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If you are relying on Tor exit nodes being trustworthy, then you are using Tor incorrectly. All Tor does is anonymize your traffic, it makes no guarantees once it leaves the network.

Either make sure you are using end-to-end encryption or only use Tor for information you don't mind being public.

This is no different except that the ROI is not money. It's a product.

I got my information from the documentaries "The Future of Food" and "Food, Inc" both of which have an obvious bias. I'm having trouble tracking down any other citations at the moment.

Here is a [again, biased] citation about Monsanto suing people for saving seeds, allegedly going so far as to forge documents: http://nelsonfarm.net/issue.htm

>Can't farmers still use non-Monsanto seeds like they could 100 years ago? My grandpa's small family farm has been doing just fine without for decades, after all.

Monsanto is somewhat infamous for suing farmers for planting seeds from plants that were accidentally cross-pollinated with Monstanto crops. So to answer your question, you can't use non-Monsanto seeds if any of the farms around you are using Monsanto seeds.

No, but they are different. And women get murder threats as well.

Additionally most things posted on the internet by a man is simply a post on the internet. Anything posted on the internet is a post by a woman on the internet.

Men don't get rape threats from women, I think is the key take-away.

I'm sure you can find an example of it happening but it's not a regular occurrence.

Uh, I'm not sure why you're responding to me as my point was that offering below market salaries to try and get "good" employees is a stupid idea.

That said, most people don't work solely for money and I'm sure you don't either. If they did, then everyone would want to work on Wall Street.

You just pointed out why your argument fails - it's a poor indicator. A company that doesn't offer lots of benefits may or may not respect its employees. Likewise an employee willing to accept a below-market offer may or may not be committed to the vision.

It would contain the bleeding but it wouldn't stop it.

Then you'd probably be interested in this: http://www.angryman.ca/monkey.html

I think the point is that doing these things is a welcome distraction from work.

Eating becomes a chore when you could be doing something better.

I don't think the article meant that linkedin grows virally though. I think it was trying to compare linkedin to a virus that spreads by hijacking your address book.

At least that's how I read it.

Hospitals really can be that bad. People get sloppy if they aren't constantly reminded that they need to be vigilant. I have personally witnessed doctors open doors with bloody gloves and then interact with patients.

http://thechart.blogs.cnn.com/2011/04/08/hospital-checklist-...

When I was negotiating my salary with my previous employer the only thing I asked for was more vacation time. They refused and instead offered me an extra $3000 so I could take unpaid time off.

They ended up working me to the bone for 6 months then laid me off once the product shipped.

Little things like this can really give you insight into how a company works. If a company is only willing to negotiate on money then maybe money is the only thing they are interested in.

>Building something interesting requires a surplus of time and money. Salaried jobs provide neither. Unless the job itself is your dream, stay the fuck away from them.

Yes, it's advisable to just start off with time and money.

FWIW I interviewed at a financial software company in NY wearing a button-up shirt and jeans. I got the job.

But that company had a strong developer culture.

I think the author's point was that his father wouldn't have bothered to fill out the paperwork required by Medicare so the fact that the NHS is automatic allowed his father to have coverage.

The question is why do you choose the Paleolithic era as your cut off? We evolved the ability to consume dairy and grains about 10,000 years ago. If you are basing diet on what we evolved to eat, why do you exclude foods that we evolved to eat?

There are countless examples of "technically impossible" requests on the daily wtf and clients from hell. A good example is when the client wants you (or your software) to do something that involves access to other companies' infrastructure or to every computer in the world. For example, "make our website the default homepage for everyone." or "remove our competitors' links on Google."

Plenty of skydivers and base jumpers travel (with gear) to go jumping. The TSA might look at you funny* but there is certainly nothing illegal about carrying on a chute.

* Of course everything is always at the discretion of the TSA agent, they can prevent you from getting on a plane because they don't like the shirt you are wearing.

Most religious people (in the USA) believe in "micro-evolution" but not "macro-evolution" (both terms have been made up by religious people).

They accept that evolution can cause variations within species (anti-biotic resistant bacteria being a very clear example) but don't accept that evolution causes speciation.

Right, I think the point is that your immune system doesn't know that and will attack them.

Having used a toilet with an air dryer I will say it worked, although toilet paper is far quicker.

It is kind of nice to have hot air blown up your ass though.

When I first started using toilets on my own I stood to wipe. Eventually I figured out that I could remain seated.

This was on a western toilet.

Perhaps you are one of the stand-to-wipe types, but if you remain seated throughout the drying operation you will not have to deal with any rivulets.

Also some toilets have an air-dryer.

'The History of every major Galactic Civilization tends to pass through three distinct and recognizable phases, those of Survival, Inquiry and Sophistication, otherwise known as the How, Why and Where phases. For instance, the first phase is characterized by the question "How can we eat?" the second by the question "Why do we eat?" and the third by the question "Where shall we have lunch?"' - Douglas Adams

No, copying a file from one device to another is illegal (space shifting) not changing the format (media shifting).

I don't have any good links, but in the US a grand jury does not deal with precrime.

Juries are selected for a particular case. Grand juries are selected for a particular time period. During that time period potential cases will be brought before the grand jury who will then decide whether or not the case will go to trial (and if it does, a separate jury is selected for that case).

I may be off on some details, but that is my understanding of how grand juries work.

Why wouldn't they want to attract the attention of lesser beings?

I am volunteering to not have children (that are biologically mine).