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There is another n- variation, I forget but spelled it in a way to make it work also before. I don't know if there are any others. I have to wonder if it's somebody's twisted way of saying Εllliot is a niggеr?Quote:
Originally Posted by Winehole23
Don't have time to continue. Just took a quick shower and have to leave. My last post today.
If you cut and paste you can use it but, damn, N-word is easier.
What kind of input device do you use Wild Cobra? Surely not a standard keyboard.
Yes, I'm sure you don't.Quote:
Originally Posted by Wild Cobra
Sigh.... You can't have two back to back "fail of the year" threads on the same subject.
Yoni's kind of slimabags:
Republicans' Frightening Logic for Being Against Preventing Mercury Poisoning
The Focus on the Family letter says it all:
According to the EEN, one of every six American babies is born with harmful blood mercury levels, “which causes permanent brain damage in the unborn and infants.” Therefore, the 12 federal legislators EEN is thanking with radio, TV and billboard ads for supporting the EPA restrictions are “pro-life.”
In truth, only one in every 1,000 American babies is exposed to harmful doses of mercury, and the slight delays in cognitive development it may cause generally disappear by age 7, says Beisner. Moreover, all 12 of the federal legislators EEN is supporting are among the most pro-abortion Congress has to offer.
“Calling this ‘pro-life’ is quite a misnomer, but it will result in a lot of people being confused about who’s really pro-life and who’s not,” Beisner said. “Some of these people have 100 percent pro-abortion voting records in Congress, so people need to know they’re really getting the wool pulled over their eyes if they fall for this.”
Right. Mercury is no biggie and, more importantly, being against babies being exposed to it without also being anti-abortion is meaningless (and confuses the rubes.) Therefore, "pro-lifers" must be against environmental regulations that might prevent permanent brain damage. (Pay no attention to the fact that this charlatan is paid by the industries that are causing the brain damage.)
http://www.alternet.org/module/print...ndviews/750635
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What's a little mercury brain damage? Corporate-Americans' profits always win over Human-Americans' health and safety.
Calaveras mercury emissions up
The stacks belched 540 pounds of the neurotoxin into the air in 2010, up from 358 pounds in 2009, according to the
http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/ene...#ixzz1inJ9lq1F
How many broken CFLs would be required to release 540 pounds of mercury?
240 Kg mercury.
A CFL has about .005 Kg
so it would take about 50K CFLs to release a Calaveras amount of mercury.
The coal ash also contains poisonous mercury, cadmium, lead, etc that goes into landfills or road paving.
Clean Coal? My ass!
Again, it's proximity, concentration, and area.Quote:
Originally Posted by boutons_deux
One broken bulb in a home is probably more concentration in the immediate air for a child than the well mixed emissions of a power plant stack.
lol probablyQuote:
Originally Posted by Wild Cobra
:lmaoQuote:
Originally Posted by Yonivore
One broken bulb is about as dangerous as one can of Tuna - or where a small portion of the mercury in the power plant ends up.Quote:
Originally Posted by Wild Cobra
Toxic Enough to Require Haz-Mat Transport... Yet Safe for You and Your Children?
The final WHO report urges "a switch in use of dental materials" away from amalgam.As reported by Charlie Brown, director of Consumers for Dental Choice,"[F]or many reasons," WHO explains, "restorative materials alternative to dental amalgam are desirable." As Consumers for Dental Choice, which was founded by Bob Jones and Sue Ann Taylor, reported, WHO noted the following three reasons for the new position:
Amalgam releases a "significant amount of mercury" into the environment, including the atmosphere, surface water, groundwater, and soil. WHO reports:
"When released from dental amalgam use into the environment through these pathways, mercury is transported globally and deposited. Mercury releases may then enter the human food chain especially via fish consumption."
WHO determines that amalgam raises "general health concerns": While the report acknowledges that a few dental trade groups still believe amalgam is safe for all, the WHO report reaches a very different conclusion: "Amalgam has been associated with general health concerns." The report observes:
"According to the Norwegian Dental Biomaterials Adverse Reaction Unit, the majority of cases of side-effects of dental filling materials are linked with dental amalgam."
WHO concludes "materials alternative to dental amalgam are available" and cites studies indicating they are superior to amalgam. For example, WHO says "recent data suggest that RBCs [resin-based composites] perform equally well" as amalgam. And compomers have a higher survival rate, says WHO, citing a study finding that 95% of compomers and 92% of amalgams survive after 4 years.
In particular, WHO explains that "Alternative restorative materials of sufficient quality are available for use in the deciduous [baby] dentition of children" – the population whose developing neurological systems are most susceptible to the neurotoxic effects of dental mercury. Perhaps more important than the survival of the filling, WHO asserts that:
"Adhesive resin materials allow for less tooth destruction and, as a result, a longer survival of the tooth itself."
The report also included mention of the known toxic effects of mercury exposure, stating:
"Mercury is highly toxic and harmful to health. Approximately 80% of inhaled mercury vapor is absorbed in the blood through the lungs, causing damages to lungs, kidneys and the nervous, digestive, respiratory and immune systems. Health effects from excessive mercury exposure include tremors, impaired vision and hearing, paralysis, insomnia, emotional instability, developmental deficits during fetal development, and attention deficit and developmental delays during childhood."
This is the latest revelation in a string of positive progress that has been made this year toward ridding the dental industry of dangerous mercury-containing amalgams.
The American Dental Association (ADA) has historically covered up that fact, and, as the 1990 60 Minutes video above noted, even at one time declared that removing mercury fillings is unethical -- despite the known fact that dental amalgam emits mercury vapor after it is implanted in your mouth, and this mercury is bioaccumulative and endangers your health in many ways.
Incidentally, the ADA also takes money from Coca-Cola and other companies whose products promote the formation of cavities. But the tide is certainly changing, as evidenced further by the FDA's December 2010 hearings, which included two days of testimony that were alternatively scientific and emotional. The results were utterly convincing, even to scientists handpicked by FDA. With no dissent, they recommended that FDA promptly:
Make sure that all consumers and all parents know that amalgam is mainly mercury
Stop amalgam use for children and pregnant women
As panelist Dr. Suresh Kotagal – a pediatric neurologist at the Mayo Clinic – summed it up, there is "no place for mercury in children."
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/ar...0108_SNL_Art_1
Cheap LED Lighting Races Ahead with OSRAM Breakthrough
Cheap LED Lighting Races Ahead with OSRAM Breakthrough
January 14, 2012 By Tina Casey 5 Comments
OSRAM builds cheap LEDs on siliconInternational lighting industry giant OSRAM has just announced a research breakthrough that will make the cost of high-efficiency LED light bulbs sink like a stone.
http://cleantechnica.com/2012/01/14/...eanTechnica%29
Nice on paper, but until it happens...Quote:
Originally Posted by boutons_deux