Likewise... Seamonkey is the last usable browser (well, once I install Prefbar).

Not so in Los Angeles, where in many areas the peripheral traffic jam is well in session by 6am and doesn't abate until 7pm or later. If I had to be in L.A. by 9am, I had to be OUT of my bedroom community, nominally an hour away, by 6am, and ready to jump to the alt-surface route at the halfway point if the freeway was already thoroughly jammed up by 7am.

Conversely, midmorning to early afternoon, and most of the night -- no problem! (Unless you're on the 405, which seems to have become a 24 hour traffic jam in recent years.)

True enough, tho public perception has been perhaps more destructive than reality. :/

So why couldn't a gunsmith mill plastic parts as readily as he might metal parts?

In my observation (judging from writings by various terrorist types), it's because they're in it mostly for the high, not for the job. There's no thrill in doing the simple and legal.

You'd be amazed what a hunting dog's nose can detect. I've seen Labradors dig up aluminum cans that were buried two feet deep some years previous, homing in on that single point. They regularly find cellphones wrapped in plastic and hidden in toilet tanks (prison trick, so I'm told). Covering up a scent doesn't work nearly as well as you'd think, either... the original scent is still there and detectable by the dog.

As to whether the sniffer dog cues on the scent or the handler's expectations, that's another issue. :(

Last time I got a flu shot I inquired about tetanus and whatever. About fell over when I was quoted $160. Which would come out of my personal pocket. Another $60 for pneumonia shot, ditto.

Well, that's what happens when you sue all but one of the vaccine manufacturers out of existence. :/

That depends entirely on the virus. Some require a large innoculating dose (thousands of live particles); others require only a handful (parvovirus leaps to mind; I can't find a cite offhand but I vaguely recall the innoculating dose is as few as six particles, possibly because it's a fast-replicating virus).

Wasn't it also implicated in prostate cancer? Thought I heard something about that as well.

I expect if that becomes proven, many minds will change about many daughters.

So your daughter eventually marries a fellow who wasn't entirely pre-marital celibate, or was previously married (caught it from his wife, and has since divorced) ... and he gives your daughter HPV...

Now what?? Your daughter, virginal til marriage, is now infected through no direct fault of her own and perhaps not even of her spouse.

It's not about behavior; it's about mitigating future risk that might nail you despite your best behavior.

And how does this compare to the risk of permanent disability or death if you contract the disease?

Well, better would be to return to the tariff system that this country's gov't got by on just fine (well, in non-war years) in the days before income tax let it bloat itself to "gov't fills the dollars allotted". No need for anyone to track anything, incentivize buying local.

Actually what the article notes is pretty much my own observation too, having lived around "poor" neighborhoods -- they lived better than I did, drove newer vehicles, ate more junk food, owned more shit, etc.

A pound of hamburger, some macaroni, tomato sauce...

It may not be fine dining, but it can be done.

Yeah, I didn't figure a person should bathe in it, or use it as room freshener! :)