"1 millilitre is 1 cubic centimetre (CC) of water (1 cm x 1 cm x 1 cm), 1 litre is 1000 CC's"

And the most practical part is that 1000cc = 1 litre = 1kg of water.

How heavy is a jug of water? Just look at the volume.

Also, In temperatures, 0'C is Freezing point of water, 100'C is boiling point.

In Volume/ Mass/ Weight, 1000sq/cm = 1 Litre = 1 kg of water.

All these have practical applications in real life.

I'm not American, so forgive me for asking, but don't Americans pay road tax?

I was just thinking today, if I were on the Jury after one grieving parent lost it at their protest and massacred the lot of them, I would find it pretty impossible to convict him.

I have a cousin who is a commercial pilot. He was first officer on a flight years back when wifi was first gaining popularity. After take off and the plane was levelled out, all of a sudden some of the nav equipment started giving false readings.

Long story short, it turned out that the wifi transceiver on a Toshiba laptop owned by one of the passengers was defective and was transmitting on frequencies it was not supposed to.

So yeah, while on paper it should not happen, you only need 1 fuckup by a minimum wage slave in a Chinese factory.

So Sony is an American company now?

"As for Israel and Palestine, I sometimes think we should lock them in their room until they sort it out. They are both behaving like children."

I used to think that too, but then if the international community really did that, it would simply end in Isreal reducing Gaza into a desolate wasteland. The only question is would they do it with conventional weapons or nukes.

Many professional agencies often expand great amounts of effort, time and money to create ads that their audience would find interesting while touting their message. Many in fact are aware that being a dick on the internet will only get you backlash, and are careful to make and place ads in the least obnoxious ways possible.

Problem is, 'ad makers' is not just one entity. Any business owners 12 year old nephew with rudimentary Photoshop skills thinks he is an ad agency these days, and ad sellers often have no minimum standards for what passes as an ad, as long as you fork over the money.

I am a maker of ads, and yet I too run adblock, because there are just too many eyesores out there created by people with no design sense whatsoever.

Maybe what needs to happen around Thankgiving is community kitchens. Have a temporary commercial kitchen setup somewhere in town staffed by people with a clue where, for a small donation, people can go get their turkey cooked.

Heck, I can even see sponsors being brought in to defray some costs, and a sense of community being built up around it.

Sarcasm aside, it is true tho. Compare the diplomatic and press headache that resulted from a pilot being captured, i.e the U2 over Soviet Russia, versus the recent Drone that went down over Iran.

In the former there was a cover up, public embarrassment from the subsequent expose and an enormous diplomatic spat that ended in a prisoner exchange. In the latter, the Iranians were made to look ridiculous for celebrating the downing of what amounts to a remote control air plane.

It is a significant development. I think the death of Steve Jobs could not have come at a better time, because if he were still around, what would be the odds of Apple settling with anybody?

Could this be the start of some major policy shifts at Apple?

Turning safely, and cutting the fastest line around a corner are two very different things. The faster you go around a corner on a 2 wheeler, the more you need to lean. While leaning, your centre of gravity shifts, the contact area between the bike tyres and the tarmac changes etc.

Cutting fast corners is relatively safe to do on a track, but on public roads, a puddle of water, a patch of sand or some leaves fallen on the road would be enough to throw you off and kill you.

If only I could mod you up to 6.

Hooke also selected several objects of human origin; among these objects were the jagged edge of a honed razor and the point of a needle, seeming blunt under the microscope. His goal may well have been as a way to contrast the flawed products of mankind with the perfection of nature (and hence, in the spirit of the times, of biblical creation).

I wonder what he might have thought if he could see a modern microprocessor under the microscope.

You raise an interesting point about having a 'fake' name to show the world, and what is your real name.

I'm Chinese, so on my bank accounts and official documents, I have the romanised version of my name in mandarin.

In day to day life however, everyone calls me Nicholas. My co workers, clients, friends, etc. and that is also the name I use on facebook. About the only people who know my name in mandarin are my immediate family, and entities I need to enter into contracts with.

To be sure, Nicholas is by no means fake or a pseudonym. My parents named me as such, and I have answered to that name all my life. Google me and you will turn up a lot of stuff i have put online over the years, pictures of parties, videos, random nonsense on forums etc. But searching official records for that name is going to turn up a lot of people who arn't me.

So back to the topic at hand, maybe what facebook is concerned with are name that are pure fiction/fantasy, after all, my name would pass the 'fake' test in the article as i have built an identity around it, but it's not my official name.