Let me ponder this for a minute.

A health care professional can be expected to have a bias regarding healthy vs unhealthy life choices. Being fat indicates that a person has made one HELL of a lot of unhealthy choices. Like - every single day, he eats to much.

Bias. Healthy, vs unhealthy. I'm weighing this in my mind.

Question: What would happen if physicians just decided that it's alright to be obese? When a fat bastard comes to visit the doctor, Doc says "You look FAAHHHBULOUS, you fat bastard! Are you getting enough to eat?"

IMO, there is something wrong with that 25% who are NOT biased against fat and obesity!

If you saw them all with no problem, you're probably not exceptionally intelligent. Smart and not-so smart people see the small ones. The very smart tend to miss the larger moving images. Reading comprehension is available at a community college near you - and you don't even have to be extremely smart to take it!

Next question - does this mean that the assholes who tend to pull out in front of other vehicles - especially motorcycles - are the SMART ONES? Alright - I can see that, maybe. Very intelligent dumbasses. Yep!

If you were wiling and able to remove paneling, yeah, it would be great. But, it's a good bit of work. If you happened to be doing remodeling anyway, no problem. It's not a chore that I would willingly take on just to get rid of roaches.

On the other hand - I would consider removing the molding around the bottom of the room, drill a few one inch holes, and blow the dust into the holes. Nail the molding back in place, and your walls are permanently poisoned for roaches.

Depending on where you live, and the construction of your home, moisture shouldn't be a problem on any interior walls. Exterior walls, maybe.

Really? How will that work, exactly? How does this "atomic fire" propagate through space? Especially the volume of space in which all the debris floats? Nuclear bombs are pretty devastating within an atmosphere, but somehow, I just can't picture much of a pressure wave or much of an "atomic fire" in a vacuum.

Roaches are averse to very little. The one thing that kills them dead, and permanent, is boric acid. No - don't try to mix up a poison for them. Just dust the building they infest. Really dust - get it into every crack and crevice, behind light switches, behind wall receptacles, under cabinets, on top of cabinet, under the false floor under your sinks, in the attic, in the basement, get the rafters and floor joists, behind molding, in the heating ducts, hot water tank room, crawlspaces, EVERYWHERE.

Leave the dust undisturbed for as long as possible. Can you leave the building empty for a month? Do it! They walk in it, they feel dirty, so they groom themselves. Grooming is just like a cat - they lick themselves clean. POISONED, SUCKER!!!

All those fancy, expensive preparations are just a waste of time. They never worked in the first place, is why the roaches seem to be "averse" to them now.

How do I know this? I once moved into a home that was perfect - except it was roach infested. We tried everything, then asked around. The professional exterminators couldn't even rid the house of roaches, which was part of the reason the previous tenants had moved out.

Dusting worked, where everything else had failed. The house was roach free after a month. (There WILL be reinfestations after the first treatment, because there are eggs in your walls that won't hatch for a couple of weeks. Just leave the dust laying everywhere - those hatchlings will be gone soon enough.)

So - you're more interested in liability, than education?

Oh yeah - it IS the schools responsibility to TEACH the kids how to experiment safely. Responsibility - what a concept!

Like I said - a mild scolding.

Yes, she deserved a "punishment". That punishment should have taken the form of a mild scolding. "Honey, we probably should have stressed that you don't mix chemicals until you're sure what to expect from them! Next time, ask BEFORE you mix the stuff up!" And, that should have been the end of it.

Well, the end of it, except for some ice cream. No high school experiment is complete until the ice cream has been consumed.

Just one small production steel mill, or aluminum mill, or even a plastics processing mill. The first time I read about this thing, I thought, "Why not just set it up at work? Get it running, throw the breakers coming from the power lines, and let this little "reactor" run the plant?" It's a clean, simple test. We just transfer from "shore power" to "ship's power" like any Navy ship. If the plant continues to produce, then the "reactor" passes. And, I'll pay for the damned thing. Imagine - spending a few hundred thousand dollars for a device that will give me unlimited power for almost forever! My production costs drop by about 5% overnight!

A single demonstration, documented thoroughly, would make this Rossi guy unbelievable rich, overnight! People would be beating down his doors, to throw money at him!

Extortion would be relevant. Organized extortion efforts across the nation would be very relevant. What's going on here is very much the same as a protection racket. "You pay me $100/week, and your home won't be broken into." Except, it's "You pay me $xxxx and you won't have to defend yourself in court." It's outright extortion.

The second AC to post sums it up. Without the players, there is no game. The players ARE the game.

Don't forget to use and abuse all his women - he lacks the energy for that as well.

"There's just no federal laws they can really go after these fuckers for violating."

RICO

http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-rico-law.htm#did-you-know

It's really hard to say what makes a good hackathon. But, you can judge your success easily enough. If within two or three days, the FBI, CIA, ATF, ICE, and other government agencies kick everyone's doors in, and confiscates everything that everyone owns prior to flying everyone to Guantanamo, you KNOW you had one hell of a hackathon!

"If there's a hackathon heaven . . . "
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9IEemZ6-LZc

Oh! You poor fool! Those weren't typos at all. THOSE ARE THE NEW FORMULA!! Oh, poor, poor fool - you'll NEVER be able to analyze algorithms properly now, because you're using the old formulas! [/sarcasm]

Standards?

1 watch newspapers for high profile deaths
2 show up at funeral
3 stage shockingly objectionable protest
4 be assaulted and/or insulted
5 file suit against grieving relatives for violation of civil rights

It's hard to see that WBC has any standards, or that those nonexistent standards might be any higher than the Prenda lawyers. I'd like to see someone like Judge Wright get hold of the WBC bunch.