Do you think the cops are using the Internet, or something? They use a custom system.
Only yourself tells you that. There are several different search requests, depending on circumstance.
It would help if you cited. I don't believe you for a simple reason, you can't speak in public without the distinct possibility that one of the listeners recognizes you. Wallah, not anonomys.
"Nor can you be monitored in public without sufficient cause..."
You mean like when you're monitored in stores, gas stations, airports,........
Again, your agrument fails against the happenings of the real world.
"A complete, willful violation of the Constitution..."
Incorrect, you need to read that document again, or maybe for the first time.
BR
"The purpose of art is not representation or narration."
Bzzzzzzzz. One of the purposes can indeed be representation or narration. Ever hear of the bust of queen Nefratete? Or perhaps the frieze on the parthenon?
M'thinks you have a pompous view of *your* understanding of art.
"It's clear the the material was previously being offered "free" to anyone who wanted to download it, without any mention of a copyright. but does that imply a right to use the materical by a business."
Absolutely, one hundred percent backwards. Copyright is default, permission required to use is default. How much of that do you need translated?
What pompous crap. Any artist that a company wants to use is a 'commercial' artist. That $100 is $100 more than the thieves offered him now, isn't it? That's the point, they offered zilch for his commercially desirable art.
You might intone it's not 'commercially desirable', but the fact that they ripped it off proves you incorrect.
Straw bullshit. The genes that are move are known for their function. They won't be moving the allergen (we know where it is). Aside from that, GM'd foods are *tested*, that's right *tested*.
Oh, by the way. Organic foods are not tested for edibility, it's assumed. The organic folk are about 50/50 on testing for organic compliance.
"Genetically modified foods have not been around..."
Ummm, not a danger, nor a proof. Try again.
"Genetic engineering is not sustainable"
Hysterical and inaccurate. A terminator gene, BY DEFINITION cannot yield a next generation. One season. HIGHLY doubtful EVERY other plant would be pollinated. No real danger, bad logical proof. Try again.
"then there is intelectual headaches involved"
Neither a danger, nor a proof. Try again.
"further more,... "
Well, finally a danger, albeit not a natural one. I believe the questioner was referring to the danger of EATING the GM.
"Also, organic food simply taste better. "
A subjective statement, and AGAIN, neither a danger nor a proof.
So, you're answer is "No, I can't think of any reasons GM food is dangerous other than a lawsuit."
"Faith is the evidence of things unseen"
No. Faith is the belief in the unseen. It is no evidence whatsoever.
"the bible describes the pre-flood earth as place quite different from our current day earth"
Exactly. Magic. A prehistoric fairy land.
"I can't help but question"
When I hear a person, educated or not, state that something magical has occurred (which thanks to science I can spot more often than not) I can't help but question.
"unless you're a close minded skeptic that simply can't believe in anything supernatural"
Ummm, I can believe in it. It's just that you need more than *your word* for me to accept something you cannot show me.
"The Shroud of Turin..."
Nope, your information is incorrect, sir.
"Unbelievers..."
And if it's not found, the unbelievers will have another laugh, and the believers will simply go on believing "it's really over there".
I don't know you, I don't have to accept your *word*, you have to *show* me.
And here you have what happens with creationists, they start *adding and subtracting* to the very story they say is the *word of God*. If *others* can't seem to buy it on face value, just say the "well, God could have done this", and never bother to provide evidence (including Biblical text) that what you say happened.
"the better employees get a hell of a lot more done"
Not the second time. When I worked at a bank, I was the most productive member of the team. When I discovered that others at the same pay level weren't being handed the same amount of work, I slowly wound down my productivity to match theirs.
I would definitely prefer pay by job instead of hourly, I'd make more.
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Good, random guesswork, but not accurate.
Do you think the cops are using the Internet, or something? They use a custom system.
Only yourself tells you that. There are several different search requests, depending on circumstance.
"According to the Supreme Court..."
It would help if you cited. I don't believe you for a simple reason, you can't speak in public without the distinct possibility that one of the listeners recognizes you. Wallah, not anonomys.
"Nor can you be monitored in public without sufficient cause..."
You mean like when you're monitored in stores, gas stations, airports,........
Again, your agrument fails against the happenings of the real world.
"A complete, willful violation of the Constitution..."
Incorrect, you need to read that document again, or maybe for the first time.
BR
Uhhh, have you taken your pills? The little yellow ones?
...Buffalo Springfields threads in background...
"but most likely will not draw the huge crowds"
So?
"...as boring as watching paint dry"
Your opinion, and you're welcome to it.
My opinion is that it's intensly interesting. After enough practice, you get to catch larger and larger sequences. Pattern recognition, not reading.
Because adults would like to have a place of their own too, perhaps?
"The purpose of art is not representation or narration."
Bzzzzzzzz. One of the purposes can indeed be representation or narration. Ever hear of the bust of queen Nefratete? Or perhaps the frieze on the parthenon?
M'thinks you have a pompous view of *your* understanding of art.
Yeesh.
You put 'free for all to use' in quotes. Did he? If not, you are incorrect.
"It's clear the the material was previously being offered "free" to anyone who wanted to download it, without any mention of a copyright. but does that imply a right to use the materical by a business."
Absolutely, one hundred percent backwards. Copyright is default, permission required to use is default. How much of that do you need translated?
What pompous crap. Any artist that a company wants to use is a 'commercial' artist. That $100 is $100 more than the thieves offered him now, isn't it? That's the point, they offered zilch for his commercially desirable art.
You might intone it's not 'commercially desirable', but the fact that they ripped it off proves you incorrect.
'Open source' applies to software, not art. Yeesh. Terrible logic.
You do understand that those "perfect" apples, oranges, etc are bred, right? They are created from *one* found sport, which is cloned to multitudity.
So "conventional" and "organic" are synonyms here.
What you really mean here is not "organic", but traditional or heirloom.
"The pollen was poisonous to insects and ended up wiping out the monarch butterfly population in that small area. "
Bullshit. Provide a link.
The Bt gene introduced into the corn is not expressed in the corn-head, but in the stalk and leaves, where the caterpillars attack.
Straw bullshit. The genes that are move are known for their function. They won't be moving the allergen (we know where it is). Aside from that, GM'd foods are *tested*, that's right *tested*.
Oh, by the way. Organic foods are not tested for edibility, it's assumed. The organic folk are about 50/50 on testing for organic compliance.
Apparently you're unfamilar with Bt.
"Genetically modified foods have not been around..."
Ummm, not a danger, nor a proof. Try again.
"Genetic engineering is not sustainable"
Hysterical and inaccurate. A terminator gene, BY DEFINITION cannot yield a next generation. One season. HIGHLY doubtful EVERY other plant would be pollinated. No real danger, bad logical proof. Try again.
"then there is intelectual headaches involved"
Neither a danger, nor a proof. Try again.
"further more,... "
Well, finally a danger, albeit not a natural one. I believe the questioner was referring to the danger of EATING the GM.
"Also, organic food simply taste better. "
A subjective statement, and AGAIN, neither a danger nor a proof.
So, you're answer is "No, I can't think of any reasons GM food is dangerous other than a lawsuit."
Why didn't you just say so?
Those are not GM'd strawberries, they're bred. Flavor has been lost through breeding to get hardier, prettier strains, not GM'ing.
And the geeks on /. are locals too. And just as creepy. Don't kark the south if you live in the north.
Just keep in mind the guy with the Tron costume.
"Faith is the evidence of things unseen"
No. Faith is the belief in the unseen. It is no evidence whatsoever.
"the bible describes the pre-flood earth as place quite different from our current day earth"
Exactly. Magic. A prehistoric fairy land.
"I can't help but question"
When I hear a person, educated or not, state that something magical has occurred (which thanks to science I can spot more often than not) I can't help but question.
We don't, Einstein. We accept it as the most factually consistent explanation.
Flood story fails miserably on that.
"unless you're a close minded skeptic that simply can't believe in anything supernatural"
Ummm, I can believe in it. It's just that you need more than *your word* for me to accept something you cannot show me.
"The Shroud of Turin..."
Nope, your information is incorrect, sir.
"Unbelievers..."
And if it's not found, the unbelievers will have another laugh, and the believers will simply go on believing "it's really over there".
I don't know you, I don't have to accept your *word*, you have to *show* me.
Can't do it? Tuff.
And here you have what happens with creationists, they start *adding and subtracting* to the very story they say is the *word of God*. If *others* can't seem to buy it on face value, just say the "well, God could have done this", and
never bother to provide evidence (including Biblical text) that what you say happened.
Convienent.
That's heresy, eh?
Bzzzzzzz.
That just makes it parasitic. Tapeworms can't reproduce without your help. Some of them require several hosts' help.
Just because the virus eats what it bathes in doesn't disqualify it.
"the better employees get a hell of a lot more done"
Not the second time. When I worked at a bank, I was the most productive member of the team. When I discovered that others at the same pay level weren't being handed the same amount of work, I slowly wound down my productivity to match theirs.
I would definitely prefer pay by job instead of hourly, I'd make more.
The "butterfly theory" is right up there with the "holographic univers theory". Utter pap.