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Well if the mineral or vitamin is extracted from an actual plant, then they have to use food waste (for it to be economical) and subject it to various chemical solvents to extract the concentrated substance they're looking for. If you want to get more minerals and vitamins from plants, then juice them. Also, you can get organically grown plants that were grown in nutrient-rich soil and without chemical pesticides (or without as many as the conventionally grown ones). You'll spend a bit more, but save it on the supplements you're no longer buying. Not to mention your health. About the plant-derived minerals, it's what I found in the youngevity site you mentioned, under the source for the mineral supplements they use.

We're not supposed to eat rocks dissolved in water. Plants do that. We eat the plants, or the animals that eat the plants (or the animals that eat the animals that eat the plants). Saying that a mineral deposit is "plant derived" doesn't really mean anything. Crude oil is plant derived too, but I don't think you want to drink it.

Tattoos and piercings are minor forms of body mutilation. I believe they psychologically represent someone being owned by another, or belonging to a group they can't leave. Think: branding and nose piercing in cattle. This is how tattos and piercings have been used historically by indigenous tribes. Someone can have a tattoo or a piercing and be emotionally healthy, but in general, if they willfully got these at one point, I think it means they weren't, at that point. In the health sense, piercings obviously damage the skin and tissues somewhat, and tattoos often have toxic chemicals and/or heavy metals in the ink that will last for a lifetime. Obviously the heavier the dose, the worse the potential damage is. All in all, no, I don't find them attractive. And I'm more likely to be attracted to a woman who doesn't have them. Although nowadays, that is very rare. Most women have some, even if it's a tiny thing. Fewer men have them, and when they do, they tend to go all-out. I don't really care either way if a friend has them, as long as they're emotionally healthy, or close enough to that. I give credit to people who realize they made a mistake when getting a tattoo or a piercing. In general I may try to stay away from people who are enthusiasts about it, no matter how many they may or may not have at that point, but it's not a huge deal. Someone could be a tattoo or piercing enthusiast and still be an emotionally healthy and good person with interesting things to say and share. I haven't met anybody like that, but I'm not discounting that possibility.

Do whatever is best for you and your own sanity and wellbeing. But don't imagine for a moment that that money won't get stolen just because you quit, or that someone who would do a lot more harm wouldn't get that position instead of you.

It's a sad day. The State may just have turned him into a martyr, though.

There was no fee until 2011 or so. Also be aware that you're not paying an exit fee, you're paying a fee to be allowed to file the paperwork and have your request considered. They're under no obligation to grant you the exit just because you paid them what they said. Also, if you say that you want to renounce your citizenship because taxes are too high, they will automatically reject your request to renounce it. So better start thinking of something else that they will believe and accept.

I don't drink alcohol other than an average 1 cup of red wine per month as a health supplement. But you can't seriously consider studies like this. Counting car accidents caused by drunk driving is fine (if properly and statistiscally compared to accidents caused by sober people), but sick days and whatnot is not really a meaningful study. People use alcohol as a form of entertainment and to enhance or share social interactions. You can't measure such things in dollars. Because people who drink alcohol consider it a good, they are willing to work harder (increase productivity) to be able to afford their drinking. So how much productivity would there be if nobody drunk alcohol? Nobody knows. Maybe the total would actually be lower.

Should a prisoner who didn't commit any crimes have their prison sentence reduced by one year?

Plants need CO2 to live and grow. The more they have, the better. And it takes really high CO2 concentrations in the air before it becomes toxic for us or other animals. So it's not a problem. Other gases that are produced by burning fossil fuels may be a problem, like carbon monoxide, and many others. But not CO2. In any case, global warming is unlikely to have much to do with CO2 levels, and in any case, for most of the world, a small rise in temperature means higher productivity, lower energy consumption and more biodiversity in wild areas and a larger net biomass overall. What most of the world really should be concerned with is when global temperatures go down, and they will, sooner or later.

Thanks for the story Taiga. I really enjoyed reading it.

What is stated in the will about when your cousin gets the money? Does it say that your uncle gets to decide when he gets it? The will is really all that matters.

31, and 24. But I did most of the listening during the first year or so. Nowadays I only listen to one show a month or so, sometimes less.

What about Andy Whitfield? He played Spartacus in the first season of the TV Series Spartacus: Blood and Sand. He was 37. By the next year he had to stop production due to cancer treatment. The cancer went into remission, but then about 6 months later it resurfaced and by the age of 39 he passed away. Here's a few pictures of him from the series (the scars and stuff were part of the character, not his real body): http://www.imdb.com/media/rm166103296/nm1813878 http://www.imdb.com/media/rm332959488/nm1813878 http://www.imdb.com/media/rm182880512/nm1813878 http://www.imdb.com/media/rm199657728/nm1813878

The world is full of athletic, young, fit people who suddenly die of a heart attack (and not even during workouts) or get cancer and die soon thereafter. I'm sure the rates are lower than for the general population, but there is a big difference between saying that there is a correlation between fitness and health, and saying that the only way to be healthy is to be fit, and vice-versa. Or just take steroid heads who hit the gym every day. Are they healthy?

Err, yeah, it looks like they changed the name.

Kitco has good prices. Also Euro Pacific Precious Metals. Both are trustworthy. What you want is at least 99.9% fineness (purity) and as little over spot as possible. (spot is the international going market rate for large quantities of gold, which updates every second) Also beware of fake gold. There's mainly two ways go get scammed with fake gold. One is getting sold something that looks similar to gold, but isn't. Another way is to get sold another metal that looks nothing like gold, but has been plated with real gold. Finally, while larger pieces will usually cost less over spot, they can also can have their own problems when it comes time to liquidate them. It's usually not a big deal either way, and more of an added nuisance, but it's up to you to decide that depending on your expected future circumstances.

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He has some good things to say, however he's not very consistent, often attacks people based purely on looks, avoids saying anything bad about men, and encourages black men to avoid dating black women. If black women are as bad as he says, shouldn't he also be encouraging non-black women to avoid dating black men? Since having kids with a black man will produce half-black baby girls. He also seems to encourage womanizing in men, I haven't seen him ever talk about how a husband should stick around. Even though he often speaks against sluts and talks about how bad it is that women sleep around and have babies from different fathers. He also supports Obama, from what I've seen. Apparently just because he's black, or half black.

That's not what he said. Not even close.

He obviously is no friend of yours. She's clearly not a good person either. I know you must feel terrible right now, and I'm sorry for that, but in the long scheme of things, you should probably thank her for showing you that this person who you thought was a wonderful friend of 10+ years, was anything but. Imagine how much more it could've ended up costing you to figure this out, if you trusted him completely.

I think it's more likely to be cultural. In general and except in extreme cases (on both ends), I don't find weight to be an issue when determining how much I'm attracted to a woman. This doesn't mean that "everyone is beautiful", as some say. It just means that there are other much more important factors that make me more or less physically attracted to a woman. By the way, I also find long nails (especially fake nails), high heels and makeup to be extremely unattractive. But that's just me. And where did they come up with the idea that it's because thinner = younger? How many obese grandmothers do you know? How about skinny and frail grandmothers? I mean sure, on average, younger women are thinner, but it's not like you can't estimate someone's age regardless of her weight. So it's not like you're gonna go, "oh, she's thin, so she must be young" Also, being overweight doesn't always correlate with worse health outcomes: http://www.medicaldaily.com/health-benefits-being-overweight-higher-bmi-linked-longer-life-and-faster-healing-249203 http://ajcn.nutrition.org/content/81/3/543.abstract

There's a problem with going just off of how you feel immediately after eating. For instance, if you had a huge cup of coffee, you'd feel pretty energetic for a few hours. But that doesn't mean that this will improve your health over the long term.

I was reading this article, and I came to the conclusion that there is definitely a rape culture. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3207718/British-man-25-arrested-Cambodia-violent-rape-British-female-tourist.html That is, there is a culture where if there's ever any doubt about what happened during a sexual encounter, it's considered rape. This is a huge problem. It victimizes men, and it fails to protect victims of actual rape, by devaluing rape, and turning it from something horrible, into something that just happens without any of the parties being particularly aware of it at the time, even if they are perfectly conscious and willing participants during the experience. I think actual rapists (along with murderers and torturers) who are proven to be guilty by a trustworthy court, should be executed. Or rather, their lives should be put at the disposal of their victims, or the victim's family or heirs. Also, I'm with Stef when he says that if someone falsely accuses someone else of a crime, and they are proven to have done so by a trustworthy court, then they should get the same punishment that the victim of their accusation would've gotten. I think it's probably a good idea to have a clause for early withdrawal of the accusation, whereby the required compensation to the would-be incriminated victim is reduced, but seriously attempting to incriminate someone should be a crime just as serious as the one that they're trying to incriminate someone else for. If not worse. There is now a flood of cases where someone is accused of rape, when clearly nothing of the sort ever happened. And because of the circumstances whereby just by pure chance, there is enough counter-evidence to show the accusations to be false, we can extrapolate that this must be happening all over the place, and that a significant portion of the rape accusations are probably false. There are undoubtedly many men who are wrongfully convincted of rape. And many of those surely are brutally gang-raped in the prison system. All this breeds contempt towards women, towards the legal system, and in particularly towards the concept of rape being a horrible crime. Which partially explains why there are so many crazy, evil people who associate with the "men's rights movement" who are now calling for a decriminalization of rape. It's common now for many teenage boys to use the term "rape" to refer to defeating an opponent in a game, or making someone look bad through insults, or show someone to be wrong through argumentation. Sometimes I think about whether all this is all by design. If it's all about turning men and women against each other, as some form of weird tribalism based not on race or religion but on biological sex. Destroying the family unit is very profitable for the State. And clearly there can be no family unit if men and women see each other as enemies.

You've got to be kidding. I previously thought this guy was just a very aggressive moron. Apparently he is much worse than that. It says in one of those links that he said the following: "Make rape legal if done on private property. I propose that we make the violent taking of a woman not punishable by law when done off public grounds." "Without daddy government to protect her, a girl would absolutely not enter a private room with a man she doesn’t know or trust unless she is absolutely sure she is ready to sleep with him. Consent is now achieved when she passes underneath the room’s door frame, because she knows that that man can legally do anything he wants to her when it comes to sex."

I said relative abundance. Relative to calories and fiber. If you lived in the tropics, or happened to be in the berry season, fruit can be more or less widely available in certain areas. Nuts, seeds, root vegetables and bulbs less so, and they also contain less fiber. Wild edible leafy greens have a lot of fiber and can be relatively abundant, but have very little calories that we can extract.