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vegaseat 1,735 DaniWeb's Hypocrite Team Colleague · Answer 1 · 2014-12-20T15:21:03+00:00

Prison Population Rankings ...

1   United States of America    2 228 424
2   China                       1 701 344
3   Russian Federation            672 100
4   Brazil                        581 507
5   India                         411 992
6   Thailand                      318 841
7   Mexico                        254 641
8   Iran                          217 851
9   Indonesia                     167 163
10  South Africa                  157 394

http://www.prisonstudies.org/highest-to-lowest/prison-population-total

Agilemind 0 Posting Whiz in Training · Answer 2 · 2014-12-21T14:55:57+00:00

From the same website as above: a person in the USA is 50% more likely to be in prison than a person in Russia.

score 2 · Answer 3 · 2014-12-21T16:02:29+00:00

Reverend Jim 4,780 Hi, I'm Jim, one of DaniWeb's moderators.

9 Years Ago

Much higher than that if you are non-white.

RikTelner commented: *shots fired* +0

RikTelner 20 Posting Pro in Training · Answer 4 · 2014-12-23T08:08:13+00:00

-- (back on topic) --

If earth (i.e. every single country in the world) wanted to "pay-back" the debt (to I don't know whom) and will freely give ALL of money they have and every single cent they get every milisecond that passes by.

Debt would paid off in 398 days.

World's debt: $60.84 trillion
World's GDP/y: $55.93 trillion per year

This is how bad current system works.

Agilemind 0 Posting Whiz in Training · Answer 5 · 2014-12-23T14:10:20+00:00

"The Interview" which has sparked conflict between the USA and North Korea was created largely by Canadians : http://globalnews.ca/news/1739325/canada-avoids-wrath-of-north-korea-over-b-c-made-the-interview/

sneekula 969 Nearly a Posting Maven · Answer 6 · 2014-12-23T15:11:34+00:00

The average American gains about 4 to 7 pounds between Thanksgiving and Christmas.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/

RikTelner 20 Posting Pro in Training · Answer 7 · 2014-12-24T11:23:24+00:00

Cannot confirm whether it's true or false

Apparently, Bartosz Zoltak after 15 years of research has answer whether P=NP.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variably_Modified_Permutation_Composition

But we're talking about Wikipedia, another "wow", another media.

The base of it's in Wikipedia to prove he's not lying. The full project, he has not enough money to make his work to public (you need that certain thing (which apparently costs a lot) which allows to publish your scientific work).

Agilemind 0 Posting Whiz in Training · Answer 8 · 2014-12-24T16:56:11+00:00

The full project, he has not enough money to make his work to public (you need that certain thing (which apparently costs a lot) which allows to publish your scientific work).

Hum... It only costs a few thousand dollars to publish a scientific paper even in top journals (open access at a high level subscription-only paper journal will cost me about $3,000+$500/colour image). Online-only journals are considerably cheaper ($1,000-2,000).

RikTelner 20 Posting Pro in Training · Answer 9 · 2014-12-26T12:31:32+00:00

Hum... It only costs a few thousand dollars to publish a scientific paper even in top journals (open access at a high level subscription-only paper journal will cost me about $3,000+$500/colour image). Online-only journals are considerably cheaper ($1,000-2,000).

As I already said:

Cannot confirm whether it's true or false

Plus, he's from Poland, it may be easy to come on such "low" money here, but we're talking over, what's happening over there.

<M/> 170 Why so serious? Featured Poster · Answer 10 · 2014-12-29T03:12:46+00:00

President Harrison died about a month after becoming a president.

GrimJack 1,414 Posting Maven Featured Poster · Answer 11 · 2014-12-29T04:25:02+00:00

Almost all experts outside of the FBI do not think it was the N.Koreans who hacked Sony. Many think it was a disgruntled (ex?)employee - in the beginning of the year, there were massive layoffs; a lot of them system administrators.

<M/> 170 Why so serious? Featured Poster · Answer 12 · 2014-12-29T05:40:36+00:00

Almost all experts say that? I thought most experts say it was the north koreans... i mean, that would be a good guess.

almostbob 866 Retired: passive income ROCKS · Answer 13 · 2014-12-29T07:03:08+00:00

ex: prefix; was, has been
spurt: noun; drip under pressure

expert: has been drip, under pressure

happygeek 2,411 Most Valuable Poster Team Colleague Featured Poster · Answer 14 · 2014-12-29T09:30:56+00:00

<M/> see: http://www.wired.com/2014/12/sony-north-korea-hack-experts-disagree/

happygeek 2,411 Most Valuable Poster Team Colleague Featured Poster · Answer 15 · 2014-12-29T09:32:14+00:00

<almostbob> I like this definition of what I do for a living:

Those who can, do
Those who can't, teach
Those who can't teach, write

score 0 · Answer 16 · 2014-12-29T13:32:57+00:00

Reverend Jim 4,780 Hi, I'm Jim, one of DaniWeb's moderators.

9 Years Ago

We have "top men" looking into it.

What men?

Top men.

<M/> 170 Why so serious? Featured Poster · Answer 17 · 2014-12-30T05:20:07+00:00

Those who can, do
Those who can't, teach
Those who can't teach, write

Those who can't write, speak. :)

But even then... can't you write to teach what you do? :P

score 0 · Answer 18 · 2014-12-30T11:48:04+00:00

In high school I heard it as

Those who can, do.
Those who can't, teach.
Those who can't teach, teach phys-ed.

score 0 · Answer 19 · 2014-12-31T17:56:43+00:00

Based on the reported cost of the Iraq/Afghanistan wars for the last 13 years of $1.6 trillion, the cost of those wars, per hour, is approximately $14 million. That's for each and every hour for the last 13 years.

GrimJack 1,414 Posting Maven Featured Poster · Answer 20 · 2014-12-31T20:16:13+00:00

The first college I went to had been called Montana State Normal School - it was a teachers college. It was there I first heard:
Those who can - do
those who can't - teach
those who can't teach - teach teachers

<M/> 170 Why so serious? Featured Poster · Answer 21 · 2014-12-31T22:18:00+00:00

Based on the reported cost of the Iraq/Afghanistan wars for the last 13 years of $1.6 trillion, the cost of those wars, per hour, is approximately $14 million. That's for each and every hour for the last 13 years.

Wow, when you break the numbers down like that, it makes the cost look much more shocking.

Agilemind 0 Posting Whiz in Training · Answer 22 · 2015-01-01T01:03:05+00:00

Based on the reported cost of the Iraq/Afghanistan wars for the last 13 years of $1.6 trillion, the cost of those wars, per hour, is approximately $14 million. That's for each and every hour for the last 13 years.

That's roughly $0.46 per afghanistani per hour! You could have paid the entire population of afghantistan $4,000/year and it would have been cheaper.

<M/> 170 Why so serious? Featured Poster · Answer 23 · 2015-01-01T03:05:21+00:00

That's roughly $0.46 per afghanistani per hour! You could have paid the entire population of afghantistan $4,000/year and it would have been cheaper.

That's true. We give money to several families there and a hundred dollars covers a lot of their expenses.

HiHe 174 Junior Poster · Answer 24 · 2015-01-01T14:50:22+00:00

To this you can add the cost of the other NATO countries. The War On Terror is not cheap.

RobertHDD 15 Posting Whiz in Training · Answer 25 · 2015-01-08T01:55:11+00:00

Paris was the tallest tower until another one was built and mount everest is the tallest mountain in the world and half of the nuts in the world are being eaten every year plus mountains cannot go over 15,000 meters due to the gravity on earth. Scientist say that they will need to find another planet in the next 50 years due to our planetary resources being used at an alarming rate and antartica is slowly melting scientist say that in 200 years that antartica will fast melt antartica due to the degrees rising on earth and finally what will happen if earth stop its orbit link is here in description: http://www.wired.com/2014/12/empzeal-earthfall/

almostbob 866 Retired: passive income ROCKS · Answer 26 · 2015-01-08T14:14:22+00:00

Mount everest is not the tallest mountain in the world, it is the highest at peak altitude 8,850m, but is less than 8,850m tall; it does not continue to sea level
Mauna Kei, has an altitude of 4205m at its peak, but continues 10000m below sea level to the bottom of the Pacific, making it taller than everest.

Your little brother is not taller than you just because he is standing on the table
Tall and high are not interchangeable terms

RobertHDD 15 Posting Whiz in Training · Answer 27 · 2015-01-09T00:30:15+00:00

RobertHDD 15 Posting Whiz in Training

9 Years Ago

whoops now i dont have a brain srry bout that

woooee 814 Nearly a Posting Maven · Answer 28 · 2015-01-12T02:18:34+00:00

Capt Kirk never said "Beam me up Scotty". The closest was "Scotty beam me up" but usually it was "3 to beam up Scotty" unless one of the crew going down to the planet was a new guy and then it was "2 to beam up Scotty".

RobertHDD 15 Posting Whiz in Training · Answer 29 · 2015-01-12T02:25:00+00:00

I got more accurate facts.

1: If you try to supress a sneeze you will rupture a blood vessel in your brain but if you sneeze too hard you break one of your bones in your rib cage.

<M/> 170 Why so serious? Featured Poster · Answer 30 · 2015-01-12T10:18:45+00:00

@robertHDD, or punch yourself in the face... I just sneezed and nearly knocked myself out because i had my fist out and when i sneezed, my face wanted to get a closer look of my fist....