While you're doing your random sampling, have a look at what murders get national attention by the news media. The code phase is "blond-haired, blue-eyed girl". The closer it matches that, and the younger the girl, the more attention it gets.
Or random sampling simply proves that Fox understands how to raise their ratings among the US populace.
No seriously. What is the appropriate measure? If Al Sharpton were running for President, I would say he was an unworthy hack to even be considered. Is that slanted? Or is it the truth?
My opinion is that of the two news channels I watched most, MSNBC and Fox, that MSNBC was by far the most slanted. It was probably because the little time I devoted to it fell in Olberman's timeslot. But, heh, I saw what I saw. O'Reilly would at least let someone that didn't agree with the lead commentator speak for a few seconds. Olberman just 'interviewed' people that agreed with him, while making stupid faces.
Are you white? If so, please walk speaking "jive" for a while on a south Chicago street corner, or anywhere in the Smith Homes community in Greensboro. If you survive, let us know how that works for you.
I'd encourage you to look into the colloquial connotation of the phrase "He's my nigga"- it's much more innocuous than you think; more akin to "That's my Man!" than it is to "I will give this person my vote based solely on the fact that he's black." Matter o' fact, when your presumed interpretation is actually verbalized, it sounds almost silly, doesn't it? Trust me, it's more an off-the-cuff expression of enthusiasm than it is a statement of philosophical underpinnings. I hope you can rest easier now.
Really?! Then why was my son suspended for using the term?
As a non-white that attended a predominantly black college, and has watched a lot of BET, it is very clear to anyone that racism is alive and well in these United States. You are free, or even ENCOURAGED, to express it...as long as you're not white.
I see those two statements as being at odds. I work hard to make a life better for myself. You take part of my labor and give it to someone that chose not to work as hard. You have made me their slave. They are now more 'equal' than I.
Equality does not mean that we all have the same level of misery. Well...maybe it does now.
He won the election with over 95% of black Americans voting for him. If he had 51% of the black vote like he had overall, I would agree with you. As it stands: No. This will do absolutely nothing to fix the racism issue in America.
I haven't read the patent, but how do you patent a living organism?
I patent DOGS! Or would that be, I patent a method for irritating a plethora of neighbors using one or a plethora of canines each with one or a plethora of barks.
A soybean plant grows all summer long, storing up energy in the soybean, leaves, roots and stalk.
Farmer runs over the plant with a combine, ripping it out of the ground. The combine shakes the beans off and throw the stalks, leaves, and roots back on the ground then plows it under. Natural bacteria feed on the energy stored in the roots, stalks and leaves.
This method would divert the energy taken by the natural bacteria into a energy stream that would be used by the farmers combine, or allow him another revenue stream. The waste product from the diesel production would be plow under to act as fertilizer for next years crop.
No matter how many wacky new discoveries you use and what genetic engineering on mushrooms you do, you cannot get out energy that was not put in.
And no one is claiming that you can. The claim is that there is a lot of energy locked up in the plant cellulose. Energy that the plant collected over an entire growing season. But that energy is to diffuse to be useful. How do we efficiently concentrate that energy into a usable liquid.
Ethanol was a bad first try. Wrong inputs (food stock). Wrong output (a hygroscopic fuel that is very corrosive to metals and plastics when mixed with water). High processing cost (that whole distillation thing).
This looks like it will use better inputs (just about any waste cellulose). Produce better outputs (an actual usable fuel). And a much lower processing cost (skim fuel from the top of a vat and filter).
The biggest problem is going to be that fungi grow slowly and there isn't much likelihood to increase the production of the fuel to a large enough percentage to also sustain the life of the fungi that will have to live in its presence. Kinda like how yeast die off after the mash they've been sitting in eventually has a high enough concentration of alcohol to kill them.
The problem with that statement is that ethanol is water soluble. Diesel floats. The concentration of the fuel by-product can be kept low by simply skimming it off the top of the vat.
if you could simply put one damn genetically engineered plant into the sun, and the damn thing weeps diesel, you have something clearly superior to the bioreactor model
I think this point is arguable. To be a usable fuel in an IC engine, the fuel needs to evaporate. Having a plant that oozes diesel would force you to build some type of containment vessel that would also need to transmit the sun's energy to the plant.
Fermenting cellulose in a vat could allow you to use anything from yard waste to waste paper. Engineer a different fungus to also break down various types of plastic, or start promoting cellulose based plastics, and have a witch's brew of fungus in the vat that will break down nearly all common domestic waste products.
Now you have a situation where domestic waste is easily turned to a useful fuel. Waste collection truck backs up to a big vat and dumps it all in (maybe pass through a grinder/chopper...maybe) Collection is a simple matter of skimming the fuel from the top of the vat. The leftover would probably make a decent fertilizer?
I'd like to agree with you, but you're wrong. The prospects of independants in the next election is entirely dependant on this one. Mike Munger, running for Governor of North Carolina, is running for 4% of the vote. That gets him on the ballot for next election, and then he doesn't have to spend nearly his whole budget just trying to get on the ballot. Then he can advertise and be seen as a viable candidate. You don't get contribution and all the free airtime from the news networks unless you're seen as a viable candidate.
You quote Paul. Have you considered what Jesus said to the disciples when questioned about paying taxes? Do you think that your only debt to a free society is your taxes?
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Why is such intolerant vitriol modded at +5.
I just wonder why Sj0 doesn't let us know what sort of backwater hell-hole he crawled out of.
The real change will come in about 3.5yrs.
How about doing a random sampling of "The View."
While you're doing your random sampling, have a look at what murders get national attention by the news media. The code phase is "blond-haired, blue-eyed girl". The closer it matches that, and the younger the girl, the more attention it gets.
Or random sampling simply proves that Fox understands how to raise their ratings among the US populace.
How do we decide what's slanted?
No seriously. What is the appropriate measure? If Al Sharpton were running for President, I would say he was an unworthy hack to even be considered. Is that slanted? Or is it the truth?
My opinion is that of the two news channels I watched most, MSNBC and Fox, that MSNBC was by far the most slanted. It was probably because the little time I devoted to it fell in Olberman's timeslot. But, heh, I saw what I saw. O'Reilly would at least let someone that didn't agree with the lead commentator speak for a few seconds. Olberman just 'interviewed' people that agreed with him, while making stupid faces.
I think I get it: They hate success.
No. They hate working for it.
Are you white? If so, please walk speaking "jive" for a while on a south Chicago street corner, or anywhere in the Smith Homes community in Greensboro. If you survive, let us know how that works for you.
I'd encourage you to look into the colloquial connotation of the phrase "He's my nigga"- it's much more innocuous than you think; more akin to "That's my Man!" than it is to "I will give this person my vote based solely on the fact that he's black." Matter o' fact, when your presumed interpretation is actually verbalized, it sounds almost silly, doesn't it? Trust me, it's more an off-the-cuff expression of enthusiasm than it is a statement of philosophical underpinnings. I hope you can rest easier now.
Really?! Then why was my son suspended for using the term?
As a non-white that attended a predominantly black college, and has watched a lot of BET, it is very clear to anyone that racism is alive and well in these United States. You are free, or even ENCOURAGED, to express it...as long as you're not white.
Or unless one group is to dumb to hold a job...
Causation's relation to correlation, and all that.
And did you happen to tune in to the election eve SNL special? Even they made fun of how deeply the leftist media was in that tank.
Do you have a cite for that, because I would find it funny, if it weren't so ridiculous.
http://www.aim.org/aim-column/media-are-big-losers-in-election-2008/
Not that you would read anything from someone that disagreed with you.
socialized medicine, and equality for everybody.
I see those two statements as being at odds. I work hard to make a life better for myself. You take part of my labor and give it to someone that chose not to work as hard. You have made me their slave. They are now more 'equal' than I.
Equality does not mean that we all have the same level of misery. Well...maybe it does now.
He won the election with over 95% of black Americans voting for him. If he had 51% of the black vote like he had overall, I would agree with you. As it stands: No. This will do absolutely nothing to fix the racism issue in America.
From being driven INSANE from having to read such drivel.
Can the judge sue Riches for being driven from having to read such drivel?
The trick is to design a mobile factory. Something the size of an 18-wheeler. Park them next to apartment buildings, restaurants, malls, etc.
Trash goes in. Fertilizer and heating fuel comes out. Send a collection tanker around in the summer time to collect the excess.
I haven't read the patent, but how do you patent a living organism?
I patent DOGS! Or would that be, I patent a method for irritating a plethora of neighbors using one or a plethora of canines each with one or a plethora of barks.
Think about this.
A soybean plant grows all summer long, storing up energy in the soybean, leaves, roots and stalk.
Farmer runs over the plant with a combine, ripping it out of the ground. The combine shakes the beans off and throw the stalks, leaves, and roots back on the ground then plows it under. Natural bacteria feed on the energy stored in the roots, stalks and leaves.
This method would divert the energy taken by the natural bacteria into a energy stream that would be used by the farmers combine, or allow him another revenue stream. The waste product from the diesel production would be plow under to act as fertilizer for next years crop.
No matter how many wacky new discoveries you use and what genetic engineering on mushrooms you do, you cannot get out energy that was not put in.
And no one is claiming that you can. The claim is that there is a lot of energy locked up in the plant cellulose. Energy that the plant collected over an entire growing season. But that energy is to diffuse to be useful. How do we efficiently concentrate that energy into a usable liquid.
Ethanol was a bad first try. Wrong inputs (food stock). Wrong output (a hygroscopic fuel that is very corrosive to metals and plastics when mixed with water). High processing cost (that whole distillation thing).
This looks like it will use better inputs (just about any waste cellulose). Produce better outputs (an actual usable fuel). And a much lower processing cost (skim fuel from the top of a vat and filter).
The biggest problem is going to be that fungi grow slowly and there isn't much likelihood to increase the production of the fuel to a large enough percentage to also sustain the life of the fungi that will have to live in its presence. Kinda like how yeast die off after the mash they've been sitting in eventually has a high enough concentration of alcohol to kill them.
The problem with that statement is that ethanol is water soluble. Diesel floats. The concentration of the fuel by-product can be kept low by simply skimming it off the top of the vat.
if you could simply put one damn genetically engineered plant into the sun, and the damn thing weeps diesel, you have something clearly superior to the bioreactor model
I think this point is arguable. To be a usable fuel in an IC engine, the fuel needs to evaporate. Having a plant that oozes diesel would force you to build some type of containment vessel that would also need to transmit the sun's energy to the plant.
Fermenting cellulose in a vat could allow you to use anything from yard waste to waste paper. Engineer a different fungus to also break down various types of plastic, or start promoting cellulose based plastics, and have a witch's brew of fungus in the vat that will break down nearly all common domestic waste products.
Now you have a situation where domestic waste is easily turned to a useful fuel. Waste collection truck backs up to a big vat and dumps it all in (maybe pass through a grinder/chopper...maybe) Collection is a simple matter of skimming the fuel from the top of the vat. The leftover would probably make a decent fertilizer?
Problem is the lawn would never get mowed. One strip, and you'd have the munchies.
Nonsense. Things will be GREAT...for the first 3.5 years.
I'd like to agree with you, but you're wrong.
The prospects of independants in the next election is entirely dependant on this one. Mike Munger, running for Governor of North Carolina, is running for 4% of the vote. That gets him on the ballot for next election, and then he doesn't have to spend nearly his whole budget just trying to get on the ballot. Then he can advertise and be seen as a viable candidate. You don't get contribution and all the free airtime from the news networks unless you're seen as a viable candidate.
Because he isn't talking about killing anyone or blowing anything up?
You quote Paul. Have you considered what Jesus said to the disciples when questioned about paying taxes? Do you think that your only debt to a free society is your taxes?