Those pranksters who turn in false alarms are sure annoying. But with the hand-locking fire alarm box, they won't get away. Of course, if the fire is real, the alarm sender may die. A fair tradeoff, right?
Posted on 11/26/2012 6:46:24 AM PST by Liz
Edited on 11/26/2012 6:55:21 AM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]
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some of this are bad marketing of a good product and others are a result of good marketing of a bad product.
This whole article confirms two items 1) reporters have a very low IQ and 2) time magazine is an epic fail.
Yeah it is really terrible mindless list that committee might come up with. It foolishly imagines a mineral was invented.
DDT has saved 10s of millions of human llives at a cost of hundreds of millions of mosquitoes. According to species right’s fanatics, this was a travesty.
“And they’re wrong about DDT.”
Of course they are! That’s why I mentioned it. Stunning, really!
Those pranksters who turn in false alarms are sure annoying. But with the hand-locking fire alarm box, they won't get away. Of course, if the fire is real, the alarm sender may die. A fair tradeoff, right?
Chicken McNuggets
I-Dog
He was a walking sight gag, or a lazy not walking sight gag. Just being on one made him look ridiculous, and the actor/comic used it to FULL effect - the slight motions to go forward enough to grab a banana, etc. Glad they mentioned him on the Segway flop entry - he showed why it was a flop - you look stupid and lazy using one.
Almost stopped reading at ‘Segue’. Did stop at ‘DDT’.
Sorry, if given a choice between an animal and a human I will come down on the human’s side every time. Who knows, maybe the human will invent a major break through that will make all life safer. i know for a fact that the animal never will!
What is the right Segway application?
Pay toilets were a good idea. Businesses such as stores got reimbursed partially for the maintenance. The 5 cent fee kept casual users out. Pay toilets should never have been banned. The immediate result was that there were no public toilets.
Years after they were banned, the effects of the bad law were felt - you couldn’t find a toilet while you were out. So another stupid law was passed - that business had to supply free toilets, at their own expense.
If they had just left the free market alone! The fee today would be 50 cents, and there would be public toilets wherever you needed them, and they would be maintained, and they would not be filthy hell holes with obscene graffiti and meeting places for all sorts of unnatural behavior.
WOW - are they nuts, about many of their listings of chemical products.
DDT, as some above have mentioned, was and is spectacularly effective and useful.
CFCs (Freon, etc.) are incredibly efficient and important agents and more and more it appears they have little to do with ozone depletion. We have gone from refrigerators that lasted 40 years to refrigerators with a lifetime of less than five years as a result of that ban. The loss of their efficiency has meant loss of refrigeration in the Third World for vast numbers of people. There is still no good delivery agent other than CFCs for certain drugs.
I know people have made a great case for Agent Orange, but I am not able to do so off the top of my head.
There is really no good substitute still for Asbestos, and eliminating that from the World Trade Center towers may well have been the cause that the steel in those columns lost integrity so quickly.
Red Dye #2 - I willingly will not defend.
I don’t have major argument with any of their others, though I would love a Segway, enjoyed Pinto, love to use plastic bags, and understand pay toilets.
As far as the chemicals above, though, I believe that they will re-emerge in time of need since they are still very viable.
Here I sit, broken-hearted
Paid my dime, and only farted
Tomagotchis? My kid played with that thing for months, cost me a few bucks.
Although there were a few flops, after perusing the list, I am left to conclude that it was written by a group of metrosexual men attempting to impress a chic in the office. The lot of them, having the combined testosterone of a 9 year old girl and no male qualities to woo her, decided to take up some of her pet peeves with a good old fashioned neener-neener.
Same with Webkinz.
I know people have made a great case for Agent Orange, but I am not able to do so off the top of my head.
http://fumento.com/agent/
(Freeper science journalist)
What is the right Segway application?
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