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Skriven 2009-05-27 16:13:00 av Glen Jamieson
     Kommentar till en text av Michael Loo
Ärende: ANTISOCIAL THINGS 90527
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 -=> Quoting Michael Loo to Glen Jamieson <=-

 GJ> As I heard your president tell everyone that all your cars will have
 GJ> to achieve 35 miles per gallon in future, but they will cost $1300
 GJ> more, I wondered how that would be done, and if, as it was possible,
 GJ> why wasn't it done voluntarily by manufacturers before and used as a
 GJ> sales feature?
 ML> You are kidding, are you not. Otherwise you show a shocking
 ML> lack of understanding of, well, everything.

Semi-kidding.  I was hoping someone would reveal what engineering
changes to cost $1300 would be made.
 
  GJ> Schubert called the wine Hermitage rather than Shiraz to "pander to
 GJ> the snobs in New South Wales", an important market for Penfolds.
 ML> I am really not fond of New South Wales, speaking of antisocials.

Nor am I, although my nunnish sister lives there, in Kempsey.  Last
week she was isolated by flood waters from the church where she was
supposed to give a sermon.  I told her to write a new one based on
Noah and his experiences, for when the flood waters recede.
 
 GJ> I still have nearly a kilo of baccala left to play with.  It is a
 GJ> challenge, with results that, so far, I like.
 ML> It goes supremely well with potatoes and onions.

So far, I like that salt cod.  At an "on special" price of $13/kg it
falls into the luxury food class here, a far cry from its basic
Northern Hemisphere food origin.  I feel that the supermarket where I
bought it made a mistake in stocking it, as it was still being sold on
special a week after I first saw it there.
 
 -=> Glen Jamieson said to Hap Newsom <=-
 
 GJ> reach otherwise inaccessible areas.  I remember reading of a Russian
 GJ> sub planting a flag at the North Pole.  Now if a substantial oil field
 GJ> was found there, that could be worth fighting over.

 ML> Bear in mind that this is not a particularly new application,
 ML> as the first vessel to surface at the Pole was American, back
 ML> in 1959 - the USS Scorpion or Skate or something. The only
 ML> new thing about the Russians planting a flag there is the
 ML> disrespect for the tacit universal extraterritoriality of
 ML> the place.

I wonder if the idea of planting the flag occurred to the US sub
operators, and was rejected for the ethical reason you quoted.  It
should have been just as possible to do, 50 years ago.  If a
significant oil field is found there, what will happen to respect for
ethical considerations?

Talking of ethics, I heard recently of an attempt by a pharmecutical
firm to patent turmeric, used as a medicine.  An Indian doctor read of
that and rushed off to the patent office to see on what grounds that
patent application was assessed.   That office said that the Internet
was used to check if turmeric had been previously used as a medicine,
but drew a blank.  As the doctor pointed out, there were many writings
going back centuries detailing the medical properties of turmeric, but
they were all in Sanskrit and similar, and never put on the Internet.
Once he provided that evidence, the patent application was cancelled,
but he was worried about possibilities of hundreds of other
traditional herbs and spices being "stolen" that way, so now he has
started an organisation to investigate and translate the old writings
into English for the Internet.

MMMMM----- Recipe via Meal-Master (tm) v8.05
 
      Title: FISH & APPLES - ELMALI VE SOGANLI BALIK
 Categories: Maindish, Fish, Turkish, Middleeast
      Yield: 4 servings
 
    700 g  F- cod; 4 slices
      4    Apples- Granny Smith; >5
      2    Onions
      2    Potatoes
      2    Carrots
      4    Sp- bay leaves
    200 ml Yoghurt- plain
           Olive oil
           ; NUTRITIONAL INFO
           2088    ; Kcals
           124    ; Proteins
           68    ; Fats
 
  Peel & slice the apples, arrange half in a greased oven dish. Clean
  the onions & slice, arrange half on top of the apples; put the
  codfish slice on top with a bay leaf on each slice.
  
  Place the other half of the sliced onions on top of the fish, &
  finish with a layer of sliced apple. Season with salt & pepper & a
  squiggle of olive oil. Bake at 160^C/325^F for 40 minutes.
  
  In the meantime, peel & slice the potatoes & carrots, & boil till
  tender. Arrange them on a serving dish & top with the yoghurt. Place
  the bakes fish with the apple slices alongside of the vegetables &
  serve.
  
  From: ARAB COOKING By: CASA EDITRICE BONECHI [http://www.bonechi.it]
  Typed by: KEVIN JCJD SYMONS, NOVEMBER 2005
 
MMMMM
 

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