In "No! No! No!"

If I saw the sugar free kid one I think it would make me want to give them a pound of demerara and a spoon.

In "DIY 1000 watt wind turbine"

BlueHorse: sorry to disappoint but this is economic liberalisation, ie not the economics of liberals.

In "McDonalds - Global Sanctum?"

a neutral environment that allows travelers to take a psychic time-out from the din of their real surroundings and to take a dump in easy to find, generally clean toilets.

In "DIY 1000 watt wind turbine"

Bearguy: If you're interested in hands-on stuff of your own then check out Home power magazine. BlueHorse: Grid access is a very diferent barrier to Zoning and potentially one that might be actionable (though you might need to get a consumer body on side). Does current regulation disallow access for domestic generators. Does your regulator allow this, and if so why? Your first step is to find out what the regs are and why they prevent microgeneration, then find out why they are how they are, then perhaps figure out whether there are alternatives. This will be a lot of work of course, which is why you need to get an electricity consumer body involved. It may be that there are regs in place already which should allow domestic generation but that the power company is able to ignore them without a problem currently. (I say this without knowing Idaho specifics, the UK and EU tend to e further ahead on these things so I may be overestimating how far along Idaho regulation/liberalisation is.)

Bearguy, I'd be astonised if microgen levels where anywhere near nuclear, are you sure you're not conflating burning biomass for heating/coooking in homes into that figure? Or possibly including large hydro? Not got any specific articles to point you to but Renewable Energy World has regular, well-written and interesting articles on RE - it's published monthly and plenty of the articles are free to view on their website.

In "Are you a Grup?"

I love bicycles, does that make me a pedalphile? If you love bicycles and kids then maybe you are a psyclepath?

In ""I probably do need some help, but I don't know if this is the time or place for it.""

Mr Goats is apparently worried for the safety of his 13 year old daughter. Why is that? Does she look like a sheep? I'd like Goats to explain exactly how that happened.

In "UK law "

It's difficult to find anything definitive on gavels in UK courts (proving a negative and all that) but this appears to be by a Senior Lecturer in Law (albeit at a poly) who backs me up: http://www.spr-consilio.com/leglond.pdf

In "Child Support!"

I'm not legally qualified to sit in judgement on the cases you mention but you might like to consider that child support is intended to support the child, it's not some revenge/money making thing by 'parasitic' mothers.

In "UK law "

Judge: ...and furthermore, you are ordered to kill the plaintiff forthwith. Please, use my gavel. UK judges do not have gavels.

In "The 10 Commandments of the Ethical Atheist"

Thou shalt not define thyself in terms of the philosophy thou hast rejected.

In ""A 12 year old girl also lived in this filth, her toys buried under several inches of feces.""

Why the CCF is wrong: "PETA should use its millions to hire more biologists and fewer naked college interns.”

In "Help a guy propose to his girlfriend."

No afford ring -> No afford wedding No afford wedding -> No afford family Can't the state just pay for them?

In "Basil Rathbone:"

Basil Rathbone is fantastic, as both Holmes and elsewhere, but no discussion of the defintive Holmes would be complete without a mention of Jeremy Brett in the role. It may also be worthwhile noting that the collection linked to in the FPP via amazon.com is available on amazon.co.uk for £25 rather than $225. Not bad for 14 films, never mind extensive features. I'll be ordering right after posting this - good work Zanshin.

In "Wallace and Gromit are not safe for your kids."

Blaise, think a bit more you tit. (I suspect ass might register on their list).

I love that site and have returned to it again and again over the years. Funnnily enough while watching W&G & the were-rabbit I actually thought of it and was going to see what they would say, so ta to grover for reminding me. My favourite criticism is Phantom Menace losing points for 'statue nudity' (not to mention the young anakin quibbling over his bedtime - the true route to evil).

In "Gun Makers in Canadian Gov't Crosshairs"

I am working hard in raising my three year old to be responsible for his actions. If the boy grabs a stuffed monkey and whaps his baby brother with it, he is responsible for his action, not : (1) the toy manufacturer, (2) the store the sold the toy, (3) the person who bought the toy and gave it to the child, (4) my wife for not putting the toy on a shelf out of his reach. If your 3-year old reached for a kitchen knife instead of a toy monkey to use on his brother then I'm pretty certain there'd be some questions asked about how it was left out, and definitely some action to make sure it didn't happen again.

In "The Northern Irish psyche is "not equipped to handle the 24-hour availability of alcohol""

The whole 24-hour dinking thing is a ludicrous daily-mail type panic. Even if pubs get 24 hour licensing I don't believe there will be a sufficient public demand to keep them open. What I think (and hope) will happen is that a selection of pubs will use them to stay open for a few hours after the normal 11pm closing time. I would welcome this. Currently in the small town where I live if people want to keep drinking and/or socialising they currently have to go on to a club where conversation is impossible or rush to the only bar in town that has a 12 o'clock licence, which as a result is always packed and not desperately pleasant. I'd be interested to see how many places are actually going to be offering extended hours.

In "Holy Smoke, they did it. Robot cars cross the desert! "

Something to celebrate. How many years will it be before robot cars can cross desert whilst shooting evil foreigners?

In "Nicole (as in Kidman) traverses oceans just for a shag."

Instead of just tagging them they should put radio controlled devices on them so they know they won't leave areas where they are protected.

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