Honestly, that was based on 15 seconds of google-sleuthing and reading a Wikipedia article. No doubt you're right that they would been developed prior to going to mass market, but going to mass market (or the threat of) is also when the complaints would have started rolling in.

Yes and No. Scientists first discovered that DNA can transfer between organisms in 1946. The first genetically modified plant was produced in 1983, using an antibiotic-resistant tobacco plant. In 1994, the transgenic Flavr Savr tomato (the first GMO food) was approved by the FDA for marketing in the US - the modification allowed the tomato to delay ripening after picking. In the early 1990s, recombinant chymosin was approved for use in several countries, replacing rennet in cheese-making. In the US in 1995, the following transgenic crops received marketing approval: canola with modified oil composition (Calgene), Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) corn/maize (Ciba-Geigy), cotton resistant to the herbicide bromoxynil (Calgene), Bt cotton (Monsanto), Bt potatoes (Monsanto), soybeans resistant to the herbicide glyphosate (Monsanto), virus-resistant squash (Monsanto-Asgrow), and additional delayed ripening tomatoes (DNAP, Zeneca/Peto, and Monsanto). In 2000, with the creation of golden rice, scientists genetically modified food to increase its nutrient value for the first time. As of 2011, the U.S. leads a list of multiple countries in the production of GM crops, and 25 GM crops had received regulatory approval to be grown commercially. As of 2013, roughly 85% of corn, 91% of soybeans, and 88% of cotton produced in the United States are genetically modified.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetically_modified_food

So yes, technically GMO's have been around since before you were born, but GMO foods have only been around since 1994.

85% of corn in the U.S. is GMO
91% of soybeans is GMO
88% of cotton is GMO

That means that within 19 years (since 1994), only 15% or less of those crops are conventionally grown anymore. If that much of a majority of GMO in 19 years isn't too fast, I don't know what is.

Please explain. I, for one, would feel much better about GMO anything that was unable to reproduce on their own because:
1) If they did turn out to be harmful we wouldn't have to worry about future generations of the stuff
2) As a farmer that doesn't buy GMO I wouldn't have to worry about the seeds from another field blowing in and contaminating my crops and causing me to lose my farm due to copyright violations (yes, it happens)
3) Nobody would be able to save their seeds thereby preventing them from going against Monsanto's Terms of Service (no saving seed, purchase only from us).

Personally, I think it's reckless and irresponsible to grow anything GMO that's capable of reproduction on its own without some sort of catalyst...and that goes for plants and animals (such as the genetically engineered frankenfish they're trying to get approved in the U.S.).

Don't like it? Don't use it.

Because people are lazy and people outside of the IT industry think "encryption is hard"

Nor do your delusions of victimhood justify the hatred and attacks against those who don't share your lack of religion (that you wear on your sleeve like a religion).

Perhaps if atheists weren't constantly attacking religion, they wouldn't give to shits about your hipster atheist shoes.

Unreal Tournament also comes to mind.

Because you're going to be busy.
I suggest hookers, a case of viagra and pounds of coke or ex.

Isn't this what this whole discussion is about?

Not if you're the mechanic being paid to fix said car (think later down the road when they're affordable).

I use Twitter when the option is available only because they don't collect data on me like facebook does. If it's facebook only, I usually won't sign up.

...about as much as I want a Windoze phone. Not at all.

I use a tablet (Kindle Fire to be exact) for e-books and I like it just fine, but I only use it for free or low-price books. The problem I have with e-books is you lose all your rights with them. With real ink & paper books you can do what you want with them. They're yours forever until you decide to sell/trade/lend/donate/etc... them. With e-books, you don't have those options (yes yes, Amazon lets you "lend" a book...sometimes...with restrictions) and they're never really yours. They're only yours until that e-book provider shuts down, then your SOL. Just imagine what would have happened if Borders had their own e-book service like Amazon and Barns-n-Nobles when they went out of business. All those "books" you paid would have paid good money for (usually just as much as a real book) gone with no hope of return.

Uh, no we're not. The liberals you speak of are mostly California refugees that are fleeing the product of the choices they've made, laws and regulations they've mandated and politicians they've voted in. They're broke and it's their fault, but they'll never understand nor admit that it's the result of the choices they've made. Now they're spreading and they're going to fuck the rest of us the way they've fucked themselves.