OK. Well, I sure as hell can't explain what they get 'cause I ain't in there and I can't see it and it don't have no description except for "something sucky." Vague? Sure.

Charcoal absorbs poisons. This seems like common knowledge to me, but maybe not. Get some toxin or bug emitting toxins in your gut, and charcoal will take it Right Out. Try it. You can get the charcoal in the health food store, they all have it.

I'm with you on exciting, but I have to wonder. What the heck are computers good for other than figuring out the simple math of keeping a 10 pt font/thingy 10 (real world) pt's high on whatever device it's on? What, computer manufacturers couldn't figure out the physical dimension of a display and figure by…

We never used to chew our Ramen, either. Take a really long Ramen noodle, swallow the end down to the tummy letting the other hang out your mouth while talking smack with friends, then pull it back out to see the results on the inserted end. Win.

Don't forget the toilet paper as trade goods, also! Figure I don't need guns, just a (hidden) warehouse filled with TP and I'll be King Of The World.

Yeah, but they remembered one tiny little thing that the current crop doesn't: they put people first, not corporations, and solved problems instead of posturing for reelection. They actually knew how to work well with others. [www.email.net]

Good for the water, good for you, too. Kids get a stomach thing based on bad ingredient mixing and we give 'em charcoal (capsule form). Seems to do some good most of the time.

We spent two and a half weeks there touring/driving. That is one fierce culture with only 300K members. They have the ability to maintain their 10th century language, support and encourage strong bloodlines and familial ties with 66% of birth's out of wedlock, and make a living in a place where 51% of the land is…

You response has a good beat and it's easy to dance to, I give it a 94.

Two number 2's *is* confusing, but when it happens, boy do I feel light.

What, Mr. Biddle? Working on your Elder merit badge? Social engineering for a better internet, using the simplest of polite forms. I like it.

The 747 filled with physical media is still the hotshit way to get whole-lotta-data from one side of the country to the other. Looking forward to the day when that isn't true. But then, I remember 300 baud phone modems, and if I put on my way-back head machine, today looks like the Jetson's.

You have a point, but I haven't run into a single situation in 20+ years of corporate high tech (when the corp was being focused) where they left something on the table that they could cost reduce if they didn't think they needed it. The restaurants that I've been familiar with at any level of quality are very…

Hrm. If you don't have to put something in because the target market doesn't need it, then at the levels Apple plays, that's real money. Figure 30 million iPad2's at nominal $10/cost per, and that's an additional $300M in cash at the price points they established. What that doesn't do, is enable the market for…

You make a good point, and I can respect that. Those farmers in my example weren't trying to get rich, just make a reasonable living, and they wanted it like that. There are other motivations in the world, and ultimately I never have a problem paying the worker for their work.

>..bounced back and forth between Left Field and Team X for a while..

What would happen if we made the moral issues more direct?

Happened to friend of mine. They'd used the wrong bolts in a regular maintenance cycle for the airplane and because they weren't quite the right size, the vibration caused fatigue, failure and voila'. The main secondary effect for the prop falling off is the possible Waring Blender effect on the rest of the plane,…

There was an idea from "David's Sling" that had off the shelf flying thingies with a single high explosive and command frequency tracker. Hundreds would be released on the battle field and they'd randomly fly around until the freq. they were interested in would show up, then they'd home in and explode when they got…

>Sorry if a free market is an inconvenience when it doesn't work in your favor.