It's safe to call it beer. Real beer. Although it would also be safe to create a special category for beers like these.
Yeast will die (or at least stop fermenting) at more than 20% ethanol. These guys freeze the beer. The ice that forms is rich in water, and most ethanol remains in the liquid (beer). Scoop out the ice. Repeat a couple of times, and you have all the ingredients of your beer still present, with less water.
True, until game-manufacturers come up with Chrome-compatible games and other software companies make chrome-compatible applications? Already, Office exists by Google too... and creating a replacement for minesweeper really isn't that difficult.
Engels (as in Marx & Engels) is one of the authors of the Communist Manifesto and largely a lot of the Communist doctrine. To use a quote from him and his research to debate oil usage would be pure suicide on a political realm because your opponent would have an easy time pointing out that a socialist -- possibly one of the earliest socialists -- did research to point out the horrors that Capitalism wrought upon the environment. The resulting suggestion for Cap and Trade or retarding economic growth in the name of environmental consciousness would be taken up by the opposition as the evil socialism from the old enemy of Communist USSR and readily gobbled down by the older American people. Because it's fairly common for the American people to choose to see things in black and white where someone is either 100% wrong or 100% correct. Complete and utter bullshit but that's the logic the summary will invoke and it would be impossible to use this logic in any sort of debate. To further this comparison in the United States at least, you'd do better to just re-research Engels' work looking at Peak Wood instead of trying to quote or cite him.
If you fight our current system of depletion and debts, you will meet an opposition that will call you a socialist or a commie no matter what... You also will have to fight arguments which are not real arguments against your points, but merely statements meant to discredit you in person... Calling you a communist is a pretty good one.
You may as well just keep your references in tact and pretend to know a little history. If you plan to change the public opinion with facts, at least do it properly.
If you plan to do it any other way, I would propose a different strategy altogether. Scaremongering, attacking your opposition, oneliners and lies are the way to go then. Not a new objective research.
In most countries in Europe, there is a simple roadsign at all the entrances and exits of highways - to prevent pedestrians and bicycles from entering the highway.
In top trumps, Road Signs and Laws beat Google maps.
Not only that, but they put the phones in the hives. I can see how that would be quite disruptive to the little critters; generally we don't go to a beehive to call people on our cell phones. Surely the likelihood of a proximity effect renders this study kind of useless?
The strongest signal doesn't originate from the phones though. It originates from the large masts scattered through the land. Those will affect a significant area. Especially the masts in rural areas have a higher power (I think - need to find a source though) because they serve a much larger area.
But seriously - how hard can it be to do a serious worldwide experiment with a bunch of bees? It's so important, that you'd think there would be some small funding available? There is no need to involve the phone companies - just some small government funding for an independent group of researchers... to do some, you know, science... stuff researchers do all the time.
Indeed. News websites are typically websites that I visit without using Google first. I go there directly, browse the headlines and read a few articles. Then I bugger off again.
Unless the newspapers will close their websites altogether, I am not sure how it will change for me.
You probably were not the first to infect a computer by sneezing on a keyboard... but you may have destroyed the internet when you did that.... why are you so sure?
Because everywhere else in the US doesn't have other natural disasters. There aren't wildfires in the west, tornadoes in the mid-west, hurricanes in the south, blizzards, snow storms, and ice storms in the north, flooding along the Mississippi...
Re:Yet another reason......why I'm glad I don't live in the USA.
The sad truth is that we're all guilty of this regime where jokes are not acceptable anymore. We all demanded 100% security. Nobody protested after 9/11 (because that would be unpatriotic). Even on the other side of the oceans, nobody protested against the crazy screams for more security.
So... Try joking to a security officer at an airport that you had a love explosivion last night with your girlfriend. Merely mentioning half the word "explo..." will make you miss your flight. We all demanded security - so, we got it.
Obviously, I think that people should use their brains - brains capable if interpreting phrases rather than only single words. Especially if that person is your boss, someone who should know you and who should be able to find a few seconds to properly think about the proper reaction.
Just curious - for how long are you people going to blame Bush for everything? I ask this in seriousness. When Obama is no longer President, will you blame him for everything that happens with the new President, or will you continue to blame Bush until another Republican gets into office?
I ask this in seriousness, I really want to know.
Probably for a few more decades. I say this in seriousness, I really think he was that bad.
Bush was in power for 8 years, and radically turned America upside down. He turned America into a country that is, as Obama tactfully put it during his Berlin speech, "part of the problem rather than part of the solution" for many Europeans.
Obama has now been in power for not quite the 8 years, and he doesn't have a 9/11 event to push through many changes quickly. (I am not claiming that 9/11 was a setup, but it came in quite convenient for Bush).
Bush gathered a bunch of warmongers around him, and some are still there. He allowed the weapons industry to be stronger (it simply became an even bigger industry with even more lobby powers).
The legacy of Bush will last. He was no good president, but he sure changed a lot.
So, I'll probably be blaming Bush for the next couple of decades for a lot of things... I truly believe he was one of the worst things that ever happened to America.
Obama has to work with the people that were appointed by the Bush administration. Obama may be the president, but he cannot replace every general, bureaucrat and lobbyist because he doesn't agree with his predecessor.
I thought that the general idea of Europe was to give no power to the people? Already, the majority of the laws come from a group of people that we never elected. The Lissabon treaty was pushed through despite referenda in several countries speaking out against it: worse than a dictatorship, at least a dictator does not ask the people what they want before doing something unpopular.
In the light of recent developments in Europe, this article does not surprise me.
This has the potential to disrupt trade worldwide. If you can't trust any random container ship anymore (and there are many of those)... then trade will slowly grind to a halt. Remember that a very significant part of all trade is by container.
That's a much bigger problem to the world than the possibility that one boat owned by the USA is sunk.
This means that you can even have a weapon on a ship that is owned by a company from a friendly country (if they aren't careful and don't know the contents of the container).
I will invest in container scanners immediately...
With all respect for the effort made here, I have seen Chinese students overwork themselves with 16+ hrs days, 100% voluntarily, at a Dutch university... including sleeping on the table in front of the keyboard, and getting less than 3 hrs of sleep per night. There was no company behind them, no armed guards. Perhaps just their parents at 10000 km distance who demanded results.
We really have to distinguish between human rights and culture... and no, our Western culture is not necessarily superior.
Obviously, Microsoft, being a company, can be as good or as bad as they want. Stay within the laws of the country where you employ people and you're fine. Similarly, its customers can demand a certain quality of life for the people who make the products they buy. You pay for the product that you want to buy... including all the sustainability issues (and work falls under sustainability in its broadest definition). Those are all valid reasons to demand an improvement of the situation of those sleeping Chinese women.
Just don't demand it from your superior Western point of view.
I believe that the law states that you have to mention that you're wearing a recorder before starting ANY conversation.
Also, confidential meetings and conversations would become more interesting.
In addition, I would turn the damned thing off a lot - because I like my privacy - and if I'd lose that recorder, it would all be out on the streets. And I would probably forget to turn it back on if I'd take my little walk on the streets.
What is so odd to me is that many Europeans thought that Americans were laughing at them because the volcano interupted their air travel. I don't know anyone who thought that was funny at all. Do Europeans really think that we are that petty?
Yes.
Because we certainly would make jokes if it happened to you first.
Although the "Pirate Party" is a good name to get some publicity in these early hours, I believe that on the long term a new name must be found which reflects the main issues the party stands for.
Pirate can be changed into Privacy - still a P, so not such a change.
But I would run with this name for the next months or even years.
So, you already gave up. "We'd like to have a fair system, but hey, we can't win anyway."
Your government is a good government and a true representation of the people that live in the USA. The US government doesn't fix this problem, because its people just don't care.
More on topic: I believe that regarding sites like facebook, we're going through a phase of "awareness" where the general public has no clue of how much this website knows about them. And therefore I salute the guy who tried to screw Facebook and get it out in the open. I realize that he also did it for the money though:)
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It's safe to call it beer. Real beer. Although it would also be safe to create a special category for beers like these.
Yeast will die (or at least stop fermenting) at more than 20% ethanol. These guys freeze the beer. The ice that forms is rich in water, and most ethanol remains in the liquid (beer). Scoop out the ice. Repeat a couple of times, and you have all the ingredients of your beer still present, with less water.
It's going to compete with Linux.
True, until game-manufacturers come up with Chrome-compatible games and other software companies make chrome-compatible applications?
Already, Office exists by Google too... and creating a replacement for minesweeper really isn't that difficult.
Engels (as in Marx & Engels) is one of the authors of the Communist Manifesto and largely a lot of the Communist doctrine. To use a quote from him and his research to debate oil usage would be pure suicide on a political realm because your opponent would have an easy time pointing out that a socialist -- possibly one of the earliest socialists -- did research to point out the horrors that Capitalism wrought upon the environment. The resulting suggestion for Cap and Trade or retarding economic growth in the name of environmental consciousness would be taken up by the opposition as the evil socialism from the old enemy of Communist USSR and readily gobbled down by the older American people. Because it's fairly common for the American people to choose to see things in black and white where someone is either 100% wrong or 100% correct. Complete and utter bullshit but that's the logic the summary will invoke and it would be impossible to use this logic in any sort of debate. To further this comparison in the United States at least, you'd do better to just re-research Engels' work looking at Peak Wood instead of trying to quote or cite him.
If you fight our current system of depletion and debts, you will meet an opposition that will call you a socialist or a commie no matter what... You also will have to fight arguments which are not real arguments against your points, but merely statements meant to discredit you in person... Calling you a communist is a pretty good one.
You may as well just keep your references in tact and pretend to know a little history. If you plan to change the public opinion with facts, at least do it properly.
If you plan to do it any other way, I would propose a different strategy altogether. Scaremongering, attacking your opposition, oneliners and lies are the way to go then. Not a new objective research.
In most countries in Europe, there is a simple roadsign at all the entrances and exits of highways - to prevent pedestrians and bicycles from entering the highway.
In top trumps, Road Signs and Laws beat Google maps.
Not only that, but they put the phones in the hives. I can see how that would be quite disruptive to the little critters; generally we don't go to a beehive to call people on our cell phones. Surely the likelihood of a proximity effect renders this study kind of useless?
The strongest signal doesn't originate from the phones though. It originates from the large masts scattered through the land. Those will affect a significant area. Especially the masts in rural areas have a higher power (I think - need to find a source though) because they serve a much larger area.
But seriously - how hard can it be to do a serious worldwide experiment with a bunch of bees? It's so important, that you'd think there would be some small funding available? There is no need to involve the phone companies - just some small government funding for an independent group of researchers... to do some, you know, science... stuff researchers do all the time.
Indeed.
News websites are typically websites that I visit without using Google first. I go there directly, browse the headlines and read a few articles. Then I bugger off again.
Unless the newspapers will close their websites altogether, I am not sure how it will change for me.
You probably were not the first to infect a computer by sneezing on a keyboard... but you may have destroyed the internet when you did that. ... why are you so sure?
Because everywhere else in the US doesn't have other natural disasters. There aren't wildfires in the west, tornadoes in the mid-west, hurricanes in the south, blizzards, snow storms, and ice storms in the north, flooding along the Mississippi...
Re:Yet another reason... ...why I'm glad I don't live in the USA.
The sad truth is that we're all guilty of this regime where jokes are not acceptable anymore. We all demanded 100% security. Nobody protested after 9/11 (because that would be unpatriotic). Even on the other side of the oceans, nobody protested against the crazy screams for more security.
So... Try joking to a security officer at an airport that you had a love explosivion last night with your girlfriend. Merely mentioning half the word "explo..." will make you miss your flight.
We all demanded security - so, we got it.
Obviously, I think that people should use their brains - brains capable if interpreting phrases rather than only single words. Especially if that person is your boss, someone who should know you and who should be able to find a few seconds to properly think about the proper reaction.
Just curious - for how long are you people going to blame Bush for everything? I ask this in seriousness. When Obama is no longer President, will you blame him for everything that happens with the new President, or will you continue to blame Bush until another Republican gets into office?
I ask this in seriousness, I really want to know.
Probably for a few more decades. I say this in seriousness, I really think he was that bad.
Bush was in power for 8 years, and radically turned America upside down. He turned America into a country that is, as Obama tactfully put it during his Berlin speech, "part of the problem rather than part of the solution" for many Europeans.
Obama has now been in power for not quite the 8 years, and he doesn't have a 9/11 event to push through many changes quickly. (I am not claiming that 9/11 was a setup, but it came in quite convenient for Bush).
Bush gathered a bunch of warmongers around him, and some are still there. He allowed the weapons industry to be stronger (it simply became an even bigger industry with even more lobby powers).
The legacy of Bush will last. He was no good president, but he sure changed a lot.
So, I'll probably be blaming Bush for the next couple of decades for a lot of things... I truly believe he was one of the worst things that ever happened to America.
Obama has to work with the people that were appointed by the Bush administration. Obama may be the president, but he cannot replace every general, bureaucrat and lobbyist because he doesn't agree with his predecessor.
Jupiter is white,
Uranus is blue,
In Soviet Russia,
Jupiter stripes you!
I thought that the general idea of Europe was to give no power to the people?
Already, the majority of the laws come from a group of people that we never elected. The Lissabon treaty was pushed through despite referenda in several countries speaking out against it: worse than a dictatorship, at least a dictator does not ask the people what they want before doing something unpopular.
In the light of recent developments in Europe, this article does not surprise me.
It just means he knows what he's talking about.
This has the potential to disrupt trade worldwide. If you can't trust any random container ship anymore (and there are many of those)... then trade will slowly grind to a halt. Remember that a very significant part of all trade is by container.
That's a much bigger problem to the world than the possibility that one boat owned by the USA is sunk.
This means that you can even have a weapon on a ship that is owned by a company from a friendly country (if they aren't careful and don't know the contents of the container).
I will invest in container scanners immediately...
I wish it was accepted in our office to do the same.
A 15 min nap can be more productive than a 30 min normal break.
I'm not saying that there are no human rights issues in China. I am just saying what I am saying. If you disagree, please read the text again...
With all respect for the effort made here, I have seen Chinese students overwork themselves with 16+ hrs days, 100% voluntarily, at a Dutch university... including sleeping on the table in front of the keyboard, and getting less than 3 hrs of sleep per night. There was no company behind them, no armed guards. Perhaps just their parents at 10000 km distance who demanded results.
We really have to distinguish between human rights and culture... and no, our Western culture is not necessarily superior.
Obviously, Microsoft, being a company, can be as good or as bad as they want. Stay within the laws of the country where you employ people and you're fine.
Similarly, its customers can demand a certain quality of life for the people who make the products they buy. You pay for the product that you want to buy... including all the sustainability issues (and work falls under sustainability in its broadest definition).
Those are all valid reasons to demand an improvement of the situation of those sleeping Chinese women.
Just don't demand it from your superior Western point of view.
Don't say that out loud, you fool - someone might actually think it's a good idea.
Our economy is incomprehensible enough as it is.
I believe that the law states that you have to mention that you're wearing a recorder before starting ANY conversation.
Also, confidential meetings and conversations would become more interesting.
In addition, I would turn the damned thing off a lot - because I like my privacy - and if I'd lose that recorder, it would all be out on the streets.
And I would probably forget to turn it back on if I'd take my little walk on the streets.
What is so odd to me is that many Europeans thought that Americans were laughing at them because the volcano interupted their air travel. I don't know anyone who thought that was funny at all. Do Europeans really think that we are that petty?
Yes.
Because we certainly would make jokes if it happened to you first.
Although the "Pirate Party" is a good name to get some publicity in these early hours, I believe that on the long term a new name must be found which reflects the main issues the party stands for.
Pirate can be changed into Privacy - still a P, so not such a change.
But I would run with this name for the next months or even years.
So, you already gave up.
"We'd like to have a fair system, but hey, we can't win anyway."
Your government is a good government and a true representation of the people that live in the USA. The US government doesn't fix this problem, because its people just don't care.
More on topic: I believe that regarding sites like facebook, we're going through a phase of "awareness" where the general public has no clue of how much this website knows about them. :)
And therefore I salute the guy who tried to screw Facebook and get it out in the open. I realize that he also did it for the money though
The EU has already adopted the SI system for units. Logically, our other laws are considered superior as well.
(Yes, I know Canadians, contrary to the US-Americans, use kilometers as well).
Tell that to texas schoolkids... Oh wait, you can't.
So, we may conclude that Texas needs a high speed railway too.
Through some of the most politically unstable regions of the world. What could possibly go wrong?
Only 60-70 years ago, Europe was the most politically unstable region of the world... :)
Things can change... and it's not the Chinese making trouble in those regions that are unstable. Many European countries aren't involved either.
Remember that in every region in the world, Peace is always an option.