I feel the BBC puts a teenchy bit of conservative spin on news. IMO Reuters and Al-Jazeera are more spin-neutral. I like to check them all; I balance the extremes and juxtapose them for yucks. Okay, I think maybe I'm a bit liberal since mostly I laugh at the hillbilly hijinks on foxnews.com and presstv.ir, but I check out the conservative stuff at sites like the guardian.co.uk and nytimes.com to see what new horrors are coming down the pipes from our Fearless Leaders. I try to interpret each site from the mindset of their intended audience and imagine what my state of delusion will be. I have a wild-ass theory that the hard spin steers each group along in its (separate) path and prevents any useful dialog or progress, or thought. It's almost as if democracy was a vast conspiracy to transfer power to the Merchant Class.

I lived in L.A. It gave me some insight on police indifference. Might I suggest a strategic "throw down" be placed with valuables? Get an old, extremely shitty, gun, (hell, disable the firing pin or something, we don't need to arm any more criminals.) and keep it with your computer gear so that thieves will be compelled to drag it away with the rest of your loot. That seems to elicit a whole new level of interest when you call the police. I had a car stolen and I seemed to be a bother to the policeman I had the audacity to report it to, until I mentioned a revolver that I had locked in the trunk. Later, when I had located my missing car, (on my own, thanks) and notified the L.A.P.D., they actually dispatched an officer to the scene. (Just so he could trace the gun's serial number and check me for warrants, but it's nice to be noticed.)

I have no problem being skeptical with your beliefs, It's harder to question my own.

I heard that tests using the hemp fiber had a higher ceiling.

Pb Paintballs FTW!

I suggest they use lead paintballs.

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.

The spam folder just catches the occasional legit e-mail. I never get any spam. I don't know what I'm doing wrong, it's just never been much of a problem for me.