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 | Each European country is given one side of the Euro coins to 'play with' sort of like our state quarters.  |
| | Isaac Asimov posited that if there was a god - the place to put the evidence was in PI. Consider best way to get a 'true' random number is to use a pseudo-random number to point to digit in PI and use that number to find a digit in PI. … |
| | [URL="http://www.compukoko.com/2010/08/09/google-refuses-to-test-unmanned-spy-plane/"]And you thought Google was cool[/URL]: [QUOTE]Google refuses to test unmanned spy plane by mr.elasmar on August 9, 2010 | 1 Comment Google denies testing out unmanned spy drones (610 x 320) Street View prevent anxiety history Google has the information you need to fly unmanned spy planes its Street …  |
 | I can just picture the traffic jams now. You could have a centralized charging station/water fountain to exchange office gossip. Just stay out of Munden's Bar - [I]TOURBOTS - little robots controlled from a distance. The user sees and feels what the tourbot sees and feels, but without pain or … |
 | I wish you wouldn't shill for companies - have you ever researched any of the ideas you post? I take it back - you are posting "News Stories of Possible Interest" |
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| | Re: HUMOR <<long story detailing all the petty grievances of the day leading to - >> I finally got the cash register to open and drawer shot out spilling change all over the floor. I was on my hands and knees picking up change when the phone rang, I stood up to … |
 | I cut my nails any damn time I want to. I own a black cat. What you dream has nothing at all to do with the future. I have the superstitious belief that superstitious people will slowly kill themselves off. |
 | [QUOTE=madduckyduck;607690]Also another real good one I like is Ninja scrolls (the movie) and then the series which takes place after the movie.[/QUOTE] Dang - I was just going to add Ninja Scrolls -- I loved it; along with ghost in the machine and Spirited Away. I don't get to see … |
 | Re: JUSTIN bieber Here he is [URL="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SAAg6ePGZUE"]trying to escape on a SEGWAY[/URL] |
| | Re: Guns [QUOTE=Ancient Dragon;1279131][URL="http://interact.stltoday.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=730948"]Here [/URL]is an interesting thread about the topic of individual rights to own and keep weapons in the USA. The original intent was to give evey American citizen the right to have weapons so that he can defent himself, his family, his home, and his country against foreign invaders … |
| | The father of Gordon's love interest the HalfLife 2 series is in one of the picture phone adds (he is the grandfather seeing his grandchild for the first time). I was in the kitchen when I heard that voice - I have played so much HL2 that I could not …  |
 | I will miss his wit - I was wondering why our exchanges had become so infrequent. There are arguments and discussions left hanging. My condolences to his family and friends. |
 | I Y Q Y Q R (it took me about 10 minutes following the car to figure this one out - you have to say it out loud).  |
 | You did not explain your poll very well. Do you mean giving animals the exact same rights as humans? As opposed to giving animals absolutely no rights whatsoever? The polarity of your question leaves much to be desired - then the 3rd option is meant to demean anyone who does … |
| | We are having a tribal gathering at a friend's home. He lives on a hill over-looking our Green Lake fireworks show. It is tribal because it is a group of (mostly) non-related friends who have connections going back to the early '70s and a group called The Society for Creative … |
| | The only thing I can think of is to buy a flash drive that has a physical write protect switch, set it to write protect, crack the case and remove the switch. Why are you so worried about them destroying the data? You aren't keeping important irreplaceable data on a … |
 | [QUOTE=Dave Sinkula;710254]What I find funny is that the worst epithets that apply to Palin apply equally if not moreso to Obama. Keep 'em coming![/QUOTE] I don't think Obama has claimed to speak for AK, field-dress a moose, or read all the newspapers (though I bet he does actually reads newspapers … |
| | I have some 'interesting' medical problems - someone told me to try homeopathy, that would cure me. Homeopathy is one of the worst scams with the most bizarre process I have ever run across (even more ridiculous than scientology): take a healthy adult and give them increasing doses of a …  |
 | Re: oh boy... There are people who think 'www' (the web) is the internet - the internet was declared dead Sept. 1992 when all the university students discovered usenet. Others claim that it died when CVC added Windoze 3.0 to their support in 1993 and became AOL. Almost everyone claims the internet should … |
| | Re: RABIES! [QUOTE=vaultdweller123;1119168]Serously....in our country, rabies was believed to be in nature with the dogs, if u get bitten by a dog... it means you got rabies. they dont believe that rabies is a virus which they got from other infected animal. they believe that rabies exist in every dogs even in … |
| | Re: Goldman Sachs I could not follow your link so [URL="http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/04/sec_slaps_goldman_with_civil_fraud_complaint.php"]here is one of mine[/URL]. The scam was that this really rich guy wanted to short CDOs but did not want to risk his money so he convinced Goldman Sachs to create some CDOs that were guaranteed to fail so he could short …  |
| | I was riding the 'crazies' bus north out of Seattle (the 358, people shoot at the drivers, a couple of the buses almost went off the Aurora Bridge); anyway, the bus was packed and I was sitting in the bendy seats of an articulate bus when I spotted the typical …  |
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| | [QUOTE=jephthah;1217030]in Seattle, we have a new downtown library. A Rem Koolhaus design, it's very nice. but the bathrooms are painted entirely in this horrible lime-green color that makes you want to get out of there as soon as possible. they did that on purpose, you see. the research shows that …  |
| | I have many '[URL="http://www.timlebon.com/PeakExperiences.html"]Maslow moments[/URL]'; they are unique, individual and can be shared: Laying on my back on Mt. Rainier looking at the sky; Sitting with a friend on a log on the shore of the Pacific Ocean drinking a glass of whiskey; as a boy, sitting on the running-board … |
| | [QUOTE=jwenting;1165388]sure it's taxed. But if you leave cash on the table, do you really expect it all to be declared? Of course not, the bulk of it will not be declared.[/QUOTE] Tipping is subject to income taxes based on [URL="http://www.payrollonabudget.com/comp_tipstipcredit.htm"]employer reporting[/URL]; it is not a simple subject wrt tax rules … |
| | Captain Sir Richard Francis Burton - explorer, diplomat, author - spoke 23 languages and numerous dialects (starred in [U]To Our Scattered Bodies Go[/U]). Wrote numerous books, translated [U]1,001 Arabian Nights[/U], and others, even wrote poetry. Actually visited Brigham Young ([U]The City of Saints[/U], learning Sioux along the way. Tried convince …  |
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 | [QUOTE=Dave Sinkula;503652]Well, at least remember the Chicago phrase: Vote early, vote often![/QUOTE] Heh,heh - dying wish - bury me in Chicago so I can continue to vote for the Democrats. |
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| | I wear t-shirts called 'crack-spackle' - they are 3 inches longer than normal t-shirts so there is no 'plumber's crack'. |
| | You folks don't understand much about what historical researchers want. The individual tweets by the various twits are not much but the aggregate information will be of enormous value if for no other reason but to see how rumors move and mutate. All the different tags and now geo-tagging has … |
| | I can't even read anything in my dreams - any material that I should read is garbage; in fact, when I try to read something I exit my dreams. |
| | Re: T Shirt [URL="http://rlv.zcache.com/cognitive_dissident_neurodiverse_t_shirt-p235055041922825273qiq4_500.jpg"]well there is this[/URL]  |
| | This is what I found [QUOTE]The graphic displays the ink cartridge status when EPSON StatusMonitor was first opened. To update the ink cartridge status, click Update. Epson cannot guarantee the quality or reliability of non-genuine ink. If non-genuine ink cartridges are installed, the ink cartridge status may not be displayed. … |
| | I found this at [URL="http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/whois/?ip=m1cr0soft.com&server="]whois[/URL]: [QUOTE]WHOIS - m1cr0soft.com Registrar: HICHINA ZHICHENG TECHNOLOGY LTD. Status: clientTransferProhibited Dates: Created 19-apr-2009 Updated 06-jun-2009 Expires 19-apr-2010 DNS Servers: DNS14.HICHINA.COM DNS15.HICHINA.COM I was referred to grs.hichina.com; I'm looking it up there. Domain Name ..................... m1cr0soft.com Name Server ..................... dns14.hichina.com dns15.hichina.com Registrant ID ................... hc992362914-cn Registrant …  |
| | If it worked before, was there something that changed at roughly the same time the USB ports stopped working?  |
| | EEGs and MEGs and MRIs take pictures of out brains (images in jagged lines overlaid onto regions of the brain) to diagnose problems in the hardware. But when used in conjunction with specific pictures across different individuals, it appears that the pictures cause similar enough responses that a computer can … |
 | That was pretty good - I was going to claim that I could jump 9 but I ended my jump in a 'dive-roll' not a forward flip - wow! [URL="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96OljGZapv4"]Not the same thing but...[/URL] |
| | I appear to be Gregory Benford - [URL="http://paulkienitz.net/skiffy.html"]take a look for yourself [/URL] [CODE]<table width='90%' border=1 cellpadding=8 align='center'><tr><td width='1%'><img src='http://paulkienitz.net/quizpix/skiffy_greg.jpg' width=200 height=200></td><td>I am:<blockquote><big><big><b>Gregory Benford</b></big></big></blockquote>A master literary stylist who is also a working scientist.</td></tr></table> <center><p><br><b><a href='http://paulkienitz.net/skiffy.html'>Which science fiction writer are you?</a></b></p></center>[/CODE] Looks like the insert did not work, sigh! |
 | I am pretty sure that I asked a question before this [URL="http://www.daniweb.com/forums/post17641.html#post17641"]post[/URL] but.... |
| | Every once in a while I go back and take a refresher course - I learned on the purely mechanical typewriters. You pushed a key down and a Rube Goldbergian series led to a piece of lead at the end of a moment-arm hit the paper with some ribbon in …  |
| | Most of the Norther Hemisphere water is stored in the Greenland glaciers and the release into the Atlantic will take about 50 years to finally pour into the Pacific. The water rise on the east coast of US will be about 30 times greater than in the Pacific and, due … |
| | Wow, just what we need! Religious fanatics citing Jeebus on devices designed to kill others. There does not appear to be much 'Christianity' in that - Plus there is the whole 'separation of church and state' thing along with 'Crusader' taint. Looks to me like this company needs to understand … |
| | My wife said "Ipad?? does it come with wings? Is it only useful 5 days a month?" |
| | It sounds like your computer is telling you what is wrong; go [URL="http://www.computerhope.com/beep.htm"]here[/URL] to help understand what the beeping during POST means. |
 | [QUOTE=Mushy-pea;1118907]Hi. I recently read that the current US federal budget predicts the US debt to GDP ratio will reach over 70% in 2011 and about 80% by 2020. This analysis assumes fairly strong economic growth. The question that springs to mind is, if a budget surplus can't be achieved during … |
| | Re: Western US [QUOTE=MosaicFuneral;1128245]Well better to head towards San Diego and check out the zoo than stay in stuffy old Frisco. [url]http://maps.google.com/maps?q=2601+Elliott+Avenue+Seattle[/url] Nothing particularly interesting about that building, but the area has alot of fun places visit.[/QUOTE] Go [URL="http://maps.google.com/maps?g=1001%20Alaskan%20Way%20South%20Seattle"]here[/URL] instead it is Ye Olde Curiosity Shop - a must see stop for anyone … |
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