MBIC vegetables literally come out of the ground. They literally grow on trees. Why do you need a 3d printer when carrots have been coming out of the ground for thousands of years. Holy shit
Afaik this is not a feature unique to Gmail, it's a feature of the email system as a whole. Same with a dot. Any characters after a plus or dot in the first part of the email are ignored.
Problem is they want an address, I don't feel comfortable giving my address now for fear of being noted down as an encryption user. This has been used in France to accuse people of crimes.
Hardware attestation is bad. It is clearly a tool to be used to lock down hardware, keep it OEM and proprietary, and decrease lost revenues due to user repairs and used parts. I believe everyone should be able to open up their own hardware and repair it themselves, and use whatever parts they want.
Libya was doing very well before it was invaded. The leader was repressive, but they had tremendous oil wealth. They clearly cared about giving this wealth back to their people, evidenced by the free education, healthcare, and lump sums of money to married couples etc. I find it more likely that the government of Libya would have been willing to invest in the protection of it's people by repairing the dam regularly, versus any western country that only wants to extract maximum profit from it's inhabitants by charging for all services and privatisation of previously national services, all while the leaders pocket hundreds of millions (the UK, for example).
From the media coming from Niger and other countries it definitely seems to me that the people are fully supportive of the coup. The other nations that underwent coups also were deposing west-installed leaders.
Different living standards could have caused 3 factors of 10 increase in deaths? That sounds a bit extreme. If they had a functioning government (read: it hadn't been destroyed by the west), surely that government could have kept up with the upkeep of the dams and fortified them, knowing that extreme weather events are coming?
I probably shouldn't have used the word natural, it's too broad. I just feel there is a risk with allowing an artificial gene (for example the bacterial beta carotene gene) to spread through a population it never would have been in. Now I can't think of any particular reason this might actually be bad, but we are still introducing a variable into a system we do not understand fully. When that system is what feeds us, I'd rather not mess with it without complete understanding.
The problem is not to do with safety in a human health sense, but rather genetic safety, ie, is it safe and wise to allow these modified plants to breed with other natural crops? I would prefer not, it's something we cannot estimate the effect of. Also as the article rightly says, they have no need for this stuff from a large multinational corp, they can just grow other vegetables like tomatoes, squash, taro, etc. According to the article to get the right amount of Vitamin A, you'd have to eat 8 kg of rice in a day, whereas squash has significantly high concentrations of beta carotene (vit. A precursor). Don't let the corporations control your food supply. Even though Syngenta has apparently donated this rice, they may pull other shady stuff. Letting a corp have a licence to the food you are growing is insanity.
MBIC vegetables literally come out of the ground. They literally grow on trees. Why do you need a 3d printer when carrots have been coming out of the ground for thousands of years. Holy shit