>> ^SuperHotbUNZ:

I knew it would boil. I did not know it would freeze.


Actually, below .006 atm liquid water isn't stable... it either freezes or boils, depending on the temperature. If they had left it in the vacuum then it wouldn't have frozen. As said above this is what happens to a person tossed out of an air lock in space, and it is also closely related to the damage deep-sea divers experience if they surface too quickly.

Another interesting property of H2O is that adding pressure to ice at just under the freezing point (and above .006 atm pressure) turns it back into water, where as most substances freeze under increased pressure.

♥ Chemistry

No. It may jumpstart it temporarily but as you print more money, the value of the dollar drops, and then we're stuck with inflation. And so to incentivize people to spend money in an inflated economy the Fed then in turn manipulates interest rates (cheap credit) and creates market bubbles that give the impression people are making more money because more money is available than before and there's no major change in interest rates, so it's cheap credit.

And so because credit is cheap we no longer spend from savings, but spend from credit. That means we don't save our money before buying that TV or buying that car, but instead buy it on credit. This poses a major problem because we become accustomed to living in debt, and we tend to spend more. And why shouldn't we when saving money means it will be devalued over time based on inflation.

Between 1813 and 1913 the cost of gold per ounce remained rather steady (approx. $30/ounce), and it wasn't until we abandoned a value backed currency (meaning currency that cannot be printed out of thin air like the Fed has been doing since 1913) that we saw increases from 1913 to 2010. Today gold is closer to $2000/ounce. This is why saving money in a bank is a bad investment (and so is saving your cash in a coffee can) and therefore people are incentivized to spend from credit and invest in risk retirement investments.

Capital is savings. Capitalism is spending from savings. What we have now isn't not true Capitalism, but rather spending from credit, i.e., spending from debt. And it's dangerous. Eventually the dollar bubble will pop, and we'll most likely be left where the Germans were after WWI with a worthless currency they burned in the winter to stay warm.

The largest scam of the fiat currency system, however, is who is rewarded and who is most strongly affected negatively. when money is printed, the government, the banks and the military industrial complex receives the money first and spends it before "inflation" drops the value. It then gets circulated through society, and the last people to have their cost of living adjusted for inflation tends to be those on Social Security. It's really an unfair and cruel system.

Anyhow, that's the gist of it as far as I understand it.

>> ^jimnms:

I don't mind spiders. They'll leave you alone if you don't bother them. I usually don't bother them either, but one time I found a black widow spider. For some reason I decided I wanted to catch it and keep it as a pet. I found an empty clear plastic jar in the garbage, poked a few small holes in it and used that to catch her. I needed to figure out a way to feed and water her. That night I was making dinner and I dropped a piece of frozen broccoli on the floor, and that gave me an idea. I set it outside on the front porch to attract bugs. I came back to it after I ate and there were bugs all over it. I took the jar outside, made the spider go up to the top, unscrewed the cap and set it on top of the now thawed and covered in bugs piece of broccoli. I slid it onto the top and closed it up. The spider went to town stringing them up, and I figured she'd be able to get water from the broccoli.
I set the jar in my bathroom so I could check on her every morning. The next day, for some weird reason she pulled the broccoli up into the middle of the jar and wrapped it up in a ball. A few days later, that ball was still there, and I couldn't figure out what she was doing with it. A few more days later, I went into the bathroom one morning to find the ball gone and thousands of little baby black widows all over the place. They were small enough to crawl out of the air hole I poked in the jar, but most of them were inside. I ran and grabbed a can of bug spray and sprayed the outside of the jar, then filled the sink with water and submerged the jar in the water until it filled up and drowned them all.
I decided not to try to keep spiders as pets after that.


You should never keep black widow spiders as they pose a danger to humans. While you should't outright kill them unless they are in your common areas. Like a garage. I kill the black widows that make homes in there, but I leave the ones in the backyard alone. The ones in the back yard don't pose a danger because I have no outdoor pets or children who can be injured by the things.

They aren't there to prey on humans, but they are a natural danger to humans. It is a naturally selected fear response to be repulsed by spiders; especially when they multiply.

I don't mind spiders. They'll leave you alone if you don't bother them. I usually don't bother them either, but one time I found a black widow spider. For some reason I decided I wanted to catch it and keep it as a pet. I found an empty clear plastic jar in the garbage, poked a few small holes in it and used that to catch her. I needed to figure out a way to feed and water her. That night I was making dinner and I dropped a piece of frozen broccoli on the floor, and that gave me an idea. I set it outside on the front porch to attract bugs. I came back to it after I ate and there were bugs all over it. I took the jar outside, made the spider go up to the top, unscrewed the cap and set it on top of the now thawed and covered in bugs piece of broccoli. I slid it onto the top and closed it up. The spider went to town stringing them up, and I figured she'd be able to get water from the broccoli.

I set the jar in my bathroom so I could check on her every morning. The next day, for some weird reason she pulled the broccoli up into the middle of the jar and wrapped it up in a ball. A few days later, that ball was still there, and I couldn't figure out what she was doing with it. A few more days later, I went into the bathroom one morning to find the ball gone and thousands of little baby black widows all over the place. They were small enough to crawl out of the air hole I poked in the jar, but most of them were inside. I ran and grabbed a can of bug spray and sprayed the outside of the jar, then filled the sink with water and submerged the jar in the water until it filled up and drowned them all.

I decided not to try to keep spiders as pets after that.

Poof! We appeared out of thin air. Magical Like.

@NordlichReiter, police say Cantor's a big fat fucking liar trying to create a false equivalency out of thin air.

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hPSXB0pVWgnTggpu-KnVqhophahwD9ELT6600

If I was in the same room, I would have e-mailed him those images hoping that he would check them out on the air. I'll bet that's what happened.

Ummm...the Haitian deal with the devil is a propagated myth spread in France and among Christians about Haiti's victorious fight for independence.

He didn't pull it out of thin air. It's stupid, but then so are stories about storks delivering children, Santa Claus and O.J. Simpson's book "(If) I did it"

Well, yeah, of course she was brought back as an angel, but as a show that prided itself on keeping itself more realistic than other scifi, by using technology that was closer to our own and not completely, completely unfeasible it just makes no sense.

Everything that's wrong with religion if it were true out here suddenly applies in that universe, because ultimately in the show there is a god, and the god does have influences in the world, and can basically do anything, like create an extra kara thrace out of thin air, and poof her gone again.

It makes no goddamn sense!

The whole show had a nice ambiguity to its religious context and myths, which was good, but in the end all the bullshit myths - everything - was true! This carries a hell of a lot of repercussions to all the actions in the show and in the end it is just completely unsatisfying.

If they had not played with being closer to our own reality and introduced the supernatural elements more deeply intertwined in the story, then I'm sure I would have been more forgiving - like, say, Buffy the Vampire Slayer or True Blood for that sake, which handles its demons and gods and all that stuff fine within its own universe. BSG really, really wants to be our universe, which just makes it invalid, because it very clearly is not our universe. Its internal consistency is shot to hell and makes me want to punch a puppy in the face.

I rate it 10 sturgeon faces.

Looks fishy, but still upvoted. I don't see how the plane didn't fall out of the air with such a steep nose down attitude.

health care shouldn't have a price

Oi vey... It is comments like this that illustrate the terrible state of U.S. education. No matter how much emotion or moral outrage people may have, the fact remains that all goods & services have a cost because they don't spontaneously appear out of thin air. G&S must be 'produced' and therefore MUST have a price. And - moreover - in order to have quality goods & services (instead of useless junk), the price must also be PROFITABLE otherwise no one would bother to provide it.

So you can rant and rave and whine all you want about how health care 'shouldn't have a price'. But all such verbal offal must be ignored as foolishness.

If health care should 'have no price' then there are a dozen other things that also should have no price. Food, clothing, shelter, utilities, and transportation are all life-sustaining requirements to survive. Why should health care 'have no price' but these other necessities cost money? In fact, why should money exist at all for anything? Why isn't everything free? Yeesh - I think every man, woman and child in the US needs to immediately be marched into a basic economics and prove that they actually understand basics like supply & demand before they're allowed to vote or post comments on the internet.

You can argue that we would benefit from a federal insurance system or not, but let's not make stuff up out of thin air and call it scary truth.

I couldn't agree more. Let's start with the lie about death panels. Then the lie about government takeovers. Then the lie about taking away benefits from old people. Then the lie that it'll bankrupt the country. Then the lie that wait times will go up. Then the lie that innovation will stop. The lie that you'll have a "government bureaucrat between you and your doctor". The lie that the proposed plans will kill small businesses.

In a related note, fear mongering about the H1N1 vaccine should stop too.

But back to your pet peeve on display here about "obscene profit" -- if you think the main, central argument Democrats have been using is for reform is that we need to punish insurance companies for the crime of having made a profit, you haven't been listening to Democrats. You've been listening to the talk radio/Fox News caricatures of Democratic positions instead.

I think it's pretty safe to say that what makes the profits "obscene" is not their size, but that they're coming amongst a backdrop of worsening service, and shrinking coverage base. As MoveOn put it, "Health insurance companies are willing to let the bodies pile up as long as their profits are safe." That's not a comment on the size of profits, it's a comment on how those profits were achieved.

^Profit from it? I think what this video is trying to do is be what the media should be, a watch dog. Granted, this is chop full of sensationalism and glances over things that are important, but it is at least making an effort to look out for "the man" and serve the interests of "the little guy". It seems like people who call shenanigans now are attacked with "loon" or "conspiracy nut" kind of ad hominem attacks.

While it isn't formal education, it is at least something to break the cycle of thought one normally is exposed to. A break from status que thinking that you would get at...say your local library. Established educational academia has a vested interests to not look "cooky" as it could detract from their attendance pool. They have a vested interest in not deviating from what you would expect. Being edgy or insightful goes against established academia and it is why a lot of real revolutionary thought comes from outside the university system.

Even well educated people on economics don't have any transparency into the fed. It is only partly a government organization, the business conducted in them is not a matter of public record. Recent attempts to make it so have been blocked and that is what the video is pointing out in the first 50mins or so. That massive cronyism and misconduct was and still is being conducted to rob the people of their savings to benefit a very small number of firms that generate no wealth.

I don't see why you would find it odd that the rich would conspire with other rich to protect their wealth and power. The history on this; mercantilism, cartels, feudalism, oligopolies, is just to clear to ignore. I think this video did a good job in capturing where these potential men in black coats could be, and if they are, offer a very interesting perspective into possible goals and means to archive those goals. I love war gaming. What I mean is to take a situation and map it out to its ends. Most people get ridiculed when they do this out in open air, which is a shame.

Would have been better had the goalie snagged it out of the air! and Ruined it!

MUHAHAHAHAHAH

1. We support the union of all United States citizens for a greater good on the basis of the right of national and global self-determination.
What do they actually propose here? Isn't the UNITED states already a union? Or do they want to change something?

2. We support equality of rights for the United States citizens in its dealings with other nations.
Seems reasonable, but this is not really something that can be settled internally in the US, the "other nations" would have to agree as well. Internally, of course, anyone should be allowed to trade internationally as they please, not some people favored.

3. We support land and territory to feed our people and to settle our surplus population.
Either this is a painfully obvious point, or something more sinister is behind it. "We will grow stuff and farm it", well sure, knock yourselves out. "We will clear nature preserves and such to increase our use of the land" Less good. "We will only use what land is necessary to support the people." Better. A matter of interpretation.

4. We propose that the United States shall make it its primary duty to provide a livelihood for its citizens.
A job at all costs? Jobs can't just be created out of thin air - there has to be a reason for them. Welfare is better than a job that has no value.

5. We propose all citizens shall have equal rights and duties.
Well, duh.

6. It must be the first duty of every citizen to perform physical or mental work. The activities of the individual must not clash with the general interest, but must proceed within the framework of the community and be for the general good.
Yes and no. I agree that the first duty of a citizen should be to work, but this is indirectly determined by the fact that if you don't work--> you don't earn--> you die. Whether or not something "clashes with general interest" is harder to define, because plenty of work has not been in the gneral interest, but have been useful in the end anyway. Say, stem-cell research. No matter how many people want to ban it should not matter, because it is indeed useful to the survival of the human race.

7. We support the abolition of incomes unearned by work.
End welfare? Sure, but then you'll have to make up dummy-jobs, which in the end is welfare anyway. I can see the value in getting cheap labor this way, but I think this is worse than just plain welfare until a real job comes around.

8. In view of the enormous sacrifices of life and property demanded of a nation by any war, personal enrichment from war must be regarded as a crime against the nation. We demand therefore the confiscation of all war profits.
End wars. Sounds noble enough. Confiscating war profits sounds an awful lot like theft though. What needs to be done, is make sure that there is fair dealings in companies that provide services for war - the corruption that makes sure that companies like blackwater and halliburton gets all the deals must be quelled. A company exists in part to create profit for its people - if no profit should be made on war, then the state should make its own stuff. It is the one "company" that shouldn't make a profit.

9. We support the nationalization of all businesses which have been formed into corporations (trusts).
Uhm, what!? I think this is a bad idea. Oversight, bureaucracy, conflicts of interest are all stuff I can see arising for this. If something has gotten big, it's because people have bought their product. We shouldn't penalize a good company just because it's big.

10. We support profit-sharing in large industrial enterprises.
Again, what the hell is this? "Oh poor apple, I see you haven't made as much profits as us.. here, have some money." - microsoft. That's just stupid.

11. We support the extensive development of insurance for old age.
Fair. Pension should be maintained for those who need it.

12. We support the creation and maintenance of a healthy middle class, the immediate communalizing of big department stores, and their lease at a cheap rate to small traders, and that the utmost consideration shall be shown to all small traders in the placing of national and municipal orders.
I don't like the concept of classes - mostly because I don't think it's all that applicable anymore. People should get payed for their abilities + supply/demand of the job. And again they want to take the "evil big stores" and turn them into nice little stores. It's a dream world, Neo. They are not big because they are evil, they are big because they sell a good product. If you want to "level the playing field", then give incentives to make jobs locally and penalize foreign jobs (like sweatshops and such).

13. We support a land reform suitable to our national requirements, the passing of a law for the expropriation of land for communal purposes without compensation; the abolition of ground rent, and the prohibition of all speculation in land.
"Expropriation of land for communal purposes without compensation".. get the fuck out of here. This land is my land, that land is your land♫ let's keep it that way. If there is a dire communal need for some of MY land, then you can well enough buy it from me, so I can move somewhere better.

14. The United States must consider a thorough reconstruction of our national system of education (with the aim of opening up to every able and hard-working American the possibility of higher education and of thus obtaining advancement). The curricula of all educational establishments must be brought into line with the requirements of practical life. The aim of the school must be to give the pupil, beginning with the first sign of intelligence, a grasp of the nation (through the study of civic affairs). We propose the education of gifted children of poor parents, whatever their class or occupation, at the expense of the State.
Education must be reformed, I agree, but this is not the way to do it. "Practical life"? There are plenty of things that ought to be taught that have nothing to do with practical life, biology, chemistry, mathematics (beyond the basics), history - we can't all go to knitting and shop-class. And in the higher educations the subjects become even more esoteric. What's "practical life" for some, is not at all for others. Hell, specialization is the cornerstone of education.

15. The nation must ensure that health standards are raised by protecting mothers and infants, by prohibiting child labor, by promoting physical strength through legislation providing for compulsory gymnastics and sports, and by the extensive support of clubs engaged in the physical training of youth.
Mandatory fat camps! Heh, I do think that gymnastics and sports should be mandatory in school, but that's it. English is mandatory too, why not some for of physical activity? I don't think that adults should be compelled to do sports directly though - that's their choice. I would rather that incentives were made to be healthy, or maybe certain penalties for being grossly unhealthy.

16. We propose the Federal abolition of any militia except as implemented by Congress.
Of course. There should only be one army. If you want to make "Bob's army" you can go off and make "Bob's Country" and do it.

17. To put the whole of this program into effect, we support a strong central power for the United States Federal Government; and the formation of Corporations based on estate and occupation for the purpose of carrying out the general legislation passed by Congress in the United States.

This seems to be against what's been said earlier. Now they want to MAKE corporations? Confusing. Don't they trust the states to carry out the legislation?