Everything was non-racist... except his use of the word "ghetto." It's at least a racially charged word.

"Freedom of speech does not mean freedom to be an asshole and get away with it."

I wonder if BRAHM there is a tea bag BRAHM within the tea bag?

Vic needs to keep his eyes on the road... not on any info being presented in his Google Glasses ;)

What do you mean by "Neither is directly powered by, there is a transitive medium used"? Neither what? How do you define "directly powered by"? What do you mean by transitive? What are the media?

The final game of the match was a weird, weird game... although at the time I watched it I thought it was the most creative, and aggressive, victory I had ever witnessed. Deep Blue sacrificed a knight early in the match, losing superiority in terms of material but gaining superiority in terms of putting black in an…

Nice pubertal growth spurt your 10th grade year, kid.

Yeah cool discussion though. (And in general we seek simplification in science, yet it is sometimes overdone.) So this thread, powered ultimately by the Big Bang, and penultimately by the sun, source of most of earth's energy, closes... except if you're in France.

The cow farts wouldn't power anything. They would help convert (i.e. trap) solar energy but in and of themselves would power nothing. So I might as well not say wind is powered by cow farts. Methanic cow fart C-H bonds contain energy; they could contribute slightly to wind if they were combusted and their energy…

Here's another similar viewpoint; again, it's just perspective, and it's very logical to think of wind as solar power. Fili Salustri said more or less the same thing—"Wind happens because of the sun... [w]ind is solar power, ready to use."

"A thousand years ago, if you showed some poor sod an oil well, could he use it to power something directly? No."

"Yes, the sun has an effect on how wind is produced. I'll even grant that it has a hand in the production of hydrocarbon fuels."

Ironically, the picture is that of a pediatric oncological patient.

Wind is caused by the sun. No sun—no wind, ever. Wind drives sailboats.

Very related.

Sailboats are solar-powered. Boats that use gas or diesel are solar-powered, too. Nuclear vessels are just dead-star-powered.

I see McAfee is a man who would never let his hair get infected with gray.

Ahhh... the buffalo.

With image stabilization, KC & the Sunshine Band's (Shake, Shake, Shake) Shake Your Booty becomes...

Barbara's always been a little sensitive.