Not really, today most commercial seeds are already hybrids, that is, you have to buy the seed every year. Off course, you are free to buy "organic seeds" and plant them, but you wont have the bebefits of the highly-selected hybrid seeds. Being a GMO has nothing to do with being a hybrid.
And here I am, in Brazil. Just voted this afternoon and we already have 87% of the votes (about 124 million people voted) processed and in a few hours we will know the results. Sure, less than 1% of the voting machines had problems, and were they had we used paper voting.
Electronic voting works just fine:)
The current results (ipdated every 5 minutes):
http://eleicoes.folha.uol.com.br/folha/especial/20 06/eleicoes/apuracao1.html
We've got it working here in brazil for ten years now. We were the first country in the world to have fully eletronic elections (since the year 2000). We also lend the machines to Paraguay and Ecuador, and currently have plans to start exporting the technology. On presidential election we can have the results within 12 hours, and in small towns, within a few minutes.
BTW, it runs on Linux.
Just my 2 cents:)
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Not really, today most commercial seeds are already hybrids, that is, you have to buy the seed every year. Off course, you are free to buy "organic seeds" and plant them, but you wont have the bebefits of the highly-selected hybrid seeds. Being a GMO has nothing to do with being a hybrid.
Nobody messes with Texas!
And here I am, in Brazil. Just voted this afternoon and we already have 87% of the votes (about 124 million people voted) processed and in a few hours we will know the results. Sure, less than 1% of the voting machines had problems, and were they had we used paper voting. Electronic voting works just fine :)
The current results (ipdated every 5 minutes):
http://eleicoes.folha.uol.com.br/folha/especial/20 06/eleicoes/apuracao1.html
We've got it working here in brazil for ten years now. We were the first country in the world to have fully eletronic elections (since the year 2000). We also lend the machines to Paraguay and Ecuador, and currently have plans to start exporting the technology. On presidential election we can have the results within 12 hours, and in small towns, within a few minutes. BTW, it runs on Linux. Just my 2 cents :)