Some 15 years ago I wanted to contribute/fix bugs and asked the author if the sources are available. He answered yes, for $10000. Screw that guy, I wrote my own image viewer )
Second to this. There are a story I read about a very successful diplomat who was so hard on itself that one day he fainted from the stress, because he thought he wasn't good enough. As he found the hard way that this cannot continue, he decided to fake it, if he cannot make it, and que sera. Very surprisingly to him, noone noticed and he was no less successfull afterwards.
Thorium is not much radioactive indeed, but radon it emits is. That's why f.ex. building houses on a granit (that is generally thorium rich) without proper ventilation underneath can result in serious health issues.
In 1988 I've been standing for quite a long time on my balcony, awing at 5 huge lighting objects dancing in the sky. Never believed in UFOs, but - in front of my own eyes, and in the middle of a big city! Then my mother came and said it must be preparations of light show for tomorrow's concert over the stadium. Oh well...
That's what I'm getting as an opening screen: "The application Pacifica (process com.pacificalabs.pacifica) has stopped unexpectedly. Please try again."
There is an interesting read about lutein and macular degeneration [1] .. might be quackery, but I've started to include kale in my ration. If it does nothing, well it's not unhealthy. But if it helps though it wouldn't be wise to ignore it.
Just right now happen to help old $work with their 4.11-STABLE FreeBSD station, not touched since 2005 .. amazing technology, love it!. Still working, and while compiling ancient stuff from ports tree, am writing this comment from Konqueror 3.3.2 from 2004 . Thank you FreeBSD people!