It's a beauty way to go !

Unplug your keyboard and boot up the computer, and you'd get this message on Win 98 and earlier versions :

"Keyboard not detected. Press any key to continue."

"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman

The communist plot to dilute our precious bodily fluids has succeeded !

There's always a chance that both answers are correct, even though they are different. Depending where you look (and how far back in time), the physical laws of the universe *might* be a little different.

Einstein said it : "Then again, E=mc^2 may only be a local phenomenon."

And Brave New World is now at #33 on the Bestseller list... two titles ahead of Fahrenheit 451. I sense a theme...

Did I miss something there ? Have they changed what a calorie is ? Last I checked the recommended daily intake of calories was 1800 or so. 400 kilocalories would be well over 200 day's worth.

My grandmother, who before passing away not too long ago at the age of 99, felt that despite seeing automobiles, computers and television all come of age, the microwave oven was the thing that made the largest impact in her life as a housewife. Her husband was a doctor, and with his irregular hours, it was nearly impossible to have a hot dinner ready for him when he got home, but the microwave changed that completely. It was a revolution in the production of hot meals, which is something most of us take for granted.

We know for a fact that over 99.99% of species that have evolved on the Earth have become extinct, regardless of mechanism.

Thinking that our species is exempt is pure hubris.

I wouldn't brag about that parking job. You burned off a huge chunk of your ship's iridium hull before plowing into the planet...

I think my main error is not knowing there is a difference between GW and GWh.

But I am nonetheless completely wrong. I stand rebuked :-p

New York City and it's boroughs used 60 million MWH of power last year.
That means it would require 120,000 plants like the one mentioned to power NYC.
Seeing as the plant itself takes up 6,178 acres, and 640 acres equals a square mile...
120,000 x 6178 / 640 = Yup, we need a little over a million square miles of facility for NYC.
That's a little less than *one fourth* of the total surface area of the United States... for ONE city.

When you make decisions for yourself, you are exercising your freedom.

When you make decisions for someone else, you are not exercising your freedom, you are denying them their freedom to choose.

Good old-fashioned inhaled Ether. The anesthetic properties preclude the possibility of pain, and increasing concentrations will cause sedation, unconsciousness and then respiratory paralysis (death). Literally painless. Just have to be sure the gas chamber doesn't accidentally explode.

I, too, hate it when a film does not inspire.

The story of a man of vast intellect and education who is a virtuoso at his craft (also maligned and misunderstood by almost everyone) filmed carefully so as to make not only his massive intellect apparent, but also managing to paint him as warm and charming within his personal limits.

And yet, for all the success of the film, we just don't have as many Hannibal Lectors as you'd think...