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Comment on Wikileaks: No Substitute for Transparency by quinn

quinn — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 19:14:22 +0000

Oh yes it will, if that request is for the Tuskegee Experiment. Imagine thinking you were crazy or irresponsible and sickly for decades and finding out you had a curable disease a government conspiracy was keeping untreated because of your skin color. Imagine the weight lifting off you.

Speaking from personal family experience, FOIA can start the healing process. It’s like the truth part of Truth and Reconciliation, you need to know what really happened to start recasting the past more realistically. I have victims of the Hanford radioactive release and messed up Vietnam vets in my family, and the more of the real story we have to contextualize our lives, the more we really know what we’re fighting with, the better we do in life.

Finding out the game is rigged can change everything. It can make life much more livable. In my case, it was one of the things that led to having a better life than my parents.

Comment on Wikileaks: No Substitute for Transparency by e

Fri, 30 Jul 2010 18:50:32 +0000

Comment on Wikileaks: No Substitute for Transparency by NemaVeze

NemaVeze — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 14:51:23 +0000

If you want a complacent population, ruining their lives and then getting them to believe they did it themselves is a pretty good way to start.

This is a bigger issue than leaks/transparency/accountability of authority figures. You seem to be talking mainly about internalized self-hatred — which is something that no FOIA request will reverse.

Comment on Mining the Trough of Disillusionment With Matts Webb and Jones by quinn

quinn — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 22:06:52 +0000

NemaVeze: Yes. Or as cynics say, a realistic word.

Matt: That is indeed among the points.

Comment on Mining the Trough of Disillusionment With Matts Webb and Jones by Matt

Matt — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 15:42:15 +0000

Alternately, couldn’t this be seen as hope for innovation? “Here, we have so much amazing technology. Go make something cool with it; now is the best time in history.”

Comment on Mining the Trough of Disillusionment With Matts Webb and Jones by NemaVeze

NemaVeze — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 13:43:24 +0000

Is “mobsploitation” a cynical word for “crowdsourcing”?

Comment on Age of Excessions Interlude: Biology, or the Drugs Win the Drug War. by AChemist

AChemist — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 17:40:26 +0000

Greetings, I am new to viewing your site, but I want to leave a comment. I find this field of endeavor to be interesting in light of its meddling in nature angle. If one reads seminal texts like BeChamp’s Blood and Its Third Element and considers the philosophy behind that work in light of issues of diet and energy balance it is relatively easy to see that “treatment” for “cancer” comes from within. All the ingredients for treatment exist in present day and it is aliphatic medicine and “science” that have so lost their way. This is not to sat this will not go places. This is not to say that this is interesting, sexy, etc. It is not a direct cost effective path to the goal. Wheat grass juice, for example, is a far more effective single instance than this mega-circle J. Take care, A.

Comment on 1000 ledes n + 21: Nothing New Under the Sun by Evil Rocks

Evil Rocks — Sun, 30 May 2010 03:53:48 +0000

ain’t gonna prevent those of us with the know-how from setting up bioreactors for our neighbors.

the amusing lede to watch for will be the smarty-pants bio-students who figure out how to make recreational chemicals in yeastie-beasties. and the generation after *them* who are smart enough to do the same thing but with unregulated chemicals.

I am most interested in how the general American attitude towards recreational chemicals will change as they become more easily fabricated by successively less sophisticated market players.

Comment on Age of Excessions Interlude: Biology, or the Drugs Win the Drug War. by Simon

Simon — Tue, 25 May 2010 23:39:20 +0000

You do know that synthesising drugs have been commonplace for about 10 years? Insulin is the most famous example but there are others as well.

This breakthrough of creating a synthetic life form have done nothing to take us forward in the process of biological production of drugs. It is a impressive achievement, but it does not focus on that area.

If you are afraid of bacteria that are tailored to make drugs, then you should have started to debate this before the turn of the millennium…

Comment on Age of Excessions Interlude: Biology, or the Drugs Win the Drug War. by david

david — Tue, 25 May 2010 00:17:10 +0000

There have been calls for a moratorium on this technique.

An analogy against the moratorium:

A moratorium on the bio-engineered yeast solely because of drug production is like preventing the internet solely because it can be used to distrubute porn.