Millennia is a very short amount of time with respect to the evolution of our genes as a species native to this planet and coordinated with the environment.
Humans can evolve surprisingly quickly. Look how quickly Europeans evolved the gene that allows them to drink milk, for example.
Your argument also supposes that rising above hunter/gatherer is a benefit and desirable.
Yeah, it is.
Also if you want me to trust your browser, then make the code open-source and the software FREE (as in speech, not beer)
Looks like you're not the target audience......
but that all the types of proteins in the new crop are not known, and their effects when consumed by humans are not known either, neither in the short nor the long span.
Anyone who has these concerns has not actually looked at all the testing that is done on GMO crops before it's released to the public.
The mistake isn't the GMO part. The mistake is considering *grains* food at all. It is not.
ok, here's where you know you've gone off the deep end....when a food that people have eaten for millennia is considered not a food, you need to re-evaluate your dietary ideas.
Cool history fact: do you know that the ability to store grains through the winter might be one of the major things that allowed humans to stay in the same place and build settlements? It helped them to rise above hunter/gatherer.
therefore they have a right to know whether or not the food they buy contains GMO ingredients
Then they should only buy food labeled as "GMO Free," which is manufactured specifically for people with those kinds of concerns.
the federal government has a duty to endure that foods and other products are properly labeled, which in this case, would be a large, conspicuous "GMO" on the front label.
Large, conspicuous, and the front of the label? You aren't interested in people being able to inform themselves. If that were the case, you would be satisfied with a line in the ingredients. Your goal is to make GMO scary to people, with a large scary label on the front.
I can't seem to remember that Mythical Man Month used the terms cathedrals...
ok, then you haven't read it for a long time lol
There is no such evidence that the general population can deal with even the most basic coding constructs.
Plop them down in front of LOGO Turtle, and they'll do fine.
functions as first-class types, type inference, generics, arrays and dictionaries as built-ins....None of this speaks to programming for dummies
Yeah, that's enough to scare away beginners quickly.
In fact, the 'Cathedral' being criticized was the GNU Emacs team.
Interesting, I figured it was a reference to Mythical Man Month, which uses Cathedrals to describe a method of software development (that is the opposite of the bazaar).
You seem to be ignoring the overwhelmingly positive utility of a site like that.
Please note, I didn't say that the website has no utility......the utility comes from compensating for weak developers and weak projects. If the developers are not weak and the projects have high discoverability, then there's no need to ask questions about it on stackoverflow.
(Of course, it can still fill a role, but all the basic questions would be gone).
He has not acquired a fortune; the fortune has acquired him. -- Bion
