It is quite likely you will eventually hit something we might need someday.

Or the laser beam could come around and bite us in the ass.

Which, divided by quite a few thousand trillion siblings, amounts to... not much.

* that the people that âoeforcefullyâ put Linux on a computer never heard the word, âoenoâ uttered by the computer, thus imping it was âoeconsensual.â

Some might argue that this is tantamount to "Linux by surprise"....

After he got the seeds, I suppose he was able to grow two crops, one exposed to Roundup, and the other pesticide-free.

Here is the key sentence in the article:

Researchers found that NK603 and Roundup both caused similar damage to the rats' health whether they were consumed on their own or together.

(emphasis mine)

Researchers found that NK603 and Roundup both caused similar damage to the rats' health whether they were consumed on their own or together.

(emphasis mine)

So even without spraying Roundup on it, the GM crop increases the occurences of cancers.

Seriously, you are an idiot for thinking something that requires all people, especially those with power, to do the right thing all the time will ever work.

BTW, this also applies to the free-market theory. You know, where that "invisible hand" is supposed to correct abuses and market distortions. Or where anyone is supposed to act as an "economically rational" person.

I know, the recurring answer against this type of argument is "if $POLICY is not working, it's just because we're not using enough of it". Where $POLICY may be any of the following: socialism, capitalism, globalization, violence, corporate welfare, waterboarding, treehugging...

There, someone had to say it :-)