News Dec 22, 2012 at 9:12 am

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Chelsea Kellogg
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Genetically altered Salmon make me nervous because anything humans are involved with has a downside. And if these fish somehow escape into the wild, I fear that their growth rates may give them an advantage over native species and that would be disastrous.
Pope Peabrain on December 22, 2012 at 9:28 AM Report this
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One word: Blinky.
originalcinner on December 22, 2012 at 9:32 AM Report this
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Mankind is the engineering master of Earth's surface. We dominate it and make it domour bidding. We can grow, demolish, drain, flood, bore, fly, and orbit at will. We can completely control mighty rivers. Earth is silly putty to us. When we miss the old days, we just build something that looks like that.

It is our inevitable destiny to do the same with genetics. There will be horrible mistakes along the way but, in short time, most of what was once regarded as nature will be superceded by designer substitutes and well-intended proxies.

What I mean: we're not going to save the whales or polar bears or the rainforests. We're going to engineer 'better' ones that can thrive the future we've caused.

NotSean on December 22, 2012 at 10:00 AM Report this
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The Hostess story is from the AP and out of New York. Not really "according to the Spokesman-Review." To be nitpicky.
g on December 22, 2012 at 10:16 AM Report this
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@3

Just like we're going to use nuclear bombs to dig canals. And special order lizard heads on our babies. Upload our brains to the 'Net. Inevitable.

You get all this reading Wired, right? You do realize Wired is The Weekly World News with big words and a slick graphics department?
Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn on December 22, 2012 at 10:22 AM Report this
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That picture of Bubbles is heartbreaking. Poor thing, glad he's alive though.
lizlemon on December 22, 2012 at 10:24 AM Report this
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I see the GMO thing turning into the animal control issues they still battle in Oceania, rats show up so they get cats to kill them, cats kill everything else so they bring something kill the cats, etc. People will probably create animals to kill the animals they created.
CbytheSea on December 22, 2012 at 10:27 AM Report this
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If those Goodwill employees had all had guns, they could have killed the shoplifter before he made it out the door, and nobody would have been hurt.

America #1!
this guy I know in Spokane on December 22, 2012 at 10:27 AM Report this
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@8 or they just sold handguns, a customer could've used then to stop the bad guy. Assuming that customer was a good guy.
CbytheSea on December 22, 2012 at 10:28 AM Report this
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The Constitution of Pakistan guarantees the right to keep and bear arms. The province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa permits the ownership of heavy weaponry including the use of rocket-propelled grenades, short, medium, and long-range rockets, anti-aircraft guns, mortars, etc.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_politic…
Supreme Ruler Of The Universe on December 22, 2012 at 10:30 AM Report this
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@5 hehe. I do sound a little doomy gloomy aluminum foil hat.

Nah, nothing pulled from a acience journal. Just semi-educated conjecture. Mankind has little record of changing bahavior to fit the environment. We, instead, change te environment to fit our behavior.

The future: you want to save polar bears? Just engineer them a little bit so that they can enjoy constantly warm weather and to eat the corn husks from the crops we grow to feed our cars. Ez. Done.
NotSean on December 22, 2012 at 10:34 AM Report this
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MeNeedz SpellChex
NotSean on December 22, 2012 at 10:39 AM Report this
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Games Without Frontiers

Under the Firearms Act (Cap. 114) Laws of Kenya. Anyone who is 12 years or older can apply to privately own a gun.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_politic…
Supreme Ruler Of The Universe on December 22, 2012 at 10:44 AM Report this
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The NYTimes story about "Super Salm" didn't say why scientists selected the ocean pout. As I wrote on Cornichon this morning, http://www.cornichon.org/2012/12/meet-yo…, it's because the pout's blood contains a sort of fishy antifreeze; it doesn't go dormant in the freezing arctic waters but continues to grow.
Cornichon on December 22, 2012 at 10:49 AM Report this
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Cool that even Rep. Don Young of Alaska is fighting the frankenfish approval.
seatackled on December 22, 2012 at 10:52 AM Report this
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In order to get a gun license, one must:

Prove they are not endangering themselves nor general public by passing a psychological evaluation...The psychological evaluation must be repeated every 5 years.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_politic…
Supreme Ruler Of The Universe on December 22, 2012 at 10:53 AM Report this
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They should add some Twinkie genes to that fucking salmon monstrosity.
zombie eyes on December 22, 2012 at 11:18 AM Report this
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I've never seen 'Fight Club.' Should I bother?
mr. herriman on December 22, 2012 at 11:29 AM Report this
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@18

In my view, no; but I think you should read the novel.
seatackled on December 22, 2012 at 11:50 AM Report this
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My dog (who happens to be a formerly stray pitbull) doesn't like dogs, and is good at digging. It's why I don't leave her unattended in my yard or let her run around off leash. Jesus christ, people. If your unattended dog doesn't get in a dogfight, it'll eventually get hit by a car. Do it right or don't have a dog.
moth ball on December 22, 2012 at 12:05 PM Report this
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@18, I thought Fight Club was really good. I prefer the more usual movie genres typical of my age and gender (middle-aged female), but I really enjoyed Fight Club.
Sandiai on December 22, 2012 at 12:49 PM Report this
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@10, 13, 16. Wipe your ass, boy.
heywhatsit!? on December 22, 2012 at 12:54 PM Report this
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"Fight Club." Snort. A story about dudes feeling alienated. BECAUSE THAT STORY HASN'T BEEN TOLD BEFORE.

Wake me up when there's a story about women feeling alienated and finding a way back to wholeness through violence.
TVDinner on December 22, 2012 at 12:58 PM Report this
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@23 - 30 Rock, season 3, episode 18 ("Jackie Jormp-Jomp").
Chelydra_serpentina on December 22, 2012 at 1:26 PM Report this
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@24. "What did they turn out to be lesbians?"

"No, fight club."
Sandiai on December 22, 2012 at 1:57 PM Report this
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@Sandiai - You should know I seriously heart your avatar. Good choice.
Pridge Wessea on December 22, 2012 at 2:14 PM Report this
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@1 - Good worry. The ones that are farmed in ocean pens escape a lot. I do wonder though, if it is even possible for farmed salmon to (inter)breed, because they don't have the knowledge to do that whole river of birth struggle. I'd be more worried that the homogenous genetics of the farmed populations are vulnerable to disease, which would affect wild salmon.
on December 22, 2012 at 2:32 PM Report this
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@1. Also, their advanced growth makes them more vulnerable in the wild, so no worries there.
on December 22, 2012 at 2:35 PM Report this
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@26. Thanks for saying that.
Sandiai on December 22, 2012 at 10:20 PM Report this
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Oh, and gang rapes of women in New Delhi on public bus DOWNTOWN.

Then the protests against that were attacked by police, tear-gassed, and Net feed blocked.

But, hey, not like that matters.
Will in Seattle on December 22, 2012 at 11:51 PM Report this
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I can understand owners, or even valued employees at a small business pursuing shoplifters, but I do not understand minimum wage employees taking any sort of risks beyond simply working for a profit extracting machine.

On top of that, shouldn't Goodwill have a let them go policy? Perhaps even one against reporting shoplifting against anyone except egregious hipsters?
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