Good points. I agree that the gene for glowing is not a big thing. Just because something is genetically modified doesn't make it bad, just like something that is natural (say, naturally occuring cyanide) doesn't make it good.
As far as food goes, I do advocate going slower, as I happen to know many people who are allergic to foods as they are now. I know someone who is violently allergic to wheat and I know of people who are violently allergic to fish (I remember one Fear Factor where the gal's arm started burning from being stuck in a tank of fish).
If the factors that add disease/weed control resistance in GM crops are the same that cause allergies in these humans, the people who suffer from the allergies need to know that. Make sure the studies are done. Make sure the label says, just like the stuff that contains peanuts does already.
I'm not right wing, nor am I left wing. Read on to find out why I said what I said.
All the government-based socialist systems that have been implemented have for one of their central tenets that the government decides where the resources of the economy are allocated. Communism as implemented in Russia and China, socialism as implemented in Europe, Canada, and the U.S. (remember the New Deal?) all had varying degrees of that feature. That is the point I was making is strictly speaking about economics Nazi Germany falls into that category.
In a economic sense, Nazism and Fascism are related. Nazism may be considered a subset of Fascism, with all Nazis being Fascists, but not all Fascists being Nazis. Nazism shares many economic features with Fascism, featuring
complete government control of finance and investment (allocation of credit), industry, and agriculture. Yet in both of these systems, corporate power and market based systems for providing price information still existed.
My point had nothing to do with morality of the regime, and just because people don't like it doesn't mean it's not true. Some people don't like hearing about the atrocities committed in a "democracy" either, but those things also happen. Sticking with the historical Germany, Hitler was democratically elected.
Never did I say all socialism was bad, nor have I said all democracies are bad. As far as socialism is concerned, I will often shop at voluntary socialistic systems called coops.
Slightly off topic, but considering "Nazi" is a shortening of "National Socialist", Nazism *is* a form of socialism. Its economic model: private enterprise owned the means of production but the government told them what to produce. Don't tell me Nazis weren't socialists (lowercase "s" on purpose) - they were.
Is this what has happened here since Sept. 11? I reserve my judgement. I would say the correct term for the current White House is a Keynesian.
-antim
Yeah, but it's probably too expensive over there. Over here we have a hacking school run on the a couple of wires and some chewing gum... it goes under the code name.... Slashdot!:D
I _do_ create content for IE and Mozilla at work (it is not internet... it is for customers' LANs). The latest version of IE (IE 6) is *necessary* for the work I do in XML and ship to the client for display.
If the backend was slightly faster, I would do server side XSL transformation instead of client side and support IE 5+, Mozilla 1.2+ and Opera 7+, but because of speed I dropped Opera and do client transformations - for now. I also dropped out support for IE 5.x because the XSL support was buggy - the standard wasn't set when those came out. Of the Microsoft browsers, only IE 6 has the features I need.
Testing against the two (IE and Moz) really improves the XSL because they sometime report different error messages that tell you where the problem is. If the XSL is well-formed, they both are ok with that, though if IE doesn't understand something it may blow up when you exit the browser - try sticking in a <meta> for expires in the XSL!
When I do straight DHTML instead, I would definitely include Opera 7.x. (I wouldn't mind testing in Safari also, but I don't think my work will buy me a Mac!)
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You mean like these Ice Station enclosures? They are nice if you have the money...
-antim
Good points. I agree that the gene for glowing is not a big thing. Just because something is genetically modified doesn't make it bad, just like something that is natural (say, naturally occuring cyanide) doesn't make it good.
As far as food goes, I do advocate going slower, as I happen to know many people who are allergic to foods as they are now. I know someone who is violently allergic to wheat and I know of people who are violently allergic to fish (I remember one Fear Factor where the gal's arm started burning from being stuck in a tank of fish).
If the factors that add disease/weed control resistance in GM crops are the same that cause allergies in these humans, the people who suffer from the allergies need to know that. Make sure the studies are done. Make sure the label says, just like the stuff that contains peanuts does already.
-antim
WinFS Is Not (a) File System!
Thanks for the compliment.
I have been reading slashdot for a couple months and decided to stop posting anonymously and lurking. Well, I will continue to lurk...
I probably should have a sig that says "Don't ask me, I'm new here". ; )
-antim
I'm not right wing, nor am I left wing. Read on to find out why I said what I said.
All the government-based socialist systems that have been implemented have for one of their central tenets that the government decides where the resources of the economy are allocated. Communism as implemented in Russia and China, socialism as implemented in Europe, Canada, and the U.S. (remember the New Deal?) all had varying degrees of that feature. That is the point I was making is strictly speaking about economics Nazi Germany falls into that category.
A quote from Wikipedia on National Socialism
My point had nothing to do with morality of the regime, and just because people don't like it doesn't mean it's not true. Some people don't like hearing about the atrocities committed in a "democracy" either, but those things also happen. Sticking with the historical Germany, Hitler was democratically elected.
Never did I say all socialism was bad, nor have I said all democracies are bad. As far as socialism is concerned, I will often shop at voluntary socialistic systems called coops.
-antim
Slightly off topic, but considering "Nazi" is a shortening of "National Socialist", Nazism *is* a form of socialism. Its economic model: private enterprise owned the means of production but the government told them what to produce. Don't tell me Nazis weren't socialists (lowercase "s" on purpose) - they were. Is this what has happened here since Sept. 11? I reserve my judgement. I would say the correct term for the current White House is a Keynesian. -antim
Yeah, but it's probably too expensive over there. Over here we have a hacking school run on the a couple of wires and some chewing gum... it goes under the code name.... Slashdot! :D
Great Idea! I have knoppix running in VMWare at work too...
I _do_ create content for IE and Mozilla at work (it is not internet ... it is for customers' LANs). The latest version of IE (IE 6) is *necessary* for the work I do in XML and ship to the client for display.
If the backend was slightly faster, I would do server side XSL transformation instead of client side and support IE 5+, Mozilla 1.2+ and Opera 7+, but because of speed I dropped Opera and do client transformations - for now. I also dropped out support for IE 5.x because the XSL support was buggy - the standard wasn't set when those came out. Of the Microsoft browsers, only IE 6 has the features I need.
Testing against the two (IE and Moz) really improves the XSL because they sometime report different error messages that tell you where the problem is. If the XSL is well-formed, they both are ok with that, though if IE doesn't understand something it may blow up when you exit the browser - try sticking in a <meta> for expires in the XSL!
When I do straight DHTML instead, I would definitely include Opera 7.x. (I wouldn't mind testing in Safari also, but I don't think my work will buy me a Mac!)
-antimuon