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| 2008/7/25-29 [Reference/History/WW2/Germany, Politics/Foreign/Europe] UID:50681 Activity:nil |
7/25 200,000 or 20,000?
http://www.worldpoliticsreview.com/blog/blog.aspx?id=2492
\_ Dittohead Desperaton Level: Red
\_ Troll level, poor.
\_ Dittohead Desperaton Level: Still Red
\_ I just want to know what the number is. This makes me desperate?
\_ He's in France now, should he call our French allies
"Cheese Eating Surrender Monkeys"? Hey, are you guys still
calling them "Freedom Fries"? Just curious.
\_ Numbers are irrelevant in the face of hope and change. |
| 2008/7/25-30 [Uncategorized] UID:50682 Activity:nil |
7/25 Q: BWhat do Russia berry farmers say?
A: JR JVYY OREEL LBH! (rot13) |
| 2008/7/25-29 [Uncategorized] UID:50683 Activity:nil |
7/25 RIP, Randy Pausch |
| 2008/7/25-28 [Reference/BayArea] UID:50684 Activity:nil |
7/24 health inspector scores of SF restaurants http://sfscores.com i ate at EL FARALITO two days ago and noticed the score was 68 ! TU LAN is somehow 92. \_ El Farolito got a 94 according to the SF DPH. Also note that this map does not reflect abatement of concerns. A buddy who's worked in SF/BA restaurants since the early 90s informs me that all SF retaurants have rodent issues; the health report is mostly about luck in that regard. \_ the rating sign for the 24th & mission location says "68" |
| 2008/7/25-29 [Recreation/Dating] UID:50685 Activity:kinda low |
7/25 there are so many hot MILF types in tank tops walking around
who must be schoolteachers on their spring break. i can't deal.
\_ Where are you at?
\_ Where are you at? Here in The City, all I see are skinny flat
chested women with winter jackets on.
\_ Why winter jackets? It's summer. Also, I think they're
little Asian boys (transvestites).
\_ It's July! Recently the highs have been in the 50's,
\_ It's July! Recently the highs have been in the high 50's,
though the sun just came out today, admittedly.
\_ MILF?
\_ Mother I'd Like to F***. This is a new genre of porn in recent
years. -- !OP
\_ Spring? It's July now.
\_ obviously he meant summer break. you should understand that
this type of thing happens when there is a massive diversion
of bloodflow from the brain.
\_ it's still pretty hot out there.
\_ He means summer break. No idea why he assumes these women
are teachers, though.
\_ It's almost noon, don't people have jobs? why else
would they be walking around?
\_ Hookers work at night.
\_ they were pretty hot. and they must have multiple
degrees and credentials now to teach in the state of
CA. hot hot hot hot.
\_ Post some pics pleeeeeease!
\_ Hot MILFs are generally trophy wives and don't work. Work
would be bad for their appearance. It would cut into time
at the spa.
\- er are those "mothers" or are those FBFs?
i'd think motherhood might affect appearance too.
\_ What's a FBF? BTW, I don't think motherhood seems to
affect appearance. You think Jessica Alba is suddenly
not hot now?
\- i was kidding about the motherhood comment.
FBF = forty but fuckable, although that term
sort of loses meaning when you are in an
epsilon neighborhood of 40. i note in passing
spitzers-ho and spitzers-hos-mom look the same
age: http://tinyurl.com/6llugm
\_ Good genes, I guess. |
| 2008/7/25-30 [Politics/Domestic, Politics/Domestic/Crime] UID:50686 Activity:nil |
7/25 doing business in russia kind of sucks:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/24/world/europe/24kremlin.html
\_ Yeah, I sold my BP stock because of this crap. |
| 2008/7/25-29 [Uncategorized] UID:50687 Activity:nil |
7/25 Always use https option for gmail:
http://lifehacker.com/399229/gmail-offers-always+secure-option |
| 2008/7/25-30 [Politics/Domestic/President/Reagan, Politics/Domestic/SocialSecurity] UID:50688 Activity:nil |
7/25 Are these the kind of Conservatives that liberals should be paying
attention to? I think I am going to buy the book. -liberal
http://preview.tinyurl.com/64v8oy
\_ I dunno, it looks pretty wishy washy to me. |
| 2008/7/25-30 [Science/GlobalWarming] UID:50689 Activity:nil |
7/25 Ethanol worse for climate than gasoline:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=18784732
\_ ethanol is/was/will be a giant ball of crap.
\_ No, corn and sugar cane production sucks. You can still produce
ethanol from better sources that don't effect the food market.
Ethanol from waste (cellulose, old donuts, etc.) is still quite
an amazing option. Your reading comprehension sucks. -scottyg
\_ Agreed. E.g. use the stem, not the kernel.
\_ Agreed. E.g. use the stem and the leaves, not the kernel.
\_ brilliant! I wonder why no one else has thought of it!
Oh, because it won't work. The concept of cellulosic
ethanol is based on the idea of genetically engineering
the plants so that their stems have less cellulose, so
it's possible to process them. Without a firm stem you
can't grow corn, so it's an either/or situation; you're
planting your fields either with corn or with limpgrass.
Maybe limpgrass will have better energy input->output
characteristics, but it's not like you'll be using a
waste product; you'll be using an agricultural product
grown specifically for the purpose of ethanol. -tom
\_ Actually you break down the cellulose into it's base
parts, lignin and sugars using enzymes so that the sugars
are available for fermentation to ethanol. Problem is that
these enzymes are still quite expensive to produce, as time
goes on we can and will overcome this. -scottyg
\_ tom, there's more than one approach. One approach is
the one you refer to, sort of, where one might plant
switch grass or some other non-crap plant that can grow
places crops don't grow well. Another approach is to
develop enzymes that break down cellulose quickly and
cheaply. It's not like cellulose is invincible, but
right now our techniques for processing it are slow or
expensive. But this is improving. -jrleek |
| 2008/7/25-30 [Recreation/Food/Alcohol, Recreation/Food] UID:50690 Activity:moderate |
7/25 Yay! CA has banned trans-fat! Now if only the legislature could make
all of my decisions. Oh, and pass a budget that spends less than it
takes in. Thanks progressives for the new prohibition, 100 years after
the last one.
\_ Schwarzenegger is a progressive? -tom
\_ The legislature is--the girly-man Gov. just wants to be liked.
\_ did they include a budget for enforcement? How did they think they
would implement this.
\_ I wouldn't think it would require much money for enforcement.
It's just another box for the health inspector to check.
\_ Is it just restaurants or also packaged food in stores?
\_ "a ban on trans fats in restaurants and retail baked goods"
Both of which are already check for lots of stuff, so,
while I think it's silly, I don't think it's going to
cost much to the gvt.
\_ Does that include twinkies or not?
\_ Right now you can't add rat poison to baked goods either. Not
even if you put "tasty tasty rat poison" in the list of
ingredients. How much do you think that costs to enforce?
There is not going to be a transfat division added to police
forces across the state. Instead it's one more thing that
it is illegal to add to food. If a company does and labels it
as transfat gee, that will be pretty obvious SO THEY WON'T.
If a company does and doesn't label it they will be breaking
labeling laws (which are pretty harsh) SO THEY WON'T. Small
bakers may get away with using transfats for a while but
1. that's not a big deal state healthwise and 2. over time
bakeries will stop, because it's not worth the trouble.
\_ Why don't they ban something that actually affects other
people like SMOKING and let people eat whatever the hell
they want to eat?
\_ Bill Gates is working on that. I wonder if humanity
suffers more from diseases caused by years of eating
trans fats, or from smoking? hard to say.
\_ I don't really care to protect humanity from itself. I
just don't want to choke on other people's smoke.
\_ You can continue to eat all the transfats you want. You
just won't get them in mass-produced food items. Your
choice to kill yourself with transfats has not been
impinged; the option to soak other people in them
without their consent has. Opt-in fat good.
\_ My choice to use whatever ingredients I want in my
food (as a manufacturer) has been impinged. There is no
evidence transfats are intrinsically bad for your
health. If you eat too many of them and exercise too
little they aren't good for you but neither are sugar,
beer, and coffee. You can overdose on water even.
This is selectively discriminating against an ingredient
for arbitrary reasons.
\_ Your "rights" as a manufacturer are already subject
to regulation (cf "rat poison" above). If your
argument is with the arbitrary nature of the ban,
that's different from "let[ting] people eat
whatever the hell they want to ear."
\_ Rat poison is hardly the same thing as transfats.
\_ "There is no evidence that transfats are
intrinsically bad for your health"??? You should
educate yourself on the topic, the AMA and NAS
disagree with you on this.
\_ What is the health risk of eating transfats? None
at all. Did we ban saturated fats? Should we
ban baking with butter, too? Eat too much of
them and exercise too little and you will get
sick. However, a healthy person can eat a
transfat-laden muffin with no ill effects.
Maybe we should ban steak. It's laden with
saturated fats *and* unlabeled as such! I
never knew!
\_ "from a nutritional standpoint, the consumption
of trans fatty acids results in considerable
potential harm but no apparent benefit."
-New England Journal of Medicine
"...any incremental increase in trans fat
intake increases the risk of heart disease."
-NAS Dietary Reference
Should I take the advice of these two peer
reviewed experts or anonymous motd hozer?
Hmmm...
\_ "from a nutritional standpoint, the
consumption of vodka results in
considerable potential harm but no
apparent benefit."
"...any incremental increase in cheesesteaks
intake increases the risk of heart
disease."
Clearly we need to ban cheesesteaks and
vodka.
\_ And yet we don't let people sell
rubbing alcohol as a cheap vodka
substitute.
\_ Weak.
\_ Actually, there are numerous studies
indicating that moderate alchohol
consumption is salubrious. And cheese
steaks in moderation are good for you,
too. I agree with your main point, that
people should be allowed to poison
themselves, but you are not arguing from
the facts here. Transfat is worse for
you than white sugar, even.
\_ Transfat is, arguably, no worse for
you than saturated fat. In fact,
many studies have credited transfats
for lowering risk of heart disease as
substitutes for saturated fats. Sure,
some studies say saturated fats are
worse, which is why I use the term
"arguably". Certainly saturated fats
are very unhealthy and there is no
cry to ban them. Transfats have
become the boogeymen du jour. BTW, I
seriously doubt vodka has any positive
benefits. Wine, sure. Vodka, I doubt.
Maybe as a blood thinner if that's a
positive thing for you. |
| 2008/7/25-30 [Politics/Domestic/California, Politics/Domestic/Election] UID:50691 Activity:moderate |
7/25 "This is the moment when we must build on the wealth that open markets
have created, and share its benefits more equitably."
Um, say what Obama?
\_ This is straightforward enough to me. What is confusing to you about
this statement? Was it the word "share" that threw you for a loop?
\_ I find it amusing that he's so clueless that he's talking to the
people of Berlin about how they threw off communism, and then
talks about reimposing it.
\_ you're a moron.
\_ You mean sharing is communism? Thanks for warning me, I had
been teaching my toddler to share, I will stop immediately.
\_ "This is the moment when we must build on the wealth that
open markets have created, and share its benefits more
equitably."
Communism
\_ Public schools, free clinics, world-wide efforts to
eradicate AIDS, the US military... and everything
else your taxes pay for. Communism? No. Government?
Yes.
\_ Forcing people to share is communism.
\_ Paying taxes that fund social services that improve
the basic quality of life is part of the social
compact. Do not confuse your a failure to meet your
silly Libertarian ideals with Communism; there's
plenty of room in-between.
\_ Taking money from one group and giving it to another
is communism. Plain and simple.
\_ you're a moron.
\_ Did you actually attend Berkeley? Communism requires
the elimination of private property and the ownership
of the means of production by "the people". And we
already do this in our system, except the money goes
from the poor/middle class to the wealthy and
corporations.
\_ Did you actually attend Berkeley? Communism
requires the elimination of private property and
the ownership of the means of production by "the
people". And we already do this in our system,
except the money goes from the poor/middle class
to the wealthy and corporations.
\_ the problem with you liberals is that you
think everyone who disagrees with you is
an idiot and that you're smarter than
everyone else. Think about that for a minute.
everyone else. Think about that for
a minute. -emarkp #1 fan
\_ no, we think *you* are an idiot. -tom
\_ We are smarter than you. QED.
\_ Straw men aren't particularly fun debate
partners.
\_ He wants to raise taxes.
\_ His first action as President will be to send the 82nd Airborne
into the Hospitals to nationalize them. Next he will seize
the banks. After that, your will have Obama Party officials
spying on you at your place of work. He is a Marxist.
into the Hospitals to nationalize them. Next he will nationalize
the banks. After that, your will have Obama Party officials watching
over you at your place of work. He is a Marxist.
\_ BLACK HELICOPTERS! |
| 2008/7/25-29 [Politics/Domestic/Crime] UID:50692 Activity:nil |
7/25 Geez, Spam King and Family Dead In Murder-Suicide
http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/07/25/1223246
\_ Too bad he took innocents with him. |
| 2008/7/25-30 [Transportation/Car/Hybrid] UID:50693 Activity:nil |
7/25 Does anyone have JBL sound system in their cars? I bought a 2004
Toyota Sienna without getting the JBL option, and a 2008 Toyota Prius
with the JBL option. Listening to the same CD in both cars when
parked, my Sienna sound better than my Prius, in that the sound is
more full rather than just loud, and closer to a home hi-fi. Is JBL
really worth the money? |
| 2008/7/25 [Uncategorized] UID:50694 Activity:nil |
7/25 emarkp do open carry to Family Evening? I bet your gun cleaning
and concealment expertise would be a huge hit!
What is Family Home Evening? Family home evening is a special time
set aside each week that brings family members together and
strengthens their love for each other, helps them draw closer to
Heavenly Father, and encourages them to live righteously. |
| 2008/7/25-29 [Uncategorized] UID:50695 Activity:nil |
7/25 Man, I thought I was gonna party and instead they stole my pants!
link:www.mercurynews.com/ci_9995613
\_ Man, 7 people we involved to steal $80 and some clothes.
\_ I'm thinking they also stole a lot of drugs, but the guys didn't
report that to the cops. |
| 2008/7/25-30 [Finance/Banking, Politics/Domestic/California] UID:50696 Activity:nil |
7/25 not exactly WaMu:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080726/bs_nm/banks_fdic_dc_4 |
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