Although you can spread the oil in poison oak by washing carelessly, you also need to be careful If you are still likely to come in contact with more that day. If you use use soap you will also wash off the natural oils on your skin that help protect you from. Use soap or a product like Tech-Nu (which is better at dissolving the oil) when you are out of possibility of contact so you may want to save the soap for the end of the day. And use Tech-Nu (or similar) to wash off tools, and other items that may be contaminated.

And, of course, check the facts out for yourself by reading up on the subject rather than trusting some anonymous internet poster :-)

by danio3834 at 09:47 AM Reply *
Years ago I thought the best security system would be to replace the driver's air bag with a 12 gauge shell and a primer that would activate when the vehicle is started in theft mode.

I figured the mess afterward would render the vehicle useless anyway, but revenge would be sweet.

The think about booby traps is that they are often much more likely to kill the creator than a thief. I can think of few things dumber than driving around with a an electrically fired shotgun aimed at your face. Well, that and the whole "booby traps that kill make you guilty of murder" thing....

Libel requires it to be **false** and defamatory, and sometimes **knowingly** false and defamatory.

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Rob Bennett
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I've got a suggestion. How about you don't turn off the servers!!! Like Microsoft can't afford them.

How can MS be this stupid?

It looks like we need a law that says if they turn of the DRM key servers that they should have to provide a way to permanently remove the DRM.

And how are the servant/slaves supposed to convince their masters/owners to pay to ship them back to the planet of the Ood???

The dock in Windoz is pretty funny, though.

For industrial stuf, like shooting large conferences from across a ball room you need at least 20x to get a tit shot (MCU) and more is better. Sure, using little HD heads for large conferences might be under spec'd, but sometimes it is nice to be able to set up with out bring the heavy hear for mid-sized shows.

And they are generally all technically illegal gambling unless there is an alternate, free method of entering (often requiring awkward, hand written entries be mailed, to make entry more troublesome but still meet the legal requirement of being "free" to enter).

That's going to be a tough sell. That is entirely a religious, faith-based position because the bible was not written as a single work. Both the old and new testaments are selectively cobbled together after the fact. Don't forget that for Jewish people, there is no New Testament, so it's even harder to claim the bible is one book. It's only one book if you are Christian, and even then different sects use different versions.

"is foolish to pick and choose portions of the Bible to live by based on personal preference, and that it's not valid to ignore difficult or seemingly backwards parts of it if one is a Christian."

I'd say it is moral to pick and choose. The bible prescribes many immoral actions, including killing people for being witches being disobedient to their parents. What's foolish is claiming the bible is a consistent moral work.

In Soviet Russia, Stars--oh, never mind...

Celestial Teapot. QED.

Dirty little secret? Yes, indeed that would be quite the secret given that PZ Myers signed up on line with is real name just like everybody else. The on-line sign up sight was open to the public. There were no tickets for anybody. There was a list--a list that he was legitimately on.

It will be interesting to see how this all plays out. However, Gawker editors should have a different symbol that IDs them as such.

I think what people are objecting to is the lack of disclosure and the seeming deception, not the final price.

Not really. Theists are atheists in regards to all other gods but their own, therefore theists are thing unto themselves.

You can check this handy list for proof that this is true:
[www.aboyandhiscomputer.com]

"We shouldn't teach Creationism in schools, nor Darwinism in church, but neither should we preach against them either."

Darwinism? You are perhaps thinking of the Theory of Evolution Through Natural Selection. Calling "Darwinism" is to play into the creationists frame.. The theory of evolution is based on current evidence and was merely proposed by Darwin, it has moved on since then.

And yes we certainly should lobby against "creationism." Creationism claims to be science, claims to have evidence that the earth is 6,000 years old and that T-Rex was a vegetarian--because all animals were vegetarian before the fall. This isn't just nonsense, it is nonsense posing as sense. It is a rather obvious case of overlapping magisteria. And it is a case of teaching people to think irrationally.

Thanks for the link. The subs are amazing--as if they are reading my mind...

OMG. There's actually cheesy mecha! I can't tell from the clip if the mecha is the enemy or if it's Spidy's personal mech....

PLAGIARISM IS ILLEGAL!
Please don't take any pictures, sounds, text or other content from this site without my EXPRESS, WRITTEN PERMISSION!

Uhm, you mean the **videos and screen grabs** from the show? The ones you "captured using a combination of the InterVIEW capture device from XLR8 and the GrabIT by AIMS Labs?" And the mp3s you captured "using Ultra Recorder and iTunes?" The ones I'm completely sure you have "EXPRESS, WRITTEN PERMISSION!" from the copyright owner to use? (*cough*cough*) Granted, I think illustrative examples constitute fair use, but please spare us the arrogant and hypocritical copyright lecture.

Have a care. Criticize the action but be careful who you blame. Don't let your emotions turn off your sense of reason, they way the attacker probably wants you to.

If Anonymous thinks CoS is bad it is highly unlikely Anonymous would be interested in hurting people through a hack. Wired was very irresponsible in its reporting. It is far, far more likely that someone (*cough*) is trying to make Anonymous look bad and is willing to hurt people do so. Now who has an official policy of trying to destroy their enemies by any means necessary--a policy formerly called "Fair Game" but no longer referred to by name for fear of bad publicity, but, of course, the policy is still in effect--?

You for got to ask "Have you stopped beating your wife?"

Expect a subpoena from the RIAA for the IPs of everyone who voted yes **or** no.

Bottom line: ain't gonna happen.

Nader's sole purpose is looking out for Nader. Any consumer benefit is sometimes coincidental--especially these days. Same goes for Consumerist. Consumerist is a commercial entity. It exists for the sole purpose of making money. It happens to be able do so by taking the side of consumers, but making money for Consumerist is always the primary purpose.

BS. You can find people bashing Nader plenty of places. It is possible for someone to have done helpful things in the past but to be doing counter productive things now. We can't ignore the latter for the former.

I used to admire him. But the fact that he was even considering running in the 2008 presidential race after what happened in 2004 was just too self-aggrandizing and counter productive to ignore.

by snoop-blog at 12:32 PM on 03/28/08 Reply
the real question is: what's more of a threat to our security? nipple piercings? or vagina piercings?

Pretty sure nobody has a vagina piercing--pierced external genitalia, sure, but not a pierced vagina.

by mcjake at 03:41 PM Reply
Wow... Consumerist readers think pretty highly of themselves. I wonder how many of them are running torrents right now as they are trashing this guy.

Translation: "I don't have a logical argument but I want to say something anyway."

Sorry, the court's got this one right, and obviously so based on the statute. What you are disagreeing with is the state law, not the court.

As for being "at will," all employees in California, even salaried ones, are at will employees, i.e., you can fire them when ever you like for any reason that is not illegally discriminatory. The only exception are people who negotiate a written contract with specific agreements to what what the company may fire them for--and such contracts are nothing to do with whether you are salaried vs. hourly.

Yes. Restocking fees are, in large part, a reaction to scummy "retail renters." They are an example of how retail renting hurts honest customers, who now have to pay a restocking fee for legitimate returns.

If you need to rent something, then RENT IT, don't pretend to buy it and return it, costing real customers real money in the form of higher prices, restocking fees and stricter return policies for legitimate returns. Yeah, renting is expensive. That's the amount you are stealing by "retail renting."

If you are "retail renting" then you aren't a customer at all. Retail renting is the practice of making a sham purchase for the sole purpose of using the product then returning it for a full refund--in lieu of paying a rental fee from a store that rents things.

Retail renting is completly un-related to legitimate returns, or even questionable returns like losiek's. Retail renting greedy and selfish and is done by people who don't want to bear the actual cost but instead pass the depreciation of turning a new item into a used one back to the store.

by Falconfire at 05:52 PM on 03/28/08 Reply
Its a clear case of California doesnt know how the system works and wrote a blanket law with no clue behind it. This is after all coming from the same state who outlawed the terms Slave and Master as they pertain to hard drives despite the fact those terms had been in place for over 25+ years at that point.

BS, California based hard drive maker Seagate still uses "master" and "slave."

[seagate.custhelp.com]