Hmm, nothing against torture, nothing against child abuse, nothing against slavery. As a rules to live by they seem a bit lacking.

Phillip Morris is already pursuing Australia for damages under the ISDS system after losing in the Australian high court. Australia signed a free trade treaty with Hong Kong in the 90s and that is the basis for this action. The TPP will only make matters worse.

This has been going on for at least 60 years. HomeLink and Intervac have been around since 1953, using printed books at arrange person to person swaps long before the internet.

A few years ago, I went 30 days without caffeine to prove to my wife that I could do it. Strangely I did not get any real withdrawal symptoms, just felt a bit flat for a few days.

I did miss the taste and social aspects of coffee. When the 30 days were over I was quite happy to start drinking coffee again.

That is one option. On the other hand, I have 8 - 10 coffees a day. I never get the jitters or caffeine headaches. I guess I just detoxify it slowly enough that I never get to zero caffeine.

Perhaps it is skipping the soft drinks rather than the caffeine that makes you feel healthier?

I've been listening to triplej for about 20 years and as usual there are plenty of songs I do not recognize in the list. That is part of the deal with triplej, no comfort zone of classics and far more new music than you can follow.

There will be a few teeny pop songs in the list but if you listen to a few, you'll see that the range is far more diverse and none of the usual pop artists.

Over the past few years triplej has been doing a lot of work to foster local music, their site http://www.triplejunearthed.com/ is great and you can legally download plenty of good music.

I guess one day my music tastes will crystallize and I'll join the host of others who think that music was best in year X (usually when they were a teenager). I'll fight that as long as I can.

I agree that you will never prove that they do not exist but that is not always the main goal. If you take the people who believe in ghosts along and approach it from a perspective of searching for evidence, you may get them to think a bit more about what they recall seeing in the past. I had a similar opportunity to investigate in the Cemetery on Norfolk Island, it was a great deal of fun and I think a few of my friends really changed the way they view skeptics and weigh evidence.

It may be more feasible than you think. I've been thinking about the same solution for a while. I've polled a few friends with SUVs and most of them seem to think it is a good idea. (1 did not think it was required). Of the friends without SUVs, they all thought it was a good idea.

You did not miss much from what I saw. I'm in Newcastle and was out for an early ride and say it at 5.50 EST. To me it looked more like a unusual cloud formation near the moon. It was interesting enough for me to mention it to my friends when I met them at 6 but they did not even notice it. I did not think about it again until I saw it on the evening news with a few ufo nuts.

I had a quick look at the PubMed search and did not see any results that seemed to support the blood group personality thing. If I search PubMad for "star signs" I get almost twice as many results. Can you post the links to any of these articles that show any evidence to support a relationship between blood group and personality?