I love that program. You can get it from www.thebrain.com. It may sound like sarcasm, but it isn't. It's allowed me to organize a myriad of loosely-related information many times. I even bought the full version with my own money ($250).
There is a difference between spending to increase consumption and spending to increase expertise. Cutting edge military spending produces research which finds civilian uses later on.
No more than NASA is breaking windows. Producing cutting edge equipment (military or even space exploration) provides incentives for cutting edge research which finds applications in civilian uses later on.
US "foreign aid" to Israel is less than 5% of Israel's govt budget (not of GDP, but of govt budget!!!). Most of it consists of contractual obligations which were established as a result of the peace agreement negotiated by Carter. It might take some searching, but you can find the English version of their budget online. I did this during one of these exchanges a few years back.
How can you proclaim to have respect for human life and at the same time "hope" that some human being gets experimented on? You have completely lost sight of your priorities for the sake of being pissed off at the side which doesn't agree with you.
Oh, how naive! How naive is anyone who thinks the campaign against genetically modified foods is a popular movement of retards who spew on its behalf. The movement started about 20 years ago (at least started picking up) mostly by the French. What most Americans don't know (and don't care about) is that at that time (perhaps still today) the most influential political group in France were the french farmers. Because US started using genetically engineered plants in the feed of the animals, the feed became cheaper and, by extension so did the meat. France did not have the technology. So the French farmers were priced out of many international markets. So they started a global fear campaign of genetically modified foods. This isn't about "private farms" vs "big corporate farms". At its core, this is about US farms vs French farms. Most US "private" farms would much prefer genetically modified plants because they end being huge cost savers.
Hiding behind cross-pollination argument is what misses the point here. Potatoes are not grown from seeds. Cross pollination is irrelevant in this case. This is destruction of human endeavor for the sake of destroying a product of human thought. These terrorists deserve to be treated the same was as all other terrorists.
Just it's clear, I don't care that you don't care. Scientific progress > you. Money is not evil, it's ethics neutral. If a corporation's profits help advance scientific research, then that fact trumps all others.
Potatoes are not grown from seeds. They are grown from other potatoes. Cross pollination is only an issue when there is a risk of produced a cross-pollinated seed. This was not an act that protects anything. These terrorists were attacking science for the sake of attacking science.
They are not fighting kings. They are fighting scientists. Most scientists are middle class. But more importantly, these terrorists, are fighting humanity at large. They are destroying for the sake of destruction the product of human thought.
Artificial selection is a form of genetic modification. There is a certain rate of mutation due to DNA copying process not being exact. "Artificial selection" is just a process of selecting that which has been naturally genetically modified to have preferred traits. The idea that you can't speed the process up by creating DNA changes without waiting for a random mutation to make them is an idea that would only occur to a complete luddite.
I hope it's a royal "we" in the "we don't know the effects of genetically altering an organism". You may not know. But the people who study it do (or at least will after the experiment is done). Oh, don't forget "what could possibly go wrong" is the epitome of FUD.
All terrorists are a bunch of ass holes. So unless you are arguing that this doesn't rise to the level of terrorism, you are not really disagreeing with gp.
You can't state facts which are side effects of Israel winning wars and then say that Israel is responsible for those facts as if they had no context. The winning side in any war has to do more damage than the losing side. Israel wins. Good for them. They didn't cause these wars to happen, but they did win them. And, yes, Palestinians are waging a war on Israel.
Killing 10x more of your enemies than they kill of you is how wars are won. My support for Israel is not blind, it is well-informed and well-justified.
is that you might be beholden to the money of tyrants and terrorists. And, yes, I am calling Palestinian Authority terrorists since they joined up with Hamas. Spare me the arguments that Israel is "just as bad". I heard them all and I profoundly disagree.
According to Aleksandr Soljenitsin's "Achipelag Gulag", 100,000 prisoners were dying every month from being overworked and exposed to the elements during construction of a canal in the Soviet Union. That's "hard labor." Long shifts behind a computer is not. Guards beating prisoners with hoses is abuse, but I am still not convinced that this is anything more than a few guards getting out of line. And for all I can see, the living conditions of the prisoners are still better than those of prisoners who have to dig ditches during their incarceration. It's not club med. It's prison.
I can think of worse things that prisoners could be forced to do. Heck, even stamping license plates or cleaning trash on the sides of highways seems like it would be more work than playing WoW. Isn't the whole problem for whoever wrote that article that the prison officials are making money off of it? That's always the case with prisons though... While I can see how this is weird, I don't see why anyone would be pissed off about it.
But he wasn't raided. It just gave a probable cause for a search. Generally high correlation with criminal activity does seem like a justified probable cause. It's not like he got jailed or, worse, convicted on something. In fact, the "probable" in "probable cause" can be interpreted to mean correlation. If you set the bar any higher, you would actually be demanding to show actual cause (rather than probable cause). How's that for a rant derived from "correlation does not imply causation?"
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I love that program. You can get it from www.thebrain.com. It may sound like sarcasm, but it isn't. It's allowed me to organize a myriad of loosely-related information many times. I even bought the full version with my own money ($250).
There is a difference between spending to increase consumption and spending to increase expertise. Cutting edge military spending produces research which finds civilian uses later on.
Israel has higher tax rates than the US.
No more than NASA is breaking windows. Producing cutting edge equipment (military or even space exploration) provides incentives for cutting edge research which finds applications in civilian uses later on.
US "foreign aid" to Israel is less than 5% of Israel's govt budget (not of GDP, but of govt budget!!!). Most of it consists of contractual obligations which were established as a result of the peace agreement negotiated by Carter. It might take some searching, but you can find the English version of their budget online. I did this during one of these exchanges a few years back.
How can you proclaim to have respect for human life and at the same time "hope" that some human being gets experimented on? You have completely lost sight of your priorities for the sake of being pissed off at the side which doesn't agree with you.
This is potatoes!!!!!! Cross contamination is not an issue. Potatoes are not grown from seeds.
Some people find change scary.
Oh, how naive! How naive is anyone who thinks the campaign against genetically modified foods is a popular movement of retards who spew on its behalf. The movement started about 20 years ago (at least started picking up) mostly by the French. What most Americans don't know (and don't care about) is that at that time (perhaps still today) the most influential political group in France were the french farmers. Because US started using genetically engineered plants in the feed of the animals, the feed became cheaper and, by extension so did the meat. France did not have the technology. So the French farmers were priced out of many international markets. So they started a global fear campaign of genetically modified foods. This isn't about "private farms" vs "big corporate farms". At its core, this is about US farms vs French farms. Most US "private" farms would much prefer genetically modified plants because they end being huge cost savers.
dude, this is slashdot. we knew that before those who are 25 today knew how to read.
They are not out to be honest. They know they are hypocrites. They are out to be destructive.
Hiding behind cross-pollination argument is what misses the point here. Potatoes are not grown from seeds. Cross pollination is irrelevant in this case. This is destruction of human endeavor for the sake of destroying a product of human thought. These terrorists deserve to be treated the same was as all other terrorists.
Just it's clear, I don't care that you don't care. Scientific progress > you. Money is not evil, it's ethics neutral. If a corporation's profits help advance scientific research, then that fact trumps all others.
Potatoes are not grown from seeds. They are grown from other potatoes. Cross pollination is only an issue when there is a risk of produced a cross-pollinated seed. This was not an act that protects anything. These terrorists were attacking science for the sake of attacking science.
One man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter.
No person's freedom was gained nor will be gained as a result of this terrorist act. This is nihilism for its own sake.
They are not fighting kings. They are fighting scientists. Most scientists are middle class. But more importantly, these terrorists, are fighting humanity at large. They are destroying for the sake of destruction the product of human thought.
Artificial selection is a form of genetic modification. There is a certain rate of mutation due to DNA copying process not being exact. "Artificial selection" is just a process of selecting that which has been naturally genetically modified to have preferred traits. The idea that you can't speed the process up by creating DNA changes without waiting for a random mutation to make them is an idea that would only occur to a complete luddite.
Define "unsafe".
I hope it's a royal "we" in the "we don't know the effects of genetically altering an organism". You may not know. But the people who study it do (or at least will after the experiment is done). Oh, don't forget "what could possibly go wrong" is the epitome of FUD.
All terrorists are a bunch of ass holes. So unless you are arguing that this doesn't rise to the level of terrorism, you are not really disagreeing with gp.
You can't state facts which are side effects of Israel winning wars and then say that Israel is responsible for those facts as if they had no context. The winning side in any war has to do more damage than the losing side. Israel wins. Good for them. They didn't cause these wars to happen, but they did win them. And, yes, Palestinians are waging a war on Israel.
Killing 10x more of your enemies than they kill of you is how wars are won. My support for Israel is not blind, it is well-informed and well-justified.
is that you might be beholden to the money of tyrants and terrorists. And, yes, I am calling Palestinian Authority terrorists since they joined up with Hamas. Spare me the arguments that Israel is "just as bad". I heard them all and I profoundly disagree.
According to Aleksandr Soljenitsin's "Achipelag Gulag", 100,000 prisoners were dying every month from being overworked and exposed to the elements during construction of a canal in the Soviet Union. That's "hard labor." Long shifts behind a computer is not. Guards beating prisoners with hoses is abuse, but I am still not convinced that this is anything more than a few guards getting out of line. And for all I can see, the living conditions of the prisoners are still better than those of prisoners who have to dig ditches during their incarceration. It's not club med. It's prison.
I can think of worse things that prisoners could be forced to do. Heck, even stamping license plates or cleaning trash on the sides of highways seems like it would be more work than playing WoW. Isn't the whole problem for whoever wrote that article that the prison officials are making money off of it? That's always the case with prisons though... While I can see how this is weird, I don't see why anyone would be pissed off about it.
But he wasn't raided. It just gave a probable cause for a search. Generally high correlation with criminal activity does seem like a justified probable cause. It's not like he got jailed or, worse, convicted on something. In fact, the "probable" in "probable cause" can be interpreted to mean correlation. If you set the bar any higher, you would actually be demanding to show actual cause (rather than probable cause). How's that for a rant derived from "correlation does not imply causation?"