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[Xellos-_^]

no idea,

i drank some dew on sometimes but have no problem going months without drinking dew

PS. Diet Mountain Dew is most disgusting thing every invented.

[Tiberium Wolf]

Say farewell to GeoCities

Oh it's gone. RIP GeoCities!

[Ansalem]

Originally Posted by Knight Hawk

I've seen/read lots of reports about Mountain Dew addiction (Diane Sawyer's report on it comes to mind), yet none on other soda/pop.
The hell does Mountain Dew have that other soda's don't?!

Yellow 5?

[Xellos-_^]

Originally Posted by Tiberium Wolf

Say farewell to GeoCities

Oh it's gone. RIP GeoCities!

i didn't even know it was still alive

[npcomplete]

Originally Posted by Knight Hawk

I've seen/read lots of reports about Mountain Dew addiction (Diane Sawyer's report on it comes to mind), yet none on other soda/pop.
The hell does Mountain Dew have that other soda's don't?!

Caffeine - 54mg per 12oz can. His withdrawal symptoms are the same as that of coffee withdrawal. His weight loss was due to dropping 6+ cans of sugar a day of course.

For an 8oz cup, darker black teas and lighter coffees have 50-60mg, while darker coffees can have up to 120mg. It's interesting that all energy drinks I see like Monster, AMP, have warnings to limit yourself to 3 cans a day.

[Knight Hawk]

All of these soda's have caffeine, yet Mountain Dew makes the headline's. (not just from this story) Perhaps Mtn Dew has a secret ingredient like coke used to have.

[Vexx]

The caffeine and other ingredients are nothing... its the "not really sugar" corn fructose (corn syrup) that is "teH 3V1L" in modern US soda pop (and probably the culprit in much of the national obesity). 6 cans of soda a day adds about 1200+ calories to your diet. When you couple that with the problem that this is one of the "false" sugars that don't trigger the brain's "had enough" signal... it means you drink it all and still feel hungry, overeating even more.

Soda can be a treat... but drink the ones made with *real* cane sugar (local microbrew soda, mexican coca-cola, etc) and you'll find you "need" much less and it will taste better anyway. LOOK at the ingredients in those "energy" drinks as well :P

HIstorically, Mountain Dew was the preferred programmer drink because it had a smidgen more caffeine than other sodas. With the advent of the 'monster' energy drinks, that is no longer true.

[Xellos-_^]

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/new...cle6892954.ece

Dozens of leading French politicians, business figures and artists, including the son of the former President François Mitterrand, have been found guilty of fuelling one of Africa’s deadliest civil wars through the illegal sale of weapons worth £450 million

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It was implied that France was so keen to curry favour with the oil-rich southern African state that it allowed the weapons deals to go ahead.

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However, Judge Parlos said: “Rarely have we reached such a degree of organisation and dissimulation of offences generating considerable profits.

i am shock just shock that the US government would put oil and profit above human lives. The US got a lot to learn form our European friends on upholding Human Rights
.....

oh wait.

[Demongod86]

Originally Posted by Xellos-_^

i am shock just shock that the US government would put oil and profit above human lives. The US got a lot to learn form our European friends on upholding Human Rights
.....

oh wait.

Wat? Oil = brings $ or at least saves $.

Human lives = cost $ to support and sustain.

Pretty simple from my end, so long as you put no intrinsic value on most human life.

[Irenicus]

Originally Posted by Demongod86

Human lives = cost $ to support and sustain.

Pretty simple from my end, so long as you put no intrinsic value on most human life.

Even with a blandly pragmatic outlook (a totally empty, pointless one, by any measure except its own), you're wrong.

Human resources are the most important resources in, well, human societies. Material wealth has no worth unless somebody actually gets to use it.

For a pithy amount of resources these blindly selfish men within the French government contributed to an event that cost the world an immeasurable amount of what economists, those heartless number-crunchers, call an "opportunity cost." Imagine instead a stable, more free, more prosperous Angola where the chaos is. If just one of those who are now dead in the killing fields had the potential to be the "next Einstein," then the world have lost a precious thing. And even if none of them would have had become Einstein, war consumes resources and produce nothing in return. And those are just the most direct, obvious of the potential benefits, since generally so-called "pragmatists" are awfully retarded at seeing the non-obvious value of things and I don't feel like explaining the rest -- the value of culture, for example.

Of course, pragmatists generally limit their worldview anyway. If France (or more exactly the French establishment) benefits just a little, then they are willing to place a greater cost on the rest of the world. That is because "they" are the French establishment and "they" won't have to pay for it. Geopolitics as understood by the power-holders of the world is more or less idiocy; blind self-interest is expensive.

[npcomplete]

Originally Posted by Vexx

The caffeine and other ingredients are nothing... its the "not really sugar" corn fructose (corn syrup) that is "teH 3V1L" in modern US soda pop (and probably the culprit in much of the national obesity). 6 cans of soda a day adds about 1200+ calories to your diet. When you couple that with the problem that this is one of the "false" sugars that don't trigger the brain's "had enough" signal... it means you drink it all and still feel hungry, overeating even more.

Yeah I've read about that before. I haven't heard anything about addictive properties though in terms of physiological effects although I wouldn't be surprised if there were any. From experience his symptoms are the same as mine when I go without caffeine/coffee for more than a day

Soda can be a treat... but drink the ones made with *real* cane sugar (local microbrew soda, mexican coca-cola, etc) and you'll find you "need" much less and it will taste better anyway. LOOK at the ingredients in those "energy" drinks as well :P

There's glass-bottled root beer and cream soda using cane sugar in my local supermarket that's quite yummy but I don't buy often simply it's too expensive And it's only one brand, the other (cheaper) brands use corn syrup.

[Tiberium Wolf]

Couple alive after car pins them to bed for almost an hour

There is really no bonds to the amount of luck you can get.

[Jaden]

Whoa! That's pretty crazy. Though I'd say that is misfortune, when some wacko comes through your wall even though he was aiming for another building.

I'm glad I live on the fifth floor, I guess?

[mg1942]

Originally Posted by Xellos-_^

i am shock just shock that the US government would put oil and profit above human lives. The US got a lot to learn form our European friends on upholding Human Rights
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oh wait.

that article remind me of the movie 'lord of war'


btw Unlike europeans, we should follow the Peoples Republic of China's example of improving Africa

[Xellos-_^]

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,...est=latestnews

The couple, both in their late 50s, have been sailing around the world. The last message on their blog, entered shortly before the distress signal was sent, reads simply: “PLEASE RING SARAH”

i think it time governments bill thier citizens for rescue operations. why in the world would sail into this area infested with pirates ALONE. this is going to cost the Taxpayer a ton of money in ransom and in operation cost. If the thier families are going to be bill the cost of these resuce operation maybe there would be a reductions in these kind incidents. This also goes to the 3 idiots (ind Reporters) who just happen to vacation in iraq and just happen to corss the border into iran.

[Mystique]

Illegal downloaders face web ban

Ohh, so the UK continue to 'suppress' their people by churning out another law in an attempt to solve an issue by instant punishment.
There is a thread around in the GC forum regarding downloads and penalties, tho can't find it, so i just paste link here for now.

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/21/20091028...n-6323e80.html

[mg1942]

Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger of California recently issued a veto statement to the state assembly that contained the following message:

[Jinto]

Originally Posted by mg1942

Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger of California recently issued a veto statement to the state assembly that contained the following message:

Considering that he wanted to turn down all the laws... using this statement...
Honestly I read some of the laws that were turned down where he used rather rational veto statements - and well those laws appeared to be of really minor importance.

[Vexx]

I thought it was a clever bit of acrostic humor.... naturally there is some harumphing...

[Jinto]

Originally Posted by Vexx

I thought it was a clever bit of acrostic humor.... naturally there is some harumphing...

Err, you are right.