Seriously?

You win the lottery, and the best you can come up with is sitting at home watching TV, and going on holiday?

No wonder the world is broken.

It's not often I find something in the press worth sharing, but I got goosebumps reading this. The title is "This Is the Best Dinosaur Fossil of Its Kind Ever Found", and it is, but it's also arguably the best anything of all time ever. It's better than chocolate coated chocolate with chocolate topping.

This Is the Best Dinosaur Fossil of Its Kind Ever Found

Slaves.

They were called slaves.

Quote:Unlike real life, this is a videogame and I don't want to solve every single problem I have with a gun.

-- Gammygoose

I believe in panspermia - mollecular panspermia at least - and even with people like Fred Hoyle, and Stephen Hawking on my side, it's still difficult to defend. I think Ancient Aliens is probably even a little bit more difficult than that.

Traditionally, you'd be a halfling if you wanted to rob banks.

If you asked me to give you a list of the best games, it'd be Arcanum, Fallout 2, Planescape Torment, Vampire The Masquerade: Bloodlines, Fallout in that order.

My Raspberry Pi says different though - my top games as listed by the number of times I've actually played them (note the Pi can play DOS games, but not Windows games, so all of the above, except Fallout 1 are missing):

Super Smash TV (SNES)
Sensible World Of Soccer (DOS)
Formula 1 '97 (PSX)
Sorcery + (CPC)
Chuckie Egg (CPC)
Vanguard (Atari 2600)
Golden Axe (MAME)
Final Fantasy 8 (PSX)
Zarlor Mercenary (Atari Lynx)
Altered Beast (MAME)
Contra 3 (SNES)
Rick Dangerous (CPC)
Fallout (DOS)
Knights Of The Round (MAME)
Turrican 2 (CPC)
Bubble Bobble (CPC)
Splatter House (MAME)
Gauntlet 2 (CPC)
Spin Dizzy (CPC)
Pirates (CPC)
Hero Quest (CPC)
Iron Lord (CPC)
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (MAME)
The Simpsons (MAME)
Dungeons & Dragons: The Tower Of Doom (MAME)

If I were an elf, I'd definitely live in T'Sen-Ang.

Oh, that reminds me of something that happened a few years ago...

I was staying in a half built house. It had no roof, and no outside wall. I had a great dane with me, who barked at literally everything - very badly trained by her owner. Just me and her there, in a large half built house in the middle of nowhere.

Middle of the night, I hear something coming through the wall - the one that doesn't exist. It's just a tarp. The dog hears it, but instead of barking, she whimpers. I, naturally, assume it's zombies, and try to persuade the dog to come with me to investigate. She growls at me and refuses to move.

Nervously, I make my way out of the front room - the only room in the house with four walls and a roof, and into the kitchen...there's definitely something behind the curtain acting as a wall. I open the curtain, there's nothing there...it's behind the stairs - where another wall should exist, but is also just a tarp...I open the tarp and something shoots across the room, but it's dark, I can't see it. Too fast to be a zombie, but I don't know what else it could be..I light a candle, and it lights up the room, I just see a fox running back through the final tarp that leads to actual outside.

It wasn't paranormal, but it's the same sort of thing.

I I were a vampire, I'd definitely be a Gangrel.

No, Clixsense got banned from a traffic exchange. Do keep up.

These nights, I'm not so sure I even believe in life after birth.

See this paper.

Essentially, you need a chain reaction. One type of antioxidant donates an electron to a free radical, and that makes the free radical less reactive.

The antioxidant is now reactive itself, and needs a donated electron from another antioxidant, and so on, each time becoming less reactive.

But if you get a whole bunch of the same antioxidant from a supplement or a "super food", this doesn't happen - so the antioxidants themselves become reactive, which is the exact opposite reason people take them.

But worse, free radicals send a "signal" to a cell to create it's own antioxidants...and if you're swarming with too many you've got from elsewhere, this never happens. Your body doesn't produce it's own antioxidants, which both prevents this same reaction happening, and also negates any benefit of exercise.

Or in a nutshell, the body is complicated - you need to get the balances right, you can't just throw stuff at it and hope it gets enough of everything.

Quote:In Western world, it's not a problem, over consumption of highly processed foods and sugar, so excess anti oxidants would be rare unless you are consuming a large quantity of those.

Yes, and no - for the average consumer, it's not an issue. However, I'm thinking in terms of somebody growing all (or most) of their own food.

The kind of people who do that also tend to follow the trendy health folk wisdom of the day - which is to eat as many anti-oxidants as you possibly can, which kills you much faster than not eating enough of them.

Quote:Sugar in fruit is not the same as refined sugar in processed foods

Again, I'm thinking of someone growing all their own food. But I'll give you that one - as long as you're not living off mostly-fruit, fructose isn't a problem unless you're extracting it and adding it to other things.

Quote:People growing their own fruits and veggies, are they doing this because it is healthier or because it is cheaper in the long run ? or because it is a hobby and they have nothing else to do.

Because we're filthy hippies who don't want to give money to megacorporations

pindokhan123 wrote: i wonder if this method i used commercially?

The Bengal method has been used commercially in, well, Bengal, since the 1940s. It's not a matter of whether it's used commercially or not, it's more a matter of at what scale, which exact technique (hydroponics is a family of technologies, not a single technology) and who by.

Bigger isn't better.

Strawberries grown hydroponically have higher levels of anti-oxidants than soil grown strawberries, but for Raspberries, it's the other way round.

So strawberries should be grown hydroponically then? Well, not necessarily, because contrary to popular belief antioxidants aren't a more is better thing - oxidation is required for normal cellular function, and too many antioxidants is just as bad - and at extreme levels, much worse - than not enough. So perhaps raspberries should be grown hydroponically, and strawberries in soil?

Well, maybe not - because levels of fructose are always higher in soil grown produce, which is why soil grown food tastes better. But too much sugar is bad, right? Well yes - but overall, not the concentration in a particular food.

Hydroponics need less water than soil grown, except where I live, most of the water comes from the sky. I only have to get the watering can out a handful of times a year...and it's all been collected from rainfall over the year - so while technically hydroponics requires less overall water, it actually requires a much larger amount of drinking water.

Hydroponics requires less space? That one is true. But it also requires more labour, and a pump. And hydroponic fertilizer solution isn't cheap, and it's difficult to make your own, verse soil fertiliser which literally falls out of your arse every couple of days whether you like it or not.

So, my suggestion is that you read lots of science, and come away still not sure what your best bet is.

It's an interesting observation, but no, I don't think you can judge the level of employment in a country by the level of activity in tasks for one simple reason: the sample size is too low. If you had the data for millions of people - perhaps all the backend data for Crowdflower and mTurk combined, then you could probably start to see some trends, but there are more than enough unemployed workers from every country in the world - with the possible exception of Vatican city - that any one of them could fill the leaderboard on any given day.

What you're more likely seeing is the relative value of the dollar rather than the relative levels of unemployment.

On the flip side, if you waste time on silly little things like who is in the right, and who is in the wrong, you'd never know whose side you're on from one minute to the next.

It doesn't matter what you're dealing with, it matters who you're dealing with.

Complete and total betrayal is okay from some people, it doesn't need forgiving, forgetting, or mercy. If you've already chosen your side, it just doesn't matter.

Others...others make me stand by my previous comment.

I have a pair of Deks that cost about £20. I used some water proofing spray, cost about £4.

If I can hike over the wild moorlands in these, you don't need $495 shoes for poncing about the suburbs.

It's way too easy to forgive. Way too easy to forget. It gets you nowhere, don't do it.

I wrote:When I look at my life, and wonder where I went wrong, it's actually pretty obvious.

Mercy.

Mercy is where it went wrong.

My advice to the younger generation - and I confess this isn't your general feel good advice - is to put mercy aside. It isn't worth it. You must avenge all wrongs before they escalate. You must avenge all blood feuds before they spread. You must keep your friends close, and your axe closer.

If you do not, that's exactly what they will do - spread, escalate, and poison every aspect of your life. Mercy is a weapon of the coward, wound into the social consciousness as a "good thing" to ensure "powerful" men never have to face somebody they wronged in the flesh. Nothing more.

Odin wrote:Let a man never stir on his road a step
without his weapons of war;
for unsure is the knowing when need shall arise
of a spear on the way without.