On or about: 06-25-08  22:56, Ardith Hinton did engage James Bradley
regarding, but not limited to: Trash or Treasure...  4.

 AH> Hi again, James!  This is the last installment in the current series:

Cripes... I *am* a wind bag! 

 JB>  I saw in a news-magazine feature, where a vaccine was
 JB>  driving people into adrenaline rushes and auditory,
 JB>  and visual hallucinations.

 AH> Yes... but on the surface these events aren't 
 AH> life-threatening to the patient in the same way as (e.g.) 
 AH> kidney failure or heart attack, both of which can also be 
 AH> more easily verified.  There's Loophole #1.
 
I should know better than to try and recall a TV program from so long ago.
The thrust of their investigation pointed, that a trained combatant was fed
a serum on trial known to make subjects paranoid and hostile. The first
trial had too many go wonky, so they had to stack the deck the next time,
or luck out.(..) I could be feeding my own info into it, though. Sure, (I
think it was) W5 would highlight the sensational, but the afflicted numbers
of army personnel was *substantially* over the "no need to
report" figure.
 
 AH> Another problem is that the disease which the vaccine was
 AH> intended  to prevent may be life-threatening to some people, e.g. the 
 AH> military personnel you alluded to who may be stationed in 
 AH> SomePlace Else & therefore have developed no natural 
 AH> immunity.  One always has to balance the risks.  It's 
 AH> difficult to make an informed decision, however, when 
 AH> others knowingly withhold information.  And it's 
 AH> frustrating when others are convinced you must be imagining 
 AH> things because their sources make no mention of whatever 
 AH> happens to be bugging you.
 
...And being so long ago, that I saw the report, I forget just what the
drug prevented.

 
 AH> Agreed.  IMHO this kid signalled a "teachable moment" by
 AH> asking you  a direct question... and I'd have responded the same way, 
 AH> by telling the truth as I see it.
 AH> [RaCETRACK RAGAMUFFINS]
 AH> She didn't speak to me again for quite awhile, but she 
 AH> evidently learned something.  Her next boyfriend stayed 
 AH> with her for three years....  ;-)
 
Some learn, and some live in denial. /-:

 
 AH> Exactly.  I noticed a discussion in another echo awhile ago
 AH> about  how somebody's grandma had an enormous ball of tin foil... 
 AH> not aluminum foil, which is all I remember.  From what I 
 AH> understand tin is fairly expensive.  That's why tin foil & 
 AH> tin-lined cans are remnants of the past.  If folks were 
 AH> melting down pennies & quarters years ago, and if they're 
 AH> stealing copper wire nowadays, was grandma off her rocker?? 

I can't speak about the value of scrap tin, but I suppose a three-foot
diameter ball of recycled aluminum could earn you a couple of hundred
bucks. Tin, I assume would be less. A) Did Grandma move this ball outdoors,
before they would have to disassemble said ball, or remove a portion of
wall to get it out? B) How clean would this foil need to be, to be accepted
for recycling? C) Would the product even be considered for recycling? D)
How much time did Granny spend, smoothing out the wrinkles while burnishing
one layer to the next, and separating the crusty bits, from the cleanable
parts? E) How long did she spend cleaning the parts, and what brand of soap
was used? F) Is the ball half "tin" and half aluminum?
bla-bla-bla [-|

When I brag about the $30, I turned into $130 of scrap *billet* aluminum, I
have to add to the equation the amount of time it took for cartage,
disassembly, and waiting in line at the recyclers. Then, I have to add the
amount of AC power it took to run the drill in reverse for so long. Sure,
we often talk in minutes, and milliwatts, but it all adds up. Only because
I was more interested in other items included in the lot, did I even
consider purchasing the mess. So, I might be up $100, and I may have
secured two really cool computer servicing kits, but I had to devote *so
much* time to it, that I was tickled to scavenge easily usable
hospital-spec electronics for my trouble. Often, luck can just as easily
swing the other way in such purchases.

There has been an old fella at auctions, that mostly only buys *clean*
pallets of recyclable metals, and it's a lot of fun watching him nickel and
dime the auctioneers, but the facts are, he knows up front if he makes a
thousand dollars in the day, or if he just wasted his evening.


 AH> Maybe she thought it would offer her some protection in 
 AH> case of an invasion by little green men from Mars... an 
 AH> idea which doesn't seem quite so nutty if the context is 
 AH> taken into account.  We don't always know what motivates 
 AH> others.  But we can ponder what we are doing & why, and 
 AH> make some adjustments as necessary....  :-)
 
If the men from Mars comes, she would still need to peel off a layer to
make a hat. I would say, a new roll would be faster, easier, and less
likely to be torn, and more secure for the brain waves. 

 


... James

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