Comments by "boz" (@BOZ_11) on "TED" channel.

  1. What a bunch of silly rhetoric. It's so profitable to cure social ills that we are absolutely swamped in social ills. This guy is like Winston at the very end of 1984
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  2. highlighting a lack of scientific literacy does not undermine the risks with GMO. There is no clinical testing of GMO foodstuffs whatsoever and the FDA have said it is the manufacturer’s responsibility to ensure that GMO products are safe for mass public consumption; it's set-up for corruption. To say all future GMO's are safe is rather like saying all future drugs are safe. Well, it really depends. I would like to see at least a year's worth of clinical trials for any new GMO being pushed to market. Those who advocate none are essentially misanthropes.
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  3. msalgadosp "Right, it's just MAGIC, it's just FREE money for "social justice"! :-D" nobody said it was free. essentially govt isn't paid for though taxation. deficit = money supply. govt spends FIRST and taxes afterwards to control monetary inflation (and hence price inflation). Ignorant aggressive idiots like you, imagine that the govt is like a household, that needs to earn first, spend later. For a govt, it is the inverse. Take the idea of socialised, single payer, nationalised health care schemes. Misanthropic Americans like you, say that such a thing isn't simply isn't economically viable, except european nations have been doing exactly that for more than 50 years. You're a fool with a keyboard.
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  4. msalgadosp  "and that's precisely why a State-run economy fails" You don't know what you're talking about. The USA (and dozens of other nations) spend first and tax later. Do you believe the American economy is a failure?
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  5. +Kelly Lohan the WWW was invented by a British computer scientist.
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  6. Nobody has ever stood in the way of plant breeding or grafting. We have been using said techniques for roughly 10,000 years; the effort to conflate GMO (whose first harvests were in the 1990's) with millennia old plant breeding is utterly disingenuous. Nature takes care of the configuration when grafting or plant breeding but when corporate scientists splice individual genes in a foodstuff then release it to market without adequate health and safety testing, it effectively turns the human population into guinea pigs. Another reason GMO's are potentially dangerous is because of the patent situation. As soon as you start patenting food, you necessarily exclude the poorest 50% of the earth's population, the majority of which are hovering on or below subsistence. The reports of higher nutrition and increased yields have not been demonstrated, and often are no better than their conventional crop counterparts. Let the corporations play their stupid patent wars with software, electronics, engineering, etc but we can't allow them to include food in this. The most basic of needs.
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  7. Jillian Roche In the long run we're all dead; there's nothing insightful about saying so. The USA is a success because it is currently the strongest nation economically, politically and militarily; and has been for the past century. It's also culturally backward, abusive of its poor, racist and misogynistic.
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  8. Current GMO's are safe; unfortunately, they were tested after their release to market. There is nothing objectionable about testing prior to release, nor does this preclude the need for testing on future products. Would you stop clinical trials of new drugs because the current ones are safe?? If ensuring the public health is a "waste of money" (to paraphrase) you're announcing yourself as a misanthrope
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  9. GENIUS
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  10. nuclear simply allows centralisation of power. We can't have our energy in the fewest hands unless we want to be held hostage by oligopolists. Energy is best generated and used locally since you lose 8% to 15% of your energy just transmitting it.
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  11. what i meant to say was: you weed smoking hippie :)
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  12. unions make sure teachers get paid above minimum wage. you're a worker and unionised workers on average have better pay than their non unionised workers. To be against unions is to be against workers, but right now workers are getting screwed and there are cretins like you who believe workers have too much power
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  13. I love her...enthusiasm
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