, even going back to 8mm and 16mm film formats, VHS & Beta video, hand-held video cameras, webcams, & online streaming video, porn has been at the forefront of implementing and popularising these technologies and formats.
Same here. I use my email client, Thunderbird, to keep me up to date with the RSS feeds I subscribe to. It's far less time-consuming or frustrating than trying to follow anything on social media, even with skilfully organised bookmarks.
The IT giants are lining themselves up to control what we're supposed to believe. They want to be our corporatised "Ministry of Information" that puts us back on the straight and narrow path of groupthink. All news is fake, by definition. It's all biased, skewed, and has hidden or overt agendas, e.g. the UK's Daily Mail and Fox News. Google et al. want to be the gatekeepers who decide. Just imagine how powerful that'd make them.
And remember that Google took money from BP during the Gulf of Mexico disaster to hide news and information that was critical about BP and their responses to the disaster. Do we want to allow them to entrench their commercial and political power even further?
You'll certainly find more bugs in open source code, simply because they're easier to find. It doesn't follow that there are more bugs in open source code. It's probably more true that there are many more undiscovered bugs in closed source code.