Most of the low-middle or lower class folk, once they paid for food, rent, isnurance, and gas, have next to nothing left. How do you propose they would buy share ? How do you propose they would buy enough that they would live on the dividend (which would be what , 3-5% in average ? Meaning they would have to invest upfront 20 time the amount they need to live per year) ? What do you propose they do if the company fold and their share are worthless ?

No what will happen is that the lower class will grow , until it reaches a spot where the lower class has nothing to lose in looting/rampaging a bloodshed, then at this point society correct itself by having more non automated duty, or economy crashes due to nobody having money to buy stuff, so company folds and robot investment get too expansive so only manual labor company get enough money, and that happen in a cycle until our life condition reach the same as developping country or a sweet spot is reached between manual labor/automated labor.

But knowing the greed of those of the upper class, I would bet bloodshed rather than sweet spot.

If it was that tough, the other farmer not using the modified seed would have a competitive advantage, and mosanto would see its revenue dry up. I am willing to bet they set up the price of the seed so that it is not too painful as to kill the market, but more expansive as still make it a good revenue source for them. If it was not the case, you would not have the 90% using the modified seed.

There is a good reason if given choice we eat meat , because it is tasty, because we have the taste bud for it. Because our stomach is also made to consume various stuff including meat, we are omnivore, not vegetarian or carnivore. Now why not insect ? Giant Grasshoper grilled and dunked in honey. Eggs from spider. Various insect I tried. They all taste OK-ish. But compared to a good prime ribe steak ? No way they taste as good.

It is a fact of life, like the sun rising, that all administrations will put blame to the previous politically different one. I mean up to the end the reps were blaming clinton for stuffs, and I recall distincly the dems doing the same during clintons year with bush snr and reagan. Heck they do the same in nearly all country.

And it is partially true , aprtially bullshit. Partially true since some politics made by the previous administration (no matter which) clearly will fail (for example banking law relaxation, Tax stuff). Partially bullshit since some stuff like economics are more or less throwing dice.

But every politician do it. Blame the previous guy.

but hey....

In various school / university I was in the virus infection were dealt in either way :
1) ignore it
OR 2) buy a new machine give the old to the trash

I am not kidding you , I saw back in my day 12 PC desktop being sent to the trash because they had a variation of PONG virus on their HDD (that was DOS time).

False negative are the problem. False positive are OK if they are low enough. Effectively even if there is a 20% false positive rate, that means 80% of the time somebody not you trying to use your gun will fail. Better than the current 0% failure 100% sucess today. Bad guys would find the gun less interresting to steal, if they can't get their hand on the reprogramming tech or it is too expansive (and it would still be easier to steal a classical one not needing reprogramming).

As long as you can't set foot and have a permanent presence on the moon/exoplanet, it is just fun. Unless people pay money then it is a scam.

Second hand sales let you get (relatively) recent game for lower price. The same as do steam sales. Which is why you can support second hand sales and steam in the same breath. Heck I can at the moment buy a lot of gmae half price, on steam, some of which I saw full price or only 10% off in retail stores.

What you describe is a belief, an assumption, but not a religion. Even when some atheist DO make the statement they are 100% sure there is no gods, they still have no credo, no ceremony, no priest or priesthood, no leitmotiv, no church, no chants, no holy books, nothing BUT that belief in 100% surety non existence of gods. That does not make it a religon. Otherwise 9/11 truther , Alien landing believer, and other believer in woo stuff would be religion. They are not. It needs much much more than that to have a religion. Thus the assertion atheist are religious even pertaining to the 100% sure atheist , is false.

Consumerist is asking the consumer *which* company they felt was the worst (insert here "at consumer service"). The company you cited have a very small group as consumer, or no "consumer" at all (black water). You could be a morally abject company making oil out of live kitten, if no consumer whatsoever has contact with you, you won't appear on the poll.

The poll should read actually "Worst company of the year, as felt by consumer of their products vis a vis of their service". Not as catchy as "worst company of the year" though.

See luke and leia were not the first to be tempted :P.

I am with you sis' but among my community only the mostr idealist of us were thinking this "We never thought that every government in the world, even traditional enemies, would ally themselves with one goal: Destroy this new vessel of human freedom." The msot realist (and I was among them) were more like "enjoy it while it last because very soon all gov & corp of the world will fall onto this new medium like a ton of brick".

They are dowsing rod using the idea motor effect to fool you into thinking it detects anything. Dowsing rode do not work. When properly tested for say, finding metal and water, in double blind, the dowser never find stuff above chance. it is pure flim flam. So even as a 13$ gold ball finder , it is a scam.

It is so heavily subsided it isn't funny. For example if you install solar panel, you get to sell your electricity back to utility at a *higher* price than what the utility sell normal electricty (from gas or coal) do. That "cost parity" you cite is actually quite artificial in germany. In fact would the subsidie disappear and the utilitiies pay the market price, nobody would by solar. Low insolation (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:SolarGIS-Solar-map-Europe-en.png most germany is about 1000 kw.h/m^2/year with a bit of spike toward 1100 in the south) where the united state is mostly 2.400 kw.h./m^2/year (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:NREL_USA_PV_map_lo-res_2008.jpg multiply by 365) even the northern part of the US seems to get more than the southern part of germany.

And we are speaking of very heavy subsidy here , to the tune of more than 10 billion per year until recentely when they were slightly lowered.