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Comment: Re:Yeah, like the present school system is working (Score 2) 715
When it comes time for admission and staying in, a student in the top 10% of a US high school just does not have the ability to compete with his/her counterparts who come from China and India [1]. It is like someone wheelchair bound competing in a 100 yard dash against 10 Usain Bolt clones for a single spot.
What you are seeing is the effect of the top 10% of a country with 300M citizens competing agains the top 0.01% of countries with 1B+ citizens each.
Given that educational opportunity in other countries is also subject to extreme selectivity, those 0.01% have also had the benefit of superior education not just through the system provided, but also due to the peer environment. A genius in a school full of geniuses must learn to work hard to succeed as opposed to being able to coast on the momentum of inherent advantage. The benefit of developing a good work ethic manifests itself in college where even a genius has to apply themselves consistently (if not strenuously) in order to master the material being presented.
Comment: Re:Why couldn't he say this 10 years ago? (Score 1) 341
Maybe if someone actually spoke the truth while in office the problems plaguing our government would have a better chance of being addressed.
No, but this is probably difficult to understand until you've held or are qualified to hold a position of significant accountability and independent authority. At the level of executive leadership, you have to be cognizant of the consequences--especially with respect to your responsibilities.
Essentially, the problem in this case boils down to the fact that speaking candidly as he is doing now would have destroyed his ability to be an effective Secretary of Defense, as the little cooperation he was getting from Congress and the Whitehouse would have evaporated in an instant. It therefore would have been an irresponsible thing to do while he held that position.
The logic goes something like this:
- - If I am going to prosecute a PR battle with powerful but corrupt/petty/incompetent politicians and bureaucrats, it will do no good unless I win
- - In order to win a PR battle with professional popularity contest winners and influence brokers, I will need to devote all of my energy to the effort. Failure is still probable.
- - Even if I win, is the resulting good still worth the opportunity cost related to the list of tasks T that I have allowed to lapse in the meantime? (hint: the answer is 'no' when T == 'stuff the US Secretary of Defense is supposed to be doing').
The responsible thing to do is to pour your energy into fulfilling your responsibilities. If you do not feel that you can fulfill them adequately, resign (after some due dilligence to ensure sufficient continuity in the organization). Wait a while before commenting on your past position and its challenges, as doing so immediately upon resignation is likely to poison the well for your successor. These are the actions of someone focused on doing the best thing to fulfill the responsibilities of the role--up to and including self-removal therefrom if the logical conclusion is that they are not able to effectively do the job.
If you feel that the role of critic is more important than the role you were given, you should not have accepted it in the first place and instead applied to become a journalist/commentator.
Comment: Re:Of course not. (Score 1) 227
The example you gave, if true, is a classic demonstration that IT management does not understand their business, not the other way around.
First, while you may want to approach a person directly to give them a friendly heads-up as a first step, the basic thing IT management is supposed to understand is that a user having weak passwords is not so much a risk to that user but a risk to the business. If a user ignores your friendly heads-up, or the problem is more widespread than 1 person, the next step is to go to the person responsible for that part of the business. Now, you don't have to be a douche and call out the specific individual(s) in question, but you then tell that person that there is a systemic risk to their operation because X% of users (or alternatively, a few users with extensive access rights to critical systems) have weak passwords that all appear near the top of
The key thing that even moderately competent managers (IT or otherwise) understand in these kinds of situations is that you have to put the decision (and relevant information) in squarely in the hands of the person accountable and responsible for the issue. In this case the issue is not that someone has a weak password that might result in someone messing up their My Documents folder, it is that weak passwords are a risk to the business. If a bank comptroller's password is 'password', that is not a problem-waiting-to-happen for the comptroller, it's a ticking timebomb for the bank.
In your example, you do not put the decision to act (or not act) in the hands of the account owner, but in the hands of the account owner's business unit head.
Security and IT issues in general tend to get short shrift in many business (at least in my personal experience) not so much because non-IT/non-technical managers are stupid, but because the IT managers lack even basic competence relative to the second half of their title.
Comment: Re:TDD (Score 1) 156
Your parent's statement is not an oxymoron.
If every single print driver has components running in both ring 0 and userspace, but the preponderance of components (by number or 'size') of every single print driver is in userspace, then it is more precise to say that "all print drivers are mostly in userspace" as opposed to "printer drivers are mostly in userspace". The latter is semantically a superset of the former, as it could either mean the same thing, or also describe a situation where some printer drivers are completely implemented in ring 0, but the majority are completely or mostly implemented in userspace such that the preponderance of the set of all printer driver implementations resides in userspace.
In other words, your parent's statement is more precise about not only the aggregate population of printer drivers, but the distribution within the population. Whether that statement is actually correct or even the real intent of your parent poster's statement is another question
Comment: Re:Saving everyone a few seconds on wiki (Score 1) 209
First, disagreements aside, thank you for taking the time to respond. I am genuinely interested in trying to understand more about the topic (for my own personal benefit if nothing else) and that is harder to do in a vacuum if there is no discussion. Also, I do apologize if I mix up terms in a way that hampers discussion.
Mind-brain devolves to brain = magic if we must accept that the brain is special in some way that makes it immune to analysis. If it is not, then it is functionally identical to and scientifically indistinguishable from a biological implementation of the Chinese Room with a critical modification (the removal of the arbitrary requirement that all input to the CR be reduced to symbols). The Other Minds response highlights this problem well, and Searle's response that the the assumption that other people are conscious is necessarily axiomatic is either a strong indication that his definition of consciousness irrelevant to science (faith in the consciousness of others (or even the self) is a not a falsifiable position) or begging the question. Note that I did not say that his meaning is unimportant (it could still be the most important question ultimately facing any intelligent existence), but it is simply outside of the scope of science. The third option is to fall back on the broader symbol grounding issue as you seem to be doing.
The core of the argument is that you can't get semantic content from purely syntactic content. Ultimately, it's an attack on computationalism, and a damn good one.
That statement just raises the Connectionist argument that the validity of the CR thought experiment depends upon the false premise that all computation is necessarily syntactic. Searle specifies as axiomatic to the CR argument that any program must be symbolic, and further implies that any programmable computer must therefore only be capable of symbolic manipulation, and as such the CR argument a priori limits the scope of the problem to the syntactic. As such, the CR does not simulate the overall physical reality of, e.g., the propagation of pressure waves and the subsequent audio-neural transduction (hearing Cantonese) or the EM-neural transduction (seeing Chinese characters on a page). This then limits the interaction of the system with the outer world as occurring through a filter stripping that interaction of all a-symbolic and sub-symbolic components. We can contrast this with the experience of a native Cantonese speaker, for whom hearing spoken Cantonese or seeing pinyin characters on a page is a fundamentally non-symbolic interaction that only becomes symbolic after being processed by the brain. The original CR is therefore fundamentally flawed in its conception or inconsistent in its premise that the CR can perform in a manner identical to a real intelligence while stipulating conditions that are impossible to impose on, e.g., a human intelligence. Even the CR-inside-a-mind modification later articulated by Searle exhibits this flaw as Searle's consciousness still filters and strips all non-syntactic input before passing it to the internalized CR.
To paraphrase parts of the Connectionist argument, the view that all computation as identical to manipulation of meaningless syntactic constructs is an observer-dependent interpretation that unjustifiably excludes the physical reality of the computer system, which has structure and properties independent of our choice to view the cascade of physical interactions as manipulation of symbols. In short, a la his wordstar-on-the-wall argument, Searle is correct in asserting that a program in the abstract is a collection of symbols that has no inherent meaning, but it is incorrect in asserting that a physical system responding to inputs that we perceive to be a program is identical to that abstract concept, and that because the one of many real inputs into the system to which we assign meaning is symbolic to us, that the system's response is necessarily and only symbolic.
In any case, Neural net modeling, which was the original topic of this discussion, is essentially focused on studying non-syntactic computation. If the response to this is that it is still flawed because ANNs are mostly implemented on digital (and therefore nominally symbolic) computational systems, then, even ignoring the point of the larger system above, this objection reduces to a simple implementation technology issue as opposed to a fundamental constraint of ANNs as an ANN is not necessarily limited to implementation on nominally digital platforms. If implementation on digital logic is found to be fundamentally limiting for some as-yet unknown reason, then that can be addressed via moving to analog, quantum, or biochemical systems (which, taken to the extreme, could simply be an artificially constructed human brain).
In essence, while I agree that the cognitive model of the mind processing symbols to which we assign meaning is flawed, it is incorrect to assert that computation is necessarily limited to this model. In that view, the CR only addresses a very narrow class of AI based on the reality/interaction -> symbol -> meaning cognitive model, where the mind's interaction with reality is mediated by a purely symbolic interface, as opposed to the connectionist model of reality/interaction -> a-symbolic sensory input -> meaning -> symbol where symbols are only created as a result of assignment of meaning, and then later inserted into the cognitive process as useful filters or abstractions that allows the mind to more quickly/efficiently deal with inputs. This model of the cognitive process rejects Searle's CR as valid as in this context the CR argument's premise begs the question by imposing the restriction that symbols must be specified before meaning is assigned (i.e., they are not symbols to the CR, but are in fact someone else's symbols), and the more subtle inference that the system must ultimately respond to each symbol as a hypothetical native Chinese speaking conversation partner (or otherwise immediately pass the Turing test as applied by a Chinese speaker) in order to qualify as being conscious. In order to do so with a foreign set of symbols that have not been internalized by the consciousness means it must either fail the Turing test or to simply get inside (or alternatively internalize) the Chinese Room and process symbols via complex lookup. As passing the Turing test is a premise of the CR, then we are left with the latter scenario whereby even an assumed consciousness, being forced to work with symbols created by someone else to which it has not developed or assigned any meaning, must simply respond to inputs mechanically based on the rules it has been supplied a premise of the though experiment. In other words, even if a consciousness does exist, it cannot simultaneously understand Chinese and satisfy the other premises due to the conditions imposed by the thought experiment, so the possibilities of the CR are a consciousness that does not understand Chinese, or a lack of consciousness and simple mechanical symbol processing. The conclusion of the CR argument is therefore a recursive and inevitable outcome of the combination of the reality -> symbol -> meaning cognitive model and the conditions of the experiment.
Comment: Re:Saving everyone a few seconds on wiki (Score 1) 209
In the case of the Chinese room, it does indeed show that purely computational approaches can not be sufficient. To proceed anyway, operating under the irrational belief that the problem will vanish by magic is delusional.
No, you have it exactly backwards. The Chinese Room argument does not show what you think at all, though that is a common misinterpretation.
The Chinese Room argument is, at its core, an appeal to consciousness/intelligence as a construct that is special and cannot be considered a simple emergent effect of the physical system of the brain. To use your terminology, it is the argument that intelligence/consciousness is magical, or that at least some intelligences/consciousnesses are somehow special.
To explain the above I will try to distill some of the more directly relevant pieces of a ton of philosophical discussion that has happened since 30+ years ago when Searle first articulated his argument (apologies in advance, it took more words than I first thought).
If intelligence is an emergent effect of the physical processes of the brain, then those processes can (for the same value of "can" used by Searle's argument with respect to an arbitrarily complex computer system) be mapped out on paper in terms of the physical interactions at an arbitrarily low level (theoretically down to probability functions describing the interactions of subatomic particles if necessary). If that mapped brain understood Cantonese, and the map describing the sequence and rules governing the interactions is written in English, then you can stuff the whole thing in a box with Searle and you have a Chinese Room derived from a 'real' intelligence as opposed to a program. Ok, but that is just a facsimile or copy of the mind, and not the real thing! That's true, but if the intelligence is a property of the physical system of the brain, which we can map, then the mind is merely a Chinese Room actuated by the physical processes (as opposed to Searle) governing the interactions of its constituent particles. Well, the physical brain does not require a conscious actuator, which distinguishes it from the Chinese Room. True, but neither did the original Chinese Room. If its instructions were formulated such that Searle did not need to understand them, and he had only to manipulate symbols (a fundamental premise of his original argument) then it could just as easily have been executed by a computer and thus been self-actuated as well. Ah, then either the physical brain cannot be mapped, or 'true' intelligence is not simply an emergent physical effect and is metaphysical epiphenomenon of the physical brain. The first we can dismiss as is prima facie false unless there is some magic that makes the physical substance of the brain unique in this regard relative to all other matter in the universe. If we take a different tact and instead try to argue that perhaps the brain is not unique, but that all matter cannot truly be mapped in that manner (after all, as science has not yet unraveled the mysteries of the ever-elusive grand unified theory, such an undertaking may not simply be infeasible, but fundamentally impossible for reasons that we do not yet understand), then that reasoning also destroys the Chinese Room argument because an arbitrarily complex computer system cannot therefore necessarily be mapped either, making the original Chinese Room impossible to construct. That leaves us with 'true' intelligence, if it exists, as being some kind of metaphysical property or brains being magical. No one believes in magical brains, so we have now taken this particular line of discussion squarely out of the intersection of philosophy and science and shifted it into the region of philosophy and religion where it stands today as a (still raging) debate regarding the metaphysical mind (and if such a thing exists).
In other words, Searle is ultimately (and explicitly) arguing that efforts to create synthetic intelligence are futile not because any specific scientific approach (such as computational modeling) is flawed and will not work, but that scientific methods are fundamentally incapable of creating intelligence because 'real' intelligence possesses a secret sauce that has yet to be precisely defined (e.g., "original intentionality") that an artificial creation cannot possess (because, e.g., any intentionality or understanding will simply be a derivation of its creator's, and therefore not original).
If we take a step back, we can also note that Searle is specifically not arguing that functionalist approaches such as computational simulation cannot produce something that is functionally identical to true intelligence such that it is impossible in the absolute sense for an external observer to distinguish the two--he specifically concedes that it could, and it is a premise of the Chinese Room. His argument is that even if it does produce such a thing, it will still not be "true" intelligence in the metaphysical sense of intentionality or consciousness. This means that even if Searle is right, and there is a real metaphysical construct or property that is both undetectable and unreproduceable by science, then from a scientific and utility perspective the distinction, even if real, does not matter. Turning that around to more directly address your assertion, Searle himself does not argue that the Chinese Room implies that computational models of the mind cannot work. He argues that it doesn't matter whether they work because that is besides the point. This is one of the reasons why, even though Searle originally coined the term, the current definition of "strong AI" used in neuroscience and AI research explicitly means functional equivalence or superiority when compared with human intelligence rather than philosophical equivalence.
Comment: Re:Saving everyone a few seconds on wiki (Score 1) 209
Observing something and then trying to recreate it with rigor and controlled conditions is called science. It's pretty nifty, you should look into it.
That was implied in the point I was making. My parent poster's assumption, if true, would make experimental science either impossible (you would not be able to 'experiment' without already completely understanding the subject of the experimentation--hence it is not experimentation) or unnecessary (because you must already understand the topic completely in order to perform an experiment) depending on your semantic inclination.
Comment: Re:Saving everyone a few seconds on wiki (Score 1) 209
To add: I mention "long-standing problems" which suggest that the effort in question is ultimately futile. These problems are well-established and fundamental to the AGI problem the summary implies that we're on the brink of solving. To ignore them expect that those problems will just vanish if we just build a better bamboo airplane is nothing short of magical thinking.
The point that it is possible to solve a problem without necessarily fully understanding the problem or the mechanism of the solution is equally applicable to intermediate problems that we believe must be overcome in order to develop AGI. To use your analogy, building physical replicas of airplanes will not, in and of themselves, result in shipments of cargo directly, but they could (with persistent iterative effort) lead to better understanding of aeronautical engineering (e.g., repeatedly pushing modified bamboo replicas off a cliff will eventually demonstrate that shape, surface area/weight ratio, distribution of weight, etc. affect performance), ultimately resulting in working aircraft, and probably resulting in economic development as a side-effect.
Children go through that process building their first paper airplane. First they copy someone or follow instructions by rote, then they fiddle with folding patterns, shapes, materials, etc. to try to make improvements or changes to flight characteristics. The more inquisitive ones continue he process to find that certain shapes and patterns tend to have certain results, and the more persistent and sufficiently-interested ones continue study and experimentation to try to understand the underlying causes of those results. Very few (if any) first study aeronautical engineering and physics to first understand the underlying physical forces and interactions (to say nothing of the math required to understand and solve systems of PDEs etc.) before constructing their first paper airplane.
With respect to the one specific issue you've identified, a solution for or complete understanding of the issues touched on by the symbol grounding problem is a requirement only for the development of a more rigorous definition of and ability to then test for and recognize intelligence, not the creation of intelligence.
To believe that the approach in question will ultimately result in "creating synthetic intelligence" is not merely belief without evidence, it's belief in face of evidence to the contrary!
We don't in fact have evidence to the contrary. What we do have are open philosophical questions/problems regarding the nature and definition of intelligence that may prevent us from being able to formally prove that a program is in fact intelligent according to a (as-yet non-existent) rigorous definition. Searle's Chinese Room argument, for example, simply articulated a counterargument to the computational/functional definition of intelligence, but did not provide any alternative definition. If you also accept his refutation of the systems reply to the Chinese Room argument then we cannot, given the current state of human knowledge and understanding, even prove that other humans are in fact intelligent. If we accept that other humans are intelligent, then it follows that the existence of intelligence is independent of our ability to understand and define intelligence.
To return to your earlier reference, even if we assume that the symbol grounding problem must be overcome in order for intelligence to exist, it is nevertheless true that it could be overcome while both the creators of the intelligence and the resulting intelligence do not comprehend (or even have the ability to precisely identify) the mechanism of the solution. Inability to solve the symbol grounding problem or, e.g., address Searle's Chinese Room argument to Searle's satisfaction, therefore, is not prima facie evidence that neural net modeling as an approach cannot eventually create intelligence.
Comment: Re:Saving everyone a few seconds on wiki (Score 2) 209
That is the meaning that I usually assign to the term cargo cult as well, but I was using it in my post in the same manner as my original parent poster.
If we assume that I misinterpreted my parent poster's meaning, and it was in fact using the definition you provided, then the implication is that if neural net modeling is a cargo cult activity we must be imitating the actions of someone else who doesunderstand the fundamental nature and mechanism of intelligence. Unless my parent poster is insinuating the presence of an intelligent power whose deliberate actions we are trying to imitate in a misguided effort to produce the same results, the only reasonable interpretation of the use of the term in this thread is to refer to the broader concept of simply trying to reproduce phenomena that we do not understand by trying to replicate the circumstances we associate with the phenomena.
Comment: Re:Saving everyone a few seconds on wiki (Score 3, Insightful) 209
Your assertion that a 'cargo cult' approach cannot achieve a given effect contains the assumption that it is necessary to first develop an accurate understanding of why and how a potential mechanism works before it can be implemented.
All crop development prior to Mendel or Darwin, for example, was essentially cargo cult directed evolution--and yet it resulted in incredible development (e.g., corn from teocinte).
More generally, achievement of an effect isn't just possible without understanding, it's possible without intent. Predators culling prey populations such that frequency of undesirable alleles within the prey population is minimized is an entirely unintentional effect. "Cargo Cult" solutions are simply scenarios where you have intent but lack understanding (which again does not mean that the solution will necessarily be ineffective).
With respect to the neuron modeling approach, it actually builds on lots of earlier successful work in computer science with respect to emergent properties of systems of finite automata. Essentially the approach follows the sequence:
- 1) Observe a complex phenomenon that you do not understand and further do not understand how to analyze in its entirety.
- 2) Identify discrete components of the phenomenon that you can analyze (e.g., neurons)
- 3) Model those components as finite automata and tweak the number of components in the model, as well as the configuration of the interaction topology and properties of individual automata until you recreate the original phenomenon (or alternatively other unexpected but interesting phenomena) (e.g., play with simulated neural nets)
- 4) Use the resulting working model to help you identify and analyze attributes of the system and their effect on the emergent property of interest, which leads to further understanding of the phenomenon (already has happened in fields like image recognition)
Note that in the above approach you not only recreate something before you understand it or how it works--you do so specifically to gain a better understanding of how it works. This is certainly a realistic scenario of how strong AI could be developed via "cargo cult" methodology. It is entirely possible that creating synthetic intelligence will be a step towards the understanding intelligence as opposed to an outcome of that understanding.
Comment: Re:What year is this? (Score 3, Insightful) 559
I don't mean this as a personal attack, but what you've basically done is run down a list of fallacies that are covered in econ 100-level classes.
RE: 1) The 'want' of things beyond what you can afford is a central driver of economic development. Technology--including automation--constantly lowers the bar with respect to affordability of goods and services. To paraphrase the claim of many popular software frameworks, economic development and technological progress make expensive things affordable and impossible things expensive. Also, just because you are not willing to work for luxury goods and services does not mean that no one is.
RE: 2) Ignoring the incorrect usage of 'deflation', this is a classic expression of the fallacy of overproduction. Cheaper housing is not a bad thing at all, and cheaper housing did not cause any financial crisis. If housing became cheaper in general, people would either spend more money on other things or upgrade to larger/more elaborate houses (or some combination of the two). The root of the recent housing market collapse was simply that people overextended themselves based on terrible judgment. If your ability to keep making your mortgage payments depends on the value of your house increasing indefinitely so that you can leverage that increased equity via re-mortgaging, you will go bankrupt sooner or later. Not only that, but you are likely to do so at the same time as everyone else because your (or your neighbor's) default puts downward pressure on the price of housing in your area, which increases the risk of others defaulting, which puts downward pressure on the price of housing, etc. ad infinitum. Do this on the scale of meaningful %s of US GDP due to federal legislation ostensibly intended to "make housing affordable" and you have a massive blowup on your hands that is completely unrelated to the real cost (as opposed to price) of housing.
RE: 3) There is no causal relationship between technological progress in general (or increased use of automation in particular) that drives growth in 'public services' as a percent of GDP. There is likewise no rationale for technology forcing nationalization of greater percentages of the economy as a whole. If a car costs less due to more efficient production technology, people will buy more cars or other goods and services with the money they would have otherwise spent on the car. People who choose to save the money instead provide capital (via the banking system) that funds entrepreneurs who develop new businesses or new ventures within existing businesses to adapt to/take advantage of the new economic environment.
RE: 4) Setting aside the unfounded claim that 'new industries require less and less work' and that 'previous changes still required loads of people to operate', the fundamental flaw in this line of reasoning is that it ignores the downstream effects of the efficiencies gained, which inevitably result in new economic developments. Cheaper and more reliable automobiles, for example, have allowed for the incredible growth in US economy by increasing mobility of labor and expertise. Whereas you previously had to find employment within walking/horseriding distance of your house (or live in on-site housing) and employers had essentially monopoly access to your labor, automobiles allowed people to force every employer within driving distance of their house to compete for their labor. This also fueled growth in the housing market as suburbs became feasible as maximum distance between work, house, and other facilities relied upon by the average household increased. The transportation industry--first for bulk goods and services and later to small-scale bespoke delivery services like UPS and FedEx was also made possible by further developments in the auto industry. Making autos even cheaper will open access to broader markets (e.g., in developing nations) and allow access to higher-end features in mid-level models.
Taking a step back, unless every 'want' of every individual is completely satisfied, there will always be more that can be done. As long as there is more that can be done than people to do it, there will be jobs available. Whether the set of jobs available is equal to the set of jobs desired by currently unemployed people is an altogether different question. Whether everyone else should essentially pay to make them equal (via taxes, protective tarriffs, subsidies, price controls, etc.) is also a different question.
Comment: Re:Scientific progress (Score 1) 586
So your assertion is that we should require "100+ years of study" before deploying any new technology? If not any new technology, how do you determine a priori which technologies should be subjected to that level of scrutiny?
By that logic we should not be using televisions, digital electronics, new cultivars developed after the 1920s (and most developed prior, as though they are over 100 years old, very few specific cultivars had been in production for 100+ years), any antibiotics, the polio vaccine, any of the procedures and drugs associated with modern medicine, etc.
Comment: Re:Scientific progress (Score 5, Insightful) 586
Scientists don't make conclusions based on lack of evidence. We need proof they're not harmful to us and the environment. We don't have that proof.
You cannot prove a negative. What you can prove (and what already has been proven) is that all of the GMO crops are safer than peanuts, penicillin, and organic bean sprouts and spinach, and cell phones (GMOs 0 deaths with 100s of millions of exposures over nearly 20 years, the others many thousands of deaths between them due to anaphylactic shock, e. coli, driving-while-texting, etc)
I am not arguing that there is no risk with GMO technology. What I am saying, however, that the rational approach is to formulate scientific hypotheses regarding risks such that those hypotheses can be tested via either examining existing data or conducting experiements that quantify the risk such that it is possible to determine whether those risks are acceptable based on our best current knowledge.
The "poison" genes you're referencing (e.g., Bt11) are currently based on proteins that are produced by soil bacteria, bacteria naturally found in milk, and other things that humans have been consuming for centuries and that are in many cases applied to organic crops as well. They have also been tested according to both USDA and EPA regulatory standards (in the US, pest control GM traits are regulated by both agencies whereas herbicide tolerance traits are only regulated by the USDA). At this point it is not a question of whether or not they have been tested, but whether they have been tested to a sufficient degree. My personal opinion is that given that they have been tested (both scientifically in controlled experiments and by default through market exposure) far more thoroughly than anything else I consume short of pharmaceuticals, I am OK with them. Beyond my personal comfort level I would challenge anyone to come up with a scientifically defendable justification to require greater testing that would not logically require much greater testing of non-GM foods as well.
The problem is not that there is a lack of "clear thinking" regarding GMOs. The problem is that the ratio of rational thought to irrational thought is unfortunately very small, and the ratio of rational communication vs. irrational communication regarding the issue is even worse. These difficulties are also compounded by the unfortunate fact that many people conflate GMOs with IP laws, religious beliefs, personal philosophy, etc.
Comment: Re:Scientific progress (Score 5, Insightful) 586
It is the wholesale rejection of an entire body of science and technology on non-scientific bases that will affect both Europe's ability to contribute to scientific progress in those areas and its ability to produce its own food.
In other words you have confused the direction of the cause and effect relationship between scientific progress and food production in this case.


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RESIDENTS in North Yorkshire are to be given the chance to make their views known on the county council's spending plans in a series of consultations over the next two months.
Senior councillors and officers will explain the financial challenges facing the authority.
The council is already in the middle of a four-year programme to reduce its spending by £69m by 2014/15 as a result of cuts in Government grants and other pressures on spending.
But the council now anticipates that as a result of a further council tax freeze and further changes to Government funding it will have to reduce spending by an extra £22m over the next two years on top of the £69m, making a total reduction of £91m by 2014/15.
The council does not expect to have confirmation of its funding from central Government until January 2013, but consideration is already being given to where further reductions in spending might be made, because it will be necessary to begin implementing these reductions in April 2013.
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3.78/5 rDev +20.4%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
500 ml bottle into lager glass, best before 10/5/2013. Pours slightly cloudy golden straw color with a 1 finger fairly dense white head with good retention, that reduces to a small cap that lingers. Light spotty lacing clings on the glass, with a good amount of streaming carbonation retaining the head. Aromas of bready grain, cracker, floral, pear, apple, light pepper, biscuit, and herbal earthiness. Very nice aromas with good balance of light fruity esters with malt/hop notes; with good strength. Taste of bready grain, cracker, floral, pear, apple, light pepper, biscuit, and herbal earthiness. Lingering notes of bread, cracker, floral, light pepper, and herbal on the finish for a short bit. Good balance of malt/hop flavors with light-moderate fruitiness; and zero cloying flavors after the finish. Medium carbonation and body; with a smooth and fairly crisp mouthfeel that is nice; without feeling too thin. Alcohol is very well hidden with hardly any warming noticed after the finish. Overall this is a very good dortmunder style. Very clean with good balance of flavors and minimal esters; and very smooth to drink. A nicely enjoyable offering.
Serving type: bottle
04-25-2013 03:45:55 | More by superspak
3.83/5 rDev +22%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 4
Without going over the top with an in depth analysis, this is a good cheap lite tasting beer that works well with fast foods. Overall there is nothing too complex about it; this is trouble-free light lager made of barley malt and hops. Not a common beer to be found in my location, but still miles better than most in its price range and yet still very drinkable.
Serving type: bottle
12-24-2012 08:33:17 | More by smokinyodas
3.5/5 rDev +11.5%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
This beer is pretty flat looking in my glass. Perhaps it is a bit too cold. The color is yellow, as expected and clear as can be.
The aroma is good but not too pronounced. It may be the best thing about it besides the price.
The taste is OK. Not real clean, though, like it's been in this bottle too long. I am not sure I would buy this again, but maybe. It just isn't very exciting.
Serving type: bottle
06-08-2012 22:45:36 | More by schoolboy
4.13/5 rDev +31.5%
look: 4.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 4 | feel: 5 | overall: 4.5
A-very golden with lots of bubbles and very nice thick white head
S-crisp german grains. slightly sweet. smells good though faint.
T-comes in with a very good taste of german grains with just a touch of grassyness. ther's a small sweetness to it which i find unfitting, but its small. its such a crisp and drinkable taste though, I love it. the after-taste is matching with only a hint of welcomed bitterness.
M-very creamy medium carbonation with a creamy finish that becomes dry
O-this is an example of a great german lager. i truly could drink large amounts of this in a sitting. it goes down so easily with a fresh taste of beer.
Serving type: bottle
03-19-2012 20:11:23 | More by AdamBear
3.1/5 rDev -1.3%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3 | feel: 2.5 | overall: 3
Poured 2 fingers of almost white head over a straw/pale gold colored body. Good stream of bubbles rising to the top, upon which this beer keeps a little froth. Lacing makes futile attempts to cling to the glass but quickly and easily succumbs to gravity.
Pale malt, fresh grassy hops are easily understood. It smells very sweet, and faintly of corn and a light hint of crackers.
Sweet pale malt is up to bat first. This passes to a hint of sweet corn mixed with buttery crackers and finishes with light grassy hops.
This beer is light bodied with heavy carbonation. At times I felt like I was drinking pop rather than beer. There is a slight dry finish.
Serving type: bottle
02-03-2012 20:51:26 | More by CFHMagnet
2.58/5 rDev -17.8%
look: 3 | smell: 3 | taste: 2.5 | feel: 2 | overall: 2.5
Found this stuff inside a cooler at my local ABC Wine & Liquor Store. It was on sale for $ 6.45 a six pack. The packaging says " Brewed According to the German Purity Law of 1516" and each bottle also has that saying written on it. Never heard of HANSA before so I thought for the price, why not give it a shot.
Not a bad drinking beer for the price. Plus each bottle is 500ml which is about 16.91 Fluid Ounces. That said, your getting a lot more beer than anything you normally purchase in a 6 pack, domestic or foreign.
The label could use a major face lift. It just not very creative. The bottle is nice...brown, tall and because it holds over a pint, you know when you lift it up you've got a lot of beer in your hand. When I was walking out of the store with my six, I was feeling like someone out there really got smart and decided that making the bottle just a wee bit larger and spending the extra money on water and ingredients, might have a BIG influence on the consumers of this world. I hope their right.
As for the taste: well there isn't much to this stuff. Plain, but import plain. Which is to say, it's worth buying if the cost is under $ 7.00 a six. It could be more unique in the taste category. Appearence: It certainly could be less yellow and more bright. But the over-all appearance isn't bad for this price range. Smell; Good Kind of has a reminder of the old drinking days. Take your time with it and you'll see what I mean. It's there you just have to look for it. Mouthfeel: Weak.
Grab it if you can find it for less than $ 7...otherwise avoid if you have to pay full price.
Serving type: bottle
01-07-2012 01:14:54 | More by mcoh1030
2.23/5 rDev -29%
look: 3.5 | smell: 2.5 | taste: 2 | feel: 1.5 | overall: 2.5
pours a clear yellow straw color with about 3 in of foamy head... looks like Bud light but with good head... one plus.
Smell is a disappointment.. malt and light hops
taste is watery... maybe some malt sweetness but no real hop flavor... just enough to be called "PURE BEER"
mouth-feel is like drinking water.
overall not that good at all.... never seen this beer before and i bought it thinking it was going to be more of a wit beer... then i poured it. oh well.... if you see it pass it up!!
Serving type: bottle
09-04-2011 17:52:50 | More by DUBinMIA
3.45/5 rDev +9.9%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 3 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.5
I had never heard of this beer when I found it at Total Wine and Beer.
It pours a crystal clear bright pale yellow.
Has a dull lemon smell.
The taste just isn't as good as the other categories. Has a nice start but finishes with a bit of fake flavor.
Feels light and goes down easy. For the price this isn't a bad pick.
Serving type: bottle
08-27-2011 04:22:34 | More by confer
3.88/5 rDev +23.6%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 5 | overall: 4
Let me begin by saying that I am partial to import only Germanic 'Larger/Pils' styles of beer. Having said that, please take this into account while reading this short review.
If I can think of one word that really comes to mind when you sample this beer it would have to be 'value.' This to me is important, especially with these lingering economic woes we've been enduring, and that most import beers have morphed into them annoying 11.2 ounce bottles!
In my opinion its a great example of what a proper, good tasting 'light beer' should be! At roughly a buck a 12oz. beer for home consumption, represents an excellent buy. I have been purchasing 6 pack PINTS for roughly $8.00 at Chicago area liquor stores.
This beer is shipped properly in completely enclosed, one pint BROWN bottle six packs, and adheres to the purity law. Its taste confirms this. No reasonable chance of skunk here folks! This is SO important when buying import beer.
It pours decently into a one pint glass, leaving a generous four finger, clumpy head. Surprisingly, most of the beer's modest, yet zesty flavor is in the head, which is something I am not accustomed to.
The color is average yellow, to almost pale, and the head settles rather thinly, yet leaves nice lacing on the sides of the glass. There is a definite hops flavor here resembling fresh, sliced Vienna bread. Finish is exceptionally clean, light, and clear making it an excellent summer brew for refreshment.
Overall this is a 'decent' lighter beer with noticeable flavor for consumption when more then one is required!
It is by no means the best representation of this type of beer, but its taste is authentic, with very little next day fallout.
**Additional note: I have read here that this beer was not brewed in Germany. Reading from the packaging of the beer I just purchased it reads:
"Brewed and bottled by Dortmunder Hansa-Brauerei GMBH, 4415 Dortmund, Germany"
Serving type: bottle
08-23-2011 23:22:45 | More by AdrianRP
2.9/5 rDev -7.6%
look: 3 | smell: 2 | taste: 3 | feel: 4 | overall: 3
Poured chilled into flared glass.
A: orangish yell,w thin carb, thin head
S: yeasty, stale
T: not unpleasant, strong flavor; slightly spiced with a deeper flavor than I would have expected from a purity-law beer
M: very bouncy
Not all that great specimen of this beer.
Serving type: bottle
08-01-2011 14:10:10 | More by Arithmeticus
2.42/5 rDev -22.9%
look: 2 | smell: 2 | taste: 2.5 | feel: 3 | overall: 2.5
A - no head, highly carbonated, looks like a sugary ginger beer.
S - Can't detect much here. A faint grassy aroma.
T - Bugger all in the flavour department. There's a hint of lime in there.
M - A crisp, zesty bite to it.
O - Not for me. Pass.
Serving type: bottle
06-10-2011 11:11:53 | More by dansmcd
2.05/5 rDev -34.7%
look: 2 | smell: 2 | taste: 2 | feel: 2.5 | overall: 2
A: a thin daffodil yellow color with near champagne characteristics. Lots of bubbles moving around. Just a trace of foam remains atop. One word comes to mind...Bleak
S: grassy with crushed grains. A bit stale in the nose
T: virtually tasteless. Grains (malts and barley) at the forefront with an off-kilter sweetness of old sugary honey. Faint mineral character as well. Some type of noble hop flavors do roam as bittering is very low with just a light snap at the finish
M: about the same feel as a generic ginger ale soda. Plenty of fresh and crisp bubbles within each sip. So light in feel that it is hard to gauge...if that makes sense
O: bought on a whim. I should have done some more research before committing to this one.
As noted earlier by a BA member. Maybe, just maybe, if it was served super ice cold on a hot sweaty day would I welcome this again
Serving type: bottle
04-24-2011 02:54:16 | More by Magpie14
3.13/5 rDev -0.3%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3 | taste: 3 | feel: 4 | overall: 3
I picked up a bottle of Hansa for $1.99 at The Lager Mill. It was nice spring day in mid Michigan, and a Dortmunder sounded like a good way to start the night off, so lets see how it goes. For some reason I just assumed this was from Germany so I am a little bit surprised to see it is from Namibia. Best before June 6, 2011. Poured from a 500ml brown bottle into a imperial pint glass.
A- This beer has a pretty plain looking label with an old ship in the background. It poured a pale golden straw color with four fingers worth of lumpy white head that died down to a lumpy layer that left lots of lacing.
S- I pick up lots of pale malts that has a lot of sweetness. There is also a big bready aroma to this beer. The hops are grassy and somewhat metallic.
T- The taste is very grainy, those pale malts pretty much dominate the flavor of this beer. The malts were not nearly as sweet as the aroma led me to believe. The hops are more metallic then grassy and leave this beer with a slightly bitter finish that balances out all the pale malts.
M- Crisp, clean, light bodied, and perfect carbonation.
Overall this was an average example Export Lager. It was pretty light and smooth which made for good drinkability. The flavors weren't too impressive, but they remained true to the style. I thought I was buying a traditional German Export lager, and it was pretty close to that, it was just brewed in Namibia instead of Germany.I wouldn't search this beer out but it might hit the spot on a hot summer afternoon.
Serving type: bottle
04-10-2011 03:17:46 | More by StoutHunter
2.95/5 rDev -6.1%
look: 3 | smell: 2.5 | taste: 3 | feel: 2.5 | overall: 3.5
Thanks to my buddy Murph for the freebie bottle!
Poured from bottle to a pint glass.
Pours out a very thin straw yellow fizzy watery looking beer. Head builds up and sparkles like soda or a BMC light lager. Head stayed a touch longer than a BMC beer and left a tiny lace but disappeared completely after a few minutes.
Smell was weak but not horrible. It smelled like a premium American light lager but that isn't saying much for it. It did smell pure though without cheap adjuncts. Light bready smell with maybe a touch of hops hiding in there.
Taste was ok. Refreshing for a hot day for sure but a very simple tasting beer. True to style but way way too light flavored. Sorta tastes like a BMC crossed with Heineken only without the terrible aftertaste. I could drink this all day though cuz it does have a clean finish.
Mouthfeel was pretty poor. Very very watery. The carbonation is kind of weird. When it poured, it seemed a bit overcarbonated. As I drank it, it seemed like it was slightly undercarbonated for the style. Either way, it was watery like a Coors Light only had some flavor.
Drinkability is it best attribute. Very easy drinking session beer. Very refreshing but not something that wows you. I definately could put down alot of these fast. I would drink this again for sure if I wanted something light and not too strong, but I definately wouldn't go searching for this.
Serving type: bottle
04-26-2010 17:39:26 | More by BigDoug
2.95/5 rDev -6.1%
look: 3 | smell: 3 | taste: 3 | feel: 2.5 | overall: 3
I like Dortmunders, they have a unique taste. This baby comes in a 16oz bottle and is on sale at my store for 6.49....can't beat it! Pours a bubbly yellow color with a fine head. Smell musty with a little hop spiceyness. Taste is clean and crisp, true to the German purity law. A good beer to sit back and chill with but don't expect heaps of flavor.
Serving type: bottle
04-17-2010 04:43:54 | More by Portertime
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2.85/5 rDev -9.2%
look: 3 | smell: 2 | taste: 3 | feel: 2.5 | overall: 3.5
This is a 500 mL bottle, 4.8 % ABV. This is not a great beer, but bought about 6 cases of the stuff for brewing bottles. This beer is so-so, the carbonation is poor. Golden light malt used. Export beer from Germany can be bad, the best is within Germany. I am not impressed they are using hop extracts probably to save money, no real hop taste. Lacing is not the greatest either.
It is quaffable, but will not likely be your favorite beer.
As for bottling, with a two handed bottler, one has to be careful as the bottles tend to shoot out when capping. I almost wonder if these bottles are a slightly different cap size. The brown bottles are excellent for bottling, and they did a great job with packaging.
It is a good price when you consider your getting 16.89 oz per bottle, not 12 oz.
Well just got another 2 cases for $25/ in NJ. They got rid of the 'canned' hops! though now using hop extract. Also now using a super aga that makes capping these bottles a breeze.
Serving type: bottle
12-14-2009 02:38:29 | More by beer272
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will trade down for months. But, the next market rally better include JAZZ, or it is over.
believe me, they are all in, and then some.
Well, that is where they predict it is going. You people are ruining their plan!
You are ruining their day. I hope you are happy.
go fk yourself moron. i hope you are short this stocxk.
shorting against the box is a exercise in futility. take a position and run with a speculative investment.
market cap? shares outstanding times current price. DUD!!!! Where do these people come from. That is a given. On my web site, I add short interest to the formula. No one else does that. Now, what clue do you need????? No I didnt read the filing. If 6 million shares were added, i stand corrected. Either way, 29 million shares traded is insanity. Nothing can explain that volume. At 5 dollars a share, times 29 million, is off the radar.
my calculations indicating over a million new shorts based on price, volume and asked of over 10,000 shares or more. I saw it all day long, 10k, 20k, 40k on the asked as the stock fought to move higher. Those wernt owners getting out, those were new positions. Well, anyway, they are all in. I still say, there is over a 2 million shares sold short on OXGN on 3/12/14. Am I crazy? The next 3 weeks will tell if I am.
shorting what?????? 2 million shares at 5 dollars a share or less? I mean, is it worth it? You cant even hedge with options. But I did see late in the day, a massive high frequency group of trades, no doubt designed to kill the stock, and almost did, but the stock firmed. Those shares had to come from somewhere. You cant sell air. Apparently they did. My calculations indicate, well over a million new shorts. That cant even be possible, I would think. That is just 3.5% of today's trades. The next week will tell the tale of what really happened today with 29 million shares trading.
virtually nothing worth shorting verses the risk. How 29 million shares traded is a mystery to me, and should be looked into by the fed and the SEC. High frequency trading must be stopped!.
Wheres the fed? Wheres the SEC????. No wonder no one has faith in the system.
doing it again. There has to be a good place to buy this thing.
ya know. your a idiot. you cant use, shorted shares to sell more shares. to the contrary. stocks only go down because of long selling.
hammered severely. The only buyers will be retail. Institutions are going to wait for a massive slaughter. It may be soon.
good. take profits. take profits often.
Has nothing to do with fuel cells, but has much to do with massive speculation. Come on get real. KNDI is a penny stock trading near 20. I really dont care. Nor does any one else. Just sell for a profit now. You can always buy back. Ok, ill say it, fk KNDI and what they do, and what they do it. Is the stock going up or down? Right now, it is going down.
Hopefully it will base there. 12-13 area is a possibility now, because of the fuel cell group disaster. Traders now are hawking over valued spec stock to attack.
That indicates, pure froth, to the enth degree. KNDI got hammered today because of the PLUG meltdown. Meaning, to much speculation folks. Now, unload when the little pennies advertise.
where is the new money coming from? Who is going to buy here????
i guess they keep pushing it back because of MASSIVE , MANIA investor interest. Hey, anyone not playing a few 1000 shares of this is missing a good time. Dont bet the farm. That is idiocy. Play it for fun and games. It is fun to watch. It isnt a bubble yet. I figured today alone, 4-5 million shares additionally were shorted. By the end of the week, you are going to have to scour to fine shares to short. I am waiting for the magic number of short to shares outstanding. It could happen. You have to love this action.


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- EDUCATION: Magdalen College School
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Born in England on August 1, 1965, Sam Mendes is a stage director and an Academy Award-winning film director. In 1992, Mendes was appointed artistic director of London's Donmar Warehouse, attracting some of the world's finest actors to appear in Assassins, The Glass Menagerie and Habeas Corpus. Mendes's most acclaimed directorial work includes his dark 1998 production of Cabaret; his debut film, American Beauty (1999),
"If my career ... amounts to one-tenth of what [Billy Wilder's] has been, I will be a very happy man."
which earned him the 2000 Academy Award for best director; 2005's Jarhead; and his 2012 James Bond film, Skyfall. He's garnered fame for several other cinematic works, including The Kite Runner (2007), Revolutionary Road (2008) and the 2010 documentary Out of the Ashes.
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Academy Award-winning director Sam Mendes was born Samuel Alexander Mendes on August 1, 1965, in Reading, Berkshire, England. With a bloodline of successful writers and scholars, Mendes seemed to be destined for a career in the arts: He is the grandson of popular Trinidadian novelist Alfred Mendes, and son of Jameson Peter Mendes and Valerie Helene (Barnett) Mendes, a literature professor and successful fiction author/publisher, respectively. His family's influence was apparent early on; by the time Mendes was 5 years old—around the time of his parents' divorce—he had developed an affinity for writing, theater and film.
Receiving a good education helped Mendes's passions evolve into talents. After graduating from the Magdalen College School, Mendes enrolled at the University of Cambridge, graduating with an honors degree in English in 1987. Following graduation, he landed an entry-level position at the Chichester Festival Theatre, located in England's West Sussex County.
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While working at Chichester, at age 25, Mendes was asked to fill in as director for a comedy stage production. The show was a success, spurring further job offers for the recent graduate. In the late 1980s, Mendes directed actress Judi Dench in a production of Anton Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard, which garnered strong reviews. Around the same time, he was hired as a director at both the Royal Shakespeare Company and the Royal National Theatre. Mendes headed various stage productions during this time, including The Sea, Othello, and The Rise and Fall of Little Voice.
In the early 1990s, Mendes began a new directing position; he was appointed artistic director of the Donmar Warehouse, a nonprofit theater in London's West End. Mendes served in that position for nearly a decade, and is credited with attracting some of the world's finest actors to appear in many Donmar productions, including Stephen Sondheim's Assassins, Mendes's opening play in 1992; Tennessee Williams's The Glass Menagerie; and Alan Bennett's Habeas Corpus.
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Usain Bolt Unbeaten in 2011
September 21, 2011Aside from the unfortunate DQ in Daegu, Usain Bolt finishes the season first in every race of 2011.
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September 04, 2011The 2011 Track and Field World Championships' world record drought ends in dramatic fashion on the very last race of the competition with Jamaica's powerhouse 4x100 meter relay team pacing out a barely believable time of 37.04 seconds.
UNBEATABLE! Usain Bolt captures another 200m World Champion Title
September 03, 2011Chalking up yet another historic mark, Usain Bolt takes the gold in the 200 meter dash with a time of 19.40 seconds – the fastest time clocked this year and the fourth fastest time ever run.
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September 02, 2011After cruising into the semi-finals with a comfortable yet field-leading time of 20.30 seconds, Usain Bolt continued his controlled dominance over the competition with a safe 20.31 second semi-final performance to secure a place in the 200 meter final on September 3rd at 8:20 am EST (21:20 Korean time).
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Textures in the early images of the Air Jordan XX8 SE included the criss-crossing lace stripes, Flight Plate composite material and the uniquely wavy midsole tooling. To this latest colorway Jordan Brand has added the camouflage look that's so hot right now, and in a colorway that indeed blends in with a cool grey camouflage, navy tongue, graphite sole setup. It'll be interesting to see if more patterns like the XX8′s own fractal Elephant or bamboo make it onto the SE, and you can see what the camo colorup looks like in more images after the jump
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Rick and Stacey (Goss) Hawk, of Selinsgrove, celebrated their 25th wedding anniversary on June 2.
They were married on June 2, 1984, at Mt. Bethal Church, McClure.
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