I actually scored points with a girl once for singing "The Hunting Song" all the way through. Usually one would think it would've ended badly, but for once, the force was with me and she was a fan of the Professor.
As near as I can remember, both; If you believe Jerry Mander's conclusions in "Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television". Required reading for cynics and neo-luddites, IMO.
I suppose there might be some easy money in a lawsuit, but did you ever consider dealing with the issue yourself? I'm too cheap to buy a fancy plastic lap protector, so I use a paver block from my yard to protect my lap from the heat.
HFCS just ruins the taste of any "food" that is tainted with it. Ditto the artificial sweeteners, (and the physical effect in my body is disconcerting as well). Free Cl is pretty scary stuff, and many of its compounds are best avoided, IMO. I dislike and distrust Glyphosate, but mainly I see profit in charging boutique prices for produce grown without it (Mwa-ha-ha). You missed the endocrine disrupting features of some of our new plastic and pharmaceutical products, some real scientists actually believe there may be real problems with that stuff; Others assure us there is nothing to fear. My neighbor, Jeff Rense, seems to be a nut, and his website is pretty ludicrous, (and apparently VERY profitable) but just because something is posted there does not absolutely mean it is always total nonsense. Jeff Rense, -1 skepticism mod; Monsanto spokesman, -1 who's paying mod. My point is that I see more real hazards coming from your Fearless Leaders than your Lunatic Fringe.
I am currently living in a "black hole" without any bars on my phone. If I don't switch off my phone, it uses up the battery in about six hours, versus about three days in a covered area. I assume it to be cranking out the max wattage whilst frantically calling out for mommy, and remember to shut it off. If there is any harmful effect to be had from the EMR, then this ban is the way to maximise it. Good thinking.
Sorry I didn't read to here before I posted above. If they had shot the air across the TOP of the powder, then the venturi -like effect would have atomized the particles properly, the igntion would have been nearly instantaneous, and they wouldn't have wasted hundreds of pounds of powder creating a smoldering mess around their device. This has been done for years, and the flame can be turned on and off at will. I suppose Cremora is cheaper than Lycopodium powder. It looks like maybe I should set up a proper demonstration for the YouTubes. I might try something with Aluminium dust, but I don't want to get Homeland Security all excited.
The safe and sane method I learned in Hollywood is to use compressed air to spray Lycopodium pollen into the air, and we used rubber cement for ignition. The rubber cement didn't blow out from the wind, and it was utterly controllable with a flick of the air valve. We made some little bitty 30-foot fireballs &c., but really the sky's the limit on this. A neighbor told me about working on a movie called "The Thorn Birds" where some rookie director insisted on setting a real fire for authenticity in his big climax. Not only were the flames less impressive, but a lot of people were nearly killed by the firestorm which ensued.
I think drinking that shite is the hardest part. Bigfoot @ 9.6% is about as far as I can go, but only because of the generous hoppage. 7% seems to be the sweet spot for balance, as is 50% for whusky. YMMV. I think for wine it may be around 13% but I haven't done the research.
Tastes vary. I find that the fun is directly proportional to how much noise and recoil a round makes. I dislike killing things, and have seldom needed to use a gun as a part of my job. (A shovel would have worked better on that poor Rattler my boss once had me kill.) OTOH I have never been able to tolerate FPS play, or any video game that isn't Pod racer. A car is a tool for transportation, but a lot of NHRA and NASCAR people find fun in it. A.50 BMG rifle is my dream toy, but it would suck to use one at work.
I don't want to start a Four Yorkshiremen thread,...or do I? But when my neighbor's little brother beat up our old Gym Teacher, all we could say was "why didn't WE think of that?"
I always thought Agnostics didn't know whether or not there was any "God" that physically exist. I am not a Scientist, but several of the "Gods" have thugs who will physically beat you down, so if I'm cornered, I profess Deism, or "Christianity" if it looks particularly dangerous.
I sort of pictured the "post-AGW world" to be me in a wealthy Canadian town full of eco-chic yuppies (but hopefully without everyone acting like a pretentious douchebag). The coming droughts in the American South-West will certainly drive up our property values along B.C.'s fastest flowing river, where the rain is expected to continue or increase. I just hope they don't start treating Americans like we {DESERVE?}...treat the Mexicans. The genocide has been going on for some time, BTW, and will probably happen in other places soon.
Sorry, Crow, I didn't research properly on your comment's context. I was referring to what is common knowledge to Botanists et al. "I find it hard to put too much concern in climate readings that only go back about 100 years" is what I was responding to. My bad.
Dendrochronology provides a record going back several thousands of years. The droughts that reduced the Anasazi Culture have been dated pretty well. The gas content analysis of glacier core samples goes back a very long time. Considering that all written history has all occurred in the period since the last "Ice Age" and that this is pretty much the first time our species (and most of the currently extant mammalians) will be adapting to a non-glacial planet, I'm predicting the Yankees will be calling the games because of weather. Anyone care to debate our impeding demise due to Anthropogenic Global Poisoning? I think we can concede the game when the Smelt stop running. You sceptics should ask a Karuk about adapting to a changing world.
That's been one half of my observation; The other half of the anecdote regards the brain dysfunction that seems to set in after approximately 1 hour of video-game playing, which then persists for the remainder of that day. [Dons Aluminium Headgear] I believe it's all a part of the greater conspiracy to prevent "Change".
My son just informed me of a new usage which he'd just heard, used to describe rotating a car in a circle whilst spinning the rear tires. A "Brodie". Who comes up with these things? I told him that I'd used that one myself back in the '60s.
Green potatoes in fact, have toxic oxalic acid in them. I believe it is still toxic after cooking. This is the only fact in the same "vein" as radiation being harmful. Prudent people should reduce their exposure.
I used to run a television repair shop, which is fairly well regulated in the People's Republic of California: I think I know a thing or two about idiotic regulatory burdens like, say, the California Vehicle Code. (I know a LOT of codes that the police AND the courts seem unaware of.) Perhaps I'm incorrect about this, but I think the Burden is primarily "too much" for the IDIOTS, who whinge endlessly about the impossibility of their being followed. Honestly, are those legal experts so much smarter than YOU that you can't follow regulations without help?" Perhaps the Germans have advanced the state of the art on obfuscation and concealment of regulations, but here it's all about the crybabies. BTW is some one cranking out cell-phones in a Palo Alto garage? All the ones that I've seen seem to be coming from pretty substantial offshore facilities.
I try to remember to switch off my phone when I'm in dead areas as it seems to drain the battery in a few hours, trying to reach the network. I avoid adding to my personal dosage of radiation as far as practicable, Layers of fabric for sun protection and backing away from "harmless" emitters like CRTs and microwave ovens. Hoping to find my death somewhere other than an Oncology center. YMMV.
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I actually scored points with a girl once for singing "The Hunting Song" all the way through. Usually one would think it would've ended badly, but for once, the force was with me and she was a fan of the Professor.
As near as I can remember, both; If you believe Jerry Mander's conclusions in "Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television". Required reading for cynics and neo-luddites, IMO.
I suppose there might be some easy money in a lawsuit, but did you ever consider dealing with the issue yourself? I'm too cheap to buy a fancy plastic lap protector, so I use a paver block from my yard to protect my lap from the heat.
HFCS just ruins the taste of any "food" that is tainted with it. Ditto the artificial sweeteners, (and the physical effect in my body is disconcerting as well). Free Cl is pretty scary stuff, and many of its compounds are best avoided, IMO. I dislike and distrust Glyphosate, but mainly I see profit in charging boutique prices for produce grown without it (Mwa-ha-ha). You missed the endocrine disrupting features of some of our new plastic and pharmaceutical products, some real scientists actually believe there may be real problems with that stuff; Others assure us there is nothing to fear. My neighbor, Jeff Rense, seems to be a nut, and his website is pretty ludicrous, (and apparently VERY profitable) but just because something is posted there does not absolutely mean it is always total nonsense. Jeff Rense, -1 skepticism mod; Monsanto spokesman, -1 who's paying mod. My point is that I see more real hazards coming from your Fearless Leaders than your Lunatic Fringe.
I am currently living in a "black hole" without any bars on my phone. If I don't switch off my phone, it uses up the battery in about six hours, versus about three days in a covered area. I assume it to be cranking out the max wattage whilst frantically calling out for mommy, and remember to shut it off. If there is any harmful effect to be had from the EMR, then this ban is the way to maximise it. Good thinking.
Sorry I didn't read to here before I posted above. If they had shot the air across the TOP of the powder, then the venturi -like effect would have atomized the particles properly, the igntion would have been nearly instantaneous, and they wouldn't have wasted hundreds of pounds of powder creating a smoldering mess around their device. This has been done for years, and the flame can be turned on and off at will. I suppose Cremora is cheaper than Lycopodium powder. It looks like maybe I should set up a proper demonstration for the YouTubes. I might try something with Aluminium dust, but I don't want to get Homeland Security all excited.
The safe and sane method I learned in Hollywood is to use compressed air to spray Lycopodium pollen into the air, and we used rubber cement for ignition. The rubber cement didn't blow out from the wind, and it was utterly controllable with a flick of the air valve. We made some little bitty 30-foot fireballs &c., but really the sky's the limit on this. A neighbor told me about working on a movie called "The Thorn Birds" where some rookie director insisted on setting a real fire for authenticity in his big climax. Not only were the flames less impressive, but a lot of people were nearly killed by the firestorm which ensued.
I think drinking that shite is the hardest part. Bigfoot @ 9.6% is about as far as I can go, but only because of the generous hoppage. 7% seems to be the sweet spot for balance, as is 50% for whusky. YMMV. I think for wine it may be around 13% but I haven't done the research.
Tastes vary. I find that the fun is directly proportional to how much noise and recoil a round makes. I dislike killing things, and have seldom needed to use a gun as a part of my job. (A shovel would have worked better on that poor Rattler my boss once had me kill.) OTOH I have never been able to tolerate FPS play, or any video game that isn't Pod racer. A car is a tool for transportation, but a lot of NHRA and NASCAR people find fun in it. A .50 BMG rifle is my dream toy, but it would suck to use one at work.
I don't want to start a Four Yorkshiremen thread, ...or do I? But when my neighbor's little brother beat up our old Gym Teacher, all we could say was "why didn't WE think of that?"
I always thought Agnostics didn't know whether or not there was any "God" that physically exist. I am not a Scientist, but several of the "Gods" have thugs who will physically beat you down, so if I'm cornered, I profess Deism, or "Christianity" if it looks particularly dangerous.
I sort of pictured the "post-AGW world" to be me in a wealthy Canadian town full of eco-chic yuppies (but hopefully without everyone acting like a pretentious douchebag). The coming droughts in the American South-West will certainly drive up our property values along B.C.'s fastest flowing river, where the rain is expected to continue or increase. I just hope they don't start treating Americans like we {DESERVE?} ...treat the Mexicans. The genocide has been going on for some time, BTW, and will probably happen in other places soon.
That Bluish bit trickling off down the middle of the valley is the tap about to run dry for a whole lot of people. You're welcome!
Sorry, Crow, I didn't research properly on your comment's context. I was referring to what is common knowledge to Botanists et al. "I find it hard to put too much concern in climate readings that only go back about 100 years" is what I was responding to. My bad.
Dendrochronology provides a record going back several thousands of years. The droughts that reduced the Anasazi Culture have been dated pretty well. The gas content analysis of glacier core samples goes back a very long time. Considering that all written history has all occurred in the period since the last "Ice Age" and that this is pretty much the first time our species (and most of the currently extant mammalians) will be adapting to a non-glacial planet, I'm predicting the Yankees will be calling the games because of weather. Anyone care to debate our impeding demise due to Anthropogenic Global Poisoning? I think we can concede the game when the Smelt stop running. You sceptics should ask a Karuk about adapting to a changing world.
That's been one half of my observation; The other half of the anecdote regards the brain dysfunction that seems to set in after approximately 1 hour of video-game playing, which then persists for the remainder of that day. [Dons Aluminium Headgear] I believe it's all a part of the greater conspiracy to prevent "Change".
My son just informed me of a new usage which he'd just heard, used to describe rotating a car in a circle whilst spinning the rear tires. A "Brodie". Who comes up with these things?
I told him that I'd used that one myself back in the '60s.
Green potatoes in fact, have toxic oxalic acid in them. I believe it is still toxic after cooking. This is the only fact in the same "vein" as radiation being harmful. Prudent people should reduce their exposure.
I used to run a television repair shop, which is fairly well regulated in the People's Republic of California: I think I know a thing or two about idiotic regulatory burdens like, say, the California Vehicle Code. (I know a LOT of codes that the police AND the courts seem unaware of.) Perhaps I'm incorrect about this, but I think the Burden is primarily "too much" for the IDIOTS, who whinge endlessly about the impossibility of their being followed. Honestly, are those legal experts so much smarter than YOU that you can't follow regulations without help?" Perhaps the Germans have advanced the state of the art on obfuscation and concealment of regulations, but here it's all about the crybabies. BTW is some one cranking out cell-phones in a Palo Alto garage? All the ones that I've seen seem to be coming from pretty substantial offshore facilities.
Typical AC troll, but I'll bite. How many lawyers does it take to measure the SAR?
Dumb Fuck.
I try to remember to switch off my phone when I'm in dead areas as it seems to drain the battery in a few hours, trying to reach the network. I avoid adding to my personal dosage of radiation as far as practicable, Layers of fabric for sun protection and backing away from "harmless" emitters like CRTs and microwave ovens. Hoping to find my death somewhere other than an Oncology center. YMMV.
Not enough rehearsal time, apparently.
I didn't even get to scroll down to the comments, I saw the pictures and dropped my mouse. still laughing.
Is there an Esperanto App? Some ideas' time will never come.