Comment Re:Console vs PC Gaming Experience (Score 1) 344
Modders aren't cheats, unless you're one of those butthurt console gamers who think improving gameplay, fixing bugs and expanding the game is cheating.
Modders aren't cheats, unless you're one of those butthurt console gamers who think improving gameplay, fixing bugs and expanding the game is cheating.
You forget
"PC:
Get bored or annoyed at something in the game
Look online
Get mods
Suddenly have even more playtime out of the game
"
All you get on consoles are the DLC the studios give out when they're willing to throw a bone at you.
Oh, and if the game is buggy (e.g. Oblivion) forget about unofficial patches on console.
(who could afford all the political/marketing effort to deal with the anti-GM crowd, much less the research effort?
Monsanto, obviously, given that they were already an enormous multinational that made its wealth on chemicals anyway.
17% of Earth is the entire African continent, just saying.
If the food you eat carries with it this sort of legal liability, it's unsafe from a social point of view, no matter how biologically sound it might be.
People do not, indeed, get a BS.
Because it's a BSc in Economics.
To be fair, the idea that GM foods will feed the world any more than other methods being experimented, like some of the modern no-till methods, is still very much arguing the consequent
Glorious Chicago boys, where would we be without their changing "free market" meaning a market of free (in the classical sense) agents into a market of free (in the mad max sense) for all...
Mises also gave a definition of socialism that encompasses tsarist russia. I wouldn't trust him on much else.
So hm... "hunting = animal husbandry"
"firewood = nuclear power plant"
"extensive agriculture = factory farms"
"mini = SUV"
Free markets do, otherwise they're not free and controlled by who controls the information.
Because obviously the next step is to stop them from having a SUV and a car and a huge suburban house. In fact it's well known the environmentalist movement wants to firebomb (in ecologically-friendly ways) all suburbs out of existence. (I do dislike suburbs, but repealing zoning laws would do wonders on that eyesore
We started selectively breeding crops when we started eating plants.
No, it took centuries and millenias for agriculture to show up, and then it took centuries to get to extensive agriculture. Then some forms of selection happened, thousands of years after we "started" eating plants.
Learn2read: contributor =/= sole cause.
There are a lot of ways to do small-scale farming.
8 Catfish = 1 Octo-puss