Phi for All

This thread could almost be in Politics, because it's pressure from marketing lobbyists that get the FDA to allow them to lie like this. They are skirting the ethical issue by labeling sucrose as sugar while fructose is not. To a diabetic, there is no difference, it's still sugar. I had a friend who couldn't seem to lose weight on the Protein Power low-carb diet. I had great success and my overall health (blood pressure, cholesterol ratios, triglycerides) were much improved as well. When I questioned what he was eating, it finally came out that he still drank a 12-16 ozs of orange juice every morning. When I told him OJ was almost pure sugars, he vehemently disagreed. He still insists on drinking his juice every morning, though I cautioned him to lay off the Protein Power diet if he was going to continue drinking fructose products. The marketing for frozen concentrated OJ (and other sugary foods) is very strong in the US.

Mars closer to the sun than Earth? It might be more viable for solar without a filtering atmosphere, but IIRC it is not closer.

If you are at Caledonian College of Engineering in Oman, contact your senior librarian, Kalilur Rahman, and even if your system is down, he can provide you with authenticated access to use the Glasgow Caledonian University servers. Mr Rahman can be reached at Tel: 536165 ext. 700. Otherwise, I can see no reason why Google can't provide you with this information. Your English seems more than adequate for the task.

My point is that a utility patent would protect him so there is no reason why we should have to email him for info as opposed to discussing it here.

Monster seems to be the term for someone who commits violent crimes repeatedly, is unrepentant and is often known by the authorities as an habitual offender. No disrespect intended, but is this thread just going to keep resurfacing every time a monster is reported? Because I can tell you one thing, the press will keep finding these people and brandishing their lurid crimes in front of us because this kind of news sells. Capital punishment doesn't deter the monsters, but continual attention from the media just might encourage them.

If you are not willing to answer questions here, this becomes unpaid advertising, which we don't allow. I understand you have a patent on this motor. Any reasons why you can't discuss it here?

Community service is, thankfully, not an oxymoron. And being asked to do something beneficial for your community is different from being required to do it. Something in the human makeup rebels against being forced into any action. We'll gladly do something if it's our own idea, but when it's compulsory we stop thinking about the benefits of what we are doing and instead focus on the injustice of it all. All I can tell you is that character building exercises like this are only beneficial if you can look beyond the fact that it's mandatory. Many people would never get the satisfaction of having helped a fellow human being if they weren't forced into it by compulsory community service. This is one of those instances where you hate the idea before you do it, but will look back in a few years (or less) and be glad you did.

Please define your topic, since it's obvious no one has ever heard of it in quite this way before. What country uses this phrase? In the US there is compulsory community service, where people are given tasks to do that normally are fulfilled by volunteers. This is usually in lieu of minimal jail time or more often to avoid monetary fines.

I think most of sensation is perception. Take smell, for instance. We are taught to react to certain smells in certain ways, rather than simply treating them as smells. If you change your perception of a smell it becomes simply information. Our perception can make us gag from some smells because we are so conditioned. Policemen and medical examiners who come in contact with weeks-old dead bodies learn to block away the perception of what it smells like so they can do their jobs without getting ill every time. Many tastes are "acquired" as well. Think of the things you started out hating the taste of which you like or even love now. Your perceptions change, not the taste.

Read all the posts in all the threads in all the sub-forums here.

Better is good. Really good. If you think it would make her smile, remind your daughter of the times when she was little when you had to tell her not to put things up her nose. I can't help but resort to humor when things get tense. Sometimes it helps.

A Denver policeman once told me that the areas immediately around a police station are kind of a blind-spot. The policemen there are usually en route to other areas or are taking care of business inside the station. They also make the assumption that criminals avoid the area near the police stations due to the supposedly quicker response time.

If there are primate alien life forms, we might expect their development to mirror ours. Imagine the low probability of them being synchronous with our last 100 years, from the time we were able to send signals off-planet to the discovery of uranium's devastating abilities to our sociological ability to overcome our self-destruction (which is still up in the air, so to speak). It's no wonder we haven't come in contact with an alien race of similar advancement. Cosmically speaking, 100 years is a pretty small window.

Thank you for the link to the other thread. It cleared up for me what your earlier sentence meant. I think I understand now that you see a correlation between many different aspects of the physical world. I, too, have observed such things many times (some are interrelated, some are merely coincidence). I think I also see the reason behind some of the friction you are experiencing here at SFN. First thing, your user-name suggests an unbending, unopposable adherence to Christian religious doctrine. I must say, however, that the community seems to have overlooked this in their first few posts after your initial ones. I think the problems started to form when you began to make statements of belief (some spiritual beliefs, some scientific ones) without citing other sources or at the very least stating that they were personal. You must be careful in a scientific community to preface your beliefs and conclusions with "IMO (in my opinion)", "I believe", "it seems to me" or any phrase that makes the statement refutable. Without this, you are stating as fact something that can't be proven. Again, personal opinion, stated as fact as if we all should know this. Nothing will raise the hackles of our fellow members faster because we all have these opinions, and they can't all be right. So we can express them as opinion and get feedback, or we can club each other with them as fact and get ridicule. Couple this with what I said about your user-name and you begin to look like some of the fundamentalist types who come here to preach. And I don't think that is your approach at all. From what I have read of your posts, you seem sincere in tying your spiritual beliefs together with the science you know, something that is very important to me as well. I think you will be more effective if you draw the line between your opinions and what you state as fact. And be sure to list citations or give links to the latter. Thanks for listening to my opinion.

Here are some threads that talk in more detail about higher dimensions and hypercubes. I've done the search parameters so the word hypercube will be highlighted in red: http://www.scienceforums.net/forums/showthread.php?t=7967&highlight=hypercube http://www.scienceforums.net/forums/showthread.php?t=1068&highlight=hypercube

I'm not making anything out. I made no comments on the hypotheses in question, merely the methods by which you were attempting to refute them. I agree, they would not come to a sudden stop, but that was not what my earlier comment was about. Jonfraz was presupposing a tube through the earth and you were criticizing his hypothesis based on the fact that his supposition was impossible. Suppositions are often made for the theoretical purposes. He was asking you to assume the tube was a given. Again, your beliefs and theories were not in question. I was pointing out that asking you to suppose there was already a tube through the middle of the earth was key to Jonfraz's example. For you to argue his supposition was superfluous. If your paranoia in this instance has been brought about by unfair persecution from fellow SFN members, I encourage you to report offensive posts by clicking on the middle button at the lower left of each post. For my part, when I get the time, I will follow some of your posts to see what has brought on this defensive posture.

Good luck with that. Can you make this sentence a bit clearer? Because' date=' I simply doubt it's possible to put a hole inside the planet.[/quote']His hypothesis presupposes a tube through the earth for the purposes of his gravity example. You're disagreeing with his hypothesis because his supposition doesn't suit you.

I'll bet this was the intention. Photocopier toner is cheaper than printer cartridges in most cases. They are being frugal.

I hear he likes Baby Got Back, but he sings his own lyrics: I like big bucks so I have to lie My other brothers showed me why That when a guy walks in with an itty bitty case full of bearer bonds in your face You get sprung, wanna pull out your tongue 'Cause you notice that bucks was stuffed Deep in the jeans he's wearing I'm hooked and I can't stop staring Oh Allah, I wanna get wit'chuz And take your riches CIA tried to warn me But with that oil they got makes me feel so horny Ooh, Rumsfeld's Cruisin' You say you wanna be wit my frenz? Well, use me, Cheney Dicky ain't that average meanie I've seen him dancin' Hallibur-romancin' We'll sweat, yet, put the screws to the war bud-get I've got the magazines Sayin' we need more machines Take the average soldier and ask him that "We takin' too much flak!" So, fellas! (Yeah!) Fellas! (Yeah!) Has your President got the bucks? (Hell yeah!) Tell 'em to shake it! (Sheik it!) Shake it! (Sheik it!) Sheik those oily bucks! Dubya got bucks!

The Pope dies + your pedophilia reference + Introduce yourself thread ≠ humor. Trust me, I know humor.

My prayers and wishes are with you and Alex. The specialist is exactly what's needed.

Who you calling ignorant?

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Newtonian wakes up after surgery and asks, "Why are all the blinds drawn?" The doctor answers, "There's a big fire across the street, and we didn't want you to think the operation was a failure."