"fresh" is less fresh than frozen (Blog Post)

This is about a useless commercial gimmick that ought to die.

 For the purpose of preserving any solid food, freezing is superior to refrigeration.   The food that is frozen at the source, and transported while frozen, and sold while frozen, is actually more fresh than the so-called "fresh" food that is merely refrigerated throughout that production and distribution process.   Using an inferior preservation method does not make it any fresher.   The meat departments in groceries need to be replaced by frozen food aisles.

 In addition, frozen food is much more convenient because you can get a month's supply at once.

 Freezing doesn't destroy any nutrients.  It may cause some cells in the food to rupture from the expansion of the water, but that's a good thing because it may increase the bioavailability of the nutrients in the food.

Jack Ruby's death (Blog Post)

I'm no conspiracist, but Jack Ruby's death doesn't look natural.   How rare is it for someone to be in apparently perfect health and then 3 weeks later die generalized cancer?   His death was only 3 weeks after the cancer diagnosis, which was only a couple days after he became ill.   Cancer is almost always slower than that.

child abuse (Blog Post)

WESTON, Wis. — An 11-year-old girl died after her parents prayed for healing rather than seek medical help for a treatable form of diabetes, police said Tuesday.

The girl's parents, Dale and Leilani Neumann, attributed the death to "apparently they didn't have enough faith," the police chief said.

They believed the key to healing "was it was better to keep praying. Call more people to help pray," he said.

The mother believes the girl could still be resurrected, the police chief said.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,341574,00.html

definitely *eia

20 reasons Jesus was a communist, pacifist, tax-and-spend liberal hippie (Blog Post)

Just off the top of my head: 

1.  He threw the moneychangers out of the temple and called them theives.  They were just ordinary businessmen in a laissez-faire economy. 

2.  He said, "It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven."

3.  He encouraged people to give everything they could, and promised that god would support everyone in need.  Just like socialism.

[edit]Matthew 19:21
Jesus answered, "If you want to be perfect, go, sell your possessions and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow me."[/edit]

4.  "turn the other cheek"

5. "love thy enemy"

6.  "blessed are the peacemakers"

7. "blessed are the meek"

8. "woe unto ye who are rich"

 9. "forgive our debts, as we forgive our debtors" -- clearly he would favor bailing out poor people with subprime mortgages.

10. "Give us this day our daily bread" -- what a sense of entitlement to demand handouts!!! 

 11. "Every mountain shall be made low, every valley shall be exalted" --although this is actually from Isaiah's prophecy about the messiah, it looks like a metaphor for proletarian revolution

 12.  Some early christians (before 200BC) actually established agricultural communes.

 13. Jesus is soft on crime: anybody who believes in his scapegoat-like sacrifice will be forgiven.

 14. Jesus loves the poor, the prostitutes, the lepers,  etc.   And he gave them free healthcare!  That's not what Ronald Reagan or John McCain would do.

15. Jesus said nothing about or against homosexuality.

 16. "and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy father which is in secret" -- clearly Jesus opposes school prayer.

 17. Jesus performed the "miracle of the loaves and fish" -- divine government handouts for the poor.

 18. "ask and it shall be given to you.  Seek and ye shall find.  Knock and the door shall be opened" -- giving the poor a sense of entitlement

 19.  "Blessed are the merciful"

 20.  "And if any man will sue thee, and take away thy cloak, let him have thy coat also.  And whosoever shall compell thee to go a mile, go with him twain. Give to him that asketh thee, and from him that would borrow of thee turn not thou away"   --  He clearly favors caving in to terrorist demands, and giving the poor everything they want.   Pacifist hippie communist!!!

 

So why do people who call themselves "christian conservatives" have nearly opposite views to most of the things in this list? 

the best games come from small studios (Blog Post)

Valve, ID, 3DRealms, Bethesda, and Epic all have some things in common: less than 160 employees and private ownership.   EA and Firaxis suck.   So, why is it that almost all the good games come out of tiny, privately-owned studios?   The only exceptions are MicroProse and Blizzard, although Blizzard it did its best work (starcraft) back when it had less than 160 employees  (now it's a monster with 3000 employees and kind of lame).

the borg (Blog Post)

Elementary brain-computer interfaces already exist.

Wireless communications chips are dirt cheap.

Wait a few more years for the BCIs to get better, and combine the two.   People wearing wireless BCI-enabled computers could send thoughts to each other.

The biggest reason for universal healthcare (Blog Post)

In a system where healthcare providers earn a la carte fees for services, their only economic incentives to keep patients healthy are reputation maintenance and fear of malpractice lawsuits.  They have conflicting incentives to generate more service fees through superfluous treatments and iatrogenic disease.

In a system where doctors are salaried government employees, there is no such conflict of interest.   Their bonuses can be based on how healthy they keep their patients, not how many procedures they perform.

In practice service fees will cause some patients to delay diagnostic procedures until intolerable symptoms develop.

 Much like the software industry, where the startup cost is high and the marginal cost is very small, service fees that grossly exceed the marginal cost lead to inefficient use of resources (idleness of medical imaging equipment or narrow distribution of software)

Shocking realization (Blog Post)

54 MB of hard drive space costs a penny, and that's more than enough space to store around 188,000 pages of compressed plaintext, which is more than an average person would read in his lifetime.


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