CD's and USB sticks that become permanently modified to only work with one computer? Peripherals like monitors, keyboards and mice designed to imprint and recognize only the first machine they see for "performance" ?
Point 1) Your body never sees "100% sucrose" all the sucrose gets chopped up to monosaccharides before being absorbed.
Sucrose, and other disaccharides are VERY quickly cleaved to monosaccharides by disaccharidases embedded in the enterocytes of the small intestine and actively absorbed. This cleavage is not the rate-limiting step of carbohydrate absorption, so whether you eat sucrose or a glucose-fructose mixture, your liver will see the same thing.
Point 2) Perhaps I did not word myself clearly enough, when I was talking about the 5% difference I was comparing "high fructose corn syrup" to a "lower fructose content of corn syrup" -- the extra fructose was a big selling plus, manufacturers WANTED higher fructose content in their corn syrup.
Point 3)You are wrong, (wiki) Fructose has the highest relative sweetness of all the carbohydrates, Fructose is generally regarded as being 1.73 times as sweet as sucrose, so 5% more... makes things sweeter.
Fructose has higher solubility than other sugars as well as other sugar alcohols. Fructose is therefore difficult to crystallize from an aqueous solution. Sugar mixes containing fructose, such as candies, are softer than those containing other sugars because of the greater solubility of fructose. 5% more fructose than regular 50/50 corn syrup is that much more stable.
If you want to troll, at least read the wiki first.
simple - do what they did back in the day - if you need to do this multiple times, commit it to memory... if you can get away with a WORM approach, tattoo it on your scalp (assuming you aren't bald).
That 5% difference is why it is called "high fructose" - this used to be an important selling plus in the food industry, and still is. Calorically they are identical, but high fructose corn syrup is sweeter, so it takes less of it (and therefore less calories) to achieve the same level of sweetness in a given food.
It also doesn't crystallize in food like sucrose (table sugar) does, which makes it more stable in a multitude of applications.
is it wrong if the first thing i thought when i read this was "holy crap, how thin are the edges of the screen? if they get to $10 I could wallpaper my room with them!"
Wait, so I wont be getting any more exciting opportunities to add inches to my penis? What about all that steady income I was getting helping out Nigerian bankers!?!? How am I going to feed my family and satisfy my wife?
It is NOT just like tailing someone - if they plant the device on my car while i'm in a public place, that device goes *everywhere* my car goes, including onto private property, inside my private garage, EVERYWHERE. A cop tailing someone would have to stop at the gate.
so if i have "no trespassing" "beware of pit-bull" and "trespassers will be shot" signs posted all over my 4-acre property, and a plain-clothes cop comes along to stick one of these things on my car at night, is it my fault if he gets unrecognizably mauled by three pit-bulls and/or shot from my porch?
The armpit of the nation now has an appropriately-sized deodorant bottle!! What next, acre-sized diapers to catch all the sewage being pumped into the ocean?
And to make it worse, when you have kids, you are de-facto knocking them down a peg compared to everyone else because they will have no choice but to learn the same broken English you speak at home - a good school system helps, but if you happen to live in the ghetto then all the OTHER kids there will be speaking the same way an no teacher can completely override patterns speech patterns you pick up from everyone around you all the time in just 45 minutes per day.
My school does a summer-long "science camp" for low-income high school minority students who are exceptionally bright, at the end of which the students present their project to a packed room of their peers and various faculty. The competition to get in is crazy - about 10 times more students apply than we have room for so we cherry-pick the cream of the crop, the best of the best; all of these kids are in the top 99.9th percentile of their peers intellectually, regardless of race.
Guess what's one of the biggest challenges some of the students have to overcome - being able to speak proper English and being able to communicate their project to everyone else effectively.
"Aks" instead of "ask" "Sum-in" instead of "something" "mah" instead of "my"
Totally awesome! I bet that lambo driver is going to be paranoid about how fast he is going, and watching the road EVERYWHERE now... which is a good thing imo.
Traffic lights also don't finance themselves... the goal of the OP is to "seed" a busy street, and then grow the system to eventually cover a large area.
On the other hand... it will just be a matter of time before someone figures out how to disable their newfangled patented functionality, call it something like "Jailbreak 2.0" and apple will be back where it started.
As long as the user has unlimited physical access to the device, while Apple does not, the user will always eventually win.
Up here in Ontario Canada, our local school gives out the dumbest grades to children. I swear they stole the grading system from Harry Potter's O.W.L. system -- basically they get A, B, C letter grades for certain aspects of the year, and then an "excellent / good / satisfactory / needs improvement" grade for other aspects of the course work
Where's the place they fill in "Ten points for Gryffindor" ?
One of my ex-military acquaintances once tossed the body of a dead cat through an active radar beam (had to toss it up pretty hard to reach high enough), in the second or so of exposure mid-air the thing turned into a smoking ball reeking of burnt hair. FUN!
<quote><p>For something to be dangerous, I think we can all agree it must have a reason, yes? Just being GMO is not a valid reason, it must have some sort of chemical compound, not present in the unmodified counterpart, that is dangerous.</p></quote>
<p>One of the fears that makes the most sense in my mind is allergic reactions. Whether we're unlocking previously dormant DNA in the plants or splicing DNA from one species to another there is a possibility that allergens not previously seen in say wheat might suddenly be found. Basically, someone with a peanut allergy might never know what food could kill them, because <b>any</b> food could contain the peanut allergen.</p></quote>
This argument is perhaps the only legitimate and rational one for opposing GMO use as it is done today - but only because of the lack of labeling./que the science!
Pretty much any component of most foods and plants (all foods, even organic ones) have a person or two somewhere in the world that is allergic to it, most of these people live out their lives without even finding out about their predisposition to develop a specific allergy because they have not had exposure - if you've never tried a Rambutan, you would never know you were allergic in the first place.
Keep in mind, genes in GMO's are screened for allergenicity to the best of our scientific ability, and hyper-allergenic donors are never used - you will never see a GMO where a gene was taken from a peanut plant as a precaution against transferring peanut allergens.
So, even though things like Bt do not cause allergic reaction in the vast majority of the population (just like strawberries, potatoes, anything) there are still inevitably some people out there who will have a response to the Bt protein, just like some find out they can't eat strawberries, or potatoes etc.
The real issue is when half of the corn out there has Bt in it, and the other half does not, but neither is labeled, as a result this one hypothetical individual with Bt allergies has no way of knowing which burrito is safe to eat and which is not, essentially he is screwed because he is now forced to avoid ALL corn products.
GMO plants are okay and safe to eat, just just need to be labeled to avoid this issue.
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CD's and USB sticks that become permanently modified to only work with one computer? Peripherals like monitors, keyboards and mice designed to imprint and recognize only the first machine they see for "performance" ?
a better example is if Ford started to market their new cars "with full support for hovercraft landing pads"
Point 1)
... makes things sweeter.
Your body never sees "100% sucrose" all the sucrose gets chopped up to monosaccharides before being absorbed.
Sucrose, and other disaccharides are VERY quickly cleaved to monosaccharides by disaccharidases embedded in the enterocytes of the small intestine and actively absorbed. This cleavage is not the rate-limiting step of carbohydrate absorption, so whether you eat sucrose or a glucose-fructose mixture, your liver will see the same thing.
Point 2) Perhaps I did not word myself clearly enough, when I was talking about the 5% difference I was comparing "high fructose corn syrup" to a "lower fructose content of corn syrup" -- the extra fructose was a big selling plus, manufacturers WANTED higher fructose content in their corn syrup.
Point 3)You are wrong, (wiki) Fructose has the highest relative sweetness of all the carbohydrates, Fructose is generally regarded as being 1.73 times as sweet as sucrose, so 5% more
Fructose has higher solubility than other sugars as well as other sugar alcohols. Fructose is therefore difficult to crystallize from an aqueous solution. Sugar mixes containing fructose, such as candies, are softer than those containing other sugars because of the greater solubility of fructose. 5% more fructose than regular 50/50 corn syrup is that much more stable.
If you want to troll, at least read the wiki first.
simple - do what they did back in the day - if you need to do this multiple times, commit it to memory ... if you can get away with a WORM approach, tattoo it on your scalp (assuming you aren't bald).
This just in, a disproportionate number of hackers have programming degrees.
Any person with a basic knowledge of chemistry or nutrition will tell you
Table sugar= 50% glucose 50% fructose
Corn Syrup = 45% glucose 55% fructose
That 5% difference is why it is called "high fructose" - this used to be an important selling plus in the food industry, and still is.
Calorically they are identical, but high fructose corn syrup is sweeter, so it takes less of it (and therefore less calories) to achieve the same level of sweetness in a given food.
It also doesn't crystallize in food like sucrose (table sugar) does, which makes it more stable in a multitude of applications.
is it wrong if the first thing i thought when i read this was "holy crap, how thin are the edges of the screen? if they get to $10 I could wallpaper my room with them!"
they drink it because it's sterile and they like the taste
interesting ... that reminds me of this http://bash.org/?628630
Wait, so I wont be getting any more exciting opportunities to add inches to my penis? What about all that steady income I was getting helping out Nigerian bankers!?!? How am I going to feed my family and satisfy my wife?
Benny Hill soundtrack!!!!!!
It is NOT just like tailing someone - if they plant the device on my car while i'm in a public place, that device goes *everywhere* my car goes, including onto private property, inside my private garage, EVERYWHERE. A cop tailing someone would have to stop at the gate.
Am I the only one that saw that and read it as "SCROTUM" the first time around?
so if i have "no trespassing" "beware of pit-bull" and "trespassers will be shot" signs posted all over my 4-acre property, and a plain-clothes cop comes along to stick one of these things on my car at night, is it my fault if he gets unrecognizably mauled by three pit-bulls and/or shot from my porch?
The armpit of the nation now has an appropriately-sized deodorant bottle!!
What next, acre-sized diapers to catch all the sewage being pumped into the ocean?
And to make it worse, when you have kids, you are de-facto knocking them down a peg compared to everyone else because they will have no choice but to learn the same broken English you speak at home - a good school system helps, but if you happen to live in the ghetto then all the OTHER kids there will be speaking the same way an no teacher can completely override patterns speech patterns you pick up from everyone around you all the time in just 45 minutes per day.
My school does a summer-long "science camp" for low-income high school minority students who are exceptionally bright, at the end of which the students present their project to a packed room of their peers and various faculty. The competition to get in is crazy - about 10 times more students apply than we have room for so we cherry-pick the cream of the crop, the best of the best; all of these kids are in the top 99.9th percentile of their peers intellectually, regardless of race.
Guess what's one of the biggest challenges some of the students have to overcome - being able to speak proper English and being able to communicate their project to everyone else effectively.
"Aks" instead of "ask"
"Sum-in" instead of "something"
"mah" instead of "my"
Totally awesome! I bet that lambo driver is going to be paranoid about how fast he is going, and watching the road EVERYWHERE now ... which is a good thing imo.
Traffic lights also don't finance themselves... the goal of the OP is to "seed" a busy street, and then grow the system to eventually cover a large area.
hes super-cereal guys!
On the other hand ... it will just be a matter of time before someone figures out how to disable their newfangled patented functionality, call it something like "Jailbreak 2.0" and apple will be back where it started.
As long as the user has unlimited physical access to the device, while Apple does not, the user will always eventually win.
But which gadgets? What toys do the populations of the different states choose to spend their money on? That's what this survey answers.
NY: Geek toys
San Fran : Sex toys
New Orleans : Inflatable sex toys
Alabama: Inflatable sex toys that look like your sister
Up here in Ontario Canada, our local school gives out the dumbest grades to children. I swear they stole the grading system from Harry Potter's O.W.L. system -- basically they get A, B, C letter grades for certain aspects of the year, and then an "excellent / good / satisfactory / needs improvement" grade for other aspects of the course work
Where's the place they fill in "Ten points for Gryffindor" ?
One of my ex-military acquaintances once tossed the body of a dead cat through an active radar beam (had to toss it up pretty hard to reach high enough), in the second or so of exposure mid-air the thing turned into a smoking ball reeking of burnt hair.
FUN!
The "popcorn" setting was ineffective ... everyone knows you cant have a war without popcorn!
<quote><p>For something to be dangerous, I think we can all agree it must have a reason, yes? Just being GMO is not a valid reason, it must have some sort of chemical compound, not present in the unmodified counterpart, that is dangerous.</p></quote>
<p>One of the fears that makes the most sense in my mind is allergic reactions. Whether we're unlocking previously dormant DNA in the plants or splicing DNA from one species to another there is a possibility that allergens not previously seen in say wheat might suddenly be found. Basically, someone with a peanut allergy might never know what food could kill them, because <b>any</b> food could contain the peanut allergen.</p></quote>
This argument is perhaps the only legitimate and rational one for opposing GMO use as it is done today - but only because of the lack of labeling.
Pretty much any component of most foods and plants (all foods, even organic ones) have a person or two somewhere in the world that is allergic to it, most of these people live out their lives without even finding out about their predisposition to develop a specific allergy because they have not had exposure - if you've never tried a Rambutan, you would never know you were allergic in the first place.
Keep in mind, genes in GMO's are screened for allergenicity to the best of our scientific ability, and hyper-allergenic donors are never used - you will never see a GMO where a gene was taken from a peanut plant as a precaution against transferring peanut allergens.
So, even though things like Bt do not cause allergic reaction in the vast majority of the population (just like strawberries, potatoes, anything) there are still inevitably some people out there who will have a response to the Bt protein, just like some find out they can't eat strawberries, or potatoes etc.
The real issue is when half of the corn out there has Bt in it, and the other half does not, but neither is labeled, as a result this one hypothetical individual with Bt allergies has no way of knowing which burrito is safe to eat and which is not, essentially he is screwed because he is now forced to avoid ALL corn products.
GMO plants are okay and safe to eat, just just need to be labeled to avoid this issue.