Variables like ripeness have a greater influence on nutrient content, so a lush peach grown with the use of pesticides could easily contain more vitamins than an unripe organic one.
I don't look to organic produce for more vitamins. I get all the vitamins I need and more from just eating a reasonable and balanced diet. I buy organic when I do because I hope they contain somewhat fewer pesticide/herbicide/fungicide residues, of which I need to get less.
Its clear the climate is changing. Its also clear there is lots we don't know about how the system works, and its not entirely clear where things are headed and its even less clear that its man made.
I am not saying it is not man made. It very well might be! I don't want to put money down that its not.
As the comic says, what if it's a big hoax and we create a better world for nothing?
This analysis smacks of looking back at tech history through a biased lens. Those innovations cited did not appear fully formed but evolved from simpler forms. I think it is quite silly and unimaginative to call a computer you can put in your pocket - and just incidentally make phone calls with - which by itself is more powerful than all the computers in the world just a few decades ago not an innovation.
Not to mention that Russia has always been on the forefront of aerospace technology. Their lists of firsts is unrivaled. It's very possible that they might succeed where the Americans have failed.
You are so right. And their aircraft come with bonus mystery rivet holes lacking in American versions.
The only way Romney can win this is if the GOP makes an even more epic voter suppression effort than they did in Ohio in 2004, coupled with crooked balloting (and counting) like they did in Florida in 2000, and who knows what else.
The one thing you can steal in America and be sure to get away with it is the Presidency.
FACT manager: Son, how did you do on your exams?
Son of FACT manager: Great, pops! I got six A+s and one A-.
FACT manager: Not perfect. (Pulls out gun, shoots son dead.)
I think the key word there is "selling" rather than "Qi". Anytime anyone is selling an idea (whether they want your money, your faith, or whatever) they're probably going to present it as Truth. If you've only encountered Qi through salesmen, then I'd say you've never really encountered Qi.
But just saying the word and bringing up the topic is selling it.
I get this all the time regarding what pop skeptics would call "woo", such as Qi Gong or the concept of Qi. I try to explain that it's just a model, a way of describing something, and one that has held up pretty well to observation (yin and yang, the way a diagram of the channels and vessels of Qi is amazingly similar to the nervous and circulatory system). OK, it's a philosophical model, rather than an engineering model, but a model all the same.
Except that it isn't. Qi is presented by those selling it as ancient fundamental truth, not some model of truth.
I stumbled across a site that showed people being hung, Russian soldiers decapitated with butchers knives, and cats set afire. How much worse could the internet possibly get?
Maybe the fact that we live in the boondocks of the Universe with no intelligent species within earshot is the only reason our miserable version of organized life has been allowed to survive so long.
But no, all these socialist systems that have come before Obama were just not tried *properly* now were they? They didn't have a leader as *smart* as Obama to implement them, *this* time they will get it right I'm sure.
It is better to not post and be thought a troll than to post and prove it.
And "excuse me sir would you like to buy a kilo of isopropyl bromide" which is a biography of a guy who probably contributed to more EPA superfund sites than any other dude on the planet.
Imagine if tax time came and nobody paid the taxes.
Imagine if everybody cancelled their insurance and drove anyway.
Imagine if everybody had drugs on them at all times.
You just gave the for-profit prison industry a huge erection.
When the revolution is authoritarian, I'm proud to be reactionary. I want to take us back to a time when the Constitution was respected, and the law applied to rich and poor alike. When warrantless anything was unconscionable. When torture was punished no matter who the torturer was. When the rule of law still meant something.
Did you read History from Little Golden Books? There was never a time when the country resembled your fantasy.
The fact is - it is an ABSURDITY created BY the Obama camp, to make appear as ridiculous those looking into the REAL dodginess in his his background.
Newt Gingrich - member of the Obama camp? The levels of double dealing and obfuscation continue to fold back upon themselves like a pastry chef preparing baklava.
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Variables like ripeness have a greater influence on nutrient content, so a lush peach grown with the use of pesticides could easily contain more vitamins than an unripe organic one.
I don't look to organic produce for more vitamins. I get all the vitamins I need and more from just eating a reasonable and balanced diet. I buy organic when I do because I hope they contain somewhat fewer pesticide/herbicide/fungicide residues, of which I need to get less.
Its clear the climate is changing. Its also clear there is lots we don't know about how the system works, and its not entirely clear where things are headed and its even less clear that its man made.
I am not saying it is not man made. It very well might be! I don't want to put money down that its not.
As the comic says, what if it's a big hoax and we create a better world for nothing?
...who can say how productive plants are ultimately going to be on the moon, in gravity that is only one sixth that of earth?
Or unproductive. Plants are complex biological systems which evolved over millions of years in one g. The moon is not magic.
A small computer with some radio hardware is all they are.
You are proving my point. Go back 50 years and hand anyone this tiny box and tell them it's only a small computer. No big deal.
This analysis smacks of looking back at tech history through a biased lens. Those innovations cited did not appear fully formed but evolved from simpler forms. I think it is quite silly and unimaginative to call a computer you can put in your pocket - and just incidentally make phone calls with - which by itself is more powerful than all the computers in the world just a few decades ago not an innovation.
Not to mention that Russia has always been on the forefront of aerospace technology. Their lists of firsts is unrivaled. It's very possible that they might succeed where the Americans have failed.
You are so right. And their aircraft come with bonus mystery rivet holes lacking in American versions.
The only way Romney can win this is if the GOP makes an even more epic voter suppression effort than they did in Ohio in 2004, coupled with crooked balloting (and counting) like they did in Florida in 2000, and who knows what else.
The one thing you can steal in America and be sure to get away with it is the Presidency.
http://targetlaw.com/consequences-of-filing-a-false-dmca-takedown-request
Bitch is going to get owned by the original elephant call:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MwHWbsvgQUE
FACT manager: Son, how did you do on your exams?
Son of FACT manager: Great, pops! I got six A+s and one A-.
FACT manager: Not perfect. (Pulls out gun, shoots son dead.)
I think the key word there is "selling" rather than "Qi". Anytime anyone is selling an idea (whether they want your money, your faith, or whatever) they're probably going to present it as Truth. If you've only encountered Qi through salesmen, then I'd say you've never really encountered Qi.
But just saying the word and bringing up the topic is selling it.
I get this all the time regarding what pop skeptics would call "woo", such as Qi Gong or the concept of Qi. I try to explain that it's just a model, a way of describing something, and one that has held up pretty well to observation (yin and yang, the way a diagram of the channels and vessels of Qi is amazingly similar to the nervous and circulatory system). OK, it's a philosophical model, rather than an engineering model, but a model all the same.
Except that it isn't. Qi is presented by those selling it as ancient fundamental truth, not some model of truth.
Formic post!
I stumbled across a site that showed people being hung, Russian soldiers decapitated with butchers knives, and cats set afire. How much worse could the internet possibly get?
The cat could be saying: "HALP! I NOT CANDUL!"
"...we've fallen into a habitual state of being depressed and pessimistic about the future...."
Don't you fellows remember the 1950s? The science fiction from that era was extremely pessimistic.
Maybe the fact that we live in the boondocks of the Universe with no intelligent species within earshot is the only reason our miserable version of organized life has been allowed to survive so long.
But no, all these socialist systems that have come before Obama were just not tried *properly* now were they? They didn't have a leader as *smart* as Obama to implement them, *this* time they will get it right I'm sure.
It is better to not post and be thought a troll than to post and prove it.
And "excuse me sir would you like to buy a kilo of isopropyl bromide" which is a biography of a guy who probably contributed to more EPA superfund sites than any other dude on the planet.
http://www.scribd.com/doc/92823392/Excuse-Me-Sir-Would-You-Like-to-Buy-a-Kilo-of-Isopropyl-Bromide
Maybe after they transplant the brain in a brainless body, we'll find out why he was hanged in his time.
Starring Christopher Lee and Vincent Price.
Imagine if tax time came and nobody paid the taxes.
Imagine if everybody cancelled their insurance and drove anyway.
Imagine if everybody had drugs on them at all times.
You just gave the for-profit prison industry a huge erection.
Check out the thread over at In The Pipeline
http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2012/08/14/reproducing_scientific_results_on_purpose.php
and
http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2012/08/15/more_on_reproducing_scientific_results_organic_chemistry_edition.php
When the revolution is authoritarian, I'm proud to be reactionary. I want to take us back to a time when the Constitution was respected, and the law applied to rich and poor alike. When warrantless anything was unconscionable. When torture was punished no matter who the torturer was. When the rule of law still meant something.
Did you read History from Little Golden Books? There was never a time when the country resembled your fantasy.
The fact is - it is an ABSURDITY created BY the Obama camp, to make appear as ridiculous those looking into the REAL dodginess in his his background.
Newt Gingrich - member of the Obama camp? The levels of double dealing and obfuscation continue to fold back upon themselves like a pastry chef preparing baklava.
I voted for Ryan as the biggest brown noser in the class, but only because Mitt was a year ahead of us.
So you think that Romney didn't pay ANY taxes for 10 years and the IRS just let it go?
There are many ways to make millions and not pay taxes. You just need good lawyers and accountants.