If the symptoms can be believed (and the projectile vomiting seems definitive enough), this "new flu" was here in north Los Angeles County last fall.
It wouldn't surprise me if the actual direction of travel was from LA to SD and thence into Mexico, where it became a News Story because it hit Mexico a lot harder thanks to its currently atrocious living conditions.
"When 4 people sit down to discuss conspiracy, 3 are government agents and the 4th is a fool."
-- old Soviet aphorism
I read stuff like "someone created swine flu on purpose" and consider that anyone with a smattering of virology (including myself) are laughing so hard we'll all need to be hospitalized, or perhaps committed... yep, it's a conspiracy to get rid of all the virologists, so they can put their evil plan for viral domination in place!
And I don't even get that fancy -- I just store them in a cardboard box. (Make sure it's not the shiny cardboard; that can hold a static charge.) So long as the logic board components aren't touching anything conductive, which you can ensure well enough with a layer of cardboard between 'em if you're paranoid (I don't bother) all should be well. Note: my oldest working IDE HD dates to 1991. My oldest of any type dates to 1986. The only ones I've lost in storage are Conners, which have always had a problem with losing data if they sit around doing nothing for several months.
Sounds like a good textbook for bartending schools!
The author would probably cringe in horror at my Poor Man's Daiquiri, tho... instant lemonade, a bit of Gatorade powder, a squirt of lime juice, and a capful of rum. Serve hot or cold.
(No, no, the BOTTLE cap, not your headgear, you shameless sot!:)
Ah. Well, the only hard liquor I drink is rum, and this may well be why I prefer it mixed (tho I make some strange mixes with it:) -- essentially I use it as a flavouring agent.
That's so, but zero tolerance has not been a good policy elsewhere, since people DO make mistakes, and congresscritters weren't any more perfect than the rest of us, last I checked.
I think a great deal of that rests with the soybean producers council, whatever it's called, which has promoted soy as the perfect substitute for every other food.
BTW soy baby formula is implicated in the development of allergies to various plants and pollens, which is no big surprise since soy protein is a broad-spectrum allergin. Likely also why some babies get colicky, since it makes the gut produce excess mucus (a reaction to irritation).
So what would you do instead? Since it seems our great lack at the moment is some check on the making of new *unconstitutional* law by our own Congress.
"You want to cyber bully some one, go for it. But if that person commits suicide due to your actions, we'll hold you accountable for it."
So if I write that X is an unstable idiot, and X then commits suicide, I'm to blame for X's mental instability??!
How are you going to prove that X wrote what I read? Even then, how are you going to prove that what I wrote drove X over the edge? What if EVERYONE who writes about X says the same thing?? which of us do you put on trial??
This is just codifying passing-the-blame, and freedom from responsibility for your OWN actions. Similarly, it follows from this law that if X reads your blog, then commits a crime, X can disclaim responsibility for his actions via "But reading this blog made me do it!"
I'd allow immediate withdrawal of such legislation, without penalty, as it's always possible to make well-meaning mistakes. So long as a politician is willing to correct his mistakes without coercion, okay. (And if he does this so often that none of his proposed bills go anywhere, his constituents may notice, and replace him.) But if the Constitutional Committee (we'd need one to enforce this) says NO and you still push your bill, it goes on your record as a Strike.
One strike, lose your ability to sponsor legislation for some period. Two strikes, lose your ability to vote in Congress for a similar period (rendering you ineffectual, and therefore liable to be removed by your constituents in due course). Three strikes, you're outta here.
Sound reasonable to you? I'm trying for a self-correcting system here, rather than just broad penalties.
Very interesting recreation story! Especially about the influence of the sea climate and the quarter cask itself.
I did wonder about that -- water changes over time as rainfall differs and erosion changes channels, and as ground water recharges in the case of springs. Same with crops. Without a chemist analysing every step, it's up to good guessing and judgment calls.
Didn't know that about beer and single malts. Occurs to me to wonder how the discards from the process might affect aging per above -- as the distillery changes its own environment over time.
The trouble with sales tax is that it hits the poor the hardest. The minimum estimate I've seen that would be necessary for a national sales tax to keep tax revenues at their present level is 25%. If you've got $1000 to spend and are buying a $100 item, an extra $25 in tax is nothing. But if you've only got $200 to spend, the extra $25 in tax means you lose 25% of your remaining purchasing power. And if you've only got $100 to spend, you can't buy the item AT ALL.
Flat tax proponents have argued that folk under a certain income level would get a rebate, but that would require the same byzantine regulations as we presently have (otherwise how do you determine who qualifies?) AND in the meantime, those poor people don't have that money to spend. And, the poor mentality being what it is, when the annual rebate comes they're liable to blow it all at once, rather than budget it to pay NEXT year's up-front sales tax cost.
I've seen studies indicating a flat tax would have to be in the 28-35% range to cover what the existing tax structure does, and that's ONLY for federal; you'd still have 5-10% state sales tax on top of that. So that $1000 item now costs you $1400 or so. Maybe not so bad if you're well off, but a deal-breaker if you're not. And it would kill most middle-class discretionary spending, which in turn kills every business that doesn't deal in either basic necessities, or luxuries of a class where money is meaningless.
I have a better idea. Gov't can stop spending so damn much, and stop laundering our taxes through their public servant wallets before returning PART of it to us as services.
Here's another good one... watch everyone of moderate to high income leave California (where $150k/year is only middle class) in droves. And a 55% tax on high-dollar property? Do they really think everyone with a $15M property has $8M lying around in cash? (Or is this really a land grab made easy by property tax defaults?)
Imposes one-time tax of at least 55% on property in California exceeding $15 million if single, $20 million if married. Imposes one-time tax (between 36.5% - 54.3%) on income exceeding $10 million when resident dies or leaves California. Imposes additional 17.5% tax on total incomes of taxpayers with income exceeding $150,000 if single, $250,000 if married; 35% if incomes exceed $350,000 if single, $500,000 if married. Creates tax credits. Requires State to acquire shares of specified corporations to influence environmental practices. May exempt new revenues from education funding requirements. Summary of estimate by Legislative Analyst and Director of Finance of fiscal impact on state and local government: One-time increase in state revenues potentially in the low hundreds of billions of dollars from imposition of a wealth tax, and ongoing increase in state revenues potentially in the billions of dollars from imposition of the tax on certain people dying or leaving the state. This revenue would be allocated to accomplish various goals related to environmental protection. Potential annual net increase in personal income tax revenues in the tens of billions of dollars annually. At least $8 billion annually would be allocated to the state General Fund with additional revenue allocated for environmental protection. Unknown state and local revenue reductions-potentially in the tens of billions of dollars annually-due to changes in taxpayer behavior. (08-0020.) ======
Here's a better idea. Let's make the U.S. a tax haven, so all the world's business and industry will move HERE instead of continuing to leave in droves!!
Phytoestrogens are structurally similar enough to mimic animal/human hormones, which is why they're used in menopause-relief folk medicines. The reduced fertility effect has long been known in sheep, but has not yet been seriously looked at in other species (other than some studies that show a markedly reduced sperm count). However, some of us dog breeders have noticed that diets containing flaxseed reduce fertility to about 50%, vs. the species norm of ~85%, and birth defects appear that are not otherwise seen.
A Handy Chart -- note the extreme difference between flax, soy, and just about everything else: http://www.dietaryfiberfood.com/phytoestrogen.php Consider that neither flaxseed nor soy are edible in the raw state, and whether man evolved to eat such foods...
Interesting. Could be if I diluted it, I might like the taste as well as the smell:)
Strange thoughts: sending your own water to the distillery for making a custom batch, so it's sure to match when it gets back to you, a decade or two hence.:)
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If the symptoms can be believed (and the projectile vomiting seems definitive enough), this "new flu" was here in north Los Angeles County last fall.
It wouldn't surprise me if the actual direction of travel was from LA to SD and thence into Mexico, where it became a News Story because it hit Mexico a lot harder thanks to its currently atrocious living conditions.
"When 4 people sit down to discuss conspiracy, 3 are government agents and the 4th is a fool."
-- old Soviet aphorism
I read stuff like "someone created swine flu on purpose" and consider that anyone with a smattering of virology (including myself) are laughing so hard we'll all need to be hospitalized, or perhaps committed... yep, it's a conspiracy to get rid of all the virologists, so they can put their evil plan for viral domination in place!
And I don't even get that fancy -- I just store them in a cardboard box. (Make sure it's not the shiny cardboard; that can hold a static charge.) So long as the logic board components aren't touching anything conductive, which you can ensure well enough with a layer of cardboard between 'em if you're paranoid (I don't bother) all should be well. Note: my oldest working IDE HD dates to 1991. My oldest of any type dates to 1986. The only ones I've lost in storage are Conners, which have always had a problem with losing data if they sit around doing nothing for several months.
I'll have to try it. If I still don't like it, I'm no worse off than before. :)
Sounds like a good textbook for bartending schools!
The author would probably cringe in horror at my Poor Man's Daiquiri, tho... instant lemonade, a bit of Gatorade powder, a squirt of lime juice, and a capful of rum. Serve hot or cold.
(No, no, the BOTTLE cap, not your headgear, you shameless sot! :)
Ah. Well, the only hard liquor I drink is rum, and this may well be why I prefer it mixed (tho I make some strange mixes with it :) -- essentially I use it as a flavouring agent.
That's so, but zero tolerance has not been a good policy elsewhere, since people DO make mistakes, and congresscritters weren't any more perfect than the rest of us, last I checked.
I think a great deal of that rests with the soybean producers council, whatever it's called, which has promoted soy as the perfect substitute for every other food.
BTW soy baby formula is implicated in the development of allergies to various plants and pollens, which is no big surprise since soy protein is a broad-spectrum allergin. Likely also why some babies get colicky, since it makes the gut produce excess mucus (a reaction to irritation).
So what would you do instead? Since it seems our great lack at the moment is some check on the making of new *unconstitutional* law by our own Congress.
Interesting. I wonder what other liquors, or even wines might benefit from this trick?
[looking] At a guess, she mighta been the chubby girl who got snubbed in high school, and now she gets her revenge...
...cuz that's as true a statement as I've read all day.
"You want to cyber bully some one, go for it. But if that person commits suicide due to your actions, we'll hold you accountable for it."
So if I write that X is an unstable idiot, and X then commits suicide, I'm to blame for X's mental instability??!
How are you going to prove that X wrote what I read? Even then, how are you going to prove that what I wrote drove X over the edge? What if EVERYONE who writes about X says the same thing?? which of us do you put on trial??
This is just codifying passing-the-blame, and freedom from responsibility for your OWN actions.
Similarly, it follows from this law that if X reads your blog, then commits a crime, X can disclaim responsibility for his actions via "But reading this blog made me do it!"
I'd allow immediate withdrawal of such legislation, without penalty, as it's always possible to make well-meaning mistakes. So long as a politician is willing to correct his mistakes without coercion, okay. (And if he does this so often that none of his proposed bills go anywhere, his constituents may notice, and replace him.) But if the Constitutional Committee (we'd need one to enforce this) says NO and you still push your bill, it goes on your record as a Strike.
One strike, lose your ability to sponsor legislation for some period. Two strikes, lose your ability to vote in Congress for a similar period (rendering you ineffectual, and therefore liable to be removed by your constituents in due course). Three strikes, you're outta here.
Sound reasonable to you? I'm trying for a self-correcting system here, rather than just broad penalties.
Very interesting recreation story! Especially about the influence of the sea climate and the quarter cask itself.
I did wonder about that -- water changes over time as rainfall differs and erosion changes channels, and as ground water recharges in the case of springs. Same with crops. Without a chemist analysing every step, it's up to good guessing and judgment calls.
Didn't know that about beer and single malts. Occurs to me to wonder how the discards from the process might affect aging per above -- as the distillery changes its own environment over time.
How is this different from the direction our gov't has been headed for some years now?
Frex, asset forfeiture is also made with an assumption that you are guilty, and you have to prove your innocence to get your property back.
The trouble with sales tax is that it hits the poor the hardest. The minimum estimate I've seen that would be necessary for a national sales tax to keep tax revenues at their present level is 25%. If you've got $1000 to spend and are buying a $100 item, an extra $25 in tax is nothing. But if you've only got $200 to spend, the extra $25 in tax means you lose 25% of your remaining purchasing power. And if you've only got $100 to spend, you can't buy the item AT ALL.
Flat tax proponents have argued that folk under a certain income level would get a rebate, but that would require the same byzantine regulations as we presently have (otherwise how do you determine who qualifies?) AND in the meantime, those poor people don't have that money to spend. And, the poor mentality being what it is, when the annual rebate comes they're liable to blow it all at once, rather than budget it to pay NEXT year's up-front sales tax cost.
Very interesting. And if the object is to monitor income that might be used for *gasp* terrorist activity, this makes a handy excuse.
Absolutely... BTW which country has the highest corp tax rate?
I've seen studies indicating a flat tax would have to be in the 28-35% range to cover what the existing tax structure does, and that's ONLY for federal; you'd still have 5-10% state sales tax on top of that. So that $1000 item now costs you $1400 or so. Maybe not so bad if you're well off, but a deal-breaker if you're not. And it would kill most middle-class discretionary spending, which in turn kills every business that doesn't deal in either basic necessities, or luxuries of a class where money is meaningless.
I have a better idea. Gov't can stop spending so damn much, and stop laundering our taxes through their public servant wallets before returning PART of it to us as services.
You're absolutely right...
Here's another good one... watch everyone of moderate to high income leave California (where $150k/year is only middle class) in droves. And a 55% tax on high-dollar property? Do they really think everyone with a $15M property has $8M lying around in cash? (Or is this really a land grab made easy by property tax defaults?)
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http://www.sos.ca.gov/elections/elections_j.htm
1351. (08-0020)
Wealth Tax. Initiative Constitutional Amendment and Statute.
Summary Date: 01/28/09
Circulation Deadline: 06/29/09
Signatures Required: 694,354
Proponent: Paul McCauley
Imposes one-time tax of at least 55% on property in California exceeding $15 million if single, $20 million if married. Imposes one-time tax (between 36.5% - 54.3%) on income exceeding $10 million when resident dies or leaves California. Imposes additional 17.5% tax on total incomes of taxpayers with income exceeding $150,000 if single, $250,000 if married; 35% if incomes exceed $350,000 if single, $500,000 if married. Creates tax credits. Requires State to acquire shares of specified corporations to influence environmental practices. May exempt new revenues from education funding requirements. Summary of estimate by Legislative Analyst and Director of Finance of fiscal impact on state and local government: One-time increase in state revenues potentially in the low hundreds of billions of dollars from imposition of a wealth tax, and ongoing increase in state revenues potentially in the billions of dollars from imposition of the tax on certain people dying or leaving the state. This revenue would be allocated to accomplish various goals related to environmental protection. Potential annual net increase in personal income tax revenues in the tens of billions of dollars annually. At least $8 billion annually would be allocated to the state General Fund with additional revenue allocated for environmental protection. Unknown state and local revenue reductions-potentially in the tens of billions of dollars annually-due to changes in taxpayer behavior. (08-0020.)
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(No shit, sherlock...)
Here's a better idea. Let's make the U.S. a tax haven, so all the world's business and industry will move HERE instead of continuing to leave in droves!!
Well, that'll teach you :)
Phytoestrogens are structurally similar enough to mimic animal/human hormones, which is why they're used in menopause-relief folk medicines. The reduced fertility effect has long been known in sheep, but has not yet been seriously looked at in other species (other than some studies that show a markedly reduced sperm count). However, some of us dog breeders have noticed that diets containing flaxseed reduce fertility to about 50%, vs. the species norm of ~85%, and birth defects appear that are not otherwise seen.
The wiki has other links re fertility studies: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phytoestrogens
Info from various studies (PDF):
http://cot.food.gov.uk/pdfs/phytoreport0503
A Handy Chart -- note the extreme difference between flax, soy, and just about everything else:
http://www.dietaryfiberfood.com/phytoestrogen.php
Consider that neither flaxseed nor soy are edible in the raw state, and whether man evolved to eat such foods...
See also http://www.dietaryfiberfood.com/phytoestrogens-hormones
Cool, thanks for the info. It certainly speaks to the band's "attitude" which was quite rebellious at the time.
Interesting. Could be if I diluted it, I might like the taste as well as the smell :)
Strange thoughts: sending your own water to the distillery for making a custom batch, so it's sure to match when it gets back to you, a decade or two hence. :)