Finally... a (possible) nanny decision I agree with

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Acetaminophen is the leading cause of liver failure in the US, a particularly nasty way to go. The problem is exactly what you say-- it's in so many different formulas and remedies that people overdose for long periods without realizing it.

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At some point people just ignore the laws. Obama, for example. And Congress.

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That's the direct, inevitable result of your bigger and bigger, centralized government as a solution. The more intrusive they are, the more they impact people and business' daily lives, the more people and businesses have to get involved just to survive. Otherwise, the lawyers in Congress--who have no idea have to do anything--make quite a muddle of running all the rest of us.

Complete bollocks--the easiest thing for a politician is to spend money, common good or not. Then spend more, and more, and more.

Your victim here was a high school honors student, now a 21-year-old single mom with her own apartment. How did that happen? A clever young woman, how was she able to do that, and why did she think she should/could?

Creating the entitlement network that financially and socially encourages bright young women in these ways--the nanny state--is what created the enormous social cost.

I'm independent, not Republican, but my complaints about Obama stem from how he's hurting the poor, wiping out jobs and their road up out of poverty to the middle incomes; creating and encouraging dependence over work, constantly race-baiting and denigrating when he could be uniting and uplifting. "Obama's" society is one founded on creating dependent self-victims like this one en masse, and telling them they're entitled, there's nothing they can do, and it's not their fault.

That's *dis*-empowering. That's telling people they're helpless victims of other people's decisions, and, implicitly, that they should be.

Ignoring the fact that he's economically incompetent, never having had a real job, he's easily the most divisive, radical president in my life time, an uncompromising, inflexible, dogmatic, mean-spirited demagogue. For example, he recently had Medicare denying cancer patients treatment, so that he could blame the sequester (that he himself invented).

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There are huge federal grants for lead abatement. They scrape paint off and paint to "encapsulate" it. Old window casements are replaced with vinyl because sliding the old windows up and down grinds the old paint or varnish in the tracks into fine dust. Old "slate" siding that is more like thin concrete contains asbestos in the mix. Instead of removing it they just put siding over it, actually breaking it open in the process.

An 80K house can get a 30K+ grant, as long as the owner doesn't sell the house within 5 years.

I know of at least 6 houses that got lead and asbestos abatement grants like that just two summers ago.

Our government just defecates money for stuff like that.

And keep in mind that the asbestos and the lead paint threats are reduced but not removed.

The contractors hire mostly ex-cons so dumb that they mix an entire 30 Lb bag of concrete to fill a 3 Lb hole.

I hate the nanny state and their saccharine spending of everybody's money too, but we were using pthalate esters everywhere, even in baby bottle nipples, before we realized they were reprotoxins, reproductive toxins.

From the OP article about triclosan in soaps: "To me it looks like the risks outweigh any benefit associated with these products right now," said Allison Aiello, professor at the University of Michigan's School of Public Health. "At this point, it's just looking like a superfluous chemical."

Hey, sounds like just the ticket -- free everyone-else's-money!

I'm not overly impressed with the Wiki on phthalate--there's a lot of innuendo and intimation, and not a lot of substance. I once found those sorts of arguments of association cause for concern, until almost every single one fell apart later, e.g. silicone implants. That said, I don't suck on plastic. Yuck.

But, if there's interstate commerce in something Congress has the power to regulate it. I've got no problem with them banning interstate trade in nasty stuff--that's within their purview. That's not the same as crawling into my house and telling me I can't maintain it. That's none of their business. If they want to offer helpful advice, fine, I'm good with that.

These fear-based soaps for germophobes and prophylactic antibiotics for cattle are unhelpful in general--we're making monster bugs. I'm not sure what the appropriate regulatory mechanism would be but several come to mind, and some combination could be found that's reasonable, effective, and constitutional.

YMMV.

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Kids, these days! Milk was in small glass bottles when I started going to school.

I just had hip replacement surgery on Earth Day April 22, and the pain medications of choice were Tylenol and Oxicontin or oxycodone. I used very little of either, and I'm not even sure if they "worked". Somehow the ads calling Tylenol the "headache medicine" created an association that it would cause a headache.

I'm also not sure if anti-inflammatories are even good to take. IMO the human body reacts to injury and irritation by producing inflammation that may have the beneficial effect of warning the brain to take it easy on the joint to allow it to heal. Reducing the inflammation and using pain-killers interfere with the body's normal feedback mechanism and allows the person to work (or play) harder, causing more damage.

The opiates and opioides are actually much safer than the NSAIDs for pain relief, but are often avoided because some people (IMHO of weak character) are prone to addiction, and may become hooked on their euphoric effects and use increasing doses to the point of physical dependency or overdose. But heroin and morphine are well tolerated at moderate levels and cause little harm to the body as long as one also maintains a proper diet.

I suspect that the reason for the failed "war on drugs" and the concentration of so much wasted effort on recreational substances such as marijuana is that the effects are contrary to the Puritan work ethic, while possibly much more dangerous drugs such as nicotine and caffeine (and NSAIDs) are allowed because they allow people to work through pain, injury, lethargy, and difficult circumstances. Most recreational drugs (other than the likes of Meth and Cocaine), induce the user to curl up in a big easy

chair dreaming of Wonderland, rather than working long and hard hours jacked up on stimulants and causing long term damage to the body and psyche.

I do not support outright bans on most items that may be harmful. A better way to control such items is through high taxation and clear education on the deleterious aspects of things such as anti-bacterial soap, incandescent (and CFL) lamps, big gulp sugary sodas, disposable plastic bags, styrofoam food packaging, etc. It would be much better for the government (i.e., the citizenry), to obtain income from taxation and prosecution of tax evasion, than making felons out of people who lack the skills and ethics to be productive in mainstream society. Much better to allow them to exist in a nearly perpetual blissful state of harmless euphoria, rather than warehousing them in prisons at a cost of several good salaries.

Paul

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I remember when the first tetrahedron milk cartons were introduced in elementary school, some time in the 50s. At that time milk and sodas came mostly in returnable glass containers, and my friends and I would dig around near recreational areas such as the miniature golf course and fill bags with bottles. I think most bottles brought two cents, but 5 bottles was enough for an ice cream cone or a couple of candy bars. Once in a while we would find a full size milk jug, which IIRC brought in the princely sum of

20 to 50 cents, which was pretty good pay for a ten year old kid and a couple hours of good exercise and cleaning up trash!

Paul

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Then there's the "fire retardant" scam:

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The president said "If you like your plan, you can keep it." He also said it'd cost less. Therefore, I have no choice but to conclude that you're a lying scumbag. And a racist.

You lying racist scumbags disgust me.

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Hey, outsourcing --

"In 1981 Tetra Pak relocated its corporate headquarters to Lausanne, Switzerland for tax reasons, however retaining all R&D functions in Lund, Sweden.[10] "

(Hope that hip's healing!)

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This time the "carets" "" did not work for me.

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(I suppose I could've added ... , but you know better, right?)

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they don't do anything. never have AFAICT.

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"" _work_ to contain URL's that have spaces or other odd characters. ...Jim Thompson

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any that do aren't.

eg spaces are correctly written in urls as "%20" or "+"

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Not if you copy and paste from the address bar... at least in Firefox...

Samples, not real URL's...

www.analog innovations.com

See the visual difference (at least in Forte Agent). ...Jim Thompson

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I love to cook with wine.     Sometimes I even put it in the food.

Firefox...

Doesn't work for Windows Live Mail (WLM) which is kind of part of IE10. I think allowing spaces in URLs and file names was/is a stupid idea. I usually convert them with underline characters "_". This was probably done to make it "easier" for people who might not grasp the difficulty it poses and who would be confused by reasonable naming conventions. The same sort of people who use apostrophe's incorrectly (as I just did as an example).

Microchip's USB stack used spaces in their folder and file names through

2012-08-22, and added underlines in the 2013-02-15 version. But the sub-folders still contain spaces, and their latest MPLAB.X IDE complains

about them when it scans the projects. They also use some really long names which push the limits of the number of characters allowed (probably

256). I remember when the MSDOS "8.3" character limit was lifted. Just like system RAM, applications will bloat to fill all available resources and then cry for more. Must be a conspiracy to help RAM sales just like muscle cars were promoted to boost oil company profits...

Paul