You just have to be really, really careful when selecting that kitty litter.

https://cen.acs.org/articles/9...

Food waste matters, and is worth combating. But it's a classic wicked problem. If we can somehow solve it by changing mass behavor, we can logically make numerous other behavioral changes that also ameliorate climate change.

I don't know. It seems like if CloudFlare can legally slow down traffic of any arbitrary individual they don't like, legally, we've already lost the battle. They just haven't figured out how to properly monetize that ability yet.

I found this fake antifa manual circulating among US civil war / confederate history buffs in the days before Charlottesville. They are livid and eating up the red meat of each new outrage.

http://imgur.com/gallery/BcZOg?

Someone went to a lot of work making that, and they fully understand right-wing paranoid fantasies. This is too much effort for so many pages of such poor satire. It's not designed to convert/convince but to incite latent fear and hate. If that isn't the Kremlin thumbing its nose at us, then it is someone who wants us to think it is Kremlin. The manual was posted to imgur about a week after Trump signed new sanctions.

We also see evidence of Russian incitement in the troll factory activity on twitter that is more easily linked to their networks.

https://www.dailykos.com/stori...

The most useful idiots are Roger Stone, Alex Jones, Paul Joseph Watson and Mike Cernovich, who are all pushing the idea of a new civil war. We don't need help hating each other, but we are getting it. (Donald Trump is more than a useful idiot. Since he has the full briefings, we have to consider him overtly complicit in the campaign to incite political violence.)

We need to rewrite the rules for Poe's law. The Charlottesville corollary is that satire of fundamentalism provides cover for propaganda and false flag action. The most dangerous weapon in information warfare is one that we never see as a weapon.

Given that the antifa manual is a parody of leftist fundamentalism, it says something about the dangerous political divide that a segment of people can't tell the difference any more.

The network we built to survive nuclear war has been weaponized against us and DARPA is giving out grants now to study how its child turned into a killer.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news...

Russia is trying to incite civil war and very few people see how. Their end game is not a glorious Trump presidency but a demoralized and ineffectual United States that no longer intrudes in their sphere of influence.

We're a nation of useful idiots now. Our partisan hatred makes us more willing believers in the alleged atrocities of our enemies. Credulity is vulnerability. Patriotism now requires skepticism of atrocities by political opponents and criticism of real misbehavior by our allies that feeds weaponized narratives.

When the crime is committed on the basis of victim's group identity, the other members of the group have reason to fear being targeted for the same reason and there are more victims. More victims = more punishment.

These laws are intended in part to prevent civil unrest (in the form of race riots) that can occur when one community perceives they are being targeted and law enforcement is not adequately protecting them. They (understandably) may take law into their own hands through mob violence and then we're in for full scale civil unrest (because mob justice is rarely so.... "just" and is more likely to create the same kind of racial hostility in return.

The motive matters because when that motive is animus towards a large group of people, the consequences of group-level retaliation are bad for all of society.

The Federal Truth in Advertising Law already covers this. If you think the companies won't follow that law, what will make them follow a mandatory labeling law? There are laws covering the organic label today. If they aren't being enforced, how will creating this new law change things?

Why can't the people who are making non-GMO food voluntarily label theirs as such, giving people who want to avoid GMO the opportunity to pro-actively buy food that is made/grown the way they like? I come to the conclusion that the ultimate aim of forcing labels on GMO foods is to scare uninformed consumers and drive the products from the marketplace altogether.

I've been active on this issue since the early 90s, before the first GMO products came on the market. Over the years my anti-GMO stance has softened considerably. In large part, I became disillusioned when I caught fellow activists lying about GMO. If we can't win on the merits of the case as it really is, then we don't deserve to win. Perhaps lying could avoid a catastrophic outcome. My feeling is that the chance of losing all credibility after being caught in a lie increases the likelihood of a catastrophic outcome.

There aren't any studies showing negative health affects from eating GMO foods and so, while we don't know the long-term outcomes, human health is not the best basis for opposition. I oppose most forms of GMO because they only prop up monocultures that are inherently unsustainable. We can and should transition to agriculture based on perennials and polycultures. GMO is akin to methadone: not a solution to unsustainable agricultural practices, but possibly a bridge to sustainability.

Triggering apoptosis in infected cells ftw

You want to have a license now to get the gear and get the experience / make the connections without being hassled by the FCC. After the fall you only need the gear, experience and connections.

It's probably too late for a new network in Libya.

Sooner or later the US government will weaken and fall as the economy tanks. I expect hyperinflation brought on by mid-east instability wreaking havoc on oil prices.

I recommend everyone get setup with amateur radio license and gear ASAP.

Solar panels or other off-grid power source will be worth major bonus points.

Once again, the DoJ is found to be involved in shady dealings involving software to track and correlate people.

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/1.01/inslaw.html

Earlier today Al Gore led an online Town Hall meeting with students about Math and Science called Connect a Million Minds. He came right out and blamed Britney Spears for the decline in U.S. STEM leadership.

This was a great idea in that he looked to the kids for the actual answers. The Vokel forum technology just didn't hold up well (which seemed to have about 1000 users at peak, and being sponsored by Time-Warner I figured would work better).

P.S. Speaking of crappy forum tech, why is it that Google Chrome just shits itself trying to post here at /.? Annoying enough I'm gonna just stop.

I picked up a new Samsung netbook recently and installed the Ubuntu Netbook Edition. I've been less than thrilled with it.

First- Windows 7 Starter sucks too. I'm not going back to it, and am not happy with either of them. My main complaint about Windows 7 Starter is the notion I have to pay Microsoft to use an external monitor or set my desktop background. I expect those to come in the stripped down OS and I'm absolutely unwilling to give MS one more cent. In fact, their policy on Windows 7 means my next game console will be a PS3 instead of an Xbox (and I'm tempted by Kinect, have owned several Xboxes and enjoyed them).

Ubuntu issues in the first two months of use:

* right click just stopped working. I have to click and hold left click to access those functions. I didn't mess with anything related to X, and kept things as default as possible. spent a fair bit of time googling without luck.

* nm-applet network manager just stopped working. all interfaces show "disabled" when I resume after suspending. then nm-applet disappears completely. I'm forced to use my crackberry browser to find a solution since I'm on the road. It was painful.

* update manager locks up all the time.

* Many applications put dialog controls out of sight on this tiny monitor. I can't directly fault Ubuntu for third-party apps, but it still seems like the OS ought to detect this condition and offer me some kind of workaround.

That's not all, but those are the biggest complaints that have me looking for an alternative.

It's *a* creation story in the Theravadan tradition. I'd defer back to my statement that there may have been an adoption of local myths in certain places.

It's like saying that something particular to Greek Orthodox Christianity is representative of all Christians. All Christian traditions I know of believe in the Genesis story (at least as allegorical if not literal truth), and so it can be considered canonical.

But I don't think you'd find Mahayana or Zen Buddhists professing the Vasettha story as theirs.

Still, to the OP's point, it would be a good one to include in a book on Creationism, as long as it is not being portrayed as *the* Buddhist creation story.

BTW, the current Dalai Lama is a great supporter of science:

“If science proves some belief of Buddhism wrong, then Buddhism will have to change. In my view, science and Buddhism share a search for the truth and for understanding reality. By learning from science about aspects of reality where its understanding may be more advanced, I believe that Buddhism enriches its own worldview.”