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From: lucasea on 9 Nov 2006 12:46 "Eeyore" <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote in message news:45536423.5CCE715B(a)hotmail.com... > > > lucasea(a)sbcglobal.net wrote: > >> <jmfbahciv(a)aol.com> wrote in message >> > Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote: >> >>jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote: >> >> >> >>> In addition, people burn the wood that is laced with arsenic. >> >> >> >>What kind of wood is laced with arsenic ? >> > >> > Any wood you want to prevent termintes from eating. >> >> Not any more, at least not new wood. > > What do they use now ? There are replacement pressure treatments that, if I recall correctly, exclude the chromium (Cr(VI) is a really nasty carcinogen) and the arsenic. As you might expect copper alone is a pretty crappy biocide. They may add some organic biocide (glutaraldehyde comes to mind), but those are notoriously not nearly as long-lasting as metal salts. In any case, the new stuff isn't nearly as good as the CCA was. Eric Lucas
From: lucasea on 9 Nov 2006 12:53 "Eeyore" <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote in message news:455368BB.5A9A6A6C(a)hotmail.com... > > > lucasea(a)sbcglobal.net wrote: > >> <jmfbahciv(a)aol.com> wrote in message >> > <lucasea(a)sbcglobal.net> wrote: >> >> >>And the first reason is going to become ubiquitous as industry is less >> >>and >> >>less willing to pay for the health care of its employees. >> > >> > Industry can't afford it. >> >> Yes, you are correct. It doesn't change the fact that the number of >> people >> actually having effective health insurance under the current system in >> this >> country is rapidly decreasing toward a limit of zero. > > Something similar is happening here wrt pensions too. > > I don't think private companies are up to the task of providing critical > services like this very well. Here, too. Most companies still give some form of pension (although they're getting worse) and also allow you to contribute to a company-matched savings account known here as 401K, named after the rule that enables its tax-exempt status (I believe). However, some companies are so desparate to hide the fact that they no long are giving pensions, that when you are interviewing for a job, they tell you that the 401K account is a "pension". The uncritical don't even know the right questions to ask, to tease out that lie. Fortunately, all three of the companies that have constituted my career all pay real pensions (for now). Eric Lucas
From: Ben Newsam on 9 Nov 2006 12:46 On Thu, 09 Nov 06 13:33:17 GMT, jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote: >Yet these people have no problems with filling a whole neighborhood >with smoke and arsenic. This is another example of perfection >of inability to think. You know this for a fact, do you? It's only the anti-smokers who burn arsenic-treated wood? Amazing.
From: Ben Newsam on 9 Nov 2006 12:47 On Thu, 09 Nov 06 13:23:18 GMT, jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote: >In article <4550A28F.B40C659F(a)hotmail.com>, > Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote: >> >> >>jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote: >> >>> In addition, people burn the wood that is laced with arsenic. >> >>What kind of wood is laced with arsenic ? > >Any wood you want to prevent termintes from eating. That would explain it. We don't get termites here.
From: Eeyore on 9 Nov 2006 13:05
lucasea(a)sbcglobal.net wrote: > <jmfbahciv(a)aol.com> wrote in message > > Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote: > >>jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote: > >>> Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote: > >>> >jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote: > > >>> >> You do need to learn about Consitution. There are checks and > >>> >> balances working. > >>> > > >>> >Bush has been busy removing some of them. > >>> > >>> He can't. His powers are checked by the legislature and judicial > >>> branches of our government. All presidents have tried to do > >>> certain things. So far they have failed, as the Constitution > >>> designed it. > >> > >>You're saying he *hasn't* effectively removed habeas corpus ? > > > > For me? No. > > Uh...I hate to surprise you, but yes he has. You just better hope they > never get it in their heads that you are a terrorist, because they're doing > this to US citizens. And since it's the government that decides if you're a terrorist they can disappear you at will. Graham |