In the stores in my area, it's not so much of a loyalty card discount, but more of a non-loyalty card penalty. I choose, 99 times out of 100, to shop at stores that don't require a loyalty card as a result. Hate carrying around all those damn cards anyway.
I laugh when I hear a mattress ad on the radio and they say they will beat any competitors price by 10%. Well no shit, you know full well nobody has the same mattresses as you, you just put a different tag on the bottom. One store it's a 'sleep king' the other store it's a 'dream master'. See, different mattress!
'Survival of the fittest' became largely irrelevant in humans once we became capable of passing complex information between individuals and generations. Survival of the fittest still exists, but it's not in the individual organism but rather in the ideas, societal structure, and technological innovations that we devise that helps improve us as a species. For reading on this topic you might as well go to the source and read 'The Selfish Gene' by Richard Dawkins.
The argument that we'd all be better off if we were forced to compete in some grand primitive indirect battle to the death is a really tired one. I'm not sure why people cling to it so much, maybe it's because they think they would come out on top. But truthfully, I'm happy that we've (mostly) left this part of our history and progressed to longer life spans and comfortable lifestyles. It's easy to sit in your comfortable chair and type on your computer that costs more than most people live off of for an entire year and spout nonsense like this. But if you were in some country where you were not so fortunate, and people around you were dying of simple diseases, and you were actually experiencing the process of 'natural selection', you might have a very different opinion.
Google says they put a button in in the 2009 model year. Press and hold to turn traction control off. Although the Rav4 has AWD, I wouldn't necessarily call it off-road. It doesn't have a lot of ground clearance and when the snow blows high in my back alley I've gotten it stuck a couple of times and had to dig it out.
My Rav4 doesn't have a button to disable traction control, and it's resulted in me being stuck one or two times in snow over the last few years. The tires will just refuse to spin with it enabled. You can disable it, but the procedure is ridiculous:
Well, the actual main difference is temperature. Lagers are typically fermented at 8-10c. Ale's are typically fermented at 18c or higher. This results in different flavour profiles, ales typically have a more fruity 'estery' character, where as lagers are more crisp, clean, and possibly sulfury.
Also, ale fermentation, because of the warmer temperatures, are typically more vigorous. The yeast are able to eat the sugar more quickly. I guess it's possible that it is this vigorous fermentation that is the cause for the yeast to rise to the top, although even in an ale there is still lots of yeast on the bottom working too.
Another difference is that a lager yeast can also ferment at warm ale temperatures (sometimes creating what's known as a steam beer), where as an ale yeast often will go dormant and not ferment at lager temperatures.
No, fermentation to produce alcohol is completely anaerobic regardless of if it is an ale or a lager. There is an initial aerobic phase that the yeast use to reproduce, but once the dissolved oxygen is used up they start the good kind of fermentation, the kind that makes alcohol and co2.
Furthermore, I'm not sure what date to assign to when "God got his driving license", however according to Wikipedia lager yeast (otherwise known as bottom fermenting) dates back only till the 1400's.
Well I can speak to this as I think I have the ideal setup for my needs. I ditched satellite TV about 6 months ago and have been getting all of my content online.
I have two boxee boxes and a home theater PC. Boxee is awesome in finding online content for you and indexing it. If you want to watch a show, you just start typing, for example 'Dirty Jobs' and it will show you all the episodes available online. When you click on one it will take you to the exact page on the Discovery website the episode is located at, and make it full screen. Repeat for any show available online. It also shows you all the networks that have shows and provides a nice interface to browse them. Sure you can get this same content with a computer and a web browser, but this is so much more slick.
Basically, I already had a home theater PC feeding my basement TV, and I needed to be able to watch my downloaded content on my other two TV's. I decided upon Boxee boxes because at $200 CAD it was cheaper than building two extra home theater PC's by far, not to mention the maintenance of them. The fact that it also handles web content so well was a bonus that I've come to thoroughly enjoy.
My main source of content though is still downloading shows. I have a program called Sickbeard that is like a PVR for your computer. It will monitor usenet through my $10 / lifetime subscription to nzbmatrix for shows I like to watch. When one is posted it will automatically download it through my $10 / month usenet subscription (through SSL for privacy), extract the files, move it to the proper folder, and nicely rename the file. Then I can watch it on my HTPC, or on the boxee boxes on the other TV's. Sickbeard was difficult to set up, but once it is it is amazingly simple to use, and I can prove it. My wife can go on sickbeard, add a show and watch it on any TV in the house and I never even hear about it. That's worth fortunes.
My only complaint about Boxee is relating to the audio. It doesn't normalize the audio levels in any way, so some shows are loud and some are quiet, and sometimes I am not able to adjust the volume slider on the online content. Other than that I would highly recommend it.
I do this too. I have a cash back visa, last year they gave me $650 back on my december statement. This year it was only $390, but still it's a nice bonus. I guess the credit card companies do inflate costs in general by about 2% with their interchange fees (even if you don't use them) but I can't beat 'em so I just take what I can get.
It's the same reason I wear my fast running shoes when hiking with friends, because even though I know I can't outrun the grizzly bear, I know I can outrun Steve.
Citing overpopulation is such a lazy and sad argument. Who's to decide how many people are too many? What do you suppose we do with the extra people? Should we be sterilizing all but of a few dedicated government controlled reproducers? Taken to it's logical conclusion you suppose the Earth would be a better place without us. Well I disagree, and you sir are an idiot.
If you want to know how much sugar is left in the wine just use a hydrometer. Plus, I believe the effect you are describing is what most people call the 'legs' of the wine, which is just a property that a mixture of ethanol and water have when mixed and has nothing to do with quality or sugar content of wine.
I didn't know that Harold Camping posted on Slashdot! What's your prediction for the end of the world this time? Surely with such bold predictions you must have a ballpark date range for all of our children to die.
I think he is commenting on the recent trend of displays moving to glossy screens where in the past this was not a desired feature. In fact, I have found the trend towards glossy screens a step backward as well. Sometimes you end up seeing yourself staring back at you more than what's supposed to be on the screen. Hence the sarcasm about displays evolving to a perfect mirror.
I had lethal enforcers for Sega Genesis way back in the 90's and it had civilians popping up left and right, and you could shoot them but there was a penalty for doing so.
I think they are missing the real story that the best ideas are often had when you are business drunk. I know I solve all of the worlds problems when I am hammered, although I can never remember them the next day. I really need to put some napkins around my house so I can write some of this shit down.
Decreased solar output will have an impact on global temperatures, but it will take time.
Hours? Days? Weeks? Where I'm from, in Canada, you can see it doesn't take long for decreased solar input to have a dramatic effect on temperature. It's called winter. So I call BS.
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It is that simple, and the research you speak of linking autism to vaccination was falsified. Look it up.
In the stores in my area, it's not so much of a loyalty card discount, but more of a non-loyalty card penalty. I choose, 99 times out of 100, to shop at stores that don't require a loyalty card as a result. Hate carrying around all those damn cards anyway.
I laugh when I hear a mattress ad on the radio and they say they will beat any competitors price by 10%. Well no shit, you know full well nobody has the same mattresses as you, you just put a different tag on the bottom. One store it's a 'sleep king' the other store it's a 'dream master'. See, different mattress!
'Survival of the fittest' became largely irrelevant in humans once we became capable of passing complex information between individuals and generations. Survival of the fittest still exists, but it's not in the individual organism but rather in the ideas, societal structure, and technological innovations that we devise that helps improve us as a species. For reading on this topic you might as well go to the source and read 'The Selfish Gene' by Richard Dawkins.
The argument that we'd all be better off if we were forced to compete in some grand primitive indirect battle to the death is a really tired one. I'm not sure why people cling to it so much, maybe it's because they think they would come out on top. But truthfully, I'm happy that we've (mostly) left this part of our history and progressed to longer life spans and comfortable lifestyles. It's easy to sit in your comfortable chair and type on your computer that costs more than most people live off of for an entire year and spout nonsense like this. But if you were in some country where you were not so fortunate, and people around you were dying of simple diseases, and you were actually experiencing the process of 'natural selection', you might have a very different opinion.
Google says they put a button in in the 2009 model year. Press and hold to turn traction control off. Although the Rav4 has AWD, I wouldn't necessarily call it off-road. It doesn't have a lot of ground clearance and when the snow blows high in my back alley I've gotten it stuck a couple of times and had to dig it out.
My Rav4 doesn't have a button to disable traction control, and it's resulted in me being stuck one or two times in snow over the last few years. The tires will just refuse to spin with it enabled. You can disable it, but the procedure is ridiculous:
http://www.spokanister.net/vehicles_RAV4_VSC_TC.htm
So tell me exactly how life expectancy would increase with wide scale civil unrest, starvation, murder and suicide.
Well, the actual main difference is temperature. Lagers are typically fermented at 8-10c. Ale's are typically fermented at 18c or higher. This results in different flavour profiles, ales typically have a more fruity 'estery' character, where as lagers are more crisp, clean, and possibly sulfury.
Also, ale fermentation, because of the warmer temperatures, are typically more vigorous. The yeast are able to eat the sugar more quickly. I guess it's possible that it is this vigorous fermentation that is the cause for the yeast to rise to the top, although even in an ale there is still lots of yeast on the bottom working too.
Another difference is that a lager yeast can also ferment at warm ale temperatures (sometimes creating what's known as a steam beer), where as an ale yeast often will go dormant and not ferment at lager temperatures.
No, fermentation to produce alcohol is completely anaerobic regardless of if it is an ale or a lager. There is an initial aerobic phase that the yeast use to reproduce, but once the dissolved oxygen is used up they start the good kind of fermentation, the kind that makes alcohol and co2. Furthermore, I'm not sure what date to assign to when "God got his driving license", however according to Wikipedia lager yeast (otherwise known as bottom fermenting) dates back only till the 1400's.
Probably high definition Japanese porn, which is ironic since it's blurred out anyway.
Well I can speak to this as I think I have the ideal setup for my needs. I ditched satellite TV about 6 months ago and have been getting all of my content online.
I have two boxee boxes and a home theater PC. Boxee is awesome in finding online content for you and indexing it. If you want to watch a show, you just start typing, for example 'Dirty Jobs' and it will show you all the episodes available online. When you click on one it will take you to the exact page on the Discovery website the episode is located at, and make it full screen. Repeat for any show available online. It also shows you all the networks that have shows and provides a nice interface to browse them. Sure you can get this same content with a computer and a web browser, but this is so much more slick.
Basically, I already had a home theater PC feeding my basement TV, and I needed to be able to watch my downloaded content on my other two TV's. I decided upon Boxee boxes because at $200 CAD it was cheaper than building two extra home theater PC's by far, not to mention the maintenance of them. The fact that it also handles web content so well was a bonus that I've come to thoroughly enjoy.
My main source of content though is still downloading shows. I have a program called Sickbeard that is like a PVR for your computer. It will monitor usenet through my $10 / lifetime subscription to nzbmatrix for shows I like to watch. When one is posted it will automatically download it through my $10 / month usenet subscription (through SSL for privacy), extract the files, move it to the proper folder, and nicely rename the file. Then I can watch it on my HTPC, or on the boxee boxes on the other TV's. Sickbeard was difficult to set up, but once it is it is amazingly simple to use, and I can prove it. My wife can go on sickbeard, add a show and watch it on any TV in the house and I never even hear about it. That's worth fortunes.
My only complaint about Boxee is relating to the audio. It doesn't normalize the audio levels in any way, so some shows are loud and some are quiet, and sometimes I am not able to adjust the volume slider on the online content. Other than that I would highly recommend it.
I do this too. I have a cash back visa, last year they gave me $650 back on my december statement. This year it was only $390, but still it's a nice bonus. I guess the credit card companies do inflate costs in general by about 2% with their interchange fees (even if you don't use them) but I can't beat 'em so I just take what I can get.
It's the same reason I wear my fast running shoes when hiking with friends, because even though I know I can't outrun the grizzly bear, I know I can outrun Steve.
Citing overpopulation is such a lazy and sad argument. Who's to decide how many people are too many? What do you suppose we do with the extra people? Should we be sterilizing all but of a few dedicated government controlled reproducers? Taken to it's logical conclusion you suppose the Earth would be a better place without us. Well I disagree, and you sir are an idiot.
If you want to know how much sugar is left in the wine just use a hydrometer. Plus, I believe the effect you are describing is what most people call the 'legs' of the wine, which is just a property that a mixture of ethanol and water have when mixed and has nothing to do with quality or sugar content of wine.
I didn't know that Harold Camping posted on Slashdot! What's your prediction for the end of the world this time? Surely with such bold predictions you must have a ballpark date range for all of our children to die.
I think he is commenting on the recent trend of displays moving to glossy screens where in the past this was not a desired feature. In fact, I have found the trend towards glossy screens a step backward as well. Sometimes you end up seeing yourself staring back at you more than what's supposed to be on the screen. Hence the sarcasm about displays evolving to a perfect mirror.
I had lethal enforcers for Sega Genesis way back in the 90's and it had civilians popping up left and right, and you could shoot them but there was a penalty for doing so.
http://sickbeard.com/
And then abruptly get cancelled...
I think they are missing the real story that the best ideas are often had when you are business drunk. I know I solve all of the worlds problems when I am hammered, although I can never remember them the next day. I really need to put some napkins around my house so I can write some of this shit down.
Those who give up their liberty for more security neither deserve liberty nor security.
My dad had an SKS back in the day and those things got super hot; are you sure freezing rain made the firing pin stick or was it something else?
Decreased solar output will have an impact on global temperatures, but it will take time.
Hours? Days? Weeks? Where I'm from, in Canada, you can see it doesn't take long for decreased solar input to have a dramatic effect on temperature. It's called winter. So I call BS.
Wow, if I worked with you I'd buy you a chocolate bar. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_XJWxzuUYw&feature=related