Personally, I prefer to use the bus and catch up my reading when I go into town. Otherwise, I walk to the shops and back.

You are right about the rain that falls on the ocean but I don't see how you're right when the rain falls on the land.

There is a lot more (About 3 times) area of ocean as there is land. And, as pointed out elsewhere, bunker oil is normally not burned until you're well out to sea, for precisely this reason. It's a perfectly good reason. Which is already covered.

and coach you continuously to improve your fitness.

I'd vaguely got the idea that these things were about health-Nazi-ism. Thanks for confirming that.

[Adverts for "smart watch, crumpled into ball, fly across room and ... bounce out of the rubbish bin.] Balls! I'll pick them up later.

It should be the car that is disabled

That was pretty much my thought too. There should be fewer problems with coupling an app on a phone to a particular car - say by the same sort of link as used in BlueTooth - and if the phone comes out of screen-saver, then the engine drops through the gears, puts on the hazard lights and horn, and then shuts down. Once the phone is back in screen-lock state, then the car's engine can be re-started.

It'd still be vulnerable to a driver who wants to text using a passenger's phone. But that's going to be a comparatively small problem, largely because it requires two idiotic self-centred narcissistic morons to be in the same car at the same time.

May be able to adjust it IF you've got laws allowing use of a hands-free mobile as a speech phone to put that as another engine-allowed state.

And the Ethanol, guar gum and citric acid

You've been eating Rum-and-Raisin ice cream?

Romero is right. Good quality entertaining FPS have been thin on the ground lately.

Doom stopped working ?

My copy is still working.

It's annoying enough when it's just me, but my parents/wife/family respond, "This website is broken, your setup drives me nuts, I just want things to work."

Then disable disabling javascript for their users and keep their accounts in a sandbox, or on separate machines. If it's your network, and they've authorised you to manage security, backups and hardware then they get what you decide. Or they get to manage it themselves.

They do understand binary?

I've forgotten what signature I'm using. Is it still the birds ARE one?

Evidently, yes. Appropriate. I haven't changed it for several years.

It's like asking if Ronald Reagan is more closely related to Emperor Hirohito, Osama bin Laden, Otzi the Iceman, or Barak Obama.

I suppose I should add an Australian Aborigine and an Amerindian to that list, just to even out the range supplied. Let's say Montezuma (he of the Revenge, for the Amerind) and Ernie Dingo (an Australian Aboriginal TV character, according to my Australian colleague).

If more sequences have been published since 2007, then perhaps we could get a better idea of which modern bird T-rex is most closely related to,

On skeletal structure grounds, T.rex has been considered a sister group to all birds since the 1960s or so. On the basis of it's forearm structure, T.rex is a theropod dinosaur, but probably not a maniraptorinan theropod dinosaur. All birds however are considered maniraptorian theropod dinosaurs.

We don't have a good understanding of the initial evolutionary radiation of the birds, between approximately the early Late Jurassic and mid-Late Cretaceous, when we find evidence of the early roots of some modern bird groups such as the ratites. There's no particular reason to think that any modern bird is more closely related to T.rex than any other. There probably is one such, but we don't have (and are very unlikely to ever get) enough evidence to really be sure of the family tree to that degree of accuracy. It's like asking if Ronald Reagan is more closely related to Emperor Hirohito, Osama bin Laden, Otzi the Iceman, or Barak Obama.

I've forgotten what signature I'm using. Is it still the birds ARE one?

I think that you mean dumping it into an active subduction zone. But you'd need to put it several kilometres down into the subduction zone (that's drilling technology ; we sell introductory courses to drilling - about $2000/week excluding your accommodation costs. Or our instructor's accommodation costs if you've got a class of 4 or more.) unless you're willing to underwrite the security of your storage equipment for around 10 million years (to get natural subduction to a similar depth).

it's deceptively dangerous it is not like a poison

That's nonsensical.

It is a poison. It's a slow-acting, low dose poison. but it's a poison nonetheless. It's difficult to estimate people's long-term exposures, because even very small levels of mercury loss from the body will have large effects on the cumulated dose over the decades.

Your mental image of what a poison is, is not adequate to make safe predictions about what is and is not poisonous, and at what doseages.

Do you remember Paracelsus' best-known dictum? If you don't know it, you really should.

and the third is not just silver mining but also outright cinnabar mining. Luckily, I live on the side of the lake which is relatively clean

Hmm, good enough reasons to consider appropriate precautions. And considering that we don't know what the safe lower exposure limit for mercury is (assuming that it's significantly different to the homeopathic concentration), that's going to need some careful thought.

and I have an RO filter because there's a hell of a lot of stuff around here in the water

Sorry, what's an "RO filter"? Run-Off? (I wouldn't have thought that snow-melt and rainfall from a clean roof would have picked up much ; unless you're horribly dusty, when you've got other issues to attend to.)

Tetraethyl Lead was used [..], and is still used in some aviation fuel. There appears to be illegal manufacture and use of the substance ongoing in the PRC.

If there is still legal manufacture and use in aviation gas, as you imply, what makes you think that there is illegal manufacture in PRC? There may be illegal or unlicensed use of PbEt4, made for the aviation market, as automobile fuel additives, but that doesn't make the manufacture itself illegal. Always assuming, of course that you're applying the appropriate laws to PRC. Whatever jurisdiction you're resident in, it's laws don't apply in the PRC (unless you're in the PRC). I don't know if the PRC has banned the manufacture of PbEt4. I do know that a very high proportion of the automobiles in China were manufactured since the 1980s, which means that they've got no need to use PbEt4. And that in itself casts serious doubt on your assertion.

The amounts involved as a fuel antiknock ingredient exceed Lead's use in mold control and paint, and should be considered the primary source for increased Lead in the environment.

That was certainly the case when I was learning to drive. But I can't remember having seen any petrol pumps supplying PbEt4-doped fuel for ... over a decade, maybe approaching two decades now. I remember there being a mild wailing and gnashing of teeth from the old-car freaks when the last refinery in the country (on this continent, perhaps?) that produced PbEt4-doped fuel stopped producing it. But they've shut the fuck up because anti-knock additives are available for engines that can't be dressed-back to use lead-free fuel ; you just have to pour in an appropriate amount of additive into your tank along with the amount of fuel. Yourself. Also, the additives may be less toxic - lead is not the only metal ion that exhibits anti-knock properties, just the cheapest, when you're doing it by the hundred-tonne batch.