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  1. Flourescent tattoos on Tattoo To Monitor Diabetes · · Score: 3, Interesting
    Flourescent tattoos are not safe

    As a professional tattoo artist, and a liscensed one to boot, I am regularly asked if I can/will do the new flourescent tattoos, and I always give the exact same answer. "NO!"

    In 20 years, I may, but right now, while there have never been any long term tests to see if these tattoos will cause bodily harm, I refuse to put flourescent ink in anyone. There have been no tests to aprove the flourescent inks for permanent cosmetic use, so no one is certain that these inks are safe. Every bottle of ink in my shop comes with about 20 pages of paperwork documenting that the inks have passed years of medical testing, and have been found safe. The flourescent inks do not come with this paperwork, so I refuse stock those inks.

    Think about it, things that glow usualy come with warnings saying not to ingest, that means it's not safe. When you put ink in your skin, it does the same thing as if you swallow it.

  2. Re:Hope he got permission... on Ever Wanted Your Own Land Speeder? · · Score: 1

    Nope, he'll just make a really dumb one out of a 1960 Ford in 20 years.

  3. Re:yeah, but I'm still looking for an X-wing fight on Ever Wanted Your Own Land Speeder? · · Score: 1

    Yeah, probably because no one wants to sell their X-wing...

  4. Re:LIfestyle choice on Ever Wanted Your Own Land Speeder? · · Score: 1

    Biker:
    Looks like he would kill you for looking at him
    Would cry if you hurt his bike, not kill you
    Some of the nicest people I have ever met

    Jedi: Thinks he may get robbed, so he has a .357 in the car
    Thinks you want to rob him, so he's about to use that pistol
    Have never met a nice Jedi.

    I'll take the biker. His tats are usualy alot cooler anyways.

  5. Re:Escorts: The Phantom Engine on Ever Wanted Your Own Land Speeder? · · Score: 1

    100k isn't that bad on cars. I am driving a manual transmission 1990 GMC Sierria with 188,000+ miles on it, and it runs like a champ. Sure, the thing is a tank -the cannon (though, that COULD be arranged), but still. For most automobiles (cars especally) 100,000 isn't a really big deal anymore...

  6. Re:This is street legal ?!?!?! on Ever Wanted Your Own Land Speeder? · · Score: 1

    Actually it is legal to have flashy lights installed on your car. You just can't ever use them. I have a swich in my car that turns on a strobe light in my grille (turn it on at a stoplight and the light changes.)

  7. Re:Is it actually legal to drive this? on Ever Wanted Your Own Land Speeder? · · Score: 1

    Roll bar. This is classifyed as a convertable, and while it is not illegal to own a convertable without a roll bar, nor for a private citizen to sell one, if a dealership tried to sell it, they would be in deep trouble, and most likely face large fines for selling an "unsafe car". Which this car looks nothing like. the center of gravity is so low on something like that car, I don't think you could flip it very easily.

  8. Re:Telecommuting not Nirvana on What Types of Jobs are Best Suited for Telecommuters? · · Score: 2, Interesting
    I found that getting two computers helped me stay away from working on projects *all* the time. It got to the point where I would work non stop at least 12 or more hours a day every day, just because I could. I neglected family, friends, my spouse, all because I was "at work" all day. Then one day it dawned on me that I didn't have to work that much. I still work a good 10 hour day most days, but that's how much I like to work. It gets the job done, keeps my job, and gets me bonuses at the end of the month.

    I found the solution to overworking myself by moving my computers into the *hot* room over my garage, which is not connected to my house, and getting a seperate computer for the house. I now have an office, and a home. Not both. My computers are not shared, so I can't even access my files from my home if I wanted to. (well, I could, but why would I?)

    If you have that option, DO IT!

  9. Re:"My current skill set ties me to only a handful on What Types of Jobs are Best Suited for Telecommuters? · · Score: 1
    Actually. most companies would rather keep him and allow him to telecomute (as long as he could do it, and maintain the same quality of work, if not better) rather than hiring and training someone else.

    Experience, and time will be his biggest factors in keeping his job at his cuttent company. That and making friends with management before the time comes...

  10. Re:Hmm on What Types of Jobs are Best Suited for Telecommuters? · · Score: 1
    You don't want to do that. They you have to deal with the medicare system, and all the troubles therin. My mother works for a company that does medical reviews (tells the hospital how much medicare will cover for each patient) for the medicare system, and every time I hear from her I hear nothing but bad news. From what I hear medicare is such a hastle that it's not worth the trouble of having to deal with it.

    Now if you could get some doctors offices who don't deal with medicare on a regular basis, then you're in a fairly decent job...

  11. Re:AIDS, mortality, and timing. on Chimps, AIDS, And Immunity · · Score: 1

    Did he have the boy before or after he went into service?

  12. Re:Monkey skin condoms!! on Chimps, AIDS, And Immunity · · Score: 1

    So who gets to decide who should die? You? Me? Bill Gates?

  13. Re:AIDS, mortality, and timing. on Chimps, AIDS, And Immunity · · Score: 1
    There is also another reason people dind't die of cancer as often back then. During the 1800's there weren't as many carcenogenic (sp?) variables to cause people to develop cancer. There were no mass microwaves in the air, no radio, tv, callular phone, ect floating around in the air to give us cancer.

    Intresting note: If you know of anyone who has ever worked on sattalites for the military (not sure about other satalites, maybe them as well.), find out how many boys they had after being exposed to the radiation from the satalite. My guess would be none of them had boys after working on the satalite. It may just be some huge coincidence, but everybody that I have ever met that had worked on military satalites only had girls. (I know one friend in particular that has 6 girls so far... no boys, jsut 6 girls in a row.) I wonder if there has ever been a formal study of that? hmm...

  14. Re:Deusberg on Chimps, AIDS, And Immunity · · Score: 1

    Actually, that's not valad at all.

    The people in South Africa have lived that way for thousands of years, and have NEVER had any sort of epidemic like this.

    If it were true that these AIDS-like symptoms (Not AID, it's AIDS. The "s" isn't a plural.) were caused by unsanitary lives and being malnnurished, then we wouldn't have such an explosion lately of people dieing in S.Africa due to these symptoms.

  15. Re:Monkey skin condoms!! on Chimps, AIDS, And Immunity · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I don't care if I fell for anything. Just the fact that someone would make a joke like that is extremely sad and pathetic... Anyone who would even joke about that is such a sad individual that I pray they be shot and saved a lifetime of ridicule for being an IDIOT!

  16. Re:I believe this is called... on Chimps, AIDS, And Immunity · · Score: 1

    And most of those are the same ones who scream that Darwin was wrong... When they themselves are attempting to prove what he said was right.

  17. Re:Phbbt, science! on Chimps, AIDS, And Immunity · · Score: 1

    So you mean he wants to kill the infant children of drug users? I have never been so proud to be anything but christian before in my life. Thank you, you have just made my day.

  18. Re:How Does It Explain Human Immunity? on Chimps, AIDS, And Immunity · · Score: 1

    The Bubonic plague and HIV are extremely simmilar viruses. Humans that are decendants of people who once were exposed to the plague are immune to the plague, and thus are at least somewhat resistant to HIV and AIDS.

  19. Re:Practicing animal husbandry? on Chimps, AIDS, And Immunity · · Score: 1
    I'd guess by blood. Someone ate a monkey that had the virus probably.

    I'm guessing that only because I don't even want to think of the way you were implying...

  20. Re:It also provides hope on Chimps, AIDS, And Immunity · · Score: 1
    Re-read the article... How did chimps become immune to AIDS? virtually all of them were wiped out by it at some point or another... Now I'm not one to complain, but I just don't like that idea when it applies to humans.

    On a good note: It is also now believed that europeans and their direct dicendents have a higher rate of fighting off the virus and preventing it because they were exposed to the bubonic plague, which is very simmilar to AIDS (if not different strands of one virus.)

  21. Re:Monkey skin condoms!! on Chimps, AIDS, And Immunity · · Score: 2, Funny
    Besides some of those children are nothing more than the defective offspring of a infective drug user or the like. They will be nothing more than a drain on socitiety anyway.

    WHAT THE FUCK?

    Were you dropped on your head as a child? You must have been, either that, or you know what it's like to be "the defective offspring of an inefective drug user... (that is) nothing more than a drain on society..."

    I come from a very low class area of a very drug ridden city, and some of the best people I have ever met, also some of the smartest, came to us from drug ridden parents. You have absolutly no right to say anyone has less of a right to live than you. You are no better than any of those people that you say should die. In fact, I'd probably say you were worse. Not only are you stupid and uneducated on the subject, (like them) but you are also prideful, arrogant, and hateful. Personally, if this is the view of the rest of the aids free world other than myself, let me find myself some aids, and get away from ingrates like you.

    Thank you, come again.
    Forest C Adcock

  22. Re:That's fine and dandy, but on Scientists Discover What Makes Geckos Stick · · Score: 1

    Then it's a dragon darnit! A big dragony, fire-breathing, dragon.

  23. Re:old news on Scientists Discover What Makes Geckos Stick · · Score: 1

    Buy why would you need him to be able to stick to walls when he can fly? Isn't that beyond the point? I sure as hell know that if I could fly, I wouldn't waste my time dragging my fat ass up a wall by my arms. (assuming that I was fat.)

  24. Re:It Works Different In Humans on Scientists Discover What Makes Geckos Stick · · Score: 1

    Don't you mean swimming?

  25. Re:That's fine and dandy, but on Scientists Discover What Makes Geckos Stick · · Score: 1

    Actually, that's a dinosaur, not a gecko...