Flu is transmitted by droplets. You can easily catch a droplet in your mouth or other mucous membrane, even with proper hand-washing (though that helps).

2.4gHz is very common.

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Poor analogy. Schizophrenia is an organic disease that affects neurotransmitter levels (hence the medical therapies). It is every-bit as real as diabetes.

Actually, Democrats are the lawsuit-friendly ones (John Edwards, etc). Republicans are insurance-company friendly.

I know this is the internet, but wow. You could have just told you disagreed but instead you went the "I'll be an absolute fucking asshole to a stranger because he posted a fact I deem incorrect."

Either your mother messed you up bad or you were massively bullied in school and are still hung up on that and now take it out on some guy in a comment section. Either way, I'd say you should consider talking to someone about it.

Carbonation is an acid. The effect on teeth is three-fold. The sugar is bad (Feeds the bacteria). The acid level rise damages teeth directly. The acid level rise is beneficial for the bacteria. The bacteria raise the acid level, and the acid ends up eating the enamel.

Incorrect. COLA is acidic. CO2 in your bloodstream may cause a respiratory or metabolic alkalosis but not from drinking club soda. COLA affects teeth. COLA may contribute to bacterial overgrowth.

Seltzer does none of those things.

This *could* actually be good if they treat it like the first Pirates of the Caribbean movie. That movie simply made a Good Pirate film, not really tying it to the ride at all (that being said I recently went to Disney World and it's interesting that they've retcon'd the ride into being all about the Depp films).

I can easily see them making an Indiana Jones-type sci-fi film where there is one small scene involving an alien puzzle that sort-of resembles a Tetris puzzle. The protagonist lines up some block line in Tetris, a door opens and the movie continues. 30 seconds of reference to the game while otherwise being an independent sci-fi film.

Also, that's why I had high hopes for Battleship. It had a competent director and all he had to do was use a decent Navy/boat script - that's all. They weren't confined to any sort of plot at all. Too bad they messed it up (and, to be fair, I have to admit that the climactic scene with the anchor/flipping the boat around was pretty neat).

Why has hollywood butchered the reality periscopes in submarines? Answer that and you will have the answer to space battles depiction.

Interesting comment. Please explain to this non-Navy/submarine-ignoramus here...

This is what happened.

When Friends and Big Bang cast members decide to unite for higher paychecks, the executives cave. A few years ago, some of the minor stars on CSI tried to do the same and were canned immediately.

I think they were trying to set a precedent for 2nd/3rd tiet actors/participants in a show that such actions will result in a 100% paycut. I can't totally blame them either.

I have a friend w/a 1-digit UID. He's not interested in selling but I wonder what it would go for...

A *few* details of what you did? Please???? :)

I love Clippy. There, I said it.

I assume you either meant an iMac (or maybe even an iPaq), because not even Steve Jobs could have purchased an iPad in 2001.

Do a web search for Gameboy in Iraq. You'll turn up a fully-functioning gameboy that survived mortars(bombs?) hitting a base. The thing is mostly black and has some of the plastic melting, but it still plays tetris and is on display in a museum.

I live in New York City and I can vouch for this. It's in the Nintendo World Store in Rockefeller Center. It's not technically a "museum," but it's in a display case on the 2nd floor with some special/vintage Nintendo products. It is half-melted as ausekills says. They have it auto-playing the original Tetris.

I remember seeing The Matrix in the theatres (or even the trailer) and, while Bullet Time was awesome, I thought "Neat! It's just like that Gap ad on tv!"

Gap Bullet Time 1998 ad