Well fortunately (or unfortunately?) I don't think I have to worry about this because while I do try to reduce the amount of excess sodium I consume I still do consume enough processed foodstuffs to ensure a lack of salt won't be problem.

For example, even if I use peanuts-only peanut butter on my toasted English muffins those muffins plus the butter or margarine I also use end up providing me with at least 33% of my recommended daily sodium intake. And at three meals a day at that target rate (33%) each I'll be lucky to keep it under 100% but I'm pretty sure it goes over that more often than not.

Which is another reason I consciously attempt to cut it out wherever I can: if I didn't I'd be going over 100% every single day and by quite a bit, I'm sure. For example just think about those same English muffins with crappy salt-added peanut butter that alone would probably push me up to 38-40% just for that meal alone!!

People die every day. If you can't laugh about that then what CAN you laugh about?

Oh no - it's a scam all right. Consistently using salt stimulates your sense of taste so that if you don't use salt the taste is bland. If you stopped using salt you would be able to taste the unsalted food again after your sensitivity level returned. I have proved this to myself time and again with the first such experience being the move to peanut-only peanut butter. At first because I was expecting the doped-up tripe that serves for commercial peanut butter I didn't much like the peanuts-only peanut butter. However i hate to waste anything and forced myself to finish the container. By the time I was finished with it not only did I find I was enjoying it but I knew I'd never buy any other kind of peanut butter ever again (and I haven't!).

It's all about what you're used to and processed food manufacturers like to make us 'used to' large amounts of salts, sugars, and fats. That's because salts, sugars, and fats are cheaper than nutritious and quality ingredients and make you salivate for them more.

So yes. It's a scam

The ONLY thing required to make delicious and nutritious peanut butter is peanuts. The salt and sugar and everything else added in is a scam and degrades the product.

Yup. Works the same everywhere, don't it?

WEll he's got to do something, hasn't he? Otherwise he'll be seen to be doing nothing.

Played for me in FF 28 under 64-bit UBUNTU Desktop 13.10.

Check your add-ons. Sometimes I have issues with Ad-block plus or No-Script blocking stuff.

The Drone Ranger would agree with you 100%

Correct!

I'm not Alex but don't worry Alex - I got this!

A "Lack of sufficient free oxygen to react with"? is the reason Titan doesn't explode. That's what it is.

Speak for yourself, chump.

hell I'm still waiting to get a decent winter out of this so-called global warming a promised 'singularity' ain't even on my radar! And don't even get me started on the flying cars!

Then why do the more socialist countries have a lower gini coefficient (i.e; lower income inequality) than the united states?

Sort by Gini coefficient in these tables to see where the U.S. sits in the list of countries: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L...

Socialist Canada which has socialist health care has significantly less income inequality than the U.S. for example.

So I'm not buying into your Randian explanation. It doesn't fit the facts.

The second law of thermodynamics tells us that although you may be able to run long and hard for some time in the end there will be an end to it all. From that perspective I'm not really sure it's going to make any difference whether homo-sapiens (or their descendents) die off before our sun or not.

Oh - I know that your genetic programming CONvinces you that there's always 'hope' and that 'we're just so great' but let's not forget it's a blind maniacal force driving forward with no wisdom or intelligence behind it whatsoever so of course it will be irrational.

"In the face of all odds" is cute and romantic and all that fuzzy shit but when the heat death of the universe is considered to be more of a sure thing than gravity it's trite and quite useless, really.

I find the 'big government bad' argument doesn't stand up to the fact that you have countries with even bigger (per capita) and more pervasive governments where inequality is less profound thant in the U.S.

I personally think that it's not the size that matters so much as what you do with it that makes or breaks the people.