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Old 13-07-2005, 06:50 PM
David Bostwick
 
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In article . com, wrote:


Dano wrote:


Wow. Fantastically bad idea.

1. All that absorbed heat will affect plant tissue near shingles.
2. Heavy metals in manufacture.
3. Gas exchange modification.
4. Other mulches return nutrients to the soil (try, say, 8 in, of
straw, or cardboard and grass clippings).
5. You'll look like a kook.

Really. Natural mulches, please.

D


Tar paper pots that many plants come in. Take tar-paper pots to each of
your above and see how silly and stupid is your attitude and argument.

Why is it so difficult for a given mind, a given person to be objective
rather than subjective. To be able to make a list of objective
arguments rather than a list of subjective hogwash which merely echoes
ad hominem.

Perhaps graduate schools of all the sciences should have a course where
not only is ethics and morals taught but where students are give a test
that measures whether their personality is such that they would not be
good in making science their career.


Dishwashing 101 comes to mind.

Many of the posters on the internet to the sci newsgroups who have a
degree in science, judging from their accumulating posts should have
their science degree revoked. The idea that when a student graduates
from University in a science carries that degree no matter what further
happens in his/her life should be changed to that of a possible
revoking of that degree because the person is more anti-science and has
abandoned the objectivity that science demands.


Disagreeing with you does not appear to be grounds for revoking someone's
degree.

When do they want your diploma back?


So tell me, if tar-paper pots are commonly used then what exactly is
wrong with tar shingles for mulch?


Amount of material, unless you make *really* thick-walled pots..
Other materials in the shingles - see above.
Persistence in the environment - see above.

Number 5 does not apply. That assessment has already been made.

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