Super pessimistic indeed. But I'm not really one to point fingers, in my probably equally pessimistic opinion I have seen worse then that hanging on the walls of museums. >> ^DarkenRahl:

I'm so sick of reality talent shows that feature panels of people who burst into tears as the music swells and we're all supposed to feel right with the universe and then go buy Coca-Cola.
The technique is interesting for the 2 seconds he's throwing dust. The lead-up is less than exciting and the product is not worth hanging on a wall, in my (super pessimistic) opinion.

I'm so sick of reality talent shows that feature panels of people who burst into tears as the music swells and we're all supposed to feel right with the universe and then go buy Coca-Cola.

The technique is interesting for the 2 seconds he's throwing dust. The lead-up is less than exciting and the product is not worth hanging on a wall, in my (super pessimistic) opinion.

nope, we didn't even think to look at diet drinks, but in regular US coca cola, pepsi and dr. pepper there's about 35mg (or micrograms, maybe. been a while and i don't keep soda in the house)... dr. pepper may be a little higher, i think grape soda was a little lower.

they don't list the values on the cans in the netherlands, i was just wondering if thats because they just dont have to or because they don't put sodium in their drinks. >> ^dag:

I thought that sodium was only high in diet soda.
BTW, cane sugar is also used in soft drinks here in Australia - mainly because we have lots of cane farmers and few corn farmers - so it's cheap. It would probably be cheaper in the US today if there weren't massive government subsidies to corn farmers.
>> ^peggedbea:
hey, this is something my dude and i were wondering about while we were in the netherlands last year...
in the US most sodas are made with hfcs, but in europe they mostly use real sugar... so we were reading all the soda cans there and none of them listed the sodium content but here they always list the sodium content and it's pretty well known that sodas are high in sodium...
so do they not put the sodium in sodas in europe? or do they just not have to list the sodium content on the nutrition labels?
does the sodium content have something to do with the hfcs content? or are they just adding it to our sodas over here to make us thirstier so we'll drink more soda?

Coca Cola must love all this high impact advertising.

Quick! Vote some Democrats in, they'll fix things lmao. What's next, the United States of Coca Cola

*quality *fascinating. They should drop a Coca-Cola bottle out of the plane and watch them go ape-shit.

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Job market is fine. If you can find a job, it's easy to immigrate. If you can't it's a lot harder.
>> ^direpickle:

>> ^gwiz665:
Live in Denmark. Drink beer on the street. Enjoy life.

What're Denmark's immigration rules? How's the job market?

>> ^gwiz665:

Live in Denmark. Drink beer on the street. Enjoy life.


What're Denmark's immigration rules? How's the job market?

I wonder what bullshit denial story QM and the other neo-conservatively aligned will come up to refute this.

"Terrorism is bad! And.. and.. the United States ISN'T bad.

Therefore, nothing the state does is Terrorism!
Tea Party Justice! Palin 2012. Coal, guns and coca cola FOREVER!"

>> ^blankfist:

I think parents would take a great deal of stock in the education of their children. If you opened the market to education, I'm sure a lot of people would offer all kinds of educational services currently illegal. What we have now is a one-size-fits-all solution to education. What we need is a vast innovative market for education, and this is only producible if we get government out of the business of education.


You mean like Charter schools. Basically the kids can work on Levi's and Coca Cola assignments, while profits are maximized and education minimized. Yeah no, sorry but charter schools don't work better, just teaching kids that corporations are there for them is a recipe for disaster. They learn to question government authority maybe and instead don't question corporate authority?

You people are fucking idiots.

Who gives one shit what kind of a computer someone else uses? Do you also care that I'm wearing OsPop shoes? REI socks? a SanDisk SD card? Drinking a mexican coca-cola out of a hand blown glass? I love how I innocently buy a product, and now I'm some sort of delusional fan, who was tricked into buying expensive nonsense by clever advertising.

Did you ever think that maybe I would personally find it useful to me? Oh no, that would only be fucking logical, so there MUST be something more sinister here!!

And this straw man "fanboy" talk is as retarded as it is childish. It's like saying I'm a Gloucester fanboy because I like the way their cheese tastes more than other cheeses.


I have an iPad and I love it.

Wanna know why? Because of stuff like TouchOSC:
http://hexler.net/software/touchosc

And AC-7 Pro:
http://www.saitarasoftware.com/Site/Home.html

And iTap VNC client:
http://www.jokeandbiagio.com/ipad-for-film-and-tv-production-final-cut-pro-screen-sharing

And iElectribe:
http://www.korg.com/iElectribe

And Air Display for FCP:
http://www.canonfilmmakers.com/2010/05/ipad-controls-final-cut-pro-audio.html


Yeah. Open-source, using Open Sound Control messaging, wifi to my desktop, use it in Logic Studio, Final Cut, Max, Reaktor and pretty much whatever else I want. But I guess I'm a "fanboy" because of my increased functionality in my production studio?

Really? Seriously? I should just not have better functionality to soothe the poor babies fee-fee's out there who want to claim that we're all just delusional?

And yes, there's lots of rabid Apple fans, and I don't get the whole sticker-on-the-car thing. But then again, I don't wear logos of any kind. But it seems to me that for every rabid Apple fan, there's 100 internet idiots who froth at the mouth with seething hatred every time Apple makes a new product.


blaaargh!

>> ^MrFisk:

dead


Fixed and thanks.

>> ^RedSky:

Wait a minute, you have 3 LITRE bottles of soda in the US? That's outrageous!


Yes, but it's usually only the generic stuff, like "Red Pop" and "Orange Fizz". My personal favorite is Faygo's "Moon Mist".

I can't say I've ever seen a 3 liter of Pepsi or Coca-Cola....

1. Claim: 40% of bottled water is taken from municipal tap water
-- What they don't mention is that there are additional steps in the process after they get the tap water, such as reverse osmosis, which is usually listed on the label (and I'm certain that lying about it on the label is illegal). Reverse osmosis is more effective than the almost-nothing that is done to remove agricultural runoff contaminants and such from tap water. Aquafina is basically the same water that coca-cola puts into their sodas, and the reason it's subjected to an additional reverse osmosis step is to standardize the taste. Some local tap water is nasty.

2. X% of bottled water tested above the strictest health guidelines (but not the legal limit) for one or more chemicals.
So does the tap water in the vast majority of zipcodes. Check your own zipcode in that website.

3. Bottled water is less regulated: This is true, unfortunately. There should be stricter standards for contaminants in bottled water. There should be stricter standards for contaminants in tap water as well. Tap water is purified by crude filtration that is effective at removing sewage and particles larger than a micron, but ineffective at removing most dissolved contaminants.

If you buy distilled water in large quantities it's like fifty cents a gallon, which is not bad. That also wastes an order of magnitude less packaging material per pint of water.

Is that a Coca-Cola cup somehow attached to the handlebars at 0:17? If so, why?