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[OT] Garlic (was George Friedman, The Next 100 Years)
"Reunite Gondwanaland (Mary Shafer)" wrote in message ... On Mon, 26 Jan 2009 05:44:20 -0600, Pat Flannery wrote: I'm cooking Bar S Franks at the moment. These do not incorporate nanotechnology of any sort, but they a do have nummitechnology going for them - because as near as I can figure, these things are a lot closer to some sort of sophisticated artificial chemical product than meat. Sweetie, it's the garlic. Garlic makes anything (except maybe ice cream) taste good. It's a major ingredient in bachelor chow. I agree. Emeril has a recipe for garlic mashed potatoes that's excellent. It starts with roasting an entire head of garlic in the oven... Jeff -- "Many things that were acceptable in 1958 are no longer acceptable today. My own standards have changed too." -- Freeman Dyson |
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[OT] Garlic (was George Friedman, The Next 100 Years)
Jeff Findley wrote: I agree. Emeril has a recipe for garlic mashed potatoes that's excellent. It starts with roasting an entire head of garlic in the oven... That does sound good... I have to admit I stick garlic in most of the stuff I cook also. Pat |
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[OT] Garlic (was George Friedman, The Next 100 Years)
"Pat Flannery" wrote in message dakotatelephone... Jeff Findley wrote: I agree. Emeril has a recipe for garlic mashed potatoes that's excellent. It starts with roasting an entire head of garlic in the oven... That does sound good... I have to admit I stick garlic in most of the stuff I cook also. http://www.emerils.com/recipe/7779/R...ashed-Potatoes Oops, I remembered wrong, it's THREE heads of garlic: Ingredients 3 heads garlic, split in 1/2 3 tablespoon olive oil 2 pounds potatoes, peeled and diced 1 stick butter, cubed 1/2 to 3/4 cup heavy cream Salt and white pepper ... My wife tasted it and said "that's way too much garlic". My oldest daughter, however, got my side of the family's garlic gene, so she said, "there can never be too much garlic". :-) Jeff -- "Many things that were acceptable in 1958 are no longer acceptable today. My own standards have changed too." -- Freeman Dyson |
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[OT] Garlic (was George Friedman, The Next 100 Years)
"Jeff Findley" wrote:
"Reunite Gondwanaland (Mary Shafer)" wrote in message ... On Mon, 26 Jan 2009 05:44:20 -0600, Pat Flannery wrote: I'm cooking Bar S Franks at the moment. These do not incorporate nanotechnology of any sort, but they a do have nummitechnology going for them - because as near as I can figure, these things are a lot closer to some sort of sophisticated artificial chemical product than meat. Sweetie, it's the garlic. Garlic makes anything (except maybe ice cream) taste good. It's a major ingredient in bachelor chow. I agree. Emeril has a recipe for garlic mashed potatoes that's excellent. It starts with roasting an entire head of garlic in the oven... Sometimes I have to remind myself that garlic is neither a vegetable nor a food group. D. -- Touch-twice life. Eat. Drink. Laugh. http://derekl1963.livejournal.com/ -Resolved: To be more temperate in my postings. Oct 5th, 2004 JDL |
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[OT] Garlic (was George Friedman, The Next 100 Years)
Jeff Findley wrote: http://www.emerils.com/recipe/7779/R...ashed-Potatoes Oops, I remembered wrong, it's THREE heads of garlic: Ingredients 3 heads garlic, split in 1/2 3 tablespoon olive oil 2 pounds potatoes, peeled and diced 1 stick butter, cubed 1/2 to 3/4 cup heavy cream Salt and white pepper ... This sounds very good... it also sounds like around and extra inch or so on the waistline. :-D My wife tasted it and said "that's way too much garlic". My oldest daughter, however, got my side of the family's garlic gene, so she said, "there can never be too much garlic". :-) I have to admit to having eaten a garlic clove on occasion. Pat Jeff |
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George Friedman, The Next 100 Years
On Sun, 25 Jan 2009 05:57:42 -0800 (PST), in a place far, far away,
Ian Parker made the phosphor on my monitor glow in such a way as to indicate that: Pace of space developments will be set by AI. No people beyond LEO until we get a VN machine. Nonsense. If Constellation is cancelled, and it looks as if it will be, there won't be anybody beyond LEO for the period specified. More nonsense. Constellation is not required to get humans beyond LEO (and in fact is an impediment, because it steals resources from more effective means to do so). |
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George Friedman, The Next 100 Years
On Tue, 27 Jan 2009 01:56:34 +0000 (UTC), in a place far, far away,
Rick Jones made the phosphor on my monitor glow in such a way as to indicate that: "Reunite Gondwanaland (Mary Shafer)" wrote: Garlic makes anything (except maybe ice cream) taste good. There are a bunch of crazies (*) in Gilroy, CA who will disagree with you about garlic ice cream Although I am not one of them. rick jones (*) although probably decreasing in number as more of Gilroy gets converted to subdivisions and garlic gets imported from overseas. That's likely to slow for a while, given the glut of housing in that part of CA. |
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George Friedman, The Next 100 Years
On Mon, 26 Jan 2009 03:55:39 -0800 (PST), in a place far, far away,
Ian Parker made the phosphor on my monitor glow in such a way as to indicate that: On 26 Jan, 07:26, "Martha Adams" wrote: I see a lot of words here, but I don't see *progress*. *In my view, 'sci.space.policy' is about appropriate policy for getting some things done. * I think we first have to recognize trends before we decide on the apropriate way to act. The questions to me are these. 1) If we have an elaborate (and expensive) program to (say) get a manned expedition to Mars. No, we don't. All the current plans do is get us to the moon (and probably not even that). rest of nutty monomania about AI and VN machines snipped |
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George Friedman, The Next 100 Years
On Jan 25, 6:57*am, Ian Parker wrote:
Pace of space developments will be set by AI. No people beyond LEO until we get a VN machine. If Constellation is cancelled, and it looks as if it will be, there won't be anybody beyond LEO for the period specified. I can see that this paragraph could be open to misinterpretation. Since you have admitted that Constellation *could* send people beyond LEO, you did not mean to say that it would be *impossible* to send people beyond low Earth orbit without von Neumann machines. That, of course, _would_ be obviously false, since there is an obvious counterexample dated July 20, 1969 - and several before and after that date. A von Neumann machine or something of the sort would indeed be a good thing to have. It would let us do many things in space _without_ having to send humans out there, with the need for life-support and the concern for safety and so on. And there are things that could not be done in a reasonable timescale with humans instead of VN machines, such as converting the asteroid belt into mirrors and steam engines to convert some significant fraction of the Sun's output into easily usable power. Say for pushing an interstellar spaceship with a giant laser. Historically, though, Artificial Intelligence is one of those things that has always been "just ten years away". like fusion power. So people are very skeptical about its prospects. Perhaps that skepticism is now not entirely justified. Genetic algorithms have finally allowed AI to bear some real fruit. And the way Moore's Law is working out - that the ability to make processors faster is hitting a wall, but not the ability to make *more* of them cheaply - could favor certain forms of AI as well. It's true that AI is more likely to improve quickly than the metals we make rockets from and the fuels we use in them. But to say everything absolutely depends on AI doesn't seem reasonable. After all, if you want something that has human-level intelligence, and can reproduce itself, well, that already exists; it's called a human being. John Savard |
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George Friedman, The Next 100 Years
On Jan 30, 10:26*am, (Rand Simberg)
wrote: On Tue, 27 Jan 2009 01:56:34 +0000 (UTC), in a place far, far away, Rick Jones made the phosphor on my monitor glow in such a way as to indicate that: "Reunite Gondwanaland (Mary Shafer)" wrote: Garlic makes anything (except maybe ice cream) taste good. There are a bunch of crazies (*) in Gilroy, CA who will disagree with you about garlic ice cream Although I am not one of them. rick jones (*) although probably decreasing in number as more of Gilroy gets converted to subdivisions and garlic gets imported from overseas. That's likely to slow for a while, given the glut of housing in that part of CA. Yeah let's rush there now and spend $500K for a house that was $650K just two years ago! I was just in CA, Monterey, SF, Sac and Auburn. There is no more glut in CA than anywhere else. Sure supply exceeds demand like everywhere else but don't expect to steal a house in CA at St. Louis prices. Eric |
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