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Comments · 9
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Emperor with No clothes
Has someone sold the Emperor a suit made out of Silly Putty
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Re:Great sense of direction
Boric acid mixed with icing sugar is what the pros use.
Me, I'm just trying to find boric acid so I can make silly putty.
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I'd tried silly-putty
I attempted to demonstrate this problem for a client who was interested in a finger print scanner for a specific purpose. I used silly putty with limited success.
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Try silly putty
I have long hands and a typical mouse does not fit me at all. Silly putty is great for modifing the shape of my mouse to better fit my hand. So order up a convenient 5 pound blob and experience ergonomic nirvana.
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Binney & Smith
Silly Putty (R) is a registered trademark of Binney & Smith / Crayola. See www.sillyputty.com.
You can also buy tins of a similar stuff in really neat colors from www.puttyworld.com. -
The history behind it.
I was a bit dubious to your military claims since the linked article only makes reference to an attempt to make a synthetic rubber. However, a bit of research on sillyputty.com shows not only that you are correct, but also lists the ingredients (boric acid and silicone oil) required to manufacture it. Read on for an excerpt:
1940 In the midst of World War II, the Japanese contine to invade rubber producing countries in the Far East, cutting off supply to the United States. This begins to hamper war production efforts, especially for truck tires and boots. As a result, the government's War Production Board asks American industry to attempt to develop a synthetic rubber compound.
1943 James Wright, a Scottish engineer working for General Electric's New Haven, Conn., laboratory, combines boric acid and silicone oil in a test tube. The compound becomes "polymerized." Wright removes the goeey substance from the test tube and in his exuberance tosses some on the floor. Bouncing putty is born.
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Silly Puddy?
Just to set the record straight:
Silly Putty
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Portable scanner, huh?
This is what you need.
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Re:Where does it say you have a right to privicy?
That's the great thing about the Constitution - it's always evolving, based on the decisions and judgements handed down by the Supreme Court.
Wrong! I couldn't disagree more. The liberalization of the Supreme Court and its re-interpretation of the Consitution of the United States have made this country a worse place, not a better place.
Although I can't find it at the moment, it seems like I once read (or heard?) Walter Williams discuss the folly of a "living" Constitution. Basically the problem is this: if the rules are malleable, the game doesn't work.
The Framers didn't intend us to have a country run by the rules of Calvinball, but thanks to your gleefully activist Supreme Court, that's what we've got.
Games people play are known for their unchanging rules that are known and understood by everyone. The Constitution was intended to be a "set in stone" framework for government, not a warm and fuzzy Silly Putty ruleset.
That doesn't mean that the Framers intended the Consistution to never change: they included provisions for incorporating amendments. To be constitutionally correct, if The People wanted a right to privacy added, then the amendment process would be utilized to add it. As it reads, there is no right to privacy in the Constitution of the United States.
The job of the courts is to apply law, not interpret it. A corollary of this is that Congress should not write vague and nebulous laws, but that's a seperate issue. Even in the presence of poorly written laws, the courts should only make use of the literal verbage; to stray from that standard to find "original intent" or whatever is a departure from their constitutional duties and is an invitiation to impeachment from Congress (see Article 3, Section 1: shall hold their offices during good behaviour).