the off topic thread

[Klubknuckle]

Everyone, go and drink a cup of water and come back.... Your body are screaming....

What about coke...

[nthoangga]

Everyone, go and drink a cup of water and come back.... Your body are screaming....

What about coke...

Coke is not good for you. Better off drink water

[Walter Rothbard]

Man, now I'm thirsty!

[Peter Lambert]

I feel like ranting about ObamaCare for a minute:

Has nobody in the government taken an introductory economics class? Supply and Demand people, it is not that hard to understand!

So the problem that they identified is that there are people who do not have access to healthcare, and the reason they identified is because those people cannot afford to get it. Obviously the problem is that the supply of healthcare does not meet the demand (you can have a whole other debate about whether it is even possible to meet the demand for healthcare, since people will always think of more reasons to spend money).

So the government's solution is to increase the demand for healthcare (or, more accurately, health insurance; we can have another debate about how those are actually connected). Anybody who has studied economics knows that when you increase the demand for something with a fixed supply the price will go up.

What the government should have done instead would be to focus on increasing the supply of healthcare. They should be hiring doctors or giving money to clinics/hospitals to hire doctors, helping more students go to medical school, and building hospitals/clinics in underserved communities. They should make it easier for charities to run health clinics. By increasing the supply they would lower the cost and make healthcare more accessible to everyone.

[Peter Lambert]

Why did I pirate so much Blick-182 when I can only stand like 5 of their songs?

FTFY  

That is why it is better to pirate songs. You don't have to feel bad if they suck and you end up throwing them out. When I was a teen-ager I bought a CD because I had heard one of the songs on it on the radio and liked it. The other 9 songs on the disk all sucked, I felt like I had totally wasted my money.

It would be nice if artists had bitcoin address you could donate to if you decide you like their music.  The webcomic xkcd has a bitcoin donation address: http://xkcd.com/bitcoin/

[Anon136]

I always pirate cd's/movies etc. and I'll buy them if I like them.

i buy merchandise if i liked it.

[lepirate]

Yo ho yo ho a pirate's life for me
We download, we torrent, we crack and we hack
Download me hearties yo ho
We don't pay for software and don't give a hoot
Download me hearties yo ho!

[Akka]

Ohh damn. I read "the topless thread" when I clicked on this. What a disappointment. 

[lepirate]

Ohh damn. I read "the topless thread" when I clicked on this. What a disappointment. 

So did I! Lol

[mogrith]

Time to listen to James Earl Jones read The Raven - because it's a Halloween tradition, y'know!  http://bit.ly/Y0T8Br

[mogrith]

What you mean this:
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_QcYf_8sBCik/TSfUcejLX-I/AAAAAAAAH9I/HkVl8_b5R74/s1600/Alice%2BGoodwin%2BOfficial%2B2011%2BTopless%2BCalendar%2B%25252812%252529.jpg


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Removed img tags so more SFW

[mogrith]

And marked that way on my subject line. but since I'm not OP I can't put on thread. I also tried not to be super explicit anyway. Maybe should have found a thumbnail and linked to full size.

Really don't want to turn this into a nudie thread.

anyway removed img tags

[Anon136]

[Anon136]

also this thread should have a sticky imo.

[Radelderth]

Depends what kind of coke

What is this supposed to mean?
That something of the likes of Coke Zero or Diet Coke is good for you?

Diet coke and coke zero is worse off, they put some artificial sugar in it...

[hlynur]

Depends what kind of coke

What is this supposed to mean?
That something of the likes of Coke Zero or Diet Coke is good for you?

Diet coke and coke zero is worse off, they put some artificial sugar in it...

i'm drunk and in babbly mood...
have to add some background knowledge for artifical sugar:

US company monsanto (primer producer for Agent Orange beside Dow Chemical during Vietnam War) took over the artificial sweetener copmany G.D. Searle & Company in  1985 and created the subcompany NutraSweet (with chairman Donald Rumsfeld at that time). Shortly after its product Aspartam aka Nutrasweet got admission and found its way as a synthetical sweetener in many everday food products since then.
In July 2005 an italian study proofed higher brain tumor rates during testing with rats
US National Cancer Institute (which gets alibi donations by american food companies to support stuff like "healthy school food") made a counter study in 2006 that resulted in disproof of this thesis.

in many underdeveloped areas of the world where natural products are consumed (eg rural areas in india) tumor rate is still significantly lower
and statistically grows exponentially when getting closer from suburbs to bigger cities where these products are consumed on a daily basis.

funnily the toxicity of this and similar stuff is still measured by a method (forgot its name) from the first half of 20th century, where the amount that shows slightest negative effects with rats is divided by the completely randomized number 100 (some scientists which where involved in this decision progress, told the random pick many decades later).
Newest studies seem to proof the assumption that these synthetic and enzymatic substances change human dna in an exponential and not a linear way as defined by this old method.


this theory is still very controversial, but bold part is fact.
my conclusions:
bitcoin will grow like a positive tumor in fiat system and i stay with my lovely sugar which has its place in human society for more than 10.000 years  

[Peter Lambert]

Depends what kind of coke

What is this supposed to mean?
That something of the likes of Coke Zero or Diet Coke is good for you?

Diet coke and coke zero is worse off, they put some artificial sugar in it...

Pay attention to which drinks people order at McDonalds: the skinny guy orders Coke, the lard-butt orders Diet. If you want to be skinny, do what the skinny people do: order regular instead of diet (or just get water, because that is better than either of them).

[Walter Rothbard]

Depends what kind of coke

What is this supposed to mean?
That something of the likes of Coke Zero or Diet Coke is good for you?

Diet coke and coke zero is worse off, they put some artificial sugar in it...

I'll take mine with cane sugar, please!

[FirstAscent]

Depends what kind of coke

What is this supposed to mean?
That something of the likes of Coke Zero or Diet Coke is good for you?

Diet coke and coke zero is worse off, they put some artificial sugar in it...

i'm drunk and in babbly mood...
have to add some background knowledge for artifical sugar:

US company monsanto (primer producer for Agent Orange beside Dow Chemical during Vietnam War) took over the artificial sweetener copmany G.D. Searle & Company in  1985 and created the subcompany NutraSweet (with chairman Donald Rumsfeld at that time). Shortly after its product Aspartam aka Nutrasweet got admission and found its way as a synthetical sweetener in many everday food products since then.
In July 2005 an italian study proofed higher brain tumor rates during testing with rats
US National Cancer Institute (which gets alibi donations by american food companies to support stuff like "healthy school food") made a counter study in 2006 that resulted in disproof of this thesis.

in many underdeveloped areas of the world where natural products are consumed (eg rural areas in india) tumor rate is still significantly lower
and statistically grows exponentially when getting closer from suburbs to bigger cities where these products are consumed on a daily basis.

funnily the toxicity of this and similar stuff is still measured by a method (forgot its name) from the first half of 20th century, where the amount that shows slightest negative effects with rats is divided by the completely randomized number 100 (some scientists which where involved in this decision progress, told the random pick many decades later).
Newest studies seem to proof the assumption that these synthetic and enzymatic substances change human dna in an exponential and not a linear way as defined by this old method.


this theory is still very controversial, but bold part is fact.
my conclusions:
bitcoin will grow like a positive tumor in fiat system and i stay with my lovely sugar which has its place in human society for more than 10.000 years  

So which Ozu films have you watched by now?

[hlynur]

Depends what kind of coke

What is this supposed to mean?
That something of the likes of Coke Zero or Diet Coke is good for you?

Diet coke and coke zero is worse off, they put some artificial sugar in it...

i'm drunk and in babbly mood...
have to add some background knowledge for artifical sugar:
*snip*
this theory is still very controversial, but bold part is fact.
my conclusions:
bitcoin will grow like a positive tumor in fiat system and i stay with my lovely sugar which has its place in human society for more than 10.000 years  

So which Ozu films have you watched by now?

oh no master has found me  .
i'll write pm would become too OT here