> And if anyone can suggest a reliable email provider that is NOT Google, MS or Yahoo, I am all ears. ========= Give these guys a try: https://www.fastmail.fm/

Shear F'ing TWADDLE GROW UP

> this is a huge change of course, and probably a sign that the average citizen is getting a little sick of the shenanigans pulled by the current government, More likely they are concerned about the possible repercusions of the Snowden affai.

Go girl Go girl GO.

Makes my heart glad

Ah, Forktail, it is my sad duty to inform you that here in Canada* our much flaunted national cops, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police** are indeed a branch of the military.
* perhaps soon to be termed Kanada ** Also known as GRC's, (gurks).
Sorry
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-"-"- douglas

OK, a reality check here folks. Take any of the "normal" human foodstuffs.these days: Wheat, rice, potatoes, carrots, celery, you name it, stay away from fruits and meats. Nuts as well for consistency.
Eat them raw, chew WELL. Note feces, gases, energy levels..
Now eat raw meat, fruits, insects, raw, gobble them down. You don't even need to chew raw meat or fruits Note feces, accompanying flatulences, sexual turgidities, kick ass attitudes
Then come back and tell me we are not adapted to eat meats, fruits, bugs.
I've done these various things because I have had to, so I know wherefrom I speak, on this limited topic at least.
-----douglas

What's scary is that agriculture is staring down an increasing population, global climate change, increasing energy costs, peak phosphorus, increasing pressure on fresh water resources, evolving pests and pathogens, desertification, deforestation, greater demand for animal protein, and agriculture has to take care l that without expanding the amount of land under the plow, and we've got people having not based in science blanket opposition to what will probably go down as the most significant breakthrough in plant improvement since unraveling Mendelian genetics. Now THAT is scary.

Sorry for my premature reply.
I agree with the above quote, right down to "the most significant breakthrough" -->
The topic requires a forum format, a good week to define the various strands of the arguments, a few extraordinarily objective moderators to shuffle the input into proper categories, and another month to agonise through al the permutations.
Don't you think.
We don't seriously think we can do this justice in a one day /. extravaganza.
Do We?

I've transformed plants before. I have no problem eating genetically engineered food. I do it all the time

Yes, well you remind me of those yerkoffs who used to drink DDT on TV. Yes, Im am that old.

C'mon, don't you remember that pygmy dude with the big meticulously crafted blade? He followed for days, creeped up when the elephant slept, and pranged him in the gut. Then followed for days till peritonitis set in. Hero of his people, all women were available. Hardly a Mamoth extirpater though.

It has been found that organisms vary considerably in the minimum viable population, and inherent genetic variability within that population, required for long term sustainability.

The original canary in the mineshaft, the african cheetah suffered from a low variability. Introducing new gametes solved that nicely.

Aplodontia rufa on the other hand seems to do very nicely with less than a loving spoonful.

well, I'm glad I kept up with Copernicus. eh?

Yea, I'm with ya Skids. I added a reference to
Great Tits regarding small frozen bats not long
ago.
See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_tits
It has stayed there for a month or more.
Someone better aquainted with the system
than I, properly added the provided reference to
the appropriate section. The system worked as
advertised in that instance at least.

I miss the old magnetic perineum jokes.

When the word "Alarmist" appears 14 times in a short news article, there can't be many who don't realise they are reading propaganda rather than news.

Actually it was 15 times if we include the photo caption. My old english prof, Kasowitz, would freak.

I am as lazy as anyone else, but I guess I'm just lucky in that I understand a certain amount of english, binomial nomenclatural Latin, spanish, and 3 lesser known NA aboriginal languages. I use one language for username, and another for password. I'm so happy there is no dictionary for O'kmuK.

Tip from your friendly neighbourhood biochemist - it's not just the cannabidiol, it's the ratio between tetrahydrocannabinol and cannabidiol that counts.

More pertinant is the prevalence of, specificaly, the delta 9 radical of tetrahydrocannabinol.
C. sativa rules, couch dope's fer fools What town was that bro?