Maybe his brown-bear-badge was tarnished and he needed that Omega 3 emollience on the sweet spot?
PP, you NASTY!

@Shepppard I agree whole heartedly.

Idk what she's talking about "processed peanut butter will make your sandwich oily and gross"
ANY time I've tried the 'All Natural!' crap I'm always having to deal with that sick layer of oil on top every time I want to get some peanut butter love.

Furthermore, wtf is wrong with these people and the additions to the PBnJ to jazz it up? I can see cinnimon, honey (possibly), bananas, etc. But, fuck, can you even still call it a PBnJ when it's got sriracha and chives on it? (sick)

On another note,
Being a huge fan of peanut butter myself, I would like to whole heartedly reccommend the Omega-3 Jiff peanut butter that comes in the jar with the green lid. I bought it originally b/c I wanted to be healthy but it's hands down THE best peanut butter I've ever had and I've continued to buy it over the past year or two b/c I love the taste compared with other peanut butters I've tried.

EDIT: I've grilled my PBnJ's before, it's okay from time to time, but purists will call it sacrileg!

>> ^Ryjkyj:

If I had a cooking show, you would get kicked off for using "Smart Balance - Light!" while making a grilled cheese sandwich.
How unfortunate that we never get to see what light-healthy-popular-omega-3-encrusted-soy "cheese" she was going to pull out of the refrigerator.
This video should be called, "How to make a flavorless, bready block of extracted whey protein slathered in "buttery" palm fruit oil while pretending to be drunk." I believe that first you need to learn how to make a grilled cheese sandwich, then learn how to drink. That's the order I learned it in at least. Then maybe you'd know what one would taste like.


Oh, and the lack of CHEESE wouldn't be a problem if we're going to be the serious *gay cooking police?

(Tag added for her lovely lesbianism, not as a slur)

Wrong answer Shiny. You're supposed to say that God IS nothing... and EVERYTHING. (big booming voice) THE ALPHA AND THE OMEGA!!!

Sorry, I had to make that joke.

And I'm sorry I misunderstood. But you did say literally that, "the universe was created from nothing". But we're still left with the idea that either the universe just popped into existence, has always existed or was created by something that has always existed. Now, the first two of those options are suggestions, even where Dawkins is concerned. The third however, you're positing as fact. All three seem just as irrational as any other. In fact, when I think about it, the third sounds just a little more unlikely considering that the first two include only one element: the universe, which we can see. And the other involves two, the universe we can see and an immortal god that we can't.

And I'd just like to clarify: it IS that physics breaks down right before the theoretical singularity. We don't know that time and space didn't exist before then because we can't describe what was going on based on observation. For all we know, they did exist, but that's the point, we don't know. At this point it's all just a guess. And that includes, by the way, whether or not the universe began there. It certainly might have, but it just as certainly might not have. Or it might (oh no, here we go again) NOT be the only universe out there.

Oh, and I only mentioned Georges Lemaitre because of what you said earlier about satan having his hand in the affairs of the church. But he was a scientist too, so I understand if you use his theory to back up your own.

>> ^FlowersInHisHair:

And now imagine what it would have been like if they hadn't got the gdmf Fresh Prince of Bel-Air to play Robert Neville. I simply cannot be tricked into believing that Will Smith is a military virologist.


You're right, they should've used Charlton Heston again.

Magneto:
  - Master of Magnetism
  - International Terrorist
  - Genius
  - Omega-level Mutant
  - Holocaust Survivor
  - Whiny Bitch?

If this isn't *terrible, I don't know what is.

If I had a cooking show, you would get kicked off for using "Smart Balance - Light!" while making a grilled cheese sandwich.

How unfortunate that we never get to see what light-healthy-popular-omega-3-encrusted-soy "cheese" she was going to pull out of the refrigerator.

This video should be called, "How to make a flavorless, bready block of extracted whey protein slathered in "buttery" palm fruit oil while pretending to be drunk." I believe that first you need to learn how to make a grilled cheese sandwich, then learn how to drink. That's the order I learned it in at least. Then maybe you'd know what one would taste like.

Every once in a while I lurk at The Essentials Project. You should be a movie critic. Seriously. You know your stuff, you write well, and you don't seem hellbent on picking every single movie apart like so many other critics do, especially web critics. Think about it.

Or maybe you should trim and style beards.

Only when my heart stops, one thing I have over you, your vulnerable to power outages, after days of thought I know I am better off than you. I need not siftbot, hail graterbot.

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I am the Alpha and the Omega, stinky bag of putrefying meat.
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hey if one of you mods is around, let me know why siftbot cannot be downvoted ? thats just fuckin stupid.

>> ^BoneRemake:

"Euler's Disk" is a trademark for a product manufactured and distributed by the "Damert Company" (Toysmith Group), consisting of a metal disk, a base having an upwards-facing concave mirror, and holographic, patterned magnetic stickers. One or more magnetic stickers may be attached to the top surface of the disk. The disk, when spun on the mirror, exhibits a spinning/rolling motion. Euler’s Disk has an optimized aspect ratio and precision polished, rounded edges to maximize the spinning/rolling time. A coin spun on a table, or any disc spun on a relatively flat surface, exhibits essentially the same type of motion.
A spinning/rolling disk ultimately comes to rest; and it does so quite abruptly, the final stage of motion being accompanied by a whirring sound of rapidly increasing frequency. As the disk rolls, the point P of rolling contact describes a circle that oscillates with a constant angular velocity ω. If the motion is non-dissipative, ω is constant and the motion persists forever, contrary to observation (since ω is not constant in real life situations).
In the April 20, 2000 edition of Nature, Keith Moffatt shows that viscous dissipation in the thin layer of air between the disk and the table is sufficient to account for the observed abruptness of the settling process. He also showed that the motion concluded in a finite-time singularity.
Moffatt shows that, as time t approaches a particular time t0 (which is mathematically a constant of integration), the viscous dissipation approaches infinity. The singularity that this implies is not realized in practice because the vertical acceleration cannot exceed the acceleration due to gravity in magnitude. Moffatt goes on to show that the theory breaks down at a time τ before the final settling time t0, given by
\tau\simeq\left(2a/9g\right)^{3/5} \left(2\pi\mu a/M\right)^{1/5}
where a is the radius of the disk, g is the acceleration due to Earth's gravity, μ the dynamic viscosity of air, and M the mass of the disk. For the commercial toy (see link below), τ is about 10 − 2 seconds, at which \alpha\simeq 0.005 and the rolling angular velocity \Omega\simeq 500\rm Hz.
Using the above notation, the total spinning time is
t_0=\left(\frac{\alpha_0^3}{2\pi}\right)\frac{M}{\mu a}
where α0 is the initial inclination of the disk. Moffatt also showed that, if t0 − t > τ, the finite-time singularity in Ω is given by.....
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euler%27s_disk


Nerd.

"Euler's Disk" is a trademark for a product manufactured and distributed by the "Damert Company" (Toysmith Group), consisting of a metal disk, a base having an upwards-facing concave mirror, and holographic, patterned magnetic stickers. One or more magnetic stickers may be attached to the top surface of the disk. The disk, when spun on the mirror, exhibits a spinning/rolling motion. Euler’s Disk has an optimized aspect ratio and precision polished, rounded edges to maximize the spinning/rolling time. A coin spun on a table, or any disc spun on a relatively flat surface, exhibits essentially the same type of motion.

A spinning/rolling disk ultimately comes to rest; and it does so quite abruptly, the final stage of motion being accompanied by a whirring sound of rapidly increasing frequency. As the disk rolls, the point P of rolling contact describes a circle that oscillates with a constant angular velocity ω. If the motion is non-dissipative, ω is constant and the motion persists forever, contrary to observation (since ω is not constant in real life situations).

In the April 20, 2000 edition of Nature, Keith Moffatt shows that viscous dissipation in the thin layer of air between the disk and the table is sufficient to account for the observed abruptness of the settling process. He also showed that the motion concluded in a finite-time singularity.

Moffatt shows that, as time t approaches a particular time t0 (which is mathematically a constant of integration), the viscous dissipation approaches infinity. The singularity that this implies is not realized in practice because the vertical acceleration cannot exceed the acceleration due to gravity in magnitude. Moffatt goes on to show that the theory breaks down at a time τ before the final settling time t0, given by

\tau\simeq\left(2a/9g\right)^{3/5} \left(2\pi\mu a/M\right)^{1/5}

where a is the radius of the disk, g is the acceleration due to Earth's gravity, μ the dynamic viscosity of air, and M the mass of the disk. For the commercial toy (see link below), τ is about 10 − 2 seconds, at which \alpha\simeq 0.005 and the rolling angular velocity \Omega\simeq 500\rm Hz.

Using the above notation, the total spinning time is

t_0=\left(\frac{\alpha_0^3}{2\pi}\right)\frac{M}{\mu a}

where α0 is the initial inclination of the disk. Moffatt also showed that, if t0 − t > τ, the finite-time singularity in Ω is given by.....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euler%27s_disk

>> ^teebeenz:

"For people who are worried about their health or their children’s health — and who isn’t, these days — the data suggest that the best choice is to reduce intake of all sweeteners containing fructose. That includes not only the evil HFCS, but also natural cane sugar, molasses (which is just impure cane sugar), brown sugar (ditto) and honey. Even “unsweetened” (no added sugar) fruit juices need to be considered when limiting your family’s fructose intake."
http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/?p=6501


But is that true? Sucrose is 50% fructose and 50% glucose when broken down, but is sucrose actually processed in that order: split the disaccharide and then digest individual sugars? (Your link says that this is the case. And it says unsplit disaccharides stay in the gut. What percentage does this happen to?) Is there proof that fructose alone is bad and that it's not the imbalance of excess fructose vs. sucrose that's bad, like omega-6 vs. omega-3 fatty acids? Is fructose from Coke, mixed with carbonic acid, processed the same way, at the same speed, as fructose from apple juice?

Cancer is completely misunderstood by most people these days. The general view seems to be that no one has cancer until something "gives" it to them, like a virus giving you a cold. Then, once you have it, there are a few medical interventions that may or may not help.

In reality, everyone has cancer (or at the very least micro-tumors). Whether those tumors are held in check by the immune system or allowed to grow and invade other tissue is largely an effect of the condition of the person's body, which in most cases is very much controlled by that person.

Inflammation drives many of the processes that feed cancer, including the creation of the additional blood vessels around it. Things that significantly increase inflammation include tobacco, alcohol, excess fat (especially abdominal fat), lack of exercise, foods high in omega-6, and any foods that increase insulin levels abruptly (ie- sugar and refined carbs).

So yes, Hitchens' lifestyle is a large part of the problem. Thin people who exercise and eat plenty of vegetables do get cancer, but at much lower rates than those who eat a typical western diet and don't exercise regularly.

If you want to reduce your personal risk of cancer then don't smoke, don't drink, get lots of omega-3, eat lots of veggies (variety is the most important thing), and get plenty of exercise (length of exercise is more important than the intensity).

Eventually we'll have the medical knowledge to prevent and cure virtually all cancer, but currently you are the only one who can control whether you live long enough to see those advances. You can't currently drop your chances of cancer to 0%, but you can get very close.

>> ^Ryjkyj:

>> ^chilaxe:
Hitchens, as intellectual as he is, basically killed himself. Smoking, drinking, overweight, no exercise, probably terrible diet.
If there were a "next time," he should clean up his act within a rational time frame, and advocate increased science funding above the miniscule current amounts. We'd feel really dumb if we died of a curable disease.
However, there isn't a next time...

Right, because skinny people who exercise, and don't smoke or drink never get cancer.
Give me a fucking break.

No, but I will do soon. I'll be off to the shops sometime today to buy a Marantz PM6003 along with a pair of KEF IQ5SE's. That's got a headphone socket

Currently just running it off an X-Fi sound card.

My portables are only sennheiser px200 yours are pretty pricey for in-ears, I'll bet you can get some good sound from them :>

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Ah right. Do you own any headphone amps? My home headphone rig is audio-dg Compass DAC -> Sennheiser HD600 and portable one is Mini^3 -> Etymotic ER-4P.
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No idea, I stole it from someone.

Wait, you own a pair of Stax SR-007 Omega IIs?

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The character in your avatar, where's it from? She's wearing my headphones ._____.

Save your jealousy, I don't own those :<
http://rosea.primula.name/wp-content/gallery/headphone-fetish/STAX%20-%20SR007%28OMEGA%20II%29.jpg

that is indeed what they seem to be though, I thought they looked kinda like my sennies

http://www.hudobnysvet.sk/shop/images/hd595.jpg