I was fifteen when lightning stuck about 15 feet away from me.

I saw the air get bright blue, and then I was getting up off of the ground. I never heard the thunder, I felt it. The shock wave literally knocked me on my ass.

Afterward, I had three separate "epileptic episodes" where I was convinced I "SAW GOD". However, now I know that all the synapses in body brain were firing all at the same time, making me feel and think EVERYTHING at once. (((If this is death, then bring it on!)))

But alas, I know that it was just an electro-chemical response to the shock to my system. Reality can be quite a let-down when you analyze things from a scientific standpoint.

Most mammals have a weaning process where the children normally lose the ability to digest milk. It is part of the transition away from being dependent on parents.

However, humans have affected their own evolution by habit and by necessity.

When the vast expanse of North America was being settled by Europeans (sorry Native Americans), many brought cattle and dairy animals to help settle this continent. During hard times, being able to digest milk as an adult was a significant advantage.

It has been estimated that 60% of "Old World" populations cannot properly digest milk,cheese,cream,etc.. Meanwhile, about 80% of "New World" population can effectively digest lactose products.



Remember, 94.3% of all statistics are "made up" on the spot.

In at 8 AM, lunch usually at my desk.

Gone at 3 PM, like clockwork, maybe stay later once or twice a month.

Occasionally work an hour or two from home, usually once or twice a week.

NOTE: Hours working != Actual work accomplished.

My company knows the above inequality and leaves me alone, since I am the most productive worker here. More productive than those who put in 50 hours a week, and we are all salaried employees.

Sorry -- I screwed up! It is Dr. Yehoash Raphael. His Email is a shortened version (which I will not disclose here.) I am not sure which name is his firstname and which is his lastname. And yes Dr. Geoffrey Manley is correct.

This might work for nerve deafness.

However, if it is tinnitus (ringing of the ears) you are concerned with, you should check out the work of Dr. Raphael Yoesh at the University of Michigan.

Also read some of the papers written by Geoffery A Manley on the subject.

It seems that birds can regrow the hairs (cilia) in the inner ear, but mammals cannot.

Now if only I could get the hair growing out of my ears to grow in my inner ear, I would be okay. (What?) (What?)

I thought heterodyning was the process of adding the sound wave to the radio wave. I guess it also means adding one radio wave to another. (Thanks.)

When searching "simultaneous radio transmission" in SCIRUS, I do get answers about destructive wave interference. Some suggested solutions have the receiver controlling the senders, effectively multiplexing their transmissions.

There are some other interesting articles about unintentional hetrodyning of two bluetooth signals causing RF outside of the FCC allowed bandwidths. Interesting stuff.

Well, then again so is Google.

When I want a scientific answer, not a bunch of ads. I go to SCIRUS.

http://www.scirus.com/srsapp

Try any search engine to find out why a third walkie talkie gets feedback when two walkie talkie's "talk" keys are pressed. EVERY site will try to sell you walkie talkies. SCIRUS has the answer. (But it is so scientific I cannot figure out what the answer means.)

I bet it has something to do with destructive interference in the electromagnetic waves, and synchronizing the two walkie talkies would allow the third to hear both voices.(?) Maybe?

OK, if you have EVER been printed, then you are in the database.

But that data is subdivided into many categories. There are arsonists, murders, kidnappers, organized crime members and many other sections of the database.

This is simply for faster searching. If you have a latent print at an arson scene, it would be faster to search the arsonists section FIRST, then if you do not get a match, only then do you bother searching the rest of the database.

If every search searched the entire database, all seaches would slow to a crawl and the queue to do a search would be unbearable.

The system you used had no human being screening the results, and what you experienced was "similar fingerprints" and probably not exact matches.

For crimes at least, no person has ever been convicted on the testimony of an AFIS computer.

AFIS returns "possible matches" with in a list of most similar matches to least similar. Then a latent fingerprint examiner (a real live person) determine which print (if any) is the real match.

Also, when you watch CSI and the prints are flashing on one side of the screen while the other side of the screen displays the unknown print, is total bollocks. Fingerprints are reduced to numerical representations and THAT DATA is compared to obtain the list.

BTW, I helped create AFIS.

This is not my quote, and I do not remember where I read it.

"Using SSL to transfer information from server to server is analogous to using armored cars to transfer bags of money from one park bench to another."

Try the Bible. The most widely accepted work of pure fantasy ever written.

Data on a DVD/CD doesn't all crap out at once. In normal usage, scratches cause some data loss. However for long term storage significant loss would happen when the plastic reflective surface itself degrades. Still, when properly stored, a DVD/CD should last 30 years. To increase the odds of your data lasting, and to spend the least amount of cash, simply make multiple copies of your most precious data. That way, hopefully, each DVD/CD will retain SOME data and it can all be pieced back together from the multiple copies. The more precious the data, the more copies you should make. I think 5 copies stored in a climate controlled safe should last at least 100 years, if not, longer.

It is really easy to make a web crawler in Java. (Look at java.net.http or maybe java.awt.net.http) I made a decent one by myself in about a week. Okay, so my web crawler only does TEXT/HTML. No images, no Active X, no video. From experience, an average web page is about 10Kbytes. Now, anyone's specific application will probably be looking for key words, or else you are just re-creating Google. A key word data crawl would return a LOT less information, but would still require a lot of bandwidth and processing power to do the work. So bandwidth and processing time is what they are selling -- the place where this company's services would be most useful.

Wrong.

The houses in my neighborhood were built around 1980.

All have copper pipes in the slab.

All the houses are developing leaks IN THE SLAB and have to be completely re-plumbed through the attic. My house was re-plumbed about 5 years ago. Next door, they had it done last summer, only after extensive water damage.

Copper pipes in concrete slabs = bad idea.

It may or may not be electrolysis, but something IS damaging ALL the piping in ALL the houses in my neighborhood.

In cities with a lot of TV stations -- everyone bring an old analog TV to the party. Each TV gets tuned to a different station. As each station blinks out, everyone slams a drink. By midnight, all channels should be gone. By midnight, everyone should be snockered.