I think the question is valid, as the financial resources are limited. Take for example the agricultural research institutes working for Africa: the money going in the overhyped genetic engineering meant that the funding went to this technology, at the expense of other research, which sometimes was more appropriate.
Anyway I see a big difference between people living in simple huts with no infrastructure, and poor urbanized people. (Poor as in low income:) )
"One side effect of a free market is that things get cheaper." Define free market for me please. You mention insurance companies as a ig chest full of money, byt they have way more power than the average consumer to negotiate lower medicine prices, and no incentive to overpay the suppliers. Quite the opposite, they are anxious to pay the lowest price, ask the special disease foundations, they can tell you all about it.
So I totally disagree with you on insurances standing in the way of free market, pricewise.
Most problems you describe are local. Trains run better outside the Randstad. Christians were pushed back to our version of the Bible Belt. Unfortunately all sorts of irrationalism is popping up everywhere, astrology, christianity has a comeback, islam, etc..
You can receive BBC 1/2 (so quality TV and news ensured).
I beg to differ. Imho BBC is hardly ever interesting. That said, what channel ever is for more than 50 minutes a week...
...preceived immigration issue, mainly from North Africans. For what claims to be a socialist country, it does tend to swing to the right..
Antillians, Turks & Arabs also have to face prejudices more than average.
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PS usability freaks: up to 7 choices is allowed.:P
We also have box-schemes making organic veggies more affordable: throw out the third man, get your veggies directly from the farmer. Cheaper, and additional benefit is that it is as local as you can get. Just a few years old and very popular. Imitated by the distribution centers unfortunately.
If you are really into it you could see if you can find a bunch of people to start a food coop. We have one and pay 5-20% less that in a shop.
About the organic spinach: I'ld like you to be aware that this myth was deliberately spread by people who think they have something to fear from organic food.
Earlier, Dennis Avery from the Hudson Institute carefully wrote misleading stories on E.coli and organic food, which was based on deliberately mispresented research. Even though it has been debunked (http://www.organicconsumers.org/Organic/ecolimyth s.cfm) he is still spreading the rumour because people tend to believe him.
With the recent spinach problem biotechnology apolegetes (AgBio http://www.agbioworld.org/newsletter_wm/index.php? caseid=archive&newsid=2605 [agbioworld.org]) were very quick to spread the rumor that it was about organic spinach, which afaik is also a construction of them. I tried to politely suggest to them to also spread the news that it wasn't organic after all, which they simply ignored.
So organic==good.
Saying ancient breeding is like g.e. and then, ignoring the differences, say it is ipse facto safe is a logical fallacy.
"I would take a factory-produced antibiotic to stave off a serious infection any day over a natural-grown herbal remedy. Why? Because it's been scientifically shown to work."
Did you read the research yourself? If you would I think you would have chosen other words. True, the dosage is easier with calibrated medicine, where herbs are very varying in content, but don't forget that quite some of todays effective medicine are based on herbal ancestors. Also keep in mind that the effectiveness of medicines is sometimes just a little bit better than placebo. F.e. http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/314/70 77/334
"I'd bet that 99.99% of food-related fatalities over the past 30 years have been due to natural pathogens (or choking). Care for some organic spinach?"
Ok what will be bet on? Anyway a bet is pointless as it is not tested for GE.
About the organic spinach: I'ld like you to be aware that this myth was deliberately spread by people who think they have something to fear from organic food.
Earlier, Dennis Avery from the Hudson Institute carefully wrote misleading stories on E.coli and organic food, which was based on deliberately mispresented research. Even though it has been debunked (http://www.organicconsumers.org/Organic/ecolimyth s.cfm) he is still spreading the rumour because people tend to believe him.
With the recent spinach problem biotechnology apolegetes (AgBio http://www.agbioworld.org/newsletter_wm/index.php? caseid=archive&newsid=2605) were very quick to spread the rumor that it was about organic spinach, which afaik is also a construction of them. I tried to politely suggest to them to also spread the news that it wasn't organic after all, which they simply ignored.
Oh no don't worry there are always fruits that remain forbidden, which are therefore interesting. Be it weird sexual behaviour, other drugs than the allowed (or rather not-acted-upon-by-the-police, um, what's the translation for 'gedogen'?), violence, etc.
This will be interesting for a few days, max, then some compromise will be proposed that will cost next to nothing, such as the cheapo seal mentioned in the Article. Actually a high official guy already proposed that very same thing.
Everybody will be relieved with the solution. Attention of politicians can go back to more important issues such as pretending you kept the promises you made for the previous elections.
We'll see soon, i think national elections are scheduled for 22 november.
"match it up with the voting ticket (or whatever they use to verify each vote is unique to a single person), "
Actually that's VERY secure.
The voter receives a mass-printed piece of paper by mail. (s)He can sign it to give his vote to a friend.
The voter then proceeds to the voting office in his/he neighbourhood. In the Netherlands there are then three trained neighbourhood volunteers behind a table.
#1 receives the piece of paper and compares the name with a printout list of all people expected in that voting office. sHe announces the number on that list to #2. And places a ballpen checkmark on the list. When in doubt they can ask you to identify yourself. They hardly ever do.
#2 gives you a piece of paper with a number on it. Such a one as when you go to the butcher or postoffice.
You then walk to #3, give your numbered piece of paper and presses a button on the voting machine. It now allows you to place one vote. Make your choice, acknowledge with the Red Button.
Remember that tobacco needs to be grown (fossil energy for the tilling, oil as source and energy to make pesticides and artificial fertilizer), transported (fossil fuel), processed (fossil fuel for the work, energy and resources for the added chemicals), rolled wrapped in paper and packaged, and lit (gas or sulphur).
Anyway this is a non-topic. I still don't get why Big Tobacco is in this discussion. I cannot remember any serious green group accusing them of that. I also never noticed it as a political issue. I was at a COP about Climate Change and I did not see any front groups saying tobacco is nice, only oil apologetics.
Problem solved, right? Sorry, something wrong with the sink you are using. The source you drain to drive is moving carbon to the sink in the green stuff. As the green cover will not really increase by your petty trees the nett result is still an increase of greenhouse gases.
It's not only a sign of immaturity to return the accusations, but it does not make any sense at all to state that governments want to hear that global warming is within their responsibilities.
Nice, a beta without a reaction form. Ok google, i know you read this. 1) Do some bloody usability tests with non-cooperating users. if there is no response in 20 secs, block that user and give me a new partner 2) also save non-matching words, I enter brilliant things! 3) the game often gets stuck. give me a bail out button 4) add a response form or forum
and most of all: 5) at the end tell me what the other idiot suggested.
1) the 'broken image' is due to some delay with the system. It is obviously having problems this moment, one wonders why./././
2) if the image is clearly a 'car' or 'skyline' people will agree. And especially when you can earn brownie points, people will go for the easiest words. I just had some hits with 'room', where the room was obviously full of people, and 'internet music; because those words were projected on a screen.
It would definitely be good if you could also give an opinion on a photo: too many are undecipherable or just photos nobody can use, like boring family meetings made by bad photographers. I propse two extra buttons: [undecipherable] and [boring/useless].
Then taking them out of context also makes it hard to understand that it is the outcome of a mathematical computer model of colliding galaxies.
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I think the question is valid, as the financial resources are limited. Take for example the agricultural research institutes working for Africa: the money going in the overhyped genetic engineering meant that the funding went to this technology, at the expense of other research, which sometimes was more appropriate.
:) )
Anyway I see a big difference between people living in simple huts with no infrastructure, and poor urbanized people. (Poor as in low income
"One side effect of a free market is that things get cheaper."
Define free market for me please. You mention insurance companies as a ig chest full of money, byt they have way more power than the average consumer to negotiate lower medicine prices, and no incentive to overpay the suppliers. Quite the opposite, they are anxious to pay the lowest price, ask the special disease foundations, they can tell you all about it.
So I totally disagree with you on insurances standing in the way of free market, pricewise.
I beg to differ. Imho BBC is hardly ever interesting. That said, what channel ever is for more than 50 minutes a week...
Antillians, Turks & Arabs also have to face prejudices more than average.
And what is your prediction to the results?
Oh no! I'm shocked! Nobody every mentioned that ever in all the years Slashdot exists in any article.
Do the admins know? Somebody should tell them!
If you are not having a masterpassword the dialog should warn:
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Should Firefox remember this password for this site?
[ ] Yes, please have it visible for every sucker that can physically or remotely access this pc.
[ ] Yes, but first let me make a masterpassword to secure it.
[ ] No, maybe later.
[ ] No, never for this site.
[ ] No, and never bother me again.
PS usability freaks: up to 7 choices is allowed.
(PS I still love FF ok?)
Why are you only replying to the tiny little line at the end, which' meaning in context should be clear?
True./ 80256ad80055454980256bb20038b8fe?OpenDocument&Clic k= .
It's so many things that can be said. Soil Association (UK) has a whole list of reasons at http://www.soilassociation.org/web/sa/saweb.nsf/0
Experiments in my little country (the Netherlands, somewhere in the west part of Europe) show that lowering the price helps.
We also have box-schemes making organic veggies more affordable: throw out the third man, get your veggies directly from the farmer. Cheaper, and additional benefit is that it is as local as you can get. Just a few years old and very popular. Imitated by the distribution centers unfortunately.
If you are really into it you could see if you can find a bunch of people to start a food coop. We have one and pay 5-20% less that in a shop.
"There's nothing more natural than genetic engineering."
Define natural ?
About the organic spinach: I'ld like you to be aware that this myth was deliberately spread by people who think they have something to fear from organic food.
Earlier, Dennis Avery from the Hudson Institute carefully wrote misleading stories on E.coli and organic food, which was based on deliberately mispresented research.
Even though it has been debunked (http://www.organicconsumers.org/Organic/ecolimyt
With the recent spinach problem biotechnology apolegetes (AgBio http://www.agbioworld.org/newsletter_wm/index.php
I tried to politely suggest to them to also spread the news that it wasn't organic after all, which they simply ignored.
So organic==good.
Saying ancient breeding is like g.e. and then, ignoring the differences, say it is ipse facto safe is a logical fallacy.
"I would take a factory-produced antibiotic to stave off a serious infection any day over a natural-grown herbal remedy. Why? Because it's been scientifically shown to work."
0 77/334
... but not significantly different in efficacy from active antidepressants" - http://www.intclinpsychopharm.com/pt/re/intcpsycho pharm/abstract.00004850-200109000-00001.htm;jsessi onid=FrZYWgcQpShPfqL1TzSNGH9JV0nLRVYbrwl4r3Kg4HNn1 GGZJSRh!-1455700262!-949856145!8091!-1
Did you read the research yourself? If you would I think you would have chosen other words.
True, the dosage is easier with calibrated medicine, where herbs are very varying in content, but don't forget that quite some of todays effective medicine are based on herbal ancestors.
Also keep in mind that the effectiveness of medicines is sometimes just a little bit better than placebo. F.e. http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/314/7
Example: "....St John's wort to be significantly more effective than placebo
"I'd bet that 99.99% of food-related fatalities over the past 30 years have been due to natural pathogens (or choking). Care for some organic spinach?"
h s.cfm) he is still spreading the rumour because people tend to believe him.
? caseid=archive&newsid=2605) were very quick to spread the rumor that it was about organic spinach, which afaik is also a construction of them.
Ok what will be bet on?
Anyway a bet is pointless as it is not tested for GE.
About the organic spinach: I'ld like you to be aware that this myth was deliberately spread by people who think they have something to fear from organic food.
Earlier, Dennis Avery from the Hudson Institute carefully wrote misleading stories on E.coli and organic food, which was based on deliberately mispresented research.
Even though it has been debunked (http://www.organicconsumers.org/Organic/ecolimyt
With the recent spinach problem biotechnology apolegetes (AgBio http://www.agbioworld.org/newsletter_wm/index.php
I tried to politely suggest to them to also spread the news that it wasn't organic after all, which they simply ignored.
Think independently.
Oh no don't worry there are always fruits that remain forbidden, which are therefore interesting. Be it weird sexual behaviour, other drugs than the allowed (or rather not-acted-upon-by-the-police, um, what's the translation for 'gedogen'?), violence, etc. This will be interesting for a few days, max, then some compromise will be proposed that will cost next to nothing, such as the cheapo seal mentioned in the Article. Actually a high official guy already proposed that very same thing. Everybody will be relieved with the solution. Attention of politicians can go back to more important issues such as pretending you kept the promises you made for the previous elections. We'll see soon, i think national elections are scheduled for 22 november.
"match it up with the voting ticket (or whatever they use to verify each vote is unique to a single person), "
Actually that's VERY secure.
The voter receives a mass-printed piece of paper by mail. (s)He can sign it to give his vote to a friend.
The voter then proceeds to the voting office in his/he neighbourhood.
In the Netherlands there are then three trained neighbourhood volunteers behind a table.
#1 receives the piece of paper and compares the name with a printout list of all people expected in that voting office. sHe announces the number on that list to #2. And places a ballpen checkmark on the list.
When in doubt they can ask you to identify yourself. They hardly ever do.
#2 gives you a piece of paper with a number on it. Such a one as when you go to the butcher or postoffice.
You then walk to #3, give your numbered piece of paper and presses a button on the voting machine. It now allows you to place one vote.
Make your choice, acknowledge with the Red Button.
These strange abbreviations 'gsm', 'gprs' and 'wifi' actually mean this device can connect in various ways and without cables, yes.
It's a Daily News article, what do you expect, chi squares?
I'll file this under qishful misantropy.
If we're talking purely tobacco you're right.
Remember that tobacco needs to be grown (fossil energy for the tilling, oil as source and energy to make pesticides and artificial fertilizer), transported (fossil fuel), processed (fossil fuel for the work, energy and resources for the added chemicals), rolled wrapped in paper and packaged, and lit (gas or sulphur).
Anyway this is a non-topic. I still don't get why Big Tobacco is in this discussion. I cannot remember any serious green group accusing them of that. I also never noticed it as a political issue. I was at a COP about Climate Change and I did not see any front groups saying tobacco is nice, only oil apologetics.
Problem solved, right?
Sorry, something wrong with the sink you are using. The source you drain to drive is moving carbon to the sink in the green stuff. As the green cover will not really increase by your petty trees the nett result is still an increase of greenhouse gases.
It's not only a sign of immaturity to return the accusations, but it does not make any sense at all to state that governments want to hear that global warming is within their responsibilities.
if you would actually check the report you wouldn;t have posted this.
Thanks, looking at these words confirms that many people join the game who .... shouldn't.
No wonder the peekaboom game ends up with 90% man / woman / square / sky / tree.
And you think you are better of as a 'client'?/ secondary/SMIGRA*/Cliens.html
http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts
(in short: the word seems to go back to the latin verb cluere, to "hear" or "obey" . It is connected with slaves and owned people.)
Nice, a beta without a reaction form. Ok google, i know you read this.
1) Do some bloody usability tests with non-cooperating users. if there is no response in 20 secs, block that user and give me a new partner
2) also save non-matching words, I enter brilliant things!
3) the game often gets stuck. give me a bail out button
4) add a response form or forum
and most of all:
5) at the end tell me what the other idiot suggested.
1) the 'broken image' is due to some delay with the system. It is obviously having problems this moment, one wonders why./././
2) if the image is clearly a 'car' or 'skyline' people will agree. And especially when you can earn brownie points, people will go for the easiest words. I just had some hits with 'room', where the room was obviously full of people, and 'internet music; because those words were projected on a screen.
It would definitely be good if you could also give an opinion on a photo: too many are undecipherable or just photos nobody can use, like boring family meetings made by bad photographers. I propse two extra buttons: [undecipherable] and [boring/useless].
Then taking them out of context also makes it hard to understand that it is the outcome of a mathematical computer model of colliding galaxies.