Because you upvoted his comment..I'm trying to help you stay better informed

>> ^KnivesOut:

And what exactly are you calling me out for?
I'm specifically attempting to leave you alone, you psycho.>> ^shinyblurry:
Are you sure you know what you're talking about?
http://washingtonexaminer.com/contracept
ion-mandate-to-bring-obamacare-back-into-court/article/2500873
@KnivesOut too

Exactly. Like I said above, I think it's an amazing video, and I thought for a while about sifting it myself. But, the raw killing gave me pause.>> ^messenger:

Gotcha, so whether this is officially considered snuff or not, you'd still downvote? I'm 100% cool with that. Thanks for clearing it up.>> ^longde:
All due respect, messenger, downvoting is our way to say we don't want videos of people being killed on the sift. That said, whether or not this meets the sift guidelines on snuff videos is a good topic of discussion.
>> ^messenger:
Downvoting isn't the way to determine whether it's considered snuff to the Sift. discuss -ion is.
To me it's not snuff because if the hostage taker had lived, I would still have sifted it. In fact, I would rather he had lived. To me, this is all about the cahones on the policewoman.

Gotcha, so whether this is officially considered snuff or not, you'd still downvote? I'm 100% cool with that. Thanks for clearing it up.>> ^longde:

All due respect, messenger, downvoting is our way to say we don't want videos of people being killed on the sift. That said, whether or not this meets the sift guidelines on snuff videos is a good topic of discussion.
>> ^messenger:
Downvoting isn't the way to determine whether it's considered snuff to the Sift. discuss -ion is.
To me it's not snuff because if the hostage taker had lived, I would still have sifted it. In fact, I would rather he had lived. To me, this is all about the cahones on the policewoman.

All due respect, messenger, downvoting is our way to say we don't want videos of people being killed on the sift. That said, whether or not this meets the sift guidelines on snuff videos is a good topic of discussion.

>> ^messenger:

Downvoting isn't the way to determine whether it's considered snuff to the Sift. discuss -ion is.
To me it's not snuff because if the hostage taker had lived, I would still have sifted it. In fact, I would rather he had lived. To me, this is all about the cahones on the policewoman.

Downvoting isn't the way to determine whether it's considered snuff to the Sift. *discuss -ion is.

To me it's not snuff because if the hostage taker had lived, I would still have sifted it. In fact, I would rather he had lived. To me, this is all about the cahones on the policewoman.

As I said, the quote is my own, from another video on the subject.

As for the toxicity of ammonia, here is a link to the Health Effects portion of the CDC's Toxicological Profile for Ammonia.

Lots to read, but basically it shows that, except in huge doses of concentrated ammonia, ammonia is readily converted by the liver into urea (hence the ammonia smell of urine). Ingesting ammonia in quantities that are harmful (though still not fatal) causes burns, and ulceration of the mouth. Obviously if there was that much in the food, there would be a problem.

The report points out, "In a study of volunteers, ingestion of a single ammonium chloride tablet (approximately 15 mg NH4+/kg/day) led to a small transient increase (33% above fasting levels) in arterial blood concentrations of ammonium ion in 11 out of 20 subjects (Conn 1972); no change was noted in the remaining nine subjects in this group.[...]These data indicate that ingested ammonia is readily absorbed from the digestive tract and that the liver plays a large role in removing it from the blood (Conn 1972).



Basically, the FDA allows the use of ammonia to sterilize food products because, 1. the quantities needed to harm a human would cause said humans not to eat the products and 2. being naturally occurring, and necessary for life (for the provision of nitrogen for amino acid synthesis), the ingestion of ammonia in these quantities has no long-term health effects.

I'm not trying to argue that eating that pink goo is good for you - but the obsession with the ammonia is the wrong approach to attacking it. Phosphorus, sodium, potassium, magnesium, etc. are also poisonous in the right quantities, and they are also all necessary for human life.

If there is any common thread to my rants here on the sift, it's that people attacking the wrong subject, regardless of their intentions, makes them look stupid and reduces their credibility to those of us who care to know the truth. I completely agree with Maher's point that the republicans just attack anything the liberals support, but when he makes that point using misleading/wrong information, he's just as bad as them.>> ^Yogi:

>> ^Skeeve:
While I don't disagree with Maher's point, I'm getting really sick of people screaming about the ammonia used to treat the pink goo that is turned into chicken nuggets. As I said regarding another video:
"ammonia is a natural chemical that is necessary for human life. The amount of ammonia one would have to ingest to be harmful to a human is huge, and actually ingesting that much would be unthinkable because of the horrendous taste it would impart to the food."

This is like seeing someone sprinkle some sodium-free salt on their food and saying, "OMG that's potassium chloride! That's the lethal chemical in a lethal injection! That's going to kill you!!"
People just don't seem to care that a lot of chemicals that are popularly considered "toxic" are necessary for life or require unfathomably large doses to be harmful.

Where the hell is that quote from and is there any truth to it is what needs to be asked. To me that sounds like something a PR person would say, like in that video about Global Warming where they made the point that "CO2 is natural".
You've got more to answer for Skeeve and if you don't I'm bidding you a hearty GOOD DAY To You Sir!

Basically bath salts are extremely dangerous stimulants that kids are using because kids will do anything to get high and marijuana is still illegal.

Yup. Thick and inflexible.

I'm not done with you or this issue yet.

Thread's gettin' long so I'll end it here.

Until next time, Gadget. See you in the *discuss ..ions

>> ^NetRunner:

>> ^kir_mokum:
dupe of http://videosift.com/video/Mike-Daisey-on-Collaborating-with-Corporat

ions

Bah, figures.
Unless anyone has an objection, let's not dupe it until it ages off the frontpage. It'd be a shame to kill this video's hotness prematurely.


I second, First time I've noticed this one on VS.

>> ^csnel3:

Yolandi, Hot or not? discuss.


Hot. Even her fakies are hot.

Tags for this video have been changed from 'silver nitrate, copper coil, copper, silver, ion, crystal' to 'silver nitrate, copper coil, copper, silver, ion, crystal, chemistry, chemical reaction' - edited by calvados

I have forgotten most of my chemistry by now, so I have to just dig the equation out:

Cu(s) + 4HNO3(aq) ——> Cu(NO3)2(aq) + 2NO2(g) + 2H2O(l)

Cu(NO3)2 is water soluable, that's why the liquid turns light blue (because of the copper ions).

Though I am seeing different equations on the web when I browse. Anyway, copper turns into a water soluable salt that then turns the water blue.

Sorry about a choppuy explanation. Like I said, I haven't touched chemistry in years, plus my English science vocabulary isn't up to par

Space Ions--HA!
They can have my toilet when they pry it from my cold, dead hands!

He's taking a big chance by broadcasting without his Tin Foil Hat.
Part 2? No thanks. I've heard enough.

I'm not 100%, but I'm pretty sure stinging cells in Jellyfish (Nematocysts) are actually faster. Wiki says they pull 40,000G, with some reports giving figures like 5,410,000G. Amazing thing is all that acceleration is caused by osmotic pressure resulting from a release of Calcium Ions.

Here is a video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zJiBc_N1Zk