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- From: carl@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU (Carl J Lydick)
- Newsgroups: sci.environment,talk.politics.misc,alt.activism
- Subject: Re: Idiotic Japan Bashing
- Date: 28 Dec 1992 23:01:56 GMT
- Organization: HST Wide Field/Planetary Camera
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- References: <1992Dec28.010825.25445@oracle.us.oracle.com> <1992Dec28.080944.7939@pegasus.com> <1hnk0tINNnna@gap.caltech.edu>,<1992Dec28.202218.19800@news.acns.nwu.edu>
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- In article <1992Dec28.202218.19800@news.acns.nwu.edu>, dmeier@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Douglas Meier) writes:
- >>I suppose they're still using exactly the same sort of vats they used 600 years
- >>ago? And exactly the same processes? I rather doubt it. I suspect that
- >>public health laws have caused significant changes in those breweries.
- >>
- >Not really. Most of those older breweries abided by a beer purity act first
- >enforced in the early 1200's I believe. This purity act was more stringent
- >then than our industry standards are now.
-
- I'm sure that M. Pasteur would've found that rather surprising. After all,
- he's the fellow who discovered that heating something to a high enough
- temperature kills off the bacteria you don't want there.
-
- Was it common practice in the early 1200s to clean vats with live steam between
- batches?
-
- >On another note, what is it about you people (no offense intended) that make
- >you believe all was toxic and rat-infested before the age of the social
- >architects?
-
- I never claimed that all was "toxic and rat-infested." I think that a lot of
- so-called "public health laws" are overkill. That doesn't mean that the advent
- of such laws hasn't changed the way things were done.
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- Carl J Lydick | INTERnet: CARL@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU | NSI/HEPnet: SOL1::CARL
-
- Disclaimer: Hey, I understand VAXen and VMS. That's what I get paid for. My
- understanding of astronomy is purely at the amateur level (or below). So
- unless what I'm saying is directly related to VAX/VMS, don't hold me or my
- organization responsible for it. If it IS related to VAX/VMS, you can try to
- hold me responsible for it, but my organization had nothing to do with it.
-