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Why are manufactures still allowed to produce pollutants like plastic bottles and bags?

admin — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 01:58:51 +0000

And should water bottles and the like be proscribed, or just taxed to death in order to discourage use?

because liberals still buy them

How much would it cost to buy an auto repair shop in California?

admin — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 19:55:00 +0000

Cost to own an auto repair shop in California.

Rough estimate w/rent - utilities - advertising - insurance - at least 100,000 per year.

How does air pollution cause lung cancer?

admin — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 19:54:22 +0000

Okay so I know that smoking destroys your cilia on your epithelial tissue. So knowing that can you give me a detailed explanation of how air pollution causes lung cancer.

For example:
Air pollution causes lung cancer because the particles are trapped iin the lung and become infected with cancer.

Now I know that isnt the answer.
Thanks soooo much for your help.

A poor environment is a RISK factor but to say it CAUSES lung cancer is over simplistic.

From what I know, carcinogenic substances increase the risk of cell mutations - possibly leading to abnormal tissue growth and then cancer.

What happens to the pollutants when waste water is “cleaned up”?

admin — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 14:15:18 +0000

A. The pollutants are still here on earth; they have just been removed from the water.
B. Some pollutants are recycled or decomposed by natural processes.
C. Both of these may be correct.

c.

Cracked piston ring causing failed emissions test?

admin — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 01:22:38 +0000

I’ve been failing emissions tests and after extensive diagnostics the shop found low compression on one cylinder which improves when putting a little oil in the top of the cylinder, which apparently indicates a cracked ring. I need to pass the emissions test to licence the vehicle and will do the repair but preferably not right now $$$. Is there an oil additive that would minimize oil getting past the rings to the combustion chamber causing my high HC readings? Or anything else I could do temporarily.

well that sucks and since it is not going to go through emissions until its fixed, and the fact is it will be a gross polluter until you fix it. This is one of those things you do not mention make or model, I know on an american car I would be tempted to put straight 50 wieght race oil and a quart of lucas stabilizer in the crank case to try to pass emissions, but this may not work either, and a 4 cylinder probably will not run with 50 weight like a v8 would. That is a tough one, you may have to have a shop pull the engine and fix the problem, what else can you do.? best of luck

What auto repair shops are open on weekends in Saint Louis Missouri?

admin — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 01:22:32 +0000

I am looking for an auto repair shop that does inspections and emissions on Saturdays

Roy’s Auto Repair
(636) 391-6844
14305 Manchester Rd, Ballwin

It’s just west of the intersection of 141 South and Manchester. I’ve been taking all of my cars there for years. Open Saturdays, and also evenings until, I believe, 7PM.

Is it true that some cars have air pollution?

admin — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 01:22:08 +0000

Someone told me that Original cars have pollution and Hybrid cars don’t have that. How could Hybrid cars not give off air pollution?

Hybrid cars produce less pollution, but they do produce some when the gasoline engine is running.

Im trying the apple cider vinegar method on a wart?

admin — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 21:13:26 +0000

So Ive had a wart on my upper thigh for about a year, i have tried everything to get rid of it, nothing worked. The I heard on Doctor Oz about putting apple cider vinegar on your wart. So I researched it and it has had great reults for people so ive decided to try it. I soak a cotton ball in acv put it on the wart, old it in place with a bandaid and leave it for the night. Im on my 6th night and my wart has now started to look like an open sore.. Im getting a little worried cuz so many people said there turned black and just fell off, mine has not turned black, like I said its red with like a white rim around it and kind of open in the middle…had anyone else tried this and had a similar result? They said some people it takes a little longer??

Have you thought that you’re trying to dissolve away cancer?

Go and see your GP and tell him/her what you’ve been doing.

I know that genuine sentiment is cornball, especially around here, but still, is this poem acceptable?

admin — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 01:35:01 +0000

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THE APPLE OF MY EYE
by Richard Brotbeck

Blame the bee,
if you must,
lusting for
some nectar sweet,
bouncing tree to tree
on apple blossoms,

Falling flowers
disconnect,
from stem and stone
unfasten, fall
to earth
with rusty leaves,
and lie
with last Autumn’s fashions,

Soon, the red
and ripened fruit,
too heavy for the arbor,
falls away
from trunk and root
to be a son or daughter.

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What a beautiful poem. This poem is more than acceptable it’s wonderful. Don’t let the views of critiques dissuade your poetic voice, commit to your style and speak louder. I never give false praise, and I never let what someone else thinks, determine what I think, well at least not with poetry. And with poetry, if you reach one person that likes what you have done then you can be assured there are many more who feel the same.

If a tree falls in the forest…?

admin — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 11:42:06 +0000

Okay, so we all know that argument.
But my question is, does the tree literally make a sound? Independent of the observer, does it produce a noise as we know it, or is it just vibrating waves or whatever?

And regarding sight: I asked someone if color as we perceive it is a property of reality (example, an apple appears to be red, independent of an observer), and he said yes. Is this true? I thought it was false.

If a tree falls in the forest…?

Philosophically speaking, the question has nothing to do with psychoacoustics; it is a philosophical riddle.

George Berkeley was an early 18th-Century philosopher, - and the phrase "Esse est percipi" ("To be is to be perceived"), is an edict of his ‘Immaterialism’ theory.
Berkely’s ‘Immaterialism’ waxes upon the metaphysical notion that objects may only exist when something perceives them and it from this philosophy which the oft asked question, "If a tree falls in a forest, and no one is there to hear it - does it make a sound?", is rooted in (if you’ll pardon my play on words).

Berkeley’s ’subjective idealism’ has since been entertained by a number of academicians, - and has helped spawn other interesting, and more complex, theories on perceptive realities.
For example, - Here’s a video which explains the gist of one such popular paradoxical experiment in the perception of reality, - called "Schrödinger’s Cat":
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EN-jCuV7BoU

As for your query on color perception,…

Whether color is an OBJECTIVE quality (the apple is red because it actually IS red), - or a SUBJECTIVE one (the apple is red because my mental disposition interprets its color as being red) still wouldn’t render the apple ‘unreal’ to an observer of it. Lacking an observer, however, we are faced, yet again, with another type of ‘If a tree falls in the forest…?’ riddle; again with realist vs. nominalist perceptions of reality.

I apologize for the length of this response…
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