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  • To be serious, there is a test to detect lactose intolerance. I believe it's a relatively quick and simple test, too.
  • [QUOTE][i]Originally posted by croxis [/i] [B]More like 243 feet. Cleans the air for my allergies tho, then I start sneezing afterwords when the plants start ejaculating their sperm again. [/B][/QUOTE] Rain can be just as bad for allergies, si…
    in Ho Hum... Comment by JohnD June 2006
  • [QUOTE][i]Originally posted by Mundane [/i] [B]Dunno, but sometimes I think that this forum is getting a little too "personal".....are we all a bunch of depressive people? [/B][/QUOTE] Parts of the U.S. have seen what pretty much amounts to 5 s…
  • Re: Re: Re: Ho Hum... [QUOTE][i]Originally posted by Tyvar [/i] [B]Now you know how the Oregon contingent feels. [/B][/QUOTE] You got 7.25 inches of rain yesterday alone, too?
    in Ho Hum... Comment by JohnD June 2006
  • Re: Ho Hum... [QUOTE][i]Originally posted by JackN [/i] [B]Last day of work for the week... Rain...Hope the weekend has some sun in it... :D [/B][/QUOTE] Let's hope you don't live in southern New England, then. Around here, they predicted r…
    in Ho Hum... Comment by JohnD June 2006
  • [QUOTE][i]Originally posted by Biggles [/i] [B]The business Dell laptops are generally not bad for the price. The cheap ones are another story, though. They're usually very poor construction, in my experience.[/B][/QUOTE] I get a significant di…
  • [QUOTE][i]Originally posted by JackN [/i] [B]I tried to return the favor to my students for the next 5 years, but most of them just pissed the opportunities away. In my mind, education needs a revamp from a grass roots level. Too much politics and…
  • [QUOTE][i]Originally posted by Freejack [/i] [B]Something else that I fear is hurting the US education system is the lack of vocational education. There is a whole group of students who's interests are left behind and skill set short-changed when …
  • [QUOTE][i]Originally posted by A2597 [/i] [B]Not to mention, we still have some of the original texts written.[/B][/QUOTE] We do? That's news to me. All I've read has the oldest manuscripts being copies of copies of copies of...etc. [QUOTE…
  • [QUOTE][i]Originally posted by E.T [/i] [B]Russia has been designing such systems for some time... might have been that they couldn't develop strong enough armor materials so had to look these. (remember their heavy use of ERA) Actually they claim…
    in Forcefields Comment by JohnD April 2006
  • [QUOTE][i]Originally posted by Sanfam [/i] [B]Since it's apparently detonating the charge far in advance of it hitting, it's probably a microwave beam of some sort targetted by the radar system. Of course, we won't find out for sure until many yea…
    in Forcefields Comment by JohnD April 2006
  • From the sound of things, it isn't exactly highly targeted. What happens is once the radar detects the missile/RPG, it decides when to fire a shotgun-style spread of metal pellets towards the weapon.
    in Forcefields Comment by JohnD April 2006
  • Re: Whats your take on the MMR vaccinations? [QUOTE][i]Originally posted by MartianDust [/i] [B]I don't know if many of you have kids but I know some of you are into science and stuff and we're in a predicument as to how to vaccinate Chloe.[/B][…
  • [QUOTE][i]Originally posted by Freejack [/i] [B]Hmm, how long before Royal Carribian starts quietly building a nuclear powered cruise ship?[/B][/QUOTE] I doubt it could, even if they wanted to. Yeah, I know - you were kidding.
  • Actually, it looks like a poorly written law poorly designed to try and head off spammers or scumbags preying on children from hiding themselves by forging headers. That said, I wouldn't listen too closely to the ACLU, since they've been known to d…
  • [QUOTE][i]Originally posted by Lord Refa [/i] [B]You strange persons...I would rather have this one for my ride: [/B][/QUOTE] Sure, but at least I could probably afford to keep a 911 Carrera S :)
  • [QUOTE][i]Originally posted by Arethusa [/i] [B]Personally, I just think it's lazy, and the same distinct lack of aesthetic inspiration that plagues Dodge (though they are hardly alone in this). [/B][/QUOTE] Sure, but I'd still love to own a 91…
  • [QUOTE][i]Originally posted by Freejack [/i] [B]Good, maybe we can move beyond this and focus on some of the real educational shortcomings in the US. Jake [/B][/QUOTE] Such as the frightening trend towards politically correct grading? (i.e.…
  • [QUOTE][i]Originally posted by Tyvar [/i] [B]At camp fires its not that unusual for unexpected windshifts to blow smoke of high concentration into those around it. To the point of cauasing physical sympoms, does that mean campfires should be banned…
  • [QUOTE][i]Originally posted by Tyvar [/i] [B]Cigarette smoke does kill you, so does other types of smoke, wood fires produce smoke that in quantities will kill you, repeated prolonged exposure to wood smoke at high rates also causes cancer and othe…
  • [QUOTE][i]Originally posted by Sanfam [/i] [B]The big problem is that the evidence supporting deaths caused directly by second-hand smoke is slim to non-existent. Yes, potential harm exists, which is one of the reasons I don't like hanging around …
  • [QUOTE][i]Originally posted by Hasdrubal [/i] [B]As well tell rock musicians that they must stop using loudspeakers at their concerts, because it could damage the hearing of the stagehands.[/B][/QUOTE] None of your examples are really legitimat…
  • Mold can trigger some serious allergies in humans. I know that one first hand.
  • Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Politics Thread (BEWARE!) [QUOTE][i]Originally posted by Arethusa [/i] [B]It doesn't work. It can't. People have been saying exactly that for decades, and look how well Ralph Nader is doing.[/B][/QUOTE] In terms of poli…
  • [QUOTE][i]Originally posted by The Cabl3 Guy [/i] [B]you mean to say you don't like hockey pucks? [/B][/QUOTE] Or Molson :)
  • [QUOTE][i]Originally posted by the_exile [/i] [B]The Northeast and the Northwest should join Canada. :) [/B][/QUOTE] No thanks. I'd prefer not to do that.
  • [QUOTE][i]Originally posted by Random Chaos [/i] [B]Another interesting article from the BBC:[/B][/QUOTE] Thankfully I won't be seeing any of that at my job any time soon...just the after-effects of the ridiciulous military cutbacks the current…
  • [QUOTE][i]Originally posted by ShadowDancer [/i] [B]here's a question tho: we've all said that the system doesnt work, so what would you have to replace it? or how would you change it?[/B][/QUOTE] I think the system works as long as the citize…
  • Re: Re: Re: Politics Thread (BEWARE!) [QUOTE][i]Originally posted by Arethusa [/i] [B]Right, because that actually works. [/B][/QUOTE] It does, when people stop making excuses like "that won't work" and get off their lazy rear ends. Making …
  • Re: Politics Thread (BEWARE!) [QUOTE][i]Originally posted by Random Chaos [/i] [B]There are a lot of people to blame for what is going on, and it doesn't lie just among with the Republicans. [/B][/QUOTE] Do you know who the blame lies with? …