Ach, dis ist der proper Cherman way of dealing wiz it. (now mod me down to oblifion if you vill)

Oh yeah, like no innocent civilian life was ever taken out by some jerk piloting a drone from an office seat 10000 miles away. Please.

I'm not saying that US soldiers are not making sacrifices or that they're not being sent into harm's way. They deserve respect.

We're talking about drones here. The US is using plenty of them to direct so-called "targeted strikes" on presumed terrorist groups. Which often turn out to be just families living next door.

Hey, would you mind if Pakistan or China sent out a few drones to hunt criminals on US ground, and accidentally killed civilians instead ? Oh, I thought so.

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.

Brilliant. Well, it certainly worries this Linux developer -- although I mostly rely on pre-3.0 kernels. Wasn't there a rule on Slashdot about mirroring articles before posting links to them ?

blockquote>Unfortunately for the Hooke estate, the great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great offspring of the original microbes are demanding 347 years of royalties for the use of their ancestors likeness.

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

The "Frost piss" title has never been so appropriate here: you will certainly like the chapter "Several Observable in the fix branched Figures form'd on the surface of Urine by freezing", page 88 (Google Books index). Hey, that frozen urine crystal looks marvelous !

* 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"....

Unfortunately, the same can be said of the experiments led by Monsanto to prove the innocuity of their GMOs.

Ditto. Please read TFA.

Hah. Now that's a good question. Actually, the researcher told the french press that he had to smuggle those seeds from a canadian farming school, since Monsanto won't let anyone do any research on its plants without having total control over the outcome of the research.

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

Actually, glyphosate is dangerous for plants only. However, the molecule has to find its way across the cell walls of the plant. So Monsanto added surfactant agents to break into the cells, so that the glyphosate could enter the plant. And those are *really* dangerous.

So for everyone who did not bother to read TFA and posted rants below to the tune of "Oooooh they fed both GM food and herbicide to the rats ! It's not the GM crops that give cancer, it's the Roundup ! French scientists have surrendered their intelligence" and so on...

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)

Yeah, right: real hippies actually grow the organic food they eat. I guess that makes them some kind of food geeks.

Wrong. TFA says:

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...