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Post #225,790 by Andrew Grygus 9/21/05 5:00:46 PM Reply	The Los Angeles Times had an article on this . . . . . Tuesday of this week entitled Fear of Disasters Is Real, but Not Always Rational which included Q&A with a UCLA psychiatrist and expert in mass hysteria and a chart of common causes of death. Mad Cow did't appear, but for your one year chances of death Heart Disease was 1/300, Automobile 1/6,700, Airplane was 1/380,000, Hurricane was 1/17,000,000. [link\|http://www.aaxnet.com\|AAx]
Post #225,791 by jb4 9/21/05 5:02:40 PM Reply	I imagine my hurricane risk is substantially lessened Due to the fact that there damn few hurricanes in Waukegan.... jb4 shrub●bish (Am., from shrub* + rubbish, after the derisive name for America's 43 president; 2003) n. 1. a form of nonsensical political doubletalk wherein the speaker attempts to defend the indefensible by lying, obfuscation, or otherwise misstating the facts; GIBBERISH. 2. any of a collection of utterances from America's putative 43rd president. cf.* BULLSHIT
Post #225,794 by Andrew Grygus 9/21/05 5:09:39 PM Reply	Yea, we don't have 'em here much either, but . . . . . earthquakes didn't make the list. Farthest down they went was Amusement park rides at 1/70,000,000. [link\|http://www.aaxnet.com\|AAx]
Post #225,793 by ben_tilly 9/21/05 5:05:12 PM Reply	I'll bet the hurricane risk is higher this year I have come to believe that idealism without discipline is a quick road to disaster, while discipline without idealism is pointless. -- Aaron Ward (my brother)
Post #225,796 by drewk 9/21/05 5:14:11 PM Reply	No it's not Risk is a predictor. For something that happened in the past I believe you'd want "odds". :-P === Purveyor of Doc Hope's [link\|http://DocHope.com\|fresh-baked dog biscuits and pet treats]. [link\|http://DocHope.com\|http://DocHope.com]
Post #225,797 by ben_tilly 9/21/05 5:19:41 PM Reply	Point, but Rita's still on the warpath... I have come to believe that idealism without discipline is a quick road to disaster, while discipline without idealism is pointless. -- Aaron Ward (my brother)
Post #225,817 by Ashton 9/21/05 7:35:41 PM Reply	Let's not totally-forget 'Gaia' (or by any other name) re these ummm 'statistical aberrations'? - She could be getting a Bit Pissed at the way we'unses are pissing on her peonies, crapping on her sea-life, polluting/vandalizing My Green Fields and otherwise trashing the only nest in sight. She may have figured out just how dull is our attention span - and how we just might Need a nice Phat demo of ~what a Gigaton-of-TNT manifests-like ?? (Hey, this model's got fewer holes than them Revelations comic books - and look at the 63M copies (x $X/per) which That refugee from a Nintendo brainstorming party has managed.)

Wretched excess.... - (dmcarls) - (27) - Sept. 20, 2005, 10:06:08 AM EDT

Re: Wretched excess.... - (GBert) - Sept. 20, 2005, 12:18:49 PM EDT

I'd want to see both sides of this story - (ben_tilly) - (25) - Sept. 20, 2005, 07:25:19 PM EDT

Der Spiegel has a similar story. - (Another Scott) - (24) - Sept. 20, 2005, 07:53:00 PM EDT

Ah. That would be stupider than what I was thinking. - (ben_tilly) - (20) - Sept. 20, 2005, 08:44:22 PM EDT

I like burgers. - (Silverlock) - (19) - Sept. 20, 2005, 09:31:02 PM EDT

Burgers shouldn't be a Mad Cow problem . . . - (Andrew Grygus) - Sept. 20, 2005, 09:39:40 PM EDT

How much do you drive each year? - (ben_tilly) - (17) - Sept. 21, 2005, 03:17:35 AM EDT

I don't drive. -NT - (Silverlock) - (9) - Sept. 21, 2005, 08:57:38 AM EDT

Do you think that you'll take more than 2 dozen trips by... - (ben_tilly) - (8) - Sept. 21, 2005, 02:21:17 PM EDT

OK Mr statistic - (Silverlock) - (7) - Sept. 21, 2005, 03:34:46 PM EDT

Another Atkins convert! My work is done! :-) -NT - (ben_tilly) - (1) - Sept. 21, 2005, 04:25:40 PM EDT

Cute, but 'Atkins' remains a simplistic idea - (Ashton) - Sept. 21, 2005, 06:52:34 PM EDT

Don't forget the cheese and crispy wings. -NT - (broomberg) - (4) - Sept. 21, 2005, 06:53:59 PM EDT

No chance of that happening -NT - (Silverlock) - (3) - Sept. 22, 2005, 11:28:49 AM EDT

Evil! Evil! Trans fats! - (Andrew Grygus) - (2) - Sept. 25, 2005, 04:32:33 PM EDT

Any thoughts about Dow's NATREON? - (Another Scott) - (1) - Sept. 25, 2005, 05:33:25 PM EDT

Well, Canola itself is a made-up name . . . - (Andrew Grygus) - Sept. 25, 2005, 06:51:32 PM EDT

The Los Angeles Times had an article on this . . . - (Andrew Grygus) - (6) - Sept. 21, 2005, 05:00:46 PM EDT

I imagine my hurricane risk is substantially lessened - (jb4) - (1) - Sept. 21, 2005, 05:02:40 PM EDT

Yea, we don't have 'em here much either, but . . . - (Andrew Grygus) - Sept. 21, 2005, 05:09:39 PM EDT

I'll bet the hurricane risk is higher this year -NT - (ben_tilly) - (3) - Sept. 21, 2005, 05:05:12 PM EDT

No it's not - (drewk) - (2) - Sept. 21, 2005, 05:14:11 PM EDT

Point, but Rita's still on the warpath... -NT - (ben_tilly) - Sept. 21, 2005, 05:19:41 PM EDT

Let's not totally-forget 'Gaia' - (Ashton) - Sept. 21, 2005, 07:35:41 PM EDT

I find it hard to agree with you on this - (Silverlock) - (2) - Sept. 20, 2005, 09:09:55 PM EDT

Yes, but the Der Spigel story was from 9/12. - (Another Scott) - Sept. 20, 2005, 10:43:41 PM EDT

Rove with $$ ~~ Willie Sutton as Head of the FDIC -NT - (Ashton) - Sept. 20, 2005, 11:24:43 PM EDT

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