Umm, you do realize that a "blind" taste test doesn't mean you have to poke out the eyes of the participants, right (because that would probably kill the market for scientists willing to do double-blind tests, after all)? Oh, ok, so you COULD blindfold them, but science should be fun, too!
Unless there is a significant appearance difference between the two items to be tasted that the taster might be able to use as an identification method, all that blind tasting requires is that the taster not be able to identify which is which.
Did I just hear a whooshing noise?
oh wow I thought 'double blind test' meant you had to poke *both* their eyes out. My bad.
I'd point out that qualities such as selfishness and greed are at the very root of life itself.
Yes, it's a pity that there is no such thing as civilisation, deferred gratification, altruism, forward planning, ethics, morality, social pressure or anything else that differentiates us from animals.
There is such a thing as 'beyond good and evil' which is where things like survival and the future of the species lies.
Here's the thing, the horribly mis-named "organic" farming originally meant a whole lot more than this USDA Organic garbage. It referred to using a "natural" cycle of poop into soil into food into poop rather than the psuedolinear system of oil-fertilizer+pesticides-plant-poop-waste.
So... organic farming isn't about not making food from metal, stone or other INORGANIC substances such as silica gel????
Debatable. While my own experience is hardly data, I've tried all sorts of organic and non-organic food and frankly I cannot tell the difference most of the time and I've never met anyone else who can either without seeing the label on the product. I defy anyone to take a blind taste test on eggs from your local mega-mart and tell me they can tell the difference between organic and non-organic
I can always tell the difference between organic and inorganic food. The inorganic food is always either gritty or metallic.
The most "organic" thing you can do is not have children. Because we have reached the population point where it is very hard to use non-intensive farming methods.
And then the human race falls victim to a very tragic 'tragedy of the commons' where only people who are assholes have children and the 'good' people don't. So the 'asshole' gene gets superior representation in future gene pools than the 'nice' gene.
Me, I think its important to have children; it sends explorers and colonists into the future. I would like the future to be colonised by my descendants than someone elses.
You might call that selfish but then I'd point out that qualities such as selfishness and greed are at the very root of life itself.
You are weird. Psychopaths? Businesses? The entities that are ran by INDIVIDUALS to make money by providing other individuals in the market with goods that the individual want or need at prices that are acceptable? Psychopaths?
Theres also a very interesting and informative documentary about it where they ask the question "What kind of person is a corporation?" and psychological analysis leads to the diagnosis of psychopathy.
âoeThe Mind Has No Firewallâ by Timothy L. Thomas. Parameters, Spring 1998, pp. 84-92.
The human body, much like a computer, contains myriad data processors. They include, but are not limited to, the chemical-electrical activity of the brain, heart, and peripheral nervous system, the signals sent from the cortex region of the brain to other parts of our body, the tiny hair cells in the inner ear that process...
I was half expecting this to turn into another 'MyCleanPC' spam post.
Business is what makes all the things that we want, that we need, without which we cannot survive. They are inherently good.
Any form of 'evil' associated with any business comes from abuse of government power, the gov't steals the power and a business fights the gov't back by buying that power.
Businesses (specifically corporations) are legal persons. But what *kind* of person are they?
What about regions in the process of going back to third world status? You have Louisiana that can't process it's drinking water kill one type of brain parasite. Now you have Cali with an infestation? WHO IS NEXT?
Lets hope its Washington DC. Where the politicians live.
True, but to split hairs I didn't say he was making trouble for the Romans, just that he was a troublemaker in one of their territories. However, as the armed authority at the time it fell to the Romans to act, and the Empire becoming the conduit through which Christianity spread nicely illustrates how killing a person isn't necessarily the way to kill an idea.
Christianity as we know it today isn't the religion of Jesus; its the religion of the slaves of Rome.
No, Shrek was Holyweird's idea of an ogre, not a troll. Troll was an entirely different monster, sometimes related to dragons in some obscure way. I believe ogres were closer to giants and cyclops.
Neanderthals.
You did NOT want an angry Neanderthal hitting you on the head. It would have hurt. A LOT.
I am a 'free market' guy, I am against government on all fronts out of principle, that gov't is an inherent form of evil that must be controlled and cannot be allowed to steal individual freedoms.
Men get raped more than what? Sheep? By who? Other men of course.
Which actually makes 'homophobia' a completely rational thing. I mean, if a man is going to be raped its almost certainly going to be by another man so men who are prepared to have sex with other men are, rationally, seen as potential rapists of other men.
I really fail to see why 'homophobia' is regarded as irrational or unreasonable.
Not saying that all homosexuals are rapists, but its very clear why such negative feelings exist.
Creationism got a bad rap from all the nutjobs harping on about it happening exactly as a bible said. A truly awesome god would set the initial parameters of the universe to shape it the way he wants, without having to touch anything else since... to suggest anything else is blasphemy. I'm an athiest but if it turned out that such a god existed, he would have my respect.
A truly TRUELY awesome god could have created a universe which had, from the moment of creation, a history extending into the infinite past.
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we don't have any politicians today who are anywhere near as eloquent. We are the generation of incompetent politicians.
Or alternatively it could be argued that eloquence doesn't win elections?
Just how many supercomputers are required for a stampede, Earl? I mean, is it like three or more? Is there a minimum speed?
Of course, some will riot if the food isn't prepared to their satisfaction;
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-lancashire-19549082
although, how many people does it take to constitute a 'food riot'?
We'll start with Soylents Brown and Red, made from soy bean and lentil, hence the name.
Later we'll have to start harvesting the ocean and make our new Soylent Green, made from seaweed. No kidding! Seaweed! Yep
Umm, you do realize that a "blind" taste test doesn't mean you have to poke out the eyes of the participants, right (because that would probably kill the market for scientists willing to do double-blind tests, after all)? Oh, ok, so you COULD blindfold them, but science should be fun, too!
Unless there is a significant appearance difference between the two items to be tasted that the taster might be able to use as an identification method, all that blind tasting requires is that the taster not be able to identify which is which.
Did I just hear a whooshing noise?
oh wow I thought 'double blind test' meant you had to poke *both* their eyes out. My bad.
I'd point out that qualities such as selfishness and greed are at the very root of life itself.
Yes, it's a pity that there is no such thing as civilisation, deferred gratification, altruism, forward planning, ethics, morality, social pressure or anything else that differentiates us from animals.
There is such a thing as 'beyond good and evil' which is where things like survival and the future of the species lies.
Here's the thing, the horribly mis-named "organic" farming originally meant a whole lot more than this USDA Organic garbage. It referred to using a "natural" cycle of poop into soil into food into poop rather than the psuedolinear system of oil-fertilizer+pesticides-plant-poop-waste.
So... organic farming isn't about not making food from metal, stone or other INORGANIC substances such as silica gel????
4) And those methods often produce tastier food.
Debatable. While my own experience is hardly data, I've tried all sorts of organic and non-organic food and frankly I cannot tell the difference most of the time and I've never met anyone else who can either without seeing the label on the product. I defy anyone to take a blind taste test on eggs from your local mega-mart and tell me they can tell the difference between organic and non-organic
I can always tell the difference between organic and inorganic food. The inorganic food is always either gritty or metallic.
Blind taste tests have shown that the 'tastier' food thing is psychological.
Citation needed.
Theres a saying "The first bite is with the eye" meaning presentation of food is as important as the actual flavor.
So blind taste tests are important to determine *actual* tastiness!
The most "organic" thing you can do is not have children. Because we have reached the population point where it is very hard to use non-intensive farming methods.
And then the human race falls victim to a very tragic 'tragedy of the commons' where only people who are assholes have children and the 'good' people don't. So the 'asshole' gene gets superior representation in future gene pools than the 'nice' gene.
Me, I think its important to have children; it sends explorers and colonists into the future. I would like the future to be colonised by my descendants than someone elses.
You might call that selfish but then I'd point out that qualities such as selfishness and greed are at the very root of life itself.
You are weird. Psychopaths? Businesses? The entities that are ran by INDIVIDUALS to make money by providing other individuals in the market with goods that the individual want or need at prices that are acceptable? Psychopaths?
As I said, you are weird.
Yeah I am. Noam Chomsky is also weird.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticisms_of_corporations
http://c4universe.com/blog/2011/12/06/the-psychopathic-tendencies-of-corporations/
Theres also a very interesting and informative documentary about it where they ask the question "What kind of person is a corporation?" and psychological analysis leads to the diagnosis of psychopathy.
âoeThe Mind Has No Firewallâ by Timothy L. Thomas. Parameters, Spring 1998, pp. 84-92.
The human body, much like a computer, contains myriad data processors. They include, but are not limited to, the chemical-electrical activity of the brain, heart, and peripheral nervous system, the signals sent from the cortex region of the brain to other parts of our body, the tiny hair cells in the inner ear that process...
I was half expecting this to turn into another 'MyCleanPC' spam post.
Businesses are inherently good.
Business is what makes all the things that we want, that we need, without which we cannot survive. They are inherently good.
Any form of 'evil' associated with any business comes from abuse of government power, the gov't steals the power and a business fights the gov't back by buying that power.
Businesses (specifically corporations) are legal persons. But what *kind* of person are they?
Psychopaths.
What about regions in the process of going back to third world status? You have Louisiana that can't process it's drinking water kill one type of brain parasite. Now you have Cali with an infestation? WHO IS NEXT?
Lets hope its Washington DC. Where the politicians live.
True, but to split hairs I didn't say he was making trouble for the Romans, just that he was a troublemaker in one of their territories. However, as the armed authority at the time it fell to the Romans to act, and the Empire becoming the conduit through which Christianity spread nicely illustrates how killing a person isn't necessarily the way to kill an idea.
Christianity as we know it today isn't the religion of Jesus; its the religion of the slaves of Rome.
No, Shrek was Holyweird's idea of an ogre, not a troll. Troll was an entirely different monster, sometimes related to dragons in some obscure way. I believe ogres were closer to giants and cyclops.
Neanderthals.
You did NOT want an angry Neanderthal hitting you on the head. It would have hurt. A LOT.
Don't forget about those precious bodily fluids! PoE, people, really!
Only drink pure grain alcohol and rain water.
Please provide a scientific definition of race before you process down that couse.
'Race' is 'family resemblance', the 'races' of 'man' are gigantic extended families. I guess not scientific enough though.
I am a 'free market' guy, I am against government on all fronts out of principle, that gov't is an inherent form of evil that must be controlled and cannot be allowed to steal individual freedoms.
And corporations are not?
Question:
(In theUSA) Did the candidate who spent more than the other candidate on their election campaign ever lose the election?
Sorry, you missed the reference.
King Missile, 'Gay not gay'
One of the funniest songs ever, maybe better than 'Jesus was way cool'.
Violence in the home is as wrong in Jo-berg and Riyadh and Moscow as it is in New York or Oslo.
My pregnant girlfriend sometimes physically assaults me. Is it wrong for me to defend myself?
No.
Which men?
Men who have sex with men are bisexual or homosexual, not straight.
All sports are gay, especially contact sports. Unless you are the only guy on both teams.
Watching porno with only women is straight, even if its gay porn.
Men get raped more than what? Sheep? By who? Other men of course.
Which actually makes 'homophobia' a completely rational thing. I mean, if a man is going to be raped its almost certainly going to be by another man so men who are prepared to have sex with other men are, rationally, seen as potential rapists of other men.
I really fail to see why 'homophobia' is regarded as irrational or unreasonable.
Not saying that all homosexuals are rapists, but its very clear why such negative feelings exist.
Creationism got a bad rap from all the nutjobs harping on about it happening exactly as a bible said. A truly awesome god would set the initial parameters of the universe to shape it the way he wants, without having to touch anything else since... to suggest anything else is blasphemy. I'm an athiest but if it turned out that such a god existed, he would have my respect.
A truly TRUELY awesome god could have created a universe which had, from the moment of creation, a history extending into the infinite past.