Look at todays headlines...Salt...oh my salt will kill you. Well DUH!. Everyone has known that for decades. But TV and MSM didn't go on a big campaign in the news on sodium levels in processed foods until...
wait for it...
the big processed FOOD companies had products queued up with "20% Lower Sodium!!" blazoned on the packaging...
So there, the big companies that advertise on national broadcast TV...Gen Mills, Kelloggs etc...all get FREE prime time advert on the national news...
TV news looks like heroes from saving us from the bad food companies that put too much sodium in food. The big companies look like heroes for giving us consumers a new product to save our life. The small companies lose what little market share they have as they re-tool for the new salt aware consumer. The big companies eat the small fish. TV makes big $$, big food makes big $$...the people are played like a cheap violin again.
Where did that come from....? Love the headline: Looking for "insert your next enemy" terror cells.
So now all who read this headline will assume there are Iranian Terror Cells in America. Actually the only known terrorists to operate on U.S. soil have been domestic anti-abortionist fundies, RW nutjobs and yup...Saudi's
But secret service protection is for life.
And then after impeachment if crimes were committed the person can be indicted for them.
Gerald Ford "saved" the country the embarrassment of seeing a former President indicted for crimes commited while in office by pardoning Richard Nixon after he resigned office. He was destined to be impeached and the votes were there for conviction.
An vinyl album is more than just sound. It is album art, record sleeve, liner notes that you can see read with the naked eye. the album was so successful because it was a visual, tactile as well as aural experience.
Tactile?
the process of taking out the album and laying it on the platter lining up the arm and lowering the queue control was part of the experience. So was sitting back and letting the entire side play.
that is the experience that is missing in MP3s and CDs crammed in a multi-disc changer. few CD's are kept with the crappy jewel cases that break. The CD is a cheap, disposable format.
I still like CD. I like casettes too and LP's. Heck I like Reel to Reel. If you want to hear audio quality record your favorite CD onto 1/4" quality tapemachine and play it back. You will hear something magical.
Of course if you really want audio quality listen to what 24bit, 96Khz tracks sound like on quality equipment...or 2" 24 track analog playback...
If the music is good...it could come out of a monkey's butt and still be good.
..if someone likes the tune and looks us up, comes to a show, or buys a disk that is great.
I think that if the RIAA is pissing about not getting enough royalties then they should implement a limit to the number of times a particular song gets played for a given period of time before royalty charges go up. So if a song is played 6 times in a twelve hour period then big royalties should be paid on scale...the more asongs gets played the higher the fee. Oh imagine that...I can see it now. VARIETY would return to broadcast commercial radio as they would stop playing that song once the limit was reached. And the public would of decided they were going to by the disk or not based on if they liked the song, not because it was shoved into their ear with a ice pick every hour for 6 months and it is the only song played on the radio.
If a radio station profits form playing the same seven songs over and over again then they can afford to pay the fee. Don't penalize internet radio for having a different business model.
That would save internet radio as nothing would change. Variety is already the name of the game on the internet radio streams. Commercial radio sucks off the sheeple tit by playing the same songs over and over again. It works for crappy commercial pop station that pre-teens listen too. sucks. Rather than kill off internet radio for being "different" make commercial radio pay for flooding the market with the same five songs over and over again.
http://soul-amp.com/
Packaged in a 20 dose per container. New fashionable "inhaler" delivery system. Regular, 100 and 120 mg sizes. To take the new drugs you light the end of the inhaler tube and inhale the refreshing vapor. The dose burns with a pleasing aroma and relaxing patterns of vapor. 20 doses, take as needed 20 times per day or more. Packed in soft of hard pack box and cartons. Available at most gas stations. Menthol and other flavors available. NOW over the counter!
"HIV does not naturally contain loxP sites, so the team created a hybrid of the two DNA molecules, which they used to select a series of mutated Cre enzymes that were increasingly able to recognize the combined DNA." - They are not looking for the HIV DNA but they are finding it by looking for where it is not and then cutting it out. To prove they removed it they first had to mark it so they could prove it. Any effective treatment later would be difficult because you are are removing chunks of DNA from cells you "assume" are viral DNA. This sounds very important though. (I'm not a molecular biologist)
Regardless of the hybridization that HIV may undergoes the point here is that they engineered a way to recognize the HIV DNA because it "lacks" something that is found on normal DNA in this case a particular sequence that marks the point where HIV DNA is inserted into the normal DNA sequence. My take on this is that is akin to:
Think of a DNA sequence like a hotdog. (I know simple, simple)
Take the hotdog and slice it in the middle, then take another hot dog and add a section of the second hotdog to the first. This simulates the HIV sequence hiding in the host cell's DNA. Now look at it. We can find the area where it is spliced because we can see the cut marks. Even if we switch from differing brands and types of hotdogs we will still be able to identify where the viral "hotdog" was inserted and is hiding by looking for the cut "ends" of the normal hotdog and remove the "invading" hotdog piece in the middle. and splice the original hotdog back together.
The end result is that the virus does not "destroy" the T-Cell when it activates and replicates itself. Given that a hiding virus DNA strand in a T-Cell is eventually a "killed" t-cell I see the development of this bacteria DNA cutter will develop rapidly. Fascinating stuff...
There are four iPod, Apple, Handheld and Communications categories in this article.
I guess if that doesn't highlight the convergence of personal technologies I don't what else would.
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When oil is so expensive that it is cheaper to build vertical farms it will happen. Also every square foot of flat roof surface will either be solar panels or some type of produce crop production.
Food will have to be produced closer. Farm land that is now used for growing "ingredient" crops (High Fructose Corn Syrup) will return to producing crops for customers near by. We are so spoiled by cheap oil. It has only been 50 years that everyone in America can eat fresh lettuce and tomato year round. Before that we canned and lived on fresh meats and produce that came into season. My parents remember only having tomatoes locally grown in season and boxes and baskets of citrus fruit is still a popular Christmas Gift in the Dakotas. It was in the early 20th C. that fruit boxes replaced the traditional "Christmas Bread" made from dried fruit as trains made moving goods cost effective. Most of the train freight has been replaced by Semi Truck.
The middle class in America (shrinking as it may be) will continue to enjoy year round access to fresh produce for another 30-50 years...after that the cost of exotic and off season produce will price many out of the market. Already for low income America, many kinds of fresh produce are out of reach. (red and yellow peppers, tomatoes, fruits)
When the republicans are exposed of circumventing the law...they cry and moan "Where was the crime?"...it is just an allegation...little frat prank..
But when a Democrat drops a pin they are shrieking like body snatchers and the entire force of the "non-partisan" justice department, the media and congress (Clinton BJ) comes crashing down on them.
Hmmm....it is no wonder that Republicans have been able to get away with multiple violations of federal law...(signing statements, rendition, torture, lying to congress, violation of the Hatch act, Illegal Domestic Wire Tapping, election rigging) because their is no-one to stop them.
Yeah...these aren't the droids you are looking for...move along...
That our "50's Sitcom" image of American culture would have a patina of rust on it in 2007.
The people that buried that car must of thought themselves so special that they had to preserve selfish cultural icons of the time, thinking that they would be treasures today. Actually the rust and decay is in keeping of the decay our society has undergone and clearly represents a head shaking "What were we thinking?" moment.
The rust covered gas guzzler from the 50's is a great symbol of the huge mistakes we made by adopting the automobile and consumerism as a basis for sustained growth. We really missed the mark then and we are paying for it now and for the new century as we try to return to local scales of economy, mass-transit and fossil fuel independence.
Apple iPhone will be huge. I am buying one later this year so I can get rid of two pagers, a cell phone and a laptop. And I still don't have a iPod...so that is a huge bonus.
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Look at todays headlines...Salt...oh my salt will kill you. Well DUH!. Everyone has known that for decades. But TV and MSM didn't go on a big campaign in the news on sodium levels in processed foods until...
wait for it...
the big processed FOOD companies had products queued up with "20% Lower Sodium!!" blazoned on the packaging...
So there, the big companies that advertise on national broadcast TV...Gen Mills, Kelloggs etc...all get FREE prime time advert on the national news...
TV news looks like heroes from saving us from the bad food companies that put too much sodium in food. The big companies look like heroes for giving us consumers a new product to save our life. The small companies lose what little market share they have as they re-tool for the new salt aware consumer. The big companies eat the small fish. TV makes big $$, big food makes big $$...the people are played like a cheap violin again.
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Where did that come from....? Love the headline: Looking for "insert your next enemy" terror cells.
So now all who read this headline will assume there are Iranian Terror Cells in America. Actually the only known terrorists to operate on U.S. soil have been domestic anti-abortionist fundies, RW nutjobs and yup...Saudi's
To committees and to the body that resulted in a vote to grant Bush authority to invade Iraq.
You do not have to be under oath to lie.
But secret service protection is for life. And then after impeachment if crimes were committed the person can be indicted for them.
Gerald Ford "saved" the country the embarrassment of seeing a former President indicted for crimes commited while in office by pardoning Richard Nixon after he resigned office. He was destined to be impeached and the votes were there for conviction.
must of be missing in a lot of kids...explains the blank stares.
"Trying to think, but nothing happens!"
An vinyl album is more than just sound. It is album art, record sleeve, liner notes that you can see read with the naked eye. the album was so successful because it was a visual, tactile as well as aural experience.
Tactile?
the process of taking out the album and laying it on the platter lining up the arm and lowering the queue control was part of the experience. So was sitting back and letting the entire side play.
that is the experience that is missing in MP3s and CDs crammed in a multi-disc changer. few CD's are kept with the crappy jewel cases that break. The CD is a cheap, disposable format.
I still like CD. I like casettes too and LP's. Heck I like Reel to Reel. If you want to hear audio quality record your favorite CD onto 1/4" quality tapemachine and play it back. You will hear something magical.
Of course if you really want audio quality listen to what 24bit, 96Khz tracks sound like on quality equipment...or 2" 24 track analog playback...
If the music is good...it could come out of a monkey's butt and still be good.
The Republicans already proved the existence of Bizzaro World.
The BFG9000!!!
Why do you hate America so much?
Jackass.
"Care a for a cigarette old man?"
Oh my I busted a gut reading this...mod it up...
"flaming horse vomit" made me spew on my keyboard.
We need moose and squirrel teams. Boris and Natasha are in trouble now....
..if someone likes the tune and looks us up, comes to a show, or buys a disk that is great.
I think that if the RIAA is pissing about not getting enough royalties then they should implement a limit to the number of times a particular song gets played for a given period of time before royalty charges go up. So if a song is played 6 times in a twelve hour period then big royalties should be paid on scale...the more asongs gets played the higher the fee. Oh imagine that...I can see it now. VARIETY would return to broadcast commercial radio as they would stop playing that song once the limit was reached. And the public would of decided they were going to by the disk or not based on if they liked the song, not because it was shoved into their ear with a ice pick every hour for 6 months and it is the only song played on the radio.
If a radio station profits form playing the same seven songs over and over again then they can afford to pay the fee. Don't penalize internet radio for having a different business model.
That would save internet radio as nothing would change. Variety is already the name of the game on the internet radio streams. Commercial radio sucks off the sheeple tit by playing the same songs over and over again. It works for crappy commercial pop station that pre-teens listen too. sucks. Rather than kill off internet radio for being "different" make commercial radio pay for flooding the market with the same five songs over and over again.
http://soul-amp.com/
Packaged in a 20 dose per container. New fashionable "inhaler" delivery system. Regular, 100 and 120 mg sizes. To take the new drugs you light the end of the inhaler tube and inhale the refreshing vapor. The dose burns with a pleasing aroma and relaxing patterns of vapor. 20 doses, take as needed 20 times per day or more. Packed in soft of hard pack box and cartons. Available at most gas stations. Menthol and other flavors available. NOW over the counter!
Welcome to a healthy new you.
passed out, floating in a personal constellation of excrement, too many times.
Sheesh...combine this with Jesus Camp and we have our own terrorist training camps.
"HIV does not naturally contain loxP sites, so the team created a hybrid of the two DNA molecules, which they used to select a series of mutated Cre enzymes that were increasingly able to recognize the combined DNA." - They are not looking for the HIV DNA but they are finding it by looking for where it is not and then cutting it out. To prove they removed it they first had to mark it so they could prove it. Any effective treatment later would be difficult because you are are removing chunks of DNA from cells you "assume" are viral DNA. This sounds very important though. (I'm not a molecular biologist)
Regardless of the hybridization that HIV may undergoes the point here is that they engineered a way to recognize the HIV DNA because it "lacks" something that is found on normal DNA in this case a particular sequence that marks the point where HIV DNA is inserted into the normal DNA sequence. My take on this is that is akin to:
Think of a DNA sequence like a hotdog. (I know simple, simple) Take the hotdog and slice it in the middle, then take another hot dog and add a section of the second hotdog to the first. This simulates the HIV sequence hiding in the host cell's DNA. Now look at it. We can find the area where it is spliced because we can see the cut marks. Even if we switch from differing brands and types of hotdogs we will still be able to identify where the viral "hotdog" was inserted and is hiding by looking for the cut "ends" of the normal hotdog and remove the "invading" hotdog piece in the middle. and splice the original hotdog back together.
The end result is that the virus does not "destroy" the T-Cell when it activates and replicates itself. Given that a hiding virus DNA strand in a T-Cell is eventually a "killed" t-cell I see the development of this bacteria DNA cutter will develop rapidly. Fascinating stuff...
There are four iPod, Apple, Handheld and Communications categories in this article.
I guess if that doesn't highlight the convergence of personal technologies I don't what else would.
When oil is so expensive that it is cheaper to build vertical farms it will happen. Also every square foot of flat roof surface will either be solar panels or some type of produce crop production.
Food will have to be produced closer. Farm land that is now used for growing "ingredient" crops (High Fructose Corn Syrup) will return to producing crops for customers near by. We are so spoiled by cheap oil. It has only been 50 years that everyone in America can eat fresh lettuce and tomato year round. Before that we canned and lived on fresh meats and produce that came into season. My parents remember only having tomatoes locally grown in season and boxes and baskets of citrus fruit is still a popular Christmas Gift in the Dakotas. It was in the early 20th C. that fruit boxes replaced the traditional "Christmas Bread" made from dried fruit as trains made moving goods cost effective. Most of the train freight has been replaced by Semi Truck.
The middle class in America (shrinking as it may be) will continue to enjoy year round access to fresh produce for another 30-50 years...after that the cost of exotic and off season produce will price many out of the market. Already for low income America, many kinds of fresh produce are out of reach. (red and yellow peppers, tomatoes, fruits)
Now that was a "technological" mental break down that cost billions.
Most of these Congressional "users" don't even know what a hard drive is. "Oh it is that thing the monitor sits on."
When the republicans are exposed of circumventing the law...they cry and moan "Where was the crime?"...it is just an allegation...little frat prank..
But when a Democrat drops a pin they are shrieking like body snatchers and the entire force of the "non-partisan" justice department, the media and congress (Clinton BJ) comes crashing down on them.
Hmmm....it is no wonder that Republicans have been able to get away with multiple violations of federal law...(signing statements, rendition, torture, lying to congress, violation of the Hatch act, Illegal Domestic Wire Tapping, election rigging) because their is no-one to stop them.
Yeah...these aren't the droids you are looking for...move along...
That our "50's Sitcom" image of American culture would have a patina of rust on it in 2007.
The people that buried that car must of thought themselves so special that they had to preserve selfish cultural icons of the time, thinking that they would be treasures today. Actually the rust and decay is in keeping of the decay our society has undergone and clearly represents a head shaking "What were we thinking?" moment.
The rust covered gas guzzler from the 50's is a great symbol of the huge mistakes we made by adopting the automobile and consumerism as a basis for sustained growth. We really missed the mark then and we are paying for it now and for the new century as we try to return to local scales of economy, mass-transit and fossil fuel independence.
Three, four, five...or one?
Apple iPhone will be huge. I am buying one later this year so I can get rid of two pagers, a cell phone and a laptop. And I still don't have a iPod...so that is a huge bonus.