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Don't see how creating food which allows people who are starving get more nutrients out of less food is evil
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@reality But ye gads, boy, someone might make MONEY from it! Sin and brimstone! Peace Love and Hippy Warfare!
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@reality You know, as if it would happen if someone didn't. Unicorns could just bring us all breakfast in bed, forever. Amen.
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@reality The problem is patenting genes. That's even more insane than patenting software. Think about it....
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@reality I can actually see the problem with the patents. That argument usually trails an argument that amounts to "it's not God's way."
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@reality No, it's with the legal bits. Monsanto sues other farmers when nature happens when Monsanto is the invader.
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@reality Also, the rapid change in the plants is not matched by rapid changes in digestion. There may lurk un-researched dragons...
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@joshix Fuck that. We've been modifying organisms since we stayed in one place. But the *speed* of modification *may* be an issue.
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@jasonriedy Of course, Monsanto has a fiduciary responsibility to exploit existing legal framework.
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@joshix A gene is an abstract concept for a biological phenomenon that has come about *by chance*. How the hell is that patentable?
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@joshix Tough.
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@joshix Yes, patents are the problem. I meant that people who don't understand use the "not god's way" argument
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@joshix "Fiduciary responsibility" is another word for "we would rape your grandma's ass if you let us".
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@jasonriedy I agree. However, anti-GMO vanguard isn't arguing that. They are not burning research fields to promote research.
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@fabsh And yet it is the law. Someday you will grasp that I am capable of reporting a fact without advocating for it.
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@joshix And the companies are burning research proposals to stop research. Both suck.
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@joshix Fuck the law. The law is made mostly by people who get rich of making shit laws. Fuck them. Some laws need to be broken.
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@fabsh Advocacy - reporting. Fact - emotion. Who's the journalist here? US corporations are obligated to maximize shareholder return.
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@joshix Yeah, I know. Anyway, I've decided to copy Laporte and become a "pundit". Less work, more fun. :)
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@fabsh And how you or I feel about that doesn't matter. One could advocate for changing it, or one could demagogue on it. Which is useful?
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@fabsh Now you got a point there. Also lots more profitable. So you can meet your fiduciary duty! :P
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@joshix Both isn't. Too much oposition. I reserve the right to say what I think, though. :)
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@joshix My only fiduciary duty is to my woman. :)
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@fabsh "Oh judge! Your damn laws! The good people don't need them, and the bad people don't obey them." -- Ammon Hennacy
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@fabsh I don't want to abridge that right. I actually want to increase the power of what you say.
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@joshix Whenever I talk to you, I am confident that you won't run away crying like so many others. That is very refreshing. :)
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@fabsh Pfft, just because you don't see it
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@reality Well, I don't give a damn what anyone does if they don't dent it. It doesn't exist to me.
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@fabsh potentially dangerous ignorance. there's always a person at the other end
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@fabsh I hurt easy, I just don't show it. ;)
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@joshix Hey, that's OK with me. :)
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@reality That is exactly the kind of thinking that will reduce you to a gibbering sponge on the Internet.....
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@fabsh Oi, what are you trying to say?
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@reality HARDEN THE FUCK UP, AUSTRALIA
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@fabsh what have we done now!
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@maloki Not you. The male pussies. ;)
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@fabsh good!
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@fabsh GO DROWN YOURSELF IN CAT PISS DELUXE YOU INCONTINENT FUCK-BASKET
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@reality I AM WARNING YOU, I HAVE A STICK OF GELIGNITE RIGHT HERE YA POMMIE BASTARD!!!
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@fabsh Better watch out. He mentioned something about a crowbar a while ago.
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@fabsh I WILL SCOOP YOUR BRAINS OUT WITH A LADEL AND FEED THEM TO THE KANGAROOS
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@speeddefrost I am the one who looks like Gordon Freeman with dreads. Better beware *my* crowbar.
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@reality Kangaroos don't eat brains. Every Jackaroo know that. Go back to boarding school, kiddie. ;)
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@fabsh @speeddefrost My implements include a portable blowtorch and a slightly-smaller-than-normal crowbar (can fit in backpack)
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@fabsh I believe we each have our own definition of 'crowbar'.
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@fabsh Pfft, what do you know about Spanish culture?
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@fabsh Yeah, those vicious bastard eat only your testicles, and leave the rest to the koalas and the slow decay of the bush.
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@joshix LOL. Koalas are a lot more vicious than roos. And more noisy. And they stink of piss.
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@reality LOL. I usually only carry a bowie knive. Gets the job done.
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@speeddefrost There's only one.
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@reality They play football like pansies but think they are awesome?
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@fabsh You don't know fuck shit about the Spanish or their ball conduct.
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@reality They are shite and full of themselves. What else is there to know?
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@joshix I can't believe I wrote "obligated." What a buck-toothed word. Everyone just read "obliged" like I knew what I was doing.
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@reality Also, like the Dutch, they are basking in the glory of a national spirit that sunk (literally) centuries ago.
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@fabsh Not as bad as those Germans though, what with their shitty podcasts and whatnot.
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@fabsh They kill bulls. With a sword.
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@joshix Yes. Cowards.
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@fabsh ...And another delay! I certainly hope not, how would they do that to me thrice. Literally
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@reality If only *their* national spirit had died centuries ago, eh? I got a close German friend. I was over there a few years ago, she...
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@reality ...was talking one day about "far southeastern Germany" and to my horror I finally figured out she meant _Czechoslovakia_.
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@joshix You gotta say. You call it "patriotism" because your history is too short for anything else...
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@joshix In fact, you love your country so much, your army is *everywhere else* all the time. It's like you fancy yourself the Romans.
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@fabsh Also the fact that we're not a nation in the classical polisci sense.
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@fabsh It is not "like" that. It is that. Civus Romanus Sum.
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@joshix Yeah right. You're as Roman as the Römische Reich Deutscher Nation. (ie. not at all)
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@joshix Exactly. You're more like the Borg. Except you assimilate with Rock'n'Roll which deserves you a lot of credit.
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@fabsh You're leaving out the "fancy yourselves..." part. Which is odd, because you wrote it.
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@fabsh I don't know what a borg is, but I like rock'n'roll! At least I think I do, until a music lover arrives to point out I've mislabeled.
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@fabsh Is that so? I better update my dictionary then.
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@joshix :D Hehehehe....
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What?
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This just popped up in my timeline.
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