So, there were 501 samples taken over two studies that this study cites; one is a national sampling, the other is near shore Great Lakes only. This averages out to slightly more than one fish per congressional district. It lists a breakdown by species (sort of), but it only accounts for 289 samples of the total. It's unclear why they left some species off the list, given they list one species with just one sample, and another with just three.

From the study, here are the samples by species, that they chose to list:
Coho (Pacific silver) salmon: 3
Chinook (Pacific king) salmon: 6
Yellow Perch: 24
Walleye: 31
Smallmouth bass: 77
Largemouth bass: 37
White catfish: 1
Flathead catfish: 9
Blue catfish: 12
Channel catfish: 86

The gap between thumb drives being released and being cost-size-quality competitive with Zip disks was only about 3 years.

I bought my first thumb drive, a 256 MB unit, in spring 2004 after my buddy introduced me. It cost me about the same as four 100 MB Iomega Zip Disks, IIRC.

The 100 MB Zip Disk was the most prolific size, as that was the initially released drive capacity; if you were carting Zip Disks around between different places, you couldn't be sure the drives elsewhere were the 250 MB version. My University had 250 MB Zip drives installed in most of their PCs (ca. 2003-2005), and that was the way I transferred schoolwork between my home computer and school, up to the point I bought a thumb drive. The 750 MB Zip drives were released around that same time, but they had an epic design shortcoming such that they were read-only for 100 MB disks (I found this out the hard way, after buying one). The 750 MB disks were priced too high to justify purchasing only for my drive at home (my home computer had a 160 GB hard drive, at that point).

Zip Disk also had an issue of failing pre-maturely in dusty environments; not a problem at the university, but we went through tons of Zip Disks in the Army, just a bit prior to my time at the university. Dust is not really a problem with thumb drives.

As a company, Iomega also had the Jazz Drive (which I never saw in-person), which started at 1 GB, and similarly went up a bit in capacity over time. Jazz Drives seemed to be mostly marketed for graphics and A/V profession editors. Iomega crashed just a couple years later (there was the 750 MB drive debacle, thumb drives outpacing their tech, and some other poor management decisions).

I believe "waste wood" in this case would be the parts that never make it onto the log truck to even get to the sawmill. If you're going to bury all those trimmings, I think doing it on-site would still be better than hauling it some distance away.

I still play the Rock Band and Dance Central series. The online play wasn't really a significant part of these games to begin with. The bigger issue would be cutting off access to the in-game store to pick up more tracks. Although in the case of Rock Band, part of the store library was cut off years ago: those were the tracks created by licensed third parties ("Rock Band Network" tracks); these tracks remain playable. Around the same time, they patched the game to disallow you to play unlicenced tracks not available in the store (with the idea that you could play test your own creations). At least on XBox 360, you can delete the patch and still play unlicenced tracks, but I think that also cut access to the store and some other minor features, IIRC. Playing unlicenced tracks never counted towards achievements, to begin with. As a whole, downloaded tracks were always playable offline.

I've made a few trips to Korea over the years, and I've had many Korean friends and colleagues. They've all described their age counting method as starting from the date of conception (or at least the best guess of date of conception). Korean Slashdotters feel free to correct me.

Two assymetries: The spy (lowest rank) can be killed by any piece except the marshal (top rank), but spy kills the marshal. The (land)mine kills everything except the engineer (engineer is 2nd lowest rank, IIRC).

Two weeks, really? I'm sure even the JMSDF submarine force has longer patrols than that! Just one of their submarines has a complement of 65-70 crew, crammed together in a tube measuring about 9m x 82m that is already packed pretty full with pipes, machinery, weapons, and structure. And they have 22 subs to pick from.

I have a pretty bomb 7.1 home theater system. Before I dumped my cable TV service, I noticed that this was a frequent problem with movies shown on cable TV. If I watched the same movie on DVD or BluRay, the audio would be clear. If I watched the same movie on Netflix (with just simple stereo, same condition as cable), the audio would be clear. The only conclusion I can reach is that cable TV channels delibrately muck with levels and equalizer settings (I think they scoop out the mid-range frequencies where speech mainly resides) on the main programming to get you to turn up the volume for the speaking parts in movies, so you suddenly get blasted when it switches to over to commercial breaks (with boosted mid-range).

Moose tags are a hunting license lottery in most states that have moose. Even Alaska puts relatively strict (but non-lottery) moose tags limits for residents who hunt for sustinence. Tags for deer, elk (where abundant), pigs, and game birds are usually fairly easy to get in most places. Whether there are hunting grounds close enough to your home to offset the cost of fuel and hunting licence(s) to reach the hunting grounds is another matter entirely, as are hunting and tracking skills (to include being good as choosing hunting grounds), and skills to clean, dress, butcher, etc. (gotta get the meat home and frozen/refrigerated before it goes bad). Fishing can also be pretty restrictive, depending on where you live.

In industry terms, "hemp" doesn't necessarily mean cannabis, it means any grassy / bushy plant suitable for producing fairly strong rope and similar fibers (of which cannabis is a possible choice).

The Hunga Tunga volcanic eruption earlier this year (that was the massive eruption in the south Pacific with the satellite footage that went viral) pushed so much ocean water into the atmosphere, it increased the total water concentration of the stratosphere, worldwide, by 5%. This is a remarkable increase. Water vapor is a much stronger greenhouse gas than CO2, so this will cause near term global warming for the next few years (until that excess water vapor can cycle out of the stratosphere), at levels well above anthropogenic warming levels.

I liked the Expendibles, but I went into it with full knowledge that it was supposed to be a mild spoof of the 1980s-1990s action flicks that the actors had previously starred in. It didn't try to take itself too seriously. I mean, it even had Stallone's character teasing Chuck Norris' character with Chuck Norris jokes with Chuck Norris himself delivering at least one punchline.

Although, the sequels were just pure cash grabs, as the novelty and spoof value wore off by the second movie.

I think I will just stick with MyAnimeList.net, which itself claims to be the world's largest anime & manga DB, and has been in existence a lot longer.

I know a few people in my area who just got theirs this last weekend. So far, it's been faster than any of our the local ISPs except Comcast (and the very limited deployment of CenturyLink fiber). It's even been faster than Comcast's local semi-competitor for cable. It's been much, much faster than the DSL providers.

If you are recording from inside 8 feet with a dashcam, you are very likely not a "bystander", but directly involved in the events.