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Comment Re:Other opponents (Score 1) 446

How is printing of a lable going to make the food more expensive, its only going to effect non-gmo products as they will have to remain complient, as organic products do today. But your average box of corn dogs from walmart is just going to slap "contains GMO ingredients" on the side of it and its job done, 20c per million boxes. Adding the lables is almost cost free, keeping the non gmo products free of contamination will be costly, but then a proportion of people would be willing to pay for that, and you have opened up a whole new premium market, as has happened with organic produce. The lables provide for choice. You pay your money and takes your choice, cheap gmo food or expesive non-gmo food, what is the problem? Where is the cost?.

This whole thing sounds more like idealology than common sense. People cant be trusted to make choices, or so some belive. The US is founded on personal responsability and choice, and the anti-labling lobby want to take that away, and play we know best for everybody. I dont care if its proven to be safe by a burecracy that has been known to lie through its teeth in the past, its my choice and i want to minimize my exposure to GMO products. That may sound irrational to some, but its my body, my call.

Why is the average american unable to tell when they are being bent over and fucked in the ass by the corporations they idolise.

Comment Re:Everyone has a financial stake in this (Score 1) 446

How can it possibly be more expensive to print on a lable saying "contains genetical modified organisms", than it costs to print "made in the USA", are the letters used in the gmo warning magicaly more expensive than their non gmo lable counterparts.

The whole cost issue is a red herring, companies continiosly revise thier packaging on a month to month basis. Why do pro-gmo activists want to hide the source of the foods characteristics.

I want to know and discriminate against gmo products becuase a) i dont want to support the corrupt organisations that are pushing them. b) i dont want to support production mechanisms that are going to reduce biodiversity, have we learned nothing at all about massive agricutural monocultures from industries like the bannana industry, which is undergoing its 4th mass extiction of its primary crop variety.

Submission + - Jobs v. Steve Jobs: Hollywood Takes Another Stab at Telling the Steve Jobs Story 1

theodp writes: Didn't like Jobs, the 2013 biopic about the life of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs starring Ashton Kutcher? Maybe you'll prefer Steve Jobs, the 2015 biopic about the life of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs starring Michael Fassbender. "Steve Jobs is a tech visionary, total dick," writes Esquire's Matt Patches in his mini-review of the just-released Steve Jobs trailer. So, is inspiring kids to become the "Next Steve Jobs" a good or bad thing?

Submission + - Qt 5.5 released (blog.qt.io)

mx+b writes: The latest version of Qt, the cross platform GUI toolkit and development platform, is out for all major platforms. Highlights include better 3D, multimedia, and web support, as well as better support for the latest OS X and Windows releases (including Windows 10) and more Linux distributions.

Submission + - Meet microservices: The next big trend after cloud computing (businessinsider.com)

mattydread23 writes: There's an old proverb among engineers of all stripes: "Better, cheaper, faster — pick two." But when it comes to the mobile apps that increasingly rule our world, we demand all three, every single day. So big tech companies like Amazon, Netflix, and PayPal have completely rethought how they build their products, using bleeding-edge technologies that they developed themselves to take one big problem and make it a lot of smaller ones. And startups are starting to jump aboard too, as this trend makes it much easier to get started and stay lean. Sort of like the cloud computing was 5 years ago.

Submission + - Why Software Development Isn't A Straight March Forward (itworld.com)

jfruh writes: In Pali, the term for which is paiccasamuppda ('mutual arising') means that every action contains the seeds of unknown others, including ones that work toward its own destruction. We can see this in our national political life — when, for instance, a young white man who tried to start a race war by killing nine black people spurred a movement to remove Confederate flags from statehouses instead. And, according to webmaster Sasha Akhavi, we see it in software development as well, where our actions cause nowhere near the linear march towards success that we would like.

Submission + - How the next US nuclear accident will happen (thebulletin.org)

Lasrick writes: Anthropologist Hugh Gusterson analyzes safety at US nuclear facilities and finds a disaster waiting to happen due to an over-reliance on automated security technology and private contractors cutting corners to increase profits. Gusterson follows on the work of Eric Schlosser, Frank Munger, and Dan Zak in warning us of the serious problems at US nuclear facilities, both in the energy industry and in the nuclear security complex.

Submission + - Depression: The secret struggle startup founders won't talk about (businessinsider.com)

mattydread23 writes: In May, Cambrian Genomics CEO Austen Heinz committed suicide. The news stunned friends and family, and sparked a conversation about the growing problem of depression among startup founders. Some estimates say 30% of startup founders suffer from depression, but many are reluctant to talk about their struggle for fear of alienating investors and employees. This feature by Business Insider includes conversations with a friend of Heinz, plus many investors and other startup founders who are starting to talk about the problem and figure out how to make things better.

Comment Re:hit and miss (Score 1) 668

A lot of natural or "old wives cures" are not really alternative medicine, many when scientificaly studied lead to the discovery of medicinal substances that add to the range of drugs that can be prescribed.
Many plant extracts contain active substances which are analogs of established active pharmacological substances.

My favorite is "bitter mellon gourd" which has been used in se asia for thousands of years for treating many conditions, its a known antioxidant, and contains an enzym that acellerates glucose absorbsion from the bloodstream. Im sure multiple drug companies are studying it for its effects.

Having said all that homeopathy is total bullshit...

Comment Re: If Snowden could do it, so could many, many ot (Score 2, Interesting) 157

There was no suggestion he was a problem, in fact i belive he is a hero too, i was just pointing out that other goverment actors may not be using him or the people with access to his trove as a source of inteligence, but as cover for activities they have already undertaken, as bruce has implied.

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