Not a single one of your examples are in the same arena as GMO. Not one. Apples contained cyanide before humans existed. Same with every one of your other examples. I see NO reason not to label GMO. I have a right to know what is being claimed as food.

As far as raising your own, in many locales veggie gardens are being frowned on. After all, it's an eyesore, right? It's un-American not to consume, right?

The fact that some in society are to stupid to understand what the label means should have no impact at all on whether I have access to information.

Really? Have you not seen a single republican on the TV? Everywhere you turn some christian nutjob is screaming about the "War on Religion". Seems to me that the "religious right" LOVES to berate and belittle every belief, nonbelief, and outlook that isn't theirs and the second anybody points this out it's suddenly a war on religion.

But then Apple will sue you for having rounded corners. Better off simply patenting a stone cube.

Assuming one has the cash to fight said exploit. Because, most likely, the exploit is being manipulated by deep pockets.

It's not. That's the point of the post - it was in response to the AC seeming to think that the jurors were being paid an acceptable amount.

Jurors get paid $27 a day where I am. Oh - plus a lunch allowance.

This... This is possibly one of the worst things I've ever read. There is a reason this was posted as AC, because he'd have gotten modded into oblivion otherwise. We stand up for ALL freedoms, regardless of if we use them or not because as soon as one freedom is sacrificed it becomes an excuse to lose another, and another. We are seeing that every single day.

If you honestly believe what you just posted, I can only have pity on you. Your excuse was a favorite line of the Gestapo during WWII.

I can only HOPE that a company is held responsible for the actions of software it uses. Otherwise there is literally nothing to keep a company from simply writing software to perform their dark, evil, and malicious acts and simply saying, "It was the computer, oops!"

About to become irrelevant?

I'd love to hear how you came to that conclusion. Please. Anything?

Wow - I sure do wish I got a "Summer Recess" from my job. That'd be awesome. It'd be even more awesome if any work I didn't get done before my "recess" was quietly ignored and allowed to either vanish or get set aside till I got back. Oh - and lifetime healthcare and pension would be neat too!

I hate every single one of these idiots.

Doh! Phoenix is referred to as "The Valley of the Sun" or more commonly simple "The Valley". Totally my screw up there. I thought he was talking about Phoenix in his post.

Doesn't exist anymore? I think their website disagrees with you. And a simple wiki lookup shows the nonsense they've done over the years.

I beg to differ. I spent a summer in Oregon 20 yrs ago and it was routinely 95-100 degrees with 80-90% humidity. Not to bad because it was only that hot for a couple hours a day. And it rained. And there was a breeze. NONE of which you get in Phoenix. It's 100-110 for 12 hours a day. Pounding sun that feels like a physical blow and no breeze to "evaporate the sweat". It feels like a convection oven.

Huh? How is defending your home even remotely the same as walking through the desert on federal land and shooting at random people that *might* be border jumpers? Huge difference.

It is actually illegal to do what they are doing but they get away with it due to the nature of the area.

Water, yes. Power - not so much. We are good with power, in fact we provide a good chunk of California's power. And most of our power is clean - LOTS of hydro here. Well, and a pretty solid nuke-plant.