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Ripeness Sticker Coming to Supermarket Fruit
Adam Weiss writes "A biosystems engineering professor has just announced a "ripeness sticker" for fruit. According to this AP article, grocers throw out thousands of bushels of fruit a year because it ripens too fast (1 bushel is about 9 U.S. gallons). Mark Riley's RediRipe stickers turn from white to blue as fruit ripens. The stickers react with ethylene gas, a chemical which is released as fruit or vegetables ripen. However the article says "there are still bugs to be worked out: The stickers do not change color to reflect an overripe or rotten piece of fruit. Also, not all fruit produces enough ethylene to be detected by the sticker.""
Dude, losing your foundling skills must REALLY suck.
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Haven't researched it, but I very much doubt that the German "liter" was derived from the French "litre" via American spelling.
"When I first heard Daydream Nation it quite frankly scared the living shit out of me." -- Matthew Stearns
The point was that just because someone writes it liter, one cannot assume (as the AC did) that the writer is American.
"When I first heard Daydream Nation it quite frankly scared the living shit out of me." -- Matthew Stearns
Ah, but the Slashdot editors reside in Michigan, no? And... correct me if I'm wrong... but that's in the US? ;-)
Besides, news for nerds, we all ought to be capable of doing that conversion... I can tell you how many liters per gallon, why can't you tell me how many gallons per liter?
In dutch it is spelled that, but what about dutch pople using english (or whatever they think is eglish anyway)?
Sig (appended to the end of comments I post, 54 chars)
Which language are YOU speaking?
"Rightwing" might be a bit of a misnomer though. It's not like they are way, way right. Also, given that this is a fairly US centric site it could probably be seen as a center/left paper.
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I wouldn't call running across the field with a inflated device that is does not even resemble a spherical shape football. It seems neither feet (except for the running of course) nor balls are involved.
Jilles
Dutch, why?
(Yes, I know there is a typo in "eglish". this is slashdot, nobody really cares...)
Sig (appended to the end of comments I post, 54 chars)
I spell it "liters", and I am from Uruguay, South America.
The US has schools throughout the world in order to get people to learn their english, and I did.
Australian
Don't fight for your country, if your country does not fight for you.
Your dog doesn't climb trees ?
How many beans make five, anyhow ?
You are missing Aussie Rules Football and Gaelic Football as well. Heck we could go on for ever.
I always have a problem when they compare things to football fields in documentaries. Then again, it's better then some other examples :
My car gets forty rods to the hogshead and that's the way I likes it! -- Grandpa Simpson
Proof by very large bribes. QED.
I think about 75% of the programming of the comercial Dutch TV stations (7) I recieve and about 25% on the public Dutch and Belgian TV stations is comming from the USA, UK, Australia, about 5% from Germany. Nothing gets dubbed everything has sub-titles.
A random example:
06.00 Batman
06.20 Duck Dodgers
07.00 Batman
07.25 Roseanne
07.55 Tel Sell
08.25 Children's ward
08.55 TV Shop
09.55 Astro TV
10.30 TV Shop
11.30 Phone party
12.35 Providence
13.35 Children's ward
14.05 Name the word
15.15 Disney feest: Aladdin
16.00 Duck Dodgers
16.25 Word quest
17.05 ER
18.05 Providence
19.00 Strong medicine
20.00 Friends
20.30 Possession
22.30 Extreme makeover Vlaanderen
23.35 Friends
00.05 Queen's supreme
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Or Australian or Gaelic... ;)
"Death before Dishonour; Beer before Lunch" should be "Breath of a Dinosaur; Deer offer Crunch"
<Which language are YOU speaking?>
Dutch, why?
Hey! I understood that! I wonder when I learned Dutch?
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Well they do kick the ball... occasionally... sometimes...
Arena football?
Stop with the spelling issue and talk about THE important issue: Learn metric system! Everybody else uses it. You can do it too! :P
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Connie D'Amico : 16
Q: 18? Your first...
C: Moooom!!
Q: I like where this is goin. Giggety-giggety-GIGGETY.
I never spellcheck and I freely admit it. Save your karma for more worthwhile "lol erorrs" replies