Choline (and especially a common predecessor, lecithin) has been available over the counter at least since I started buying it in 1978. Lecithin has been a food additive (an emulsifier) for a long time. It's why you add eggs to waffles, so they don't stick to the waffle iron. Choline is among the safer substances available, this is not a dangerous test compared to many things being done today.
Doing the same evil to everyone does not make the act not evil. That drafting everyone might build their character is irrelevant to the fact that you are violating their rights. That it makes the world a better place is a false claim; the U.S.A. was founded on (among other things) the proposition that a large standing army in peacetime is wrong. Forced civilian service is a clear evil; the free market has been shown time and again to be the best director of human effort.
If the US is ever again drawn into a conflict as large-scale as WW2 was, be sure that a draft will be put in place. This will not be a sign that we've "already lost", but rather a sign that we are willing to do what it takes to win.
The words "willing" and "draft" are mutually exclusive.
Your argument is comepletely bogus on two grounds. The first is that most American citizens are born that way. The second is that you don't understand the word "voluntary". The choice "Your money or your life" does not describe a voluntary situation, and the fact that the government is holding the gun does not change the nature of the situation.
Weapons manufacturers? These are the people who try to reduce our fatalities. Politicians, in initiating unnecessary wars, increase fatalities. The difference is crucial.
I don't know about now, but 40 years and more ago if you shot movies in color and wanted them to last, you didn't use Eastman (Kodak) products. The dyes faded. The semi-archival product was Technicolor.
"No patents" would not end R&D, but it would hurt. Not all ideas can be free-ridden easily, if the product involved requires heavy new capital investment. What would increase would be innovation that involved techniques that could be kept secret. This would result in huge amounts of duplicated effort and a substantial slowdown of technological advancement. Not nice.
I agree with you on batteries, but the light bulb cartel seems to have been broken in recent years. Shop carefully and a 60 watt incandescent bulb is in the 25 to 50 cent range.
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A good PC-based device allows storing the waveform. This makes documentation much easier. Scope cameras are a nuisance and using them a lot runs into significant film costs. Standalone digital oscilloscopes with storage capabilities are less convenient and not cheap.
It gets better. The antitrust laws are used against companies that practice "anticompetitive practices." What counts as "anticompetitive?" Anything aimed at doing better than your competition.
No, by that twisted logic every industry leader in every field would be the target of a federal suit.
Learn some history. This is precisely the argument the US Government used in an antitrust suit against Alcoa, that Alcoa was guilty of anticompetitive activities because they did their business too well.
I find my economy going down every winter and being restored in summer. Winter gasoline has more oxygenated (pre-burned) fuel additives, and tires are stiffer (cause more drag) when they're cold.
He wrote in a preface to "A Requiem for Astounding"
"'We don't have winters like we used to; why I remember snowdrifts clear up to my shoulders!' (And what Alva is not remembering is that, at that time, his shoulders were three feet from the ground, not five!"
You've changed. Science fiction has changed, mostly for the better, just as most popular fiction has improved.
Science fiction is for the "young, enthusiastic and open-minded." It's not a waste of time for those for whom it is appropriate, particularly if it encourages that enthusiasm.
The UCS has a history of supporting left-wing dogma. I've seen many commentaries on their reports over the years, and every one shows the UCS opposing the U.S. or capitalism. The UCS can never be trusted.
Tuneup often includes changing (or at least regapping) the spark plugs, then and now. Although in modern engines, modern plugs tend to last 50,000 miles or more, versus about 10,000 miles in 1970.
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Choline (and especially a common predecessor, lecithin) has been available over the counter at least since I started buying it in 1978. Lecithin has been a food additive (an emulsifier) for a long time. It's why you add eggs to waffles, so they don't stick to the waffle iron. Choline is among the safer substances available, this is not a dangerous test compared to many things being done today.
Pluto has given us a good point for derivation; the tenth planet should be called Goofy.
Doing the same evil to everyone does not make the act not evil. That drafting everyone might build their character is irrelevant to the fact that you are violating their rights. That it makes the world a better place is a false claim; the U.S.A. was founded on (among other things) the proposition that a large standing army in peacetime is wrong. Forced civilian service is a clear evil; the free market has been shown time and again to be the best director of human effort.
Nice piece of fiction. Each paragraph of yours either false, irrevelant, or ignores more important aspects of the situation.
The words "willing" and "draft" are mutually exclusive.
Your argument is comepletely bogus on two grounds. The first is that most American citizens are born that way. The second is that you don't understand the word "voluntary". The choice "Your money or your life" does not describe a voluntary situation, and the fact that the government is holding the gun does not change the nature of the situation.
Weapons manufacturers? These are the people who try to reduce our fatalities. Politicians, in initiating unnecessary wars, increase fatalities. The difference is crucial.
I don't know about now, but 40 years and more ago if you shot movies in color and wanted them to last, you didn't use Eastman (Kodak) products. The dyes faded. The semi-archival product was Technicolor.
"No patents" would not end R&D, but it would hurt. Not all ideas can be free-ridden easily, if the product involved requires heavy new capital investment. What would increase would be innovation that involved techniques that could be kept secret. This would result in huge amounts of duplicated effort and a substantial slowdown of technological advancement. Not nice.
"all the different commands available on linux systems" fills many screens, even without descriptions.
I agree with you on batteries, but the light bulb cartel seems to have been broken in recent years. Shop carefully and a 60 watt incandescent bulb is in the 25 to 50 cent range.
You mean it's not high vacuum, like inside a CRT?
A good PC-based device allows storing the waveform. This makes documentation much easier. Scope cameras are a nuisance and using them a lot runs into significant film costs. Standalone digital oscilloscopes with storage capabilities are less convenient and not cheap.
No, by that twisted logic every industry leader in every field would be the target of a federal suit.
Learn some history. This is precisely the argument the US Government used in an antitrust suit against Alcoa, that Alcoa was guilty of anticompetitive activities because they did their business too well.
I love your thought. AMD should use it in an advertising campaign.
I find my economy going down every winter and being restored in summer. Winter gasoline has more oxygenated (pre-burned) fuel additives, and tires are stiffer (cause more drag) when they're cold.
"'We don't have winters like we used to; why I remember snowdrifts clear up to my shoulders!' (And what Alva is not remembering is that, at that time, his shoulders were three feet from the ground, not five!"
You've changed. Science fiction has changed, mostly for the better, just as most popular fiction has improved.
Science fiction is for the "young, enthusiastic and open-minded." It's not a waste of time for those for whom it is appropriate, particularly if it encourages that enthusiasm.
cant: repetition of conventional, trite, or unconsidered opinions.
Either could be correct.
The UCS has a history of supporting left-wing dogma. I've seen many commentaries on their reports over the years, and every one shows the UCS opposing the U.S. or capitalism. The UCS can never be trusted.
Tuneup often includes changing (or at least regapping) the spark plugs, then and now. Although in modern engines, modern plugs tend to last 50,000 miles or more, versus about 10,000 miles in 1970.
Beechwood-45789 (234-5789).
You're a sucker too, if you think the natural diamonds are "real" and the superior synthetic diamonds aren't.
Sweeter -- higher fructose content -- corn has been developed over the last few decades.
35 years ago it took about 1 gallon of fuel to produce 7 gallons of fuel. I presume things have improved a bit since then, but wells are deeper now.
Put a big sail on that tractor