Exactly. Normal coffee is meant to be consumed at 60C/140F, and no hotter than 70C/160F, and is generally served around 10-15C hotter and allowed to cool.

At 200F, you're looking at instantaneous 2nd/3rd degree burns. Knock 20-25F off that serving temperature and cooling factors such as airborne dispersal and time taken to soak through clothes give you at least a fighting chance of coming out of it without needing skin grafts.

Unfortunately male mosquitos don't bite people.

I'd never heard of this but I just grabbed the demo and it's awesome! Buying the full version next paycheque.

Thanks for that! I thoroughly broke everything sound related mucking around with stuff I shouldn't have in 8.10, so I'll be having another crack with a clean install of 9.10 when the release version comes out.

I've been trying (every now and then, but for longer than I care to remember) to achieve the same thing except with analog speakers and a bluetooth headset. No luck yet...

This paradoxically works out in favor of the trolley lines, given that they tend to attract economic development to them.

Perhaps I'm looking at it wrong but I look at it as saying the use of trolleys attracts economic development like the parable of the broken window, by breaking a window glass you're creating work for the glass maker. However in reality breaking the glass only diverts money when it can be used for a better purpose. Instead of the kid getting the shoes he needs the money is now spent on glass.

It also sounds like the line that using tax money to pay for a new sports stadium brings in new revenue for the area. Not one economic study I've heard of concludes this is true. Some conclude any benefit is smaller than what was advertised. Others conclude there is no benefit at all.

Portland, OR claims that its streetcar line has spurred billions of dollars of investment in the area surrounding it in a very short period of time.

They may claim it but do the numbers support that? Or is it a broken window parable?

Falcon

Oh, mind you I'm not arguing against improving mass transit, I support doing it, but I'd like to see the numbers crunched. It's easy to be over optimistic when you're not spending your own money.

'Cause I don't want ass prints on my new door!

The Kindle charges from USB, doesn't it? Would something like this do the trick?

Is your claim of carbon-neutrality including power use? I've only ever hung out in a recycling mill so I don't know how different that is to a tree-to-paper setup, but the electricity overheads were staggering. Feel free to educate me but I have a hard time believing that the carbon sequestered in the paper is enough to offset that.

But what if you're really really good at killing puppies?

Craps is the only game I've ever played, at Star City in Sydney. I went into the casino flat broke one night with my housemates and scored two non-exchangeable $10 betting vouchers (one for signing up for some members' card thing I've never used, the other a prize from the free scratchie that came with it). After 20 or 30 minutes being taught how to play craps I quit with $30 cash, which kept me in food and nicotine until I got paid two days later. Then I got to watch one of my housemates drop almost $100 in a minute on consecutive dumbass $5 and $10 yo bets. No surprise, we found out soon after that he was a compulsive gambler and had lied about his employment, and shortly after that he skipped the state, owing us around $5000.

I love bright colours and flashy lights as much as the next person whose life ambition is to work their way through Erowid in alphabetical order but dammit, there are so many better places to see them. Buy yourself some holospex and come to a rave or something.

It's a safer jump if the shark is distracted by dog food.

Jan and Marcia Brady are the same generation, just siblings.