the majority of Christians tend to agree on what is in and what is out as far as classifying someone as Christian.
I had an interesting chat with a Mennonite once. He was from a group newly arrived here in Belize from the US. I quickly ascertained that he had very sketchy knowledge of the differences between various Christian denominations. Then I asked if his group had any links with the long-standing Mennonite communities here and he said 'No, they are not even Christians.' My Methodist parents did not view Mormons as proper Christians, but at least there are some actual doctrinal differences there.
The process you describe is the traditional approach and it is a problem.
Having done considerable googling on the subject I have come up with a potential alternative: Remove most of the water with a hydrocyclone. Crack the cell walls with ultrasonics and/or microwaves. Transesterify the still-wet goop with super-critical methanol. Recover the excess methanol with a flash drum. Separate the biodiesel, glycerol, remaining water and algae residue with another hydrocyclone and settling tanks and filters. None of this is very energy intensive and is conducive to a continuous process.
All the elements are known to work (though not necessarily with algae) but as far as I know no-one has put them all together. I'd like to see someone try it, so it is my gift to you Slashdotters!
Another important element seems to be coming along nicely: efficient conversion of glycerol to methanol. Turn the main by-product into a feedstock.
The potential of algae is much greater than the hurdles, I think.
Why should I have any stake of ownership in the moon? I've never been there, I've never done anything to warrant such ownership.
Some of my tax dollars (hypothetically) went towards opening the road. Not enough to claim ownership perhaps, but maybe enough to have some say in who can. Suppose some aliens turned up tomorrow and claimed the Moon for themselves. Fair enough?
Religion is almost never the driving factor. In the absence of religion, such people would have found other means and justifications to perpetrate their evil. There are many such examples in history.
Yes, but those evildoers would mostly be beneath the notice of history if it wasn't for their ability to move the masses with the lever of religion. There are other levers, but religion is the longest and comes most easily to hand.
You've been foxed by the newspeak. American foreign 'aid' is not handing out charity to feckless brown people. It is a clever way to funnel tax dollars to US corporations and at the same time bind other nations as indentured vassals to the Empire.
Tony Blair started the rot when his Labour government introduced the "internal market"
Maybe you're too young to remember, but Blair only exacerbated the "internal market" (he promised to abolish it before he was elected). It was actually introduced by Thatcher in 1990.
There are only five references believed by some to be about Jesus in ancient non-Christian texts. None of them are from within several decades of Jesus' putative lifetime. All of them are slight and ambiguous. Most of them have had their authenticity questioned by scholars. No historical record of Jesus from his lifetime exists, even in Christian writing. Wikipedia does not contradict this fact.
A generation ago, not a single person was punished for the My Lai Massacre
Nearly true. Wikipedia says:
Eventually, Calley was charged with several counts of premeditated murder in September 1969, and 25 other officers and enlisted men were later charged with related crimes. ... Calley was convicted on March 29, 1971, of premeditated murder not less than twenty people. He was initially sentenced to life in prison. Two days later, however, President Richard Nixon made the controversial decision to have Calley released, pending appeal of his sentence. In August 1971, Calley's sentence was reduced by the Convening Authority from life to twenty years. Further, Cally's conviction was upheld by the Army Court of Military Review in 1973 and by the U.S. Court of Military Appeals in 1974.[54] Despite that, Cally would eventually serve three and one-half years under house arrest at Fort Benning including three months in a disciplinary barracks in Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. In September 1974, he was paroled by the Secretary of the Army Howard Callaway.
Everyone else involved was either acquitted or never prosecuted.
What are the proposals, what do they cost, what are the risks, the benefits, etc, etc? Also where are the green groups pushing for them, advocating for it?
Here's one: Carbon tax and dividend. I don't know how you missed it, it was all over NPR for several minutes a couple of years ago.
The fire was at McAfee's compound near Orange Walk on the mainland, not his house on Ambergris Caye (contrary to Fox's lazy assumption).
This time of year it's very dry, especially up north. Bush fires are not uncommon. The caretaker claimed it was a bush fire that took out the buildings. It's plausible, though it doesn't say much for his caretaking skills.
In the Air Far from critical but gives some insight into how IV does what it does. Basically, Myhrvold gathers some of his rich and smart buddies in a room where they brainstorm furiously. Then the notes are passed onto his team of PhDs and lawyers to work the ideas up into patents. Occasionally they might build a prototype of something but it's mostly just very lucrative breeze shooting.
There was more than one church in those days. The church of Rome was Paul's. He appointed Linus its first bishop. It's doubtful Peter was ever in Rome. His church was probably in Jerusalem or Antioch, if it (or he) ever existed.
Ever since WW2 (even before, if you are prepared to acknowledge the existence of Wilhelm Reich) psychologists have taken an interest in politics. I've found these sources to be particularly enlightening: Eysenck ('this country' refers to the UK) Altemeyer (PDF) Most Americans, in my view, have been deliberately confused by their authoritarians calling themselves 'social conservatives' and talking as if 'liberal' was the opposite of 'conservative', whereas it is really the opposite of 'authoritarian' and orthogonal to 'conservative' (whose opposite is 'radical').
Good find, that page doesn't come up in Duck Duck Go. The paper seems to be from 2000. It says they've been working on it since the early eighties. It's possible that until today I hadn't thought about it since before Google was invented:-) But at that rate I'll have a flying car before I get my mouthwash.
Ah well, by some definitions I am a Northern Englishman:-) My Dad is from the South though, and he too has fond memories of dripping butties. Considering the post-war diet it probably was quite a treat.
Many years ago (maybe 15) I read in New Scientist about a group in Sweden that had genetically engineered some mouth bacteria to hunt down and exterminate the bad bugs that cause tooth decay. One rinse of their mouthwash and you could kiss goodbye to the dentist forever. I've never heard any more about it though, and I don't have access to the New Scientist archives, sadly.
get-iplayer is a perl script that downloads BBC TV shows (for those in, or with a proxy in, the UK). It gets the show listings in CSV form. Load that into sqlite and present it in a nice GUI with season tickets that set up cron jobs, etc. I thought about doing it using a tab-box with tabs on all four sides but QT doesn't allow you to set the label angles so I gave up. Maybe you could add that to QT and everyone would benefit.
Everyone's laughing at the lauded gaming potential here, probably correctly. But these little machines do have a couple of real benefits. 1) They are little. You can screw them to the back of your monitor or TV. 2) They have an external, sealed laptop-style power supply. If you live in the tropics or near the sea the moist air constantly sucked through a standard ATX PSU can kill it quite quickly. And if you don't want to play the latest offerings from Steam they are plenty powerful enough.
because socialism (as he saw it) was something he feared
Orwell was a socialist:
"Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic socialism, as I understand it." -- George Orwell
I noted with interest a recent advert in one of the newspapers here in Belize. It was offering Belizeans jobs in New Jersey driving ice-cream trucks for $8.50 an hour. On a six-month H-2B visa. I realize $8.50 is not a whole lot but can they really find no Americans to do it? Incidentally, a laborer in Belize makes about a quarter of that and a hot meal costs about $2.00.
To summarise:
After the GSU raid on McAfee's Orange Walk compound he decided to go on the offensive.
He gave away 75 cheap laptops complete with keyloggers and backdoors to key people in the GOB. He backed these up with human spies.
Things he claims or implies to have discovered:
Prime Minister Dean Barrow ordered the murder of Arthur Young, an uppity Belize City gang leader who died in police custody last year. channel 5
Minister John Saldivar heads an operation smuggling Lebanese Hezbollah operatives into the US. 10 per month. (One was caught in Mexico last year: channel 7)
Hezbollah have a base in Nicaragua where they are mass producing ricin.
Hezbollah are using the Zetas to smuggle the ricin into the US.
Slashdot Mirror
the majority of Christians tend to agree on what is in and what is out as far as classifying someone as Christian.
I had an interesting chat with a Mennonite once. He was from a group newly arrived here in Belize from the US. I quickly ascertained that he had very sketchy knowledge of the differences between various Christian denominations. Then I asked if his group had any links with the long-standing Mennonite communities here and he said 'No, they are not even Christians.'
My Methodist parents did not view Mormons as proper Christians, but at least there are some actual doctrinal differences there.
The process you describe is the traditional approach and it is a problem.
Having done considerable googling on the subject I have come up with a potential alternative:
Remove most of the water with a hydrocyclone.
Crack the cell walls with ultrasonics and/or microwaves.
Transesterify the still-wet goop with super-critical methanol.
Recover the excess methanol with a flash drum.
Separate the biodiesel, glycerol, remaining water and algae residue with another hydrocyclone and settling tanks and filters.
None of this is very energy intensive and is conducive to a continuous process.
All the elements are known to work (though not necessarily with algae) but as far as I know no-one has put them all together. I'd like to see someone try it, so it is my gift to you Slashdotters!
Another important element seems to be coming along nicely: efficient conversion of glycerol to methanol. Turn the main by-product into a feedstock.
The potential of algae is much greater than the hurdles, I think.
complaints from advocates of ethanol, including some environmentalists
There are environmentalists advocating ethanol fuel from corn?
If they are referring to the Renewable Fuels Association they've made a mistake.
Why should I have any stake of ownership in the moon? I've never been there, I've never done anything to warrant such ownership.
Some of my tax dollars (hypothetically) went towards opening the road. Not enough to claim ownership perhaps, but maybe enough to have some say in who can.
Suppose some aliens turned up tomorrow and claimed the Moon for themselves. Fair enough?
Religion is almost never the driving factor. In the absence of religion, such people would have found other means and justifications to perpetrate their evil. There are many such examples in history.
Yes, but those evildoers would mostly be beneath the notice of history if it wasn't for their ability to move the masses with the lever of religion.
There are other levers, but religion is the longest and comes most easily to hand.
spending ANY money on foreign aid
You've been foxed by the newspeak. American foreign 'aid' is not handing out charity to feckless brown people. It is a clever way to funnel tax dollars to US corporations and at the same time bind other nations as indentured vassals to the Empire.
Tony Blair started the rot when his Labour government introduced the "internal market"
Maybe you're too young to remember, but Blair only exacerbated the "internal market" (he promised to abolish it before he was elected). It was actually introduced by Thatcher in 1990.
no a single Jesus entry has ever been found.
Simply not true
There are only five references believed by some to be about Jesus in ancient non-Christian texts. None of them are from within several decades of Jesus' putative lifetime. All of them are slight and ambiguous. Most of them have had their authenticity questioned by scholars.
No historical record of Jesus from his lifetime exists, even in Christian writing. Wikipedia does not contradict this fact.
Nearly true. Wikipedia says:
Eventually, Calley was charged with several counts of premeditated murder in September 1969, and 25 other officers and enlisted men were later charged with related crimes.
...
Calley was convicted on March 29, 1971, of premeditated murder not less than twenty people. He was initially sentenced to life in prison. Two days later, however, President Richard Nixon made the controversial decision to have Calley released, pending appeal of his sentence. In August 1971, Calley's sentence was reduced by the Convening Authority from life to twenty years. Further, Cally's conviction was upheld by the Army Court of Military Review in 1973 and by the U.S. Court of Military Appeals in 1974.[54] Despite that, Cally would eventually serve three and one-half years under house arrest at Fort Benning including three months in a disciplinary barracks in Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. In September 1974, he was paroled by the Secretary of the Army Howard Callaway.
Everyone else involved was either acquitted or never prosecuted.
Here's one: Carbon tax and dividend.
I don't know how you missed it, it was all over NPR for several minutes a couple of years ago.
The fire was at McAfee's compound near Orange Walk on the mainland, not his house on Ambergris Caye (contrary to Fox's lazy assumption).
This time of year it's very dry, especially up north. Bush fires are not uncommon. The caretaker claimed it was a bush fire that took out the buildings. It's plausible, though it doesn't say much for his caretaking skills.
In the Air
Far from critical but gives some insight into how IV does what it does.
Basically, Myhrvold gathers some of his rich and smart buddies in a room where they brainstorm furiously. Then the notes are passed onto his team of PhDs and lawyers to work the ideas up into patents. Occasionally they might build a prototype of something but it's mostly just very lucrative breeze shooting.
It's difficult to deny that Peter was the first Bishop of Rome
A contrary web page.
There was more than one church in those days. The church of Rome was Paul's. He appointed Linus its first bishop.
It's doubtful Peter was ever in Rome. His church was probably in Jerusalem or Antioch, if it (or he) ever existed.
Ever since WW2 (even before, if you are prepared to acknowledge the existence of Wilhelm Reich) psychologists have taken an interest in politics. I've found these sources to be particularly enlightening:
Eysenck ('this country' refers to the UK)
Altemeyer (PDF)
Most Americans, in my view, have been deliberately confused by their authoritarians calling themselves 'social conservatives' and talking as if 'liberal' was the opposite of 'conservative', whereas it is really the opposite of 'authoritarian' and orthogonal to 'conservative' (whose opposite is 'radical').
This is the company: Oragenics
The engineered treatment is 'currently in clinical trials' but they have a probiotic product which looks interesting.
Good find, that page doesn't come up in Duck Duck Go. :-)
The paper seems to be from 2000. It says they've been working on it since the early eighties. It's possible that until today I hadn't thought about it since before Google was invented
But at that rate I'll have a flying car before I get my mouthwash.
Ah well, by some definitions I am a Northern Englishman :-) My Dad is from the South though, and he too has fond memories of dripping butties. Considering the post-war diet it probably was quite a treat.
Many years ago (maybe 15) I read in New Scientist about a group in Sweden that had genetically engineered some mouth bacteria to hunt down and exterminate the bad bugs that cause tooth decay. One rinse of their mouthwash and you could kiss goodbye to the dentist forever.
I've never heard any more about it though, and I don't have access to the New Scientist archives, sadly.
*lard = solidified fat from the bottom of the roasting pan
That's dripping. It still has a lot of meat flavour in it. Lard is the purified fat, never heard of anyone enjoying a sandwich of that.
get-iplayer is a perl script that downloads BBC TV shows (for those in, or with a proxy in, the UK). It gets the show listings in CSV form. Load that into sqlite and present it in a nice GUI with season tickets that set up cron jobs, etc.
I thought about doing it using a tab-box with tabs on all four sides but QT doesn't allow you to set the label angles so I gave up. Maybe you could add that to QT and everyone would benefit.
Everyone's laughing at the lauded gaming potential here, probably correctly. But these little machines do have a couple of real benefits.
1) They are little. You can screw them to the back of your monitor or TV.
2) They have an external, sealed laptop-style power supply. If you live in the tropics or near the sea the moist air constantly sucked through a standard ATX PSU can kill it quite quickly.
And if you don't want to play the latest offerings from Steam they are plenty powerful enough.
Orwell was a socialist:
"Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic socialism, as I understand it." -- George Orwell
I noted with interest a recent advert in one of the newspapers here in Belize. It was offering Belizeans jobs in New Jersey driving ice-cream trucks for $8.50 an hour. On a six-month H-2B visa.
I realize $8.50 is not a whole lot but can they really find no Americans to do it? Incidentally, a laborer in Belize makes about a quarter of that and a hot meal costs about $2.00.
Liberia, Burma and the USA are not the only tinpot backwaters to eschew metric. Belize is also a stranger to the power of ten.
After the GSU raid on McAfee's Orange Walk compound he decided to go on the offensive.
He gave away 75 cheap laptops complete with keyloggers and backdoors to key people in the GOB. He backed these up with human spies.
Things he claims or implies to have discovered: