http://www.democraticunderground.com http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Sat, 25 May 2013 16:23:53 Sat, 25 May 2013 16:23:53 I would be in favor of it IF the governments of the world would actually do something with space exploration, but they don't. They send up high school science experiments and PR. That's neither science nor exploration.

We have to get off of this rock. We desperately need some off-site backup, ev... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/politicat/13 Tue, 26 Sep 2006 16:12:54 I'll file that one with my other things to do when Bush smokes pot with John Stewart on NBC. Here's my proverb in return: I am not the center of the world and neither is anyone else. We all have to take the little space we live in and live in it with every one of the other six billion people on this... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/politicat/12 Fri, 26 May 2006 00:06:00 They're all non-controversial, and in the cases of peanuts and mustard, can be plugged directly into a crop rotation including corn. All of them have a better oil yield per acre than does hemp, and excepting soy, all of them need less water. (Also, oats can be grown in regions where soy won't since ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/politicat/11 Fri, 19 May 2006 01:46:57 It only took me three years of complaining, six weeks of dithering, two weeks of looking in every shop and on every site I could find, and four solid hours of shopping to get it right.

It's ordered from a local shop. It will be here next week.

I hate my stump-jumper. Even with more shocks th... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/politicat/10 Sun, 23 Apr 2006 01:50:49 It's roxarsone. (3-Nitro-4-hydroxyphenylarsonic acid) The chemical structure does not have a free oxygen or a free carbon to allow it to bond molecularly to another molecule. (i.e. it's chemically stable.) Also, roxarsone cannot be fed to chickens within 10 days of slaughter (USDA reg) and it metabo... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/politicat/9 Thu, 06 Apr 2006 04:31:58 This is not a flame -- really. This is my life. It's kinda funny, really. Or so I keep telling myself.

I live with a UNIX (note - UNIX, not Linux) devotee with a Master's of Comp Sci (and his doctorate, if he will just get around to writing the damned paper) and almost 20 years in the industry, ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/politicat/8 Thu, 06 Apr 2006 03:21:51 but arsenic isn't that bad. It isn't dioxin or PCBs or lead.

Some basic chemical math, first.

1 ppm =1000 ppb = 1 mg/L (Normal daily exposure to arsenic from food) = 1 in 1 million = 1:1,000,000 = 1 mg/kg (1/8th teaspoon in 55 gal drum)
500 ppb = .5 mg/L (FDA limits for chicken muscle meat) =... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/politicat/6 Thu, 06 Apr 2006 02:06:21 She's got some irritating turns of phrase, but who doesn't? Alton Brown's incessant pop culture references get on my nerves if I watch him too much, and ten minutes of Paula Dean makes me want to claw my eardrums out and give myself a suborbital prefrontal lobotomy with my ice pick.

I'm glad RR ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/politicat/7 Tue, 04 Apr 2006 23:33:06 Flooding is always going to be more damaging than wind; there are very few buildings that can be built in Louisiana that are cat 4/5 stable because cat 4/5 stable requires tying to bedrock. There's no bedrock to be found in that area. (And while I agree with you that this war we're in is a stupid an... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/politicat/5 Tue, 21 Mar 2006 23:54:59 It's easier to make a new thread for future reference.

Potato Boxty (Pratai)

My grandmother used to tease me with this rhyme when I was little: Boxty on the griddle, boxty in the pan. If you can't make boxty, you'll never get your man. The more Irish side of the family eats these as often as ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/politicat/4 Fri, 17 Mar 2006 23:46:58 Hormones are illegal for use in poultry and pork. (http://www.fsis.usda.gov/Fact_Sheets/Duck_&_Goose_from_Farm_to_Table/index.asp and http://www.fsis.usda.gov/oa/pubs/pork.htm) Antibiotics may only be used to treat disease or prevent disease (if transmissible), and any animal which has had antibioti... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/politicat/3 Thu, 16 Mar 2006 00:25:27 You (collectively) don't get to tell me (collectively) how I (collectively) should feel when one of you (collectively) decides to dehumanize me (collectively). To continue the metaphor, the mugger doesn't get to tell the muggee how the muggee should deal with the crime. Horror and disgust over the d... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/politicat/2 Tue, 14 Mar 2006 16:46:55 It is a product of our culture. If our culture did not consider that women should be secure in their persons and that sexual violence against them are abhorrent and aberrant, then we maybe could consider rape as just another form of assault and battery.

Rape becomes singularly damaging to that se... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/politicat/1 Tue, 14 Mar 2006 15:43:19