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thanks dude, you saved me a lot of typing. Strange when terrorists start claiming war on terror, I think they should just hang themselves!

http://www.answers.com/topic/nicaragua-v-united-states
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicaragua_v._United_States

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"Seroactive" appears to be a less common synonym for "seropositive".

No, that'd be a diplomat.

Please stop using the word "arbitrary", it doesn't mean what you think it does. Laws are not usually arbitrary, in fact most are the complete opposite. It's only the rare few knee-jerk reaction laws that could even remotely be considered arbitrary.

1. Determined by chance, whim, or impulse, and not by necessity, reason, or principle
2. Based on or subject to individual judgment or preference
3. Established by a court or judge rather than by a specific law or statute
4. Not limited by law; despotic

His first four points are all about a lack of standards:

1. Cordless tools and equipment--all with different kinds of battery packs and chargers.
2. Flashlights and other small electrical devices that run on exotic batteries.
3. Cellphones that all come with different chargers and power-supply units.
4. AV equipment that has different types of hookups and remote-control protocols.

Wasn't stuff like http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interchangeable_parts noted as a mark of progress?

With household stuff (plumbing, wires, 2x4s, doors, etc), its amazing how interchangable these things are. I don't know if there is an external standards behind it, or if they just evolved that way.

I can't think of any car where I actually had to remove a tire just to change the battery (Does anyone know what car Jamie was talking about?).

Either its an urban legand, or something, but I've heard where there is a fairly popular car that you need to remove the front tire to do at least some basic maintenance -- ah, google seems to know http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_do_you_replace_a_battery_in_a_2001_Dodge_Stratus

To win a suit for malicious prosecution, the plaintiff must prove four elements: (1) that the original case was terminated in favor of the plaintiff, (2) that the defendant played an active role in the original case, (3) that the defendant did not have probable cause or reasonable grounds to support the original case, and (4) that the defendant initiated or continued the initial case with an improper purpose. Each of these elements presents a challenge to the plaintiff.

Looking at the flaws in IQ testing is an interesting hobby

I'll put the elitist condescending tone aside for just a moment. It's not a hobby to call something that pretends to be science a pseudo-science.

but nevertheless the results of IQ tests are predictive of success

Prophecies can be self fulfilling. Treat your students like they're incapable of greatness, give them fewer opportunities and talk down to them and pretty soon they're giving you the mediocre results you expect.

It's not perfect, but it is a tool with statistical value.

It's not perfect in the same way that horoscopes aren't perfect. In other words it is based on unscientific rubbish and its useless.

For example Einstein had an IQ that was estimated to be low given he was a genius (140 to 180).

http://www.geocities.com/einstein_library/iq.htm
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_was_the_IQ_of_albert_einstein

That is of course just one example of a scientist that didn't fit well. In any case if you were his teacher would you have recognised his potential as an unremarkable student early on? Some people need more help early on and get a lot better at what they do. Using an IQ test as a predictor to write off certain students is bone headed, lazy and destructive. You should help all your students be what they can be.

So, why not settle all disputes using video games? That's what it'll come down to, unless the 'bots literally do all the fighting without any human interaction. In a way, Ender's Game gets at this point.

That article's a mess: poor grammar; photos that focus more on looking arty rather than providing information (the fourth one down is near useless); horrendous distortion in some of the shots (the second one down makes the screen look like it's melting); and attempts to make the writer look smarter by using fancy words that the writer doesn't even know the meaning of (you cannot have an eliolated CPU). If you can get past that though, the content's not bad. I'm curious about what battery life would be like with the brightness turned down, WiFi and BLuetooth off and just using Office/iWork for some actual work. Just using TextEdit I was able to get 8 hours out of my old iBook, but my MacBook can't stretch that far.

But the name. Oh my god, the name. Anything with "my" in front of it sounds like the intended audience is a four year old. "it's mine! my computer. my space. my toybox! I'm special. This is mine!"

So my guess is you would refuse treatment for tuberculosis with mycomycin because it sounds childish?

mycomycin

n 1: a highly unsaturated antibiotic acid obtained from an actinomycete

Mycomycin: a new antibiotic with tuberculostatic properties.

But hey, I'd rather say MySQL than MS-SQL any day of the week. MS - its a debilitating disease.

A couple of quotes from the dictionary.com definition of faith: Belief that does not rest on logical proof or material evidence. The theological virtue defined as secure belief in God and a trusting acceptance of God's will.

Faith has other meanings such as Confident belief in the truth, value, or trustworthiness of a person, idea, or thing that aren't relevant here. When referring about Religious faith, the lack of a need for evidence is key.

Perhaps the GP should have changed: "Religion is about believing things in the face of hard evidence (faith)" to "Religion is about believing things whether or not there is any hard evidence (faith)".

Atheism is the disbelief in God. It has no meaningful tenets, no dogma, no holy books, no ceremonies, no rites, no declarations of faith, no churches, no temples, no leaders, no hierarchy and no common moral code. In short, it has none of the hallmarks of a religion.

no meaningful tenets, no dogma

no holy books

no ceremonies, no rites

no churches, no temples

no leaders

no hierarchy

no common moral code

Even Evolution takes faith.

Again, you obviously don't know the definition of science and faith. from http://www.answers.com/faith&r=67 [answers.com] Faith: Belief that does not rest on logical proof or material evidence.

From Wikipedia [wikipedia.org] on scientific method: It is based on gathering observable, empirical and measurable evidence subject to specific principles of reasoning.

Usually it is used in the context of "annoyance"

http://www.answers.com/topic/chagrin

chagrin
(sh-grn') pronunciation

n.

A keen feeling of mental unease, as of annoyance or embarrassment, caused by failure, disappointment, or a disconcerting event: To her chagrin, the party ended just as she arrived.

I will just dump a mess of links from an old E-mail I did on this some time ago. It's all good stuff, Solar two in Mojave was also molten salt based. I knew someone who bought it after it failed and got to explore it before it was partly dismantled.

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Solar two was a flat mirror array.

Search google image search with
            "solar two" Mojave

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=yermo,+ca&ie=UTF8&ll=34.871919,-116.83416&spn=0.005915,0.010042&t=h&z=17&om=1

Take the link above and zoom out, just below and to the right is a Parabolic glass mirrors plant

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_Two

http://www.powerfromthesun.net/Chapter10/Chapter10new.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Solar_Two_2003.jpg

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Solar_Two_Heliostat.jpg

http://theothersolar.com/?m=200702

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines06/1101-10.htm

http://www.global-greenhouse-warming.com/solar-central-power-towers.html

http://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/edu/dees/U4735/projections/pitman/solar.elec.jpg

http://fixedreference.org/2006-Wikipedia-CD-Selection/wp/s/Solar_power.htm
(search for "Solar two")

http://www.reia-nm.org/HTML_Docs/Solar_Thermal_Electrical.html

http://greatgreengadgets.com/gadgets/category/solar/

http://www.answers.com/topic/solar-thermal-energy

http://blogs.business2.com/greenwombat/2006/week44/index.html

Excellent page on many technologies - Sorry it's in Spanish.
      http://g3nergy.blogspot.com/2006_11_01_archive.html
      Search for "Australia to Build 154 MW Solar Energy Plant"
      This one is identical in design to the one in the Mojave Dessert here.

http://ludb.clui.org/ex/i/CA4965/ Abandoned Solar Power Plant

http://www.answers.com/yap&r=67

"The first time I heard the expression twenty years ago, "the exception that proves the rule", I thought it had the hallmarks of group think."

>Besides, even when you are in another country, regardless of their less restrictive laws, you still must abide by the laws of where you claim citizenship, or risk be arrested on your return to home soil.

To add on my previous comment. One very simple example of where this shows to be false is Windsor and Detroit.

http://www.answers.com/topic/underage-drinking-in-america

Underage persons in the US who live in areas that border Canada and Mexico, both of which have lower drinking ages, sometimes cross the border in order to obtain alcoholic beverages. Mexico's legal drinking age is 18, while Canada's legal drinking age is either 18 or 19, depending on the province in question. They may consume it there or upon return home. In Michigan for example, a person drinking in Windsor, ON at age 19 can return to Detroit, MI and will not be legally cited because the consumption was done in Ontario. Being intoxicated under the age of 21 is not illegal (unless the person is also driving). Consuming it in Michigan is.

It goes deeper than that. Basically familiar designs are more easily accepted than others. For example, when BMW broke with the smooth, egg like trend in luxury car design of the 90s they received a lot of flack, but current evolutions of the design language (new 5, 3 and 1 series) are not as shocking as the first Bangle (now van Hooydonk) designed cars (7 and 6 series and the Z4) and some are even regarded as beautiful (new 3 series coupe). A more obvious example is the evolution of current car design from the early horseless carriages that resemble nothing more than a traditional horse drawn carriage, and we still retain the names of carriages eg. cabriolet.

On the other hand, my not well informed opinion is that Aptera's design is probably not likely to be the shape of the future. For one, it's high ride height and 3 wheel chassis will lead to a ride with a lot of body roll and possible downforce issues leading to high speed instability. It's ironic that the first thing Aptera's website points out is the roll over capability of the vehicle since it looks like a platform that will roll over in aggressive driving. Regardless of whether it has moose test problems or not it will ride more like a motorcycle than a car and not everyone appreciates that level of body lean. Secondly, the airfoil like profile, while probably very low drag, severely compromises luggage space. A version that could seat 4 people and carry luggage would probably have a different envelope and since that vehicle would serve a larger market would probably be a more accurate reflection of the car of the future. At any rate, there are aerodynamic as well as aesthetic reasons to have a low ride height and I don't think future cars will have a higher ride height than current automobiles.

May I ask what software used this previously?

My best guess for "first" is SGI's 4dwm window manager, which provided a (relatively powerful) pager app that displayed a "mini view" of the desktops, along with rectangles to scale (no snapshots of window contents, though. I think it gave window titles on mouseover) which you could drag around, etc. I used the SGI workstations back in 2000 or so, and they had already been around for years before that. Scaring up a screenshot of 4dwm itself is a bit tough, I don't think anyone cared about this stuff back then, but here's a shot of "windows like 4dwm" shell for windows that has the pager displayed: http://members.at.infoseek.co.jp/semishigure/images/4dwm.jpg That virtual desktop manager for windows seems to be the one here which was last updated this year, but has links to reviews from 2003/2004. http://content.answers.com/main/content/img/CDE/_MOTIF.GIF shows the "SCO Panner" which operated in a similar fashion.

Since the Library of Congress is 20 TeraBytes, and that 16 GigaBytes weights less than one drop of water (let's round the weight to one drop), that means 20TB / 16GB = 1280 drops of water, and one drop of water is about 0.05ml, that means 1280 / 20 = 64 ml of water.

Sorry, wrong. Math and maths are both colloquialisms, and neither is more valid than the other. Just Britith vs American english tendencies, mostly.

http://www.answers.com/maths&r=67

Thanks fo the rant, though.

How many people look at fictional characters (from games, movies, anime, even some cartoons) as sexually enticing even if not romantically? Hell, Esurance has Erin Esurance for their "sex sells" model, rather than a real female.

I can easily see a market where you have RealDoll++ outfitted with personalities and looks of fictional characters. Yes, that includes Seven of Nine.

See the Futurama episode "I Dated A Robot" (in which Fry falls in love with a Lucy Lu-bot) for more information.

Also see Schediaphilia.

"You might hate the ID argument that scientists haven't documented one species turning into another in real time, but that doesn't make it untrue."

Absolutely, hating it doesn't make it untrue. The fact that it's untrue makes it untrue.

http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/faq-speciation.html - There's a handful of documented cases at the end, and I recommend you read up on speciation, because you've got it wrong. There's not even a firm definition of 'species' because it's a human concept, not one intrinsic in nature. So, you want to define species as reproductive isolation? Tigers and Lions are different species, right? Except they can mate with each other. If the dad was a tiger, it's a tigon, if the dad was a lion, it's a liger, and tigons and ligers are physically quite different, and different from their parents. And the females of both are fertile! You can get as much tiger DNA into the lion's genetics as you want, and as much lions into the tigers. But they're still separate species, because it's useful to categorize them as such for us.

And on top of all that, you're utterly wrong in your first sentence. Speciation is a byproduct of some of the pathways of evolution, but nothing about evolution requires speciation. If all animals could reproduce with all others, attributes would still be selected for. As it stands, speciation is actually a terrible measure of anything other than reproductive isolation, because a lot of evolution happens inside a population. Speciation will generally only occur in a situation where a population is split by geography, evolves in different directions for a long period with no crossover until they are socially, physically, or genetically incapable of mating. Otherwise they'd blend back together and be indistinguishable, but still changed by evolution all-together.

So, as it it stands, the mutation in the human population IS evolution - random chance is filling the space of genes that are viable. If there happens to be some new selection pressure, the population will have more diversity with which to adapt.

And before you quote dictionary definitions, note that there are a lot of them. This one is apt: "Evolution: In biology, the genetic transformations of populations through time, resulting from genetic variation and the subsequent impact of the environment on rates of reproductive success." ( http://www.answers.com/evolution&r=67 )

Hari Kiri.. Only uninformed or deceived Westerners refer to "Hari Kari"

http://home.no.net/harakiri/

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http://www.parida.com/seppuku.html

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seppuku

"Vocabulary and Etymology

Seppuku is also known as hara-kiri (, "cutting the belly") and is written with the same kanji as seppuku but in reverse order with an okurigana. In Japanese, hara-kiri is a colloquialism, seppuku being the more formal term. Samurai (and modern adherents of bushido) would use seppuku, whereas ordinary Japanese (who in feudal times as well as today looked askance at the practice) would use hara-kiri. Hara-kiri is the more common term in English, where it is often mistakenly rendered "hari-kari.""

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http://www.answers.com/topic/seppuku-1

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(Probably the blame can be squarely laid at the feet of hollywood and any servicepersons and tourists from the West who "just didn't get it" or who just didn't give a damn...)

But, it is carried out with a "tanto":

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanto

If you want to see it performed in a film (quite messy in real life and somewhat in the film), see:

Brother,

Starring and produced/directed by Kitano Takeshi (of "Beat"...) and starring Omar Epps

http://www.combustiblecelluloid.com/2001/brother01.shtml

http://www.moviesunlimited.com/musite/product.asp?sku=D27123

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0222851/

http://global.yesasia.com/en/artIdxDept.aspx/section-videos/code-j/aid-30742/

and,

http://www.heroic-cinema.com/reviews/brother

"this film sure is one violent sonofabitch. If you're not down for that, then maybe you should check to see if you can get into a session of Harry Potter instead. Some of the harshest violence in it is self-inflicted (that brother thing again, but taken to an illogical and hella messy degree). And all of it is LOUD. Handguns are like cannons. Kicks are like wrecking balls. Punches are like car crashes. Car crashes are like - well, like car crashes. I think the punches are louder."

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Anyway, I will always respect Kitano-san for how he ended the film, something rarely permitted in many western films. You have to see it for yourself...

I forget the name of the bill [...]

That one is typically referred to as the Ermächtigungsgesetz.

Obesity is not an "epidemic". It is not contagious.

epidemic ... adj. ... 2. Widely prevalent ... n. ... A rapid spread, growth, or development: an unemployment epidemic. It need not be contagious. The use as an adjective is clearly correct. The noun use is correct if you believe that the increase in obesity has been rapid.

Being fat is not a disease.

disease ... n. ... 2. A condition or tendency, as of society, regarded as abnormal and harmful.

You're adding nothing to the conversation. Epidemic obesity costs our society in lost productivity and higher medical coverage costs. If telling people to "Stop being lazy pigs and get some discipline" was an effective treatment, we'd have had this licked years ago. Obviously it doesn't work. The people trying to stop obesity, figuring out what leads people to make the wrong decisions, helps people make better decisions, they're making the the world a better place. You're not; you're just being a smug ass.

Obesity is not an "epidemic". It is not contagious.

epidemic ... adj. ... 2. Widely prevalent ... n. ... A rapid spread, growth, or development: an unemployment epidemic. It need not be contagious. The use as an adjective is clearly correct. The noun use is correct if you believe that the increase in obesity has been rapid.

Being fat is not a disease.

disease ... n. ... 2. A condition or tendency, as of society, regarded as abnormal and harmful.

You're adding nothing to the conversation. Epidemic obesity costs our society in lost productivity and higher medical coverage costs. If telling people to "Stop being lazy pigs and get some discipline" was an effective treatment, we'd have had this licked years ago. Obviously it doesn't work. The people trying to stop obesity, figuring out what leads people to make the wrong decisions, helps people make better decisions, they're making the the world a better place. You're not; you're just being a smug ass.

Military spending in the USA isn't even the #2 item in the federal budget today, and if the Pentagon were to be demolished, every member of the armed forces discharged, all of the bases closed... or in effect the Department of Defense eliminated from the federal budget, there would be virtually no impact on overall federal spending.

My real problem is with the fact that in order to make it economical for an individual, the government had to subsidize 70% of the costs, then keep paying him!

All energy used in the US is subsidized. If power generators collected to the grid weren't subsidized you'd see higher prices on electric bills as well, and on gas bills. The US is spending billions of dollars daily in Iraq subsidizing oil. Domestic drilling in the US is subsidized as well. Because of laws like the Mineral Leasing Act of 1920 companies can drill and pump oil, as well as mine for minerals, and not have to pay a fair market value in royalties to the owner of the land the US government. Then there are all of the external costs. Fact is is big companies receive billions of dollars in subsidies yet peopla make a big thing about individual taxpayers getting less than $100,000 in subsidies.

heh, "fallow the law"
Maybe they just need to find a new crop to plant?
P.S. Just because you say you make a lot of spelling and grammar mistakes doesn't mean we can't rip on you for it. http://www.answers.com/fallow&r=67 http://www.answers.com/follow http://www.answers.com/mater http://www.answers.com/matter

heh, "fallow the law"
Maybe they just need to find a new crop to plant?
P.S. Just because you say you make a lot of spelling and grammar mistakes doesn't mean we can't rip on you for it. http://www.answers.com/fallow&r=67 http://www.answers.com/follow http://www.answers.com/mater http://www.answers.com/matter

heh, "fallow the law"
Maybe they just need to find a new crop to plant?
P.S. Just because you say you make a lot of spelling and grammar mistakes doesn't mean we can't rip on you for it. http://www.answers.com/fallow&r=67 http://www.answers.com/follow http://www.answers.com/mater http://www.answers.com/matter

heh, "fallow the law"
Maybe they just need to find a new crop to plant?
P.S. Just because you say you make a lot of spelling and grammar mistakes doesn't mean we can't rip on you for it. http://www.answers.com/fallow&r=67 http://www.answers.com/follow http://www.answers.com/mater http://www.answers.com/matter

I've just never been a big fan of the "cute" game thing, so no Mario or Zack & Wik (I like atmosphere).

You've got some strange ideas about the definition of atmosphere. How about you try the one in the dictionary?

An aesthetic quality or effect, especially a distinctive and pleasing one, associated with a particular place: a restaurant with an Old World atmosphere.

Mario Galaxy and Zack & Wiki both have these qualities in spades. Just because you have lame taste doesn't mean that they don't have "atmosphere."

I don't think you mean rubber-hose cryptography. Torturing someone to get them to... encrypt information? Maybe rubber-hose decryption...

you mean like:

Space Station
Space Shuttle

or

Las Vegas

or

Lincoln Financial Field

and... yeah, it is cool that the good old USA can muster up a few of these bad boys:

F-22

So I guess we're just totally broke?

The protocol filtering won't fix a thing, unfortunately. The bad guys will then just switch to using common ports (80, 443, 21, etc) to control their botnets. It would also create a usability for lay users. Imagine "I bought this just-released game, but I can't connect to the multiplayer system." Most users would be clueless.

I like the unusual traffic notifications. It reminds me of the credit card companies' notifications about odd purchases, except the volume of traffic to monitor would be several orders of magnitude greater than those of the CC companies. A drawback of this approach is that the ISPs would then need to keep track of which protocols each of their users used, when they used them, how often, etc. This information would be ripe for subpoena by law enforcement, effectively defenestrating privacy.

François, from Mandriva

Says it all.

http://blog.mandriva.com/2007/10/31/an-open-letter-to-steve-ballmer/

Why does MS insist on exhibiting NO CLASS?
Duck Amuck?
Ignore them and hopefully they'll go away.
(blush - is MY BIAS showing - blush, bats eyelashes to looney tunes soundtrack)

http://www.sarakadee.com/feature/2002/12/images/animate_02.jpg

http://content.answers.com/main/content/wp/en/7/7c/Looney_Tunes.png

Quite true, I've seen it happen.

this is a disingenuous cop-out and you know it.

What's a cop-out is saying nuclear power is needed when it isn't.

finally, everything that makes our society modern comes from mining, either ore or pretrochemicals
despite the demand of 6 billion people for all these mined goods the planet is still here and beautiful, and many more people are worried about logging than mining.

I went up the tread to see where I said the above in bold yet I don't see it. Is it something you're making up I said?

So in closing, if you are so opposed to mining as the bane of the planet, then you need to send everything you own which includes plastic or metal to the recycling plant and go live with the amish, or cut it with the hypocrisy.

Who's being hypocritical, someone stating facts or someone making things up? Plastics coming from mines? You are either ignorant or making things up. Though plastics are now made from petrochemicals this hasn't always being true. Prior to the mid 1930s, when DuPont was granted a patent on making plastic from petro, nylon then rayon later, plastics were made from plants such as trees. The cellulose in trees gave the name Cellophane, a plastic. Cellophane is what was used to wrap stuff like sandwiches, the saran wrap of yesteryear. Kodak the camera company had a process whereby they used plant cellulose to make the plastic for film. Hemp was also a source of cellulose, as well as other things. Henry Ford designed and built a vehicle on his Iron Mountain Estate in the '30s that used hemp in the construction and was made into fuel for the vehicle. In the end I am not opposed to mining but seeing as how there is no need for nuclear power plants there's no need to mine uranium!

What, no more ammonium nitrate, sodium pellets, and hunks of magnesium? Ah well, there's always mail-order.

Some stuff you can still get in small quaintness if you know what to look for. Take your first item.

Pick it up as this at any good first aid supply house.
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_kind_of_liquid_is_in_instant_cold_packs

I am not sure on the metals sodium and magnesium, but Borax, drain cleaner, Sulfuric acid, Hydrochloric acid, Chlorine, Salt Peter, and powdered sugar are all easy to find in local markets.

They care about kids having less and less of a chance to educate themselves and they care that kids curiosity isn't being fulfilled nearly as much.

With the internet, the kids curiosity is being fulfilled more often than not. The problem with the internet isn't the lack of information. It is the dilution with distractions. Kids are more likely to spend time on myspace than on one of the science pages. There is more information online now than was ever accessible when I was a kid.

The internet is the great equalizer. I remember the old chemistry sets of the 1969's. They were pretty boring with a few things that changed color and kept matches from burning and such. Online the high power learning is great. I can now find the information to build rockets from Salt Peter and powdered sugar, how to mix explosive gasses (Spud guns propane air mix), create fun reactions (Mentos and coke) (sodium and water) and lots of other fun stuff I couldn't do with the chemistry set of the 60's. Some stuff that is too dangerous or illegal to do yourself, there are online videos for your enjoyment. There is more info in the following links than is in most chemistry sets.
http://www.burntlatke.com/
http://www.jamesyawn.com/candyrocket/
http://eepybird.com/dcm1.html
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_kind_of_liquid_is_in_instant_cold_packs
http://www.humeseeds.com/stump.htm
http://www.ufomind.com/area51/articles/1996/popsci_9604/
http://theodoregray.com/PeriodicTable/
http://www.theodoregray.com/PeriodicTable/Stories/011.2/
http://fullygeek.com/2007/01/20000-pounds-of-sodium-dumped-in-lake/

Without a chemistry set, but with internet, I can find out where to buy components to build fireworks mortar shells, buy local explosive components (Nitride and oil) and such. It was the internet that taught me where to locally buy small amounts of Ammonium Nitrate and Salt Peter with no questions asked.

A trip to the hardware store is now an adventure as I read the ingredients on the packages.

I have learned more online than I could have ever learned from a chemistry set from the 1960's Not all is illegal or dangerous. Some is a lot of fun.