Posts by GrimJack

Oh, I think one of the standard issue laser guided 2000 pounders will do a good job on most any kitchen. It has been used very successfully on Canadian soldiers in Afghanistan, and they weren't even in a kitchen.

Did you hear how this happened? What I heard was that the spotter was using a gps unit whose batteries died just as the target co-ords came up - so he replaced the batteries and called in the co-ords that came up, which just happened to be its location not the target location. Could be an Urban Legend but possibly worth a Darwin Award.

I'm assuming that 'Plutionium' is plutonium, and the dose is .o15 what per kg? And how sure is this; I remember reading about a guy who offered to eat the stuff. Apparently, it was some kind of challenge to Ralph Nader, pound per pound, although I don't recall what Nader was supposed to eat. I'll have to go find that reference again.

Generally I don't get involved in poor-feeding disputes but - wtf do you think it meant?
the dose above it is in mg, the dose below it is mg - if you can't connect the dots - why are you even talking to me.

Did you notice that I mentioned Merck Index - if you don't know what the Merck Index is try this:
"...encyclopedia with over 10,000 monographs on single substances or groups of related compounds" -- it is the recognized go-to reference for chemistry. If the guy ate .015mg of Plutonium (or plutionium, heh,heh) he would have a 50% chance of not surviving the ingestion - if he ate a pound of it, he would be dead. In most of its isotopic forms, it is an Alpha emitter so human skin can block it but internal tissue would be irradiated beyond recognizability; the most commonly used isotropic form has a half life of 88 years and produces quite a bit of thermal energy - if he happened to survive the Alpha particles, his insides would be cooked as peristalsis moved it through his …

One frog known as the Poison-Arrow has enough poison to kill about 2,200 people.

Makes me wonder what the most toxic substance on earth is?

The Merc Index carefully avoids using 'most toxic substance' because 'there can only be one' but they do list interesting comparisons but first I need to explain LD50 - this is the concentration that will kill 50% of a given population (I guess kind of like the half life in radioactivity).
Dioxin has an ld50 of .045mg per kg of body mass
Plutionium is .o15 per kg
Ricin is .001mg per kg
Clostridium botulinum .0000003mg per kg of body mass; botulism is about 10,000 times as toxic as dioxin or Plutonium -- if you want a winner Botulism is the one. Do not eat from any canned product that is bulging!! Why people want to inject this into their faces - well, that is the wonder of advertising.

The city of Seattle employes a full-time goose chaser to chase geese out of city parks.

Makes sense! When I lived in Detroit we where overcome by flocks of rather nasty Canadian Geese.

Geese are right on the edge of weight vs lift ratio - they have the equivalent of 'short-gut-syndrome' and they swallow everything they eat, use what they can and the rest comes right out. A flock of geese can coat a yard/section of beach in half a day. That stuff is slicker'n snot. Seattle has passed laws against feeding wild-fowl in the hopes of getting them to continue on their migration (there are areas around Lake Washington where the Canadian geese stopped migrating because people feed them - big stink over plans to catch and gas them, I believe they trapped and moved them - don't know how well it worked)

Sneekula - you a Seattleite? I live in Greenwood area.

How do you count illegal aliens?

I suppose you are looking for 'cute' answers but the truth is that the national census that takes place every 10 years goes out of its way to try and ensure the accuracy of the count. They keep all answers as secret and secure as they can -- Federal Law requires participation by all persons living in the US; Federal Law protects the information shared during the census. There is some controversy over the statistical methods used to account people not counted. If you have never participated in a census - it is pretty interesting-- especially if you happen to get one of the long forms. I remember when they were trying to come up with a category for unmarried couples - they came up with POSSLQ, 'Persons of opposite sex sharing living quarters'. We have one coming up in a couple years - it should be really, really fun what with all the bloggers and formuns and youtube and all that.

If you really want to know how undocumented aliens are counted please go here - you may have to dig around. You can dl census data into access and other formats.

The average American kitchen has 2.4 pots for every pan.

What do you do with 0.4 of a pot?

Get some Esmerelda papers, roll it and smoke it, I guess

My only advice to add for point and click is make sure you get auto-stabilize.
On digital photography in general, get a really big card and shoot and shoot - don't delete anything until you get it home and loaded onto your pc and then only delete obviously bad shots like fingers, blurred etc. Some pictures will grow on you or have some effect that you want to reproduce and, unlike film, all the info about the settings is built into the picture.

And don't see the world through a lens

(I guess I should look at the date stamp - you probably already bought it)

Is it safe for eyes to do a Laser Surgery and being freed from Contact lenses and Spectacles ?

I have altered my opinion somewhat - apparently there is a long list of risks for which you must sign a release for. Get your hands on that list long before you are invested in the decision to get lasered. With a 2% failure rate, read that list with care, picture your self with each of the outcomes, and only then decide if you want LASIK.

Depending on what your condition is there is also this Intacs - reversible corrective surgery. I saw a PBS special on this about 10 years ago and think this is probably the only way I would go for corrective eye surgery. Do your own research, if you are interested.

The company that produces the rings is privately held and I have no connection with them or their product

I don't think the US is the world.

That came out wrong - I meant the world is a very big place - please, no insult was meant so I hope none was taken/

I admit I haven't looked at your stats yet (I'll try to get around to it), but if you don't mind, how much of that count is located within Africa?

The stats are 68.8% Africa, 14.4% Asia, the US is lumped into the category of 'High Income Countries' which is 6.4%, 5.5% Latin America & Caribbean, and 4.8% for Eastern Europe & Central Asia.
As you can imagine that getting these stats out the more tightly regulated (read despotic leadership) counties. These stats are for 2005 (the page was updated a couple weeks ago) from UNAIDS/WHO 2006 and 2007 reports. One thing to keep in mind is that HIV/AIDS was not diagnosed until US citizens started dropping dead - no one really knows thow long it was spreading through Africa and India before anyone know what was going on.
Most of stats are in pie-chart form with good legends and then follow up descriptions.

As to the survey, I've got the book I saw it mentioned in on hand, I just need to go back over the book and find the reference to follow the footnotes. More a matter of how much free time I have right now than anything else.

I understand the problem of digging through foot-notes and I do not …

So, gravity is a monopole?
Time could be a monopole unless it's circular.

There is a cute story about R Feynman and time - other physicists would come in and ask him a question about particle interactions. He would chase them out of his office, then an hour or so later come up with an answer. Normally, scientists would brainstorm together but not Richard. So one time, the burst into his office about 20 minutes after asking a question and he turned bright red and tried to hide some papers. Then he admitted with embarrassment that he was not able to keep all the interactions in his head so he had to draw diagrams to cheat. Those diagrams are still used today (60 year later). The connection to time is that if you look at one of his diagrams that produce anti-particles and consider it as a time-line then the anti-particle can be viewed as a regular particle moving backwards in time.

Do we have any tripoles?

Curse you sneekula!

I just got sucked into tripoles - a short list before I dive in and disappear for a couple of hours:
The generation of tripoles from unstable axisymmetric isolated vortex structures
Emergence of tripoles in nonlinearly perturbed planar vortices
The life-cycle of tripoles in two-dimensional incompressible flows
Passive Neutralization of Myoelectric Interference From Neural Recording Tripoles

I should be looking for work but I think I can take a day …

Cary Grant never said "Judy, Judy, Judy" in any movie.

If you look (listen) carefully - many of the most famous cinema quotes are wrong especially "we don't need no stinking badges"; it is especially true for movie star impersonators; what usually happens is the essence of what they said is boiled down to its essence that allows them to get the cadence right. I keep trying to remember some of them but impersonation of actors is no longer a big 'thing'.

We discussed that at length in thread:
http://www.daniweb.com/forums/thread92901.html

Is that spam below the picture?

Here is a comic based on the Mayan calendar resetting - it is pretty kool - current comic and
The first comic. It has its ups and down but generally pretty good.

I gotta say that the doomsday predictions based on gravitational affects that are smaller than the couch you are sitting on is pretty lame (gravitational effects fall off as the cube of the distance - anyone remember the Jupiter effect scare and book from the 1980s?? Or the Millennial end of the world cults??

New technology, new discoveries, even old tech/discoveries that we never heard of -- what have you found interesting? Let's (try to) keep tech toys to another thread.

I was going to start with cavitation (roughly the study of the behavior of voids or bubbles in liquids) using some factlets I have picked up over the last year like:

• [>]the instantaneous temperature of the inside of a collapsing bubble is 20,000 degrees K. (4 times the surface temp. of the sun) and follow up with
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• [>]capturing a hydrogen atom in a bubble formed in superfluid hydrogen - the bubble was then painted with pin-point infra-red light and the bubble split into 2 separate bubbles each either containing the hydrogen atom and neither containing the atom but never one containing the H atom and the other not.

But I am not going to start<see note1> there because when I tried to follow the google links, it sucked an hour out of my life (in the middle of writing this). So I am actually going to start with an old concept called a soliton. The first recorded sighting of a soliton was in 1834 - gawd this sucked another couple hours, ouch.

So I offer <see note2> this Atlas of Cyberspace so you can waste your time too. The research is old, some of the links are dead, but this is one of the best sites I have found for visualizing where the denizens of …

In a recent Department of Homeland Security sweep, three of California's state representatives were discovered to be illegal immigrants. Due to their standing in the community, they have not been deported or imprisoned, pending judicial review.

I googled for this but could not find verification.
I did find that the counting of illegal aliens in California allowed them to pick up 3 additional Representatives. This P.O.-ed Montana because they only get one Rep. for a population almost 2 times larger than any other representative's district. The number of house seats is fixed at 435, each state gets at least one, and the rest are apportioned out in a ratio based on the last census -- but you all knew that, didn't you (btw - the plural of y'all is all y'all)

Sounds good, I hope you got that done before the real rain started. I am only allowed to eat pork when nobody is looking, and just love the stuff.

I am so glad that DW is as much of a carnivore as I am -- it was a late night bbq dark as heck out there (8:00pm in Seattle)
Now I am eating meatloaf from hell -- DW successfully reproduced a recipe from our favorite cage in Tucson AZ, really spicey hot!

Ah, "poodly", meaning act like a well trained poodle, a new word for the dictionary.

JB, how is your former main poodle, forgot his name, doing these days?

Strange, when I look at dogs I think of poodle being French, terrier being English, and dachshund being German.

Oops, I thought he mis-typed 'proudly' - I like poodly.

We have/had a lo-cal cartoonist (Linda Berry<sp>) who designed a t-shirt after her poodle:

"Poodle with a mohawh - don't call her Fifi any more"

She had given her poodle a mohawk and dyed it bright purple - it was a toy or maybe the next size bigger. I assume you all are smart enough to know that the standard poodle is a working dog and the 'poodle' cut was functional. In fact, another great poodle t-shirt came out of Alaska's Iditarod "Alaska - where men race poodles and women win the Iditarod". The guy's sled team was all standard poodles and they came in second. Two women have won the Iditarod now.

Sorry, I run on -- and on and on

BIT torrent is illegal in the united states of america if you use it you are breaking the law.

I don't think we live in the same United States of America:

Adoption

A growing number of individuals and organizations are using BitTorrent to distribute their own or licensed material. Independent adopters report[5] that without using BitTorrent technology, and its dramatically reduced demands on networking hardware and bandwidth, they could not afford to distribute their files.

Film, video and music

* BitTorrent Inc. has amassed a number of licenses from Hollywood studios for distributing popular content at the company's website.
* Sub Pop Records releases tracks and videos via BitTorrent Inc.[6] to distribute its 1000+ albums. The band Ween uses the website Browntracker.net[7] to distribute free audio and video recordings of live shows. Furthermore, Babyshambles and The Libertines (both bands associated with Pete Doherty) have extensively used torrents to distribute hundreds of demos and live videos.
* Podcasting software is starting to integrate BitTorrent to help podcasters deal with the download demands of their MP3 "radio" programs. Specifically, Juice and Miro (formerly known as Democracy Player) support automatic processing of .torrent files from RSS feeds. Similarly, some BitTorrent clients, such as µTorrent, are able to process web feeds and automatically download content found within them.

Personal material

* The Amazon S3 "Simple Storage Service" is a scalable Internet-based storage service with a simple web service interface, equipped with built-in BitTorrent support.

Yes, Vista supports VS'05 - I don't think any service packs have been released yet for Vista but there is one for Visual Studio '05. Oddly enough, I believe that the VS pro package includes a Mac version.

Bittorrent is a free P2P file-sharing protocol (BitTorrent) - it is thought that it is responsible for a significant amount of traffic on the web. You need a client to use the protocol - I use Azureus. Here is a Wikipedia link. It is an incredible tool for passing around large data files and/or large amounts of data. You are not anonymous when you use a client unless you go through an anonymizer - the 2nd video is the one I am pointing you to - tracking.

Some of the comments were interesting but the article itself was pretty deficient.

I just pulled a couple of pork ribs off the bbq, I used my own marinade, drinking more talking rain

As to your bringing up the scriptures,

I think I was mis-using the quote a bit - you are correct, but.... Do you believe that slavery is okay? Slavery is supported in the bible - so I would guess that when you judge, you should use the holy spirit and realize that the holy spirit teaches change.

Again, I will try to find the original survey and verify the data.

Please do, thanks

Would you please cite your proof for the numeric statistic? It was my understanding that, in the United States at least, ~90%+ of occurences did appear among the somewhat overlapping groups of homosexuals and shared-needle drug addicts, and I would like to know where you get your statistics from.

world wide AIDS stats
Globally, around 11% of HIV infections are among babies who acquire the virus from their mothers; 10% result from injecting drug use; 5-10% are due to sex between men; and 5-10% occur in healthcare settings. Sex between men and women accounts for the remaining proportion – around two thirds of new infections.

Mea Culpa - I should have reversed the statistics and stated only 5-10% of world wide aids is spread by homosexual sex.

Do not think that the US is the world

Or do you mean the pentagram hidden in the image? But what do Mercury, Venus and Earth have to do with it?

Niek

Kool, did you see that right away or make it?

I'm probably wrong but it looks like the pattern a .410 shotgun would make choked down. If I am right, I would like to know the distance for that spread (er, if I am wrong, nevermind).

Actually, I read that "LOL" was used for "lots of love" and predates the Internet.

I just did a quick look up for LOL on acronym finder - they show 72 meanings - many of them sure look bogus. I am just replying to show the site in case anyone wants to look up other acronyms. My favorite, Little Old Lady, scores only 1 out of 5

The opposite sides of a dice cube add up to seven.

7 is the easiest point to make with a pair of dice because 6 of the 36 possible outcomes of a dice throw add up to 7.

Statistically red cars have more accidents then yellow cars.

A side note:
A lot of fire departments have switched their trucks to a yellow color, away from the customary red.

I don't think so -- there is no study that is able to link car color to accidents (though on study turned up silver cars being safer - but here in the NW a silver car would disappear into the fog.

I could not believe that yellow fire truck bit but sure enough, a quick google showed me some cities are switching/did switch to yellow trucks - NYC did but are switching back because the yellow does not show up well against snow and were difficult to see at night because of the yellow wash-out caused by the sodium-flair street lights. So for firetrucks, red may not be a good color but it seems to beat the alternatives.

Originally Posted by GrimJack View Post

HIV/AIDS - this is not a 'gay' disease, was not started in the gay community, is not god's punishment for anything. Of the worlds populations that have HIV/AIDS, 80% is transmitted through heterosexual contact.

I guess someone needs to learn to read...

Personal attack - carries no weight in a discussion.

If you would have read the whole thing, you would have noticed this point was already discussed...

Not by me nor in my particular way - why does it bother you? You have no problem repeating your dislike for gays - like if you had read the complete thread, you would have noticed that the 'I dislike gays' has already been discussed.

"gayness is not a choice - if it were a choice why would all those Republicans keep getting caught in bathrooms and those preachers keep getting outed??

wtf??

To refresh your memory, a Senator 'wide-stance' (Senator Craig, R ) was busted in a men's room stall, Representative 'text message a page" (Representative Foley,R ) was busted for sending disgusting messages to high school students working as pages at the nations capitol. I am not suggesting that there are no Democratic gays in congress (Barney Frank comes to mind) it is just that they are open about who they are and thus no one is surprised. If it was a choice, I am sure they would have chosen to remain faithful to their wives. The other was a reference to …

You're asking the right question. Why in the world would he do that? But let's look at it this way... God 'bashes' murderers, liars, cheaters, thieves, adulterers, etc. even though they are His creation also.

Murderers choose to kill, liars choose to lie, cheaters choose to cheat, adulterers choose to commit adultery... gays choose to be homosexual. God created these individuals, but they chose their lifestyle.

This is probably one of the worst chains of logic I have seen in a long time - unless you are still practicing your stand-up routine

Disease is pretty much the same as sickness, right? Because that's what came into the world along with sin. Insects - yeah I'm pretty sure God made those. Gays - like I said... they chose to be homosexual. The scientists have yet to prove if it is indeed genetic or not. God created Adam and Eve, that's why only a man and woman can reproduce.

Adam and Eve - so we are all the products of incest, is that correct? Adam and Eve had kids and their kids had kids but they are all related and we are all related, kool.

Leviticus 18:22 "Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination."

My views on homosexuality:

Religiously - it is wrong in the eyes of God and condemnable (evidence can be found in both the Old Testament and New).

Personally (don't hate me...) - it's completely unnatural. I do not believe it is genetic and unless someone can prove to me 100% that it is, I will contine to think that it is just some absurd theory that helps homosexuals sleep better at night. I believe it is solely based on decision. I've had a couple gay friends during high school and one of them actually told me that he didn't even believe that people were born that way. It's the same as someone choosing who they want to date or marry. I do believe that hormones can influence a person's decision, but that doesn't mean they were born that way. Homosexuality is simply just a chosen lifestyle and nothing else.

That's pretty good 100% proof, eh? Heh, heh that cracks me up, there is nothing that can be proved 100% and you are basing you belief about homosexuality on the word of a teenager - have you thought about a career in standup? And you are 100% sure that homosexuality is a choice and nothing else?! See this would be easier if you were a guy but for a guy there is a very simple test - what makes you hard. If women don't make you hard …

I have good luck with the large the 120mm fans mounted using silicon rubber rivets. I also have a Zalman cpu fan (dang near 10 pounds of copper with a 120mm fan mounted on - okay, I exaggerate but it is heavy).

Check out Fryes - they generally have laptop specials in that range - getting XP might be a problem, though. I ended up sucking it up and accepting VISTA - if it gets too bad, I will pick up XP and dual boot. I walked into Office Depot while they were unloading some Toshibas - it is a Satelite A215 w/2 gigs of ram built in w/less. It was $700 (I finally received the rebates so it was actually $500). It is not much but does what I want it to do -- I will probably buy the docking station shortly as I don't actually use it directly - I have w/l mouse/kybrk and external monitor.

Well, I hope my 2-cents is not too late - I bought an Antec case that has the large 120mm fans that are mounted using silicon rubber rivets. It is incredibly quiet and does a real good job of keeping my machine cool (I keep a history and the shooters I run generally only up the temp by a degree or 2) I am not advocating Antec - I am advocating the 120mm fans and the silicon rubber mounting.

The use of satiric runs the risk of annihilating any hope of connection with the intended audience if they don't know about the symbols used. Thus the links mitigate that risk.

hunh?

No. It was not my intention to attack you, but rather dismiss any seriousness intended in your words.( the unpolitical correct word would have been “ridicule” )

So you think I am not being serious? And you consider ridicule a form of discourse?

This time you make a better job at regurgitating the by now old “Anti-war / I hate Bush” "You-Know-Whom" spin.
I am, however, disappointed not to read any mention to how Bush planned the 9/11 attack from a deep bunker in Area 51.

Why would you expect the mention of Area 51? Why expect me to mention Bush planning 9/11 attack?

;)

better have you comm line checked - looks like you got line noise

I marvel to my inability to keep this post strictly sober. Perhaps is due to the fact I can't take seriously any writing where a “thesis” contains the word “crap” several times. Moreover, my thoughts continue to divagate: Why green, shouldn't be of a more “brownish” shade since you favor “crap” in so many diverse terms?

Okay, just to get it out of the way - your post is mostly crap - there now you can disregard this.

Well, anyway - to put this on a more serious footing. lets see if we have any …

That truck trailer combination you see on the highways not a semi. The trailer that hooks onto the tractor is not a complete trailer (has no front wheels) it is called a semi-trailer, the part of the truck that supplies the power to the trailer is called a tractor. Actually, any vehicle designed to pull something fits into the 'tractor' category (in prop airplanes, propellers in front of the fuselage is a tractor confituration).

The abbreviation "LOL" first appeared in print in 1973.

I know that in college we used lol to designate little old ladies, this was in the 60s and may never have entered into the media.

ooh,ooh my insomnia is coming crashing down and

i going to have to get

sleep -- 5 more hours and I have to start another 12 hour day (45 min. each for bus) sigh

And some people wonder that I get grumpy

night all

So you can not only see alternative futures, but you can foresee the future of this stream time line as well. What model of crystal ball do you use?

Do you use also something like Professor Charles Xavier to pin point how many fanatics are in Pakistan? What was the name of the machine? Ah, yes, .

I am ignoring this as irrelevant crap - the ranting preceding the links pretty much lead me to believe there was not much there that was relevant.

Your reality and the real history crossed path here, and at this point is in sync. You are correct USA attacked Iraq and it did have nothing to do with 9/11.

We can agree that we were attacked on 9/11; we know that about 14 of the 19 suicide attackers were from Saudi Arabia and that most of them were Wahabi. We know that Condi Rice, Vice-President Cheney, and President Bush each made multiple speeches referring to the al qaida/ Iraq connection and stating that Saddam had met with the planners and funded them. Bin Laden was tracked to Afghanistan and we demanded that they immediately turn him over to us - the Taliban who had control of Afghanistan at the time said "okay, lets work this out". Again the US demanded that we turn osama over to us (during this time Bush made his famous 'wanted dead or alive' speech wrt osama) and again the Taliban said sure, lets set this up …

aia,

I tried to figure out your point but there did not seem to be on so I lost interest

Wow, what a huge load of crap. That guy does not seem to have paid any attention to the real world. If we had stayed out of Iraq and stayed in Afghanistan we might have actually caught Osama, we could have rebuilt the country thereby keeping the country from becoming the worlds largest producer of opium, we wold have sealed the main route for fanatics out of Pakistan - we had to let Pakistan fester with fanatics because we needed their airspace to attack Iraq which had nothing to do 9/11 which was the point of whole middle east intervention thingy. Pakistan has nuclear weapons and may soon fall sway to extremists who will have access to nuclear weapons.

We don't go around attacking the countries that disobey UN sanctions (the us, israel, palestine, and so on). We went into Iraq and bombed it into the 19th century. During the 1st iraqi war we bombed bridges, water systems, power systems, sewage and communications - we managed to destroy most of the infrastructure of a country that was one of teh most modern in all of the middle east - and did not manage to get him. 10 years later we go in and finish the job - there is no infrastructure left - except for the oil pipelines, of course. It takes 2 to tango, in order for Saddam to make billions illegally - there had to be politicians, businessmen, and corporations making tens of billions trading with him …

Name picked for another site; I've generally used it on most of those I sign up for. I keep it because I like the 'indirect' connotation it picked up somewhere along the way.

I keep thinking of Ender's Game and Xenophobia when I see your name. i really liked that book - so despite all your faults, I still feel generally favorable towards you (heh,.Heh)

I can't help myself - there is just so much bogosity in this thread and someone needs to clear up a few things.

HIV/AIDS - this is not a 'gay' disease, was not started in the gay community, is not god's punishment for anything. Of the worlds populations that have HIV/AIDS, 80% is transmitted through heterosexual contact. If you are going to use the bible, remember "judge not lest ye be judged"

gayness is not a choice - if it were a choice why would all those Republicans keep getting caught in bathrooms and those preachers keep getting outed??

I can understand persons who do not like gays but wtf! Hating gays!? This is beyond the ability of this Montana country boy to understand. Hating everything about them is beyond the ken. You don't like their music? You don't like their books? you don't like their art? you don't like ???

God created mankind (your words) he created gays, he created blacks, he created everything including your hate so I guess it is alright for you to hate. do you take your hate to the streets? do you endorse the beating of gays? do you endorse that creepy guy who goes to military funerals and shouts that the soldier died because god hates gays? What does your hate do for you? What does your hate do for the world?

That creepy reverend was going to come here to Seattle to scream and spout his hate …

Might be possible if Dick runs for president and Bush runs for the vice.

fortunately, bush can't run for veep - one of the requirements is that they are eligible to run for president (ie can't be foreign born, too young, or have served 2 terms)

Work on my favorite bumper sticker:

IYQYQR

I cracked up going 90 on the freeway when I figured it out

Japan uses 20 pounds of disposable chopsticks per person each year.

The largest supplier of chopsticks in the world is in Minneapolis MN

a quick google brings this tidbit: "Every year, Japan gets through roughly 24 billion pairs of disposable chopsticks. That’s 185 pairs for every person in Japan" - a quick calc says that would imply a pair of chopsticks weighs .1 pounds.

BRB (to weigh a pair)

a largish pair of mine weigh .4 oz - .1 of 16 = 1.6

I am guessing that the actual weight would be 5 pounds each;

so rather than use the weight thing - I would use either the 24 billion pairs nationally or 185 per person

I will be more careful the next time I bite into a peanut.

The Eisenhower (US) interstate system requires that one mile in every five must be straight. These straight sections are usable as airstrips in times of war or other emergencies.

You know, if you just entered those "odd facts" into a google search, you would find that most are just plane bogus. This one brings up this at the top of the search:One mile in 5 is bogus

Well, at least they only removed them from the DN S db and you can still get there using their actual IP address (//88.80.13.160/wiki/Wikileaks). I think that this will actually get way more attention and free advertising than just letting the web-site alone. I just donated to their defense fund.

Thanks for bringing this forward vmanes

if you all changed over to 240v like us, you could save like 45% of power loss

Yeah! That's what we get for being early adopters - Edison went around the country electrocuting dogs to prove how dangerous AC was compared to DC (guess which ol' TA was pushing) so we wired for 120 to be 'safer'. But Edison did give our judicial system an idea about executions.

do you guys prefer whisky or irish whiskey?

At home, I drink bourbon (corn mash whiskey) or Canadian (Rye based). When I have whisky or whiskey out, I generally go to a bar that offers tastings. I will taste 5 different Irish whiskeys or 5 different Scotch whiskys (see I learned to spell the different whiskies correctly). The differences between the various single malts is so cool that I could not afford to keep what I like at home (probably 15 different bottles that would cost $50 or more each); forced to choose I would go with Laphroaig for Scotch or well, I can't really decide on Irish.

I don't know what my planned dream would be, but can someone tell me the answer to my long awaited to ask question?

How can I start to remember my dreams again? I used to almost every night, now I never do!

I just wake up in the morning and never remember my dreams. It pisses me off so much.

Does anyone have any tips on how to remember dreams?

The way I was taught was to keep a notepad next to your bed and write down the most striking features - the things you wake up with. Your dreams begin to fade as soon as you enter the waking world; if you can remember the strongest symbols, you should be able to bring back much of the surface of the dream (most of the emotion and context will be gone).

I still have notebooks full of my dreams from years ago - having sleep apnea gives me a bit of an advantage though.

It is even possible to take control of your dreams (called 'lucid dreaming'); this was proven in a sleep lab sometime back. Without going too deeply into the details, when the subject entered REM sleep, he would move his eyes to the left 3 times then to the right 3 times to prove that he was (,er, um) in there and conscious.

If you are interested just google Lucid Dreaming

I hope this helps