I'm not sure what kind of sweetener is in Flintstone's multivitamins, but it probably wouldn't sustain the fat metabolic function.
Refined sugers. The bulk of the pill is also starch. You might surprised at how long you could go even without the vitamin pill.
But, as stated, you wouldn't be happy about it. You'd be "bonked" soon enough.
. ..the nutritional problem in the US is due to the fact that we have an unnatural view of nutrition, broken down into carbs, protein, and fats, only really dealing with major vitamins and minerals as a means to avoid deficiencies.
We're actually in rough agreement here.
Speaking of breaking down the weakest argument in a fairly sound post, how'd I do?
Mediocre, since you didn't really attack my own thesis at all, that cottonseed oil is food, however valid your critcism might or might not have been. You argue for a balanced diet, not the elimination of cottonseed oil from it because cottonseed oil is not food.
I still hold that it is and the fact that it is extracted from the cotton plant is not evidence that it is not. How about, for instance, eating the whole cotton seed? Which has nothing to do with the cotton fluff from a different part of the plant.
My "straw" hat was made from corn leaves. That does not imply that corn, the seed of the plant, is not food.
I'll also note that I only took issue with that one point in your post because it was the only one I was interested in; and the only one worthy of attack. I in no way intended to debunk your post as an entity.
Guys, did you know that the cottonseed oil that fast food places fry everything in is not techinically food? That's why we don't eat shirts.
So maple syrup isn't food because a maple tree isn't?
Everything we eat contains food and nonfood elements. That's why we shit and piss.
Technically food is what you can digest and derive energy from. You might not be happy about it, but you could live on cottonseed oil and a Flintstone's multivitamin. You might even manage to get fat, cause that's what the stuff is. Fat. Seperated from the nondigestable cellulose of the cotton seed (which you don't make the shirts out of in the first place.I can make shirts out of pea vines. That doesn't mean that peas aren't food).
Perhaps the most perspicacious quartermaster until Sherman. His troops used to make black powder "on the go," as it were, by extracting nitrates from their own shit.
There is a legend that ole Nappy rejected Cugnot's steam tractor because he was frightened when it crashed into a stone wall. The stone wall story is fact, but the scaring Napoleon part of it is aprocryphal.
My guess is that Napoleon the quartermaster realized the amount of fuel that would go into this thing, the amount of labor that would be required to collect and transport the fuel, the scarcity of fuel that would be created and told the troops to go hitch up the grass foraging horses.
Am I right in thinking that the term "gas turbine" has nothing to do with gasoline, and is more about what makes the turbine move?
Yes, you are.
So bio diesel could be used in this (and in any other) gas turbine?
That's correct.
Why isn't DoD funding going to bio diesel research?
What's to research? It's already quite well understood. Henry Ford understood it quite well back in the 1920s (as well as understanding alcohol fuels) and even went so far as to produce a bioplastic prototype car. His entire vision of the future revolved around local farmers producing oil stocks and fuel for local industry to meet needs locally. He had a big "thing" for promoting the local, independent farmer as the bedrock of the nation.
. ..other than the obvious reason that the government as a whole is in the pockets of the oil industry.
But there was this guy named Rockefeller and his company, Standard Oil. . . and the rest, as they say, is history.
I was very slightly aquainted with one of ole J.D.'s grandkids. Family friend ended up working for him. Interesting people, to say the least. They had a penchant for robbing the poor to give to the poor, while retaining a modest administrative fee and a shitload of power.
And that's exactly what this unit does. It consumes ridiculous amounts of fuel to cool off the milkshakes and hamburgers for the troops that are there to 'obtain' more of it. This is brilliant!
Well, I'm sure it'll be used for this, but its primary function is really going to be for ice packs and drugs and blood, oh my!
It's basically an oridinary gas-turbine with some clevel thermodynamic engineering of the airflow to gain compression that will give "5 to 8 percent more efficiency than a traditional turbine". That's as far as the 'environmentally friendlyness' goes.
Ok, now I'm with you.
And finally they dare to suggest that these could be used in a hurricane disaster! Like for example refrigerate the bodies of the african americans and the poor?
On the other hand. . . been nice knowin' ya. I'm outta here.
. ..this would be a boon to developing countries, allowing people to get off the often-unrelieable power grids. ..
Small community sized, multifuel turbine based power generating plants are already perfectly available on the market. They used to make them just a few blocks from where I'm sitting right now. There is not and has never been (remember, once upon a time in the electrical age it did not yet exist) a need to be on a national grid just to get electricity. You can make your own if you want.
But the world bank does not finance local community projects in third world countries. They finance massive power dams with American equipment and labor, sucking said country dry of financial resources and reducing independence.
Why yes, it is a conspiracy; and a very effective one.
From what I remember hearing, these devices were never meant to compete with Blu-Ray and HD-DVD in the entertainment field . ..
Some of us out here in user land figured out, lo these many years ago, that -- bits is bits and thus bit storage devices store --bits, no matter what the storage device was "intended" for.
What makes a DVD "intended" for "media" storage?
Built in DRM capabilities. Period. That's one of the reasons that some people rip their DVDs to a device never intended to compete with the DVD in the entertainment field. They call it a "Hard Drive."
They could make this work. The problem is that they aren't at all concerned about what you want to see. It merely relects your mood, just a fancy mood ring, rather than showing you what your mood might want, nevermind what might be appropriate for your mood.
know that "Linux is the best OS for my computer" doesn't sound as fancy. But hey, *that* is what I need, so which user cares about marketshare ?
This isn't about marketshare. The lawsuit is about one the things that makes Linux the best OS for your computer; it is resilient to attacks trying to take it away from you. SCO's declining stock value is due to public perception that SCO bet the farm on breaking that resilience; and lost.
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I'm not sure what kind of sweetener is in Flintstone's multivitamins, but it probably wouldn't sustain the fat metabolic function.
.the nutritional problem in the US is due to the fact that we have an unnatural view of nutrition, broken down into carbs, protein, and fats, only really dealing with major vitamins and minerals as a means to avoid deficiencies.
Refined sugers. The bulk of the pill is also starch. You might surprised at how long you could go even without the vitamin pill.
But, as stated, you wouldn't be happy about it. You'd be "bonked" soon enough.
. .
We're actually in rough agreement here.
Speaking of breaking down the weakest argument in a fairly sound post, how'd I do?
Mediocre, since you didn't really attack my own thesis at all, that cottonseed oil is food, however valid your critcism might or might not have been. You argue for a balanced diet, not the elimination of cottonseed oil from it because cottonseed oil is not food.
I still hold that it is and the fact that it is extracted from the cotton plant is not evidence that it is not. How about, for instance, eating the whole cotton seed? Which has nothing to do with the cotton fluff from a different part of the plant.
My "straw" hat was made from corn leaves. That does not imply that corn, the seed of the plant, is not food.
I'll also note that I only took issue with that one point in your post because it was the only one I was interested in; and the only one worthy of attack. I in no way intended to debunk your post as an entity.
Keep it up.
KFG
Sorry to burst your bubble, but I think you mean a local gravity decrease.
.
I can't help it if you didn't notice the cement block shaped hole in the floor into which the cement block was supposed to be inserted.
I think you can agree . .
Not until you show your work, no, I cannot.
KFG
But now you're furthur from the earth's core, so it must cancel out :)
Whether that is true or not is left as an exercise for the student.
KFG
Is it in one spot . . .
Yes.
Put a cement block on the floor in front of you. Now stand on it.
Ta da! Instant local gravity increase, because there is now more mass underneath you.
KFG
Let me know if we're all about to go floating off into LEO, but otherwise, keep the announcements to a minimum.
Because Slashdot needs more Apple rumours and less science reporting.
KFG
Guys, did you know that the cottonseed oil that fast food places fry everything in is not techinically food? That's why we don't eat shirts.
So maple syrup isn't food because a maple tree isn't?
Everything we eat contains food and nonfood elements. That's why we shit and piss.
Technically food is what you can digest and derive energy from. You might not be happy about it, but you could live on cottonseed oil and a Flintstone's multivitamin. You might even manage to get fat, cause that's what the stuff is. Fat. Seperated from the nondigestable cellulose of the cotton seed (which you don't make the shirts out of in the first place.I can make shirts out of pea vines. That doesn't mean that peas aren't food).
And fat is food.
KFG
Imagine if the military were not only not dependent on foreign oil, but could easily, cheaply, and quickly create their own bio d in the field?
40 gallons per acre of cultivated soybeans. 504 gallons to fill a single Abrams tank.
See any soybeans in this image?
Tank on the go
KFG
With vinyl, cassettes and CDs there was a certain standard that meant if you bought music you could use it pretty much anywhere.
And yet I find myself maintaining two cassette decks and two turntables to play what I've got as it was meant to be played.
At least I don't have cylinders.
With a "media" player all you have to do is update the software/codecs. Restrictions on this are purely economic/political.
KFG
Oh, and sorry about calling you K-dog.
.although extra crispy isn't actually all that bad . . .on a steeeeek.
S'ok. Beats hell out of Kentucky Fried Gerbil. .
KFG
Been that way since at least Napeleon.
Perhaps the most perspicacious quartermaster until Sherman. His troops used to make black powder "on the go," as it were, by extracting nitrates from their own shit.
There is a legend that ole Nappy rejected Cugnot's steam tractor because he was frightened when it crashed into a stone wall. The stone wall story is fact, but the scaring Napoleon part of it is aprocryphal.
My guess is that Napoleon the quartermaster realized the amount of fuel that would go into this thing, the amount of labor that would be required to collect and transport the fuel, the scarcity of fuel that would be created and told the troops to go hitch up the grass foraging horses.
KFG
Yo, K-dog! =)
:)
.other than the obvious reason that the government as a whole is in the pockets of the oil industry.
Well that's a new one.
Am I right in thinking that the term "gas turbine" has nothing to do with gasoline, and is more about what makes the turbine move?
Yes, you are.
So bio diesel could be used in this (and in any other) gas turbine?
That's correct.
Why isn't DoD funding going to bio diesel research?
What's to research? It's already quite well understood. Henry Ford understood it quite well back in the 1920s (as well as understanding alcohol fuels) and even went so far as to produce a bioplastic prototype car. His entire vision of the future revolved around local farmers producing oil stocks and fuel for local industry to meet needs locally. He had a big "thing" for promoting the local, independent farmer as the bedrock of the nation.
. .
But there was this guy named Rockefeller and his company, Standard Oil. . . and the rest, as they say, is history.
I was very slightly aquainted with one of ole J.D.'s grandkids. Family friend ended up working for him. Interesting people, to say the least. They had a penchant for robbing the poor to give to the poor, while retaining a modest administrative fee and a shitload of power.
KFG
And that's exactly what this unit does. It consumes ridiculous amounts of fuel to cool off the milkshakes and hamburgers for the troops that are there to 'obtain' more of it. This is brilliant!
Well, I'm sure it'll be used for this, but its primary function is really going to be for ice packs and drugs and blood, oh my!
It's basically an oridinary gas-turbine with some clevel thermodynamic engineering of the airflow to gain compression that will give "5 to 8 percent more efficiency than a traditional turbine". That's as far as the 'environmentally friendlyness' goes.
Ok, now I'm with you.
And finally they dare to suggest that these could be used in a hurricane disaster! Like for example refrigerate the bodies of the african americans and the poor?
On the other hand. . . been nice knowin' ya. I'm outta here.
KFG
. . .this would be a boon to developing countries, allowing people to get off the often-unrelieable power grids. . .
Small community sized, multifuel turbine based power generating plants are already perfectly available on the market. They used to make them just a few blocks from where I'm sitting right now. There is not and has never been (remember, once upon a time in the electrical age it did not yet exist) a need to be on a national grid just to get electricity. You can make your own if you want.
But the world bank does not finance local community projects in third world countries. They finance massive power dams with American equipment and labor, sucking said country dry of financial resources and reducing independence.
Why yes, it is a conspiracy; and a very effective one.
KFG
But I think this unit could supply heating too. . .
.water.
Just as your window mounted air conditioning unit can if you turn it around. It will also provide . .
This is innate to the process.
KFG
Concatenation is not mixing, you insensitive clod of a goat.
KFG
But mostly I just want a translucent green block because it's cool.
It certainly is. At university these can be obtained by the heaping plateful the demand for their coolness is so high.
We use them to throw at each other and to create works of public "art."
KFG
From what I remember hearing, these devices were never meant to compete with Blu-Ray and HD-DVD in the entertainment field . . .
Some of us out here in user land figured out, lo these many years ago, that -- bits is bits and thus bit storage devices store --bits, no matter what the storage device was "intended" for.
What makes a DVD "intended" for "media" storage?
Built in DRM capabilities. Period. That's one of the reasons that some people rip their DVDs to a device never intended to compete with the DVD in the entertainment field. They call it a "Hard Drive."
KFG
He had already done his best science work naked.
Doesn't everybody?
KFG
What an increadibly early twenty first century point of view.
This is two thousand and six, man. Get with the times.
KFG
The attack wasn't even coherent.
I know. I've read their press releases.
KFG
Is anyone else concerned that we're building ourselves into badly tuned measure and control feedback loops?
Just wait until you start having a dysfunctional relationship with your "empathic" AI house.
I'll be keeping my manual controls, thank you very much.
KFG
That's not a problem since, unless you are a sociopath . . .Just show nice, thought provoking art all the time.
Fuck that shit.
KFG
If they can make this work, I'll order a dozen!
They could make this work. The problem is that they aren't at all concerned about what you want to see. It merely relects your mood, just a fancy mood ring, rather than showing you what your mood might want, nevermind what might be appropriate for your mood.
KFG
know that "Linux is the best OS for my computer" doesn't sound as fancy. But hey, *that* is what I need, so which user cares about marketshare ?
This isn't about marketshare. The lawsuit is about one the things that makes Linux the best OS for your computer; it is resilient to attacks trying to take it away from you. SCO's declining stock value is due to public perception that SCO bet the farm on breaking that resilience; and lost.
KFG
. . .can someone tell me how they ensure that these things get across America safely?
They don't. In fact the article notes that previous, non GPS, versions typically disappear.
KFG