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Our backup policy is similarly mind-boggling - we keep this many copies of each branch, but they're all on-site.

Well, yes and no.

Not understanding half of what you wrote :) All I know is this phone I was given for work came with a standard wall charger and a USB cable. The wall charger worked. The USB cable when attached to a generic USB wall charger would not.

  Also when attached to a P.C. via USB it would not charge. I thought it was a bung USB cable, so I tried switching them with ones from other devices.. Still no luck. Until I did some googling.. .

http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Can_a_Motorola_Razr_be_charged_through_a_USB_port
http://www.noheat.com/2007/01/31/charge-motorola-razr-with-standard-usb-cable-from-pc/
http://www.flishfun.com/blog/technology/charge-your-razr-via-usb/

So if they are sticking to standard or not, I can not answer, but they are sticking to inconvenience by not just working out of the box like most other USB devices

The difference is that if you are a player in say, the NFL, you will make a ton of money, and after 8-12 years retire and draw a pension from the NFL. Bench warmers make 150K+ a year, so if you're even halfway decent you will be making good money.

What fraction of high school football players go on to play in college? What fraction of those get into the NFL? What fraction of those manage to last the years necessary to draw a decent pension? A $14,500 average pension rate doesn't seem very viable to me.

http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_is_the_average_pension_for_an_NFL_player

Similar figures exist for baseball, basketball, and hockey - though I think hockey and baseball have more developed minor league systems to make it possible to earn a (perhaps marginal) living while not being in the major leagues.

"According to the Congressional Research Service 170 members of the House and 60 Senators are lawyers.
Out of a total of 435 U.S. Representatives and 100 Senators (535 total in Congress), lawyers comprise the biggest voting block of one type, making up 43% of Congress. Sixty percent of the U.S. Senate is lawyers. Enough said. 37.2% of the House of Representatives are lawyers.
Read more: http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_percentage_of_US_congress_members_are_lawyers#ixzz22Y8oD7Ym"

This is bothersome to me, because lawyers' training tends to be: 'Given a desired point of view, generate an argument to prove it is true". Much the opposite of the "scientific method" (which is not universally applied by scientists to all decisions, I do realize) And more in line with actors, whose job training is to make fiction appear "truthy". And that brings us to Ronald Reagan, considered the greatest president ever by the half of the American voters who, by some coincidence, also happen to be the half who are easily convinced of things by lawyers, actors, etc.

The original term seems to have been bald-faced (bare-faced) and refers to a face without whiskers. Beards were commonly worn by businessmen in the 18th and 19th century as an attempt to mask facial expressions when making business deals. Thus a bald-faced liar was a very good liar indeed, and was able to lie without the guilt showing on his face.

The more correct term is "bald-faced lie" or "bare-faced lie" (bare is more common in Great Britain). It refers to a "shameless" or "brazen" lie. One where the teller does not attempt to hide his face while telling it.

It's just the last 5 yrs or so that "bold" has come into usage. It refers to typeface. It is used metaphorically in speech. In the same way that a typesetter uses bold face type to highlight specific text and set it apart, a bold face lie stands out in such a way as to not be mistaken for the truth.

The phrase can either be used as bold-faced lie, as in someone with a bold enough face to lie (bold meaning daring, or brazen) or someone bold enough to lie to your face; it can also be used as bald-faced lie, where the older meaning of bald (meaning uncovered or unconcealed) - the more correct usage with this term is bare-faced lie. Earlier editions of Merriam Webster define bold-faced as someone being bold or forward, with no relation to lies.

http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Is_the_correct_term_'bold_face_lie'_or_'bald_faced_lie'_or_another_variation

Go Romney! The candidate with the shorter last name deserves to win!

I look forward to president O.

I am a man, but if that invalidates my opinion I think I've proven my point. I certainly do think we are closer to eggshells than to hostile generally, though you and I might differ on the definition of hostile. There are more murders in the US than claims filed for sexual harassment.

Don't forget Wilson...inventing the seeds of what would become neoconservative foreign policy.

"Neoconservative" foreign policy? Wilson was a dyed-in-the-wool Progressive Democrat. Don't forget that most of the wars/military actions the US has been involved in were started/declared by Democrat administrations.

http://www.mapsofwar.com/ind/american-wars.html

http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Republicans_or_Democrats_have_started_more_wars

Democrat/Progressive attempts to label Republicans and Conservatives as "warmongers" falls flat when confronted by historical facts.

Strat

Yes, and over 100 are killed every day in automobile accidents...

And, to wrap things up, 1,178 - 1,192 die each day from smoking in the US.

Imagine you're a honest politician (they exist), and you want to do something about US citizens dying prematurely. You don't want to touch the guns issue because that's political suicide, so... What about traffic deaths then? Over 15000 people a year die in the US because of the inadequacy of the traffic system. US roads are over two times as dangerous as German roads, and almost three times Swedish or Dutch roads. And it's not as if Germany has some magic recipe. They just about make the OECD average.

http://www.abs.gov.au/ausstats/abs@.nsf/Lookup/by%20Subject/1301.0~2012~Main%20Features~International%20comparisons~191

33000 US citizens were road kill in 2009, and international experience shows that at least 15000 could have been avoided. How many US soldiers died in Vietnam?

http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_many_US_soldiers_died_in_the_Vietnam_War

One Vietnam of easily avoidable US traffic deaths every four years is low hanging fruit in comparison to gun control. But even that doesn't seem to be high on the political radar.

Not true. Nearly two-thirds of the U.S. Senate are sharks.

Jeeze - 500 Euro note then...

In case you're interested (I was) - "The most valuable banknotes in current circulation are:
10,000 Singapore Dollar note (US$7,900)
1,000 Swiss Franc note (US$1,000)
1,000 Singapore Dollar note (US$790)
500 Euro note (US$610)"

Source - http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_is_the_Highest_value_banknote_in_current_general_circulation_in_the_world#ixzz20txaZw4t

Note: figures are re-converted at today's rates, rounded to 2 significant figures

I'm having a hard time seeing just what exactly he did wrong here

First of all, by his own account, the artist did not ask permission to do what he did. His dishonesty was that of omissions, as he never asked permission to install software on computers that did not belong to him.

I didn’t want to break the law. I was prepared to make people a little uncomfortable

Secondly, what seems obvious to me, is that what he was in fact guilty of is computer tresspass and computer vandalism. The benign nature of what his intent was should not detract from the fact that he intended to make people unconfortable... which I think is fine if the artist had a public exhibit, but to do this in a private commercial business is tremendously naive.

What I find most troubling in the artist's own account is no comprehension that he might have done anything wrong, and with no detectible emotion he shows absolutely no remorse. He premeditated his actions by finding the precise laws, thus he must have known that others might not approve of his actions, that whatever his intent, he was coming very close to something that to him was obviosly illegal.

Not sure how up to date this is and it's not quite the same as the GP's claim. I'm not going to try to separate out military products.

http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_country_has_the_largest_manufacturing_industry_in_the_world

In any case, manufacturing in the US is far from dead. It won't be the major employer it was, though, because it has become too efficient for that, just like agriculture before it. As a tradesman in Australia, my tools are made in the US, Germany and Australia. I haven't seen anything from China that competes on quality and when they do they'll likely have similar prices.

Will spiderwebs look the same?

No.

Does a fish swim differently in a floating body of water?

Yes, initially, though they appear to figure it out.

Will a bird adapt to floating without wind?

Tough to tell. Birds require gravity to swallow, so it'd have to be a really quick flight...

Will ants be able to place scent trails in mid air?

Not sure they've ever tried free-floating ants. They had to engineer an ant farm because the ants would have been crushed by dirt during lift-off.

And that's just after a quick google.

Well, this and this for example. Just the first two links of a Google search on "hometown of george bush". Hometown to me is where someone grew up, or lived most of their lives, not necessarily where they were born.

I don't understand how sea level can rise (or fall) in any real way in just a certain defined area...

I understand sea levels fluctuate (tides, etc), but in theory shouldn't the entire ocean level rise and fall together?

See http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Are_the_sea_levels_different_in_the_Atlantic_and_the_Pacific_oceans

Not so simple. The Soviets had a system in place called Kurs. Kurs was engineered and produced in the Ukraine. After the Soviet Union broke up, Ukraine was the sole supplier of the Kurs system and also owned the IP of said system. They wanted too much $$$ to supply and/or license the system. Russia then develops the Toru system as a backup and kludge. They were salvaging Kurs computers from automated progress modules and sending them home on the Space Shuttle. I believe that the Kurs system was actually very reliable and had no issues. Toru, on the other hand, was a contributing factor in the collision.

So basically, due to an IP dispute, Russia developed a much inferior system and this resulted in an accident.

Citation: http://www.answers.com/topic/kurs-docking-system

still believing the anti-GM crowd must be nuts?

Yes, absolutely. Many grasses produce cyanide (usually called prussic acid by farmers). It's common and avoidable (Pro tip: never, ever let livestock graze near cherry trees. Wilted cherry leaves contain toxic levels of prussic acid). Plus this is not a GM plant, it's a hybrid.

For all intensive purposes I think you are wrong.

To all intents and purposes

Ket ... although that would probably be enough to brand me a terrorist.

Wow, troll? I guess that's the new [citation needed], huh? Or maybe someone just got a little too sensitive. I don't care about basketball either way. I'm tall but fat so all I was ever good at was layups.

Teak is pretty dense. In fact if you take a as-cut piece of teak it'll sink in water.

To sink in fresh, pure water at 4c, wood has to have a specific gravity of 1 or higher. True ironwoods meet that requirement. Teak is not an ironwood.

As salt water is ~3.5% denser than fresh water at the same temperature, something that doesn't sink in fresh water isn't going to sink in salt water under the same conditions.

That doesn't mean that it isn't possible to find a particular piece of teak that is heavier than 1 (though this is highly unlikely, teak typically tops out around .75) due to specific growing conditions, and of course water gets less dense as it gets warmer, but I will leave the math to you to figure out just how warm the water has to be for a freshly cut piece of teak to sink. Adding in unknown impurities to the water starts make it challenging (other than salt).

For more homework, examine what kinds of trees grow along coastlines subject to tsunamis (including trunks of trees that could find their way to the sea shore via rivers) and what their specific gravities are. Add in that a trunk of meaningful size can take years to fully saturate, and realize that flotsam comparable to that dock has been crossing oceans far longer than bipedal locomotion has existed.

The person who keeps spamming that trees will quickly absorb water and sink needs to be trolled out of existence (not for doing it once, for doing it repeatedly). Balsa, for example, has a specific gravity of under 200, and it takes longer for water to saturate it enough than it takes to cross the Pacific Ocean. Remember Kon-Tiki?
In fact, had Heyerdahl followed the advice of other sailors, both he and his crew would likely have perished. The sap in the balsa wood prevented the sea water from penetrating the logs and kept them buoyant. Also, as the waves lifted the boat, the ropes used to lash the logs together dug into the soft wood, forming grooves that protected the ropes. Steel cables or wire would have sawed through the logs and left the crew clutching small stumps to survive. Balsa is not the only wood (far from it) capable of such a feat.

Which has nothing to do with whether or not that floating dock should be sold to the highest bidder as scrap, and if the highest bidder wants to put it back into service it must be cleaned/scraped before doing so.

In actuality, the Constitution doesn't apply to "citizens," nor does it even apply to "people." It applies to the government. It tells the government what it can and can't do (the body tells the government what it can do, and the Bill of Rights tells it what it can't do).

Read more: http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Does_the_US_Constitution_apply_only_to_citizens#ixzz1xL619QwH

1 - It doesn't matter if he knew or not knew he was writing scripture. But in all probabilities he probably knew it was going to be scripture as when it was written in 63AD, he is referring to both old testament and almost all of the New Testament.

By the time 2 Timothy 3:16 was written, all of the New Testament books had already been written except for 2 Peter, Hebrews, Jude, and the apostle John's writings
Inspiration

I remember in the OT one prophet didn't know what the hell he was saying but still knew he was writing scripture so even understanding (at the time) is not a requirement. He ask God what is the meaning of this and God said to shut up and just write it, to paraphrase it a little.

2 - Of course not. Only place God written directly is in exodus with the 10 commandments, Jesus's speeches in the NT were recorded by the every ones you are trying to degrade. If you can't trust their testimony of what they say, how you trust what they said Jesus said?
The vast majority of the text are by humans (sometimes openly declaring to mouthing for God, but still humans).

3 - The inspiration of the scriptures are actually attributed to God, Holy Spirit and Jesus.

• Father Hebrews 10:5
• Son Philippians 2:7
• Holy Spirit Luke 1:35

The are many attributes that are assigned to all three. Scroll Down a little to see the list
But again God has signed his code. There are hepatic structures that would only be there if the Old and New testaments where put together. Did you even try to make a fictional genealogy that matches Mathew's hepatic structures like in the video I linked to before?
No human could of done that, go on, give it a try and you will see how hard it is, yet it's in there and linking both OT and NW, and the genealogy of Christ. It's really amazing.

Yes some Christians will be speaking on behalf of God, like when they give prophesy but there have only been 12 disciples and only recorded 19 apostles.
According to 1Cor. 1:1 & 9, to be an Apostle you must have seen the Lord, and been called to be one directly by Him.
Read more: http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_many_apostles_were_there#ixzz1xKsPe07E

So you know the genealogy recorded has many limitations on it which meant it could only be written by someone not human (inspired), because of how complex it is. Please try an make a fictional geneology in the much easier language of English but still matching the hepatic structures as talked about in the video. Do it now, open up word, make up some shit up of about 20 dead people in the lineage and see if you get even 3 rules mention within hour. (There are actually 70 rules in the text in the greek language which is much more precise than english)

So when you post back, tell me how far you got with your genealogy please. It is an impossible thing to do in your life time, even with super computers. But that will let you know God inspired Paul what to say down to the letter.

I really need to sleep now,
Good night, TheLink, Cheers Madfan

The death rate of climbing Mt Everest is 1.3%. And that is just climbing a mountain. How much cooler is going into space? 10X?

Now at this point in my life where my family is depending on me 1.3% is too high. But when kids are older and I can be more selfish 5% doesn't sound that bad. Like everything else it's a personal decision.

http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_is_the_death_rate_on_mt._Everest

Thanks for your post. Your approach to getting more attention from women is generally in-line with mine, so I think you're right.

A small correction: There doesn't appear to be evidence that abstaining from sex increases testosterone levels. http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Does_masturbating_increase_testosterone_levels

Nevertheless, I end up feeling the same way after about a week. I'm more outgoing, a little bit more aggressive, and a bit more upbeat. I don't know what combination of hormones/neurotransmitters/receptor density makes that happen.

The goods get more expensive for the people in the country. So they have to spend more money. Money they could have spent on something else. The tax goes back to society (through less efficient government programs) . What tips the scale is the dead-weight loss which is the value of wasted resources devoted to expanded domestic consumption and expenditures devoted to less desired substitutes brought about by the tariff.[1].

[1] http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_is_the_deadweight_loss_of_a_tariff

Or in other words

"If we look at the national market graph, we can see why these are deadweight losses. The consumption effect of the tariff is the loss of consumer surplus for those consumers who are squeezed out of the market because the tariff "artificially" raises the domestic price, even though foreigners remain willing to sell products to the importing country at the lower world price. The production effect of the tariff is the loss from using high-cost domestic production to replace lower-cost imports (available to the country at the unchanged world price). The high production cost is shown by the height of the supply curve, for each of the extra units produced because of the tariff."

http://www.wright.edu/~tdung/Chapter7_Pugel.htm

In short, poor people are left out , due to the higher price.
Extra resources are wasted due to higher production costs. Which could have been spend on other activities.

Yes unlike this chart, it is very hard to figure out the cost of your plan .. I know charts can be very confusing

http://www.verizonwireless.com/b2c/store/controller?item=prepayItem&action=viewPrepayOverview

Or this one from ATT

http://www.wireless.att.com/cell-phone-service/cell-phone-plans/pyg-cell-phone-plans.jsp?wtSlotClick=1-007FTV-0-2&_requestid=186952

Or this one from Team Mobile
http://prepaid-phones.t-mobile.com/pay-as-you-go-plans

You do not have to pay .20 per txt and it is very easy to figure out the plan that works best for you (well I guess since many in the USA by the time they get to HS can not balance a checkbook so basic addition and subtraction is elusive it really is not so easy) ... I can not find an actual study that has the number of people that take the very basic most expensive prepay option as you claim (ie 20c per txt or 25c/min) since an average phone call takes more then 3 min based at least on this article not just because I felt it was true (ie $1 on the perpay)
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_is_the_average_length_of_a_phone_call

With prepay you have to use up the funds you put on your phone it almost doesn't make sense to do the 100% pay as you go option unless you know that on any given day you will never make a call more then 3 min long and the phone is really just for emergencies (not 911 emergencies) and even then if you get the 100/year plan (that is less then 10/month for the not so math inclined) and the $2/day option the most you will pay on any given day you use the phone is $2 the least is 0 and each txt is .02 so you are better off sending a txt message then making a call if you can. Yes you do need some basic math and to pay attention to what you do.

F you dude. Why does the entire world send th students to our universities.? Because they are the best in the world. Why os ot tat America consistantly produces more Noble prize winners then the entire world combined. F- you dude.

Yes unlike this chart, it is very hard to figure out the cost of your plan .. I know charts can be very confusing http://www.verizonwireless.com/b2c/store/controller?item=prepayItem&action=viewPrepayOverview Or this one from ATT http://www.wireless.att.com/cell-phone-service/cell-phone-plans/pyg-cell-phone-plans.jsp?wtSlotClick=1-007FTV-0-2&_requestid=186952 Or this one from Team Mobile http://prepaid-phones.t-mobile.com/pay-as-you-go-plans You do not have to pay .20 per txt and it is very easy to figure out the plan that works best for you (well I guess since many in the USA by the time they get to HS can not balance a checkbook so basic addition and subtraction is elusive it really is not so easy) ... I can not find an actual study that has the number of people that take the very basic most expensive prepay option as you claim (ie 20c per txt or 25c/min) since an average phone call takes more then 3 min based at least on this article not just because I felt it was true (ie $1 on the perpay) http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_is_the_average_length_of_a_phone_call With prepay you have to use up the funds you put on your phone it almost doesn't make sense to do the 100% pay as you go option unless you know that on any given day you will never make a call more then 3 min long and the phone is really just for emergencies (not 911 emergencies) and even then if you get the 100/year plan (that is less then 10/month for the not so math inclined) and the $2/day option the most you will pay on any given day you use the phone is $2 the least is 0 and each txt is .02 so you are better off sending a txt message then making a call if you can. Yes you do need some basic math and to pay attention to what you do.

Keep in mind that we have tried the other way where we let the rich have everything and let the poor starve too:

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

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

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

http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_factors_led_to_the_1949_Communist_Victory

Apple responds to the nytimes article[1] . Lame.

* They employ and "incredible" number of people (34,000 in 2009, 47,000 in TFA) by comparison, Walmart employs 1.8 million. That's more than 300x more incredible.

* They have "more than 500,000 jobs for U.S. workers -- from the people who create components for our products". Must be a lot of americans working in china. How is 47,000 a "vast majority" of the workforce?

* "Apple has conducted all of its business with the highest of ethical standards". lol Yes, and all the child labor and suicide data will back that up.

[1] - http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/29/business/apples-response-on-its-tax-practices.html

Why should anyone have to pay more tax than they're required to by law?

Why? Because they love their country. That's why. Because they give back to the people that made them successful, and the elected government of that people.

Sounds like apple HATES america.

As does over 30% of its population http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_many_US_citizens_cheat_on_their_taxes. No wait, that's only those who even file tax returns - 50% don't pay any federal taxes. They all must hate America.

Just for fun:

Distance from Earth to Venus at closest point: About 38,000,000km
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_is_the_distance_from_Venus_to_earth

Cruising Speed of a Boeing 767: 858 km/h
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_767

38 Million km / 858km/h = 44290 h
44290 h / 24 = 1845d
1845d / 365 = 5 years.

So it would take a Boeing 767 cruising at 858 km/h for just over 5 years to reach Venus.

Which I have to tell you is a lot quicker than I thought it would be, so maybe my math is wrong. Though I am also not taking into consideration gravity, or lack of air, etc...

You are technically correct, according to the technical definition you provided, but not necessarily correct for colloquioal definitions. The economy is not simply divided into two sectors. There are the "Private Sector", "Corporate Sector" (sometimes known as Banking Sector), Public Sector, Home Sector, Retail Sector... you may also choose to divide your sectors by field in an even more granular fashion.

Actually, according to this nutjob it's because we stopped oppressing women and overpopulating the planet that the space shuttle program has ended:

http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Why_is_the_space_shuttle_program_ending

And if they are written solely to enrage others or illicit a response, they deserve "-1 Flamebait" or "-1 Troll". by arth1 (260657) on Monday April 09, @07:24AM (#39617461) Homepage

First of all, it's ELICIT -> http://www.thefreedictionary.com/elicit not ILLICIT -> http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_does_illicit_mean

Please - learn to use the english language properly. Thank you.

Secondly, eliciting responses is what forums are about - Moderating down verifiably truthful statements is not, and is the illicit part going on here. A "near 'freudian slip'" from you, perhaps, in regards to unjust and unjustifiable downmoderation going on here?

That's what I am seeing happen in this case. To wit:

There is no "+1 Facts". Unless facts are interesting, insightful or otherwise bring something positive to the discussion, they don't deserve a modding up. by arth1 (260657) on Monday April 09, @07:24AM (#39617461) Homepage

He used verifiable facts quoting Sycraft-Fu's +5 interesting material adding on to it here http://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2773441&cid=39615913 , which thus is on topic and continuing a discussion that was rated +5 interesting.

Odd his response posting was down moderated -1 for posting the same type of thing as was already posted and rated up to +5 for it by Sycraft-Fu.

What I want now is a heuristic filter that will downmod any post that appears to be a list of posts, links, or quotes with bolding. That would increase the signal to noise level here, because quite frankly, these irrelevant lists are NOISE. by arth1 (260657) on Monday April 09, @07:24AM (#39617461) Homepage

I found being able to verify statements with links supporting them far more interesting actually than the parent post with the same type of material, albeit minus supporting links from good sources, less interesting in fact.

It appears that the Linux people around here cannot stand when truths are posted with verifying links and downmoderate such comments indiscriminately in some poor attempt to hide truths in them.

you're not right.

http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_is_the_difference_between_and_herbicides_pesticides

All herbicides are pesticides, but not all pesticides are herbicides. A pesticide is any material used to eradicate or suppress any other life form which causes a material or economic loss to humans. Pesticides is a very broad term which includes herbicides, insecticides, fungicides, avicides, acaricides, rodenticides and many others.

and

http://www.chromatography-online.org/directory/analtcat-24/page.html

Pesticides are chemicals or biological agents used to control, repel, attract or kill pests. Pests are organisms that include insects and weeds that compete with humans for food, destroy property, spread disease or are considered a nuisance.

5400 sites*15MW (since it says 'less than') *1000 homes per megawatt=81 million homes. That's quite a lot of homes.

It's also worth remembering that superconductors are not just free of electrical resistance, they also have a constant temperature along their lengths.

No, superconductors are poor conductors of heat. It's actually one of the properties of superconductors, there's a distinct swing in thermal conductivity near the transition temp, before dropping with temperature.

"Ordinarily a large electrical conductivity is accompanied by a large thermal conductivity, as in the case of copper, used in electrical wiring and cooking pans. However, the thermal conductivity of a pure superconductor is less in the superconducting state than in the normal state, and at very low temperatures approaches zero. Crudely speaking, the explanation for the association of infinite electrical conductivity with vanishing thermal conductivity is that the transport of heat requires the transport of disorder (entropy). The superconducting state is one of perfect order (zero entropy), and so there is no disorder to transport and therefore no thermal conductivity." Link

Ah, the good ole times of generalised illiteracy and high mortality. How I miss them.

In 1776, the US had a 95% literacy rate. http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_was_the_literacy_rate_in_1776

Maybe *your* country was illiterate - but don't project your country's deficiencies on mine.

Mortality has improved, but that's not directly proportional to federal gov't spending, now is it? Prove me wrong, if you have any evidence beyond your feelings on the matter.

If the troops are supposed to protect your country, what are they doing on the other side of the world fighting illiterate peasants that live in caves and bear 30 year old AK47s?

They're projecting my country's foreign policy, as a response to this nasty terrorist attack that happened a few years back. Were you living under a rock? You're on the internet, maybe you can go do some research.

I can buy myself cough medicine and pay for a visit to my doctor.

You can, how good for you. Many can't. What about cancer treatment? Can you afford it?

There's this thing called insurance, where you bet against yourself - you get sick, insurance company pays out; you don't get sick, insurance company pockets your money. That's how I plan to pay for cancer treatment if that ever happens.

The only thing the gov't has to do is to enforce the contract. That's something done by the state gov't, not the federal one.

I can buy a book or search the internets to educate myself.

You can, how good for you. Many can't.

The primary driver of any man's education is himself. No amount of money will make a man who does not want to be educated, educated.

If someone can't be arsed to educate himself, an army of teachers paid to do so won't change the outcome.

Anyways, in the US, we have these things called libraries, that are funded by local or state gov'ts. They let you borrow books, for free! They'll let you surf the internet, for free! No federal money is needed to make this happen - in fact many libraries were built in the US with private money.

If you don't understand how my country works, then you really should keep your ignorance to yourself. Actually, why not try to educate yourself? All you have to do is ask questions instead of making asinine assumptions!

This sounds like it would violate antitrust tying laws.

Since you Fandroids are always pointing out that no one HAS to use the Google Marketplace/Play, I think that neatly defeats your "tying" argument.

Idiot.

This sounds like it would violate antitrust tying laws.

Falsus in uno fallacy. http://www.answers.com/topic/falsus-in-uno-falsus-in-omnibus

Answers.wiki.com confirms it.

The original term seems to have been bald-faced (bare-faced) and refers to a face without whiskers. Beards were commonly worn by businessmen in the 18th and 19th century as an attempt to mask facial expressions when making business deals. Thus a bald-faced liar was a very good liar indeed, and was able to lie without the guilt showing on his face.

I just had to check up on you. I have learned long ago to trust, but verify.

( A man I have great respect for, Bob Pease , taught me that. )

You are still in my memory, Bob, and thanks for all the wisdom you have shared with me.

http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Is_the_saying_'all_intents_and_purposes'_or_'all_intense_purposes'

The key to correcting someone is to be right. Either is acceptable. The version I use is more common, at least in my country of origin, the US. I guess you can nit pick the fact that I dropped the S in "intents", but don't bother.

You are off by a factor of ten on the density of corn oil. 77 pounds per gallon should throw a red flag, since that is almost as heavy as lead. End result is corn oil has almost as much energy as the corn itself.

http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_is_the_density_of_corn_oil

That's about average:

Answer: 459 minutes per month.

I'll do the math for you, that's about 15 minutes a day.

Anecdotally, I use my mobile as my primary phone (ie. I almost never touch a landline) and average nearly an hour a day.

Australia has fine snow fields http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Does_Australia_have_more_snow-covered_land_than_Switzerland.

Of course the elephants would be located a bit further north than that.

The problem with elephants of course is whislt they might eat the gamba grass they won't limit their diet to eat. So all the other elephant palatable vegetation will also suffer.