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Comment Re:Organic does not mean pesticide free (Score 2) 20

It means there is a specific list of pesticides that are allowed. If you're eating organic you are probably paying more to get more pesticides. Which I guess strictly speaking is appropriate since if you're going to pay more you are to get more...

I guess what I'm saying is don't waste your money on organic. You literally cannot avoid pesticides.

Yes but you can opt for less pesticides.

And the pesticides used on organic are still definitely not good, potentially worse and as mentioned you are going to get a higher dose because they have to use more of them because they aren't as effective.

Source? You made that up!

FTFA:

Wesselius, whose results have motivated him to eat more organic food,

So clearly the author of the paper thinks "organic food" has less pesticides.

Comment Re:Losses, but due to piracy? (Score 1) 311

> People can pirate music for free (we'll stick to just music, since TFA is about the RIAA), but feel guilty about the artist.

I have listened to music for free on the radio all my life and guess what, I've never felt guilty about it. These days I can borrow CDs from my local library if I want to. For free. Guilt free also. Could borrow from friends too, also free and guilt free. People want what they have always had, the abillity to listen to music for free.

The revenue of the music industry is increasing. It's just the revenue from selling music recorded onto plastic discs that is decreasing.

Comment This is no scienific study (Score 1) 571

GM food can be harmful or not harmful depending on what genes are changed. It's like saying any food crop has been proved non-harmful.

This is rubbish science. Each GM variety needs to be tested spearately, for health and environmental effects. This is what the GM industry doesn't want to do.

Comment Re:Nervous (Score 1) 238

Seeing Oracle and Java all in the same sentence gives me a nervous tick...the same nervous tick that I developed when I read MS was in talks to acquire Adobe.

Seeing Microsoft advising about security gives me that kind of nervousness. Especially when they are pointing the finger at someone else.

Let's see, Java runs on lots of platforms. Has it the same vulnerabilities on them? So we should all uninstall java and depend on Active-X? Which is now secure?

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