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If the roof of your mouth, palate, is yellow / blue then you have bigger problems to worry about.

The process of tinting the palette towards the Orange and Teal colors is called color grading.

It sucks because it is constantly over-used.

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* Captain Goodnight and the Islands of Fear
* Empire I: World Builders
* Empire II: Interstellar Sharks
* Empire III: Armageddon

Several years ago Primatene Mist was removed from the market. Our health care system is now fully controlled by corporations that don't give a rat's ass if we live or die as long as their profits continue to skyrocket, at any cost.

Primatene Mist was banned by the FDA in 2011 because it contained CFCs.

http://hubpages.com/health/Wha...

Do you have evidence that Primatene wanted the FDA to pull their product off the market?

That comment makes no sense.

No, you're just an ignorant dumbass.

I was referencing the fact that Fox cancels bunches of good shows. In other words, with Fox, "If you like your shows, you can keep your shows" is less true than it is for the BBC.

This man was such a badass that he was portrayed by Liam Neeson and Denzel Washington. (The plot of Crimson Tide was loosely based on the B-59 incident.)

In fact, his heroics on K-19 were much of the reason his caution was heeded on B-59.

Except for these

http://pattyinglishms.hubpages...

http://www.biology-online.org/...

Already covered for some time.

And plants DO engage in carbon dioxide release type respiration. They do it at night, when they are not photosynthesizing, and are metabolizing stored sugars.

They also excrete through structures called stomata, found on the undersides of leaves, and in the grooves of stems.

That's so blatantly false I don't know where to begin. Let's start with "reckless spending": Obama is the LOWEST spender since Eisenhower. And that's those pinkos over at Forbes who say so. How about "an actual annual budget again": well, perhaps if Mitch McConnell and John Boehner hadn't been holding their breath until they turn blue to block it (and everything else Obama has proposed), we'd have had one approved. And about half a zillion federal appointments they've blocked.

The fact is, the Republican party has been systematically breaking government, ruining the economy and generally running this country into the ground for the last six years out of personal animosity for Barack Obama. I WILL grant you, however, that they have been *phenomenally* successful at blaming their systematic vandalism on him, and he's been too chickenshit to stand up to their bullying. Now that they've won a majority in the Senate as well, we can expect more show trials and hearings about hot-button non-issues like Bengazi.

A few FACTS:
1. We've now had 63 straight months of economic expansion.
2. We are currently enjoying the longest period of private sector job creation in American history.
3. Unemployment has dropped from 10.1% in October of 2009 to 5.9% and projected to reach 5.4% by summer of 2015.
4. The stock market continues to set new records since President Obama has been in office.
5. The Federal budget deficit is shrinking. Itâ(TM)s been reduced by two-thirds since 2009.
6. Under President Obama, spending has increased only 1.4% annually, the lowest rate since Eisenhower was president.
7. For 95% of American taxpayers, income taxes are lower now than just about any time in the previous 50 years.
8. Our dependence on foreign oil has shrunk due to record domestic oil production and improved fuel efficiency standards.
9. At least 7 million more Americans now have health insurance than before.
10. The Affordable Care Act has added years to the life of Medicare.
11. Since passage of the Affordable Care Act, we are seeing the slowest rate of increase in healthcare costs since 1960.
12. We currently have fewer soldiers, sailors and airmen in war zones than any time in over 10 years.
13. There have been zero successful attacks by al Qaeda on US soil since Obama became president.
14. We now successfully catch and deport more illegal immigrants than ever before.

You ARE correct, however, that Duverger's Law pretty much guarantees that a first past the post voting system will inevitably result in a two-party system.

I'm Romanian, and I hate Russia more than any US citizen does, because we were directly affected by communism for almost 5 decades. And yes, in my language it's "Irak". Sorry if that offends you.

Also that feeling of entitlement "USA should be police of the world" is the sole reason so many countries hate the USA with a passion.
Civil wars are civil wars. Dictatorships are dictatorships. Yes, that sucks for the population, but it's an internal affair. No foreign country has any right to set foot on any other country's sovereign territory unless the latter attacks another country and the attacked one officially asks for support. Furthermore, once the invader has been driven off, the activity should stop there. Yes, impose sanctions if you wish, embargo the shit out of them, but don't set foot on their territory.

The USA has meddled with too many countries' internal affairs for unilateral reasons. "We think you're uncivilized so we're gonna civilize you according to our views". No. That's wrong. It might uplift them (or so you'd think) but it would trample their (probably weird and backward, to you) way of living. Let them be "uncivilized" if they wish so. But no, you haven't, and billions of people dislike you now, and it will take decades for that dislike to wear off, provided, of course, the USA would stop further meddling activity completely.

I think there's more people in the world who dislike the USA than people who dislike Russia. Think about that.
Freebie food for thought: http://thomasswan.hubpages.com...

(Disclaimer: I don't hate, dislike, loathe USA. I surely hate, dislike, loathe Russia)

Is your car from 1974?

http://perrya.hubpages.com/hub...

You're either a fool or a liar. I've had funds frozen for months by PayPal with no explanation (eventually released with no apology from them), and I've also disputed recurring PayPal charges stemming from a shit VPS provider who had completely ignored several of my attempts to cancel services. In the latter case, PayPal decided to rule in the shit provider's favor anyhow. I walked away from PayPal permanently after finally getting the last of my money out of that account (again, several months later, and I still never got any of the fraudulent VPS fees refunded), and I will never transact business with them again. In fact, since January of 2012 I've continued to receive an email entitled "First Invoice Overdue Notice" from the shit VPS provider every month. Those emails serve as a nice reminder to encourage folks to avoid PayPal at all costs; people continue to use them out of sheer stupidity.

Paypal Policy - A License To Steal Your Money
Funds Stolen By PayPal
PayPal - Beware of PayPal, 6000 USD seized by Paypal
180-Day Hold Sparks PayPal Suit
Paypal Can and Will seize funds...Atwood Knives
Another PayPal victim $4000.00 seized from my business account.
PayPal Horror Stories

If you get bored, try these as well:

Exhibit A
Exhibit B

So, which is it? Are you a liar, or are you a fool?

http://news.techeye.net/mobile... which talks of:

"Micron's patent covering a "system and method for controlling user access to an electronic device" was given a US Patent 8,352,745 in January 2013 but it claims priority to an original application filed in February 2000 and lists Jim McKeeth as inventor."

http://kschang.hubpages.com/hu... which talks about, among other things the Neonode N1 - a working prior art example.

I take it that you either haven't watched the video, haven't read Apple's patent claims, or both? Here's claim 1 from Apple's patent:

1. A method of unlocking a hand-held electronic device, the device including a touch-sensitive display, the method comprising:
detecting a contact with the touch-sensitive display at a first predefined location corresponding to an unlock image;
continuously moving the unlock image on the touch-sensitive display in accordance with movement of the contact while continuous contact with the touch screen is maintained, wherein the unlock image is a graphical, interactive user-interface object with which a user interacts in order to unlock the device; and
unlocking the hand-held electronic device if the moving the unlock image on the touch-sensitive display results in movement of the unlock image from the first predefined location to a predefined unlock region on the touch-sensitive display. (emphasis added)

See those bolded words above? Go watch the video. Go read the Micron patent. Neither of them have those features.

http://news.techeye.net/mobile... which talks of:

"Micron's patent covering a "system and method for controlling user access to an electronic device" was given a US Patent 8,352,745 in January 2013 but it claims priority to an original application filed in February 2000 and lists Jim McKeeth as inventor."

http://kschang.hubpages.com/hu... which talks about, among other things the Neonode N1 - a working prior art example.

Note how this patent has been treated in Europe.

Apple's slide to unlock was non-novel (already done) and could probably be considered obvious (if multiple groups independently came up with the same solution then it is likely an obvious solution - assuming they were totally independent).

The Nazi's were hardcore socialists that very much believed is socialistic ideals. The Nazi's were very zealous about their socialism and enforcing it. They used everything from price and wage controls to verdant support for trains for the masses. Hitler was an adamant anti-capitalist and used this to support his genocide of the jews. Labor unions were replaced by government controlled unions and shops and other business were routinely seized by the state.

You can read some translated propaganda here where the Nazi's explained why they embraced socialism. In their own words:

We are socialists; We are enemies, mortal enemies, of the present-day capitalist economic systemâ¦We are resolved to annihilate this system despite everything.

The Soviets took them seriously enough to form a treaty with the Nazi's in the time leading up to WW2 - something they weren't in the habit of doing with other nations. Industry was effectively owned by the government (even when in name someone else held the title) and German industrial companies were seized as government assets for repatriation at the end of the war.

By way of example Hitler saw the need for a cheap car for the masses and ordered Ferdinand Porsche to design the original beetle to his specifications (Hitlers original sketch is a Google search away). The result was the founding of the Volkswagen (people's car) for the express purpose of building an affordable car for the masses. At the end of the war the English got that bit and almost put Volkswagen out to pasture, leaving it be only because they thought the company was worthless.

http://jerryfisher.hubpages.co...

Strip away all the genocide and war crimes and your left with very socialist ideals.

There is no way to run an organization with 100% transparency - people will start comparing each others' workload (and/or contribution) with the salary figure.

The art of managing is an ART and it's a very delicate task.

Not true at all. Valve is a billion dollar company with more than 300 employees and everyone can easily see how much any other employee makes (or any other financial information for that matter).Varoufakis, who used to work or Valve mentioned this very fact on an Econtalk podcast. It also has no managers.

Pardon me for not having a peer-approved double blind. http://hubpages.com/hub/10-Things-I-Hate-About-Android-Smart-Phones "Even though Android is based on Linux, it feels more like a smartphone version of Windows Vista. Always crashing and freezing." I am hardly the only person saying this.

Regarding point 3 "we have no reason to believe...", that same argument was used against black holes once. From http://greekgeek.hubpages.com/hub/Real-Photos-of-Black-Holes:

Einstein himself thought they were "too strange to be real."

"When I was a PhD student, people used to giggle when you hear[d] about black holes. They're like unicorns, mythical creatures. We call this the 'giggle factor.' People would say, 'Beam me up, Scotty.' Well, no one is laughing anymore."

~ Dr. Michio Kaku, Theoretical Physicist, on How the Universe Works.

It's not the speed that kills, it's coming to a sudden stop against those trees.

In a crash, the internal organs are still moving even after a human body comes to a complete stop. The internal organs can slam into other organs of the skeletal system. This internal collision is often the cause of serious injury or death. For example, a person’s head might collide with the windshield of the car during the second collision. The still-moving brain then collides with the inside of the skull, causing swelling and/or bleeding. This is the third collision. As total mass and speed of the vehicle(s) involved in a motor vehicle crash increase, there is a proportionate increase in the opportunity for injury to the human body, both externally and internally.

http://safe-driver.hubpages.com/hub/In-Every-Vehicle-Crash-There-Are-Actually-Three-Collisions

What he said was a joke to make a point.

It wasn't just a joke, it was a full monologue. Lots of profanity, lots of "negative love" applied to the victims. The only point he was making is that he gets paid huge sums to rant about people who have valid medical problems.

Usually human trafficking means getting people (usually men) to perform what is practically slave labor ...

Usually, human trafficking means getting people of any sex to perform what is slave labor. Women and girls are included in that.

However, claims of coercion never seem to be backed up with facts.

You want facts? Okay. How about Ron Wyden, beloved by all progressive human beings for his widly held positions on freedom and government? "Now we have concrete proof that sex trafficking is not just going on in the dark corners of Asia," he said. "Sex trafficking is going on in our community." "The study showed that the average age of victims was 15.5 years when they were first referred to DHS and the Sexual Assault Resource Center. The youngest of them was 8 years old."

Why yes, anonymous coward, making prostitution legal will certainly prevent gangs from putting 8 year old girls out onto the street to turn tricks. Sure.

One more. You know how long it took to find these links? About 640,000 results (0.25 seconds)

Yes, I have seen that. The wave aspects of QM are not mysterious since some fluids can satisfy similar differential equations (there was a fluid dynamics formulation of QM in 1920s, Madelung's QM).

The strange predictions of non-local behaviors arise only from the QM Measurement Theory (QM-MT; it dates to 1920s Dirac, Heisenberg, von Neumann) which includes postulate about non-local state collapse of composite system.

The Quantum Electrodynamics has its own, newer and rigorously derived measurement theory (QED-MT) developed by Glauber in 1965 which doesn't postulate such remote field collapse, but only non-controversial local collapse, while deriving from QED dynamical equations the behavior of the composite system measurement. That theory doesn't predict non-local behaviors since all dynamics is described via local differential equations, which in Heisenberg picture look just like Maxwell equations, except that operators (matrices) not scalars are field variables. The Quantum Optics is based on QED-MT since it agrees better with what they observe. See this post and discussion explaining the difference between the QM-MT and QED-MT.

http://greekgeek.hubpages.com/hub/abject-lesson-vs-object-lesson

Southern Cross and Satanism Inverted Cross:

http://www.christian-restoration.com/occult/symbols.htm

Sometimes called 'Southern Cross' it symbolizes mockery and rejection of the Cross of Jesus Christ. It is often seen in the form of earrings and necklaces

Masonic top 5% & Luciferiasm:

http://www.google.com/#bav=on.2,or.r_qf.&fp=a66b124a18d19552&psj=1&q=%22masons%22+and+%22luciferian%22

Baraq (lightning) O (from) Bahmah (heaven) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KzSzZDPiPOw Luke 10:18 again http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=4045497&cid=44455997

NSA Prism = Crystal Ball? Used for CLAIRVOYANCE (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clairvoyance [wikipedia.org] = the ability to gain information about an object, person, location or physical event through means other than the known human senses - sounds like PRISM to me!)

Lucifer = Light Bearer (as in a PRISM perhaps?) http://maejaunmcqueen313.hubpages.com/hub/Secrets-of-the-Illuminati

Wake the crystal ball (seems they have right when the summer falls per the lyric) or break the crystal ball (Up to you).

Do the ILLUMINATI (your top 5% masons) always feel obligated to BROADCAST TO THE WORLD what they're about to do, somehow? Yes. Weird, for an occult fraternity (meaning both hidden and yet at the same time luciferian as well).

(Maybe it was via that tune??)

The mod down indicates someone wants that surpressed or got scared. It was meant to "enlighten" (see above) you is all. Take it as a journey of the imagination if it spooks you. "I can't accept it, anymore" Ronnie James Dio (how odd that last name yet front man for Black Sabbath, eh?) from that tune.

Go on, call me crazy. I just found it amazingly "coincidental" from all the above.

What a load of FUD.

Google is a wonderful company, and their products are useful and seductive and beautifully interlinked. But they're free to use and you're not the customer. And every day a certain number of people have their Google account blocked, for one reason or another, and find that there's no recourse to Google to fix that. In fact, there's no customer service department at all.

Examples on the internet of this are easy to find: http://www.searchenginejournal.com/open-letter-to-google-why-have-you-taken-away-my-google-gmail-accounts/7873/ http://classicsynth.hubpages.com/hub/How-to-Get-Disabled-Google-Account-Back

If they're so easy to find, why did you post only one, from 2008, who was locked out for only 15 hours? Your second just said that Google might temporarily disable your account if they suspect it's being attacked (hint: you probably want them to disable it in that case) and that Google will offer you some account recovery options.

Now imagine that this happens to you, and your laptop has just become a paperweight. And this time, you've paid for it. Hmmm.

Not true. You can still log on to your Chromebook and use it as a web browser, including whatever you need to straighten out your account problem. You just won't be able to access your Google account stuff. If you haven't set it to disallow other users, in the worst case (somehow you simply cannot recover your Google account), you can always use it to create a new Google account. If you have set it to disallow other users, you can always reset it to factory configuration and log in with a new account.

In short: In the unlikely event you truly lose access to your Google account you will have lost access to everything in your account... but your Chromebook is still yours, is not locked to that account, and can be used just as before with a new account.

Also, since you buy a Chromebook, there are customer support centers to help you: http://support.google.com/chromeos/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=1280301. I'm pretty sure Google provides customer support for all of its paid services.

Hint: have a look at one list of the top software firms in India, which includes a mix of native-HQ'd and global (mostly US) companies.

What's more, there's absolutely no evidence to back up the belief that babies require more bonding between them and their mother than with their father.

Because there's a risk of someone misinterpreting that statement as implying that parents and children or mothers and children don't need bonding - a quick few googled hits about the benefits of bonding (or risks of not bonding).
There's more out there, but I suggest to go talk to a midwife and/or doula if you are genuinely interested in knowing more about the subject.

At the time, developing nuclear weapons was arguably a moral thing to do: remember that at the time is was genuinely believed (as in, honest to God believed by people like Einstein and Bohr) that the Nazis would inevitably develop a nuclear bomb: after all, a lot of the early physics were done in Germany. The physicists in the USA & UK took the view that they absolutely had to have the bomb before Germany in order to stop Nazism: that's a strong moral position.

In hindsight it turned out that the Nazis were too disorganised to have a serious bomb project (probably: ), but people like Oppenheimer didn't know that until 1945.

At one time I had my collie able to find the "red ball" among the blue, red, and yellow ones... Dogs are colorblind, BTW.

There's a great article on this which recently showed up in the dog Agility world... They don't see the spectrum the same way, but they can usually differentiate between them if they're primary colours. Fortunately, most dog toys are pretty bright. And I've read that this spectrum isn't universal, either, just like humans have different kinds of colour blindness; dogs tend to show a preference for specific colours, and it's likely that those are "popping" in their personal spectrum.

If your dog was able to find an arbitrary red ball (i.e. one never encountered before), it might have been targeting that particular hue. If your dog was trained to find a specific red ball (esp if it could find it in the dark), it might have just been finding it by scent. And I wouldn't ignore the possibility that the "red" colour dyes typically found in toys might be distinctive enough that "red" actually is a scent. You were using the cue "red ball", but cues are completely arbitrary anyways.

Scent is a crazy powerful thing for a dog. I can pick up a pine cone, wing it into a yard full of pine cones, and my dogs will come back with that specific cone. Just the scent from my hand touching it for a few seconds, plus the disturbed ground where it landed, is enough to differentiate that specific random object.

My post is about the low effort thinkers who couldn't find their ass with both hands and a flashlight. I get it, though... Goebbels was right: tell a lie often enough, and people will believe it. As someone else responded to you, the official name for North Korea starts with "Democratic..." Are you so stupid to believe that North Korea is a democracy? This is the big lie that conservatives have been using for decades, and can be seen most everywhere: misinformation, and a gullible, ignorant, uneducated sheep-like following of mental midgets.

Here's some reading for you. Your assertion of the "only" thing about economics from Jesus is basically bullshit; Jesus' narratives are filled with social and communal scribing. http://valentinelogar.hubpages.com/hub/Jesus-was-a-Socialist

But here's one even better:

Acts 4:32-37 - 32 And the multitude of them that believed were of one heart and of one soul: neither said any of them that ought of the things which he possessed was his own; but they had all things common. 33 And with great power gave the apostles witness of the resurrection of the Lord Jesus: and great grace was upon them all. 34 Neither was there any among them that lacked: for as many as were possessors of lands or houses sold them, and brought the prices of the things that were sold, 35 And laid them down at the apostles’ feet: and distribution was made unto every man according as he had need. 36 And Joses, who by the apostles was surnamed Barnabas, (which is, being interpreted, The son of consolation,) a Levite, and of the country of Cyprus, 37 Having land, sold it, and brought the money, and laid it at the apostles’ feet.

Or maybe this one:

Acts 2: 44, 45 - 44 And all that believed were together, and had all things in common; 45 And sold their possessions and goods, and parted them to all men, as every man had need.

There is a workaround (without rooting) for that... http://carman58.hubpages.com/hub/How-to-use-external-memory-on-the-Nexus-7-WITHOUT-rooting

I'm not sure Turbo Pascal's legacy is as influential as it should have been. Sure, plenty of modern IDEs owe a nod to TP, but what about the compiler? The thing was shockingly fast. I wish TP had been more influential in that regard.

Some interesting info about how Turbo Pascal's speed was achieved here.

It means that the Greek government can't print the smart ones poorer. Quadruple the currency and you've reduced the worth of the paper you're holding by 75%. The US dollar is a fine example of this they have however diluted it over such a long time it was not as noticeable.

"Fiat currencies always trend down."
http://budwood.hubpages.com/hub/US-Dollar-Purchasing-Power

Gold, while not a good investment is a hedge against such inflation.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/survivalbros/5160598974/

Why don't you turn Bluetooth off until you need it? I am not convinced you are being 'hacked'.

see above, or click this link, bluetooth does not have to be on to be accessed. Shocked me too. http://hassam.hubpages.com/hub/Types-Of-Bluetooth-Hacks-And-Its-Security-Issues

1.Bluejacking 2.Bluesnarfing 3.Bluebugging 4.Bluetoothing Firstly let’s take a look into Bluejacking. In Bluejacking a hacker might send unsolicited messages to the victim in the form of a business card or a mobile contact with a text that may look intimidating to read. In many cases hacker may also send sounds like a ring tone. The victim’s mobile could then be infiltrated and he might never know what has hit him. Bluejacking messages can also be viewed as spam messages with emails. There have also been reports about people getting hacked by Trojan Horse’s which could mean a serious compromise. Bluesnarfing is considered a serious compromise in the category of Bluetooth hacking especially if the information vulnerable, is quite critical, as such attacks can allow the hacker access to victims; contact list, text messages, emails and even private photos and videos. The hacker can use brute force attack even if the device is invisible to guess the victims MAC address. The third type of hacking mechanism is Bluebugging, in which the hacker uses sophisticated attacks to gain control of victims mobile. It works just like Trojan horses, where the hacker can manipulate the users phone the way he desires by executing commands on the victims phone. The hacker could forward mobile calls from the victim’s mobile to his own device and can even manipulate the mobile to follow a Bluetooth headset instructions like; receive call, send messages etc. The final type is Bluetoothing which is just like social engineering; the hacker can use methods like harassment or luring the victim to fall his prey to his intentions.

Yep, at end of last year when my newly bought feature phone 'buzzed' for no reason while hanging with a 'friend' in his garage mancave, that's when I started to investigate phone security. Googled 'forced bluetooth hack' and read links like http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn7461-new-hack-cracks-secure-bluetooth-devices.html AND this http://hassam.hubpages.com/hub/Types-Of-Bluetooth-Hacks-And-Its-Security-Issues and I could go on ......

Even though they are 150k each, you can buy 10-20 for the price of 1 helicopter.

Cite please.

According to http://tomsum.hubpages.com/hub/How-much-does-a-Helicopter-cost a helicopter only costs 2-12 drones.

Reference?

While being drawn, a cigarette has a temperature of around 400 - 500 degC, while the auto ignition temperature of gasoline is 280 degC.

You may be able to throw a lit cigarette in a pool of gasoline and extinguish the cigarette, but I woudn't want to bend down and tie my shoe with my mouth near the gas filler nozzle with gasoline vapor escaping from my gas tank (which admittedly with modern sealed tanks and vapor recovery nozzles is minimal, but I still wouldn't bet my life on it).

http://wandererh.hubpages.com/hub/Can-The-Tip-Of-A-Lit-Cigarette-Butt-Ignite-Gasoline

Even those bastions of science, the Mythbusters, say it's partially plausible: http://mythbustersresults.com/special7

Granted, there's a limited set of conditions where a cigarette could ignite gasoline vapors, but that was my point - a cigarette canignite gasoline, but other conditions have to be just right to make it happen.

China is not your #1 creditor, it's the largestforeign creditor.

The US is its own largest creditor (states, cities and various funds like Medicare).
http://lmmartin.hubpages.com/hub/Who-are-Americas-Creditors-or-Debt-Economics-for-Beginners

The innovation at CERN came from government funded money. You cannot dispute that.

If this were about uplifting kids or bringing news to the english-language disadvantaged OR SATIRE, I believe this concept may have merit. Unfortunately, I'm convinced this is nothing but a contributor to the dumbing down of culture/society. This is an appeal to the lowest common denominator and it should be soundly rejected as mainstream messaging.

Diluting and distilling the message creates more opportunity for message corruption and/or misinterpretation. But the problem extends beyond miscommunicating the facts. Skew and color (a.k.a. bias) is a natural byproduct of dilution and distillation. This is where journalism ends and marketing begins. When the vehicle of a message becomes as important as the message itself... this is not journalism. It is entertainment and/or advertising.

Cartoons are not new in the journalistic space. The political cartoon first appeared in 16th-century Germany during the Reformation, the first time such art became an active propaganda weapon with social implications. By the mid-19th cent. editorial cartoons had become regular features in American newspapers, and were soon followed by sports cartoons and humorous cartoons. England (1843); a series of drawings appeared in a publication called Punch that parodied the fresco cartoons submitted in a competition for the decoration of the new Houses of Parliament. Nonpolitical cartoons, typically humorous, became popular with the development of the color press, and in 1893 the first color cartoon appeared in the New York World. The New Yorker and the Saturday Evening Post were among the most notable American magazines to use outstanding single cartoon drawings. In this way cartoon, in journalistic parlance, came to mean any single humorous or satirical drawing employing distortion for emphasis, often accompanied by a caption or a legend.

As a society, we must be clear on what quality journalism is... and what defines news. When Fox News Channel and Christian Broadcasting Network can present tabloid, yellow journalism or fantastic, mythical distortions of reality and characterizing their products as "Fair and Balanced" or "Good News", something has gone horribly wrong with the general understanding of journalism.

What's Dumbing Down Journalism
Dumbing Down - Implications
Is online media dumbing down journalism?
Dumbing Down Journalism - The Rise of American Propoganda

Society must demand quality journalism and if they do not understand what quality journalism, philosopher kings must be ever vigilent against the intrusion of pretenders. Society must be uplifted by journalism. Journalism should not cater to the lowest common denominator. Cartoons that do not confine their scope to children, special language needs audiences, or satire present a slippery slope and usher the decent of journalism into a hell of misinformation.

yes and all those institutions have been infiltrated by people who have the interest in the profits of companies like Monsanto at heart at the expense of everything else. don't believe me look it up. There is a table on this site that illustrates this clearly.

In a world where there are several Android App stores who think it is a good business to undercut Google Play:

http://danatheteacher.hubpages.com/hub/Top-Android-Market-Alternative-App-Stores

It is indeed a bargain, for Apple, and that is why they won't ever open their system to competition.

As a poster above mentioned if you can't deal with the requirements for having a business do yourself a favor and work for someone else instead of desperately trying to sell Apps paying 30% of your Gross profit to a third party. Your willingness to do this shows that you would be much better working for someone else than on your own.

Actually we don't have much evidence for 50 warheads theory. Maybe 200, but not 50.
Often these predictions are based on speculation and take on the trappings of truth, but when you track them down you find a single source with very little science behind it. The gigantic explosions of the Krakatoa volcano was equivalent to about 13,000 times the nuclear yield of the bomb that devasted Hiroshima, Japan, during WWII, and it lowered global temperature by 1.2 degrees C for one year.

So 50 nukes = Krakatoa? No. Try something like a thousand or 500 modern day nukes for equivalent power.
But Krakatoa blew from below and lofted the entire volcano into the atmosphere. Nukes are triggered above ground and don't lift anywhere near that much material.

We heard the same predictions for all the smoke kicked up when Saddam fired all the oil wells. There were people actually wringing their hands and talking in terms of the "end of the world". You could see the smoke from space, so clearly it meant doom.

We've found at Chernobyl that radiation can also be survivable, even in fairly high quantities.

So as long as all the Nuclear nations don't fire everything at once, a regional nuclear war is likely to be a humanitarian disaster, but not that big of a deal globally.

Note: there is also the modern day assessment that only the US, China, Great Britain, and maybe France would have enough weapons to offer reprisal. And among the smaller nations, whoever strikes first would not have to face a counter attack. This would cut the number of actual warheads detonated.

This is the scary part if you ask me. With nobody else willing to step in on either side, and the participants having no launch on warning capabilities, the situation with proliferation of Nukes is such that some nut-job will sooner or later launch a surprise attack knowing they will not have their own country destroyed in return.
MAD only works if its truly MAD and if religious nut jobs don't see it as a path to heaven.

Your data must be old. Diesel engines, horsepower for horsepower are not heavier than a gasoline engine.

At a cost of about $5000 :)

Diesel is not a by product of the refining product because it is an actual component product (intentionally manufactured).

If you don't "crack" the petroleum and just do fractional distillation, then you will end up with some proportion of diesel and some proportion of gasoline. Yes, they are intentionally making diesel - but it's not as if they could reconfigure the plant and make much of that into gasoline without other tradeoffs. This certainly isn't my field, but when I last looked into it, most of the refineries that can crack the fuel are in Texas - with Chavez striking a deal with China to build one their as well. It's a relatively expensive process, so you don't do it unless you have to - but once you have the capability you can make the diesel/gas ratio almost anything you want. Obviously, they make this ratio match the market - as you mention in your post. In Europe, the market is distorted - not only does the government tax diesel lower, but the refineries there simply make more diesel than the market would otherwise need. I'm not saying that the European refineries can't crack hydrocarbons - they've been doing that since the early 20th century - but they are geared for the high-quality stuff from the Middle East, while the US has to deal with oil sand sludge from Canada and the almost unusable stuff from South America (a barrel of Venezuelan crude only provides about 5 gallons of gasoline in a normal refining process). You wouldn't build that kind of a refinery in Europe because you have easier access to high-quality crude.
Here is an excellent primer that includes a discussion of cracking.

Do a search on Google for "What is the best web browser" and guess what, you'll get a nice list of reviews, every single one of which lists Google Chrome as the best web browser. Oddly enough, if you do the same search in Bing, you get a few results that don't seem to show up near the top of the Google search.

Basically, never look for objective information from someone who has their own horse in the race. I would no more trust Apple with advice on computer or smartphone purchasing advice than I would trust Norton with advice on the best anti-virus software.

Polls during that time state that %68 of users were willing to pay up to $14.99 a month for Napster service. That would mean about 25 million paying users accrueing sales of $375 million per month. Not only would the profits have been amazing, but it offered the revitalization the waning recording industry desperately needs today.

But instead to innovate the Music Mafia just bought new laws, like the DMCA. How much more evidence you need to understand that there are who download everything for free, but a large percentage would buy the music if it's offered convenient to them. That is also the success story of iTunes and Amazon, and others.

Perhaps these pigeons need some of the more esoteric devices out there to prevent exposure to emf smog: http://againsttheodds.hubpages.com/_12yk332elj2ci/hub/Electrosmog-5-Crazy-Devices-To-Protect-You-From-Electromagnetic-Wave-Pollution

Golly, sorry, instead of getting a rebate on LED bulbs, you have to settle for completely free CFL bulbs.

Why the fuck don't we go back to feudal times where it's your fault for being born poor?

Interestingly, some people think we're already living in Feudalism

Corporations and Government have replaced the old Kings and Lords. Difference is, that the old Kings and Lords had "noblesse oblige" - a sense of responsibility to the people.

For example, "Einstein later became fluent in English and German though he was a horrible speller in English."

Thanks for lowering everyone's IQ by a point or two.

I work really hard to be aware of bias and to not let it get in the way of my interactions with people.

The bias is a good survival instinct. It's a set of defaults that get applied in an unfamiliar situation or when interacting with a stranger. Those defaults are a good starting point until you know more - and that's what indeed happened. Humans apply bias to everything they see. This is a necessary method to instantly presort a large set of data according to earlier learned classification. If you see a man in a ditch near a bar, chances are that he is a drunk. If you see a young man with papers in a hall of a University, chances are good that he is a student there, and not a longshoreman. A person inside the Home Depot who is wearing Home Depot's apron is likely to be an employee there. Bias allows us to interpret the world accurately enough without explicitly inquiring about every little detail.

Being able to speak a foreign language is not an indicator of intelligence. Any hoodlum from China speaks Chinese better than the local professor of Oriental Languages. All that you learned is that the woman speaks French. If she also speaks well, in terms of the vocabulary, in terms of the subject of discussion, in terms of the knowledge and wisdom expressed, then you have something. But she could just as well be an uneducated housewife who was watching French soap operas all her life and then discussed them at length, in French, with other housewives.

On the other hand, you can have a foreign scientist who is not fluent in your language - simply because that is irrelevant to him. For example, "Einstein later became fluent in English and German though he was a horrible speller in English."

Some would say Circus Geek . http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geek_show
So now it would be considerate to call them Circus engineers.

Here is a more in depth look, with a bit included from Harry Anderson. http://whatellenknows.hubpages.com/hub/Its-All-GEEK-to-Me-Analysis-of-the-Sideshow-Geek

Party on!

Nanodiamonds can also boost drug efficiency. There is a lot of potential in this regard.