I think the energy of the future is burning lobbyists in a furnace to generate heat. It's similar to what the Tuareg do in the Sahara, they burn camel shit for heat.
When I was in college, we had lots of practical group assignments for which we had to deliver reports. In the end of the semester the teacher for each discipline would sit with every group and discuss the reports.
This was great, since the teacher could tell very quickly (with sophisticated interrogation techniques) who did the assignments and who slacked. And then the slackers would go on a round of technical questions. They could cheat on the exams, but they couldn't get through the discussion with the teacher.
Someone who studied and worked on the assignments would be just fine.
The most advanced country in the world is a trend setter for the rest. Bangladesh has tens of times the population of Norway, but I bet Microsoft doesn't care a lot about it.
If you are American, I hope your anti-French nationalism does not blind you while seeing this film.
Don't worry. The typical anti-French bigot gets all his information from Fox News. He's not intelligent enough to understand a single word of your documentary. He'd call it all lies, anyway.
Any person in any country in the world could buy a bag of Monsanto corn, feed it to rats and dissect them. Controlled experiments with rats are cheap. North Korea could do it. Cuba could do it. Venezuela could do it. The African Development Bank could do it.
I can't see the need for OGMs except to make a bunch of ultra-capitalist corporations ultra-rich. The public and the farmers don't need them at all. We've been feeding ourselves pretty well without them.
The world already produces enough food to feed everybody. It's a distribution dysfunction that causes people to die from obesity in one side of the world and from hunger in another. OGMs only make this worse as they promote the complete dependency of all mankind on a bunch of corporations that own the patents to the organisms and require royalties for their use.
OGM food is a solution waiting for a problem. Well, it's not even a solution, considering all the problems it causes.
The problem will be the Asteroid Denier Coalition. Based on scientific evidence found on the books of Michael Crichton, they will defend the alternative theory of the non-existence of asteroids and claim the scientists are only pushing their own evil, obscure agenda.
This movement will be lead by James L. Bunk, an accountancy clerk who didn't finish high school but is an absolute authority in physics, astronomy, medicine and bonsai gardening, so much that he knows better than all the so-called "scientists" that study those issues for decades.
Dr. Bunk started his career successfully denying Darwin's evolution and in 2015 he will convince President Palin to approve mandatory teaching of Creationism in public schools, starting from the first grade, unlike English, History and Math that will be taught only in college. More recently he campaigned against vaccines and he will be successful in making the President ban all vaccines in 2013, because vaccines don't protect against disease but cause autism, alzheimer, cancer, AIDS, tuberculosis, ass pimples, hairy hands, masturbation, abortion and homosexuality and, worst of all, evolutionism. Everybody knows the scientists are only pushing that evolution, vaccines and global warming crap because of their evil, hidden agendas.
This is not enforceable. See, the level in the commercials is not higher than in the rest of the programs. The level can only go up to 0 dB (electric top of scale, not sound level pressure).
What they do in commercials (and in a multitude of applications, including music audio mastering and radio broadcast) is a technique knows as compression. Commercials are usually very heavily compressed, hence they sound not only loud, but they are extremely annoying. Imagine someone screaming in your face with background noise and music all at the top level. A pin dropping on the floor will cause a "bang!". Doesn't feel good, does it?
How will this be enforced? Compression does not increase the sound level, only the perceived sound level. Can you measure the amount of compression?
I would welcome a law for this. By the way, I would love the outlawing of advertisements, since they annoy me extremely and I hate them so much. But how can you write a law for this? "Though shall not compress audio"? I don't think so.
Anyway, most audio compression should be outlawed too, popular music nowadays sounds annoying because there's been too much of it. All producers want their records to sound "louder" than the others so they overcompress like there's no tomorrow and steamroll any subtlety the music may have.
1. You've presented an act which requires foreign agents to identify themselves. If that's the best you've got, you're better off admitting defeat.
It also says it opens the door to arbitrariness, and it was used in that way by the USA and all the others. Cuba shouldn't be bashed for using the same.
2. I'd oppose Castro as I oppose all dictators, regardless of US foreign policy. Just because you base your allegiances solely on your foolish political leanings, don't make the mistake of thinking that the rest of us are equally immoral.
I never said I support Castro. And you don't know my "foolish" political leanings. What I think is that it's highly hypocritical for you Americans to criticise the Cuban dictatorship when you've ever been all hugs and kisses with the most vicious dictators that make Castro look like a saint. Not mentioning it was you who put them in power, in many cases.
In ANY democratic country an agent of a foreign power financing political groups would be declared persona non grata and kicked out.
Ah yes. In that case, it should be no problem for you to point to a case where an individual was jailed in, say, the United States, for handing out free stuff to political groups.
This law defines the agent of a foreign principal as someone who:
Engages in political activities for or in the interests of a foreign principal;
Acts in a public relations capacity for a foreign principal;
Solicits or dispenses any thing of value within the United States for a foreign principal;
Represents the interests of a foreign principal before any agency or official of the U.S. government.
(. ..)
Although the act was designed to broadly apply to any foreign agent (and was first used against German Nazi and Soviet propagandists), in practice FARA is frequently used to target countries out of favor with an administration (such as Venezuela or Iraq during the George W. Bush administration).
Oh, and while you're trying to think of a way to back-pedal out of this one, you should probably stop and think about just how despicable you look to every person who actually gives a damn about human rights. You're offering excuses on behalf of an oppressive dictatorship, just so you can squeeze in a cheap shot at nations which guarantee you freedoms that Cubans can only dream about. I don't know how you live with yourself.
Yeah, when the richest super power on Earth illegally embargoes and violently harasses a small, poor country of 11 million for decades those people that give a damn about human rights rejoice. But that's not news, you did it to many small poor countries before, this one is still resisting, that's all. You come talk about human WHAT??? If Castro sucked the American cock, even if he had babies for breakfast, you would love him, like many other oppressive dictators.
In ANY democratic country an agent of a foreign power financing political groups would be declared persona non grata and kicked out. Apparently Cuba can't do it because then they are dangerous communists that eat children for breakfast.
Remove the absurd and illegal embargo you have on Cuba and then let's all talk about democracy. No country can be democratic with another country's boot crushing it. And we're talking about the USA, it's a HUUUUGE motherfucking boot.
So, it was all about removing Saddam from power and giving it to the Shiites? And you started a fucking war for THAT???
But, but, isn't Iran the baddiest place on Earth? And they're financing, OMFG, baddie terrorists? Isn't Hezbollah the most horrendous thing on Earth right after "Elton John's Greatest Hits"? So you remove Iran's worst enemy, Saddam, from power and give it to Iran's friends?
There's regulation for SPL levels for live music and discos for decades. If it's being enforced enough, that's another issue.
From my years of experience playing in bars, it's only a problem if someone calls the police. Otherwise nobody gives a shit. At least here in Portugal.
They're just hurt because the French told them to fuck off when they took the criminal, insane and stupid decision of invading Iraq and wanted their friends to "play along". If the leaders of the nations that bought the "coalition of the willing" bullshit were any democratic they would have done the same, since the populations' support for Dubya's war for oil was near zero throughout most of Europe (and in the rest of the world, by the way).
They created the shit by yourselves. Now let them roll in it.
Taking into account they owe so much to the French, these bigot jokes are extremely ingrate and rude.
All those scientist you mention had to struggle really hard for decades against powerful industries until the public opinion forced the governments to do something about those issues. And I still know people that say smoking doesn't cause cancer and the scientists were paid to say so. By who, I ask? Who could possibly have more money than the tobacco companies to pay scientists to lie?
It's the same thing with global warming. You may accuse the scientists of having an agenda to make people believe global warming, and I ask who could possibly have more money than the oil companies to make scientists lie?
Yeah, I'm sure that publishing conclusions that piss off the most lucrative business on Earth will grant scientists lots of funding and eternal happiness.
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I think the energy of the future is burning lobbyists in a furnace to generate heat. It's similar to what the Tuareg do in the Sahara, they burn camel shit for heat.
Come to Europe. Then you'll pay €1.4 for a litre and live happy ever-after. Or, in non-standard units, roughly USD 7.3 for gallon.
Quite an incentive to go green, isn't it?
When I was in college, we had lots of practical group assignments for which we had to deliver reports. In the end of the semester the teacher for each discipline would sit with every group and discuss the reports.
This was great, since the teacher could tell very quickly (with sophisticated interrogation techniques) who did the assignments and who slacked. And then the slackers would go on a round of technical questions. They could cheat on the exams, but they couldn't get through the discussion with the teacher.
Someone who studied and worked on the assignments would be just fine.
The most advanced country in the world is a trend setter for the rest. Bangladesh has tens of times the population of Norway, but I bet Microsoft doesn't care a lot about it.
If you are American, I hope your anti-French nationalism does not blind you while seeing this film.
Don't worry. The typical anti-French bigot gets all his information from Fox News. He's not intelligent enough to understand a single word of your documentary. He'd call it all lies, anyway.
Any person in any country in the world could buy a bag of Monsanto corn, feed it to rats and dissect them. Controlled experiments with rats are cheap. North Korea could do it. Cuba could do it. Venezuela could do it. The African Development Bank could do it.
And who would give a fuck? Would you?
Not disturbing at all, just business as usual.
in an ideal world, with ethical and moral corporations
In this kind of world there would be no OGMs because there wouldn't be corporations inventing and pushing things that nobody needs.
Dude, you deserve 5 Insightful. I wish I had mod points.
I can't see the need for OGMs except to make a bunch of ultra-capitalist corporations ultra-rich. The public and the farmers don't need them at all. We've been feeding ourselves pretty well without them.
The world already produces enough food to feed everybody. It's a distribution dysfunction that causes people to die from obesity in one side of the world and from hunger in another. OGMs only make this worse as they promote the complete dependency of all mankind on a bunch of corporations that own the patents to the organisms and require royalties for their use.
OGM food is a solution waiting for a problem. Well, it's not even a solution, considering all the problems it causes.
Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!!!!!
Wait, you ACTUALLY believe your post?
The problem will be the Asteroid Denier Coalition. Based on scientific evidence found on the books of Michael Crichton, they will defend the alternative theory of the non-existence of asteroids and claim the scientists are only pushing their own evil, obscure agenda.
This movement will be lead by James L. Bunk, an accountancy clerk who didn't finish high school but is an absolute authority in physics, astronomy, medicine and bonsai gardening, so much that he knows better than all the so-called "scientists" that study those issues for decades.
Dr. Bunk started his career successfully denying Darwin's evolution and in 2015 he will convince President Palin to approve mandatory teaching of Creationism in public schools, starting from the first grade, unlike English, History and Math that will be taught only in college. More recently he campaigned against vaccines and he will be successful in making the President ban all vaccines in 2013, because vaccines don't protect against disease but cause autism, alzheimer, cancer, AIDS, tuberculosis, ass pimples, hairy hands, masturbation, abortion and homosexuality and, worst of all, evolutionism. Everybody knows the scientists are only pushing that evolution, vaccines and global warming crap because of their evil, hidden agendas.
They can't sue me because I won't use it.
This is not enforceable. See, the level in the commercials is not higher than in the rest of the programs. The level can only go up to 0 dB (electric top of scale, not sound level pressure).
What they do in commercials (and in a multitude of applications, including music audio mastering and radio broadcast) is a technique knows as compression. Commercials are usually very heavily compressed, hence they sound not only loud, but they are extremely annoying. Imagine someone screaming in your face with background noise and music all at the top level. A pin dropping on the floor will cause a "bang!". Doesn't feel good, does it?
How will this be enforced? Compression does not increase the sound level, only the perceived sound level. Can you measure the amount of compression?
I would welcome a law for this. By the way, I would love the outlawing of advertisements, since they annoy me extremely and I hate them so much. But how can you write a law for this? "Though shall not compress audio"? I don't think so.
Anyway, most audio compression should be outlawed too, popular music nowadays sounds annoying because there's been too much of it. All producers want their records to sound "louder" than the others so they overcompress like there's no tomorrow and steamroll any subtlety the music may have.
1. You've presented an act which requires foreign agents to identify themselves. If that's the best you've got, you're better off admitting defeat.
It also says it opens the door to arbitrariness, and it was used in that way by the USA and all the others. Cuba shouldn't be bashed for using the same.
2. I'd oppose Castro as I oppose all dictators, regardless of US foreign policy. Just because you base your allegiances solely on your foolish political leanings, don't make the mistake of thinking that the rest of us are equally immoral.
I never said I support Castro. And you don't know my "foolish" political leanings. What I think is that it's highly hypocritical for you Americans to criticise the Cuban dictatorship when you've ever been all hugs and kisses with the most vicious dictators that make Castro look like a saint. Not mentioning it was you who put them in power, in many cases.
In ANY democratic country an agent of a foreign power financing political groups would be declared persona non grata and kicked out.
Ah yes. In that case, it should be no problem for you to point to a case where an individual was jailed in, say, the United States, for handing out free stuff to political groups.
Go ahead, I'll wait.
Please read this.
Some parts are very interesting:
This law defines the agent of a foreign principal as someone who:
(. . .)
Although the act was designed to broadly apply to any foreign agent (and was first used against German Nazi and Soviet propagandists), in practice FARA is frequently used to target countries out of favor with an administration (such as Venezuela or Iraq during the George W. Bush administration).
Oh, and while you're trying to think of a way to back-pedal out of this one, you should probably stop and think about just how despicable you look to every person who actually gives a damn about human rights. You're offering excuses on behalf of an oppressive dictatorship, just so you can squeeze in a cheap shot at nations which guarantee you freedoms that Cubans can only dream about. I don't know how you live with yourself.
Yeah, when the richest super power on Earth illegally embargoes and violently harasses a small, poor country of 11 million for decades those people that give a damn about human rights rejoice. But that's not news, you did it to many small poor countries before, this one is still resisting, that's all. You come talk about human WHAT??? If Castro sucked the American cock, even if he had babies for breakfast, you would love him, like many other oppressive dictators.
In ANY democratic country an agent of a foreign power financing political groups would be declared persona non grata and kicked out. Apparently Cuba can't do it because then they are dangerous communists that eat children for breakfast.
Remove the absurd and illegal embargo you have on Cuba and then let's all talk about democracy. No country can be democratic with another country's boot crushing it. And we're talking about the USA, it's a HUUUUGE motherfucking boot.
So, it was all about removing Saddam from power and giving it to the Shiites? And you started a fucking war for THAT???
But, but, isn't Iran the baddiest place on Earth? And they're financing, OMFG, baddie terrorists? Isn't Hezbollah the most horrendous thing on Earth right after "Elton John's Greatest Hits"? So you remove Iran's worst enemy, Saddam, from power and give it to Iran's friends?
. . .
My brain hurts...
There's regulation for SPL levels for live music and discos for decades. If it's being enforced enough, that's another issue.
From my years of experience playing in bars, it's only a problem if someone calls the police. Otherwise nobody gives a shit. At least here in Portugal.
They're just hurt because the French told them to fuck off when they took the criminal, insane and stupid decision of invading Iraq and wanted their friends to "play along". If the leaders of the nations that bought the "coalition of the willing" bullshit were any democratic they would have done the same, since the populations' support for Dubya's war for oil was near zero throughout most of Europe (and in the rest of the world, by the way).
They created the shit by yourselves. Now let them roll in it.
Taking into account they owe so much to the French, these bigot jokes are extremely ingrate and rude.
I'm not French.
Good field experience is always in high demand :-)
And your point is?
All those scientist you mention had to struggle really hard for decades against powerful industries until the public opinion forced the governments to do something about those issues. And I still know people that say smoking doesn't cause cancer and the scientists were paid to say so. By who, I ask? Who could possibly have more money than the tobacco companies to pay scientists to lie?
It's the same thing with global warming. You may accuse the scientists of having an agenda to make people believe global warming, and I ask who could possibly have more money than the oil companies to make scientists lie?
Yeah, I'm sure that publishing conclusions that piss off the most lucrative business on Earth will grant scientists lots of funding and eternal happiness.
In my country it's illegal to enter a shop with your face covered. Every time I fill my motorcycle I have to remove the helmet before.
In Soviet Russia, RED patents fast track the USPTO.