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Well, nationally too. The SNP don't make it into fourth place nationally. They're barely ahead of the Green party ffs.

the changes at Holyrood kinda makes a point that image eh?
2010 's Westminster seats in Scotland
and after the 2015 election the electoral map looked like this
Also... just ahead of the greens?.. quite an achievement considering they only stand for election in Scottish seats and have no need or interest in campaigning in English/Welsh or Irish seats. They have the votes of the vast majority of Scots but i suppose that doesn't count as if it's of any importance eh?

That's not how it would work. It's cloth. It has ripples and shades.
There would be patterned ripples across the dress where "real" colors would show in shades or highlights.

IF the photo itself wasn't messed up by the camera/software, effectively replacing the color palette in the entire photo.

William Gibson foresaw this in his "Bigend cycle" books.
Hubertus Bigend wears International Klein Blue suits just to fuck with everyone else, as it can't be represented correctly on monitors or in print - note two different whites in the color corrected photo in order to get both the skin tones and the dress right.

Gibson just didn't thought of adding shitty CCDs to the list of technology with issues with reproduction of the color.
Or, illiterate "designers".
She calls it "Royal Blue" in the video.

Sure... If one could get people to wear a computer screen, calibrated to show the web palette of colors.
There will be little difference. THERE. On the screen.
Especially if one's screen is not even close to calibrated.

On the other hand.... Trying to mix those "equivalent" values listed in RGB and CMYK.
In Web-RGB they WILL look exactly the same. And so will the blacks.
http://i.imgur.com/QdL00rr.jpg

Ask the same industry standard company to do it using their other, more professional tool, with full RGB and CMYK gamut...
http://i.imgur.com/46B6H55.jpg

And just try using the RGB and CMYK values for Ultramarine (essentially IKB).
http://i.imgur.com/Idc2pr7.jpg

The color she envisioned on her screen is NOT the color of cloth chosen for the dress, based on the color on the screen.
She wanted "royal blue" but picked ultramarine - because Web-RGB royal blue is closer to aquamarine IRL.
The person designing the dress DOES NOT KNOW WHAT COLOR IT IS.

It's not about "rods and cones" and "everyone seeing colors a little differently".
It's about people using wrong names for colors, often calling many different colors by the same name and the same color by different names.
Then it is about faulty capture technology and badly written color conversion and calibration algorithms.
Then it is about faulty display technology, which can't show the same image under different viewing angles.
THEN, and only then, MAYBE, color perception and ambient lighting might fool the untrained eye.

But it is most likely that in most cases it is again different people calling a shade of red pink and orange.
While trying to GUESS the "correct" color from a crappy photo on a crappy screen.

Yes, here's the actual problem, map of alcohol consumption by country where darker colours are more alcohol consumption and lighter colours are less and grey is no data:

http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/news/...

Original article:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/heal...

Long story short, is that Russia's driving accidents problem is almost wholly down to the fact that it's a nation of rampant alcholics. The rest comes down to poorly maintained cars and roads and a nation with weather that results in terrible driving conditions for half the year.

So absolutely nothing in this new law will fix the problem it purports to fix, hence, it's safe to assume that it's in fact wholly about minority oppression.

Trying to bring peace to the middle east is as futile as trying to stop the sun from shining.

Wow. I had no idea it was so easy - what's holding the solution back? I mean, have you seen Beijing? The "Stop the sun from shining" problem has been solved for a long time.

My guesses as follows:

http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media...
The Robo-tometrist. The first mechanical optometrist device. While every test subject did get a perfect eyeglass fitting, few after the fitting had eyes left to enjoy them with. And a couple even lost fingers.

http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media...
An experimental magnetic bong. No more bong water smell! Unfortunately researchers lost it along with their keys and can't remember how to build another one.

http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media...
A female scientist in the 80s? Clearly this was a Halloween party!

http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media...
Mecanical penises sound like a good idea until you actually see one in person.

http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media...
Come on, we all knew Carl Segans vacuum cleaner would have to look something like this.

http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media...
And his Latte machine and barista would look like this.

http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media...
Some jerk coughed into the magnetic bong. We thought it was bad getting water on your weed, but gamma rays? Now we're starting to remember why we lost that thing.

http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media...
CERN employees require a lot of coffee to get started in the mornings.

My guesses as follows:

http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media...
The Robo-tometrist. The first mechanical optometrist device. While every test subject did get a perfect eyeglass fitting, few after the fitting had eyes left to enjoy them with. And a couple even lost fingers.

http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media...
An experimental magnetic bong. No more bong water smell! Unfortunately researchers lost it along with their keys and can't remember how to build another one.

http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media...
A female scientist in the 80s? Clearly this was a Halloween party!

http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media...
Mecanical penises sound like a good idea until you actually see one in person.

http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media...
Come on, we all knew Carl Segans vacuum cleaner would have to look something like this.

http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media...
And his Latte machine and barista would look like this.

http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media...
Some jerk coughed into the magnetic bong. We thought it was bad getting water on your weed, but gamma rays? Now we're starting to remember why we lost that thing.

http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media...
CERN employees require a lot of coffee to get started in the mornings.

My guesses as follows:

http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media...
The Robo-tometrist. The first mechanical optometrist device. While every test subject did get a perfect eyeglass fitting, few after the fitting had eyes left to enjoy them with. And a couple even lost fingers.

http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media...
An experimental magnetic bong. No more bong water smell! Unfortunately researchers lost it along with their keys and can't remember how to build another one.

http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media...
A female scientist in the 80s? Clearly this was a Halloween party!

http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media...
Mecanical penises sound like a good idea until you actually see one in person.

http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media...
Come on, we all knew Carl Segans vacuum cleaner would have to look something like this.

http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media...
And his Latte machine and barista would look like this.

http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media...
Some jerk coughed into the magnetic bong. We thought it was bad getting water on your weed, but gamma rays? Now we're starting to remember why we lost that thing.

http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media...
CERN employees require a lot of coffee to get started in the mornings.

My guesses as follows:

http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media...
The Robo-tometrist. The first mechanical optometrist device. While every test subject did get a perfect eyeglass fitting, few after the fitting had eyes left to enjoy them with. And a couple even lost fingers.

http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media...
An experimental magnetic bong. No more bong water smell! Unfortunately researchers lost it along with their keys and can't remember how to build another one.

http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media...
A female scientist in the 80s? Clearly this was a Halloween party!

http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media...
Mecanical penises sound like a good idea until you actually see one in person.

http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media...
Come on, we all knew Carl Segans vacuum cleaner would have to look something like this.

http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media...
And his Latte machine and barista would look like this.

http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media...
Some jerk coughed into the magnetic bong. We thought it was bad getting water on your weed, but gamma rays? Now we're starting to remember why we lost that thing.

http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media...
CERN employees require a lot of coffee to get started in the mornings.

My guesses as follows:

http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media...
The Robo-tometrist. The first mechanical optometrist device. While every test subject did get a perfect eyeglass fitting, few after the fitting had eyes left to enjoy them with. And a couple even lost fingers.

http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media...
An experimental magnetic bong. No more bong water smell! Unfortunately researchers lost it along with their keys and can't remember how to build another one.

http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media...
A female scientist in the 80s? Clearly this was a Halloween party!

http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media...
Mecanical penises sound like a good idea until you actually see one in person.

http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media...
Come on, we all knew Carl Segans vacuum cleaner would have to look something like this.

http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media...
And his Latte machine and barista would look like this.

http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media...
Some jerk coughed into the magnetic bong. We thought it was bad getting water on your weed, but gamma rays? Now we're starting to remember why we lost that thing.

http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media...
CERN employees require a lot of coffee to get started in the mornings.

My guesses as follows:

http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media...
The Robo-tometrist. The first mechanical optometrist device. While every test subject did get a perfect eyeglass fitting, few after the fitting had eyes left to enjoy them with. And a couple even lost fingers.

http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media...
An experimental magnetic bong. No more bong water smell! Unfortunately researchers lost it along with their keys and can't remember how to build another one.

http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media...
A female scientist in the 80s? Clearly this was a Halloween party!

http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media...
Mecanical penises sound like a good idea until you actually see one in person.

http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media...
Come on, we all knew Carl Segans vacuum cleaner would have to look something like this.

http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media...
And his Latte machine and barista would look like this.

http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media...
Some jerk coughed into the magnetic bong. We thought it was bad getting water on your weed, but gamma rays? Now we're starting to remember why we lost that thing.

http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media...
CERN employees require a lot of coffee to get started in the mornings.

My guesses as follows:

http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media...
The Robo-tometrist. The first mechanical optometrist device. While every test subject did get a perfect eyeglass fitting, few after the fitting had eyes left to enjoy them with. And a couple even lost fingers.

http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media...
An experimental magnetic bong. No more bong water smell! Unfortunately researchers lost it along with their keys and can't remember how to build another one.

http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media...
A female scientist in the 80s? Clearly this was a Halloween party!

http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media...
Mecanical penises sound like a good idea until you actually see one in person.

http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media...
Come on, we all knew Carl Segans vacuum cleaner would have to look something like this.

http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media...
And his Latte machine and barista would look like this.

http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media...
Some jerk coughed into the magnetic bong. We thought it was bad getting water on your weed, but gamma rays? Now we're starting to remember why we lost that thing.

http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media...
CERN employees require a lot of coffee to get started in the mornings.

My guesses as follows:

http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media...
The Robo-tometrist. The first mechanical optometrist device. While every test subject did get a perfect eyeglass fitting, few after the fitting had eyes left to enjoy them with. And a couple even lost fingers.

http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media...
An experimental magnetic bong. No more bong water smell! Unfortunately researchers lost it along with their keys and can't remember how to build another one.

http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media...
A female scientist in the 80s? Clearly this was a Halloween party!

http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media...
Mecanical penises sound like a good idea until you actually see one in person.

http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media...
Come on, we all knew Carl Segans vacuum cleaner would have to look something like this.

http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media...
And his Latte machine and barista would look like this.

http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media...
Some jerk coughed into the magnetic bong. We thought it was bad getting water on your weed, but gamma rays? Now we're starting to remember why we lost that thing.

http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media...
CERN employees require a lot of coffee to get started in the mornings.

Because we have close allies in the area. Nations with whom we have defence treaties, and China is trying to claim their territory.

Here's a map of what the UN says the borders are, and what China says they are http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media...

The Philippines and Taiwan are under our protection, and China is trying to steal their territorial waters. We do business with everyone else.

Long story short, we have many interests in the region and can't allow China's reckless sea-grab to make a mess of it all.

Please mod accordingly, member sabbede is extremely insightful.
So you're saying we should help the Argentianians kick the British off The Falklands, and the Japanese(and ourselves ironically) off Okinawa?

maybe I'm the only one who cares most about how far they got ... maps here and here.

Here's a map of what the UN says the borders are, and what China says they are http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media...

The Philippines and Taiwan are under our protection, and China is trying to steal their territorial waters. We do business with everyone else.

Long story short, we have many interests in the region and can't allow China's reckless sea-grab to make a mess of it all.

FTA:

What we can say about these organisms is that they do not belong with the bilateria.

When I look at the photos, they seem to have rough bilateral symmetry.

"They could have blamed Berkut officers who escaped to Crimea. Yet curiously there are no witnesses of actual shooters."

Yes there is, there's actual video of it.

"Yet Putin's war crimes happened to be bloodless. There was only one fatality during the Crimea takeover."

No there wasn't. You're ignoring the countless Crimean Tatar's that have been disappeared stasi style.

"Maybe because only RT tells about such things? Have you thought about that?"

Bwahahah. Yes, that's right, RT is a magical press outlet, the only one in the world that just happens to be right. Well at least we're getting somewhere now, at least we're getting to the point that you are after all mindlessly fed propaganda by RT. You realise that defending RT is a bit like defending Fox News or The Daily Mail right? You have to be a pretty exceptional type of retard to fall for that kind of blatant propaganda.

"Oh RLY? Let's see: http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media... ( http://www.bbc.com/news/world-... ) No, no graphic images at all. No tearful stories of "imagine what these poor passengers felt after the rocket hit"."

LOL, you have a very different definition of graphic to me. I wouldn't call a mangled toy doll graphic, but I guess you really are quite special. Wait, seriously, I have to just check, you really thought that was a person didn't you? you actually thought a blatantly plastic toy doll was a persons? You're really learning from the Kremlin about propaganda on this one - you'll really stoop to such levels of absurdity to protect your biases rather than recognise what utter stupid arguments you're making?

"Similar tragedies happen in Ukraine every day now"

Yes, because Russia thought it would be more fun to avoid than leave it the fuck alone, yet for some reason you continue to defend Russia.

"And without Western diplomatic support and pressure, there would have been NO revolution at all."

There was no pressure, the pressure came from the Russians and the majority of people of Ukraine wanting to move away from Russia, did the West support that? Of course, why wouldn't we support the will of the people to move away from a corrupt tyrrany like Yanukovych's regime if that's what they want as they did?

"Yanukovich would have been voted out by now and everything would have been OK. How about that?"

Yanukovych lost elections previously but it didn't stop the FSB poisoning the opposition did it? Yanukovych was voted out - parliament decided to vote 73% in favour to start the impeachment process against him before he fled, yet Russia still did this. Why do you think Russia wouldn't meddle in the Ukraine if it happened via normal elections? It's not like that's stopped them meddling in the Ukraine before, ever since the orange revolution they've been playing games. Putin doesn't give a shit about democracy in Ukraine, he just wants to control it, that's been obvious since Putin became president - the same is true of Georgia, Putin cannot cope with the idea of them determining their own future, he's insistent on doing it for them whatever democracy in the country in question says.

Um, are you stupid? of course they would, they're not exactly going to admit to shooting unarmed civilians are they?

They could have blamed Berkut officers who escaped to Crimea. Yet curiously there are no witnesses of actual shooters.

As opposed to the self-admitted war crimes of Putin of using soldiers passed off as civilians in Crimea?

Yet Putin's war crimes happened to be bloodless. There was only one fatality during the Crimea takeover.

So why in that case are you merely parroting RT's line and nothing else?

Maybe because only RT tells about such things? Have you thought about that?

though it doesn't show graphic photos like that, but it didn't of MH17 either so your speculation there is completely false

Oh RLY? Let's see: http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media... ( http://www.bbc.com/news/world-... ) No, no graphic images at all. No tearful stories of "imagine what these poor passengers felt after the rocket hit".

Similar tragedies happen in Ukraine every day now, yet a note somewhere on CNN is certainly enough. Even better if it's worded in a way that tries to avoid blaming Ukrainian soldiers.

Ukraine could've quite happily moved forward from it's revolution peacefully but Moscow wouldn't allow that.

And without Western diplomatic support and pressure, there would have been NO revolution at all. Yanukovich would have been voted out by now and everything would have been OK. How about that?

Oh, really? Here's a photo for you: http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media... ( http://www.bbc.com/news/world-... ). The very first proposed law of the post-Maidan parliament was a repeal of law forbidding the denial of nazi crimes. Then the law removing the special status of the Russian language.

Sorry, but while Maidan was not a classic neo-nazi, by the end it was definitely nationalistic and anti-Russian. I had been there at the very start (and I donated more than $5k to help protesters) but had to leave for two months. When I returned, everything was different.

Rebels consolidated control over their areas and also won several tactical victories before the 'invasion'. If anything, this 'invasion' can be associated with more aggressive push towards capturing Mariupol. I.e. with offensive operations.

Personally, I have a lot of doubts that the 'invasion' is really real. It looks more like Kiev tries to frantically shift the blame from the extreme stupidity of Ukrainian military commanders who simply use soldiers as cannon fodder.

See http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media...

The rebels were losing ground everywhere and suddenly resurged a place they had no men and no foothold, and exactly where we have pictures of more than a 100 russian tanks driving over the border.

Home invasions are rare because of the 2nd Amendment. Look up the "hot burglary" (burglaries when people are in the structure) numbers for the United Kingdom sometime.

I haven't been able to find good stats on that, but what I can find suggests that the burglary rate overall is broadly similar - at most 20% higher in the UK. But even assuming the UK rate is five times the US one, it's worth noting that the gun murder rate is over thirty times higher in the US than in England&Wales. To me at least, that doesn't sound like a great tradeoff :-/

http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media...

That Venus is not the work of Andy Warhol if I remember correctly. (Well, he might have done the HAM-fisted cut and paste of the third eye in the middle of her forehead..)

I remember seeing it on the cover of one of the Amiga magazines as the full reproduction. I realize that Warhol stole most of what he did from other artists, but surely this has to be a joke.

It's also about 25km from the reef (the green in this image). It's located at about the midpoint between the port and the reef, at 25km each way.

There seems to be a contradiction between this illustration and the following quote, both which appeared in the article;

"One common problem is porosity - small air bubbles in the product. Rough surface finishing is an issue too," he said.

It would seem that a rough porous ball bearing would not be that effective.

Here is an image of one of the police cars:

http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/70268000/jpg/_70268976_cpshooting1.jpg

The womans car looks very much undamaged, so possibly that police car crashed into something bigger (lorry)?
If this woman had mental issues (Post Natal?), perhaps shooting her was not the best option (especially as there is a baby in the car). Ok the police would not know that, but this whole terrorism thing has everyone on edge, in the old days, that car would have been blocked in by other cars and the woman removed, or even road spikes deployed to get the tyres. If it was mental issues, she picked the wrong target sadly, it is protected by heavy armed people just itching to bag a terrorist.

Another thing that came to my mind while reading the BBC article linked to by the Yahoo article in TFS (yeah, I actually read all that stuff, I must be new here) is the fact that while many people with non-english native language may be comfortable reading articles in english (maybe sometimes using Google translator or some other stuff) but not necessarily be able to easily answer the question, even if they knew the brand.
The "Ad-CAPTCHA" in question (image) asks to describe the brand "dyson". A valid answer would probably be "vacuum cleaner". Would the system accept "Staubsauger" (German for vacuum cleaner, actual meaning: "dust sucker") as well?

There already is a picture of Mickey crossing light-sabers: http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/63819000/jpg/_63819199_starwars.jpg (Minnie is in the picture too. *sigh*)

Well, except it's pretty clear that, despite the accusations, the scientists involved did not "falsify data." Again quoting the BBC article:
"Some of the e-mails released appeared to show scientists at CRU and their collaborators in other institutes deviating from accepted academic standards in an attempt to paint an alarmist picture of climate change. However, examination of the broader context by three separate investigations resulted in the scientists being cleared of malpractice."

Most notably, take a look at the graph in the article. The light blue is the Hadley Climate Research Unit data on temperature. The two other graphs show NASA data and NOAA data for the same period, independently generated from different data sets. The dark blue is the Berkeley data-- this was a project funded by some of the climate skeptics specifically to do an unbiased re-examination. They all show pretty much the same temperature trend

In science, ability to replicate results is important. The climate results has it.

So, when you are claiming that they "blatantly falsified data," here is the conspiracy theory that you're supporting:
1. The Hadley CRU is falsifying data to make a point which (if you're right) know will be shown to be false.
2. Three separate investigations in the UK independently conspired to hide the falsification. Yet another investigation, this one in the US, also conspires to hide the falsification.
3. Two US agencies-- on a different continent-- come up with pretty much the same temperature graphs, working on different data sets.
4. An independent analysis put together specifically to avoid the putative bias the other measurements also comes up with the same result, and
5. By an amazing coincidence, the result happens to pretty well fit the predictions of sixteen different climate models made by universities and research institutes on four different continents, many of which are open source (meaning that anybody can search through the code and look for the putative fudge factors), dating back to Manabe and Wetherald's 1967 model, which, as it turns out, agrees quite well with the results.

Or, alternatively: maybe the science is actually right, the scientist actually are not stupid, fraudulent, or deluded (or all of the above), and the climate is warming at pretty much the rate predicted, for the reasons that are well explained by well-known, not-at-all-controversial physics.

Centuries later, scientists figure out what actually happened using careful observation. Number of times this has happened: too many to count.

And most of these "observations" of weird stuff in the night sky were due to the aurorae. Even in modern light-polluted England where the telly rules the evenings, some people will always spot a decent aurora. Here are examples from England and Scotland, which are nothing compared to those visible at higher geomagnetic latitudes.

Taking a quick look at this makes me realise just how insanely similar they are, and just how much apple has a point.

But then you take a quick look at this or this or this and then you realise just how different they are. Yes it's possible to make them look very similar if you set up the screen just right and look at it from the right angle but obviously you can see why Samsung opposes this litigation.

Taking a quick look at this makes me realise just how insanely similar they are, and just how much apple has a point.

...apart from the way they're being carefully held so they look like they're the same size and aspect ratio and the Samsung logo appears to have been photoshopped out and the border seems to have changed color from black to silver, then, yes, they're quite similar.

A more accurate photo might show them like this

The thing is, there's obvious differences there that there aren't between Apple's and Samsung's design.
1) Both Apple's and Samsung's designs are about the same size –this is larger
2) Both Apple's and Samsung's designs use rounded corners –this doesn't
3) Both Apple's and Samsung's designs use a bezel about 3/4 of an inch wide – this doesn't.
4) Both Apple's and Samsung's design use a aluminium backing of which a tiny bit is visible around the edge of the flat glass panel – this doesn't.
5) Neither Apple's nor Samsung's designs use a row of buttons across the bottom – this does.
6) Both Apple's and Samsung's designs use a grid of icons across the display to select a function –this doesn't.
Taking a quick look at this makes me realise just how insanely similar they are, and just how much apple has a point.

But rocketing demand and a lagging supply of skilled hackers is boosting salaries and driving the defense industry’s war for talent into the open, says Alan Paller, the director of research at the cybersecurity education-focused SANS Institute. He cites SANS’ statistics that highly skilled cybersecurity staffers were paid as much as $175,000 in 2011, up 25 to 30 percent from two years before, and points to comments from the Booz Allen Hamilton executive Patrick Gorman to Bloomberg last year that the company tries to hire 1,000 cybersecurity experts a year, and struggles to find them.

Gentlemen, the next new fad. Here's a trick question: how many script kiddies does it take to develop an exploit?

Depends .. how many bug writers does Microsoft employ? 10,000? 20,000?

meanwhile, Jawa seen at Euro 2012

Sorry, you think this looks healthy and tasty? Uh huh...

Firstly, that sorry-looking excuse for a cheeseburger is an insult to human dignity. Poor kid's gonna need that stiff upper lip to bite into that son of a bitch as-is. If the time, effort, and expense is going to be put forth to make cheeseburgers, you put some ketchup, lettuce and onion on there at a bare minimum in order to normalize the flavor and provide a texture conducive to it being eaten, especially when the burgers are deployed on those nasty little miscible, hygroscopic buns, as opposed to proper rolls that can maintain cohesion while providing a dry, frictive containment/handling envelope.

Regarding healthfulness: Having done time as an American public school student, I could not care less about the healthfulness of kids' school lunch. Food safety is certainly of maximal importance. With that, lunchtime represents one half-hour or so break in dealing with eight hours of authoritarians, bullies, test-teaching, sport, and nowadays, police response to incidences of child behavior. Not unlike television in "correctional" facilities, the fat, salt, sugar and abundance of watt-seconds provided by school lunches are important for maintaining the mental well-being of students/inmates, and possibly the physical well-being of the employees. Allow me to spin this from another angle: The function of school lunch is to provide food kids will eat, not to assuage (what I sense to be) a misguided sense of guilt or wrongdoing by those of us funding/serving it.

Sorry, you think this looks healthy and tasty? Uh huh...

It appears to represent a reasonable (for a primary school child) amount of all four food groups, and even has a tasty low calorie Popsicle desert to finish it off. It may not be catered by outback steakhouse but looks like a good lunch to me.

Sorry, you think this looks healthy and tasty? Uh huh...

It does, to Americans.

Sorry, you think this looks healthy and tasty? Uh huh...

You should probably have a closer look at the thing. Pretty damn close to a Nimitz, isn't it?

I use a customized iGoogle page as my start page.

On a side note - I'd forgotten Google used to include an exclamation point in their logo. Bring back the exclamation - make Google exciting once again! They should just steal Yahoo's, since they really don't deserve one anymore...

I don't think you looked at the graph.

http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/56197000/gif/_56197115_climate_change_624gr.gif

Whilst I agree that Clinton wasn't perfect. And he didn't leave a surplus.

But - please take a look at the following diagram attached to this article.

I dare to suggest that if Clinton would have stayed on, the debt ceiling would not have risen to the heights where it is now.

In the last two years of the Clinton administration the debt ceiling did not have an upward trend. We will never know of course what could've happened.

And - from my personal experience - Americans were much happier during the Clinton administration than they are now and have been for the last ten years.

It will take the media and Japan a while to circle around to what caused the explosion, so I'll explain it now.

1. 1. cooling circulation failed due to power loss.
2. 2. reactor boiled off the coolant inventory and exposed the core
3. 3. core overheated and damaged the fuel
4. 4. the damaged fuel reacted with water vapor (zircaloy+H2O) and created a hydrogen bubble
5. 5. the hydrogen burned (exploded, iow) and neatly removed the outer walls of the reactor building

The explosion you see in the videos aligns perfectly with the Fukushima Daiichi No.1 reactor building seen here (forth square building from the left.)

The BBC has provided this incredible before/after photo where you can actually see the reactor building structure with the walls removed by the explosion: the metal framework is still intact.

The exact same thing happened with TMI-2 in 1979. The hydrogen burn occurred inside the containment dome. The Fukushima reactor doesn't have such a dome, so the hydrogen accumulated in the reactor building.

I don't see why people are trying to figure out where to pidgeonhole this guy - he's a lunatic. You are looking for method to madness, and you're not likely to find anything conclusive.

Sorry, but if I saw this guy anywhere near me I would give him a seriously wide berth and try to be ready for anything. That face has "lets eat some babies" written all over it.

Indonesia, China. Same thing.

Have you seen a map of what China is claiming as territorial waters? Might as well be the same thing.

Am I the only one who thought of Resident Evil, when shown this image and hearing about ALICE?

Meh. Google search for "US police brutality gay" produces about 437,000 results but if you want to deny it happens that's your choice.

Last I head they were winning in court.

Winning? Still banned in 2/3 of states by the look of it.

I don't know, I checked out the image in the article and to me it just looks like everything looked pretty grey and dreary in 1921 whereas 2010 is cleary super awesome and colourful. Thank.. you climate change?