This, for a thousand times this!

No, USPS isn't really in the business of looking people up, lol.

You can look up the county property records online for pretty much every major county in the U.S. All you need is the county and person's name. Perhaps only in the boonies you have to drag your ass to an office to look it up.

You can also look up court records in quite a few counties online, for free.

I'm sorry, but those are still public records in the U.S. There are multiple sources for them:

1. Local newspaper archives. Typically local newspapers publish all recorded births and deaths.

2. Local public record offices. All across U.S., both birth and death certificates are public records and everyone can access them.

3. Local real estate records. Almost everywhere you can look up basic property records for free - the name of the owner, the address, the taxes due. To get details you may need to pay, but that's just administrative fee. In better counties, all of the records are freely available online, including GIS data.

I am in fact in favor of those remaining public no matter what. It prevents certain forms of corruption.

As someone who has had a DC14 for 8 years now, I call bullshit on that. There are no replaceable filters. Well, there are two filters, total. One is a lifetime HEPA filter that I've replaced 4 years ago methinks, simply out of boredom. It didn't have to be replaced. There is a washable foam filter that you're supposed to wash and dry every few weeks or so. No big deal. You don't replace it, you just wash it, dry it, and put it back. So yeah - it's replaceable if by "replace" you mean "put it back where you took it from".

Dumping the canister into a plastic bag, when done properly, produces no big dust clouds. It takes a bit of dexterity and skill to do it that way, but again, it's something you learn if only you care to learn, that is.

This vacuum dumps out air that's cleaner than the air it sucks in, even if you ran it standing on your desk instead of your floor. It's an absolutely brilliant design when it comes to the air path. It has some usability bugs when it comes to the hose and cord retention area, but those are things you can live with. They are secondary to the primary function: that of, you know, vacuuming.

You can't go too far without saturating the magnetic path. Then you decide "oh, to heck with magnetic path, we've got the amp turns, we can have it all in the air". Not soon thereafter you hit the strength limits of whatever nonmagnetic composite structure you use to keep the coils from shredding themselves to pieces, never mind the extreme cyclic loads generated by the rotating magnetic fields on anything ferromagnetic that happens to be nearby.

Practical superconducting motors require changes to pretty much everything else in the machine they are installed in. They only make sense in large, stationary applications like power generation, metal mills, etc. Anywhere you need a huge honkin' motor that can be kept separate from everything else. Other than that, they can be fairly impractical even if room temp superconductors were at hand.

With helium prices on the rise, it won't be long at all until it's perfectly economical to run MRI scanners with water-cooled copper coils. Even if right now you'd swap MRI scanner windings with copper ones, you'd only increase the operating costs 2-3 fold, and decrease the purchase cost of the machine by a similar factor. That's not a big deal. The superconducting MRI magnets are, to me, almost an unnecessary gimmick.

It really doesn't matter. Copper is a pretty good conductor already. Having 100% efficient electric motors doesn't really solve any major engineering challenges. If anything, you may now need to pay extra for heaters.

There is some truth to this, but mind what "dealing with money" may mean. Retailing is all it takes, you don't need to be a financier. Say, for example, the duty free shoppers empire (founded mostly by Chuck Feeney and Robert Warren Miller). In the time before it sold to LVMH in 1997, they seemed able to extract 20 billion USD out of mostly asian customers, with essentially zero investment. It was all high-overhead retailing, nothing less, nothing more. They were very productive in that enterprise.

Just think of this: there were years when Feeney and Miller were extracting over $100 million USD yearly in dividends out of that enterprise. To give you another idea of the scale involved: at one point they were paying the Hawaii airport authority $1 million every 3 days for the concession to operate at the airport. DFS was worth way more than many of the large financial operators you might have heard about, like Bear Stearns or Lehman Brothers. Heck, Miller and Feeney were personally worth IIRC more than Stearns and Lehman and a couple other large investment banks combined, for crying out loud.

Of course Chuck Feeney gave all his money to a charitable foundation he created, and is on his way to be the biggest philanthropist of all time. I think the joke is that he was basically bankrolling Irish higher education for a while.

I sent them an email or two with suggestions and bug reports and some of that stuff did actually find its way into the product. Seemed like excellent customer service to me, back then. So all I have going for myself is experience.

As for being paid for with google searches: that's adware. That's not a product. You know perfectly well how good adware generally is. Opera is just another example of how bad it is for everyone involved.

Maybe because allergies are really not affected by your brain.

You nailed it, but not for the reasons you think. Those things were, undiagnosed, underreported, and caused people to die without anyone knowing any better. It's like saying that life was all peachy without "nasty chemicals" 500 years ago. Well, guess what, we had a lot of mining and ore processing even back then, and people were exposed to very nasty stuff and died young. Things just either were unnamed, or the names weren't very fancy. Aseptic technique didn't exist, for crying out loud. A few stitches to a large skin cut could well kill you - stuff that today isn't worth a second thought, pretty much.

Back then, the cure for life-threatening allergies was to have a lot of kids. Those with bad allergies simply didn't make it very long. Back then, material things were precious, few and far between, and humans were essentially like the consumer throwaway items of today, whereas today humans are very precious.

My guess is that nobody knew those kids were allergic to peanuts. They just died from unexplained causes.

Not any honey. Raw honey. You can cook it to make it safe.

Those toxins are biochemically unrelated to peanuts, and their toxicity stands on its own and there's no desensitization for it. So I really don't know what aflatoxins have to do with peanut allergies.

He's just being a bit obfuscatory, that's all. Homogenization done on peanut butter is not done well enough for this purpose. Peanut butter that's homogenized enough for accurate dosing in such an allergy treatment has texture quite unlike peanut butter. Even the basic taste seems very different.

I've tasted it myself, but it had nothing to do with allergies, it was merely a demonstration that homogenization is like purification. It isn't parameter-less.

Homogenization and emulsification are the words you're looking for. There be, like, machines that do it, man.