>> ^mintbbb:

>> ^ant:
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Is it hard to clean up that mess?

Should not be. It is hydrogen peroxide, (which breaks down into oxygen and water), colored liquid soap (or soap and food coloring) and a little bit of catalyst (like potassium iodide). Basically you just have a lot of soapy foam with a bit of chemicals in it. As long as you don't try to slurt it up. mebbe wear gloves and hope the food coloring doesn't leave stains


Thanks.

>> ^ant:

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Is it hard to clean up that mess?


Should not be. It is hydrogen peroxide, (which breaks down into oxygen and water), colored liquid soap (or soap and food coloring) and a little bit of catalyst (like potassium iodide). Basically you just have a lot of soapy foam with a bit of chemicals in it. As long as you don't try to slurt it up. mebbe wear gloves and hope the food coloring doesn't leave stains

It is supersaturated (by heating it until it melts), so it doesn't need a catalyst. The seed crystal is a crystal of sodium thiosulfate itself. The liquid would re-crystallize on its on while it cools down, but slowly, and the seed crystal just helps it do it faster.

We have Na2S2O3 at work, but what the hell did he use for the catalyst? I MUST KNOW.

>> ^truth-is-the-nemesis:

“Which came first, the chicken or the egg?” finally has an answer: The chicken.
The research comes from British scientists out of Sheffield and Warwick universities. It all boils down to one protein—ovocledidin-17 (OC-17)—that is only found inside a chicken's ovaries, and is essential for eggshell formation.
Although the protein has been studied as part of eggshell development before, researchers used a super computer to ‘zoom-in' while a shell was forming, and found that it actually serves as a catalyst.

Source: http://newsfeed.time.com/2010/07/14/the-chicken-and-the-egg
-ancient-mystery-solved/



Ah. but was that protein present before the chicken was considered a chicken? I'd wager that actually, you know, eggs existed prior to chickens.

I do very much hope this is a parody.

“Which came first, the chicken or the egg?” finally has an answer: The chicken.

The research comes from British scientists out of Sheffield and Warwick universities. It all boils down to one protein—ovocledidin-17 (OC-17)—that is only found inside a chicken's ovaries, and is essential for eggshell formation.

Although the protein has been studied as part of eggshell development before, researchers used a super computer to ‘zoom-in' while a shell was forming, and found that it actually serves as a catalyst.



Source: http://newsfeed.time.com/2010/07/14/the-chicken-and-the-egg-ancient-mystery-solved/

If you read the report, the debt situation was part of it. It should be addressed. But the major indisputable catalyst for the downgrade was the wholely irresponsible use of default as a political weapon. And having a powerful faction of the House actually want a default to happen. That is the sign of a banana republic.

I said above that ability to pay is a major factor in a credit rating. We had several teabag and republican house members and presidential candidates loudly yell that we shouldn't even be willing to pay our debt, even if we were able. Almost every proposal was rejected by the house faction, many of whom apparently pledged not to raise taxes or even raise the debt ceiling. WTF? Finally we have people who didn't want to raise the ceiling because the default would be a "loss" for Obama. I think every one of these reasons is irrational.

If I didn't think they were retarded, I would call their actions treasonous. They want to see the president fail so badly, they are willing to wreck my money (401k, buying power, etc) to do it. Well, mission accomplished, guys.

Obama is the president, but budgets and the (stupid but encoded) debt ceiling vote must come out of the House.

Bottom line: If the republicans really want to reduce the debt, they should pass an appropriate budget next time. Don't default (or even threaten to default) on our existing obligations!

>> ^quantumushroom:
Now I could be wrong, but as I understand it, FOUR trillion in cuts was required to keep the ratings degradation at bay--not to fix anything, just to keep it from happening right away.
Well, the Right failed.
TWO trillion in cuts later, the socialists, who are still the majority party, allowed this farce to proceed. So how is the Right "victorious" by failing to reach even a bare minimum in cuts? If anything, the Righties are idiots for allowing themselves to be lumped in with the Hawaiian Dunce & Friends, who spent 3 trillion in 3 years to no effect.
No, I really don't want to believe Odumbo is this sinister or ignorant, but what choice do I have? If he's dumb he should just say so and let smarter people decide what to do.
The markets will sh1t the bed on his watch tomorrow. At least he will have sealed his fate for 2012. Too bad the rest of us get to sink with him.
>> ^lampishthing:
Let me get this straight... Events of the past week:
Republicans get their way with the debt ceiling negotiations
Immediately following this S&P downgrades the US's credit rating
You claim it's the "liberals'" fault?
Action-reaction, man. The economists at S&P see the result of the debt ceiling talks as a bad plan and thus they drop the credit rating. If the democrats' policies had been followed this wouldn't have happened.>> ^bobknight33:
They all should have listen to the Tea Party.
The Liberals and RHINOs got what they wanted now we are in a bigger mess.
You cant spend your way out of debt. Fools

If an aethist kills a religious family because he fears that the religous person is spreading murderous dogma, then it is aethism's fault? I cannot buy the cata-logic you use... then that means that every murder is something's fault...

>> ^GenjiKilpatrick:
@<A rel="nofollow" class=profilelink title="member since November 15th, 2006" href="http://videosift.com/member/campionidelmondo"><STRONG style="COLOR: #2180e2">campionidelmondo
Again, being crazy doesn't mean you're violent. Crazed violence needs a catalyst.
      1.)   She wouldn't have thought to murder her kids [today at least] if she didn't think the world was ending.
      2.)   Her religion made her think the world was ending.
Therefore, her religion is to blame for her crazed violent episode.
Religion fucks people's minds up. Plain & simple.
If you wanna defend "Spirituality", that's a whole other topic.

@GenjiKilpatrick

Yes a catalyst. That can be many things. Seeing the images of the japanese Tsunami, of the violence in the Middle East. Being in a doomsday cult sure didn't help. But blaming religion for this is (as I already said) just like blaming violent videogames as the reason for school shootings. It's peddling simple answers to complex problems. Violent and crazy people do violent and crazy things in the name of _______.

I'll stop here because I'd just repeat what peggedbea already said best.

they are absolutely prime fodder for destructive ideologies.

but i've seen mentally ill atheists take after their bosses with machetes after watching too much anime. i've seen mentally atheists flip out while watching eternal sunshine of the spotless mind.

like at @GenjiKilpatrick said, it usually takes a catalyst for mental illness to turn into violence. but that catalyst doesn't HAVE to be religion. and in the absence of religion something else takes its place.

religions aren't something invented out of thin air. they have existed in every culture i can think of. most of them are really really similar. in the more ancient ones you can trace their dogma to serving an actual purpose benefiting human survival in the region (see cow worshipping hindis, or desert dwelling religions abstinence from pork). they obviously serve a purpose. and they change and evolve over time.

of the billions and billions of devout people throughout time how many of them have brutally slaughtered their children? i know you can list several. but thats out of BILLIONS. i'm not seeking to diminish the atrocities committed in the name of religion. i'm saying correlation does not = causation.

i'll wager my paycheck that there were warning signs leading up to this event. and i'll also wager my paycheck that the people who saw the warning signs were uneducated (about mental disorders) and i'll equipped and scared. declaring religion the cause of these kinds of horror stories doesn't lend itself to prevention very well. perhaps we need to take a better look at our mental health apparatus and not-nearly-adequate outreach, education and support system.

one thing i do think churches could do (and i know many churches that have) is adopt church counseling programs.. staffed by actual trained psychologists and counselors, not seminary graduates. to treat their members and give families an accessible, trusted place to turn to when they start seeing some destructive warning signs.

>> ^Deano:

>> ^campionidelmondo:
Crazy people often do more violent things than eat skittles. I don't see the connection between her crazy actions and religion. Linking this to religion is just like linking school shootings to violent video games. No, nothing that's being mass consumed drove this person from being the nice neighbour to slaughtering people. Stop looking for the fault in the things you don't like and accept the fact that some people are just crazy.

Of course there are connections. Just look at Islam. Christianity isn't as bad but people kill and maim others based on their reading of the Bible.
There's always the "just crazy" view. And I accept that to an extent. But I suspect people like that are prime fodder for destructive ideologies and supernatural thinking.
And she had access to a well established cult that served to radicalise her to a point where her family were no longer physically safe.

@campionidelmondo

Again, being crazy doesn't mean you're violent. Crazed violence needs a catalyst.

      1.)   She wouldn't have thought to murder her kids [today at least] if she didn't think the world was ending.
      2.)   Her religion made her think the world was ending.

Therefore, her religion is to blame for her crazed violent episode.

Religion fucks people's minds up. Plain & simple.

If you wanna defend "Spirituality", that's a whole other topic.

Oh wow, get past it...

This guy's inability to figure out how to deal with this, (ignore it-and move on) is going to be the catalyst for WTF. (He called the media to report it? REALLY?)

One person (in millions) feels that one two-second clip is unacceptable - better pull a recall and re-write the game. (*Sarcasm)

it is not dumb, it is beautiful!!

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>> ^bareboards2:

Oh no! Why did you kill it??? I didn't want you to kill it!!
I haven't even seen it! I have no opinion!!!!!

Wow. Are you super cool or what?

Upvote you for wanting to just have fun.

In reply to this comment by Stingray:
I thought about it for a while, and removed it because the video doesn't mean anything to me. It's just a dumb video I found and submitted it to notch up my star points and nothing more. The video also represents a catalyst for causing a ton of controversy on the sift, and I don't really want to be caught up in it.

Someone else can sift it if they'd like.
>> ^bareboards2:

Oh no! Why did you kill it??? I didn't want you to kill it!!
I haven't even seen it! I have no opinion!!!!!

I thought about it for a while, and removed it because the video doesn't mean anything to me. It's just a dumb video I found and submitted it to notch up my star points and nothing more. The video also represents a catalyst for causing a ton of controversy on the sift, and I don't really want to be caught up in it.

Someone else can sift it if they'd like.
>> ^bareboards2:

Oh no! Why did you kill it??? I didn't want you to kill it!!
I haven't even seen it! I have no opinion!!!!!