... and millions of people have died and become gravely ill because of it.

...um...citation?

I've had one friend die from lung complications and another deal with lifelong diabetes and a skin condition due to exposure to chemicals Monsanto and Dow were contracted to develop.

Who are these friends and what are these chemicals?

I agree with you for the most part in that we should not blindly trust a company that is so in bed with the government, but you've got to back up your claims with some evidence.

And the ironic part is, they probably had the personal assistant look up the price online at BBs website, during the board meeting where they were jerking each other off.

There, fixed that for you.

Very well seen. If the 20th century taught us anything, then it was this: any innocent-looking, peaceful society can almost without prior notice degenerate into a self-destructing monster, ruled by a tyrant. Which is a terrible and sad thing to say, but - alas - a true one.

I thought that's what the Star Wars prequels taught us...

You know, very technically speaking, solar power IS nuclear power...

And, as we all know, being technically correct is the very best kind of correct.

The problem is that normal people are fucking stupid. Imagine the shitstorm when someone disassembles one of these to "see what's inside."

I think that would make for an interesting episode of "Will it blend?". Up this week: a nuclear battery!

Killer bees were going to kill us all.

Hello! I mean they have the word killer right there in the name! Of course they're going to kill us all. No one makes a name just for the sake of sensationalism.

The killer bees are just taking their sweet time to kill us. They'll wait until the right moment and *sting*, there you go. They should be called killer nefarious bees.

That is essentially what happens in part of Asimov's novel Foundation and Earth.

Robots on Solaria have been programmed to define "human" in a different way (more akin to the Solarians) and attack the main, human, characters.

Great series of novels IMHO.

Please stop making sense and being logical!

I gots to have my FUD!

/me heads off to read Sarah Palin's facebook page.

Oh, buzz off.

You *are* aware that the internet isn't just for facebook and youtube, right? In fact many people (heck, most people on Slashdot) use it as a *tool* to get work done. I just ssh'ed into the server at my lab so that I could check on a bioinformatics project that I have going on. For me, the internet is a tool that I use to be more productive, check Slashdot and to keep up on news without my TV

TV is pretty much only about entertainment and wasting time.

"If Europeans want a Unicode-friendly forum where they can use foreign currency symbols and letters with funny looking little hats overtop and whatnot, they can jolly well start their own site. We don't want it here.

It's funny that you would use a British-ish phrase to let them know that they're not welcome here.

Wilkommen! Get your kraut-ass back home. Is that how it works?

Since Windows 7 comes with "XP mode" for compatibility, I'd say that yes you can.

I'll stick with Ubuntu and run a virtual XP for all the "windows only" things I need to do thank-you-very-much.

Seriously, Vista and Windows 7 pricing are such a joke.