It is my firm belief that the Anti-GMO crowd will not truly believe that their work is done until they have hampered the agricultural industry so much that famine once again becomes a MAJOR problem for the world.
Advances in crop yields through science helped avoid cataclysmic problems in the 60s-70s. The anti-GMO crowd wants to stop those kind of advances cold and relegate the globe to famine again.
If enough countries are strong-armed into creating hyper crappy laws at Hollywoods request, it will be real soon now that we'll hear Hollywood bitching and complaining that the US needs new stronger laws -- like all these other countries.
If Ignorance of the law is not an acceptable excuse for breaking it, then all laws must be fully and completely made available to the public!!
Also, it is my belief that all our representatives should be made to actually read any laws they vote on in their entirety. If thats too damn hard for them, then maybe the laws they're creating should be made simpler.
It would be great if the FCC would get a wiff of this.
If the networks don't want the spectrum GIVEN to the stations, then take it away and let the people do something with it.
The FCC should have a few hearings on this so the network reps can rush there and tell us how much their statements were misunderstood.
Stories like this just fuel my dream to build a time machine to go back and make sure the VCR and Cable TV are outlawed. Then I could return to the present day were TV Companies and Movie Companies either don't exist anymore or exist in a very weakened state....
But just imagine if it were true. Imagine if the government built a nationwide, fast wi-fi network. Imagine the technological innovation and change that could happen.
The ONLY element of the economy that would suffer would be cell carriers and ISPs. But the benefits to 'We the People' would be enormous. Heck the benefits to most 'Businesses are People' would be enormous too, except to the aforementioned cell and ISP companies.
If this were done it could spur an economic renaissance.
But of course established companies that have captured our government and the established entities that would demand full surveillance on this network (I'm looking at you RIAA and MPAA) would block us from this possible bright future.
After enough time high prices and data caps will make the US and internet backwater as other countries blow past us with internet innovations that revolve around cheap very high speed access.
It would be great if the terms of service for the website forbid any officers or officials at MPAA or RIAA companies from using the keys.
That way, they'll never be able to tell if copyrighted material has been uploaded to Mega without being in violation of the sites terms and conditions.
Then we can get the feds to throw the book at the RIAA and MPAA for hacking Mega!!!
There will come a time when the total backwardsness of the US ISPs is going to cost us any and all technological edge we think we may have.
When other countries have 10x the bandwidth we have for 1/10th the price, they will technologically innovate while we will stand still.
It is time for the FCC to drop the hammer on ISPs and make caps, throttling, filtering, and monitoring illegal. Its way past time that the internet be declared a common carrier network. But of course the FCC has be regulatory captured and refuses to serve the public like its supposed to.
Ummmm 9/11
Not only did you not count 9/11 in your 2012 grouping, you didn't even count it in your 2002 grouping (where it would belong)!!
It represents a massive outlier in the number killed, but to be fair about the data it really should be in there.
Re:
I guarantee you that if the players in the game were drinking a can of Coke EA would be sued to high heaven to pay licensing fees.
Why don't the gun manufacturers get the same consideration the Coca-Cola company would get?
Re: DNA
Your lack of understanding how this all works is stunning.
Did you get all the ideas from a bad Sci Fi B movie?
Re: Re: The Anti-GMO crowd
What could possibly go wrong.
What could go wrong is that high yield crops will be actively discouraged banned, and those lower yields will cause starvation.
Or crops designed to have better nutrition will be actively shunned and lead to mal-nutiriton.
See: golden rice. The anti-GMO crowd is already harming people in the 3rd world with that one.
The Anti-GMO crowd
It is my firm belief that the Anti-GMO crowd will not truly believe that their work is done until they have hampered the agricultural industry so much that famine once again becomes a MAJOR problem for the world.
Advances in crop yields through science helped avoid cataclysmic problems in the 60s-70s. The anti-GMO crowd wants to stop those kind of advances cold and relegate the globe to famine again.
Get ready
Cue lawsuit against Dropbox in 3....2....1
Crap. This decision really really really sucks.
Just waiting
If enough countries are strong-armed into creating hyper crappy laws at Hollywoods request, it will be real soon now that we'll hear Hollywood bitching and complaining that the US needs new stronger laws -- like all these other countries.
I find this disheartening
Your post is so cynical....
Here we have a supreme example of overwhelming bipartisanship and all you can do is whine and complain....
If....
If Ignorance of the law is not an acceptable excuse for breaking it, then all laws must be fully and completely made available to the public!!
Also, it is my belief that all our representatives should be made to actually read any laws they vote on in their entirety. If thats too damn hard for them, then maybe the laws they're creating should be made simpler.
Cmon FCC
It would be great if the FCC would get a wiff of this.
If the networks don't want the spectrum GIVEN to the stations, then take it away and let the people do something with it.
The FCC should have a few hearings on this so the network reps can rush there and tell us how much their statements were misunderstood.
Stories like this just fuel my dream to build a time machine to go back and make sure the VCR and Cable TV are outlawed. Then I could return to the present day were TV Companies and Movie Companies either don't exist anymore or exist in a very weakened state....
This
When the Medical Industry it completely taken over by a government single payer system, they will only have themselves to blame.
Their mind-boggling greed is not hurting their industry, they are destroying the economy of an entire nation.
Truism
Hypocrite, thy name is Politician.
Re:
If only our tongues were made of steel then we could rail against copyright maximalists as harshly as they deserve....
This has got to be fixed
Congress needs to pass one simple law.
Any patent that can be boiled down to: We have a patent on doing X .... on the internet.
Shall be declared null and void.
This shit is getting ridiculous.
Imagine
But just imagine if it were true. Imagine if the government built a nationwide, fast wi-fi network. Imagine the technological innovation and change that could happen.
The ONLY element of the economy that would suffer would be cell carriers and ISPs. But the benefits to 'We the People' would be enormous. Heck the benefits to most 'Businesses are People' would be enormous too, except to the aforementioned cell and ISP companies.
If this were done it could spur an economic renaissance.
But of course established companies that have captured our government and the established entities that would demand full surveillance on this network (I'm looking at you RIAA and MPAA) would block us from this possible bright future.
I'll say it again
After enough time high prices and data caps will make the US and internet backwater as other countries blow past us with internet innovations that revolve around cheap very high speed access.
Prenda
Everytime I see a Prenda story, all I can think is: that sounds like the name of an artificial sweetener!
Re: Re:
It would be great if the terms of service for the website forbid any officers or officials at MPAA or RIAA companies from using the keys.
That way, they'll never be able to tell if copyrighted material has been uploaded to Mega without being in violation of the sites terms and conditions.
Then we can get the feds to throw the book at the RIAA and MPAA for hacking Mega!!!
This will cost us
There will come a time when the total backwardsness of the US ISPs is going to cost us any and all technological edge we think we may have.
When other countries have 10x the bandwidth we have for 1/10th the price, they will technologically innovate while we will stand still.
It is time for the FCC to drop the hammer on ISPs and make caps, throttling, filtering, and monitoring illegal. Its way past time that the internet be declared a common carrier network. But of course the FCC has be regulatory captured and refuses to serve the public like its supposed to.
France
Wow. France has nothing but bad ideas for the Internet. Perhaps they should just be cut off.