I wish I could get paid for hiking. Unfortunately guides don't make much and it requires a lot of time away (hard on marriages). Seeing as I don't like being poor I guess it'll just stay a hobby.
I think this is true for many people. I've know folks who turned their personal interest into a business and they got sick of it. In the case of one guy I knew he turned his outdoor guiding background into a business and it did pretty well but it started to mess up his marriage (time demands) and he said he never got to do trips for himself anymore. He eventually shut down the business.
The people who seem to be happy at this tend to be pretty laid back about getting business. If your business has a high enough profit margin and you have low financial needs I guess you could get away with this.
Around New England most people who have career crisises (crisi?) seem to either open a baking business (woman, esp cookies), get rid of everything and go on a backpacking trip around the world (men), or open a bed and breakfast (couples).
If I know I'm going sort of slow (i.e. scenic drive) I'll just move over and invite them to pass. I'll only tap my brakes if I'm going fast already and can't move over. Life is too short to risk an serious accident or get bent out of shape over little crap.
Weight of a typical filling (3mm x 3mm): ~ ~0.025 g (50% Hg amalgam) Amount of mercury in a standard fluorescent lamp: Avg ~ 20 mg but varies from 3-46 mg
Since most people have multiple fillings that is a minimal amount.
The Hg in lamps is in an elemental form and is metabolized in the environment into highly toxic methylmercury which accumulates in the food chain. Mercury amalgam slowly leaks into your mouth (approx 30 mcg/day/filling). Neither one sounds too great!
I'm just happy if the price the comparisons show actually matches what is on the store's website. More and more recently I've found that the price shown in the comparison listing has nothing to do with the actual price shown when you follow the link to the store. I don't know if this is fraud, laziness, a crappy system or a little of all 3.
How is trying to explain something based on the best current evidence arrogance? Are you saying people shouldn't ever believe anything or they should just ignore new info? Sorry but science is a continual learning process and unlike religion is constantly adjusting to new information and better explanations.
Don't think you are special. Everyone has the potential to become addicted to something under the right circumstances. It is part of how our brains are built.
Here is a partial transcript of what was transmitted from the "spy coin"
"Hey man, got any change?" (sound of coins jingling in pocket?) "Here" (garbled explitive?) (sound of coins jingling in cup?) "God bless!" (sound of severe coughing) "Got me enough for a drink!"
I notice that they also throw as many obscure terms and concepts as possible into their writing. Then at the very end they ignore everything they'd said and just spew their "electric currents" idea. I assume they do this to bog down critics.
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You hear that? That is the sound of a dead horse being flogged.
I wish I could get paid for hiking. Unfortunately guides don't make much and it requires a lot of time away (hard on marriages). Seeing as I don't like being poor I guess it'll just stay a hobby.
I think this is true for many people. I've know folks who turned their personal interest into a business and they got sick of it. In the case of one guy I knew he turned his outdoor guiding background into a business and it did pretty well but it started to mess up his marriage (time demands) and he said he never got to do trips for himself anymore. He eventually shut down the business.
The people who seem to be happy at this tend to be pretty laid back about getting business. If your business has a high enough profit margin and you have low financial needs I guess you could get away with this.
Around New England most people who have career crisises (crisi?) seem to either open a baking business (woman, esp cookies), get rid of everything and go on a backpacking trip around the world (men), or open a bed and breakfast (couples).
Low ceilings interfere with my tinfoil hat thus allowing the CIA satellites to harrass me.
"I believe the mercury in some CFL's is also contained in a coating when turned off that helps prevent its release when the bulb is broken."
I thought the Hg had to be in vapour form for the UV emission process to work? The coating is just the phosphor.
I'd be sick of mom's tuna casserole LONG before I had 40 cans though!
I'm just confused about your strange use of bolding in your comment.
If I know I'm going sort of slow (i.e. scenic drive) I'll just move over and invite them to pass. I'll only tap my brakes if I'm going fast already and can't move over. Life is too short to risk an serious accident or get bent out of shape over little crap.
Well what do you know, you are right...
Weight of a typical filling (3mm x 3mm): ~ ~0.025 g (50% Hg amalgam)
Amount of mercury in a standard fluorescent lamp: Avg ~ 20 mg but varies from 3-46 mg
Since most people have multiple fillings that is a minimal amount.
The Hg in lamps is in an elemental form and is metabolized in the environment into highly toxic methylmercury which accumulates in the food chain. Mercury amalgam slowly leaks into your mouth (approx 30 mcg/day/filling). Neither one sounds too great!
http://www.worldwise.com/recfluorlig.html
http://www.ibiblio.org/amalgam/
"Plenty of empty land near the coasts around the world to use for this."
Ummm, have you ever been to the US?
I'm just happy if the price the comparisons show actually matches what is on the store's website. More and more recently I've found that the price shown in the comparison listing has nothing to do with the actual price shown when you follow the link to the store. I don't know if this is fraud, laziness, a crappy system or a little of all 3.
How is trying to explain something based on the best current evidence arrogance? Are you saying people shouldn't ever believe anything or they should just ignore new info? Sorry but science is a continual learning process and unlike religion is constantly adjusting to new information and better explanations.
I don't look forward to pumping rolls of quarters into my armrest's coin slot just to see how the movie ends.
Can I give the Chinese technical data on our submarines? After all, it is a matter of free speech.
I think the auto companies should get a cut of any used car sold and Levis should get some money every time I wash my pants and wear them again.
The grandparent wrote...
"6. Don't riddle the game with spyware and have an abusive EULA. Yeah, WoW got away with it, but that's no excuse."
You think the masses are crying out for more spyware and EULAs?
Don't think you are special. Everyone has the potential to become addicted to something under the right circumstances. It is part of how our brains are built.
Here is a partial transcript of what was transmitted from the "spy coin"
"Hey man, got any change?"
(sound of coins jingling in pocket?)
"Here" (garbled explitive?)
(sound of coins jingling in cup?)
"God bless!" (sound of severe coughing)
"Got me enough for a drink!"
Ok, I'll wait for the electric universe guys to present their peer reviewed research.
It is a bogus theory. I mean, look, they didn't even mention UFOs and the Hollow Earth where Hitler lives. Damn poor research if you ask me.
I notice that they also throw as many obscure terms and concepts as possible into their writing. Then at the very end they ignore everything they'd said and just spew their "electric currents" idea. I assume they do this to bog down critics.
Astrophysicist's experience: Decades
Blurb and last link authors' experience: None
I wonder which one I should believe?
The hard part is getting the customers to go with you.
Easy solution to online molestation, LOG OFF. You can't log off out of real life but the last time I checked all computers had power buttons.
I'm very dissapointed by this news. I was hoping that it had a nougat core or was full of toys and candy.