In addition, it will make food much less expensive which means your bargaining power goes up, which means less poor people.
Do I think Monsanto is in it to end world hunger? Nope. They're in it to make money, just like any other business.
If Monsanto wants to make profit, they will charge as much as they can. That does not make food cheaper.
GMO has the potential to reduce the need for farmland, which if I were an environmentalist I would be ecstatic for because that means tearing down less forest land to create farms
But commercial GMO will not be created to benefit society. Just like cures for diseases are not researched by commercial drug companies, only treatments that will be life-long. The GMO you will see created is like the Roundup-Ready, spend more money on things to keep them going. Try looking into how bad the "Green Revolution" turned out for the third world countries where it was implemented. Farmers are killing themselves in mass quantities because they cannot farm their land anymore. And it seems you won't mind if that happens elsewere.
Do we use more glyphosate based pesticides? Probably. Given that we have created a situation where the plants we want are immune to them, and it kills the plants we don't want, it wouldn't surprise me in the slightest that we now make more of them. Why, did that surprise you? If it did, that doesn't say much about your intelligence. Glyphosate doesn't end up on our dinner plates in any significant quantities, so it's not a problem.
Here you are with diseases and as a society we have cancer rates climbing and you don't see any problem with poison in our food. Try looking at the rate of miscarriage in the farming industry when the animals are fed GMO food. It may surprise you.
The organic industry hates Monsanto because now they have to compete with their prices. And it sucks for them particularly bad because organic farming has otherwise very high profit margins, but its costs will never go down, even though it is already scientifically proven to offer zero health or taste benefit over any other form of farming.
The scienctific studies were complete BS on that. They looked at one thing only, nutrition content. Did they check for the difference in pesticide and herbicide levels? No. Also, check out the profitability of a small farm per acre compared to a large commercial farm. Link: $1400/acre compared to $35/acre.
Whole Foods is in it to make money as well. And what do you know, I don't shop there because I can't afford their food. I've found that a wal-mart strawberry tastes the same as a whole foods strawberry, only costs about half as much, so I shop there. Does that anger you? Makes me happy to be honest, because as the saying goes: A penny saved is a penny earned.
And the strawberry is the most important food to get organic variety of because of the amount of poison it absorbs. You should seriously look at the food you are putting into your body as you are probably killing yourself. I guess you don't care how sick you are as long as you save your penny. Did you forget to calculate the medical costs. I think that is called "penny wise - pound foolish"! I am happy you are happy, as the sooner you types kill yourselves off we can fix these problems with our food supply.
anti-vaccine movement
9/11 conspiracy theorists
moon landing hoaxers
chemtrail fearmongerers
Yes, it being anti-GMO is every bit as unreasonable and even harmful as all of the above things to me. To me there is no difference, all of these people conveniently ignore any evidence that they might be wrong under the assumption that either there's a corporate conspiracy, the illuminati, or something equally stupid out to
I do think your point is very valid. We have no proof of anything, just vague threats of something bad being done by the foreigners. One difference between China and most other countries is that the government there owns or is highly involved in companies. So if we knew the NSA, or even other departments of the U.S. government were making laptops, would we trust that they were not infested with backdoors. We already have evidence that MS Windows exploits are given to the U.S. government before any fixes are even started and they may have even put backdoors into the OS for the government to use. Not too different.
But you can really get better at physical activity by imagining yourself doing it. Bowling, pool, darts etc. Imagine yourself playing a full game and doing great every day and you will get better at it.
Personally, I plan to buy a google nexus not a samsung for precisely the opposite easons given. What I want is a system that if I invest in it, it wil have a path forward. Buying the most stock platform, when it's highly featured, makes a lot more sense to me than buying a flash in the pan setup. Same reason I didn't buy amazons subsidized tablet. For me, my time and effort is worth more than saving $100 on something or having the sexiest screen tweak, only to have it go obsolete or unmaintained in the next gen.
I agree with the stock platform. I don't use the touch-wiz or any Samsung software. I do like their hardware though. My Epic has the slide out keyboard and OLED is just awesome. One thing to consider is the companies feelings towards rooting. Samsung seems to be pretty ambivalent about it, almost even allowing it. I am running Cyanogenmod on my phone and I was surprised at the couple of security updates they came out with for the APK key signing problem. I know Samsung would have taken forever to put out a patch even on a new phone. On my old one, never would be a good guess. I don't know how fast Google puts out their updates, but I would think it should be pretty speedy since they also make the OS.
And everyone used to say Carnivore was made up. And that recording everybody's phone calls and emails would be impossible and that the government would not do that.
Here's proof that the car can be controlled remotely though that port. We also have examples of the car being hacked wirelessly through OnStar and Bluetooth. Why would you thing the NSA or whichever TLA doesn't have the resources to put these two together and control a lot of new cars out there. What else would they be spending their money on? And if they got the car companies to give them the code or the list of vulnerabilities like they got from Microsoft that would make things even easier.
Apply Occam's Razor. User or mechanical failure are much more likely than his car being hacked.
The fact that he was reporting on the same people that have the ability to do this changes the odds somewhat.
The plate readers work just fine. But they are not real-time. Everything gets stored for later perusal just like all our phone calls do. It's not for making us safer, it so they can find dirt on anybody that they want to find dirt on. Just go back and look through the last 10 years worth of phone calls, plate movement records, credit card sales slips, facial recognition hits, etc and make anyone look like a terrorist.
"If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him." -- Cardinal Richelieu
Once you've proved that you can't play nicely with the rest of us, you get some of your rights taken away. Want to vote? Don't commit felonies. It's pretty easy to do.
You don't seem to be aware of just how many felonies you have committed today!
I consider myself experienced, but I would never work for a boss who dares to scream at me.
But that's just the thing, he isn't anyone's boss. It's a volunteer community. The only payment people get is verbal accolades. To make verbal accolades more valuable to the participants you must extend the scale into the negative range also. Like game reviews that never give below 8 are totally worthless. By giving the verbal abuse when warranted and giving verbal accolades when deserved, everybody gets rewarded for their participation.
Let's not forget that it turns out that Zimmerman was indeed following a gun dealing gangsta criminal. Obviously his suspicions turned out to be correct and it was a good thing he kept following him to try to find out what house he went to. Once the cops showed up he would have been able to point them right to the criminal. Just because that criminal then tries to take your life and forces you to shoot them does not make them any less of a criminal, just a dead criminal.
Then it should be fine if we also hack their system to figure out who posted each person to the app database. Then the people who put others on the list can be on a list of their own. We'll see how fast they start needing to rely on guns then. Probably just involving calling the cops as they are being beaten to death, but still!
No proof, but it feels better to me. Much of the typing alternates from hand to hand rather than some weird finger twisting contortion. Just look at common two letter combos like 'er', 'ed', and 'es'. Why should I have to reach for any vowels, which are some of the most commonly used letters? Why should a home row key be wasted on a letter that is almost never used, ";"?
But for a touch screen, where only one or two fingers are used it is stupid to use any keyboard there. I much prefer to use alternate keyboards designed for that use case. Palm's Graffiti, 8 Pen, and MessagEase are all way better than Qwerty or Dvorak on a touch screen phone. I also refuse to let the phone complete or correct words for me. I don't want names or strange words to be misinterpreted and changed by my computing device. It is a tool for my use -- I am not a tool for it's use.
I do understand that this is pretty controversial and even I don't completely buy it. I find it an interesting thing to think about since I heard about in on the Ancient Aliens series. Here is a link (http://www.viewzone.com/adamscalendar.html) with information on these very ancient sites with man made structures and mines. The third page in that article gets into the mine shafts and gold. It even goes on to describe the ancient Sumerian legends of gods from the sky creating mankind from their blood.
My main point in the previous post was that you should not view that as slavery when we ourselves don't view using animals for work as slavery. We have dogs that sniff or attack, horses that pull and carry, etc.
Or perhaps they don't view using humans as work horses to be slavery. Using their own kind in indentured slavery would be abhorrent, but using an unenlightened animal to do work for you would be ok. Don't we use animals to do work for us. Perhaps we were even genetically modified from the intelligent and aggressive animals that they found here when the arrived. Needing precious metals to repair or refuel their starships, they would need some sort of work animal to extract it from the ground. There are discovered gold mines that date back to before our ancestors even had civilization or society.
In the heat of the moment the data that shows you it is a civilian airline is ignored and filtered out by your mind to fulfill the threat assessment you feel is the true occurrence. Read the Wikipedia article and you can see it talk about this very subject as a possible cause for the mistake. There was lots of evidence that it was not a fighter jet. But that gets overlooked when you believe it is time to act fast and shoot the weapons. Later you have time to look at the situation and see you were wrong, but shooting first and questioning later is probably the wrong way to go about it.
And the number of neurons in the gut has led people to call it the second brain. Plus there are the gut microbes that directly communicate to the brain to change mood and influence behaviour. There is much more to who you are then just the grey matter in the skull.
Plus, they seem to be ignoring the fact that you need to burn the carbon so you can move the carbon to the site for storage. You may lose some electricity by sending it down the wire, but you use fuel when you truck fuel around the country. Unless you send it through a pipeline. But even there it takes energy to run the pumps. Nothing's free!
Nowadays, they shove cocktails into kids that have upwards of 60 pathogens in them. Why not give them a shot a month over a course of time, to give the body a chance to deal with things?
Vaccination is fine. The delivery seems kind of iffy to me, but I'm not a medical professional.
Yep, and a lot of them seem pretty useless to me. Illnesses that are as bad as getting a cold, ohhh we must vaccinate for that. Sexually transmitted diseases for 3 month olds, ohhh better protect those sexually active infants. I say get the serious ones and leave the other crap for the ill-informed lemmings to support the medical-industrial complex.
If they are confirming that it is classified information in the paper's website, then they have confirmed that the leaks are indeed real and true. If they wanted to neither confirm nor deny it's accuracy, then they should not have made a statement about military members avoiding the Guardians website. That right there is the confirmation. I guess the rules don't apply at the top.
You have that backwards. You are looking at the negative values of the items. That is like saying -2 is greater than -1 because 2 is greater than 1. A licence does not allow you to do things, it restricts them. If you look at the number of things restricted rather than allowed you will get the opposite result.
I say we let them research and build these new designs. Let them be the guinea pigs. And when we need the power we should just run wires from their country to ours and let them take all the risks while we get the nice cheap power.
Very informative posting at to what went wrong in the three big disasters. Thanks for posting that. My only concern is people saying these are not problems because now that we have seen these disasters we can engineer around them with the fixes you mentioned. The problem is that there will always be new disasters that people didn't think of. We can't prepare for 100% of even the known possible problems much less the unknown ones. And after everything else you still have human complicity and regulatory capture that cause problems over time.
That's not to say I am against nuclear. I do think burning coal and sending the radiation up the smokestack is ridiculous and would rather have nuclear than that. But it would be nice to deal with the waste in a better way.
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You seem to be contradicting yourself.
In addition, it will make food much less expensive which means your bargaining power goes up, which means less poor people.
Do I think Monsanto is in it to end world hunger? Nope. They're in it to make money, just like any other business.
If Monsanto wants to make profit, they will charge as much as they can. That does not make food cheaper.
GMO has the potential to reduce the need for farmland, which if I were an environmentalist I would be ecstatic for because that means tearing down less forest land to create farms
But commercial GMO will not be created to benefit society. Just like cures for diseases are not researched by commercial drug companies, only treatments that will be life-long. The GMO you will see created is like the Roundup-Ready, spend more money on things to keep them going. Try looking into how bad the "Green Revolution" turned out for the third world countries where it was implemented. Farmers are killing themselves in mass quantities because they cannot farm their land anymore. And it seems you won't mind if that happens elsewere.
Do we use more glyphosate based pesticides? Probably. Given that we have created a situation where the plants we want are immune to them, and it kills the plants we don't want, it wouldn't surprise me in the slightest that we now make more of them. Why, did that surprise you? If it did, that doesn't say much about your intelligence. Glyphosate doesn't end up on our dinner plates in any significant quantities, so it's not a problem.
Here you are with diseases and as a society we have cancer rates climbing and you don't see any problem with poison in our food. Try looking at the rate of miscarriage in the farming industry when the animals are fed GMO food. It may surprise you.
The organic industry hates Monsanto because now they have to compete with their prices. And it sucks for them particularly bad because organic farming has otherwise very high profit margins, but its costs will never go down, even though it is already scientifically proven to offer zero health or taste benefit over any other form of farming.
The scienctific studies were complete BS on that. They looked at one thing only, nutrition content. Did they check for the difference in pesticide and herbicide levels? No. Also, check out the profitability of a small farm per acre compared to a large commercial farm. Link: $1400/acre compared to $35/acre.
Whole Foods is in it to make money as well. And what do you know, I don't shop there because I can't afford their food. I've found that a wal-mart strawberry tastes the same as a whole foods strawberry, only costs about half as much, so I shop there. Does that anger you? Makes me happy to be honest, because as the saying goes: A penny saved is a penny earned.
And the strawberry is the most important food to get organic variety of because of the amount of poison it absorbs. You should seriously look at the food you are putting into your body as you are probably killing yourself. I guess you don't care how sick you are as long as you save your penny. Did you forget to calculate the medical costs. I think that is called "penny wise - pound foolish"! I am happy you are happy, as the sooner you types kill yourselves off we can fix these problems with our food supply.
anti-vaccine movement
9/11 conspiracy theorists
moon landing hoaxers
chemtrail fearmongerers
Yes, it being anti-GMO is every bit as unreasonable and even harmful as all of the above things to me. To me there is no difference, all of these people conveniently ignore any evidence that they might be wrong under the assumption that either there's a corporate conspiracy, the illuminati, or something equally stupid out to
The US has used a false flag operation to get into every major war we have been in. Pear Harbor was nothing new.
Or your insurance agent! Smoke one in the bar while drinking...rates go up on Monday.
Let me be the first to say, HOLY CRAP.
Rates going up is better than having your wife put into that room with the electro-shock floor and you have to watch it. (Ref: Cat's Eye)
I do think your point is very valid. We have no proof of anything, just vague threats of something bad being done by the foreigners. One difference between China and most other countries is that the government there owns or is highly involved in companies. So if we knew the NSA, or even other departments of the U.S. government were making laptops, would we trust that they were not infested with backdoors. We already have evidence that MS Windows exploits are given to the U.S. government before any fixes are even started and they may have even put backdoors into the OS for the government to use. Not too different.
But you can really get better at physical activity by imagining yourself doing it. Bowling, pool, darts etc. Imagine yourself playing a full game and doing great every day and you will get better at it.
Personally, I plan to buy a google nexus not a samsung for precisely the opposite easons given. What I want is a system that if I invest in it, it wil have a path forward. Buying the most stock platform, when it's highly featured, makes a lot more sense to me than buying a flash in the pan setup. Same reason I didn't buy amazons subsidized tablet. For me, my time and effort is worth more than saving $100 on something or having the sexiest screen tweak, only to have it go obsolete or unmaintained in the next gen.
I agree with the stock platform. I don't use the touch-wiz or any Samsung software. I do like their hardware though. My Epic has the slide out keyboard and OLED is just awesome. One thing to consider is the companies feelings towards rooting. Samsung seems to be pretty ambivalent about it, almost even allowing it. I am running Cyanogenmod on my phone and I was surprised at the couple of security updates they came out with for the APK key signing problem. I know Samsung would have taken forever to put out a patch even on a new phone. On my old one, never would be a good guess. I don't know how fast Google puts out their updates, but I would think it should be pretty speedy since they also make the OS.
And everyone used to say Carnivore was made up. And that recording everybody's phone calls and emails would be impossible and that the government would not do that.
Here's proof that the car can be controlled remotely though that port. We also have examples of the car being hacked wirelessly through OnStar and Bluetooth. Why would you thing the NSA or whichever TLA doesn't have the resources to put these two together and control a lot of new cars out there. What else would they be spending their money on? And if they got the car companies to give them the code or the list of vulnerabilities like they got from Microsoft that would make things even easier.
Apply Occam's Razor. User or mechanical failure are much more likely than his car being hacked.
The fact that he was reporting on the same people that have the ability to do this changes the odds somewhat.
The plate readers work just fine. But they are not real-time. Everything gets stored for later perusal just like all our phone calls do. It's not for making us safer, it so they can find dirt on anybody that they want to find dirt on. Just go back and look through the last 10 years worth of phone calls, plate movement records, credit card sales slips, facial recognition hits, etc and make anyone look like a terrorist.
"If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him." -- Cardinal Richelieu
Once you've proved that you can't play nicely with the rest of us, you get some of your rights taken away. Want to vote? Don't commit felonies. It's pretty easy to do.
You don't seem to be aware of just how many felonies you have committed today!
I consider myself experienced, but I would never work for a boss who dares to scream at me.
But that's just the thing, he isn't anyone's boss. It's a volunteer community. The only payment people get is verbal accolades. To make verbal accolades more valuable to the participants you must extend the scale into the negative range also. Like game reviews that never give below 8 are totally worthless. By giving the verbal abuse when warranted and giving verbal accolades when deserved, everybody gets rewarded for their participation.
Let's not forget that it turns out that Zimmerman was indeed following a gun dealing gangsta criminal. Obviously his suspicions turned out to be correct and it was a good thing he kept following him to try to find out what house he went to. Once the cops showed up he would have been able to point them right to the criminal. Just because that criminal then tries to take your life and forces you to shoot them does not make them any less of a criminal, just a dead criminal.
I don't think it's any better that only the ones that get selected into the police gang can have guns either.
Then it should be fine if we also hack their system to figure out who posted each person to the app database. Then the people who put others on the list can be on a list of their own. We'll see how fast they start needing to rely on guns then. Probably just involving calling the cops as they are being beaten to death, but still!
No proof, but it feels better to me. Much of the typing alternates from hand to hand rather than some weird finger twisting contortion. Just look at common two letter combos like 'er', 'ed', and 'es'. Why should I have to reach for any vowels, which are some of the most commonly used letters? Why should a home row key be wasted on a letter that is almost never used, ";"?
But for a touch screen, where only one or two fingers are used it is stupid to use any keyboard there. I much prefer to use alternate keyboards designed for that use case. Palm's Graffiti, 8 Pen, and MessagEase are all way better than Qwerty or Dvorak on a touch screen phone. I also refuse to let the phone complete or correct words for me. I don't want names or strange words to be misinterpreted and changed by my computing device. It is a tool for my use -- I am not a tool for it's use.
I do understand that this is pretty controversial and even I don't completely buy it. I find it an interesting thing to think about since I heard about in on the Ancient Aliens series. Here is a link (http://www.viewzone.com/adamscalendar.html) with information on these very ancient sites with man made structures and mines. The third page in that article gets into the mine shafts and gold. It even goes on to describe the ancient Sumerian legends of gods from the sky creating mankind from their blood.
My main point in the previous post was that you should not view that as slavery when we ourselves don't view using animals for work as slavery. We have dogs that sniff or attack, horses that pull and carry, etc.
Or perhaps they don't view using humans as work horses to be slavery. Using their own kind in indentured slavery would be abhorrent, but using an unenlightened animal to do work for you would be ok. Don't we use animals to do work for us. Perhaps we were even genetically modified from the intelligent and aggressive animals that they found here when the arrived. Needing precious metals to repair or refuel their starships, they would need some sort of work animal to extract it from the ground. There are discovered gold mines that date back to before our ancestors even had civilization or society.
In the heat of the moment the data that shows you it is a civilian airline is ignored and filtered out by your mind to fulfill the threat assessment you feel is the true occurrence. Read the Wikipedia article and you can see it talk about this very subject as a possible cause for the mistake. There was lots of evidence that it was not a fighter jet. But that gets overlooked when you believe it is time to act fast and shoot the weapons. Later you have time to look at the situation and see you were wrong, but shooting first and questioning later is probably the wrong way to go about it.
And the number of neurons in the gut has led people to call it the second brain. Plus there are the gut microbes that directly communicate to the brain to change mood and influence behaviour. There is much more to who you are then just the grey matter in the skull.
Plus, they seem to be ignoring the fact that you need to burn the carbon so you can move the carbon to the site for storage. You may lose some electricity by sending it down the wire, but you use fuel when you truck fuel around the country. Unless you send it through a pipeline. But even there it takes energy to run the pumps. Nothing's free!
Nowadays, they shove cocktails into kids that have upwards of 60 pathogens in them. Why not give them a shot a month over a course of time, to give the body a chance to deal with things?
Vaccination is fine. The delivery seems kind of iffy to me, but I'm not a medical professional.
Yep, and a lot of them seem pretty useless to me. Illnesses that are as bad as getting a cold, ohhh we must vaccinate for that. Sexually transmitted diseases for 3 month olds, ohhh better protect those sexually active infants. I say get the serious ones and leave the other crap for the ill-informed lemmings to support the medical-industrial complex.
Maybe they should not be classifying everything and it's brother as the default stance. It just makes more work for them in the long run.
If they are confirming that it is classified information in the paper's website, then they have confirmed that the leaks are indeed real and true. If they wanted to neither confirm nor deny it's accuracy, then they should not have made a statement about military members avoiding the Guardians website. That right there is the confirmation. I guess the rules don't apply at the top.
You have that backwards. You are looking at the negative values of the items. That is like saying -2 is greater than -1 because 2 is greater than 1. A licence does not allow you to do things, it restricts them. If you look at the number of things restricted rather than allowed you will get the opposite result.
I say we let them research and build these new designs. Let them be the guinea pigs. And when we need the power we should just run wires from their country to ours and let them take all the risks while we get the nice cheap power.
Very informative posting at to what went wrong in the three big disasters. Thanks for posting that. My only concern is people saying these are not problems because now that we have seen these disasters we can engineer around them with the fixes you mentioned. The problem is that there will always be new disasters that people didn't think of. We can't prepare for 100% of even the known possible problems much less the unknown ones. And after everything else you still have human complicity and regulatory capture that cause problems over time.
That's not to say I am against nuclear. I do think burning coal and sending the radiation up the smokestack is ridiculous and would rather have nuclear than that. But it would be nice to deal with the waste in a better way.