I've had Canadian beer. No, not the Molson Golden & LaBatt's Blue shit you try to dump on us down here... the actual stuff you drink up there. It's crap.
I'll stick with quality US beers like Sam Adams Boston Lager, Pete's Wicked Ale, Schmalt's Alt, or Anchor Steam. Thanks anyway.
Switch to natural fruit juices if sweetness is your thing.
That is just about the worst possible advice you could possibly give to a diabetic and/or somebody trying to lose weight. Fruit juice is incredibly high in sugar (and it's mainly fructose, which is one of the "bad" sugars). If you drank it in the quantities which most people drink pop, you would never lose weight and your glucose levels would be through the roof.
Sucralose (usually sold as "Splenda") is a perfectly healthy alternative for most people. (Not for me... it upsets my digestive system something awful), and the "risks" involved with aspertame and saccharine are way overblown.
(Ever notice that the bashing of these sweetners always seems to start up right about when their patents run out, and the companies behind them are trying to sell whatever their hot new sugar replacement is? Not to go all Oliver Stone on you, but I smell a rat.)
ETA of conspiracy theory explaining why the video iPod is the real reason that Apple switched to Intel: Any second now.
Correction.
ETA: Last week.
People in denial about the G5 development lag have been coming up with "real reasons" for the Intel switch since the day it happened, and I'm pretty sure I've heard "video iPods" thrown out there at least twice in published opinion columns.
Before everyone starts bitching about the screen, I'd like to mention that the strength of such a video iPod would be in its ability to output signal to a TV. That way you can carry half a dozen, dozen movies with you on trips, to your friends houses, wherever, and view them on TV.
I can already do that, though, provided a computer with DVI-output (eg: any new Mac), and a TV with HDMI-input (eg: pretty much any new TV worth owning) is available for use at the house I'm going to.
Just rip the DVD's to the iPod with Mac the Ripper, as I would with any other hard drive, and open them using the DVD Player on the Mac at the house I go to.
Think of it as your portable movie library. (considering that that's what iPods already are for music purposes.)
No, iPods are for listening to music on the go. Are you actually suggesting that their main function is to allow you to take your music to a friends house and play on their stereo?
Nobody would ever accuse me of being an Apple basher. Quite the oppisite... I'm often called a Mac "zealot."
That said, this seems kind of stupid to me.
Music videos are not even popular enough to support a cable network channel ("MTV" is almost entirely crap "reality" shows these days), so what makes anybody think that they can support a "buy-to-watch-on-a-two-inch-screen" market?
Now, if you were talking about being able to watch pre-recorded episodes of Battlestar Galactica and Doctor Who while waiting around in an airport, I could get behind that. The tiny screen would be an okay-ish trade-off to not have to break out the laptop from my carry-on bag.
Hmmm... That doesn't sound right to me... I guess if I cared I suppose I could google it, but I'm just shooting my mouth off to pass time while screens load at work.
Anyway, my point is that most of the taste difference between Coke and Pepsi comes from the type of citrus used. There's very little to distinguish them beyond that.
Actually, Pepsi and Coke both use whatever sweetner is cheapest for them at the time.
The difference between them is the type of citrus used. For Pepsi, they mainly use lime, for Coke they mainly use lemon.
Coke has a more "bitter" bite to it, which adults tend to prefer. (Just as adults are more likely to enjoy black coffee and beer than children are.) Pepsi tastes much sweeter, which results in them winning blind "taste-tests" in which you only drink a small sip of each, but that does not always make it the better-tasting soda to drink in full-serving quantities.
(This is also why the "Coke with Lemon" experiment last year was such a dismal failure. Adding lemon flavor to a soda which already has lemon flavor in it results in something which tastes pretty much like furniture polish. The newer "Coke with Lime" tastes about half-way between the flavors of Coke and Pepsi, and some people seem to like it.)
Generally, soft drink makers use whatever sweetner they can get cheapest, and in the US for the last couple decades, that has meant corn syrup (which not only tastes funny, but is perhaps the least healthy sugar you can possibly use) due to our farming subsidies.
Up in Canada, it's probably cheaper to make it with sugar.
The Kosher Coke for Passover used to be a relatively closely-guarded secret. (A friend of mine used to jokingly call it "the Jewish conspiracy.")
The jist of it is this: The original Coca-cola formula, which contained sugar, was approved by the Rabinical Council as a kosher food, meaning that orthodox Jews could drink it. When Coke switched to corn syrup, this was no longer the case.
Every Passover, Coke makes a batch of the old formula, specifically so Jews can serve it at passover celebrations. (Pepsi is not very popular among Jews, due to accusations that they once stayed out of the Israel to avoid an Arab League blacklist.) If you look closely, you can see the Council seal printed on the side of the cans of Kosher Coke. These "Passover Coke" cans sometimes find their way into mainstream supermarkets, but you typically need to go out of your way to buy them.
(I used to be a fanatic about the stuff before blood-sugar issues forced me to give up sodas with sugar in them.)
No matter what independant researchers say, Ethonal is not going away any time soon. Why? I can explain in three letters:
A.
D.
M.
When the corporation who puts out the vast majority of ethanol-producing corn has members of both parties in their pocket, legislators are going to continue to preach the advantages of "clean, renewable" corn-based fuel.
(Also, they would prefer that you pay no attention to the fact that Ethanol produces less CO2, but more of other gasses, such as O3. We've got an environment to save, dammit! How dare you question the advantages of A.D.M.'s Ethanol!!!)
You hit the nail on the head. This is all about laptops.
This is especially an issue with Apple, because they are, and have been for more than a decade, a computer company who relies on the notebook market.
There are precious few people out there who chose Macs over desktop PC's, but an informal walk through your local "Free Wi-Fi" coffee shop reveals quite another story when it comes to laptop systems. Apple lives and dies by the PowerBook & iBook, and the way the G4/G5 roadmap was going, they would have died if they had not done something soon.
(Disclaimer: Current iBook user. I don't give a fuck what CPU is inside as long as it's fast enough, it's cheap enough, the battery lasts long enough, and it runs OS X. If Intel gets it done better than IBM, then so be it.)
Don't mistake the Kraft "cheese food" we like to put on our cheeseburgers for quality cheeses from Wisconsin & Minnesota. We produce a lot of terrific cheese around here, you just gotta know where to shop for it.
Not to mention that the Chicago vistas (presented as "Gotham City") are a great alternative to the constant New York/Time Square vistas we always see in movies.
Reading the old comics, I always imagined Gotham as a Great Lakes city along the lines of Detroit or Chicago, rather than New York. I think there was a reason why DC chose to use fictional cities like "Metropolis" and "Gotham." I never thought they were supposed to be nearly as directly analogous to LA and NYC as some people choose to think.
I wouldn't be too suprised if soon you can only purhcase it on the internet.
You are forgetting that some people prefer the annonymity of cash purchases when it comes to that sort of thing, especially if they are not the only member of their family who reads the monthly credit-card statements.
I don't think the beaded curtains at news-stands and downtown video stores are going away any time soon.
Most of the people do _not_ purchase porno. If you're past-teen single loser
Psst: Porno is sometimes purchaces by married people, including women. Shhhh! Don't tell anyone, though. It's important that we pretend the entire multi-million-dollar industry is driven by skeevy 40-something single pervs in yellow trenchcoats, so we can all continue to be morally outraged about it.
Really? I wouldn't have guessed they were much fun.
An underweight, overpowered, two-seater with the engine in the back and a snap-off roof? Oh yea. They are fun. Think of it as a go-cart which can hit very unsafe speeds and still handle reasonably well.
Too bad they don't stay working for more than a few hours at a time, though.
I dount that Senator Clinton is losing sleep over rising sales at Rockstar. Most of the pervs who would go out of their way for the hack in question probably already own the game anyway.
Senator Clinton is ramping up for a White House bid, and she has a problem among evangelicals that she's seen a bit too much as a progressive feminist for their tastes. She needs "moralist" issues to win over a few of them, because I think she understands that she needs to win over a few Southern states to have any real chance of winning.
The outcome of her little "crusade" is irrelevant. It gets her face on CNN as fighting against pornography, and that's enough for it to be politically worth doing.
Personally, I'm not too worried. Regardless of her agenda, Hillary in the White House with the Republicans holding both houses would be a lot more like the last six years of Bill Clinton than the first two.
Apart from letting the.com baloon swell a bit too far out of control and being a bit asleep at the wheel regarding the then-subtle rise of terrorism, those were six pretty good years. I'll take four (or eight) more like that any day.
When the Libertarian Party's alternative quits being "the government knows nothing", I'll vote for them.
As a libertairian, allow me to steal freely from Mark Twain to say that the problem with government is not what they don't know, but what they do know that isn't so.
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which burns accountants like elven rope.
Shit, if I hadn't already posted in this thread, I'd mod you up for the clever LOTR joke alone.
I've had Canadian beer. No, not the Molson Golden & LaBatt's Blue shit you try to dump on us down here... the actual stuff you drink up there. It's crap.
I'll stick with quality US beers like Sam Adams Boston Lager, Pete's Wicked Ale, Schmalt's Alt, or Anchor Steam. Thanks anyway.
Switch to natural fruit juices if sweetness is your thing.
That is just about the worst possible advice you could possibly give to a diabetic and/or somebody trying to lose weight. Fruit juice is incredibly high in sugar (and it's mainly fructose, which is one of the "bad" sugars). If you drank it in the quantities which most people drink pop, you would never lose weight and your glucose levels would be through the roof.
Sucralose (usually sold as "Splenda") is a perfectly healthy alternative for most people. (Not for me... it upsets my digestive system something awful), and the "risks" involved with aspertame and saccharine are way overblown.
(Ever notice that the bashing of these sweetners always seems to start up right about when their patents run out, and the companies behind them are trying to sell whatever their hot new sugar replacement is? Not to go all Oliver Stone on you, but I smell a rat.)
ETA of conspiracy theory explaining why the video iPod is the real reason that Apple switched to Intel: Any second now.
Correction.
ETA: Last week.
People in denial about the G5 development lag have been coming up with "real reasons" for the Intel switch since the day it happened, and I'm pretty sure I've heard "video iPods" thrown out there at least twice in published opinion columns.
Might be kind of sweet if you spend a lot of time in airports and/or ice-fishing houses.
I agree that the applications are limited beyond that.
Before everyone starts bitching about the screen, I'd like to mention that the strength of such a video iPod would be in its ability to output signal to a TV.
That way you can carry half a dozen, dozen movies with you on trips, to your friends houses, wherever, and view them on TV.
I can already do that, though, provided a computer with DVI-output (eg: any new Mac), and a TV with HDMI-input (eg: pretty much any new TV worth owning) is available for use at the house I'm going to.
Just rip the DVD's to the iPod with Mac the Ripper, as I would with any other hard drive, and open them using the DVD Player on the Mac at the house I go to.
Think of it as your portable movie library.
(considering that that's what iPods already are for music purposes.)
No, iPods are for listening to music on the go. Are you actually suggesting that their main function is to allow you to take your music to a friends house and play on their stereo?
Nobody would ever accuse me of being an Apple basher. Quite the oppisite... I'm often called a Mac "zealot."
That said, this seems kind of stupid to me.
Music videos are not even popular enough to support a cable network channel ("MTV" is almost entirely crap "reality" shows these days), so what makes anybody think that they can support a "buy-to-watch-on-a-two-inch-screen" market?
Now, if you were talking about being able to watch pre-recorded episodes of Battlestar Galactica and Doctor Who while waiting around in an airport, I could get behind that. The tiny screen would be an okay-ish trade-off to not have to break out the laptop from my carry-on bag.
Hmmm... That doesn't sound right to me... I guess if I cared I suppose I could google it, but I'm just shooting my mouth off to pass time while screens load at work.
Anyway, my point is that most of the taste difference between Coke and Pepsi comes from the type of citrus used. There's very little to distinguish them beyond that.
Actually, Pepsi and Coke both use whatever sweetner is cheapest for them at the time.
The difference between them is the type of citrus used. For Pepsi, they mainly use lime, for Coke they mainly use lemon.
Coke has a more "bitter" bite to it, which adults tend to prefer. (Just as adults are more likely to enjoy black coffee and beer than children are.) Pepsi tastes much sweeter, which results in them winning blind "taste-tests" in which you only drink a small sip of each, but that does not always make it the better-tasting soda to drink in full-serving quantities.
(This is also why the "Coke with Lemon" experiment last year was such a dismal failure. Adding lemon flavor to a soda which already has lemon flavor in it results in something which tastes pretty much like furniture polish. The newer "Coke with Lime" tastes about half-way between the flavors of Coke and Pepsi, and some people seem to like it.)
Generally, soft drink makers use whatever sweetner they can get cheapest, and in the US for the last couple decades, that has meant corn syrup (which not only tastes funny, but is perhaps the least healthy sugar you can possibly use) due to our farming subsidies.
Up in Canada, it's probably cheaper to make it with sugar.
The Kosher Coke for Passover used to be a relatively closely-guarded secret. (A friend of mine used to jokingly call it "the Jewish conspiracy.")
The jist of it is this: The original Coca-cola formula, which contained sugar, was approved by the Rabinical Council as a kosher food, meaning that orthodox Jews could drink it. When Coke switched to corn syrup, this was no longer the case.
Every Passover, Coke makes a batch of the old formula, specifically so Jews can serve it at passover celebrations. (Pepsi is not very popular among Jews, due to accusations that they once stayed out of the Israel to avoid an Arab League blacklist.) If you look closely, you can see the Council seal printed on the side of the cans of Kosher Coke. These "Passover Coke" cans sometimes find their way into mainstream supermarkets, but you typically need to go out of your way to buy them.
(I used to be a fanatic about the stuff before blood-sugar issues forced me to give up sodas with sugar in them.)
No matter what independant researchers say, Ethonal is not going away any time soon. Why? I can explain in three letters:
A.
D.
M.
When the corporation who puts out the vast majority of ethanol-producing corn has members of both parties in their pocket, legislators are going to continue to preach the advantages of "clean, renewable" corn-based fuel.
(Also, they would prefer that you pay no attention to the fact that Ethanol produces less CO2, but more of other gasses, such as O3. We've got an environment to save, dammit! How dare you question the advantages of A.D.M.'s Ethanol!!!)
Why burn them to disc and rerip them to get rid of the DRM? Run them through jHymn.
Because then he couldn't bitch endlessly about the DRM, which he seems to really be enjoying?
You hit the nail on the head. This is all about laptops.
This is especially an issue with Apple, because they are, and have been for more than a decade, a computer company who relies on the notebook market.
There are precious few people out there who chose Macs over desktop PC's, but an informal walk through your local "Free Wi-Fi" coffee shop reveals quite another story when it comes to laptop systems. Apple lives and dies by the PowerBook & iBook, and the way the G4/G5 roadmap was going, they would have died if they had not done something soon.
(Disclaimer: Current iBook user. I don't give a fuck what CPU is inside as long as it's fast enough, it's cheap enough, the battery lasts long enough, and it runs OS X. If Intel gets it done better than IBM, then so be it.)
Don't mistake the Kraft "cheese food" we like to put on our cheeseburgers for quality cheeses from Wisconsin & Minnesota. We produce a lot of terrific cheese around here, you just gotta know where to shop for it.
There will NEVER be people in government that understand IT. The mindsets are mutually exclusive.
What the hell are you talking about? The creator of the Internet served for eight years as Vice President!
Not to mention that the Chicago vistas (presented as "Gotham City") are a great alternative to the constant New York/Time Square vistas we always see in movies.
Reading the old comics, I always imagined Gotham as a Great Lakes city along the lines of Detroit or Chicago, rather than New York. I think there was a reason why DC chose to use fictional cities like "Metropolis" and "Gotham." I never thought they were supposed to be nearly as directly analogous to LA and NYC as some people choose to think.
I wouldn't be too suprised if soon you can only purhcase it on the internet.
You are forgetting that some people prefer the annonymity of cash purchases when it comes to that sort of thing, especially if they are not the only member of their family who reads the monthly credit-card statements.
I don't think the beaded curtains at news-stands and downtown video stores are going away any time soon.
Most of the people do _not_ purchase porno. If you're past-teen single loser
Psst: Porno is sometimes purchaces by married people, including women. Shhhh! Don't tell anyone, though. It's important that we pretend the entire multi-million-dollar industry is driven by skeevy 40-something single pervs in yellow trenchcoats, so we can all continue to be morally outraged about it.
Heh. Your post reminded me of the old "Arkansas Literacy Test" joke:
MR Snakes
R Not
OSAR. CMBDIs?
L All B...
MR Snakes!
What, you think I was talking about a new Fiat!?
Really? I wouldn't have guessed they were much fun.
An underweight, overpowered, two-seater with the engine in the back and a snap-off roof? Oh yea. They are fun. Think of it as a go-cart which can hit very unsafe speeds and still handle reasonably well.
Too bad they don't stay working for more than a few hours at a time, though.
I dount that Senator Clinton is losing sleep over rising sales at Rockstar. Most of the pervs who would go out of their way for the hack in question probably already own the game anyway.
Senator Clinton is ramping up for a White House bid, and she has a problem among evangelicals that she's seen a bit too much as a progressive feminist for their tastes. She needs "moralist" issues to win over a few of them, because I think she understands that she needs to win over a few Southern states to have any real chance of winning.
The outcome of her little "crusade" is irrelevant. It gets her face on CNN as fighting against pornography, and that's enough for it to be politically worth doing.
Personally, I'm not too worried. Regardless of her agenda, Hillary in the White House with the Republicans holding both houses would be a lot more like the last six years of Bill Clinton than the first two.
.com baloon swell a bit too far out of control and being a bit asleep at the wheel regarding the then-subtle rise of terrorism, those were six pretty good years. I'll take four (or eight) more like that any day.
Apart from letting the
When the Libertarian Party's alternative quits being "the government knows nothing", I'll vote for them.
As a libertairian, allow me to steal freely from Mark Twain to say that the problem with government is not what they don't know, but what they do know that isn't so.