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Re:McNugget Calculator on Sunday May 19, 2019 @10:17AM (#19953371)
It used to be pink slime. I guess each to their own.
Totally agree with you. By the way, your user name checks out.
Re:Vietnam Doesn’t Trust Huawei on Sunday May 12, 2019 @08:20PM (#19895516)
U.S., Burma and Liberia the only three countries NOT using metric.
Let’s talk about Rampart.
True. In the next 100 years 99% of the world’s current population will be dead.
A few years ago, one of my sons’ soccer team finished in the second to last spot and so they were relegated to a lower tier. I knew that the team above was “cheating” by playing too many players from out of their district. Our Club President said “prove” it to me and I’ll do something about it. Well, it’s amazing how much public information is out there such as where the boys attend school, phone numbers they tell people on unprotected Twitter and Facebook accounts, etc. I felt dirty knowing all this information about young adults. In the end, even though we had the proof, we didn’t do anything about it.
Re:The Color Orange on Saturday February 23, 2019 @11:07AM (#19233903)
Flight data recorders, also known as “black boxes” are actually orange in color. They were once black, like the other avionics boxes on the aircraft until it was decided that it would be easier to find them.
Re:Can a Supernova Cause Mass Extinction? on Saturday January 05, 2019 @11:07PM (#18836507)
Mutations? Perhaps this is the way humans came about?
The beatings will continue until morale improves.
Re:The unsolved murder of an unusual billionaire on Monday October 29, 2018 @08:31PM (#18332979)
I wonder if he had spent more money on security, drivers, personal assistants, etc., whether that would have protected them more from unsavory people in their lives and these extra staff might have given the police more leads in the case. And why wouldn’t they have invested in better security and monitoring of their home? Crazy.
I find it interesting that Ireland is the lowest taxed country yet they have bet the farm on providing a haven for companies to avoid paying taxes back home. It’s a gamble they’ve made which seems to paying off but I’ve heard that if other countries closed this loophole they it would absolutely devestate the Irish economy.
Re:What did Earth look like X million years ago? on Monday August 06, 2018 @07:44AM (#17696805)
It would be cool if this could show what the Earth would look like in the future too.
Re:The Allure of Small Towns for Big City Freelancers on Sunday July 22, 2018 @09:06AM (#17586540)
Rural Japan? Wow, that must be amazingly different from the U.S. I’ve often thought about offering my services to different countries to experience what it’s like living there.
Yes, bring back stubby beer bottles!
Re:Compressing Networked State Data on Tuesday June 05, 2018 @12:30PM (#17239316)
Fun fact. Some flight data recorder (black box) manufacturers use a method like this to compress the data on the recorder. They record a base, full frame of data and then take delta frames and use Huffman (variable length) coding to reduce the amount of stored data.
So Chad and Sudan would be the only countries that are in both lists of countries?