Next time you endure the dueling idiocy and lies of the superpac ads, ask yourself who all that money is a hand-out FOR. And if they deserve all that cash, what special interests are getting it, and how we should put a stop to it.
Everyone's been in such a hurry to do business with China and India, nobody is prepared to make certain that standards are followed or that products are safe.
Dead pets from contaminated pet food, putrid, spoiled "Danish" buttercookies made in Ching Chang Chung sold at major drug stores, everybody saw the big profit potential but nobody bothered to do what needed to be done to guarantee safety, and nobody has ant real legal recourse when they're harmed.
Once again, American greed has been exploited to bankrupt the nation, and flood the markets with inferior products, with very little to no government regulation or oversight.
Products that break and war out fast, no real customer service, and a lot of garbage - that's what these Chinese imports have given us.
Enjoy the throw-away global culture built on the cheap labor of low wage overseas slaves, make excuses for the real spoils of American greed and corportocarcy, but don't pretend you don't know or can't see where all this is going to lead.
Monsanto could, and probably will pull this off; the assumption that they are not a threat, do not have the kind of all-encompassing power and ties to make this happen is naive. Look how far they've managed to corrupt the system up to this point.
They've had plenty of time to "manage" this issue to work in their favor.
Attempts to patent all sorts of seed of all sorts of plants and gain control of agriculture has been an ongoing issue, not just with Monsanto, but with several big players.
It can happen, and it probably will happen HERE, in the US.
Because they don't hate us for our freedom, they hate us for our rampant corruption and complacency, for our widespread corporate greed, and for our domination of the world enforced by our military for corporate hire.
This isn't just about the Ag industry, it's about going after anyone that's a perceived threat. And the biggest threat to Big Pharma is India's spice and herb trade. People who eat good food based on good herbs don't require perpetual medical intervention. People who subsist on a food supply that consists primarily of synthetic adulterants do.
Monsanto winning this is going to be worse than really bad. It's going to be a global disaster.
This proves beyond a reasonable doubt the inter-connectivity of the bio-systems, so whenever something like this happens we're just reminded that there are so many other things occurring that we have no clue about simply because nobody's looking.
The other sobering thing is that this incident tells me is that your first line of detection is just as likely to be someone that people may not necessarily pay any attention to at all, and that if someone eventually does listen to them, you can be certain that the parties responsible (large corporations) will always claim that they knew about it at the same time and took measures to address the "problem"; which means little more than they covered their asses from any possible litigation than actually doing anything responsible to determine the real scope and severity of the problem they caused.
Driving drunk is certainly not comparable to owning a class 3 laser, or ANY laser device, for that matter.
I wish there was a class you could refer people to so that they could learn a little something about how not to make ridiculous and nonsensical analogies.
And a lot of people own "large bombs" in the form of propane tanks, car gas tanks and the like. It isn't the object that is the hazard, it's the misuse of it that makes it a hazard.
The activities are ALREADY banned; what you are arguing for and justifying (poorly) is banning objects of which only a TINY percentage of them are used to do something that is already criminal.
A more appropriate analogy would be that I can shove a potato into a vehicle tailpipe, and do a remarkable amount of damage to the vehicle that costs a lot of money to replace, perhaps even do this to emergency vehicles like fire trucks and ambulances and police cruisers. It's already illegal to do that, but let's make possession of potatoes a felony just to make some politicians and government officials feel significant and productive.
No, scientists are not the new priests, they don't get to spend public money in secret, and they don't get to conceal what little actual work they are doing and how corrupt they've been behaving.
Making scientists a special class is absolutely idiotic.
It's a fiction. There's no reason the troll shouldn't be in jail, and there's no way that the author, if he were telling the truth, wouldn't go tot he authorities and have the little asshole arrested and hailed.
I get the gist of the article, it's supposed to imply that game play and tech addiction is responsible for the trend of people being cowardly little shits.
The reality, though, is that it' not the tech, it's the culture and sociopathy. Don't confront trolls like this, that can get you killed. Gather the information and report them to the authorities, get a lawyer, sue them, and send them to jail.
It's where they belong.
No way is an adult man that's received a note about his wife's throat being slit someday going to just let something like this slide; nor should he. The article is fake, the guy is a liar, and his message is stupid.
That people are making all sorts of justifications for copying and posting the vid everywhere.
I feel sad at the thought of the guys friends, relatives, kids seeing it.
I thought about how his grandparents would feel, should they see it.
I think that people have lost their humanity, that they are losing empathy, that they are becoming increasingly selfish, and losing their ability to see cause and effect.
I don't know where you live, but the hardware stores here have a wide selection of LED bulbs, and it's really easy to find the perfect replacement bulb for any specific use.
A year ago, it wasn't as simple; the displays weren't as nice, and it took some guesswork and returning bulbs to get just the right one. I'm really happy with the selection now though, we even have some on dimmers for LED's (since they use a LOT less power, most incandescent dimmers don't work).
How about not subsidizing unsustainable, petrochemical based and dependent monoculture ?
If you ever needed a reason not to eat beef, look at the shit they're feeding cows. There's a consequence to feeding animals things that they would never subsist upon in nature. Lower quality beef, unhealthy animals that need more and more antibiotics, and an unhealthy population that eats that shit.
Is there anything American industry and American ignorance, cowardice, and greed can't adulterate and destroy, and then pass it off as "the best in the world" ?
The lie that GM crops increase yields that the IFPRI, and you, perpetuate kills a whole lot more people than the MANY NGO's that have brought the issue to the attention of the public in the West.
The pesticide treadmill, and the rendering of the harvested cotton plants toxic to livestock is something neither the IFPRI, and their buddies at Monsanto don't want to address.
Yeah, farmers took out loans to buy the expensive GM seed and pesticides that didn't pan out - keep lying about it, let's see how many more Indian farmers you can kill with your misinformation.
Yes, just like you are doing right now. When the technologies contradict with your principles, you fail to address your principles, turn tail, and run like a rabbit.
So much for your principles !
My original remarks stand. There is the letter, and there is the spirit, of the law. Failure to consider both carefully IS the problem, and makes a mockery of the principles, because that's what the principles are based ON.
The assumption that local, sustainable agriculture which doesn't rely anywhere near as much on petrochemical based fertilizers, pesticides, and which conditions and sustains the microbial viability of the soil, in contrast to almost all "modern" petrochemical based agricultural methods, is "inefficient", is unmitigated horse shit.
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Next time you endure the dueling idiocy and lies of the superpac ads, ask yourself who all that money is a hand-out FOR. And if they deserve all that cash, what special interests are getting it, and how we should put a stop to it.
Neither candidate has the integrity to do so.
Everyone's been in such a hurry to do business with China and India, nobody is prepared to make certain that standards are followed or that products are safe.
Dead pets from contaminated pet food, putrid, spoiled "Danish" buttercookies made in Ching Chang Chung sold at major drug stores, everybody saw the big profit potential but nobody bothered to do what needed to be done to guarantee safety, and nobody has ant real legal recourse when they're harmed.
Once again, American greed has been exploited to bankrupt the nation, and flood the markets with inferior products, with very little to no government regulation or oversight.
Products that break and war out fast, no real customer service, and a lot of garbage - that's what these Chinese imports have given us.
Enjoy the throw-away global culture built on the cheap labor of low wage overseas slaves, make excuses for the real spoils of American greed and corportocarcy, but don't pretend you don't know or can't see where all this is going to lead.
You don't get it.
Monsanto could, and probably will pull this off; the assumption that they are not a threat, do not have the kind of all-encompassing power and ties to make this happen is naive. Look how far they've managed to corrupt the system up to this point.
They've had plenty of time to "manage" this issue to work in their favor.
Attempts to patent all sorts of seed of all sorts of plants and gain control of agriculture has been an ongoing issue, not just with Monsanto, but with several big players.
It can happen, and it probably will happen HERE, in the US.
Because they don't hate us for our freedom, they hate us for our rampant corruption and complacency, for our widespread corporate greed, and for our domination of the world enforced by our military for corporate hire.
This isn't just about the Ag industry, it's about going after anyone that's a perceived threat. And the biggest threat to Big Pharma is India's spice and herb trade. People who eat good food based on good herbs don't require perpetual medical intervention. People who subsist on a food supply that consists primarily of synthetic adulterants do.
Monsanto winning this is going to be worse than really bad. It's going to be a global disaster.
And it's going to happen.
I hope that I'm wrong. I doubt that I am.
Like CircleDock, for instance.
This proves beyond a reasonable doubt the inter-connectivity of the bio-systems, so whenever something like this happens we're just reminded that there are so many other things occurring that we have no clue about simply because nobody's looking.
The other sobering thing is that this incident tells me is that your first line of detection is just as likely to be someone that people may not necessarily pay any attention to at all, and that if someone eventually does listen to them, you can be certain that the parties responsible (large corporations) will always claim that they knew about it at the same time and took measures to address the "problem"; which means little more than they covered their asses from any possible litigation than actually doing anything responsible to determine the real scope and severity of the problem they caused.
Driving drunk is certainly not comparable to owning a class 3 laser, or ANY laser device, for that matter.
I wish there was a class you could refer people to so that they could learn a little something about how not to make ridiculous and nonsensical analogies.
And a lot of people own "large bombs" in the form of propane tanks, car gas tanks and the like. It isn't the object that is the hazard, it's the misuse of it that makes it a hazard.
The activities are ALREADY banned; what you are arguing for and justifying (poorly) is banning objects of which only a TINY percentage of them are used to do something that is already criminal.
A more appropriate analogy would be that I can shove a potato into a vehicle tailpipe, and do a remarkable amount of damage to the vehicle that costs a lot of money to replace, perhaps even do this to emergency vehicles like fire trucks and ambulances and police cruisers. It's already illegal to do that, but let's make possession of potatoes a felony just to make some politicians and government officials feel significant and productive.
And it smells a lot like fascism.
How does it feel for all you asshole Liberals to finally be indistinguishable from all those asshole Fundamentalists ?
And get away with it.
No, scientists are not the new priests, they don't get to spend public money in secret, and they don't get to conceal what little actual work they are doing and how corrupt they've been behaving.
Making scientists a special class is absolutely idiotic.
It's a fiction. There's no reason the troll shouldn't be in jail, and there's no way that the author, if he were telling the truth, wouldn't go tot he authorities and have the little asshole arrested and hailed.
I get the gist of the article, it's supposed to imply that game play and tech addiction is responsible for the trend of people being cowardly little shits.
The reality, though, is that it' not the tech, it's the culture and sociopathy. Don't confront trolls like this, that can get you killed. Gather the information and report them to the authorities, get a lawyer, sue them, and send them to jail.
It's where they belong.
No way is an adult man that's received a note about his wife's throat being slit someday going to just let something like this slide; nor should he. The article is fake, the guy is a liar, and his message is stupid.
That people are making all sorts of justifications for copying and posting the vid everywhere.
I feel sad at the thought of the guys friends, relatives, kids seeing it.
I thought about how his grandparents would feel, should they see it.
I think that people have lost their humanity, that they are losing empathy, that they are becoming increasingly selfish, and losing their ability to see cause and effect.
Does anybody really give a shit anymore ?
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the enemy of We The People...
than knowing about air pressure differentials of altitudes ?
Torvalds is right; the leader of the free world must not be a fucking moron.
I don't know where you live, but the hardware stores here have a wide selection of LED bulbs, and it's really easy to find the perfect replacement bulb for any specific use.
A year ago, it wasn't as simple; the displays weren't as nice, and it took some guesswork and returning bulbs to get just the right one. I'm really happy with the selection now though, we even have some on dimmers for LED's (since they use a LOT less power, most incandescent dimmers don't work).
Why'd you tell ?!
I've really enjoyed watching all the MS hate boys make fools of themselves for over a year...
So, basically, he's being charged with a crime because he's awesome...
the song "Uncle Sam's On Mars"
As opposed to fantastic GM corn ?
How about not using corn to make fuel ?
How about not subsidizing unsustainable, petrochemical based and dependent monoculture ?
If you ever needed a reason not to eat beef, look at the shit they're feeding cows. There's a consequence to feeding animals things that they would never subsist upon in nature. Lower quality beef, unhealthy animals that need more and more antibiotics, and an unhealthy population that eats that shit.
Is there anything American industry and American ignorance, cowardice, and greed can't adulterate and destroy, and then pass it off as "the best in the world" ?
...and let's talk about how MRI's waste massive amounts of helium, when any MRI system should have helium recovery built into it.
The headline should read "More Idiot Scientists Show Us Why Headlines About What Scientists Say Should Be Ignored.
The lie that GM crops increase yields that the IFPRI, and you, perpetuate kills a whole lot more people than the MANY NGO's that have brought the issue to the attention of the public in the West.
The pesticide treadmill, and the rendering of the harvested cotton plants toxic to livestock is something neither the IFPRI, and their buddies at Monsanto don't want to address.
Yeah, farmers took out loans to buy the expensive GM seed and pesticides that didn't pan out - keep lying about it, let's see how many more Indian farmers you can kill with your misinformation.
Yes, just like you are doing right now. When the technologies contradict with your principles, you fail to address your principles, turn tail, and run like a rabbit.
So much for your principles !
My original remarks stand. There is the letter, and there is the spirit, of the law. Failure to consider both carefully IS the problem, and makes a mockery of the principles, because that's what the principles are based ON.
"You have the right to keep and bear arms. That right exists independent of technological developments."
So you have a right to have automatic weapons, dirty bombs, home made nukes ?
Late 70's tech. Thanks, but I think I'll pass !
A quarter of a million Indian farmers that committed suicide because of Monsanto's GM corn can't all be wrong !
The assumption that local, sustainable agriculture which doesn't rely anywhere near as much on petrochemical based fertilizers, pesticides, and which conditions and sustains the microbial viability of the soil, in contrast to almost all "modern" petrochemical based agricultural methods, is "inefficient", is unmitigated horse shit.
"...Who sits upon our skies How deep do you see When you spy into our lives?"