Although it's dangerous to over-generalize, and there are certainly issues to be considered with GM foods, I think that a lot of the anti GM sentiment is reflexive. Most people are totally unaware of the fact that none of the food we buy in the stores and consume are natural. Every type of produce we consume has been…

In general, yes... However the 118 (which runs right through my old neighborhood), bulldozed a path through a fairly toney section of Granada Hills, Chatsworth and Porter Ranch. But they did name it the Ronald Reagan Freeway, so that probably made it OK.

PLEASE, please,please,PLEASE do it right. The Heechee universe deserves a great TV serialization.

Being from Utah, I am of the opinion that Echo Nest has a serious algorithm flaw.

I know, right? It sounds pretty sinister in a way.

That is a can of worms I shall not open... =D

I am a free man!

You won't get it!

And if the bus stop isn't successful, we have a more effective fallback...

This thread is Emmet approved.

Thanks for the link, it was an interesting read, and it makes some cogent points. As the article stated:

That depends on your definintion of the words corporate and profits.

This is a very well written and referenced article. Thanks especially for noting what most anti-GMO folks never think about; we've been modifying our food for as long as we've had agriculture.

I can't argue with that approach if it works for you. I actually am fascinated by religion in general, and Christianity in particular. Personally, I just got to the point where I could no longer reconcile the contradictions with reality. Some people don't see it that way, and I get that. All any of us can do is live…

No, it's that they swim but have neither fins nor scales. That's a pretty clear Biblical taboo. Makes you wonder why God isn't murdering diners over their shrimp cocktails, eh?

Thanks!

Yup, passed right over it. Thanks!

I'm just a wee bit surprised that murdering the entire population of Earth, excepting only the family of Noah, didn't make your list. It seems almost like a justification for a Godwin's Law comparison.

I think you're just missing the whole point of the Bible. It tells us exactly what God's motive is, and why (H)e does what he does. We were created to adore him unconditionally, despite the insane/morally contradictory/self justifying things he does.

This was obviously not science, nor science based. This was an example of an individual who horribly misread a single article and extrapolated a bizzare genre of treatment upon that misreading. That's hubris and stupidity. Science is not to blame.