At 10:28 AM 10/29/2009, Horace Heffner wrote:
I am not going to provide legal advice other than to say you need
professional legal advice.
I need professional advice about dozens of things, and I'm not going
to get it.... I've done business and other stuff for forty years and
so far, I've actually used professional advice for a handful of
necessities. Adopting two children, for example. Massachusetts
requires you have an attorney to transfer real estate, so it's been
done in that, numerous times.
As to isotopes, the product involved is a commercial one, available
off the shelf, I believe, at local hardware stores. I'll check out
shipping requirements before selling them, I'm sure, but I'm not
about to hire an attorney to do that for me. If it's too much of a
problem, I won't sell them!
There are both federal, state, and local
laws and regulations with regards to sale, transport, disposal and
specific use or planned use by isotope kind and quantity. Licenses,
or license addenda, can (and are, depending on location and
conditions) be required for individuals, companies, laboratories,
individual rooms in laboratories, and specific planned experiment
type including specifics regarding each type of isotope used or
planned to be used. Requirements change. It is important to keep up
with them. That is why professional advice is needed.
If I have or should have reason to believe that there is a regulation
I must follow, I'll investigate and follow it. I would assume that
when one buys a smoke detector, if there are any special requirements
fo transport or disposal, those would be provided with the unit.
Seems to me I may have seen such. (Do not dispose of this smoke
detector with household refuse, but call the State Environmental
Protection Agency so they can come with their Hazmat suits, spending
thousands of dollars of state money so you can get rid of a $5.95
smoke detector. Do not under any circumstances eat the Am-241 source
included in this detector, and do not feed it to your children or
pets. If the case should suffer damage, call your attorney
immediately for advice on how to avoid prompt incarceration, we
cannot be responsible for the overreaction of the state police or
national guard. Right.)
As Bob Dylan wrote, if you ain't got nothin, you got nothin to lose.
On the other hand, if the bucks start pouring in the door, hey, an
attorney should get some. How likely is that? I can see the headlines:
Cold Fusion Fad Hits High Schools, Physicists Hysterical
Sales of LDA Cold Fusion Kits Skyrockets after American Physical
Society Issues Press Release: It's Impossible!
Should I get a bigger mailbox?
