Sunday Reading. Socialism and/or Barbarianism has A Letter to Micky Arison, CEO of Carnival Cruiselines, and Gianni Onorato, president of Costa Cruises (ht Gtiso): (Photo poached from here, who poached it from here(and altered it)) Occupy San Francisco gets down to business: Act II of the Occupy Wall Street movement, San Francisco version, kicked off on a rainy, blustery Friday in the heart of the city’s financial district. Targeting specific corporations like Wells Fargo and Bank of America and emphasizing real, tangible issues like home foreclosures, affordable health care and education as well as broader ones like the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision, several hundred protesters – the exact number was impossible to estimate – fanned out across the city, snarling traffic, getting arrested, holding sidewalk teach-ins, and generally serving notice that after its brief winter hibernation, the Occupy movement was back and kicking.
Occupiers Close BoA, Hold Off Police for 10 Hours: Like this: Can static electricity kill you? March 30, 2012 Dear Cecil: In winter I've gotten big shocks from static electricity when getting out of my car, and once saw a video where a crewman touching a race car during a pit stop was thrown back several feet, I presume from static charge built up as the car circled the track. This gotten me wondering: Have there been instances of injury or death from static discharge? — Mike Cecil replies: Yes, many — and if you're not careful, it could happen to you.
For static electricity basically you need a giant capacitor — something with a positive charge on one side, a negative charge on the other, and a gap in the middle. Under normal circumstances the shock is harmless. Straight Dope readers may recall our column about the chains gasoline trucks used to drag behind them to prevent static buildup. Having seen that video of the pit crewman being knocked on his butt, you may say: those strips don’t always work.
Getting back to vehicles, you’ll want to watch out for helicopters. . — Cecil Adams. Brain Pickings. The Best Travel Stories on the Internet - Travel Writing - World Hum. The Morning News.