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You can have anything that wants to follow me around 😳

Ahh but then we have the Flashermacian. Those who seek to emulate or follow the Flashermac. A bit like Machiavellian. Same same but different.

BB. Sometimes you're a treasure. That's a great idea. Now. What to engrave. 'Goodbye and thanks for all the f**ks'. 'Sit on my face'. 'Property is NSA'. 'You know you like it that way'. Mmmm the possibilities are endless.

From the women's point of view, selecting a mate that's not from her gene pool confers a better immune system (hybrid vigour) on her progeny. They are more likely to survive and thereto better able to continue their mother's genes.

engraved ? for the lady you see

Here's a goofy question.

I wanna buy an iPad air, it I buy it online I can get it engraved.

The website says available to ship within 24 hrs.

So, in the collective wisdom of the board, does anyone think, that if I order it on Sunday morning, they would be able to deliver it to my hotel in Bangkok by Tuesday lunch time - slightly over 48 hrs?

Any advice or guesses welcomed.

From an evolutionary standpoint, it makes a lot of sense.

Raiding war parties who win, take the women for a good reason, some of them go with not too much protest...

And as an ancillary argument, at least 10% of women 'like a bit of stray'. This is based on anonymous studies into DNA taken from babies and parents at birth, where they discovered that 10% of children do not belong to the father. Several countries in the study, so it's quite wide spread. Ahem...

And always remember, Nicolaus Copernicus.

But I will say, that the Climate Change proponents do have some science on their side. But what they're seeing, in my view, is not long term enough.

I know very few graphs, that take a straight line and continue it forever.

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Oooooohhhh! I remember one, a plot of the temperature of absolute 0, over time.

I love this argument - I could talk about this for hours. But in a few bullet points here is my summation:

• Climate Change - always has - always will -humans or no humans. They were bloody clever to shift the name from Global Warming to Climate Change.
  
• As pointed out in posts above, we humans are really arrogant if we think we can influence nature in more than a passing, glancing way.
  
• A positive in all of this - with the exception of carbon taxes - everything proposed to combat Climate Change is a bloodily good idea, Climate Change or no Climate Change.
  
• Carbon taxes et al - every Politicians wet dream - Vast sums of money and taxes that no one in their right mind can refuse.
  
• All of the accurate modelling data we have is focussed on timespans of about 100 to 200 years. A time so short, that the natural variability of any graphing, will show it to be meaningless in the fullness of time. It's a Gnat's fart in the Universe.
  
• When Politicians and Marketing Experts scrabble over each other to get on the bandwagon, you know something's wrong.
  
• A lot of data is misrepresented by the media who generally have their heads up their arses when it comes to understanding anything that's not gossip. An unrelated example of this follows: "Young men's chance of colorectal cancer doubles!" When what they are describing is a rise from 0.03% to 0.06%, another Gnat's fart in the Universe.
  

So, are we getting warmer? - probably

Will the Oceans rise? - probably

Will weather events become more extreme? - probably

Is it our fault? - not much, perhaps in the order of 1 %

Will what ever happens, happen anyway? - of course.

Why are people called Climate Change Deniers? Because they needed a disparaging name, Climate Change Realist would not do their cause any good at all.

Pity I haven't got 4 more hours to rave on about this....

As noted, I'll be returning from the alternate universe that is the Glorious People's Republic of Idiocy, to attend.

Thx to Kong for suggesting this meet.

BTW I haven't been to Patpong for more than a decade, so the afternoon could follow on.

MPs used to resign in NZ over points of honour, but the internet age has seen that behaviour become scarce.

Though one high profile guy resigned the other day, because he was fed up, with the useless bag of dead dog parts his political party had become.

Whilst I don't think I've offered an opinion on Aspartame, I do so now.

When I was about 14 and tubby, I decided that diet Coke was the answer and I drank many litres of the stuff each week. No I didn't lose weight. I did, however get nodules on the cartilage ridges of my ears, not many, 3 or 4 about the size of half a pea. When I stopped drinking diet Coke, the nodules went away.

Subsequently, if I drink diet Coke or anything else with Aspartame in it, more than say once a week, the nodules come back.

Not scientific, but now I know about nodule control.

Here in the glorious people's republic of idiocy, I always get conversations between the Lao on the fact that I can eat 98% of the Lao food put on the table.

But the real unexplained conspiracy is, why are they all out to get me?

It'd have to be a new one, how about "Orient"

Plot development - Kim Jong Haircut's motive is to keep all the passengers captive for future bargaining chips, whilst repurposing the plane as a nuclear bomb delivery vehicle with 5 devices on board.

It'd make a great James Bond movie, Kim Jong Un steals plane and doesn't tell anyone, the world looks for plane, whilst 007 trawls the seedy streets of Asia's nightlife to track down the clues...

Incompetence

You're safe now, as Dumsoda says - no longer made.

Kloster was my favourite Thai beer....unfortunately it's been gone for maybe 9 or 10 years now

 

....memories

...been drinking Carlesberg & Asahi lately, but only small quantities....normally a VT or a Bourbon

I used to really like Kloster

All of this is true. We have not done it a lot, but from the "for fun" tests we did, we could not tell flat out from the lab GMO corn from the garden variety with flame chromatography.

You mean the GMO stuff wasn't green with two heads and oozing slime?

So if you want to add calcium to your diet, you eat chalk? I don't think so.

Well yes that's exactly what you're doing -

Composition of chalk

Composition of Calcium tablets

Natural comes with the enzymes, etc, chemical does not, that is the difference.

The occurrence of enzymes etc, with a chemical, does not change that chemical's molecular structure. Putting enzymes, dust and pepper in sugar just gives you sugar with enzymes, dust and pepper. The sugar itself is the same, man made or no.

If I eat chemical MSG, my legs cramp and hurt like all get out. The natural product from kelp, no issues.

I'll bet you a beer, that it's an excess of MSG you're getting, too much keeps me awake at night. The 'natural' stuff on kelp etc is present in really small quantities, so you're unlikely to get the same leg pain. To test this, you could get boxes and boxes of the kelp and scrape off all the white powder until you had about a tablespoon of it. Put that in yer Som Tam, it's about how much they put in here, way too much.

The Japanese started using it in the "K-rations" during WWII. "Invented" by Ajinomoto company, the same you see all over LOS.

Whilst you cannot 'invent' a naturally occurring chemical, you are essentially correct:

Kikunae Ikeda from the Tokyo Imperial University isolated glutamic acid as a new taste substance in 1908 from the seaweed Laminaria japonica, kombu, by aqueous extraction and crystallization, and named its taste "umami". He noticed that dashi, the Japanese broth of katsuobushi and kombu, had a peculiar taste that had not been scientifically described at that time and differed from sweet, salty, sour and bitter. To verify that ionized glutamate was responsible for the umami taste, Professor Ikeda studied the taste properties of many glutamate salts such as calcium, potassium, ammonium, and magnesium glutamate. All salts elicited umami in addition to a certain metallic taste due to the other minerals. Among those salts, sodium glutamate was the most soluble and palatable, and crystallized easily. Professor Ikeda named this product monosodium glutamate and submitted a patent to produce MSG. Suzuki brothers started the first commercial production of MSG in 1909 as Aji-no-moto, meaning "essence of taste" in English Wiki woo

if we're to descend into Cat memes...

Sorry Cav, but 'natural' and 'chemical' MSG are identical - exactly the same - indistinguishable.

There is no difference, except perhaps in the amount of adulterants found in the naturally occurring version, like diatoms, algae etc.

This is a common misperception amongst some in our societies, that a compound, or molecule, is some how different from a naturally occurring version, if it has been made by man.

e.g. Salt is salt (NaCl) whether it is scraped off sun heated rocks at the seaside or made from a chemical reaction in a test tube. There is no difference. If there was a difference, it wouldn't be salt.

The anti "man made" argument goes something like this: Some chemicals are harmful to health and living organisms, like 2,4,D and 2,4,5 T (agent orange) or concentrated industrial waste. Because they are made by man, ergo anything else made by man is bad too. Like houses, forks and underwear.

So to say that MSG as it occurs on Kelp, is OK, but if it comes from a factory, it is not. Is risible.

The concern around MSG in the diet, IMHO seems to have come from a time when it was first being produced in quantity and chefs started over-using it (notably in Chinese cuisine).

As with anything else, too much is too much. Just like adding too much salt to your steak. Or vinegar in your salad dressing.

Here in The Glorious People's Republic, they use it in everything, it's ubiquitous. And yet apart from a dose of the communisms, they are quite a healthy bunch, indeed some of the women... well that's another story.

I often have to tell the food vendors to put only small amounts of MSG in the food, not because I don't like it, just because they use too much.

Now if they were putting a harmful chemical, like cyanide (man made) in my food, that would be another story. And yet anyone who has eaten bamboo soup/salad/curry in this part of the world, has eaten trace amounts of a cyanogenic glycoside that makes cyanide in your gut -{Although the shoots (new culms that come out of the ground) of bamboo contain a toxin taxiphyllin (a cyanogenic glycoside) that produces cyanide in the gut, proper processing renders them edible.} But hey, that's naturally occurring so it's OK!

​Actually, I reckon there's a link between the local's tolerance of intestinal parasites and the like - and eating bamboo with the trace amounts of cyanide that get produced.

I take issue with this kind of info (not you Flashie)

Ever eaten Corn? Then you've eaten the first three on the list. The fact that they may be derived from Genetically modified organisms, doesn't make them bad.

A carrot is a Genetically modified organism, the original version was purple, many years of traditional selective breeding allowed the genetics of the carrot to be modified to produce orange carrots, all of this, a long time ago, before the green movement.

Ever eaten fish soup/curry/jeow in Thaland/Laos/Cambodia ? Then 90% chance it had fish bladder in it. And Fish bladder is? a bit of skin.

Propylene glycol is considered generally recognized as safe (GRAS) by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, and it is used as an humectant (E1520), solvent, and preservative in food and for tobacco products, ... ..... Propylene glycol is used as a solvent in many pharmaceuticals, including oral, injectable and topical formulations, such as for diazepam and lorazepam which are insoluble in water. (see Wikiwoo)

Monosodium Glutamate (MSG) - Good sushi rice is made (in part) by boiling a bit of Kelp with white powder on it (naturally occurring MSG) with the rice. Glutamates are present in many foods naturally.

Natural Flavors, well hell, you wouldn't want any of those would you?

GMO Sugars - See argument on Genetically modified organisms above. And while we're at it, how do you genetically modify a molecule of sugar?

Caramel Coloring - again very scary, sugar, slightly burned, like toffee, got to be poisonous - right?

Insect-Based Dyes - If you ever had a cake with pink icing prior to, say, the '50s, you had red food colouring made from beetles. Half the world eat insects what's the problem?

Carrageenan - made from seaweed - Carrageenan is a vegetarian and vegan alternative to gelatine -http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrageenan - actually, if the Vegans like it, there could be problems with this one...

BPA ? Boricua Popular Army?

Mind you, that doesn't mean to say that we should approve of the business practises of Monsanto and the like, they're c*nts.

MH370 Search Planes Spot Floating Rohingya Refugees, Dismiss As “Unrelated Debrisâ€

28 Mar 2014

SOUTH INDIAN OCEAN – The ongoing saga of locating Malaysia Airlines flight 370 took another disappointing turn today as search planes discovered that many of the large objects seen by satellites were just floating rafts full of Rohingya refugees.

At approximately 8am this morning Perth time, a US navy P8 aircraft passed over what initially appeared to be a large floating object, the first human contact with a possible piece of the missing Boeing 777 jet, which vanished from radar on March 8. However, once the plane got close enough, the pilots realized that the object was in fact several hundred starving, dehydrated, stateless persons waving from large pontoon.

“Disappointment†as mysterious object at sea revealed to be unwanted humans

“It’s disappointing that we didn’t find any wreckage, but we’re determined to keep looking,†said Lt Commander Adam Shantz. “There’s a lot of unrelated debris floating in the ocean, and we knew that from the start.â€

The US navy reported that while there were some corpses floating in the sea nearby the raft, it was assumed that the bodies were Rohingyas, and therefore of no interest to the search effort, or to any of the 25 nations involved. Once it was established that the refugees were unrelated to flight MH370, the navy plane flew on and headed towards other coordinates that matched promising satellite data.

“We don’t want to waste any resources, not even for an hour,†added Shantz. “People are depending on us.â€

The news was shared with the grieving families of the missing passengers at a news conference.

“We are saddened to report that some of the satellite photos provided by the French authorities turned out to be several hundred living persons who are not material to our investigation, rather than dead persons who might be,†said Malaysia’s acting Transport Minister Hishammuddin Hussein. “However, with every lead eliminated, we are in fact narrowing our search field and hope to recover a piece of the plane soon.â€

With grieving family members already initiating lawsuits against the Malaysian government, which they accuse of withholding key information, and with the Chinese state demanding access to all data used in the investigation, pressure is mounting on the Malaysians to come up with at least a single confirmed piece of the actual wreckage to verify their conviction that the plane crashed in the south Indian Ocean.

Many family members expressed anger at the discovery of the floating Rohingya refugees.

“If these satellite images can’t tell the difference between our loved ones and these dark-skinned people, then the technology is suspect,†said one woman whose husband was aboard flight 370. “The ocean could be full of floating refugees. We could be chasing phantoms for weeks.â€

According to oceanographer Martin Teel, the south Indian Ocean contains several areas known as “gyres,†or swirling eddies of currents where garbage and other items disposed of by human society end up, floating in endless circles indefinitely.

A closer look at the ocean debris, which is of no value to investigators, families, governments, or media

“It’s not surprising that these Rohingyas appeared on satellite images, causing confusion to the search efforts,†he said. “From what I understand, they have been thrown out of Bangladesh, Burma, and Thailand already. They’re exactly the kind of detritus that ends up in international waters.â€

“The solution going forward is clear,†he added. “Stop disposing of refugees at sea. That’s no way to treat our oceans.â€

Despite the setback, the Malaysian government expressed confidence that the combined efforts and assets of the searching nations would soon find something of value.

“A piece of wing, a life jacket, even a floating body,†said one official, who asked not to be identified because of the sensitive nature of the investigation. “We know that it’s out there, and we can’t let any distractions prevent us from focusing on what’s important.â€

No Rohingyas were available for comment.

http://notthenation.com/2014/03/mh370-search-planes-spot-floating-rohingya-refugees-dismiss-as-unrelated-debris/