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OK, on your terms. The California Constitution clearly states that no class of citizens (insert "heterosexuals") may have privileges or rights which are not enjoyed by any others (insert "GLBTs"). The amendment (or revision, I have no idea of the difference) procedure, when done by initiative, seems to say that you must consider one thing at a time, i.e., no "twofers". Therefore, if this is to be done by initiative, it seems the proper first step is to have a ballot initiative on whether GLBTs are citizens. Once the good folks of CA decide that GLBTs are not citizens, then the way is clear to deprive them of rights and/or privileges.

I'm always astonished when Christians take a firm stand against gay marriage because of what the Torah (or Pentateuch) says. The primary prohibition is found in Leviticus 20 and the prohibition is clearly about anal sex (note "penetration" and "reception" mentioned, although this is not present in the original English texts) rather than homosexuality or gay marriage. So, even were one a firm believer in this law, it would be OK for gay couples to marry just so long as they promise no anal sex. But, more disturbing is the fact that this law requires both parties (the penetrator and the receiver) to be killed without regard to age, consent, or circumstance. Thus, a strict constructionist Christian (just made that up) would find himself compelled to kill the child who had just been forcibly sodmized by a pedophile. Jewish common law, to be fair, does introduce mitigating circumstances that would presumably deal with this, but I gotta ask: Was God having a really bad day when she thought that one up?

At the least, Buy or make a little fume exhaust hood (you can use cardboard and a muffin fan for a cheap one) and blow into a filter/outside. Get a mask. Wash your hands thoroughly afterwards.

One of the things that alcohol in the bloodstream does is screw up the density balance between the cupula and the endolymph in the inner ear. This produces vertigo and nausea. No amount of willpower can possibly alter a density.

Here's one. I found several on my first Google page. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15591132 But, I'm not gonna tell you what estrogen and the lunar cycle have in common; you'll have to figure it out.

Growing up in rural America, I've eaten many a fertlized egg with a small dark spot in the yolk. It never tasted remotely like chicken. There is a dividing line. We just don't agree on where it is.

There's actually a whole book on pencil design. See Henry Petroski's The Pencil: A History of Design and Circumstance.

As someone with some fairly cruddy stemcells, I applaud this. Not for me - I'm gonna come close , I think, to getting an average lifetime - but I can appreciate the feeling of helplessness as you listen to politicians pontificate about a subject they know nothing about when that subject is life or death to you. How in the world do we tell a ten year old kid with CF, "Hey, suck it up; God is letting you suffer so hundred-cell Petri dishes don't have to."

I can only imagine those legislators have never seen a six week old fetus. Not to be overly blunt, but you might mistake it for a bloody blob of mucus from a head cold but you'd never mistake it for a human.

The original nutty part of this idea dates back at least to Pliny the Elder, but there are recent studies that show that estrogen increases/decreases (pick your favorite direction) hair growth in some cases, in some species. There are many types of hair (otherwise we older men wouldn't lose that on our heads while sprouting whole rainforests in our ears!) and one can just about find any result one wants, provided there is a research grant available.

"That fellow, at that distance, can't hit an eleplant." General John Sedgwick, at The Wilderness, when warned an enemy sharpshooter was aiming at him.

So, let them kick Arlen out of the party. He's close enough to being a weird conservative Democrat that he could switch. Many of us Democrats vote for him now; we'd probably continue after a switch. But, he might salvage the situation by voting an "Isle of Guernsey Maybe" on the final bill ; nobody'll ever figure out what the heck he means. The hard-line conservatives want him out of the way for the 2010 primary.

There may not be enough single malt on the planet to erase that image from my mind.

Well, I'm a dyed-in-the-wool Democrat, but I gotta say... When we science folks see errors that are sometimes high and sometimes low, we think that's normal (pardon the unintentional pun), but when errors are always on the low side, that's a dead giveaway for systematic error. You'd think anybody making more than a million a year could at least afford the Deluxe version of Turbo-Tax.

Isn't Fox News something like diet beer or Kosher ham?

When you say you feel the centrifugal force, what exactly are you feeling? Suppose you are riding in a car that goes around a sharp turn. Are you feeling a tendency to slide across the seat, or are you feeling the seat belt holding you in place?

In criminal law, there is an accepted exception to limitations when an offense continues. For example, if you engage in a conspiracy that plays out over, say, a ten year period before you finally get everything in place and move the loot to an offshore bank, the limitation will not start on the first day you began the conspiracy, but rather on the day it was complete. It seems perfectly reasonable to apply the same idea to civil law. Each paycheck is not separate from others in continued employment; the harm is not changed, it seems, whether a person is paid daily, weekly, or yearly.

Part of the problem lies in misuse of the nomenclature. First and second moments should be called first moment of area and second moment of area. They really are all about area and not mass; lots of folks, me included, mentally extrude the area uniformly and turn it into pseudomass. That works, but it confuses the daylights out of new learners. Both the first moment of area and the second moment of area have nothing to do with inertia. The first moment of area is commonly used to find the centroid of an irregular body. The second moment of area tells us how well a particular distribution resists bending and is commonly used in beam design. Moment of inertia is about mass distribution. It looks a lot like the second moment of area (and, remember, I said lazy folks like me often use them the same), but it is different. Moment of inertia is a measure of resistance to angular acceleration.

I'm puzzled. Who opposed ac, other than Tom "Let's electrocute something cute" Edison? Westinghouse? Ferrari? You must have heard something about either one of those guys. (Apologies to the Germans and Swedes; I never can remember your pioneers.)

Help me out here. I'm old and I wasn't all that bright when I was young. What the heck would a battery do with a photorefractive effect? And, back when there still was a New York Stock Exchange, Lockheed-Martin was a publicly traded company. All you had to do was a hostile take-over (see Chainsaw Al for details) and you'd own this patent. You'd be a megagazillionaire.

For what it's worth.... Virgil Goode lost the election. He is not the Congressman from the 5th District of Virginia any longer. No oath is required for public office; an affirmation can be substituted, else the Quaker Herbert Hoover would still be waiting to be President. No Bible is required. The actual speaking of the oath is not required; I took the same oath as Joe Biden by the symbolic act of stepping one step forward. Many of the founding fathers, especially Washington and Jefferson, were Deists rather than Theists. Pete Stark, CA, has been a born-again atheist for two years, yet won reelection in 2008. Hundreds of men who had taken the oath the "proper way" broke that oath and took up arms against the United States (Edward Lee, Thomas Jackson, James Longstreet, etc)

What are the odds that there would be two people on here interested in old iron furnaces? Anyway, you need a proper bosh. Think of putting the big ends of two funnels together and now stretch the top funnel out to a gradual taper. The middle, where it looks pregnant, and the area below down to the narrow end is where you want to do your smelting. You should be getting good iron coming down through that bottom narrow end, and that's where you want your tuyere (or twier if we're gonna be throwbacks) to enter. If you have a good charcoal, it will help hold the mass up in the bosh so the air can blow up through it. This link shows a cutaway of Hopewell Furnace and pretty well illustrates the point. http://www.nps.gov/history/NR/twhp/wwwlps/lessons/97hopewell/97visual1.htm The VMI Cadets built a small furnace maybe ten years ago as part of a class on the history of iron. You might get some details there. But, I gotta say, I don't think you'll ever again get that old-time charcoal. Even if you found somebody to make it, the EPA would probably close you down within a day. You might also look at the anthracite furnaces in eastern PA (look around Shenandoah, PA) since they presumably solved that problem of keeping the iron up in the bosh without the charcoal structure. The book in this link won't help you, but you may get a kick out of looking at it http://books.google.com/books?id=NSJDAAAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=lesley+iron Cheers