> Answer me this: how does normal food like for example wheat which has obviously been selectively bred is not labelled as GM, but other products that have been GM are labelled as such.

You're seriously arguing that a scientific concept should be defined based on how politicians and bureaucrats use the term?

Is that 1 mile per year or one meter per year?

I always wondered about this. Knowing Buffett's reputation, and that he owned a seaplane, I would think that he would have been that target of scrutiny where ever he went.

Federal privacy rights only apply to the living. Correct that some states have post mortem rights.

Look at the food you buy and see if it says "the labeling on this food should be used as an authority as to the definition of a scientific term"

Not all GM organisms are transgenic organisms. There is a distinction.

You can obtain GM organisms without the use genomic techniques just by selective breeding or metabollic engineering and forced evolution.

A cow is a GM organisms as well as basically every crop and fruit tree we eat.

They are, but they have also once been a living creature and are still retaining the structure of the living form. It's not what is ordinarily considered a mineral in this context and they are not valued according to their mineral contents or being sold for their mineral contents which is what the mineral rights are meant to protect.

I have since that comment changed my opinion that they were wrong in pursuing this as relentlessly as they did. So I agree that it wasn't unreasonable. It's just not as straight forward as considering it just a mineral. It's a unique grey area.

Her estate claimed she domiciled in New York in order to save some money by not paying California estate taxes. And because of that ruling her likeness doesn't enjoy protections as many other dead celebrities do. Many of her works are still covered under copyright protections. But if you wanted, you could hologram generate a Marilyn and have her twerk next to Tupac.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xiTgrhEqw5A

Americans can be knighted, but it must be "honorary" and not confer any actual benefit.

That doesn't stop Canada from issuing its own titles.

My whole yard is coal wash from a nearby mine. Two years ago when the PNW had that really bad summer where it got to 114 degrees we had a fire start in the yard. We got it taken care of and started looking for the source. Using our excavator and some kind of a heat vision thing we dug into a really hot spot underground. Dude, the dirt in the pit we dug was fucking boiling. It's normally a thick black mud out here, but it looked like bubbling black sand. Like I was boiling ink.

I'm not sure what started it, it could have been burning for years and the drout is all that was needed to set the lawn on fire, but it was spooky man.

Does a degree from Sleaze Diploma Mill University count?

The English exporting literal tons of food from Ireland, had nothing to do with the issue?

>The Irish famines origins are from Catholicism, Irish laws of inheritance and a limited gene pool of potatoes. It would have happened without the British being there as the British exploited the situation that the Irish created themselves.
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>What happened? All potatoes in Europe were descended from 5 tubers. This presented a huge decline in genetic variability and meant if one got sick they all would this was a time bomb.
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>What about the land?
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>The land divisions which allowed for easy English takeover was rooted in Catholicism and period Irish law. What happened is the land was subdivided amongst all sons every generation. Sounds fair? but no it was a terrible idea as it combined big families with limited space. In a few generations this combination rapidly resulted in useless parcels of land being inherited which were promptly sold off.
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>This is what allowed the British to acquire Irish lands for a song because alone they were worthless to period people. You couldn't produce anything with them of sufficient scale to feed yourself. Instead of changing this they continued down this path.
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>Enter the potato.
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>The potato was viewed as a godsend because it allowed for the production of almost everything a person needed on a small sliver of even poor quality land and gave an income as well. The British had nothing to do with this sub division they exploited it after the damage had already been done. The potato was a stay of execution to be blunt it was a time bomb that was always going to go off this merely exacerbated the situation.
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>Why?
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>The Irish became dependent on one crop something even in the period they knew was a bad idea due to frequent crop failures through out European and even Irish history. Famines were common before modern agricultural systems. They were doomed the second that inheritance law came about.
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>You can blame the English for not sharing their crops but not for the famine itself that was 100% not their fault. It was always going to happen. A cruel irony is if the potato hadn't come about the deaths would have been smaller as they could have corrected the problem before it became a wildfire.
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>Why didn't they give the Irish the wheat crops? or beef crops? that had nothing to do with the origins of the famine itself. They should have but it wouldn't have changed that the failure happened it was always going to happen. The British turned a blind eye to what was always going to happen.
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>The people acquiring the land didn't matter as well the sub divisions still would have happened as it was engrained in their laws and culture. It was always a timebomb sitting under the Irish population which got added to by the potato.
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>Moral of the story? never trust a stopgap to be a solution to your problems. Fix the problems. We're walking down the same path right now with climate change.

Genetically modified? The ancient Incas were able to use the polymerase chain reaction? They had the ability to use x-ray crystallography like Rosalind Franklin did to discover the double-helix nature of DNA centuries?

Genetically modified doesn't just mean working on a lineage to make it more of what we want. "Genetically modified" means that we're combining otherwise un-combinable genes together.

Also fracking is pretty short-ranged as i understand it, damn inverse square law. If it were that small we could just comb the whole thing with enough people, the problem is that its a lot bigger than that.

In the us, worldwide was... Complicated... Holy hell, the offsets are confusing! https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_zone

He died a couple months after the settlement in a four wheeler accident

2 government contracts, pls.

I mean 4 wheelers are death machines. Someone got some money, bought a fancy new toy, and did not take proper safety precautions. Also being so far from the city increases your mortality chances. 4 wheelers go fast but that does not mean you should go fast on one or turn too sharply.

Foam? Why not seawater? No shortage of salt water any time soon.

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Now when the local Native American tribes kick out the white oppressors and reclaim rule of Montana for themselves, I suppose they'll claim this sale wasn't valid and demand the dinosaur back from the Dutch museum.

- This comment brought to you by the British Museum

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Ok I got it, fracking but with... Foam.
1 Government contract pls.