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I can't find any source that says the EPA wants to prohibit the use of chloramine. I can find a lengthy Q&A on the EPA website explaining why they feel chloramine is safe to use for disinfecting water supplies.
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Leperflesh posted:I wonder how feasible it'd be to get the federal government to impose export tariffs on tree nuts or something. Probably run afoul of some free trade agreement or another. And it wouldn't stop California growers from selling alfalfa to texas cattle ranchers, anyway. I thought export tariffs were banned in the constitution, Article I, Section 9 & 10.
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# ? Sep 2, 2015 04:44 |
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e_angst posted:I thought export tariffs were banned in the constitution, Article I, Section 9 & 10. I think that's just for internal trade, since a later portion allows export taxes with the consent of Congress: quote:No State shall, without the Consent of the Congress, lay any Imposts or Duties on Imports or Exports, except what may be absolutely necessary for executing it's inspection Laws
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# ? Sep 2, 2015 04:46 |
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FRINGE posted:Have you ever been to SoCal? Most people in this thread are Bay Area so I would say no.
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# ? Sep 2, 2015 04:48 |
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Litany Unheard posted:I can't find any source that says the EPA wants to prohibit the use of chloramine. I can find a lengthy Q&A on the EPA website explaining why they feel chloramine is safe to use for disinfecting water supplies. http://www.ewg.org/research/water-treatment-contaminants quote:... Im going to stop, because reading about public water in this no-longer first-world country depresses me.
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# ? Sep 2, 2015 05:21 |
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I am going to keep drinking unfiltered tap water and not living in Nipomo!
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# ? Sep 2, 2015 05:56 |
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FRINGE posted:The wiki reference is to a manual of chemistry I will never lay my hands on, but EWG had some references: Where does that say that the EPA want's to prohibit chloramine use? Why did you stop quoting the article when the next paragraph is about the law changing (where the article also makes a false statement unless I'm really misreading the EPA website)?
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# ? Sep 2, 2015 07:07 |
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ProperGanderPusher posted:More than likely GOP and therefore more likely to be anti-urban/pro-ag. Hmm, way to dismiss the largest progressive center of California as "more than likely GOP".
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# ? Sep 2, 2015 07:10 |
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Must have been thinking about Orange County and San Diego.
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# ? Sep 2, 2015 07:13 |
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Zachack posted:Where does that say that the EPA want's to prohibit chloramine use? http://water.epa.gov/lawsregs/rulesregs/sdwa/mdbp/chloramines_index.cfm#three quote:Gaps in research on how monochloramine affects water should be filled.
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# ? Sep 2, 2015 07:45 |
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FRINGE posted:Do what you want. The EPAs own pdfs have all the same warnings just spun the opposite direction. Their small section on "disadvantages" highlights that their long list of "why we thinks its fine" are all bounded by not knowing much. I am doing what I want: asking you why you quoted something apparently untrue and won't admit to, and why you selectively quoted another article in a way that leads to false conclusions.
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# ? Sep 2, 2015 16:25 |
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FRINGE posted:Have you ever been to SoCal? My impression is that outside of LA, it's a considerably conservative area. Or at least it has been, historically.
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# ? Sep 2, 2015 18:37 |
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ProperGanderPusher posted:My impression is that outside of LA, it's a considerably conservative area. Or at least it has been, historically. To be fair, that's true of a lot of supposed blue states
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# ? Sep 2, 2015 21:14 |
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ProperGanderPusher posted:My impression is that outside of LA, it's a considerably conservative area. Or at least it has been, historically. Well you're not entirely wrong about that. quote:In 1932, [Riverside County] was one of only two counties (the other being Benton County, Oregon) on the entire Pacific coast of the United States to vote for Hoover over Roosevelt Things are much better now.
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# ? Sep 2, 2015 22:55 |
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OC, San Berndoo, Imperial Valley, San Diego - all very conservative and Republican (although that's changing). OC is the birthplace of the John Birch Society and gave the world people like Congressmen Bob "B-1" Dornan. San Diego has several giant military bases and is full of military retirees. It used to have a ton of defense contractors, too.
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# ? Sep 2, 2015 23:04 |
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Forceholy posted:To be fair, that's true of a lot of supposed blue states There are no blue states or red states. ...although oklahoma and kansas sure are giving being a red state a good try. And vermont is really quite blue.
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# ? Sep 2, 2015 23:12 |
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Leperflesh posted:There are no blue states or red states. *ahem*
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# ? Sep 2, 2015 23:17 |
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FMguru posted:OC, San Berndoo, Imperial Valley, San Diego - all very conservative and Republican (although that's changing). i dunno much about mark takano—the gay japanese congressman from moreno valley—but i like how he grades republican press releases
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# ? Sep 2, 2015 23:24 |
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Mark Takano is from Riverside, actually. His district is Riverside, Moreno Valley, Pedley, and part of Perris. Scumbag Ken Calvert was our rep for years and that poo poo was shameful.
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# ? Sep 2, 2015 23:29 |
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Ron Jeremy posted:*ahem* All of Hawaii's counties are entire islands encompassing both rural and urban areas, so there's no urban/rural breakdown in the county voting records. I mean, OK, several of Hawaii's islands are basically all-rural, so yeah. Hawaii went 70% blue in the 2012 election. Vermont only went 66.5%. So I'll cede the point.
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# ? Sep 2, 2015 23:30 |
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Leperflesh posted:There are no blue states or red states.
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# ? Sep 2, 2015 23:33 |
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Cicero posted:I'd like to see a map like this except with counties sized to match population.
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# ? Sep 2, 2015 23:35 |
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I saw that one in the Smithsonian, I think. Much more impressive in person, imo. Can really see how the colors blend.
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# ? Sep 2, 2015 23:52 |
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Positive talk: Olympic talk: LA is in the running http://www.latimes.com/sports/olympics/la-sp-sn-usoc-los-angeles-2024-summer-olympics-20150901-story.html Didn't see this in the last few pages (the drought talk seems to go on and on). I think people are positive to the ideal. The fiscals are going to stamp their feet about the overages, but unless there is a new third world rising up to show the world they can run in the debt to host the games we're going to get it. http://www.scpr.org/news/2015/08/25/53983/los-angeles-projects-161-million-surplus-if-it-get/ Our official bid book.
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# ? Sep 3, 2015 07:59 |
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LA strikes me as one of the few places that has room for the Olympics, can competently host the Olympics, and both can absorb and deserves all the negatives of the Olympics.
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# ? Sep 3, 2015 08:16 |
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doctorfrog posted:LA strikes me as one of the few places that has room for the Olympics, can competently host the Olympics, and both can absorb and deserves all the negatives of the Olympics. And on top of that, traffic wouldn't even get noticeably worse!
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# ? Sep 3, 2015 15:58 |
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Thanks! That is interesting. Also, kind of hideous looking.
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# ? Sep 3, 2015 18:00 |
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I am grateful that we're among the first in the nation to drastically cut back on solitary confinement.
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# ? Sep 3, 2015 18:02 |
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Cicero posted:Thanks! That is interesting. Also, kind of hideous looking.
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# ? Sep 4, 2015 00:04 |
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incoherent posted:Positive talk: Olympic talk: LA is in the running Dear {Sports Team}, now YOU can play in the historic {Name} Dome, site of the 2024 Olympics!! Really though what are they going to do? Raze the Coliseum? Rent out a shload of venues for events?? AirBnB will be making GBS threads cash if this actually happens.
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# ? Sep 4, 2015 05:56 |
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FilthyImp posted:This seems like the perfect time to take over the Hollywood Park racetrack rebuild and also jam through Carson/Compton/Hawthorne's Super Football plan. Since USC took on the responsibility of long-term operation of the Coliseum, how would they get around that?
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# ? Sep 4, 2015 06:17 |
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Just more video fuel for the angry-about-dumb-farming fire: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jh90Tm_TH1Y I recently drove to LA along the 5, and you still see those signs: CONGRESS-CREATED DUST BOWL. doctorfrog fucked around with this message at 08:00 on Sep 5, 2015 |
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doctorfrog posted:Just more video fuel for the angry-about-dumb-farming fire: Well, seeing how the beginning of the youtube description says that ag is exempt from mandatory water restrictions, which isn't true...doesn't exactly look good for VICE.
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# ? Sep 5, 2015 08:08 |
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Caltrans is having a contest offering $25,000 "to the Californian with the best unique idea about how to improve the state’s transportation system. The concept that best addresses the contest criteria within Caltrans’ area of responsibility and has the highest likelihood of being successfully implemented." http://www.dot.ca.gov/InnovAward/ct/contest/ Fun way to get the people involved in the future of the state's infrastructure or a sign of an agency that can't find two brain cells among its own employees to rub together? Either way I'm guessing a lot of entries will just say "Abolish Caltrans."
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# ? Sep 5, 2015 13:28 |
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You'd be surprised how much I hear the sentiment, "Trains are for Europeans. This is America. We drive cars here. The solution is always more roads." Typically from people over 60, of course, but they vote faithfully.
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ProperGanderPusher posted:You'd be surprised how much I hear the sentiment, "Trains are for Europeans. This is America. We drive cars here. The solution is always more roads." Typically from people over 60, of course, but they vote faithfully. It's just a variation of "can't someone else's life change, mine has to stay exactly the same, also I don't want any state money going to anything I don't feel I have a use for."
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# ? Sep 5, 2015 17:33 |
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Lane-splitting wins again. http://www.tickld.com/x/woman-writes-an-open-letter-to-the-motorcyclist-she-didnt-kill
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# ? Sep 5, 2015 17:58 |
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FRINGE posted:Lane-splitting wins again. No it didn't; that idiot still lived long enough to write this lovely article.
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# ? Sep 5, 2015 18:01 |
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ProperGanderPusher posted:You'd be surprised how much I hear the sentiment, "Trains are for Europeans. This is America. We drive cars here. The solution is always more roads." Typically from people over 60, of course, but they vote faithfully.
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FRINGE posted:Lane-splitting wins again. Prepare for the bike riders to inform you that in fact that was 100% her fault and since she never actually hit the bike, the biker doesn't need to stop to exchange information. Hitlers Gay Secret posted:No it didn't; that idiot still lived long enough to write this lovely article. Are you arguing that lane splitting at 55+ is safe or smart?
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