And acidity. Nothing wrong with Robusta beans, but you can't sell the resulting product as "Arabica coffee".

Sushi, fishy -- I can see the connection.

Not seen the place, not been there, but I can't see a reason a restaurant won't take cards.

I'll mark you points if you can open a telnet or ssh connection to a Unix shell account somewhere. Packet drivers and NCSA Telnet would get you there, and you could run a commandline webclient from there.

For another starting point look on http://users.ohiohills.com/fmacall/ or http://sshdos.sourceforge.net/index.html

Your next challenge: do it on an 8088.

This one: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Am5x86

It'll be an overclocked AMD. I had one of those too :)

My dad's case was lung cancer -- even though he was not a smoker -- with a 6% survival rate after 5 years. This happened 10 years ago, I realize our understanding of cancer has improved and more options have become available, but your prospects still don't look great. Sad as it may be, your *should* realize fully that your case may *not* be one with a miraculous happy ending.

On reading back I realize I sound slightly bitter, and I would not want people to just give up hope. My dad's case was lung cancer -- even though he was not a smoker -- with, according to the stats you point to, a 6% survival rate after 5 years. This happened 10 years ago, I realize our understanding of cancer has improved and more options have become available, but your prospects still don't look great.

My dad died of cancer.

Most stuff "doesn't work". Cancer is a terrible disease that has *some* medicines that prolong life, by a bit, but few real cures. About the only thing that has been proven to work is chemotherapy, and that's a race -- poison the whole body, hope that you *just* out-poison the cancer and the body has enough resources left to recover. Few win the race.

Given that track record, of the "best the pharmaceutical industry has to offer" I can understand the clutching at straws. My dad, towards the end, signed on for some experimental treatment, hoping to at least add a datapoint to the body of knowledge. A large part though, is simply coming to terms with the fact that, yes, if you've been diagnosed with cancer, you will probably die of the disease.

If it was a Razr, the transmitting bit is actually in the mouthpiece.

Grievance over one lost life -- 2 million dollars

One roof replacement -- 50.000 dollars

Day value of one used car -- 10.000 dollars

Cheque made out to the claimant, US$ 2.060.000

You got a bottle of water? Fly RyanAir.

Great airline if you feel a need to stock up on Irish lottery tickets, sandwiches, cheap perfume, toys. They won't stop paddling you stuff from the second they're in the air until landing sets in.

Those tickets are cheap, but it's incredibly hard to compare their price. The sticker price is not the real price because of "add-on luxuries" -- there's extra fees for online check-in, luggage, paying by creditcard -- and you only get the "final" price once you're 80% thru the booking process.

As a kid, flying felt like a glamorous way to travel. Airports were exotic places you could go to to watch planes come in from foreign lands.

My kids haven't flown yet.

I learnt all I cared to learn about hand to hand combat in paintball. You'll last 5-10 minutes before being shot.

The only way to win, is not to play.

LV bags are expensive -- and the magic aura is created by having chosen celebrities photographed. I'm not sure how mentioning a brand name is *ever* relevant to the plot of a movie. Basically LV is getting free mention -- were they too cheap to provide the goods?

woooosh.

Monthly salary for a teaching assistant in Sweden: 19 500 Swedish kronor = 2 835.456 U.S. dollars

(source: http://www.thelocal.se/discuss/index.php?showtopic=14142)

Cost of GPS widget: 25 U.S. dollars

(source: http://www.focalprice.com/ERW21B/Mini_GPS_Personal_Locator_Tracking_Device_Black.html?utm_source=CS&utm_medium=GM_UK&utm_campaign=CS_GM_UK_ERW21B)

If it saves 2 hours a year per child (2835 / month ~= 100 a day ~= US$ 25 for 2 hrs) , it's worth it.