I guess you'll class this as MIVF + NIMBY + FUD/ECON.
Do you know how to code DNA to make protein fold in a specific way and not as a possible isomer? If so, you'll be able to explain to me why there is no danger of producing prions because of the changed "context" of a spliced gene. Prions (discovered by a radiation biologist) replicate themselves by "infecting" normally-formed proteins, causing them to shift to the isomeric form of the prion. The prion that causes CJD & BSE can't be destroyed except with powerful reagents or incineration. I marvel at your confidence that this sort of thing could never happen with GMO proteins.
And, NO, I do not want it in my back yard. Not only do those nice folks at Monsanto let their GM pollen float where it may -- they'll charge you for it if they find out their GMOs have infected anything you're growing. This is a crime somewhere between entrapment and rape.
You people are criminals and should be incarcerated.
Ok, I'm saying it now: I DON'T WANT THE SHIT!
You seem to think that the contamination is like a chemical spill or an oil slick. Wrong! Oil slicks don't reproduce themselves. Oil slicks don't turn nearby unoiled water into oil slicks. And there's something more fundamental: Your body runs the same code as what they're fucking with. What happens when you fill your computer's memory with snippets of virus? Probably nothing, but it won't work too well.
Do you know what "al qaeda" means? It is Arabic for "the base" or "the database". It is the database of Muslim CIA assets that were used to kick the USSR out of Afghanistan.
Yes, the terrorists are really laughing at you -- and I am, too, when I'm not crying.
"On 9/11 we were stunned by how relatively easy it was for terrorists to bring down the world trade towers and harm the pentagon."
Yeah, all they had to do was wait for was a drill to be held simulating their actual attacks to strike and -- hey Presto! NORAD sits scratching its ass while you complete your attacks. It's so obviously set up. Anybody remember Payne Stewart?
I haven't found any details of this "generator" Most of the claims of free energy devices recently have involved the interaction of electromagnetic fields with the so-called "zero point field". As Feynmann describes quantum events by saying (I'm paraphrasing) "Everything happens in every possible way". Many papers have appeared recently explaining inertial mass as the interaction of a massive object's EM (and nuclear) fields with the zero point field in an accelerated reference frame. Claims for these generators usually explain that the energy comes from the this same interaction. I don't see how this violates the 1st law, because the energy just comes from gravitational potential, like a hydro plant. I can't see getting around the 2nd law, but I've been wrong before.
I'm sorry but you did not understand: One of the purposes of the Viet Nam war was to depopulate the Southeast Asian peninsula. The rendering radioactive of Mesopotamia and now Lebanon has a similar goal in mind. I cannot imagine a more potent act of war than to render your enemy's land unlivable. Remember after the 3rd Punic war the entire surrounds of Carthage was sewn with salt to render it useless.
Of course, this media thing is not new. We actually were making significant progress in Vietnam forty years ago.
Significant progress, yes we were, so significant that Agent Orange has contaminated the ecological base in Viet Nam: the mangroves. If only those damned liberal journalists had let us use nukes!
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Um, by the way, what exactly does this have to do with terrorism? The actions of nation-states such as Germany are very poor models for the actions of tiny groups like al-Qaida. And I can't help noticing distinct similarities between your proposed solution to the world's problems (kill all the Muslims) and Hitler's (kill all the Jews).
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Easy, The same folks who financed the Nazis are the driving force behind Al CIAda. It's all terrorism. You just haven't identified the real terrorists.
I noticed that Slashdot only mangled my post in the region where I said, "I'm in the same position on marriage that I am on Judaism: Is Judaism a race or a religion? I think that's what offended the Slashdot Censors.
All right, I'll address all of your complaints about 3rd party agendas point-by-point:
Legalizing prostitution: Reductio ad absurdum - the alternative, illegalizing prostitution, forces prostitutes (and their pimps, and their drug dealers) to concentrate in areas where the police only make enough arrests to outrage the populace that "this sort of thing is going on". No real attempt is made to eradicate prostitution, however, because anyone in touch with reality will be aware that this cannot be done. In addition, illegalizing prostitution turns the women (and men) who are arrested into criminals who CANNOT find any other employment. This perpetuates the concetration into "Red Light Districts".
Legalizing drugs: I hope it is obvious to any intelligent person tI'm in the same position concerning gay marrhat the War on Drugs has been an abject failure -- for the American people. For the suppliers of illegal drugs it has been a resounding success. Coca cultivation in Colombia was a small part of the national economy until President Nixon declared the "War on DRUGS" in 1971. Now the return is so high for coca cultivation that innumerable peasant farmers in S. America have opted for the cash crop: Coca. In response, President Clinton appropiated almost $4 billion, most of which has gone into the poisoning the Andes. Where did the $4 billion come from??? Of course, the War on Drugs fits in admirably with the race-based agenda of the neocons: Marginalizing and imprisoning minorities.
Gay Marriage: I'm in much the same place on marriage as I am on "Jewishness": Is Judaism a religion or a race? Is marriage a religious sacrament or a state institution? If it's a religious sacrament then there's no way goverment should have a say in who gets married and who does not. If it's a state institution I would question the identity of the state institution and the (most probable) human practice. And you can't have it both ways.
As for the Green Agenda, I've already answered the drugs issue and the same-sex marriage issue. I can't recall the Green Party's advocating the abolition of the Senate - I think your're just plain wrong there. I haven't heard, either, that the Greens are for abolishing all intelligence agencies. Abolishing the Death Penalty? Well, it's worked all right in Illinois. Destroying the US economy????? I submit that the US economy is already in the process of being destroyed by the Republicrats. You think that spending billions of dollars to destroy and poison Mesopotamia and the Andes is good for the economy? I can't even respnd to such a ridiculous statement.
If the $12.50 minimum wage a plank in the Green Platform (which I've never seen, btw) it would be an inadequate adjustment for inflation from the original minimum wage. Note, I do not support the minimum wage in connection with open borders (which the Republicrats seem to support.)
I disagree with the Green Party's support of public education, but if my wife gets a pimple, I don't shoot her.
Of course, not all nuclear plants should be shut down, but a serious discussion on the disposal of radioactive waste should be top priority. This is not being done and this inaction, I think, is at the heart of the Green objection to nuclear plants.
Break up corporations with over 10% of market share? I disagree with it on principle but think of all the problesms that would solve.
Employees directly electing their managers? That's just horsesh**, a holdover from the pseudo-Marxist, pseudo-Socialist origins of the Green party, if it is real.
Break up the 500 largest businesses in America: Wouldn't be bad if they're doing bad things!
I don't agree with mandatory parental, educational or vacation bull**** but then, I think the necessity of interjecting another voice into the corporate newspeak would be healthy as a whole.
As for the Green's rejection of the WTO, I couldn't agree more. Globalization is the medium by which you will die.
So how about this: The Green Libertarian party. Its motto could be "Inasmuch as government preserves the systems that keep us all alive, it is good. Anything more or less is bad."
I, for one, would like to see billions of $ in fines levied against Halliburton for filling the atmosphere with U238 dust. And for all of the pharmaceuticals being pissed into the water supply... that would put several big pharma's out of business. These are NOT victimless crimes and therefore fair game for prosecution under a Libertarian agenda.
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I guess you'll class this as MIVF + NIMBY + FUD/ECON. Do you know how to code DNA to make protein fold in a specific way and not as a possible isomer? If so, you'll be able to explain to me why there is no danger of producing prions because of the changed "context" of a spliced gene. Prions (discovered by a radiation biologist) replicate themselves by "infecting" normally-formed proteins, causing them to shift to the isomeric form of the prion. The prion that causes CJD & BSE can't be destroyed except with powerful reagents or incineration. I marvel at your confidence that this sort of thing could never happen with GMO proteins. And, NO, I do not want it in my back yard. Not only do those nice folks at Monsanto let their GM pollen float where it may -- they'll charge you for it if they find out their GMOs have infected anything you're growing. This is a crime somewhere between entrapment and rape. You people are criminals and should be incarcerated.
Ok, I'm saying it now: I DON'T WANT THE SHIT! You seem to think that the contamination is like a chemical spill or an oil slick. Wrong! Oil slicks don't reproduce themselves. Oil slicks don't turn nearby unoiled water into oil slicks. And there's something more fundamental: Your body runs the same code as what they're fucking with. What happens when you fill your computer's memory with snippets of virus? Probably nothing, but it won't work too well.
Do you know what "al qaeda" means? It is Arabic for "the base" or "the database". It is the database of Muslim CIA assets that were used to kick the USSR out of Afghanistan. Yes, the terrorists are really laughing at you -- and I am, too, when I'm not crying.
It's called a zagrit.
"On 9/11 we were stunned by how relatively easy it was for terrorists to bring down the world trade towers and harm the pentagon." Yeah, all they had to do was wait for was a drill to be held simulating their actual attacks to strike and -- hey Presto! NORAD sits scratching its ass while you complete your attacks. It's so obviously set up. Anybody remember Payne Stewart?
You got it! Cui bono?
I said this on 9/11/2001. All you have to do is ask yourself cui bono - who benefit?
Of course the terrorist are laughing at you. Just watch Rumsfeld or any number of Neocon Nazgul on TV. Of course, with W it's more of a smirk.
Verbs don't have cases unless they're being used as gerunds.
I haven't found any details of this "generator" Most of the claims of free energy devices recently have involved the interaction of electromagnetic fields with the so-called "zero point field". As Feynmann describes quantum events by saying (I'm paraphrasing) "Everything happens in every possible way". Many papers have appeared recently explaining inertial mass as the interaction of a massive object's EM (and nuclear) fields with the zero point field in an accelerated reference frame. Claims for these generators usually explain that the energy comes from the this same interaction. I don't see how this violates the 1st law, because the energy just comes from gravitational potential, like a hydro plant. I can't see getting around the 2nd law, but I've been wrong before.
My ass. Give me just a dime for every non-compliance I can find - I'll be riiiiich!
Yes, it's dark, like fudge.
I'm sorry but you did not understand: One of the purposes of the Viet Nam war was to depopulate the Southeast Asian peninsula. The rendering radioactive of Mesopotamia and now Lebanon has a similar goal in mind. I cannot imagine a more potent act of war than to render your enemy's land unlivable. Remember after the 3rd Punic war the entire surrounds of Carthage was sewn with salt to render it useless.
Yes, how about Pat Kennedy's latest escapade. Those Kennedys!
I get it now: DRUGS BAAAAD!
I agree. They may call themselves Christian, but their actions belie them. Just like you, you rancid piece of slime.
[clip] Um, by the way, what exactly does this have to do with terrorism? The actions of nation-states such as Germany are very poor models for the actions of tiny groups like al-Qaida. And I can't help noticing distinct similarities between your proposed solution to the world's problems (kill all the Muslims) and Hitler's (kill all the Jews). [/clip] Easy, The same folks who financed the Nazis are the driving force behind Al CIAda. It's all terrorism. You just haven't identified the real terrorists.
Ok, substitute "the elite power structure" for "Islamic terrorists" and I'll agree with you.
Yeah, but it said "the internet" was just 15. That's just wrong. I had readnews, ftp and telnet long before 1991.
Then how come google "Groups" says that I have posts dated 1988?
Dr. Becker was crucified for expressing these "views"
I noticed that Slashdot only mangled my post in the region where I said, "I'm in the same position on marriage that I am on Judaism: Is Judaism a race or a religion? I think that's what offended the Slashdot Censors.
All right, I'll address all of your complaints about 3rd party agendas point-by-point: Legalizing prostitution: Reductio ad absurdum - the alternative, illegalizing prostitution, forces prostitutes (and their pimps, and their drug dealers) to concentrate in areas where the police only make enough arrests to outrage the populace that "this sort of thing is going on". No real attempt is made to eradicate prostitution, however, because anyone in touch with reality will be aware that this cannot be done. In addition, illegalizing prostitution turns the women (and men) who are arrested into criminals who CANNOT find any other employment. This perpetuates the concetration into "Red Light Districts". Legalizing drugs: I hope it is obvious to any intelligent person tI'm in the same position concerning gay marrhat the War on Drugs has been an abject failure -- for the American people. For the suppliers of illegal drugs it has been a resounding success. Coca cultivation in Colombia was a small part of the national economy until President Nixon declared the "War on DRUGS" in 1971. Now the return is so high for coca cultivation that innumerable peasant farmers in S. America have opted for the cash crop: Coca. In response, President Clinton appropiated almost $4 billion, most of which has gone into the poisoning the Andes. Where did the $4 billion come from??? Of course, the War on Drugs fits in admirably with the race-based agenda of the neocons: Marginalizing and imprisoning minorities. Gay Marriage: I'm in much the same place on marriage as I am on "Jewishness": Is Judaism a religion or a race? Is marriage a religious sacrament or a state institution? If it's a religious sacrament then there's no way goverment should have a say in who gets married and who does not. If it's a state institution I would question the identity of the state institution and the (most probable) human practice. And you can't have it both ways. As for the Green Agenda, I've already answered the drugs issue and the same-sex marriage issue. I can't recall the Green Party's advocating the abolition of the Senate - I think your're just plain wrong there. I haven't heard, either, that the Greens are for abolishing all intelligence agencies. Abolishing the Death Penalty? Well, it's worked all right in Illinois. Destroying the US economy????? I submit that the US economy is already in the process of being destroyed by the Republicrats. You think that spending billions of dollars to destroy and poison Mesopotamia and the Andes is good for the economy? I can't even respnd to such a ridiculous statement. If the $12.50 minimum wage a plank in the Green Platform (which I've never seen, btw) it would be an inadequate adjustment for inflation from the original minimum wage. Note, I do not support the minimum wage in connection with open borders (which the Republicrats seem to support.) I disagree with the Green Party's support of public education, but if my wife gets a pimple, I don't shoot her. Of course, not all nuclear plants should be shut down, but a serious discussion on the disposal of radioactive waste should be top priority. This is not being done and this inaction, I think, is at the heart of the Green objection to nuclear plants. Break up corporations with over 10% of market share? I disagree with it on principle but think of all the problesms that would solve. Employees directly electing their managers? That's just horsesh**, a holdover from the pseudo-Marxist, pseudo-Socialist origins of the Green party, if it is real. Break up the 500 largest businesses in America: Wouldn't be bad if they're doing bad things! I don't agree with mandatory parental, educational or vacation bull**** but then, I think the necessity of interjecting another voice into the corporate newspeak would be healthy as a whole. As for the Green's rejection of the WTO, I couldn't agree more. Globalization is the medium by which you will die.
So how about this: The Green Libertarian party. Its motto could be "Inasmuch as government preserves the systems that keep us all alive, it is good. Anything more or less is bad." I, for one, would like to see billions of $ in fines levied against Halliburton for filling the atmosphere with U238 dust. And for all of the pharmaceuticals being pissed into the water supply... that would put several big pharma's out of business. These are NOT victimless crimes and therefore fair game for prosecution under a Libertarian agenda.