I recently took part in a small genetic survey for the auto-immune disease Ankylosing Spondylitis (AS), a disease my wife has had for nearly a decade. It doesn't have the publicity of Lupus, but there are far more people suffering from it.
Before the survey, only one genetic marker was known for the disease: HLA-B27, uncovered over three decades ago. If you have that genetic marker, you're almost certain to get AS...but only 40% of AS sufferers actually test positive for HLA-B27. One survey later, we now know that testing positive for ARTS1 or IL23R counts too (70% of AS sufferers have one or more of the three).
The Wiki page does need correcting... it says "Over 95% of people with AS are HLA-B27 positive" where it should say "Over 95% of people that are HLA-B27 positive develop AS". Big difference. All whales are mammals, not all mammals are whales. I'll change that now.
Read my lips: no new taxes" is a now-famous phrase spoken by former American president and candidate George H. W. Bush at the 1988 Republican National Convention as he accepted the nomination on August 18. Written by speechwriter Peggy Noonan, the line was one of the most prominent soundbites from the speech. The pledge not to tax the American people further had been a consistent part of Bush's 1988 election platform, but its prominent inclusion in his speech cemented it in the public consciousness. The impact of the election promise was considerable, and many believe it helped Bush win the 1988 presidential election.
Once he became president, however, Bush was pressured by Democrats and some Republicans to raise taxes as a way to reduce the national budget deficit. Bush refused many times but was making no progress with a Senate and House that was controlled by Democrats. Bush later agreed to a compromise in which he worked with Congressional Democrats to raise several taxes as part of a 1990 budget agreement. This reversal caused great controversy, especially in the more conservative wing of the Republican Party. In the 1992 presidential election campaign, Pat Buchanan made extensive use of the phrase in his strong challenge to Bush in the Republican primaries. In the election itself, Democratic nominee Bill Clinton, running as a moderate, also pointed to the quotation as evidence of Bush's untrustworthiness, which contributed to Bush losing his bid for re-election.
All depends: if any political party, irrespective of the nation, actively campaigns on the platform that Government is a bad thing, of COURSE you're going to get bad government. It's the only truthful platform a lot of US politicians seem to have run on!
As for taxes? I saw the following online but can't find it on Google:
Warrantless wiretaps: illegal.
Phone companies profiting from the act: immoral.
Cutting the program because of unpaid bills: PRICELESS.
There are some things Governments can't buy. For everything else, there's taxes.
Maybe if CNN or another major news outlet picked this up it would gain the attention it deserves.
Well, it was run in the Sunday Times, which is Rupert Murdoch's newspaper, so it should be on Fox News in the US any minute because it's all part of NewsCorp --...yeah, I won't hold my breath either. Maybe Paris Hilton did something more 'newsworthy' over there...
Because for some reason, you Evangelical Americans still seem to think the appropriate reaction is to ask for a little lube and not much else.
Got to differentiate between the pervert money-grabbing mess-it-all-up right wing Americans and the secular humanist pinko Europe-loves-you left wing Americans, after all.
I just find it interesting that there may be more possibilities out there than just "OMG we are killing the urf!"
Time to dispel a big myth, then.
The present concern with climate change ISN'T that it's happening (even though American commentator Rush Limbaugh wrote a book that says "Despite the hysterics of a few pseudo-scientists, there is no reason to believe in global warming", fogging the debate). It's happening. It's measured. It's science, bitches, deal with it.
The present concern is that it's happening faster than ever recorded in history.
Someone has already tried to fog the issue by stating that the Romans weren't taking meteorological measurements...but they were, anecdotally. Diaries that stated when crops grew and what kinds of plants grew in their Empire. And the Romans weren't the only ones. The Ancient Greeks did it, the Chinese did it. Using this informaton, with a little common sense (a fir tree will thrive where an orange tree won't, for example), we know what the state of a part of the Earth was like, on a particular day.
Then there are ice cores. We have the technology to drill down into metres of ice and recover long cylinders of ice. Trapped in that ice are millions of air bubbles, showing us the make-up of the atmosphere and sometimes trapping plant spores, back before anyone was measuring these things. Tiny little time-capsules of proof. And all we have to do is study them.
Either that, or we can base our world-view on the writings of goat-herders in the desert. Personally, I'll put my money on people that know (for example) that the female body contains microscopic eggs over people writing poems on papyrus that thought the womb was just a fertile ground for a man's seed. But that's just me, call me rational if you like.
Really? So they shouldn't consider themselves Danes then? Because they usually do.
And what about the people from Holland that actually call themselves Nederlanders (but the English-speaking world calls them Dutch)?
And what about the German descendents in Pennsylvania that called themselves Deutsch, but the Americans call them Dutch because they never thought words could be different in different languages. To the point where Arnie, an Austrian, gets to play a character called Dutch in the movie Predator.
In summary: Denmark is that bit that juts up to the north of Germany and has islands that stretch to Sweden. The Dutch live in the Netherlands, just north of Belgium and due east of East Anglia in England.
So Microsoft will know if your heart races because you saw something you shouldn't have, because you saw something that reveals you know too much, and they'll know if you are trying to cover up your panic instead of exhibiting a "WTF is this?" response?
Hmmmm.
Reminds me of some bloke I heard about once. Winston, I think his name was. Got fed information about something he shouldn't have known about at work, so his employer tested him out by slipping him a photo showing a meeting that should never have taken place. Winston reacted with instinct instead of controlling his emotions, which were observed... which eventually led to his incarceration, torture, and psychological breaking. Once that had happened, he was done in.
Funny story. Maybe someone should write a book about it. Or make a film.
Yeah, he got 30,000 rugby fans to chant. That's really hard.
Go to any well-attended footie game in England, even if it's something like Stevenage versus York City (for our American audience, that's like going to a Triple-A game as far as attendance goes).
Just have a few of you start singing something funny, relevant to the match you're watching (making sure there's a snippet of what you want to use for your sound effect). Within twenty minutes, hundreds will be singing it. Make sure you have half a dozen people in the crowd (and maybe a few outside) recording the chant.
Take the recordings home, loop and join them, stretch out the samples to different lengths. Voila. 'Thousands of shouting people' sound effect on a budget.
For a 16:9 format, 33 million pixels gives an (approximate) measurement of 2 million pixel height to 3.6 million pixel width.
If there were 300 dpi (the resolution of high-quality magazine printing), that's...
300 dots per inch = 118 dots per centimeter.
= a screen 170 metres high and 312 metres long. Which is around the same area, if it were laid down, as an average village.
So what freaking resolution is this thing, because it's not THAT big... and is it actually necessary to display things at better resolution that we can notice?
Joe and Jane public's internet box doesn't really need more than 50GB, does it? It'll keep them storing 10-megapixel holiday snaps for years.
Video files can be quite big, but I see web-based storage handling that in the coming years too. Even if you're taking video at 720p (1GB per 30 minutes of home movie), it'll be relatively simple for someone with basic computer skills to throw the clips together into one home movie and upload them to some future YouTube HD (or competitor) site. Or it should be: it's bloody simple now. And if it's just a stupid home movie, the 320 by 240 resolution of YouTube is good enough right now for the "here's my holiday to Cancun / Ibiza / Blackpool" crowd, even when enlarged to full-screen. Upload your holiday vid, delete the larger file (or back-up to a CD or DVD ROM), easy.
IIRC, there were three sizes of vinyl. The seven inch, played at 45 rpm, was the single. A 10" disc was called an EP, and held two songs per side (EP stood for extended play). And then there was the 12" platter.
Twelve inch discs used to be just albums, played at 33 1/3 rpm. But the rise of dance remixes meant releases were put on 12" discs to be played at 45.
Or, if you were John Peel, just play everything at 78 rpm and say "I think I played that at the wrong speed..."
every person pays taxes into Medicare, and most people get health care through insurance, which is virtually government run
I just googled it for an American source, because this isn't what left and right wing newspapers in Britain report. Only people with jobs pay into Medicare, and it's only used by the elderly and disabled (so get hit by a car, or wait a few decades). And according to this page, two-thirds of the US (200 million) is covered by 1,300 private companies that "ensure Americans' financial security through robust insurance markets, product flexibility and innovation, and an abundance of consumer choice".
It's not Government run at all. They sell to consumers. And I see this association of insurance plans is based on Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington DC. Just down the road from the White House. I'm going to guess...lobbying?
(CHT), a think tank founded in 2003 in Washington, D.C., by former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich as a project of the Gingrich Group, is a for-profit consultancy and membership organization "comprised of corporations and organizations that all have a vested interest in transforming health and healthcare," its website states.
---
Premier Members...
* America's Health Insurance Plans (AHIP)
I looked up Newt. Yep, Tory (as we'd say here). And he's on K Street too. Wasn't that other bloke that went inside for a stretch working from there, that Jack? (Just checked...yes, he was.)
Here's the really incredible thing: Conservatives over here in Britain want to do the same thing to the NHS! Couple of old politicos, hand in the old biscuit tin, fleecing money off the people. And more people ended up dying in the States, of the one disease the Conservatives in the 2005 election used to say the NHS was a terrible thing, so they could privatise the NHS. How hilarious it THAT?
I believe, sir, your trousers are in need of extinguishing.
Just Google chav and ASBO. There's a counter-culture around the words...maybe 'culture' isn't the right word either. It's all to do with white UK trash, my American cousin.
And to offer the hand of solidarity, I'm a big fan of Scrubs myself.
Strange question, do they care yet, but worth asking. Here's why.
In 2005, Britain's going nucking futs over MRSA. It was used as a reason to justify taking the NHS (National Health Service. Translation: universal healthcare) and molding it into whatever each Party wanted the world to be like. You couldn't pick up a newspaper without SuperBug this or SuperBug that on the front page.
Meanwhile, in America, the sound of crickets gently chirp. Chreeeep, chreeeep, chreeeep. Nobody gave a tinker's cuss about MRSA. At all.
OK. That's the scene. People in Britain thinking that MRSA is going to turn the country into 28 Days Later. America thinks MRSA is some rapper's name.
And then the official numbers came out for MRSA deaths for that year.
Eng-Cym population in the last census (and it won't have doubled from 2001-2005) - 52 million.
So what were the chances this would have killed YOU? Well, remote (if you're reading this now), but what about back then? The equation is:
[population of the country in 2005] / [deaths from MRSA there in 2005] = [chance of being killed by MRSA in 2005].
The chances you had of MRSA killing you in England and Wales, with everyone going mental over it, in 2005 - 1 in 32,000.
Chances of dying the same death in a country with market-driven health system, where people are NOT specifically looking for MRSA - 1 in 15,800.
I'll let those numbers sink in. British readers might want to look at them again and make sure up is still up.
And now I'm going to pretend to be really stupid here: I could be spectacularly wrong, but it LOOKS like the numbers prove a person was twice more likely to kick the bucket from MRSA in the States than in Blighty (OK, England and Wales. I'll let someone else add Scotland and Northern Ireland to the mix). America, with its pay-as-you-go health system making monster profits, not as good as a system some people would tell you is on its last legs.
What was even funnier (maybe 'funnier' isn't quite the right word) was the excuse used in the UK National Statistics Office for why their number was so HIGH:
Some of the recent increase in mentions of MRSA on death certificates may be due to improved levels of reporting, possibly brought about by the continued high public profile of the disease.
This is either the longest and most researched Flaimbait ever to appear on SlashDot, or I just blew. Your. Freaking. Mind.
Unless you're American: in which case, just think of this like the slang you don't understand in Doctor Who, words like 'chav' and 'ASBO'.
Too many people don't even know that their router has an administrative interface.
Funny, if it weren't so painfully true. At a recent booze-up, one of the group comes up to me (resident technical person) and asks how they set up their new wireless modem-router at home. I asked them if they had accessed it like a web-page, with the usual 192.168.blah.blah address.
"That's what they [whoever THEY are] told me to do on the phone, but it won't connect still."
"Did you try connecting the computer to the thing using a cable first, because maybe it doesn't know it should be sending out signals yet, so it isn't?"
"Would that make a difference?"
So yes. Most people with computers don't know about private network IP addresses, or don't RTFM that came with the equipment (even if TFM just says "insert the CD and follow the instructions"), so there's a pretty good chance they won't go into the drop-down options and select to encrypt their signals. Because, their mental process will be: it took long enough to get the thing working without the signal being scrambled like the Enigma Code so imagine how impossible connectivity will be if 'someone messes with the settings'.
I'm trying to think of a witty analogy, but all I can come up with is if all bank cards were delivered with a default 1-2-3-4 PIN (and why would you change something as easy to remember as 1-2-3-4?).
I'm just hoping the Enemy Territory server I play on doesn't move too quickly to the switch to IPv6. It took me ages to load their map rotation, but it's a good selection and their bots are a nice challenge. It has taken me months already to remember the 216.27.112... wait, is it 112.48, or 48.112 at the end? And that 27 doesn't look right. It ends in:27962, I know that. Or is it:27964?
Someone showed earlier that the official Chuck Norris website and Chuck Norris Facts dot come are (drum roll please)...overseen by the same people in the same building.
Bit of a coincidence. Of all the places you can register a website through, both happen to be done through Patton Boggs, attorneys at law. Not GoDaddy or some such thing, but a law firm in Dallas?
So when he says "I'm aware of the made up declarations about me that have recently begun to appear on the Internet", is he aware because he gets some of the money from the overpriced t-shirts?
Kind of a limp-wristed thing to do... have a website set up about how tough you are. Looks like over-compensation for (cough, cough) something, if you ask me. Methinks the man doth try too hard.
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I recently took part in a small genetic survey for the auto-immune disease Ankylosing Spondylitis (AS), a disease my wife has had for nearly a decade. It doesn't have the publicity of Lupus, but there are far more people suffering from it.
...but only 40% of AS sufferers actually test positive for HLA-B27. One survey later, we now know that testing positive for ARTS1 or IL23R counts too (70% of AS sufferers have one or more of the three).
Before the survey, only one genetic marker was known for the disease: HLA-B27, uncovered over three decades ago. If you have that genetic marker, you're almost certain to get AS
The Wiki page does need correcting... it says "Over 95% of people with AS are HLA-B27 positive" where it should say "Over 95% of people that are HLA-B27 positive develop AS". Big difference. All whales are mammals, not all mammals are whales. I'll change that now.
Unicorns are mentioned in the Bible at least five times, you insensitive clod.
Off to Gitmo with you.
All depends: if any political party, irrespective of the nation, actively campaigns on the platform that Government is a bad thing, of COURSE you're going to get bad government. It's the only truthful platform a lot of US politicians seem to have run on!
As for taxes? I saw the following online but can't find it on Google:
Warrantless wiretaps: illegal.
Phone companies profiting from the act: immoral.
Cutting the program because of unpaid bills: PRICELESS.
There are some things Governments can't buy. For everything else, there's taxes.
Well, it was run in the Sunday Times, which is Rupert Murdoch's newspaper, so it should be on Fox News in the US any minute because it's all part of NewsCorp --
Because for some reason, you Evangelical Americans still seem to think the appropriate reaction is to ask for a little lube and not much else.
Got to differentiate between the pervert money-grabbing mess-it-all-up right wing Americans and the secular humanist pinko Europe-loves-you left wing Americans, after all.
Especially when it comes to lube.
Time to dispel a big myth, then.
The present concern with climate change ISN'T that it's happening (even though American commentator Rush Limbaugh wrote a book that says "Despite the hysterics of a few pseudo-scientists, there is no reason to believe in global warming", fogging the debate). It's happening. It's measured. It's science, bitches, deal with it.
The present concern is that it's happening faster than ever recorded in history.
Someone has already tried to fog the issue by stating that the Romans weren't taking meteorological measurements
Then there are ice cores. We have the technology to drill down into metres of ice and recover long cylinders of ice. Trapped in that ice are millions of air bubbles, showing us the make-up of the atmosphere and sometimes trapping plant spores, back before anyone was measuring these things. Tiny little time-capsules of proof. And all we have to do is study them.
Either that, or we can base our world-view on the writings of goat-herders in the desert. Personally, I'll put my money on people that know (for example) that the female body contains microscopic eggs over people writing poems on papyrus that thought the womb was just a fertile ground for a man's seed. But that's just me, call me rational if you like.
Nope, TFA said this was CONTRIBUTING a fifth of a centimetre to the rise in sea levels.
If I give five quid / Euros / dollars to a charity, that doesn't mean the charity has ONLY received five whatevers.
Do you all see?
For a technical-based forum, we certainly have a lot of people moving their fingers in tune to their beliefs before engaging brain first.
Really? So they shouldn't consider themselves Danes then? Because they usually do.
And what about the people from Holland that actually call themselves Nederlanders (but the English-speaking world calls them Dutch)?
And what about the German descendents in Pennsylvania that called themselves Deutsch, but the Americans call them Dutch because they never thought words could be different in different languages. To the point where Arnie, an Austrian, gets to play a character called Dutch in the movie Predator.
In summary: Denmark is that bit that juts up to the north of Germany and has islands that stretch to Sweden. The Dutch live in the Netherlands, just north of Belgium and due east of East Anglia in England.
So Microsoft will know if your heart races because you saw something you shouldn't have, because you saw something that reveals you know too much, and they'll know if you are trying to cover up your panic instead of exhibiting a "WTF is this?" response?
Hmmmm.
Reminds me of some bloke I heard about once. Winston, I think his name was. Got fed information about something he shouldn't have known about at work, so his employer tested him out by slipping him a photo showing a meeting that should never have taken place. Winston reacted with instinct instead of controlling his emotions, which were observed... which eventually led to his incarceration, torture, and psychological breaking. Once that had happened, he was done in.
Funny story. Maybe someone should write a book about it. Or make a film.
Yeah, he got 30,000 rugby fans to chant. That's really hard.
Go to any well-attended footie game in England, even if it's something like Stevenage versus York City (for our American audience, that's like going to a Triple-A game as far as attendance goes).
Just have a few of you start singing something funny, relevant to the match you're watching (making sure there's a snippet of what you want to use for your sound effect). Within twenty minutes, hundreds will be singing it. Make sure you have half a dozen people in the crowd (and maybe a few outside) recording the chant.
Take the recordings home, loop and join them, stretch out the samples to different lengths. Voila. 'Thousands of shouting people' sound effect on a budget.
Yeah, I see where I went wrong. What the ..? Two million times 3-point-something million is something times ten to the power of twelve.
My bad.
For a 16:9 format, 33 million pixels gives an (approximate) measurement of 2 million pixel height to 3.6 million pixel width.
If there were 300 dpi (the resolution of high-quality magazine printing), that's...
300 dots per inch = 118 dots per centimeter.
= a screen 170 metres high and 312 metres long. Which is around the same area, if it were laid down, as an average village.
So what freaking resolution is this thing, because it's not THAT big... and is it actually necessary to display things at better resolution that we can notice?
What am I saying? This is Slashdot. Carry on...!
...but it IS nice to have so much stuff on your iPod that it throws the occasional shuffled song at you that makes you think "what the...?"
I had it two minutes ago. I don't remember putting "Move" by Moby into iTunes. But there it was. Nice. Really nice.
Video files can be quite big, but I see web-based storage handling that in the coming years too. Even if you're taking video at 720p (1GB per 30 minutes of home movie), it'll be relatively simple for someone with basic computer skills to throw the clips together into one home movie and upload them to some future YouTube HD (or competitor) site. Or it should be: it's bloody simple now. And if it's just a stupid home movie, the 320 by 240 resolution of YouTube is good enough right now for the "here's my holiday to Cancun / Ibiza / Blackpool" crowd, even when enlarged to full-screen. Upload your holiday vid, delete the larger file (or back-up to a CD or DVD ROM), easy.
Ah, you must be new here...
Oh wait. You already said that.
Bugger.
IIRC, there were three sizes of vinyl. The seven inch, played at 45 rpm, was the single. A 10" disc was called an EP, and held two songs per side (EP stood for extended play). And then there was the 12" platter.
Twelve inch discs used to be just albums, played at 33 1/3 rpm. But the rise of dance remixes meant releases were put on 12" discs to be played at 45.
Or, if you were John Peel, just play everything at 78 rpm and say "I think I played that at the wrong speed..."
I was thinking: maybe for the entertainment systems in long-distance flights. No moving parts.
I just googled it for an American source, because this isn't what left and right wing newspapers in Britain report. Only people with jobs pay into Medicare, and it's only used by the elderly and disabled (so get hit by a car, or wait a few decades). And according to this page, two-thirds of the US (200 million) is covered by 1,300 private companies that "ensure Americans' financial security through robust insurance markets, product flexibility and innovation, and an abundance of consumer choice".
It's not Government run at all. They sell to consumers. And I see this association of insurance plans is based on Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington DC. Just down the road from the White House. I'm going to guess
One google search more...
I looked up Newt. Yep, Tory (as we'd say here). And he's on K Street too. Wasn't that other bloke that went inside for a stretch working from there, that Jack? (Just checked
Here's the really incredible thing: Conservatives over here in Britain want to do the same thing to the NHS! Couple of old politicos, hand in the old biscuit tin, fleecing money off the people. And more people ended up dying in the States, of the one disease the Conservatives in the 2005 election used to say the NHS was a terrible thing, so they could privatise the NHS. How hilarious it THAT?
I believe, sir, your trousers are in need of extinguishing.
Top Gear, in America? Oh, top stuff!
...maybe 'culture' isn't the right word either. It's all to do with white UK trash, my American cousin.
Just Google chav and ASBO. There's a counter-culture around the words
And to offer the hand of solidarity, I'm a big fan of Scrubs myself.
In 2005, Britain's going nucking futs over MRSA. It was used as a reason to justify taking the NHS (National Health Service. Translation: universal healthcare) and molding it into whatever each Party wanted the world to be like. You couldn't pick up a newspaper without SuperBug this or SuperBug that on the front page.
Meanwhile, in America, the sound of crickets gently chirp. Chreeeep, chreeeep, chreeeep. Nobody gave a tinker's cuss about MRSA. At all.
OK. That's the scene. People in Britain thinking that MRSA is going to turn the country into 28 Days Later. America thinks MRSA is some rapper's name.
And then the official numbers came out for MRSA deaths for that year.
England/Wales, in 2005: 1629 deaths.
United States, in 2005: 18,650 deaths.
There are more people in the States than England and Wales. So I looked up the numbers for the land of the free and the home of the Whopper and Pommie/Limey/Rosbif-TaffyLandSheepCountry.
US population at the time - 295 million.
Eng-Cym population in the last census (and it won't have doubled from 2001-2005) - 52 million.
So what were the chances this would have killed YOU? Well, remote (if you're reading this now), but what about back then? The equation is:
[population of the country in 2005] / [deaths from MRSA there in 2005]
= [chance of being killed by MRSA in 2005].
The chances you had of MRSA killing you in England and Wales, with everyone going mental over it, in 2005 - 1 in 32,000.
Chances of dying the same death in a country with market-driven health system, where people are NOT specifically looking for MRSA - 1 in 15,800.
I'll let those numbers sink in. British readers might want to look at them again and make sure up is still up.
And now I'm going to pretend to be really stupid here: I could be spectacularly wrong, but it LOOKS like the numbers prove a person was twice more likely to kick the bucket from MRSA in the States than in Blighty (OK, England and Wales. I'll let someone else add Scotland and Northern Ireland to the mix). America, with its pay-as-you-go health system making monster profits, not as good as a system some people would tell you is on its last legs.
What was even funnier (maybe 'funnier' isn't quite the right word) was the excuse used in the UK National Statistics Office for why their number was so HIGH:
This is either the longest and most researched Flaimbait ever to appear on SlashDot, or I just blew. Your. Freaking. Mind.
Unless you're American: in which case, just think of this like the slang you don't understand in Doctor Who, words like 'chav' and 'ASBO'.
Too many people don't even know that their router has an administrative interface.
Funny, if it weren't so painfully true. At a recent booze-up, one of the group comes up to me (resident technical person) and asks how they set up their new wireless modem-router at home. I asked them if they had accessed it like a web-page, with the usual 192.168.blah.blah address.
"That's what they [whoever THEY are] told me to do on the phone, but it won't connect still."
"Did you try connecting the computer to the thing using a cable first, because maybe it doesn't know it should be sending out signals yet, so it isn't?"
"Would that make a difference?"
So yes. Most people with computers don't know about private network IP addresses, or don't RTFM that came with the equipment (even if TFM just says "insert the CD and follow the instructions"), so there's a pretty good chance they won't go into the drop-down options and select to encrypt their signals. Because, their mental process will be: it took long enough to get the thing working without the signal being scrambled like the Enigma Code so imagine how impossible connectivity will be if 'someone messes with the settings'.
I'm trying to think of a witty analogy, but all I can come up with is if all bank cards were delivered with a default 1-2-3-4 PIN (and why would you change something as easy to remember as 1-2-3-4?).
2^128 = 3.40282367 × 10^38, says the Googles.
This page says "A 70 kg body would have approximately 7*10^27 atoms." So enough for all the atoms in all the people on Earth.
I'm just hoping the Enemy Territory server I play on doesn't move too quickly to the switch to IPv6. It took me ages to load their map rotation, but it's a good selection and their bots are a nice challenge. It has taken me months already to remember the 216.27.112... wait, is it 112.48, or 48.112 at the end? And that 27 doesn't look right. It ends in :27962, I know that. Or is it :27964?
Ah crap, I forgot the number again.
Damn you, progress.
Silent night, holy night
All is calm, all is bright
Round yon Jamie Lynn Spears and child...
Naaaah. Doesn't have the same ring to it!!!
...but hang on. This is deeper than that.
...overseen by the same people in the same building.
Someone showed earlier that the official Chuck Norris website and Chuck Norris Facts dot come are (drum roll please)
Bit of a coincidence. Of all the places you can register a website through, both happen to be done through Patton Boggs, attorneys at law. Not GoDaddy or some such thing, but a law firm in Dallas?
So when he says "I'm aware of the made up declarations about me that have recently begun to appear on the Internet", is he aware because he gets some of the money from the overpriced t-shirts?
Kind of a limp-wristed thing to do... have a website set up about how tough you are. Looks like over-compensation for (cough, cough) something, if you ask me. Methinks the man doth try too hard.
If he were going to sue anyone, why not this site?