Randall Munroe of xkcd conducted an online color survey, the results from 222,500 user sessions are ready. The aim of the survey was to find what names people associate with colors. As you can see, no one knows how to spell fuchsia. I had to stop and roll in the floor at the "disproportionally popular" color names by gender section. Link -via reddit
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Anyway I realized I have the ability to differentiate colours, but not name them.
I only have about 15 colour names in my head and I use the suffix 'ish' and often compare mixes a lot.
It's Fuchsia for Fuchs!
He was a 16th c. German botanist and physician "whose botanical work Historia Stirpium (1542) is a landmark in the development of natural history because of its organized presentation, the accuracy of its drawings and descriptions of plants, and its glossary."
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/221300/Leonhard-Fuchs
The National Center for Policy Analysis is not a "conservative think tank".
Its funders -- P&G, ExxonMobil, Scaife, Lilly -- are its message. Its board and staff are not only a who's who of the GOP, but of other conservative think tanks and front groups as well -- Hudson, Hoover, Heartland, etc.
A couple of minutes of googling comes up with enough evidence to convince anyone who could be convinced with evidence.
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=National_Center_for_Policy_Analysis
Or is it just assumed in your post that conservatives and industry are just evil and spread false information for their own profit? Go take a long walk off a short pier, comrade...
So-called "saving" is a bad idea in most cases as it is better for people or businesses on any income level to plow a healthy percentage of profits back into investment, research and development. Any corporation or wealthy individual who has been around long enough and succeeded has done this as a matter of course.
The article and this discussion leaves aside the whole point about taxes and government intervention (read: profiteering) in financial transactions between entities.
Hope you learn to speak Mandarin - they're going to own us soon the way we're going.