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Government Standards

Corporate food production interests yank the chains of Congress

Second update House just can’t wait to pass this bill. It goes to the Floor on Thursday. Note: there is no comparable bill in the Senate. Update In the ultimate of ironies, the Senate passed anĀ amendmentĀ to their appropriation bill, that would require genetically modified salmon be given a GMO label. How to explain the inconsistencies? […]

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Burningbird Technology

Mind the scaffolding

I have attempted to upgrade to Ubuntu 14.04 from 12.04.5 three times, failing each time. The points of failure are complex and seemingly many. I can ignore the necessary upgrade until 12.04.5 hits end of life in 2017, but whatever cruft is preventing a clean upgrade may be allowing all sorts of bad things. I […]