Its always caused problems when you patent life. It doesn't take a person of higher then average intellect to see why. If the life is not sterile then it is very easy for the life to grown children on its own. When that happens then the patent protects the patent owner but against who? Life? Shall they sue life for finding a way? Its absurd... and evil.

If you think about it, most types of rice came from the same gene pool to begin with so it should be pretty safe to re-unite segments of that gene pool. When you start introducing foreign DNA you do two things. First you achieve something that was not possible before through a mechanism you might not even understand and which can be safe or could be dangerous. Secondly, you potentially promote the use of more pesticides.

The problem with GMO's has always been primarily with the idea that you can patent life. We need to fix that problem and FAST. All the old patents should be invalidated and no compensation should be made since it was immoral to do in the first place.

The other problem is with safety. I think many GMO foods have proven to be safe but new ones are made every day. For that very reason I still support labeling GMO and allowing informed people to make their own decisions.

So you trust them a lot or you are a weakling? I don't get it.

Your liberal bias is clouding your logic. Merit based pay makes sense in all jobs. The only problem is making sure the Key Performance Indicators (KPI) are all completely under control of the teacher.

Exactly. Take a divisive issue like Gun control. Just because your initial sample of 100 people decided that they thought allowing reciprocity for concealed carry permit owners was a bad idea doesn't mean that the issue lacks public support.

Haha. People are stuck in the past.

Oh, well N-Central does that too because we've combined it with Ninite so it can figure out if a third party app is updated or not and installed it. That's just one example.

Wow. You totally missed the point. Of course you have to download, deploy and support N-Central but if you think all it does is make schedule scripts then you are sorely mistaken. Funny you mention google. Maybe you could type N-Central into google and educate yourself.

Easiest? No. Anything in a command line is not "easy". It is fully functional? Yes. However I would rather choose a script from a drop down menu, select the comps from the left and drag to the right, choose a time, and hit "run". I can do this with N-Central. You just have to pay for that solution.

So you like Linux because Windows does its permissions levels EXACTLY THE SAME WAY? I'm confused.

People constantly confuse Science with Scientists. Science is a process for understanding the world we live in. Scientists are fallible human beings who are motivated and controlled by a wide variety of variables and who make mistakes just as often as they make real breakthroughs. Then you get to add politics into the whole mix and you can see how fact and truth are easily distorted.

Point in case. This was not the hottest year on record but it was the hottest "La Nina" year. Well "La Nina" is just a scientist made up phrase to describe when the certain parts of the ocean are cooler or warmer. Its meaningless in this discussion.

I use XP at home and I have 4GB of RAM and I keep enough tabs open all the time that I have to scroll through them.

Memory isn't the only important factor in browser performance. Ya, its important on 32-bit machines but on newer machines what is more important is disk activity and cpu time.

Ya, I mean why would their focus be on features that users actually want?