Nope. It's $10,000 of seed, and $100,000 in manual labour picking weeds, or $50,000 in seed (GMO roundup resistant) and $50,000 in Roundup.

The second one is easier and cheaper, and much worse for the consumer and environment. Now what do you pick?

Nope. The term "pesticide" includes herbicide. And pretty much the point of them most of the time is to be Roundup resistant. Then sell the farmers 100x the amount of roundup you could normally use. The crops live, all the weeds die. Spray more. Spray often.

That you didn't know that the #1 product from Monsanto (the #1 maker of GMO) was designed in increase, not decrease pesticide use pretty much means that people should believe the opposite of anything you say.

You are choosing to drive. If they actually did that tax, public transport would quickly improve as everyone rushed to use it.

But the scientists tell us that GMOs with pesticide in them is "safe". Not "less safe, but still safe enough". But just plain "safe". And if we choose to diafgree about what we put in our bodits, they call us anti-intellectual idiots.

A lot of this really just boils down to 60s ideas of environmentalism and reducing pollution. It's just that the modern spin ads an extra level of extreme hysterics to the situation that are likely to alienate people and trigger skepticism.

Although you are probably right. If you ask all of the apathetic types just going along or even the true blue tree huggers to really sacrifice, you will probably get a much different answer.

That's probably why you have this whole subject wrapped in hysteria to begin with. Someone thinks they need to generate a sense of urgency by any means necessary.

VMware has better USB and SATA device support. It requires less resources to run multiple VMs (compared to virtualbox) and more readily supports virtual clusters.

Although I could certainly see how most other desktop VM users would be perfectly satisfied with Virtualbox.

George Carlin had a great routine on this subject. He correctly surmised that we were all guinea pigs. His particular example was birth control pills but this could apply equally to any new chemical or product. We usually really don't know the full implications of something until it's been tested by the end user. There usually isn't sufficient "science" done beforehand to really trust a new drug or product. So we are ultimately all guinea pigs and we have to just see what happens.

Unfortunately by that point it's hard to isolate all the variables.

If cancers and allergies go up, who do you blame? There are so many possible culprits.

Also, science is much harder and much less certain than the talking heads will admit.

There is no health benefit to taking a perfectly useful plant and adding more poisons to it. It doesn't matter if it's what occurs in the planet naturally or some other product that someone wants to sell to your local farmer (Roundup).

We already grow more than enough food. We have been letting food rot in order to prop up commodities prices since before you were born.

GMO means genetically modified (implies cross-species genetic transfer). Some are things like having your food produce poison (insecticide). I'm not sure how my food containing more poison is more safe. Have the scientists actually studied it, or are they just assuming it's safe because other scientists made it?

All the 'Libre' crowd rants about the source code of the software, but somehow gives a pass about the hardware not being open ...

You haven't been watching very closely.

*I* have been ranting on slashdot about AMT for years. Look it up.

How exactly could Google even stop Microsoft? The OS allows for side loading and alternative stores. If Microsoft can't get on the Play store, they could just sell their stuff through Amazon.

That summary makes absolutely no sense.

Next you know the young whipper-snappers will take "variables" and call them "dynamic constants"

In Bluetooth (especially Bluetoothe Low Energy (BLE)) they already reanamed them. They call one a "characteristic" (when you include the metadata describing it) or a "characteristic value" (when you mean just the the current value of the variable itself).

It's consistent because it's the best way to tax the middle class and re-distribute it to the ruling elite. Own the rail line, make billions. Own the copper, make billions. That's always the American plan. And why nobody else follows it.

So because you've never had a computer with AMT, AMT doesn't exist? That's some weird logic you have. If your computer has WoL (most do) it has an "Active" network connection (as in a passive listening connection), even when you disable WoL, it's still listening, it just doesn't do anything. You don't have to electrically light your "transmit" wires to hear what's on the receive wires.

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=wake+on+l...

You also have the greater power of 4 vs 2, for higher takeoff weight, greater climb rate, and such. If your 2 engine aircraft can climb with one engine, then it's similarly oversized. No 4-engine aircraft in passenger use today can climb with only one engine. So if your 2-engine craft can, then you've made the same problem you are complaining about.