i was just reading an informal critique of so-called 'miracle' Big Agra GMO/patented seed stocks, and it appears it is 90% PR, and 10% kinda/sorta did some sort of 'good'...
so called 'golden rice' ? practically a myth, mostly PR...
remember, most all these 'improvements' have NOTHING to do with real benefits for the farmer and consumer: they LOCK THEM INTO a monopoly system where they are DEPENDENT upon the monsantos/et al of the world, for the chemicals these crops, this method REQUIRES...
remember, many/most of these GMO/hybrid 'improvements' are to WITHSTAND the deleterious effects of pesticides and herbicides; do you want to guess who sells those chems which WILL toxify the soil over time (not to mention mere humans and livestock) ? ? ?
further, the common arrangement is the farmers are NOT allowed to save THEIR OWN SEED STOCK without paying extortion to Big Agra... that has been the basic economic basis of agriculture since the freaking beginning of agriculture:
besides taking advantage of a broken patent system in cornering the market on OUR COLLECTIVE heritage of agricultural/etc genomes, their stated goals are inherently eeee-vil: a vast wasteland of Big Agri monoculture 'farms' dependent upon an unnatural system of endless cycles of artificial over-fertilization, continual dousing in pesticides and herbicides, and GMO/'patented' crops designed for 'durability' and 'consistency' (NOT flavor/nutrition), controlled by them to accrue all the profits, but 'owned' by others to take all the downside risks and live in perpetual serfdom to monsanto/banksters...
works great if your only goal is profit for the 1%... hmmm...
you mean supposedly 'trustworthy', 'serious', 'professional' li'l masters of the universe go ON THE RECORD just -you know- blueskyin' about ASSASSINATING US citizens and that is just supposed to be bar talk ? ? ?
urine idjit (or enn ess ehh bot)...
come the revolution, i know which side you'll be on... traitor
...*and* the stupid shits don't even realize that breaking down, doing an end-run, or simply ignoring the protections afforded to Snowden (or anyone) is signing THEIR OWN death warrant (AND -in fact and in deed- *i* think they have already done so):
the VERY INSTITUTIONS/people who have the most extreme powers and capabilities to ENFORCE THE LAW, are advocating breaking the law -and actually breaking the law- in a non-trivial manner for petty revenge fantasies...
um, did it occur to those einsteins that when they establish the illegal/immoral practices they have, that NONE OF THEIR LIVES ARE SAFE FROM ALL OF US ? ? ?
they have dispensed with law and morality for their convenience; how long before we turn those same 'principles' (sic) on them ? ? ? fuckin' 'tards...
Re: Re: Re: Response to: Anonymous Coward on Jan 15th, 2014 @ 5:53am
pedant alert! *actually* part of the sissification of contemporary yard apes, is that they *don't* eat 'mudpies'/etc like we did as kids... okay, like i did as a kid...
that exposure to various germies, etc is what stimulates our immune systems... is why the medicos think we have such a high percentage of asthmatic kids: they don't get exposed to 'stuff' outside we need to be exposed to in order to develop resistance, etc... more dirt, less bleach ! ! !
we've thought we should backcharge dish network for all our outages... i'm sure that would work like a charm...
was talking to SWMBO about looking into dish's satellite inertnet services, but she says 'satellite teevee goes out during rain storms -which hardly ever happens in florida- so why do i want my inertnet data to be dropped like that ?' end of discussion...
not only that, but pay a fine/pittance (*maybe*) AND TAKE A TAX WRITEOFF FOR IT, so that WE sheeple effectively end up paying the fine... (in more ways than one...)
you posit why such positions would be taken when they are inimicable to the interests of the 99%... (you POS spel-czech, INIMICABLE is TOO a word! ! !)
well, you've answered your own question: because thisy here ball-o-mud is NOT run for the interests of us 99%, but the interests of the 1%... that's our problem in a nutshell...
evidently you have missed the myriad of 'legal' decisions (um, citizens united ring a bell?) where korporations ARE considered not only 'persons', but SUPERIOR to mere, actual, flesh-and-blood persons in numerous respects...
in our upside-down bizarro world, soulless, immoral, immortal, fictitious entities we lovingly call korporations, have SUPERIOR rights to us 99%...
um, except works -not just films, but CONTEMPORARY computer programs/games/etc- ARE BEING 'LOST', for-freaking-ever...
so, let's review shall we: we ARE losing works, that is NOT a guess, or a possibility, or a slim theoretical chance, it IS happening...
thus, you are wrong on the actual factuals, secondly, the problem is only exacerbated by fantastical 'rights' which lock out everyone -practically speaking- for-freaking-ever...
in case you don't know, (at least in la florida) you can volunteer for jury duty...
having served on a couple, and gotten dismissed for a couple more, i can say the whole process is problematic from every angle: ANYONE with two brain cells to rub together can easily figure out how to worm out of jury duty with little effort...
(personally, i think jury service is a SMALL, TINY price to pay for having a (so-called) small dee democracy, that i was/am proud to do when called...)
also, UNLESS you are a fire-breathing dragon of a jury member who can rally all the other jurists to go the 'jury nullification' route, you are hard-pressed to avoid the legal conclusion you are funneled into by the judge and persecutors...
i don't care HOW much you want 'justice' in any case, your hands are bound when it comes to the 'legal' proscriptions that are put on your deciding the case...
i will see your skepticism, and raise you my cynicism:
1. the field of play is changing beneath our feet, the persecution (no typo) of the aaron's (browning, manning, snowden, ALL of them) of the world is no anomaly, no rogue DA, etc; that IS the new world odor: order with an ardor... The They (tm) mean to make the trains run on time...
2. as i made the point previously: it doesn't matter if the cracking of DRM/etc is child's play, DESTROYING the child who did so will be/has been/shall be done to such 'cyber-terrorists'... hell, they'll make decompiling/reverse engineering a 'cyber-krime', and lock you away longer than a murderer...(oh, its a'comin', kampers...) 3. i'm not sure the puppetmasters are so concerned about a darknet/bitcoin underground of 1% or less; they will control the propaganda/commerce going to 99%... the inertnet will become another tool of oppression and consumption... besides, that 1% will be de facto 'cyber-terrorists', thus subject to being shot on sight... with a bounty... yeah, picture that: hunger games, except you move among the populace, and they get paid a bounty on your head, dead or alive... more like escape from new york... except ain't no snake blisken gonna save your ass... from what i've read, it only takes about 4-5% of the sheeple to rise up on their hind legs and bare their fangs at Empire, to make a difference... only 4-5%... i KNOW there is at least 10 times that amount who are fed up with this bullshit...
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Re:
so called 'golden rice' ? practically a myth, mostly PR...
remember, most all these 'improvements' have NOTHING to do with real benefits for the farmer and consumer: they LOCK THEM INTO a monopoly system where they are DEPENDENT upon the monsantos/et al of the world, for the chemicals these crops, this method REQUIRES...
remember, many/most of these GMO/hybrid 'improvements' are to WITHSTAND the deleterious effects of pesticides and herbicides; do you want to guess who sells those chems which WILL toxify the soil over time (not to mention mere humans and livestock) ? ? ?
further, the common arrangement is the farmers are NOT allowed to save THEIR OWN SEED STOCK without paying extortion to Big Agra...
that has been the basic economic basis of agriculture since the freaking beginning of agriculture:
MONSANTO ET AL ARE DRM'ing AGRICULTURE ! ! !
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Re: Re: Maybe I'm missing something but...
another episode of 'you can't be too cynical'...
monsanto = eeee-vil
besides taking advantage of a broken patent system in cornering the market on OUR COLLECTIVE heritage of agricultural/etc genomes, their stated goals are inherently eeee-vil: a vast wasteland of Big Agri monoculture 'farms' dependent upon an unnatural system of endless cycles of artificial over-fertilization, continual dousing in pesticides and herbicides, and GMO/'patented' crops designed for 'durability' and 'consistency' (NOT flavor/nutrition), controlled by them to accrue all the profits, but 'owned' by others to take all the downside risks and live in perpetual serfdom to monsanto/banksters...
works great if your only goal is profit for the 1%...
hmmm...
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Re: Re: Re: No one can be trusted with power. You're tacitly implying: gov't bad / corporations good.
/pedant off
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Re: Re: Re:
urine idjit (or enn ess ehh bot)...
come the revolution, i know which side you'll be on...
traitor
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Re:
the VERY INSTITUTIONS/people who have the most extreme powers and capabilities to ENFORCE THE LAW, are advocating breaking the law -and actually breaking the law- in a non-trivial manner for petty revenge fantasies...
um, did it occur to those einsteins that when they establish the illegal/immoral practices they have, that NONE OF THEIR LIVES ARE SAFE FROM ALL OF US ? ? ?
they have dispensed with law and morality for their convenience; how long before we turn those same 'principles' (sic) on them ? ? ?
fuckin' 'tards...
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Re:
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in soviet russia...
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Re:
hhh
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Re: Re: Re: Response to: Anonymous Coward on Jan 15th, 2014 @ 5:53am
*actually* part of the sissification of contemporary yard apes, is that they *don't* eat 'mudpies'/etc like we did as kids...
okay, like i did as a kid...
that exposure to various germies, etc is what stimulates our immune systems...
is why the medicos think we have such a high percentage of asthmatic kids: they don't get exposed to 'stuff' outside we need to be exposed to in order to develop resistance, etc...
more dirt, less bleach ! ! !
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Re: Re:
almost NEVER look at the weather channel, etc...
kind of funny to see the -sometimes- significantly divergent forecasts among local weather droids, and various online forecasts...
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Re:
excellent point...
we've thought we should backcharge dish network for all our outages... i'm sure that would work like a charm...
was talking to SWMBO about looking into dish's satellite inertnet services, but she says 'satellite teevee goes out during rain storms -which hardly ever happens in florida- so why do i want my inertnet data to be dropped like that ?'
end of discussion...
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Re: On a side issue.
(in more ways than one...)
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Re: Re: Well! Mike almost sorta derides any corporate "First Amendment Right"!
that was probably spot on, memphis...
hee hee hee
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here's the nub of the dilemma...
(you POS spel-czech, INIMICABLE is TOO a word! ! !)
well, you've answered your own question: because thisy here ball-o-mud is NOT run for the interests of us 99%, but the interests of the 1%...
that's our problem in a nutshell...
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Re: Re:
evidently you have missed the myriad of 'legal' decisions (um, citizens united ring a bell?) where korporations ARE considered not only 'persons', but SUPERIOR to mere, actual, flesh-and-blood persons in numerous respects...
in our upside-down bizarro world, soulless, immoral, immortal, fictitious entities we lovingly call korporations, have SUPERIOR rights to us 99%...
On the post: Copyright Week: Our Lost Culture: What We Lose From Having Killed The Public Domain
Re: Re:
so, let's review shall we:
we ARE losing works, that is NOT a guess, or a possibility, or a slim theoretical chance, it IS happening...
thus, you are wrong on the actual factuals, secondly, the problem is only exacerbated by fantastical 'rights' which lock out everyone -practically speaking- for-freaking-ever...
you really should get out more...
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Re: Re: Re: Uhm... wow
having served on a couple, and gotten dismissed for a couple more, i can say the whole process is problematic from every angle: ANYONE with two brain cells to rub together can easily figure out how to worm out of jury duty with little effort...
(personally, i think jury service is a SMALL, TINY price to pay for having a (so-called) small dee democracy, that i was/am proud to do when called...)
also, UNLESS you are a fire-breathing dragon of a jury member who can rally all the other jurists to go the 'jury nullification' route, you are hard-pressed to avoid the legal conclusion you are funneled into by the judge and persecutors...
i don't care HOW much you want 'justice' in any case, your hands are bound when it comes to the 'legal' proscriptions that are put on your deciding the case...
On the post: Hollywood Needs The Internet More Than The Internet Needs Hollywood... So Why Is The W3C Pretending Otherwise?
Re: People will network
1. the field of play is changing beneath our feet, the persecution (no typo) of the aaron's (browning, manning, snowden, ALL of them) of the world is no anomaly, no rogue DA, etc; that IS the new world odor: order with an ardor...
The They (tm) mean to make the trains run on time...
2. as i made the point previously: it doesn't matter if the cracking of DRM/etc is child's play, DESTROYING the child who did so will be/has been/shall be done to such 'cyber-terrorists'...
hell, they'll make decompiling/reverse engineering a 'cyber-krime', and lock you away longer than a murderer...(oh, its a'comin', kampers...)
3. i'm not sure the puppetmasters are so concerned about a darknet/bitcoin underground of 1% or less; they will control the propaganda/commerce going to 99%... the inertnet will become another tool of oppression and consumption...
besides, that 1% will be de facto 'cyber-terrorists', thus subject to being shot on sight...
with a bounty...
yeah, picture that:
hunger games, except you move among the populace, and they get paid a bounty on your head, dead or alive...
more like escape from new york...
except ain't no snake blisken gonna save your ass...
from what i've read, it only takes about 4-5% of the sheeple to rise up on their hind legs and bare their fangs at Empire, to make a difference... only 4-5%...
i KNOW there is at least 10 times that amount who are fed up with this bullshit...
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Re:
you may now resume your normal programming...
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well, finally, a use for the enn ess ehh...
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