Any grade schooler should know what DNA is and not be fooled by that.
Any high schooler should have enough education that they won't fall for the Dihydrogen Monoxide gag either.
Sadly, that is not the case in this country.
And you wonder why the other countries keep laughing at us behind our borders.

Traditional breeding yields crops with numerous unwanted and unidentified genes while genetic engineering only brings in the targeted genes.
Genetic engineering does however allow for the genes to come from extremely dissimilar sources though the designs prefer to avoid such extreme options when they can. As to viruses, all bets are off since we already know that viruses shuffle genes from all kinds of species whenever they damn well want to because they are viruses and don't give a damn. It's amazing how much horizontal gene transfer they are finding in nature.
By the way, in case you weren't aware, they've found a lot of dna in humans that they believe was put there by viruses.

I think you meant beatnik. The modern beatnik, err, hipster doesn't do the finger snapping anymore. :P

Stick a geiger counter up to your flesh and it will start ticking away. Every living thing is radioactive due to intake of carbon 14.
That's why they can carbon 14 date dead things, they stop taking in carbon 14 so the levels drop at a consistent known rate.
Of course the sun is radioactive as well, take a background reading during the day and compare it to the night. Still you have radiation at night because the entire universe is one giant radiation bath.
Still, if you mention any level of radiation, even something smaller than what you yourself give off, lots of people go into an ignorant panic.
It's the same with many things.

Valid point.

So you are advocating a return to monopolies and company stores?

You get used to saying "I'm a computer expert" when you talk to the people who believe in pixie dust. It's just that sometimes you have to tell them that their problem lies in a different field and they have to talk to someone else. If you are wondering why, just try telling them something like "I'm highly trained and experienced in removal of viruses and various other types of malware". You know what they'll do? They'll try to get you to install windows for them, or fix their corrupted MSWord documents. They don't understand a thing you've said, so they assume you can and will do anything, or worse yet, they'll ask you to explain all those words they don't even know the vaguest thing about, understand none of it, then still ask you to fix their corrupted word doc because they don't want to pay microsoft to do it.
It saves everyone a lot of time to just say "I'm a computer expert", and when it's not something you know about, send them to someone who does know that particular area.

I'm the one that had the call where the user kept typing "right click" every time the instructions told him to right-click on something. And you know, that's not even the worst call. (And I'm not even going to detail the numerous people that think scheduled events will work when the desktops have no power. Or the callers than want you to help them when the computer doesn't have a monitor or a keyboard, and the user can't get into the locked room, which wouldn't matter because they don't have the password either.)

I'd love to see a news article on that. LoL

Don't forget that you were pulled over for going 3 mph over the limit, and as your corpse lays slowly cooling in the ditch the police have already taken all the money from your wallet, have driven off in your car, and are on they way over to your house to confiscate it and will sell it off at auction, unless of course they'd rather keep it 'for the department'.
Heck, they do most of that now in some places in the US.

I remember a guy on tech tv (or whatever it was called at that time) that put 3 consoles in one case. It's a cool modding thing, but not really new or exciting.

unless it's digital :P

Politicians will use anything they can find to attack their opponents. It's like their morals & ethics are only makeup they put on when in front of cameras and reporters.

Heck, even when he does something they've been stumping for in the first place, they'll turn around and lambaste him for it!

Maybe they have too much 'young blood' and need some critical and skeptical 'old school'.
Age doesn't have anything to do with it, procedures and techniques on the other hand...

Really? So were they gathering evidence, or getting ready for a big agency party?
Last I've heard, they can arrest and charge with a single transaction without any problem, so why so bloody many for this?
Maybe it was good shit and they wanted to stock up, especially since they knew other agents would steal 90% of it from the evidence storage.