You know what it reminds me of? Tasty Wheat. Did you ever eat Tasty Wheat, Neo?

FYI, almost everyone in Canada uses interac. I haven't even seen a cheque in a retail situation in ten years.

Pah! Those "Belgium" cows are as much a hoax as Belgium itself.

Let me ask you: why name a real cow after a nonexistent country?

4n+1 doesn't work because 4n gives an even number, then adding 1 makes it odd. I assume this holds for any even integer.

Or A World out of Time. In that one the state decided that property willed by frozen people to themselves was forfeit, and thawed people had no rights under the law, being legally dead still.

Burma Shave

Tangential thought here

Is there a chip that can do both wifi and bluetooth? They seem fairly similar, would it not be just a bit of firmware hocus pocus, and maybe two different antennae, to make either one work? RF communication is RF communication, right?

Bach's work was great, but think of what he could have done if he had access to the high quality instruments of our time. Better instruments makes music more enjoyable to listen to, just as better graphics make games better to play.

Instrument quality is not the most important aspect of music, just as graphics aren't the most important part of games, but they add to the experience.

If the dark matter keeps going independently of the baryonic matter, why is dark matter still associated in any way with regular matter in the universe? That is to say, why is it still hanging around in galaxies and not off on its own.

If dark matter can't be stopped by regular interactions, should there not be galaxies bereft of dark matter after collisions, which now conform to our non-dark-matter theories?

Mmmmmm, botnet made of TVs....

Sure we can, it just takes a while. Acceleration is easy in space. At 1G, the centre of the Milky Way is just 25 years away.

There is one way to surreptitiously build infrastructure on the cheap. Cable companies have connections to nearly every home, and many are getting into the internet/phone gig. Where I work, the cost per metre of fibre optic cable is low enough that we're running new cables all the time.

Khalid Khulaif Alhardbi is charged with hostage taking, assault causing bodily harm and wearing a mask during an offence. source

In Nova Scotia at least, wearing a mask during a crime gets you stiffer penalties.