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Excellent book and documentary of the same name: The Poisoner's Handbook It covers, among other issues, the proof by the NYC's first medical examiner, Charles Norris, and its first toxicologist, Alexander Gettler, that leaded gasoline was literally toxic to the driving public. Great documentary.

Ad-based TV with free streaming OR non-ad-based TV with fee-based streaming -- choose one. Ad-based TV was the way TV used to be prior to cable, streaming, etc. I am not paying for an ad-based TV and then also pay for Amazon Prime, Disney, etc..

My guess is that Google is trying to sue them out of business.

After all these years, I still don't know what a GRUE is.

I tend to say I am done with reboots but then again it took how many reboots to get the LOTR done right. 3?

Maybe do like the Pirate site did which sent a return letter with (paraphrasing) "Some idiot sent us a letter and put your name at the bottom". Or do like Monty Python who were ready with a large slide shown a giant screen, to show to fans in the Hollywood Bowl who wanted a second (or third?)...

Is it self-defense or a mechanism to get the veggie predator to come back for more?

I lived in England and Germany for a few years in each country. Both of those countries have their kids use the public transportation to get to and from school. Not a yellow school bus in sight. Maybe someday the American transportation will get improved enough to where the money spent on yellow...

Anytime the term MAGA is used, it should have the term NAZI or NEO-NAZI either in front of or after it, such as MAGA NAZI or MAFA-NAZI or MAGA-Neo-NAZI . If you act like a Nazi, eat with Nazis or hang with Nazi's, YOU ARE A NAZI!!

A vote for Trump or any Republican is simply a vote against democracy and a vote against science, good sense, good government, etc., and a vote to "burn it all down".

But I am curious how begging "operates" under the Iranian system as giving to the those in need is supposed to be an integral part of the Arabic culture (or is it the Islamic culture? I tend to confuse the two. /sorry.)

Good grief, if you have "80,000 unread" messages, you have bigger organizational problems than any search engine can help with.

And, I am guessing, those local resources were probably controlled by the "local oligarchy" so maybe it was "explore or never have enough stuff to have your own family, etc.

When I was stationed at Naval Station Pensacola in 1977, there was a local motel that had, next to it, a very big shark model on a trailer, in very poor shape, that local legend said was from the Movie Jaws. Highly doubtful but if the producers and director were really, really disappointed in...

It might be nice to a short article on the history of Networks (Netware, etc.), and how we connected to our networks and the world. I remember in the early 90's, a T1 (with all of 1.544Mb bandwidth) cost something like $2k. (/per month? That seems so exorbitant now. Most of us connected through...

Was it Simmons in the Hyperion trilogy that had asteroids being launched towards Earth both as mining stuff and then as missiles? Maybe not?

What? No Patreon? /s (this thing needs a satire font which I have seen on other sites.)

So interesting. There are so many server farm in NoVA that seem to have sprung up in the last few years. Just a few days ago, I saw a truck on Rt 50, near Rt. 28, in NoVA that advertised being part of a company called DC DECOM. Checking out their web site makes me wonder if they have a similar...

Actually, Buddhism originally had a ton of gods (little 'g') to help the folk who couldn't come to grips with the idea that there was no 'creator god' in Buddhism. From the link below: These gods, it is said, are born, live, and die due to their karma, falling to lower realms often, just like...

King's Quest, Queen's Quest, Quest for Glory. All my favorites until my wife found the Ultima games. Hooked for life until it came to its inevitable un-glorious end. Then the amazing MYST game, for which I had to spend $200 for a CD player and 2Mb of RAM, all of which ran on 35Mb of disk space...