I have a Maltese. Her snoring is louder, but more interruptible. She is 13 and close to her demise. When she passes, I will morn her in way unfathomable. I hope to hear her snoring in my dreams until the end of time.

This was in the second set of movies I rented after I got my first VCR. My lab tech recommended it. I laughed, I cried, I swore allegiance to True Love. I might watch it on DVD tonight.

I can slow my heart rate by 20 beats per minute in less than three second (Well, twenty years ago, I could). I can still change my skin temperature, warm it or cool it, at will. Blood pressure takes continuous practice, if I work at it for a month, I can drop it by 30 points at will.

Here is the real challenge: what the hell good is all this? Those skills are as useless as making a ping pong ball float in a tube.

I am not an expert at this sort of thing, but my reading of the law has it generating much less dire results.

1. It appears to apply only to imported materials.

2. Domestic manufacturers should be able to use raw materials that have been tested and therefore not need to run tests themselves.

This is an interesting conundrum. Ben Franklin said that planning for failure is superior to planning for success. My opinion is that one should plan for both and not allow excuses for either.

It was much better than I expected. Besides, how can not like anything that ends with a hot, Nazi android.

No Asimov?

As for the Heinlein comments: While SiaSL is not his best, "Farnam's Freehold" is his worst. My suggestion is to read "Have Spacesuit, Will Travel" and if you like it, find the rest of his adolescent novels.

Oh, he can be fired for that!

Does it bother anyone else that the back button does not work when one clicks on a Videosift link?

No matter what happened this time, if he is a predator, it will happen again and he will be caught. If not, then it will not happen and will become the stuff of bad pub jokes.

It is Art.

Those of you without proper artistic taste will never appreciate its message.

Remember the piano in the forest?

As always, great job.

Without getting into why a billion people could not benefit from these glasses and how there are cheaper ways to provide glasses to the masses, let me say that large problems are frequently solved by good ideas rather than good devices. I hope this helps.

Here is a link to The Lions' website. Once you go there, you will understand why I posted it.

http://www.lionsclubs.org/EN/content/about_index.shtml

Laughing. Yes. All the way to the bank.