What is really great about the anti-vax loons is that they inflict their stupidity on their children. So even if by some miracle they avoid natural selection and manage to reproduce, they make a good effort to kill off their children to weed out the stupid gene.
Completely wrong. HFCS is produced from acid hydrolysis of starch to glucose followed by glucose isomerase treatment of a pure glucose solution in a fixed or fluidized bed enzyme reactor.
I'd expect very little enzyme to be in HFCS as the process involves using a fixed or fluidized bed enzyme reactor where the enzyme is chemically attached to the reactor walls or bed.
Why would a thief prefer gold over cash? Cash and you are ready to go, wave a bunch of Gold around after an ATM theft and you will draw attention.
Depending on the buy/sell spread I could see myself using one of these machines to buy small amounts on a period basis. Dollar cost averaging is a good way to take risk out of buying a volatile commodity.
Sweetener taste is a subjective thing. What I object to is the the idea that despite all scientific evidence there are thousands of web sites that will cheerfully make up all sorts of claims that anything except natural products like agave nectar and stevia syrup are bad for you when in fact opposite is true.
Free chlorine can be deleterious in high concentrations, however the fact of the matter is that if you stop using it you are in for a nasty cholera or other water borne epidemic. Peru tried that a few years ago and 19,000 people died of cholera. Even today deaths due to water borne diseases are killing thousands of people per day. So go ahead, stop adding chlorine to drinking water.
Distrust glyphosate all you want, however the facts are in. Any such fears are irrational. Perhaps it's good marketing to get people juiced up over something that isn't metabolized by mammals, I'll give you that.
As far as endocrine disrupters, there are some materials to be concerned about. You didn't see it my list of false bogeymen, did you?
My point is that I see more real hazards coming from your Fearless Leaders than your Lunatic Fringe.
Fringers like the anti-vax crowd and the ban chlorine types would throw away the two primary disease prevention mechanisms known to man. Combined they are the dominant reasons life expectancy has gone up to 74 from the 45 it was in 1900.
If you want to live on a cholera island infested with smallpox and polio and watch your children die of measles and whooping cough go right ahead. Personally I'll take my chances with sucralose.
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Shouldn't that be shallow learning curve? Steep would imply quick effortless progress towards expertise (at least if you put the independent variable on the abscissa and dependent on the ordinate as is customary). A shallow learning curve now would imply slow progress...
These tax breaks are not only available to the rich. Anyone can take advantage of them. I'm just a working stiff, yet the income I make on my savings is either tax advantaged via 401K or Roth accounts or is in the form of dividends or capital gains that are taxed at 15%. This is going to make a huge difference to me in about 5 years when I retire.
Now I do agree with you that the current tax policy is broken and it really should be more progressive. Among other things it has allowed for an excessive concentration of wealth in the top most affluent percentage of society at the expense of ridiculous levels of government debt.
I am sure that it makes your sister sick. There are a lot of people who have responses like this to all kinds of foods. Personally I can't stand cooked cabbage and have had some similar responses to it. That doesn't mean cooked cabbage is bad for me.
Similarly with chlorination - just because you don't like the taste doesn't make it bad for you. As far as the disposable bottles, there is no reason you can't use filtered water and a non-disposable bottle.
I am not defending BP, you irrational fucking moron. I am simply presenting a fact, which apparently you are too closed minded stupid or wacko to understand or comprehend.
Tar balls are stable in the environment. We have the same material all around us as an artifact of modern civilization. Tar seeps out of natural deposits over 100 million years old in places like La Brea Ca.
They are NOT a problem.
The psychopath here is you.
As far as local catch in Florida, people are eating that every day.
I don't know what rock you crawled out from under, but clearly you don't meet the intellectual criteria to be considered a functional human being.
1. You don't need internet access to play BluRay discs. Lots of BluRay players don't have an ethernet port. You might want it to get firmware updates for your player, but that's a different issue. 2. There are ways around BluRay DRM nowadays if that is your objection. 3. It turns out the best DVD upconverting players are also BluRay players (See Oppo BDP-83) so buying a player like this improves the picture quality you get from your DVD collection plus gives you BD access. So even if you don't have and BD disks, getting a BD player might be a good idea. 4. BluRay RE disks at 25 GB are a very nice backup media. 5. The bandwidth isn't there for BluRay over the net. 6. The streaming services available don't offer the very nice sound quality BluRay gives you. 7. And of course if you don't own the media you are always behind the 8-ball.
In other words the article is a crock. BluRay is at the tipping point of mass adoption.
Businesses are owned by humans. Any time you put a restriction on a business you are restricting the rights of their owners who last time I checked were pretty likely to be humans.
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What is really great about the anti-vax loons is that they inflict their stupidity on their children. So even if by some miracle they avoid natural selection and manage to reproduce, they make a good effort to kill off their children to weed out the stupid gene.
Natural selection yay!
Downwind would mean that the cattle are smelling your body odors. I'm sure they find it revolting.
Food Inc. is basic scaremongering with whatever science presented twisted then dumbed down to sound plausible to the average American.
You know, the same group where 15% believe in biological evolution and 60% believe in extrasensory perception.
Dimmer crooks will pretty much always in jail.
Completely wrong. HFCS is produced from acid hydrolysis of starch to glucose followed by glucose isomerase treatment of a pure glucose solution in a fixed or fluidized bed enzyme reactor.
Enzyme content should be very low.
http://www.madehow.com/Volume-4/Corn-Syrup.html
I don't know where you are getting your info but that source should be treated as untrustworthy.
I'd expect very little enzyme to be in HFCS as the process involves using a fixed or fluidized bed enzyme reactor where the enzyme is chemically attached to the reactor walls or bed.
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/cjce.5450640405/abstract
Descartes is now officially spinning in his grave.
I thought pedantry was a crime. If it isn't it really should be.
Why would a thief prefer gold over cash? Cash and you are ready to go, wave a bunch of Gold around after an ATM theft and you will draw attention.
Depending on the buy/sell spread I could see myself using one of these machines to buy small amounts on a period basis. Dollar cost averaging is a good way to take risk out of buying a volatile commodity.
How is that any different from getting cash out of an ATM?
Gold might actually be safer because it is less liquid than cash.
You are out of date. You can own and pay debts in gold if you find anyone who will take the gold.
Sweetener taste is a subjective thing. What I object to is the the idea that despite all scientific evidence there are thousands of web sites that will cheerfully make up all sorts of claims that anything except natural products like agave nectar and stevia syrup are bad for you when in fact opposite is true.
Free chlorine can be deleterious in high concentrations, however the fact of the matter is that if you stop using it you are in for a nasty cholera or other water borne epidemic. Peru tried that a few years ago and 19,000 people died of cholera. Even today deaths due to water borne diseases are killing thousands of people per day. So go ahead, stop adding chlorine to drinking water.
http://www.colorado.edu/geography/gcraft/warmup/cholera/cholera.html
http://www.voanews.com/english/news/a-13-2005-03-17-voa34-67381152.html
Distrust glyphosate all you want, however the facts are in. Any such fears are irrational. Perhaps it's good marketing to get people juiced up over something that isn't metabolized by mammals, I'll give you that.
As far as endocrine disrupters, there are some materials to be concerned about. You didn't see it my list of false bogeymen, did you?
My point is that I see more real hazards coming from your Fearless Leaders than your Lunatic Fringe.
Fringers like the anti-vax crowd and the ban chlorine types would throw away the two primary disease prevention mechanisms known to man. Combined they are the dominant reasons life expectancy has gone up to 74 from the 45 it was in 1900.
If you want to live on a cholera island infested with smallpox and polio and watch your children die of measles and whooping cough go right ahead. Personally I'll take my chances with sucralose.
Shouldn't that be shallow learning curve? Steep would imply quick effortless progress towards expertise (at least if you put the independent variable on the abscissa and dependent on the ordinate as is customary). A shallow learning curve now would imply slow progress...
This is saying, IF we get a warrant, which they already can to wiretap your phone, can we also get email/text/IM/etc?
That warrant is requirement is not very reassuring considering previous history.
These tax breaks are not only available to the rich. Anyone can take advantage of them. I'm just a working stiff, yet the income I make on my savings is either tax advantaged via 401K or Roth accounts or is in the form of dividends or capital gains that are taxed at 15%. This is going to make a huge difference to me in about 5 years when I retire.
Now I do agree with you that the current tax policy is broken and it really should be more progressive. Among other things it has allowed for an excessive concentration of wealth in the top most affluent percentage of society at the expense of ridiculous levels of government debt.
I am sure that it makes your sister sick. There are a lot of people who have responses like this to all kinds of foods. Personally I can't stand cooked cabbage and have had some similar responses to it. That doesn't mean cooked cabbage is bad for me.
Similarly with chlorination - just because you don't like the taste doesn't make it bad for you. As far as the disposable bottles, there is no reason you can't use filtered water and a non-disposable bottle.
Let's make a list of related lunatic fringe causes:
Artificial Sweeteners (aspartame, sucralose)
Vaccines particularly MMR
Chlorination / Fluoridation of drinking water
HFCS
Glyphosate
GMOs
Any more?
Everything that emits electromagnetic radiation has to go.
Another irrational loon heard from.
Testing of Gulf shrimp by various universities has detected no oil:
http://news.discovery.com/earth/no-oil-detected-in-gulf-shrimp----yet.html
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/08/16/AR2010081605471.html
I am not defending BP, you irrational fucking moron. I am simply presenting a fact, which apparently you are too closed minded stupid or wacko to understand or comprehend.
Tar balls are stable in the environment. We have the same material all around us as an artifact of modern civilization. Tar seeps out of natural deposits over 100 million years old in places like La Brea Ca.
They are NOT a problem.
The psychopath here is you.
As far as local catch in Florida, people are eating that every day.
I don't know what rock you crawled out from under, but clearly you don't meet the intellectual criteria to be considered a functional human being.
1. You don't need internet access to play BluRay discs. Lots of BluRay players don't have an ethernet port. You might want it to get firmware updates for your player, but that's a different issue.
2. There are ways around BluRay DRM nowadays if that is your objection.
3. It turns out the best DVD upconverting players are also BluRay players (See Oppo BDP-83) so buying a player like this improves the picture quality you get from your DVD collection plus gives you BD access. So even if you don't have and BD disks, getting a BD player might be a good idea.
4. BluRay RE disks at 25 GB are a very nice backup media.
5. The bandwidth isn't there for BluRay over the net.
6. The streaming services available don't offer the very nice sound quality BluRay gives you.
7. And of course if you don't own the media you are always behind the 8-ball.
In other words the article is a crock. BluRay is at the tipping point of mass adoption.
Exxon Valdez was about 10% of the size of the BP Macondo spill. No matter how hard I try I can't get 0.25 * 10 to come out to 4.
Look outside your window. Do you see any black pavement? Do you eat that?
That's made out of the same stuff as the content of tar balls, asphaltenes. If that was a problem we'd all be in a heap of trouble.
There is no such thing as an absolute liberty that allows you to do anything you wish without consequences.
Businesses are owned by humans. Any time you put a restriction on a business you are restricting the rights of their owners who last time I checked were pretty likely to be humans.