I thought I was reading "news for nerds".

It really was only an attempt at humor.

Our republic has lost almost all pretense of democracy, and now there's a massive build up of drones?

What's next, buying an army of clones from North Korea?

And people questioned just how visionary George Lucas is.

Putty and paint make it what it ain't.

Frack the fracking frackers until they're more fracked than frackers from frackville.

Amen, we also need a different term for the stuff that sits on top of the liquid in a cappuccino.

I forgot to mention that covering hundreds of thousands of acres with herbicide is in itself "selective pressure", so your b and c are invalidated as well.

And that's precisely why every single time you take your kids to the doctors for ear infections they prescribe Amoxicillin, which is a penicillin derivative.

The suggestion that there is no danger from eating food with genetic modifications is mostly untested, but is quickly being proved flat wrong

I had a Palm Treo that had a physical slide switch to lock and unlock...

I found this article from 1998 about Novartis and maize grown with antibiotic immunity, as well as this article on Monsanto Roundup Ready cottonseed, as well as this article on GMO safety directly from Monsanto which specifically states that they build in antibiotic resistance.

I take everything I said about the Supreme court doing the right thing back. When other justices recuse themselves over minor conflicts of interest, when it comes to Monsanto, Clarence Thomas fails to see any conflict at all.

If you are correct then this means that the fight over the patent on the gene that causes breast cancer is likely to result in an invalidated patent when the Supreme Court takes the case.

While that may be profitable for Monsanto, it is horrible for our ecosystem. RoundupReady are genetically modified using e. coli bacteria to insert the genetic material. In order to verify that the genetic modification is successful, they also include the gene for penicillin immunity. Now we have massive numbers of organisms with the gene sequence necessary to be immune to penicillin, and more producers of GMO seeds means more genetic modifications in the wild. Monsanto has already come out with 2,4D (a component of agent orange) immune seed to prepare for the expiration of RoundupReady patents. It's also worth mentioning that a significant number of common weeds are immune to Roundup now.

Wow! I only share pics online with Google+, precisely because of the circles. I don't want people who pledged the same fraternity as I did getting pictures of my 4 year old daughter's birthday party. I may want to share the picture of the latest glass of home brew with the fraternity brothers, and not all the friends in the area who have children who go to school with my 6 year old. It's interesting to me that the reason you don't like Google+ is the exact reason that I chose to use it for sharing pictures.

You're missing a major contributor to academic research in point 2. 28% of funding for biomedical research comes from the US NIH. The NIH only contributes to new drugs that have a material impact on the improvement of public health. I would easily believe that 72% of new drugs to market provide little additional benefit over preceding drugs and are mostly there to pad the pockets of Big Pharma. In order to pass the FDA they only need to show that they are as effective and no less safe.