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Ebay or a local feed store, perhaps.

! Moderator Note illuusio, while we very much appreciate the opportunity to re-open your thread in order to test the math you were able to give, the results of the test show your idea to be false. Now you're simply falling back into the behavior that got the thread closed in the first place. It's clear you are not considering reality when you continue to defend ideas that have been tested and shown false. You have been shown ample evidence why the idea is wrong, and have not been able to provide any evidence to support it. Our rules call for evidence, and it would be a disservice to the rest of the membership to spend more pages of discussion without it. Thread closed. Again.

Go to the section you want first, then click Start a New Topic. As I said, Gilded was simply sick of everything in his part of the world being made from pine. It's simply his opinion. Or maybe "table" just fit with his rhyming scheme better than "chair" or "furniture".

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If you were wearing lace-up tennis shoes, it could be stuck in the laces. We often don't consider that something lost might have hitched a ride on the person looking for it. When I was in high school, half a dozen of us looked for a girl's car keys for half an hour before she found them in the cuffs of her, um, trousers.

1 -3 are reasons to change the way meat is processed, not reasons to stop eating meat. And methane's CO2 is quickly reabsorbed by plants and doesn't really add much to net greenhouse gases.

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The acid is so this thread can be in the Chemistry section. If you're out my way, Moon, bring along some pine with you. If you want to make it into 1x4s and 1x6s for easy travel, that's OK by me. Just make 'em straight, and no acid.

Gilded is from Finland, and they have more forests than any other country in Europe (like 86% of the country is trees), and about half of that is pine. He can't see the forests for the pine trees, I'm guessing.

Another good idea, in a more commercial, non-chemical way. Depending on the type of wood, I might rent a chipper and reduce the thousands of kilos of wood to wood chips, load them in my truck and make the rounds in upscale neighborhoods offering to replenish people's gardens or landscaping. Chippers have their own danger, in a Fargo kind of way, but are more reliable than homemade boilers.

I suppose if you went with a simple classic design, and hooked it up to a generator, you could minimize the danger of high-pressure steam. I wonder if something along these lines would work: Replacing the Sterno with a wood fire, of course.

To be fair, John Cuthber, people don't expect their own quotes to be tampered with in a reply. To insist that chilled_flourine should pay more attention in this instance is like telling someone you've hidden something in the room they're in, and then chastising them when they fail to check their own pockets.

I thought of that first, tbh, but was a bit leery of someone making a steam engine. Of the two methods, the steam engine seemed the most dangerous for a do-it-yourselfer.

If you're taking it just to keep platelets from clumping, there are low-dose coated tablets you can take that reduce the stomach irritation and are aimed more at heart risk/stroke situations than pain management. I would always advise checking with your doctor first, though, since no one here knows your medical history.

Currently, I'm putting together another attempt at the small meals diet. The idea is to eat a small meal about every three hours, five times a day instead of larger meals three times a day, to avoid spiking glucose levels. It's supposed to be very satisfying (little or no hunger pangs), allow for a great deal of variety, controls caloric intake and keeps metabolism at a good rate. The difficult part for me has always been how to plan the smaller meals effectively. Assuming meals at 7am, 10am, 1pm, 4pm and 7pm, I have no problems with some raw fruit and vegetables at 10am and 4pm, and breakfast at 7am can be yummy things like a hard-bolied egg, chopped up and mixed with a strip of crumbled bacon, diced tomato/onion/cilantro salsa and a tablespoon of Parmesan cheese, microwaved and spread over half a toasted English muffin (what real English people would call a sort of sourdough crumpet) for about 205 calories. No problems with breakfast, perhaps my favorite food meal. The 1pm and 7pm meals are my problem. This is usually when people at work want to go out, or the family sits down for a normally larger meal. These are the meals that are typically the biggest in the old three-meals-a-day regimen, and it's hard to break the habit. I'm also trying to stay away from as much processed food as possible, and my daughter still has that "keep-food-groups-separate" prejudice that kids often do, so that makes casseroles and stews difficult at our house. I haven't completely figured it all out, but I want to get away from the larger meals. My work isn't terribly physically punishing, and neither is my exercise routine, so I don't feel the need for the same amount or types of food a ditch-digger who pumps iron and runs marathons would eat.

I like them for the calcium, manganese and copper content they represent, as well as being a great source of protein. The ones they put on bread are just dumb though, since seeds like that aren't digestible unless they're ground up pretty well. They're too small to be chewed whole, imo, and often end up just going through your system without benefit. I don't think they give a satisfying enough crunch in whole form anyway, so they're best used as a garnish after you pulverize them a bit. I use them on salads and in oatmeal after a good crushing with a mortar and pestle.

Wood gasification.

Using math this way can arrive at a "proof", but for scientific purposes, "proof" is incorrect. We can say it is extremely likely that extraterrestrial life exists, but there will always exist a slight possibility that we're all there is. Until we're not.

Did the Republicans check to see if his doctorate was in medicine before they started using him to inform voters and their representatives on important medical issues? If he was actually used to speak to voter groups, how is this really any different than treason? He betrayed the confidence placed in him as a medical professional informing members of Congress about medical matters vital to the public's understanding.

I consider common sense to be an age-defined thought process, and not really a single body of knowledge we all share. We wouldn't expect a five-year-old to have as much common sense as a ten-year-old, and we expect more from an adult than we do a teenager. To me, common sense is about putting together what you know, not what knowledge people have "in common". It definitely has other meanings to other people. You hear it being used in an, "Everyone knows THAT" kind of way. But I think it's more about thinking things through to a rational outcome. If you can see that the door won't open when you push on it, common sense should tell you to try pulling on it instead of giving up or pushing harder.

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I agree with zapatos, except for the Clinton thing. I'm the opposite, I loved him while he was in office and then later despised some of the things he did that I feel helped lead us to where we are now. Obama has done some great things, especially with what he was given. If the presidential "race" can be thought of as a relay, then each president hands off the baton to the next, and poor Obama did his best not to grimace at the slimy, dirty, chewed up stick Bush II slapped into his palm. He ran with it, and to his credit he tried to keep from tearing things apart. He could have used his early clout when he had all that steam behind him, as well as Congress. I think the Republicans fully expected him to, and were poised to stall his momentum in any way they could. I think that's why the Tea Party got funded by the Koch Bros and came out so aggressively against a tax plan that actually benefited most of the people who were rallying against it. And perhaps Obama's biggest mistake was NOT using that early clout. He tried too hard to bring both sides together to pull the country back from the brink. He failed, imo, to undo the damage done by Bush II in a way that would make everyone appreciate the difference in his approach. In just four years, he lost his party the advantage it had when so many people realized they'd supported an idiot for two terms, and the country desperately needed to change. Obama failed to realize that liberal intellect is no match for conservative fear when the Democrats and Republicans both are being influenced too heavily by special interests. Obama invited the Republicans to dinner at his house and they brought take-out, and Obama thought a good host shouldn't be offended. I think he was wrong about that.

Reasonable is the key word here. How much beer would have to be consumed daily to get sufficient amounts of B12, and can people who don't drink alcohol be accommodated as well? I found a great article by a former pro-vegan who argues that the problems of the vegan diet, as well as some of the major drawbacks of the omnivorous diet, can be fixed with better farming methods. And the author adds that many of the shocking numbers vegans throw around regularly about water needs and greenhouse gas emissions are badly summarized data: Apologies to ydoaPs for not sticking to the spirit of the OP. This thread has degenerated into another pro/anti discussion rather than continuing to assume that we're all already vegans by choice. I tried, I really did, but I find it so hard to talk well with my tongue constantly in my cheek, especially when faced with objectionable arguments.