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ABA chief slams US sugar program as over-protectionist

2014-10-22 09:19:54| Sugar Industry News

The US sugar progam is frustrating, over-protectionist and counterproductive to business, says the president and CEO of the American Bakers Association (ABA).

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Tesla Motors slams Michigan car dealers for new bill banning them from in-state sales

2014-10-18 07:37:19| Auto Dealers - Topix.net

The Tesla P85+ all electric car and its charging station are displayed at the North American International Auto Show. Image via Agence France-Presse.

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Systemd Dev Slams FOSS Culture

2014-10-08 04:46:25| TechNewsWorld

The open source community is "quite a sick place to be in," said Red Hat engineer and Systemd developer Lennart Poettering. "The open source community is full of [assh*les], and I probably more than most others am one of their most favorite targets," Poettering added. "I get hate mail for hacking on open source. People have started multiple 'petitions' .... asking me to stop working.

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Merchants of Doubt Author Slams "Corrosive" Climate Change Skepticism

2014-10-06 18:29:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Scientific American: Historian of science Naomi Oreskes, now at Harvard, first came to my attention 20 years ago, when she and two co-authors argued in Science that "verification and validation of numerical models of natural systems is impossible." In The End of Science, I cited the Oreskes et al. paper when I challenged the claim that computers will revolutionize research into so-called complex systems. "The tobacco industry was way ahead of the postmodernists," says Naomi Oreskes, co-author of Merchants of Doubt,...

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