Not long after Imran was voted as one of the world's most handsome, or sexiest, men (I can't remember exactly) he was playing in Australia and felled by a low blow. He slowly buckled over and tried to relieve some of the pain in his groin and ended on his knees, face on the pitch.
Richie Benaud : That shouldn't happen to a Prince. There will be tears in the eyes of young girls all over the world tonight. Rod Marsh: Well I should think there's a few tears in Imran's eyes too Richie!
Bowled Timed out Caught Handling the ball Hitting the ball twice Hit wicket Leg before wicket Obstructing a fielder Run out Stumped
A "wide" in simplest terms is when the ball is bowled so far to the side or above the wicket that batsman is denied a reasonable opportunity to score. In other use: "The Slashdot Editor's life looks like being called a wide".
Local records office is full of them. Went there to submit house plans and though I had a go, I found I lacked the skills to even manipulate one to the counter. They seemed to be aimless and uncontrollable which is probably why the local authority had them stored in the one building. I am fairly sure that 150k would be a bargain for a new one. A lot of these were older models and possibly cost as much as that to maintain annually. Fully autonomous advanced models for their day though, so I left fervently hoping that the powers would let them all loose soon during a value-for-money drive.
Well I would like them to find a way to make Pizza taste as good the day after. Nothing you can do with it seems to bring back the consistency, aroma and taste that it has when it first hits the table.
I confidently make a prediction that this will never happen.
Yahoo buying useful applications and then stuffing them royally has been a hallmark!! Remember the MusicMatch thing as well? Took a popular MP3 player/library and tried to replace it with a total piece of shit they developed in house in a half-arsed effort to transfer the customer base to their own failed adver-bloat offering.
What sort of a company buys up a superior product simply to remove competition to their failed product? Oh......... I'll just walk away now.:)
PS. Reckon she could get someone to look at reversing some of this damage? Pah! Dreams..sigh.
Look up "Australia NBN". I think you'll find plenty of articles and discussion on the points you raise.
In a nutshell: Govt forms a company in which it initially holds 100% shares - it's called the National Broadband Network (NBN) NBN borrows capital on open market to fund construction. Borrowing guaranteed by Govt. NBN uses income from network to pay back debt as network is rolled out. Success of project is guaranteed by granting a monopoly for fixed communications network to NBN co.
Project: The three technologies. NBN lays FTTH to all premises reachable in towns with population > 1000. High speed fixed wireless is provided to more sparsely populated areas. High speed duplex satellite is provided to remote populations.
NBN co. cannot retail services - only wholesale to ISPs and other large users (utilities?) Retail service providers may not own or compete with NBN co fixed infrastructure. No vertical integration allowed. After project is complete (10+ years) Govt. sells off its holding of NBN co shares. Shares to be sold at a commercial rate that recoups investment + profit for Govt outlay.
Political views (abridged and rough) Left and centre-left, and centre-right, "brilliant, finally a government doing something that needs to be done" Right and far right, "communism, pure and unadulterated socialist attack on the freedoms of all" Technophiles, "OMG finally something nearly right, but the interfaces aren't quite right and opportunities are being missed." Rupert Murdoch, "this is a direct attack on my media, cable tv, telephony empire. Change the government now". Opposition parties, "it's too expensive, under costed, inefficient and we'd do the same thing but not as good, but cheaper and anyway you only want it to watch porn and I have an ipad anyway, so there."
It is generally agreed that to attempt the same project in the USA would be laughable. Something about the constitution et al.
While most television aired in the US undoubtedly manages to portray foreign events deeply, fairly and truthfully, there may have been one or two liberties taken in the report referred to.
No Aboriginal treaty/treaties exist in Australia therefore crapping over them becomes ridiculously hard. There is a song about "Treaties" that was very popular though. It proclaims the need for a treaty such as that exists between the Maori and Pakeha of New Zealand. View here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7cbkxn4G8U Rainforest around suburban Sydney hasn't existed in general since the local glaciers melted 20k years ago. One State Government comparatively recently spent 30 million dollars gently de-sexing koalas to reduce their numbers as local over-population was severely degrading the natural environment. Others have spent far greater amounts constructing tunnels and overpasses for them for them to use in post-arboreal nocturnal perambulation (walkabouts).
Perhaps there is a point here in that if the Aboriginals were to be encouraged to go back to eating koalas (lack of predators leaves only disease and habitat as population controllers) there'd be more chance of cultivating rainforests around the suburbs. Note for Man vs Food fans: Koalas are rumoured to have a strong eucalyptus flavour that disagrees.
Disclaimer: I currently live in a suburb that has many koalas happily harvesting the local sclerophyll forest. They are common in this locality. We have internal plumbing to crap upon and this makes up for a lack of treaties to disrespectfully soil.
It's simply convergence. Think of the television as a large smartphone. In the near future when you sit down at the Christmas feast you will be able to share with friends and family in far flung places. You'll be able to attend meetings and interact at lectures. You can already do this at your pc? Then you already understand, just think of interacting in the lounge-room rather than the basement. The television is just an oversized monitor now, it's just getting incrementally smarter (and bigger).
Need to see a doctor or receive post-hospital care at home? Your internet connect television/ip phone allows this to happen in your home. You will be able to plug your auxiliary medical kit into the usb slot and your practitioner will see your vital signs directly. It's Jetsons but sadly without the flying car.
The television has become the focal point of media in the home. Making it the communication device as well is a very simple step in the digital age.
I have a car, a V6, that by the flick of switch (factory installed) changes from LPG to petroleum and back again. There is zero detectable performance difference. I stomp the pedal it throws you back in the seat. It goes up mountains just fine. Fuel injection, oxygen sensors and timing chips are the great advantages in modern engines. The only noticeable difference is that LPG is half the price and if you keep the car in idle for a couple of minutes it automatically switches fuel until you get moving again.
If it requires a heavyweight truck to transport these things then doesn't being on a train actually add security? It's not like somebody isn't going to notice you trans-shipping the "item". I figure that it would require at the very least a container forklift. If it's already on a truck on a highway it must be easier to just make it disappear?
When using a sextant you take 2 sights at sunrise (and sunset). These are known as first limb and second limb. Been like this for centuries I'm told. I'm sure you can infer when these are taken.
Actually No.. I think. Buying cheap crap for chain is not what they do. The crap for chain is quite expensive if you buy it at Boeing for example. The falls apart real fast has happened in Iraq for sure and latterly in Afghanistan too but which other areas? I think we are all wondering about the "now why" and I think that is a valid point.
[quote]In England, maybe an obnoxious drunk.[/quote]
Shit he was at the airport when I got there! Tried to just avoid him like everyone else until the true horror of the situation revealed itself. That wilted missive in his hand......it had my name on it!
These unique creatures, spawn of the mother earth, must be protected at all cost! Their precious and dwindling acidic heavy metal environment is threatened by organised international cleanup and restoration societies! They must be stopped! We must act now, band together and join with me in our "Occupy Pit" protest.
Err that's not Rugby. It's not even anything like Rugby. Continue rant though because other than that I can't feel it in me to contradict the rest of it.
Too long to read through all of this.
I just want to make sure somebody posts the actual reason for spending the money installing these systems. A truly significant amount of staff time in a large shopping centre is taken up each day helping people find their cars. It's costly. In the main, there are two scenarios. Firstly, there are those who park regularly in the same area and then for some reason break their habit. These people usually head for centre management with a cry of "my car has been stolen!" They will insist that their car is gone and something has to be done! Sometimes you can jog their memory with questions such as "which door did you enter the store through" and "which shop did you visit first?" Too often you have all the security staff combing the car parks looking for the lost car. When finally their car is found for them, well if you expect them to be grateful, you'd often be out of luck.
The second type is the classic little old lady who simply can't remember where she parked and sometimes even if she came in a car at all. Usually they recover after a glass of water and a rest or sometimes a relative has to be called. It's a little sad but it happens every day.
There is another situation of course. Cars are often stolen from major shopping centres. In fact the numbers are so high that if you aren't in the know you'd probably be shocked. There are security cameras everywhere throughout your shopping mall now. They aren't a lot of use in preventing car theft. You just don't know where/when to look through the massive amount of information recorded. By storing licence plates temporarily into a searchable data base you are able to provide some useful timely assistance to a customer who has genuinely lost their car.
Shopping centres are not able, legally or otherwise, to connect your licence plate to your name or address or phone number or anything else in this country. Of course if you never lose your car, have never had it stolen, have no fear of having it stolen, you could just avoid using any place that has such a system. If you do lose your car at a shopping mall that doesn't have anything like this, please just quietly join the queue until somebody becomes available to help you find it. Please, no complaints.
This has become a somewhat inaccurate historical meme, but of course with some basis. The first British settlement in Australia was an expedition to build a military outpost not a penal colony. The plan was hurriedly conjured up to deny the French a strategic position in the Pacific. They knew from experience that to build a self sustaining outpost on the far side of the planet required large reserves of labour.
They used slaves.
African slavery had become unpopular. Transportation to the American Colonies had been a useful tool in law and order matters for nearly one and a half centuries as a way of softening the "bloody laws". It has been estimated that about 50,000 convicts were transported on one way tickets to the North American Colonies, especially New England. The Crown paid merchants to ship them privately. Some were sold as slaves on arrival. Those that weren't sold outright were still slaves, but were more or less characterised as indentured labour. Emancipation was supposed to be granted after 7 years. The OP is correct when he says "many of the early settlers were criminals of some sort". In North America, just as in Australia later, the vast majority of settlers were not convicts.
After independence it became more difficult and less useful to send convicts to North America. The military needed an outpost built in the South Pacific to forestall the French. British and Irish slaves were the only means available to do the job quickly and thoroughly.
Once Port Jackson had been established, limited free settlement was encouraged. This influx of free civilians was needed to expand agriculture and commerce so that the train of expensive supply convoys could be wound back. Early settlers were given convict slaves to assist in their farming and business ventures. At this time it was certain that there were two distinct classes of criminals being transported. Nobody wanted a murderer or horse buggerer for a stable boy. Better to have a shonky accountant as a gardener and a prostitute as a house maid.
The reward for hard work and diligence was a promise of emancipation. When this eventually came it arrived without the right to hold land tenure and other basic freedoms. Free labour morphed to cheap labour. Private businessmen were "limited" eventually to a maximum of 70 slave labourers. Wealth was accumulated rapidly by those that used the system.
Getting the "criminals" away from the colony became a priority.
Two penal settlements were established. The young colony of New South Wales had already started transporting its convicts. They were sent to the remote and God forsaken Norfolk Island and to the misery that was Port Arthur in Tasmania. Convicts were not be used as settlers but rather as slaves where possible and if truly incorrigible, to be physically and mentally destroyed as far from the shores of New South Wales as possible. A further attempt was made to create a genuine penal colony on the mainland at Moreton Bay but that, along with all forms of transportation, became so opposed by the inrush of free settlers that it was suspended in 1840 and officially abolished 10 years later.
Interestingly, the colonies themselves repeated the Port Jackson experiment at King George Sound in Western Australia in 1826 to prevent the French from claiming the western half of the continent. A military settlement supported by convict slave labour established the port of Albany, which later became a whaling centre. Western Australia was founded by a free settlement organisation but could not attract a sufficient labour force until gold was discovered in the 1890s. It petitioned Great Britain for convict labour and was eventually granted limited "supplies" for a period of about 18 years. The British Government insisted that they would only be sent under conditions where they would be freed after a relatively short period of "service".
The number of transportees to Australia was relatively high for such a short period. Higher than North America f
Ostriches aren't Australian, they're African. Omelettes can be made from emu eggs and I have tasted one. It really wasn't any different to one prepared from hen's eggs. It looked no different to this observer. Compare an emu egg to a hen's egg and they are quite different in size, colour and even texture internally and externally. The formula (recipe) however was just for a standard omelette that we would all recognise by sight instantly. Interestingly, it tasted like one prepared from hen's eggs as well. Couldn't tell the finished product apart.
Posix header files also look remarkably similar to this observer. If code is being written to a required formula so that it interacts correctly with other code (a standard) then there should be little surprise that it looks the same.
The US entered the European part of WW2 because Hitler declared war upon the USA.
You might be thinking of the sinking of the Lusitania in WW1. Even then it wasn't the straw that broke the camel's back as the incident happened in May 1915 and the USA entered that war nearly 2 years later in April 1917.
Slashdot Mirror
Not long after Imran was voted as one of the world's most handsome, or sexiest, men (I can't remember exactly) he was playing in Australia and felled by a low blow. He slowly buckled over and tried to relieve some of the pain in his groin and ended on his knees, face on the pitch.
Richie Benaud : That shouldn't happen to a Prince. There will be tears in the eyes of young girls all over the world tonight.
Rod Marsh: Well I should think there's a few tears in Imran's eyes too Richie!
Methods of getting out in Cricket: Laws 30 to 39
Bowled
Timed out
Caught
Handling the ball
Hitting the ball twice
Hit wicket
Leg before wicket
Obstructing a fielder
Run out
Stumped
A "wide" in simplest terms is when the ball is bowled so far to the side or above the wicket that batsman is denied a reasonable opportunity to score.
In other use: "The Slashdot Editor's life looks like being called a wide".
It is for now, Unobtanium. ;)
Local records office is full of them. Went there to submit house plans and though I had a go, I found I lacked the skills to even manipulate one to the counter. They seemed to be aimless and uncontrollable which is probably why the local authority had them stored in the one building. I am fairly sure that 150k would be a bargain for a new one. A lot of these were older models and possibly cost as much as that to maintain annually. Fully autonomous advanced models for their day though, so I left fervently hoping that the powers would let them all loose soon during a value-for-money drive.
Well I would like them to find a way to make Pizza taste as good the day after. Nothing you can do with it seems to bring back the consistency, aroma and taste that it has when it first hits the table.
I confidently make a prediction that this will never happen.
Mr President, we simply cannot allow afford a closed die forging press gap!
Yahoo buying useful applications and then stuffing them royally has been a hallmark!! Remember the MusicMatch thing as well? Took a popular MP3 player/library and tried to replace it with a total piece of shit they developed in house in a half-arsed effort to transfer the customer base to their own failed adver-bloat offering.
What sort of a company buys up a superior product simply to remove competition to their failed product? Oh......... I'll just walk away now. :)
PS. Reckon she could get someone to look at reversing some of this damage? Pah! Dreams..sigh.
Look up "Australia NBN". I think you'll find plenty of articles and discussion on the points you raise.
In a nutshell:
Govt forms a company in which it initially holds 100% shares - it's called the National Broadband Network (NBN)
NBN borrows capital on open market to fund construction. Borrowing guaranteed by Govt.
NBN uses income from network to pay back debt as network is rolled out.
Success of project is guaranteed by granting a monopoly for fixed communications network to NBN co.
Project: The three technologies.
NBN lays FTTH to all premises reachable in towns with population > 1000.
High speed fixed wireless is provided to more sparsely populated areas.
High speed duplex satellite is provided to remote populations.
NBN co. cannot retail services - only wholesale to ISPs and other large users (utilities?)
Retail service providers may not own or compete with NBN co fixed infrastructure. No vertical integration allowed.
After project is complete (10+ years) Govt. sells off its holding of NBN co shares. Shares to be sold at a commercial rate that recoups investment + profit for Govt outlay.
Political views (abridged and rough)
Left and centre-left, and centre-right, "brilliant, finally a government doing something that needs to be done"
Right and far right, "communism, pure and unadulterated socialist attack on the freedoms of all"
Technophiles, "OMG finally something nearly right, but the interfaces aren't quite right and opportunities are being missed."
Rupert Murdoch, "this is a direct attack on my media, cable tv, telephony empire. Change the government now".
Opposition parties, "it's too expensive, under costed, inefficient and we'd do the same thing but not as good, but cheaper and anyway you only want it to watch porn and I have an ipad anyway, so there."
It is generally agreed that to attempt the same project in the USA would be laughable. Something about the constitution et al.
"third world country like Australia"
fug.......................
While most television aired in the US undoubtedly manages to portray foreign events deeply, fairly and truthfully, there may have been one or two liberties taken in the report referred to.
No Aboriginal treaty/treaties exist in Australia therefore crapping over them becomes ridiculously hard. There is a song about "Treaties" that was very popular though. It proclaims the need for a treaty such as that exists between the Maori and Pakeha of New Zealand. View here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7cbkxn4G8U
Rainforest around suburban Sydney hasn't existed in general since the local glaciers melted 20k years ago.
One State Government comparatively recently spent 30 million dollars gently de-sexing koalas to reduce their numbers as local over-population was severely degrading the natural environment. Others have spent far greater amounts constructing tunnels and overpasses for them for them to use in post-arboreal nocturnal perambulation (walkabouts).
Perhaps there is a point here in that if the Aboriginals were to be encouraged to go back to eating koalas (lack of predators leaves only disease and habitat as population controllers) there'd be more chance of cultivating rainforests around the suburbs. Note for Man vs Food fans: Koalas are rumoured to have a strong eucalyptus flavour that disagrees.
Disclaimer: I currently live in a suburb that has many koalas happily harvesting the local sclerophyll forest. They are common in this locality. We have internal plumbing to crap upon and this makes up for a lack of treaties to disrespectfully soil.
It's simply convergence. Think of the television as a large smartphone. In the near future when you sit down at the Christmas feast you will be able to share with friends and family in far flung places. You'll be able to attend meetings and interact at lectures. You can already do this at your pc? Then you already understand, just think of interacting in the lounge-room rather than the basement. The television is just an oversized monitor now, it's just getting incrementally smarter (and bigger).
Need to see a doctor or receive post-hospital care at home? Your internet connect television/ip phone allows this to happen in your home. You will be able to plug your auxiliary medical kit into the usb slot and your practitioner will see your vital signs directly.
It's Jetsons but sadly without the flying car.
The television has become the focal point of media in the home. Making it the communication device as well is a very simple step in the digital age.
Seriously, that's the best rant I've seen in a week.Cheered me up immensely. Kudos sir!
I have a car, a V6, that by the flick of switch (factory installed) changes from LPG to petroleum and back again. There is zero detectable performance difference. I stomp the pedal it throws you back in the seat. It goes up mountains just fine. Fuel injection, oxygen sensors and timing chips are the great advantages in modern engines. The only noticeable difference is that LPG is half the price and if you keep the car in idle for a couple of minutes it automatically switches fuel until you get moving again.
If it requires a heavyweight truck to transport these things then doesn't being on a train actually add security? It's not like somebody isn't going to notice you trans-shipping the "item". I figure that it would require at the very least a container forklift. If it's already on a truck on a highway it must be easier to just make it disappear?
When using a sextant you take 2 sights at sunrise (and sunset). These are known as first limb and second limb. Been like this for centuries I'm told. I'm sure you can infer when these are taken.
Actually No.. I think.
Buying cheap crap for chain is not what they do. The crap for chain is quite expensive if you buy it at Boeing for example.
The falls apart real fast has happened in Iraq for sure and latterly in Afghanistan too but which other areas? I think we are all wondering about the "now why" and I think that is a valid point.
[quote]In England, maybe an obnoxious drunk.[/quote]
Shit he was at the airport when I got there! Tried to just avoid him like everyone else until the true horror of the situation revealed itself. That wilted missive in his hand......it had my name on it!
"A car containing 10 kilos of weed contains nearly 8 kilos of weed, meaning that not only will someone go to jail for possessing 5 kilos of weed
What in hell have you been smoking?
These unique creatures, spawn of the mother earth, must be protected at all cost! Their precious and dwindling acidic heavy metal environment is threatened by organised international cleanup and restoration societies! They must be stopped! We must act now, band together and join with me in our "Occupy Pit" protest.
Save the extremophiles now!
Err that's not Rugby. It's not even anything like Rugby. Continue rant though because other than that I can't feel it in me to contradict the rest of it.
Too long to read through all of this.
I just want to make sure somebody posts the actual reason for spending the money installing these systems. A truly significant amount of staff time in a large shopping centre is taken up each day helping people find their cars. It's costly. In the main, there are two scenarios. Firstly, there are those who park regularly in the same area and then for some reason break their habit. These people usually head for centre management with a cry of "my car has been stolen!" They will insist that their car is gone and something has to be done! Sometimes you can jog their memory with questions such as "which door did you enter the store through" and "which shop did you visit first?" Too often you have all the security staff combing the car parks looking for the lost car. When finally their car is found for them, well if you expect them to be grateful, you'd often be out of luck.
The second type is the classic little old lady who simply can't remember where she parked and sometimes even if she came in a car at all. Usually they recover after a glass of water and a rest or sometimes a relative has to be called. It's a little sad but it happens every day.
There is another situation of course. Cars are often stolen from major shopping centres. In fact the numbers are so high that if you aren't in the know you'd probably be shocked. There are security cameras everywhere throughout your shopping mall now. They aren't a lot of use in preventing car theft. You just don't know where/when to look through the massive amount of information recorded. By storing licence plates temporarily into a searchable data base you are able to provide some useful timely assistance to a customer who has genuinely lost their car.
Shopping centres are not able, legally or otherwise, to connect your licence plate to your name or address or phone number or anything else in this country. Of course if you never lose your car, have never had it stolen, have no fear of having it stolen, you could just avoid using any place that has such a system. If you do lose your car at a shopping mall that doesn't have anything like this, please just quietly join the queue until somebody becomes available to help you find it. Please, no complaints.
The anti-matter went the other way - into anti-space/time. Over there they can't figure out where we went.
This has become a somewhat inaccurate historical meme, but of course with some basis. The first British settlement in Australia was an expedition to build a military outpost not a penal colony. The plan was hurriedly conjured up to deny the French a strategic position in the Pacific. They knew from experience that to build a self sustaining outpost on the far side of the planet required large reserves of labour.
They used slaves.
African slavery had become unpopular. Transportation to the American Colonies had been a useful tool in law and order matters for nearly one and a half centuries as a way of softening the "bloody laws". It has been estimated that about 50,000 convicts were transported on one way tickets to the North American Colonies, especially New England. The Crown paid merchants to ship them privately. Some were sold as slaves on arrival. Those that weren't sold outright were still slaves, but were more or less characterised as indentured labour. Emancipation was supposed to be granted after 7 years. The OP is correct when he says "many of the early settlers were criminals of some sort". In North America, just as in Australia later, the vast majority of settlers were not convicts.
After independence it became more difficult and less useful to send convicts to North America. The military needed an outpost built in the South Pacific to forestall the French. British and Irish slaves were the only means available to do the job quickly and thoroughly.
Once Port Jackson had been established, limited free settlement was encouraged. This influx of free civilians was needed to expand agriculture and commerce so that the train of expensive supply convoys could be wound back. Early settlers were given convict slaves to assist in their farming and business ventures. At this time it was certain that there were two distinct classes of criminals being transported. Nobody wanted a murderer or horse buggerer for a stable boy.
Better to have a shonky accountant as a gardener and a prostitute as a house maid.
The reward for hard work and diligence was a promise of emancipation. When this eventually came it arrived without the right to hold land tenure and other basic freedoms. Free labour morphed to cheap labour. Private businessmen were "limited" eventually to a maximum of 70 slave labourers. Wealth was accumulated rapidly by those that used the system.
Getting the "criminals" away from the colony became a priority.
Two penal settlements were established. The young colony of New South Wales had already started transporting its convicts. They were sent to the remote and God forsaken Norfolk Island and to the misery that was Port Arthur in Tasmania. Convicts were not be used as settlers but rather as slaves where possible and if truly incorrigible, to be physically and mentally destroyed as far from the shores of New South Wales as possible. A further attempt was made to create a genuine penal colony on the mainland at Moreton Bay but that, along with all forms of transportation, became so opposed by the inrush of free settlers that it was suspended in 1840 and officially abolished 10 years later.
Interestingly, the colonies themselves repeated the Port Jackson experiment at King George Sound in Western Australia in 1826 to prevent the French from claiming the western half of the continent. A military settlement supported by convict slave labour established the port of Albany, which later became a whaling centre. Western Australia was founded by a free settlement organisation but could not attract a sufficient labour force until gold was discovered in the 1890s. It petitioned Great Britain for convict labour and was eventually granted limited "supplies" for a period of about 18 years. The British Government insisted that they would only be sent under conditions where they would be freed after a relatively short period of "service".
The number of transportees to Australia was relatively high for such a short period. Higher than North America f
Ostriches aren't Australian, they're African. Omelettes can be made from emu eggs and I have tasted one. It really wasn't any different to one prepared from hen's eggs. It looked no different to this observer. Compare an emu egg to a hen's egg and they are quite different in size, colour and even texture internally and externally. The formula (recipe) however was just for a standard omelette that we would all recognise by sight instantly. Interestingly, it tasted like one prepared from hen's eggs as well. Couldn't tell the finished product apart.
Posix header files also look remarkably similar to this observer. If code is being written to a required formula so that it interacts correctly with other code (a standard) then there should be little surprise that it looks the same.
Egg analogies make me hungry.
The US entered the European part of WW2 because Hitler declared war upon the USA.
You might be thinking of the sinking of the Lusitania in WW1. Even then it wasn't the straw that broke the camel's back as the incident happened in May 1915 and the USA entered that war nearly 2 years later in April 1917.