Quite the opposite reaction to what most of our drills have. //smirk

Dunno... what's that in units of Beowolf Clusters? (misspelling intentional)

They were a civilisation of dentists, and they kept their trove of Mercury around 'cause it's used in fabbing the amalgalm for fillings.

Or eleven years in Twelveworth,
or five to ten in Woolworth.

Hey, someone had to quote it!

Seems to me that, at least on /. , it needs to be called "Thrist."

In a post about half a page down from this article, Norway is going to kill off FM in favor of digital (DAB) as the only broadcast method.

So there you are.

You guys are missing the obvious solution: make like the Japanese and their artificial islands. Fill in the Bering Strait and just build a paved road on top of the ridgeline you just created between SIberia and AK.

WCPGW?

One good reason to discourage the pasive voice is that it leads the reader to believe things "just happened," rather than emphasizing the causative agent.

"War broke out" vs "A small band of vocal rabble chose to separate from England rather than pay excessive tax on tea"

He clearly suggested spending less on Defense Dept and more on socialist anarchist anti-American [[sarcasm]] !

We can't have that now, can we?

Or MGM, or Sony, or Disney.

(sarcasm)

Yes, LEDs are far more efficient and use less electricity yada yada. However, it's pretty much guaranteed that this will not lead to cost savings.
Historically, every time a cheaper lighting technology came along, from candles to oil lamps to gas lamps to Edison bulbs to CFLs, people simply increase the amount of lighting and the length of time (into the night) that they keep the house lit up. I see nothing to suggest that conversion to LEDs will change this trend.

See, I'm only going to do one eye. That way I'll look really unusual (or worse terms :-) ) , plus I'll have 2500 to waste on hookers and blow.

Not to mention a USA birth certificate.

FTFY

You got semi-whooshed there: the quote is from one of the all-time greatest pinball machines: Attack From Mars. Which, BTW, is available as a sim via PinballArcade.