>> ^Zifnab:

Well I guess we should look into starting one. It could be a gold mine! We just need to figure out where to put Jabba...
<em>>> <a rel="nofollow" href='http://videosift.com/video/Princess-Leia-Bikini-Car-Wash?loadcomm=1#comment-986674'>^therealblankman</a>:<br />
Damn @<a rel="nofollow" href="http://zifnab.videosift.com" title="member since June 30th, 2006" class="profilelink"><strong style="color: rgb(178, 34, 34);">Zifnab</strong></a>, how come we don't have one of these in Vancouver?<br></em>


Well, Jabba lives in my pants, like always. I'd definitely let him out to play at one of these.

Well I guess we should look into starting one. It could be a gold mine! We just need to figure out where to put Jabba...

>> ^therealblankman:

Damn @<a rel="nofollow" href="http://zifnab.videosift.com" title="member since June 30th, 2006" class="profilelink"><strong style="color: rgb(178, 34, 34);">Zifnab, how come we don't have one of these in Vancouver?

Why is Dean the only one drawing comparisons to Romney's health care plan?

Even purely from a self interested political point of view it's a gold mine as it would put their prospective front runner in 2012 in jeopardy.

Martin Schongauer was a gold mine...i found him while i was looking earlier

The problem is, the more they make the news about Glenn Beck, the better ratings he'll get. He's trying to tap into the same ratings gold mine that Limbaugh hit, knowing that the more the 'liberal media' assails him, the better his reputation will be among the hardline Republicans.

How can fucking gold mines in my personal queue sit and rot with 1 vote... literally, and this stupid photoshop filter video gets through.

I dont even want it in my Comics channel, but what can I do... it's about Spider-Man.

Really depends on the situation.
E.g. check this controversial case
http://www.videosift.com/video/Controversial-gold-mining-plans-in-Rosia-Montana-Romania

See this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zc8XXv3pl10
for a dramatic reaction to expropriation.

>> ^cyberscythe:
So the answer is, no, they are not.
The amount of mercury released in the atmosphere is a net loss compared to an incandescent if it's powered by a coal-fire plant. The natural mercury in the coal would be greater than the 15mLs in the bulb.


Atmospheric mercury pollution from coal-fire plants is nominal compared to other producers like various gold mines. Besides that, atmospheric pollution is not as dangerous to you directly as is the concentration in your home if a florescent light breaks, and in landfills where the toxin can run off into local rivers and enter the food chain.


>> ^ponceleon:
Okay, so which is it... Is mercury bad for you or not? There's that one video on the sift where the guy is handling mercury and then there is this. Make up your minds dammit...


And yes, mercury is bad for you. Very bad.

http://www.videosift.com/video/How-Mercury-Causes-Neurodegeneration-Brain-Damage

your statement is true....one needs to take into account the actual levels of mercury.

from the abstract: The samples were found to contain levels of mercury ranging from below a detection limit of 0.005 to 0.570 micrograms mercury per gram of high fructose corn syrup. Average daily consumption of high fructose corn syrup is about 50 grams per person in the United States. With respect to total mercury exposure, it may be necessary to account for this source of mercury in the diet of children and sensitive populations.

this was one of two studies done on the subject. While I know the 2nd study found mercury in more products that contain HFCS, I'm not sure at what levels.

Q

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>> ^qruel:
Since we are talking about Mercury... here's some interesting facts...
Gold mines are the nation's largest source of mercury pollution. Like all mining, separating and processing the gold creates tons of toxic metals, like lead and mercury. Nevada is home to eight of the nation's top 10 mercury polluters. Here is a list of the top 100 Some other sources: Coal Fired Power Plants, Cement Kilns, Incinerators, Chlor-alkali Production, Chemical Plants.

In 2005 the FDA did a study that showed mercury in many food products that contained High Fructose Corn Syrup (due to mercury in the caustic soda and hydrochloric acid used in the manufacture of HFCS), and the FDA did absolutely nothing about it.


Presence of "detectable" levels is meaningless unless you name a specific concentration. Nearly everything will randomly contain at least 1 part in 10^20 of whichever stable element you want, which could be measured with a sufficiently accurate mass spectrometer.

>> ^qruel:
Since we are talking about Mercury... here's some interesting facts...
Gold mines are the nation's largest source of mercury pollution. Like all mining, separating and processing the gold creates tons of toxic metals, like lead and mercury. Nevada is home to eight of the nation's top 10 mercury polluters. Here is a list of the top 100 Some other sources: Coal Fired Power Plants, Cement Kilns, Incinerators, Chlor-alkali Production, Chemical Plants.

In 2005 the FDA did a study that showed mercury in many food products that contained High Fructose Corn Syrup (due to mercury in the caustic soda and hydrochloric acid used in the manufacture of HFCS), and the FDA did absolutely nothing about it.


Presence of "detectable" levels is meaningless unless you name a specific concentration. Nearly everything will randomly contain at least 1 part in 10^20 of whichever stable element you want, which could be measured with a sufficiently accurate mass spectrometer.

Since we are talking about Mercury... here's some interesting facts...

Gold mines are the nation's largest source of mercury pollution. Like all mining, separating and processing the gold creates tons of toxic metals, like lead and mercury. Nevada is home to eight of the nation's top 10 mercury polluters. Here is a list of the top 100 Some other sources: Coal Fired Power Plants, Cement Kilns, Incinerators, Chlor-alkali Production, Chemical Plants.

In 2005 the FDA did a study that showed mercury in many food products that contained High Fructose Corn Syrup (due to mercury in the caustic soda and hydrochloric acid used in the manufacture of HFCS), and the FDA did absolutely nothing about it.

I agree with Farhad about infrastructure spending being absolutely necessary, and about productivity sometimes being hard to measure. Public Schools need to be improved, but throwing money at it isn't necessarily the solution, when sometimes lower-funded schools perform better than higher funded schools.

One could argue that public school students in better-performing, richer districts are performing better because of their parents' genes, prenatal environment, and lifestyle habits. The parents on average had some characteristics that increased their propensity to get a house in the richer district. Or you could argue that the performance of the school caused the high property values. Or you could argue that the extra money for the school from high property values accounts for some performance. All three are in play and positive feedback sustains the disparity.

The best way to help personal profit motives coincide with actual productivity is to tax negative externalities and subsidize positive externalities.

For example, all fossil fuels should be taxed at a very high rate, and the income from this tax should be rebated to everyone equally. Thus it provides the incentive to conserve without harming the poor in the way that has previously caused people to oppose such taxes.

The government should also subsidize the placement of copyrighted work into the public domain voluntarily by copyright holders.

Health computerization is a nice goal. Such a database would be a gold mine for research that could save millions of lives if only the privacy paranoia could be dealt with by anonymizing the data like Google Trends.

All subsidies and safety nets of the form "If x>y you get nothing, otherwise you get something greater than epsilon" (also, atomic tax credits and atomic scholarships) should be eliminated because they create local maxima where there is no incentive to earn slightly more. They should be replaced with smooth linear subsidies such as "take home income = 10k plus 3/5 of earned income".

One reason for the decrease in demand for goods is that most of the money is in the hands of those who use it least, and not in the hands of those who would use it. Supply side economics is crap when clearly there's an excess supply and not enough demand in most industries. The amount of money they've already spent on stimulus and bailouts is more than enough to send a flat $10,000 rebate to every adult citizen (perhaps split up into a smoother schedule), which would surely increase consumer spending back to pre-recession levels without negatively impacting anyone's profit motive. Mortgage-default bailouts conditioned upon being in default should be avoided because of the perverse incentives they create. More generally, any policy of help being conditioned upon something bad happening should be eliminated because of the perverse incentive to create the bad occurrence. Unconditional yet meager help is better because it keeps the incentives straight. Many forms of insurance should be abolished because of the perverse incentives they create.

People can only be really counted on to do the right thing when the the situation is such that doing the right thing is in their own personal interest. Primary purpose of all governance is to change the way the game is played so that individual interests become more congruent with each other (metaphorically, congruent with the public good). This includes punishment, which can only be justified as a disincentive to future crime.

The stimulus package contains less than $150 billion in infrastructure spending, out of over 3 trillion that has been spent on stimulus and bailouts. Most of the stimulus package consists of reckless tax cuts.

I realize late August is not exactly a gold mine when it comes to new games, but this was awful. He could have summed up this review in one sentence: "I don't get fighting games." This would have been much more enlightening than Yahtzee's treatise on how the fighting genre isn't the same as other genres of game he's played.

In fact, I would have much more respect for this review if it were limited to the above sentence. That way, instead of being a pointless diatribe, it would have been an oblique Tenacious D reference. Next review! Next review! NEXT

I'm going to offend some people here but I have to.

This guy has it all, pro choice and anti 2nd amendment.

Just because I support the 2nd amendment does not make me a religious conservative. I support the constitution, what does that make me?

And know I wont explain it to you naysayers out there, this guy is just the same as the other guy if not worse. He is "A peace loving decoy ready for retaliation." (-Dirty harry gorillaz).

He says he is pro gun, yet he supports the ban in Chicago, and in the District of Columbia even though they struck it down. Yet it is still illegal to own any automatic or semi auto gun? That's every gun except revolvers and lever actions and pump shot guns. Not to mention the class 3 weapons, that are classified assault. That usually means any weapon with a "bayonet lug", recoil suppressors, or heat plating (commonly seen on shotguns particularly the Spas series.)

http://www.popandsports.com/?p=1118

"Barack Obama's Gun-Related Votes The U.S. Senate Debated:
Obama
Voted:
Supporting concealed carry for citizens10
Anti-gun
Banning many common semi-automatic firearms11
Anti-gun
Disallowing self-defense in towns where guns are banned12
Anti-gun
Imposing one handgun a month restrictions13
Anti-gun
Requiring lock up your safety trigger locks14
Anti-gun
Protecting gun dealers from frivolous lawsuits15
Anti-gun
Outlawing gun confiscations during a national emergency16
Pro-gun
Squelching the free speech rights of gun owners17
Anti-gun
Restricting the interstate sales of firearms18
Anti-gun
Repealing the gun ban in Washington, DC19
Anti-gun

4 James Oliphant and Michael J. Higgins, "Court to hear gun case," Chicago Tribune, November 20, 2007.
5 Illinois State Senate, vote on SB 2165 (41-16), May 25, 2004.
6 Obama says, "National legislation will prevent other states' flawed concealed-weapons laws from threatening the safety of Illinois residents." David Mendell, "Democratic hopefuls vary a bit on death penalty," Chicago Tribune, February 20, 2004.
6 Obama says, "National legislation will prevent other states' flawed concealed-weapons laws from threatening the safety of Illinois residents." David Mendell, "Democratic hopefuls vary a bit on death penalty," Chicago Tribune, February 20, 2004.
7 See the Gun Owners of America fact sheet at http://www.gunowners.org/fs0404.htm.
8 John Chase, "Keyes, Obama are far apart on guns; Views on assault weapons at odds," Chicago Tribune, September 15, 2004.
9 Senators Chuck Schumer and John Kerry had both cosponsored S. 1431 in 2003, a bill that would have banned any semi-auto shotgun that also contained a pistol grip, which the bill defined as "a grip, a thumbhole stock, or any other characteristic that can function as a grip." According to that definition, just about any semi-automatic shotgun would be banned.
10 See supra note 6.
11 About the so-called "assault weapons" ban, Obama says, "I believe we need to renew -- not roll back -- this common sense gun law." See supra note 8.
12 See supra note 5.
13 As a state senator, "Obama regularly supported gun-control measures, including a ban on semiautomatic 'assault weapons' and a limit on handgun purchases to one a month." "Obama Record May be Gold Mine for Critics," Associated Press, January 17, 2007.
14 On July 28, 2005, Senator Obama voted for a provision requiring gun dealers to include the sale of a lock-up-your-safety device with every handgun sold. The amendment, offered by Sen. Herb Kohl (D-WI), passed by a vote of 70-30. The provision amended the gun makers' protection act (S. 397).
15On July 29, 2005, Senator Obama voted against S. 397, a bill that was designed to put an end to the frivolous lawsuits that were threatening to put many gun dealers out of business. While an argument could be made that a pro-gun Senator might vote against this bill because it contained a lock-up-your-safety provision (see supra note 14), the fact that Obama voted in favor of that trigger lock amendment (but against the overall bill) indicates his real animus against helping gun dealers protect themselves from the anti-gun lawsuits that were aimed at driving them into bankruptcy.
16 On July 13, 2006, Sen. Obama voted for Emergency Powers language that saw only 16 of the most ardent anti-gun senators vote against it. The amendment provides that no money can be used by federal agents to confiscate firearms during a declared state of emergency. The amendment was added to the Department of Homeland Security appropriations bill (HR 5441).
17 On January 18, 2007, Senator Obama voted against a pro-gun amendment to strike language in S. 1 that would infringe upon the free speech rights of groups like Gun Owners of America. The amendment, which passed, struck requirements that would have required GOA to monitor and report on its communications with its members, and could easily have led to government demands for GOA's membership list (a.k.a. registration).
18 Obama has frequently made statements which indicate that he would restrict the interstate sale of firearms. For example, he told the NAACP that, "We've got to make sure that unscrupulous gun dealers aren't loading up vans and dumping guns in our communities, because we know they're not made in our communities. There aren't any gun manufacturers here, right here in the middle of Detroit." Senator Barack Obama, at the NAACP Presidential Primary Forum, July 12, 2007.
19 See supra note 4. " Quoted from a (I Know absolutely conservative site ).

http://www.gop.com/images/research/062608Research2.pdf (this is a PDF) - its hard to find stuff that isn't blatantly republican.

All i am saying is do a little digging on this. I don't want warmongering republican or a lair democrat for president.

I have know problem with commonsense law, but don't lie about your record. I support background checks and the tests needed to get a CCW.

Get this, in some states all you need is hunters education can get a CCW.

This argument has nothing to do with pro choice or pro life in which case I am indifferent.

>> ^NetRunner:
It also serves a double purpose of implying that anyone in America who espouses those critiques of America are clearly un-American, and should be reviled and shunned.

George Bush:
"If you're not with us, you're against us."

Reason enough to invade every country in the world, then!

ShakaUVM - So you immediately assume that it's just 4 french people being rude and ignorant? I mean, french are rude and ignorant as a rule anyway! But it never once, for a single second, occured to you that they were snubbing you because of war-crazy, religious fanaticism topped with gun-(lack of)control, self righteousness and ego?

You think i say that to insult anyone? That's what people think dude........ Blame it on others if you like, but if i give people the impression that i'm an ignorant woman hating racist sexual predator pervert, then maybe that might just be a problem with how i present myself.

To semi-quote bill bailey, when i see a round of applause greeting a comment like "I don't know anything about iraq, but speaking as a mother, i know it's FULL OF TERRORISTS!", i despair for the american nationality. Obviously, that isn't a direct quote. But the amount of times i've seen americans applauding someone for saying something PRO-AMERICAN that is actually bullshit! It's just gotta sound right and the stupid majority will carry the unsure minority along in a wave of applause, leaving the few intelligent people remaining wondering why the fuck people are clapping. Happens here with comment voting as well. Say something intelligent and you might get a few votes. Say something pro-(anything american here), and you'll get 50. Say ANYTHING that even LOOKS anti-american and you get 5 downvotes. It'll happen with this comment too. People will read 2 lines and ignore the rest.

I appeal to the people on the sift that frequently floor me with the quality of their comments, please come and make a few choice observations over here. Even to prove me wrong! I just love hearing from you. And a lot of you are american

(PS. The true gold mine for me on this sift isn't in the comments that get upvoted, it's the ones that have buckets of quality and are ignored)