I hop it is. Currently I have to drive at least two hours in any direction in the hopes of catching the only showings of it in my state this weekend. Sadly we just cant swing it (my wife and I) so we must await either a full theater release or DVD.
I've been able to legally get Stevia for over ten years here in the US. This site has some more information.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration since the mid-1980s has labeled stevia an "unsafe food additive" and gone to extensive lengths to keep it off the U.S. market -- including initiating a search-and-seizure campaign and full-fledged "import alert."
To judge from the extensive measures the FDA has employed to keep Americans in the dark about stevia, one might assume it was some type of dangerous narcotic. But, in fact, no ill effects have ever been attributed to it, although it has been used by millions of people around the world, in some locales for hundreds of years.
So adamant has the FDA remained on the subject, that even though stevia can now be legally marketed as a dietary supplement under legislation enacted in 1994, any mention of its possible use as a sweetener or tea is still strictly prohibited.
Not really, it is mostly a myth. Take a look at the one federaly supported legal medical pot users. He is a sucessfull stock broker, IMO not a lay back and coast type job. He somkes 3 joints per day as I remember. I dislike that he says he lights up on the way home and before going to work, but seeing as how he has somehow managed not to kill a million people and himself over the years, I guess at least he seems to know what to do to be safe doing those things.
"Then again, people also think creativity comes from substance abuse, so I'm not surprised."
With several thousand years of literature to look at, many quite creative works have been done by people who were heavy drug users of one type or another.
I don't know if we can prove that drug use made them more creative, or if they would have created the same things never having touched drugs, but it did not seem to limit them in what they created.
Actually the myth is that wine is the only way to get the benefit. You can drink a glass of grape juice (and other things according to this link and get the same benefit.
It looks like there are at least two different specific things you find in red wine/grape juice that may have health uses that are not related.
I chose the winepros link because it at least tries to summarize and link the different information as opposed to searching for numerous different study paper links.
Try listening to Marketplace some time. They are as pro capitalist/business as anything else I have read/seen in other media. Often I find myself disagreeing with things on NPR, but they at least seem to research and report on facts and realities. I never said there was no bias, but I have to say that the reporting I hear on NPR is at least 70-80 percent more free of spin than I get in other domestic news sources. There are times I catch a report being slanted toward a specific view, know they have not gotten the whole story, or have left out parts I think are important to helping people understand an issue. Thats where listener mail comes in. They often read it on the air and do corrections on air as well. If people see things that should be corrected and offer specifics that will change and improve the quality of the reporting. One of the best things is when they interview two people of opposing views on a subject, it does not descend into some stupid shouting match where no one says anything well reasoned or worth thinking about.
Exactly how do you define anti-capitalist? I ask because most collages and non-profits are run, operated, or have boards made up by some of the biggest capitalists I can think of.
Why bring NPR into it if the thing that got you was the bush quotes? If NPR was the thing bothering you why bring up the Bush edit as it was not the NPR show? It just comes across to me that you want one to reflect on the other when all it should reflect on is the programming choice of the radio station.
Do you feel that the current administration is above criticism or being made fun of? Do you feel there is some conspiracy against people who hold your views (sorry but the tone of your response makes me ask this)?
How do you know what I would think? Can you read minds? I might agree with you in every case about bias on NPR. Maybe you should try that (discussing the things you see as bias) instead of assuming something about me and put words/thoughts in my moth.
I didn't bring up All Things Considered, but for all the bias it may have, recently they have done at least one thing that probably saved some lives and helped a number of people who were in bad shape out. Back on Thursday of the week Katrina hit, All Things Considered was doing an interview of then head of FEMA Mike Brown. During the interview they managed to get contact with one of the reporters they had in New Orleans. The reporter passed on information about many thousand of people at the convention center who had no food, water, or security. No one outside of the disaster site apparently was aware that many people had been told to go there or turned back from other places and told to go there. After 5 min of Mr. Brown saying there was no one in the convention center, he finally agreed to look into it, and about three hours later called NPR back and confirmed that in fact there were people there and that he had ordered supplies and other resources to be sent to that location for distribution and relief.
Sure it is not an every day occurrence, but if more news organizations did more then just report the news when they have a chance to help out in some way that can go along with reporting the news (they could have just used the reporters blurb later on in a regular report and not bothered to do anything more) the world might start to become a better place to live.
The problem isn't blacks, the problem is poverty and other issues that lead people to choose crime over any other solution.
Shit we could virtually eliminate serial killers by killing all whites.
Why stop there. If you kill all humans, the crime rate will drop to nothing. Think of all the benefits self extermination can offer. An end to wars, resource disputes, famine, poverty, disease, pollution, overpopulation, the list goes on.
All we need to do is invite a friendly Berserker into our solar system.
A great example of how imperfect we humans are is in the video game Fahrenheit (Indigo Prophecy in the safe for Americans release). The game starts with a murder and investigation of said murder. You play both the murderer and the detectives investigating it. You play half of your game time in a 3rd person view of the murderer as well as being able to look into mirrors and numerous cut scenes where you clearly see the characters face. It's hard as hell to accurately create the police sketch of the character you have been playing with, because memory just isn't perfect,and your first time through, you are not expecting to be actually responsible for creating the sketch.
NPR isn't a program. There are not NPR stations. What you were listening to was a collage radio station. If they chose to broadcast an NPR program (say Morning Edition) your local station my play another NPR show or play locally produced stuff, as well as things from other network like PRI afterwards.
Maybe you should re-examine your assumptions and find out if that was your local collage before going off all over an organization that may have had nothing to do with the production or airing of what offended you so much.
I've tuned into some stuff by Firesign Theater that if you didn't know it was humor you can easily take the wrong way.
I've seen NPR do this several times a year. They also are decent about corrections and listener mail (voice, E, or snail). I also commend them for being straight up about disclosure in stories involving underwriters (good and bad).
How does this work (I mean whose God are they claiming to be be God) in light of the fact that Muslims, Jews, and Christians all worship the same damn God? Sure they have differing views on the prophets, sons, and messengers of that God, but it is the same God at the core of it.
"That Bush was the devil, and ignore various character features of Kerry that many conservatives feel are flaws, particularly his two faced nature."
So far, from what I am seeing Bush is just as flipity flopity and multifaced as everyone proclaimed Kerry to be.
I'm going out of a fairly sturdy limb and saying that all politicians are likely to change stories as it suits them to try to keep things in their favor.
I found the advent of the Playstation to be the time when pre-rendered FMV took off most, but that may just have been the games I was exposed to. As for the Pentium, even now with our high level system many games still use pre-rendered FMV, but there is now a move towards using game engines instead.
Why did you pick those technologies as the milestones for the vanishing of pre-rendered?
"and a video game (does not count, no continuity with story)."
Have you played the game? It covers the story almost exactly from the point of Arthur waking up to setting foot on the surface of Magrathea. Yes puzzles were added and some details changed, but all the main plot elements are covered IMO.
Since Mr. Adams had decent involvement in the creation of the game I think it should be counted.
All you need to do is have someone scratch out the set design on a napkin during a busy night of drinking. Then you will get a set of 2 foot high buildings instead, and those will be easily crushed.
Try "The longest Journey" a computer game, but a decent strong female lead. I think Beyond Good and Evil falls into the same range of strong female lead who isn't at either end of the spectrum you mention.
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I hop it is. Currently I have to drive at least two hours in any direction in the hopes of catching the only showings of it in my state this weekend. Sadly we just cant swing it (my wife and I) so we must await either a full theater release or DVD.
Yah, the system worked really well for Steve Jackson Games.
Certain types of cacti can yield quite a bit of magic juice.
The San Pedro variety seems rather popular.
Not really, it is mostly a myth. Take a look at the one federaly supported legal medical pot users. He is a sucessfull stock broker, IMO not a lay back and coast type job. He somkes 3 joints per day as I remember. I dislike that he says he lights up on the way home and before going to work, but seeing as how he has somehow managed not to kill a million people and himself over the years, I guess at least he seems to know what to do to be safe doing those things.
Just watch out for Sheriff John Brown.
"Then again, people also think creativity comes from substance abuse, so I'm not surprised."
With several thousand years of literature to look at, many quite creative works have been done by people who were heavy drug users of one type or another.
I don't know if we can prove that drug use made them more creative, or if they would have created the same things never having touched drugs, but it did not seem to limit them in what they created.
It looks like there are at least two different specific things you find in red wine/grape juice that may have health uses that are not related.
I chose the winepros link because it at least tries to summarize and link the different information as opposed to searching for numerous different study paper links.
I wish the Manga was longer. The anime was weak in comparison. Still good, and had some funny stuff, but they dropped so much story.
"And let us not forget that we can make recreational drugs from them."
From ferns and spider plants?
Try listening to Marketplace some time. They are as pro capitalist/business as anything else I have read/seen in other media. Often I find myself disagreeing with things on NPR, but they at least seem to research and report on facts and realities. I never said there was no bias, but I have to say that the reporting I hear on NPR is at least 70-80 percent more free of spin than I get in other domestic news sources. There are times I catch a report being slanted toward a specific view, know they have not gotten the whole story, or have left out parts I think are important to helping people understand an issue. Thats where listener mail comes in. They often read it on the air and do corrections on air as well. If people see things that should be corrected and offer specifics that will change and improve the quality of the reporting. One of the best things is when they interview two people of opposing views on a subject, it does not descend into some stupid shouting match where no one says anything well reasoned or worth thinking about.
Exactly how do you define anti-capitalist? I ask because most collages and non-profits are run, operated, or have boards made up by some of the biggest capitalists I can think of.
Why bring NPR into it if the thing that got you was the bush quotes? If NPR was the thing bothering you why bring up the Bush edit as it was not the NPR show? It just comes across to me that you want one to reflect on the other when all it should reflect on is the programming choice of the radio station.
Do you feel that the current administration is above criticism or being made fun of? Do you feel there is some conspiracy against people who hold your views (sorry but the tone of your response makes me ask this)?
How do you know what I would think? Can you read minds? I might agree with you in every case about bias on NPR. Maybe you should try that (discussing the things you see as bias) instead of assuming something about me and put words/thoughts in my moth.
I didn't bring up All Things Considered, but for all the bias it may have, recently they have done at least one thing that probably saved some lives and helped a number of people who were in bad shape out. Back on Thursday of the week Katrina hit, All Things Considered was doing an interview of then head of FEMA Mike Brown. During the interview they managed to get contact with one of the reporters they had in New Orleans. The reporter passed on information about many thousand of people at the convention center who had no food, water, or security. No one outside of the disaster site apparently was aware that many people had been told to go there or turned back from other places and told to go there. After 5 min of Mr. Brown saying there was no one in the convention center, he finally agreed to look into it, and about three hours later called NPR back and confirmed that in fact there were people there and that he had ordered supplies and other resources to be sent to that location for distribution and relief.
Sure it is not an every day occurrence, but if more news organizations did more then just report the news when they have a chance to help out in some way that can go along with reporting the news (they could have just used the reporters blurb later on in a regular report and not bothered to do anything more) the world might start to become a better place to live.
The problem isn't blacks, the problem is poverty and other issues that lead people to choose crime over any other solution.
Shit we could virtually eliminate serial killers by killing all whites.
Why stop there. If you kill all humans, the crime rate will drop to nothing. Think of all the benefits self extermination can offer. An end to wars, resource disputes, famine, poverty, disease, pollution, overpopulation, the list goes on.
All we need to do is invite a friendly Berserker into our solar system.
You can thank either TLC or Discovery for this. They had a whole week series of "contests" with supposed results of scaled up creatures competing.
I think he must be running the Hokuto No Ken distro.
A great example of how imperfect we humans are is in the video game Fahrenheit (Indigo Prophecy in the safe for Americans release). ,and your first time through, you are not expecting to be actually responsible for creating the sketch.
The game starts with a murder and investigation of said murder. You play both the murderer and the detectives investigating it.
You play half of your game time in a 3rd person view of the murderer as well as being able to look into mirrors and numerous cut scenes where you clearly see the characters face. It's hard as hell to accurately create the police sketch of the character you have been playing with, because memory just isn't perfect
NPR isn't a program. There are not NPR stations. What you were listening to was a collage radio station. If they chose to broadcast an NPR program (say Morning Edition) your local station my play another NPR show or play locally produced stuff, as well as things from other network like PRI afterwards.
Maybe you should re-examine your assumptions and find out if that was your local collage before going off all over an organization that may have had nothing to do with the production or airing of what offended you so much.
I've tuned into some stuff by Firesign Theater that if you didn't know it was humor you can easily take the wrong way.
I've seen NPR do this several times a year. They also are decent about corrections and listener mail (voice, E, or snail). I also commend them for being straight up about disclosure in stories involving underwriters (good and bad).
How does this work (I mean whose God are they claiming to be be God) in light of the fact that Muslims, Jews, and Christians all worship the same damn God? Sure they have differing views on the prophets, sons, and messengers of that God, but it is the same God at the core of it.
"That Bush was the devil, and ignore various character features of Kerry that many conservatives feel are flaws, particularly his two faced nature."
So far, from what I am seeing Bush is just as flipity flopity and multifaced as everyone proclaimed Kerry to be.
I'm going out of a fairly sturdy limb and saying that all politicians are likely to change stories as it suits them to try to keep things in their favor.
I found the advent of the Playstation to be the time when pre-rendered FMV took off most, but that may just have been the games I was exposed to.
As for the Pentium, even now with our high level system many games still use pre-rendered FMV, but there is now a move towards using game engines instead.
Why did you pick those technologies as the milestones for the vanishing of pre-rendered?
What if the game starts out with shady dealings in some warehouse? Or it centers around the exploits of The Box Ghost, "Beware!".
"and a video game (does not count, no continuity with story)."
Have you played the game? It covers the story almost exactly from the point of Arthur waking up to setting foot on the surface of Magrathea. Yes puzzles were added and some details changed, but all the main plot elements are covered IMO.
Since Mr. Adams had decent involvement in the creation of the game I think it should be counted.
2 movies? Did I miss one somewhere?
All you need to do is have someone scratch out the set design on a napkin during a busy night of drinking. Then you will get a set of 2 foot high buildings instead, and those will be easily crushed.
Try "The longest Journey" a computer game, but a decent strong female lead. I think Beyond Good and Evil falls into the same range of strong female lead who isn't at either end of the spectrum you mention.
Sounds like a paraphrase of "It's not stupid, it's advanced".