• Loren Pechtel (unregistered)

    What I want to know is what's the difference between "Horse Dealer" and "Horse Trader"?

  • JohnB (unregistered)

    Continental, contiguous ... what about D.C.?

  • MonsterDon (unregistered)

    To be fair to the Magellan box, it does show a picture of the 48 states that it has maps for. Driving directions to Alaska are a bit difficult. I don't even want to be in the car with the person who tries to drive to Hawaii.

  • Alan (unregistered) in reply to Jim Leonard
    Jim Leonard:
    I don't think it's fair to knock the Magellan entry; it's only missing the word "continental". In fact, it's more stupid to think that a personal GPS would contain all 50 states -- what, you're going to drive to Hawaii?

    Why not, It has interstate highways...

    http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/infrastructure/hawaii.htm

  • Kinglink (unregistered)

    The time has come! Equality of the sexes has finally arrived. That's why it's Kissagram person instead of Kissagram man. Thank god I lived to see this day.

  • (cs) in reply to MonsterDon
    MonsterDon:
    Driving directions to Alaska are a bit difficult.

    Couple weeks ago in Anchorage I saw a young couple getting out of a car with Florida tags on it. Either they shipped it there, or they're completely out of things to say to each other.

    JohnB:
    Continental, contiguous ... what about D.C.?

    D.C. is not a state, so I don't think it enters into the discussion.

  • Péter (unregistered)

    I guess the real WTF here would be anyone thinking one can make a dropdown list of all countries. Do you have Montenegro there? Kosovo? How about next month?

  • Uberbastard (unregistered)

    "We're up to fifty states now..."

    However, there are only 48 contiguous (and therefore united) states. I am hoping that my GPS company is more inclined to making capitalization errors over the idea of losing two whole states.

  • (cs) in reply to Jim Leonard
    Jim Leonard:
    I don't think it's fair to knock the Magellan entry; it's only missing the word "continental". In fact, it's more stupid to think that a personal GPS would contain all 50 states -- what, you're going to drive to Hawaii?

    You missed the post above that clearly states the wrong usage of continental vs contiguous.

    I argue that it may be bad grammar. "Pre-loaded with maps of the 48 United States". My problem is the "the" in front of the 48. It should be "maps of 48 US states". (**note that this is not redundant as the first states is part of the country name) In this case the "the" implies entirety.

    Also with most GPS they are portable, so why would you not want to use it in/around Hawaii and Alaska?

  • (cs) in reply to axus
    axus:
    Hmmm... if I've traded AND dealt horses, which job do I pick?
    Horse thief.
  • (cs) in reply to Corey
    Corey:
    nt:
    "Tadzhikstan"? Is this standard spelling anywhere?
    Russian doesn't have a "J" sound... they use "дж" instead, which transliterates into English letters as "dzh".
    Can we just write it as "j" and be done with it?
  • Joel (unregistered)

    You left out the best one: "Dispatch rider" LOL

  • (cs) in reply to Someone You Know
    Someone You Know:
    D.C. is not a state, so I don't think it enters into the discussion.

    But a map of it is included, so it should be.

    "... of the 48 Contiguous States and the District of Columbia." Sure, it's wordy, but if you're going to do something, you should be accurate.

  • Johnny Sane (unregistered) in reply to Kinglink
    Kinglink:
    The time has come! Equality of the sexes has finally arrived. That's why it's Kissagram person instead of Kissagram man. Thank god I lived to see this day.
    I prefer the term "Personal Interface Specialist."
  • (cs) in reply to B
    B:
    Has anone else read the US Code Title 4 Chaper 1 Section 1?
    The flag of the United States shall be thirteen horizontal stripes, alternate red and white; and the union of the flag shall be forty-eight stars, white in a blue field.

    President Eisenhower issued Executive Order 10834 when Alaska and Hawaii were granted statehood that overrode that section of the US Code and laid out the present flag design.

    /history major

  • luke (unregistered) in reply to FredSaw

    It might look funny to you, but that's the way they do it in most Slavic languages. All words all spelled phonetically using standard Latinizations of the Cyrillic alphabet. If you want to find the Hobbit in a bookstore, you have to look under Dž.R.R. Tolkin.

  • (cs) in reply to dpm
    dpm:
    Someone You Know:
    D.C. is not a state, so I don't think it enters into the discussion.

    But a map of it is included, so it should be.

    "... of the 48 Contiguous States and the District of Columbia." Sure, it's wordy, but if you're going to do something, you should be accurate.

    If the thing includes maps of DC, the statement is not inaccurate, just incomplete. But that is the upper limit of my nitpickiness for today.

  • Random Article Reader (unregistered)

    Right below Matty's insurance form was a GEICO insurance add. I believe the talking lizard would be a "Hawker" on the job list.

  • Aredhel (unregistered)

    I am not from USA so I don't know all the states, but aren't the two missing states Hawaii and Alaska? From the map they seem not to be included

  • Jeanne P. (unregistered) in reply to Josh

    Not anymore - many devices are already built with lead-free solder.

  • nit picker (unregistered) in reply to Random Article Reader

    job list:

    professional list scroller

  • nit picker (unregistered) in reply to Jeanne P.
    Jeanne P.:
    Not anymore - many devices are already built with lead-free solder.
    If lead-free-solder is as effective as fat-free-[chips/ice cream] tastes good, then we are all doomed to be replacing things far more frequently
  • geographer (unregistered) in reply to nit picker

    It seems everyone has forgotten that many folks in the US live in the state of Denial

  • Spacewarp (unregistered) in reply to Johnny Sane

    I prefer the term "Negotiable Affection Specialist"

  • LadyPao (unregistered) in reply to Josh
    Josh:
    And I'm surprised no one mentioned the 'product contains lead' warning - WTF??

    Solder. (lead and tin amalgam)

    Every electronic device uses it for electrical component connections.

    An ongoing issue is Europes' new regulations on lead content in consumer electronics leading to reduced product lifetimes. (short circuiting due to tin whiskers phenomena)

    Ah, interesting, and I'm very surprised lead solder is still used as years ago in the stained/leaded glass hobby (one of mine) lead solder was replaced with lead free due to the toxicity of the fumes.

  • Eli (unregistered)

    Uh, there's no WTF on those maps. Unless you think you need driving directions to Alaska or Hawaii? Duh.

  • Eli (unregistered) in reply to James

    If you really want to pedantic it should be 48 contiguous states and the District of Columbia. Unless the map goes dark when you cross the bridge from VA?

  • Sean (unregistered)

    The 48 states thing makes sense, I think they just forgot to put the word "continental" in there. A lot of stores will only offer shipping or other services to the "48 continental states" (that is, neither Alaska nor Hawaii).

    I've never understood why they use the word "continental" though since Alaska is definitely part of the same continent.

  • (cs) in reply to Random Article Reader
    Random Article Reader:
    Right below Matty's insurance form was a GEICO insurance add. I believe the talking lizard would be a "Hawker" on the job list.
    In my part of the country, a hawker is a guy who goes around spitting out big gobs of mucus.
  • Ken Sykora (unregistered) in reply to Johnny Sane

    The second image isn't a WTF - they obviously only loaded the continental US. If they had included an image of Alaska and Hawaii, then you could call it a WTF.

    Comeon editors...

  • Joebob McGee (unregistered)

    I especially like that Tadzhikistan is also in the list, a country that only came to exist as part of the breakup of the USSR.

  • Rich Daley (unregistered)

    That list of countries must have been taken from the list of valid TLDs, which explains why the following also appear:

    Czechoslovakia East Timor Yugoslavia Zaire

    Interestingly, they must have included proposed names too, because the list contains both "Great Britain" and "Scotland".

  • (cs) in reply to Sean
    Sean:
    The 48 states thing makes sense, I think they just forgot to put the word "continental" in there. A lot of stores will only offer shipping or other services to the "48 continental states" (that is, neither Alaska nor Hawaii).

    I've never understood why they use the word "continental" though since Alaska is definitely part of the same continent.

    That's why (as others have noted) you should use 'contiguous' instead of 'continental', because, you can drive to Alaska. You just have to go through Canada, and you probably want to do it in the summer.

  • Owen Rudge (unregistered)

    If you scroll down that list, you'll also find the likes of Yugoslavia available. I wonder if they'll let me select one of the 13 Colonies.

  • Your Name (unregistered) in reply to LadyPao
    LadyPao:
    Josh:
    And I'm surprised no one mentioned the 'product contains lead' warning - WTF??

    Solder. (lead and tin amalgam)

    Every electronic device uses it for electrical component connections.

    An ongoing issue is Europes' new regulations on lead content in consumer electronics leading to reduced product lifetimes. (short circuiting due to tin whiskers phenomena)

    Ah, interesting, and I'm very surprised lead solder is still used as years ago in the stained/leaded glass hobby (one of mine) lead solder was replaced with lead free due to the toxicity of the fumes.

    no.

    The fumes are not caused by the lead. If you're evaporating and inhaling lead, you're doing it wrong.

    Electronics solder, if it comes off the spool, contains what is called a "rosin core". This tree sap stuff when melted basically protects the molten metal from oxygen, allowing one to get a good joint. Burning the rosin resin causes the carcinogenic smoke, and there's really no way around it.

    Lead free solder will contain a similar rosin.

    The other dangerous stuff in electronic devices is that thick green solder resist gunk on circuit boards. Just like the "new car smell", that "new electronics" smell is also carcinogenic.

    so please, leave lead alone. It's really the best way to hold components onto a circuit board, because it is somewhat flexible. It gets such a bad reputation for "known in the state of California as causing birth defects and reproductive harm"... Lead is fine, just don't eat it! You can't eat a lot of things.

    One wonders if the XBOX 360 wouldn't be getting the red ring of death if Microsoft would have been more evil and specified lead solder (where still legal)? Same thing with the reports of chips popping off in apple laptops. lead free solder is brittle.

    Now, on the other hand, putting lead in gasoline was not such a good idea.

  • Owen Rudge (unregistered) in reply to Owen Rudge

    Hm, and I didn't spot the page 2 where somebody had already noticed this fact. ;)

  • user (unregistered) in reply to Erwan

    It's just badly worded english IMHO.

    It says: "of the 48 United States", which can both implicitely mean "the 48 states shown below" or "there are 48 states in the US".

  • int19h (unregistered)

    Well, the "USSR" option makes sense on some forms at least - some of us were born there, you know...

  • Salty (unregistered) in reply to Loren Pechtel
    Loren Pechtel:
    What I want to know is what's the difference between "Horse Dealer" and "Horse Trader"?
    The first one works in Vegas or Atlantic City.
  • (cs) in reply to Eli
    Eli:
    Uh, there's no WTF on those maps. Unless you think you need *driving directions* to Alaska or Hawaii? Duh.

    Your point is valid for Hawaii, but do you honestly think it's not possible to drive to Alaska?

  • JL (unregistered) in reply to Loren Pechtel
    Loren Pechtel:
    What I want to know is what's the difference between "Horse Dealer" and "Horse Trader"?
    Presumably one of them deals with more shit.
  • Wolfgang T. Frusengladje (unregistered) in reply to webhamster
    webhamster:
    B:
    Has anone else read the US Code Title 4 Chaper 1 Section 1?
    The flag of the United States shall be thirteen horizontal stripes, alternate red and white; and the union of the flag shall be forty-eight stars, white in a blue field.

    President Eisenhower issued Executive Order 10834 when Alaska and Hawaii were granted statehood that overrode that section of the US Code and laid out the present flag design.

    /history major

    Putting aside the fact that Executive Orders do not "override" the U.S. Code, refer to the very next section:

    On the admission of a new State into the Union one star shall be added to the union of the flag; and such addition shall take effect on the fourth day of July then next succeeding such admission.
  • Mikel Ward (unregistered)

    I'm from Australia, but surely the "48 United States" means the 48 contiguous mainland states (i.e. everything except Alaska, Hawaii, and external territories).

  • Mel (unregistered) in reply to luke
    luke:
    It might look funny to you, but that's the way they do it in most Slavic languages. All words all spelled phonetically using standard Latinizations of the Cyrillic alphabet. If you want to find the Hobbit in a bookstore, you have to look under Dž.R.R. Tolkin.

    From someone currently learning Czech, in the Czech Republic (Yes, still called Czechoslovakia by my father and grandfather, and many others): In Czech at least, the letter 'j' exists - it's just pronounced kinda like an English 'y'. The sound of an English 'j' is written dž (ž is like an English zh). Therefore 'juice' becomes 'džus', but the Czech copy of the Hobbit ('Hobit') is still by J.R.R. Tolkein... Sorry for the nitpicking, but at least it's not about the number of continental/contiguous states!

  • johnny bluejeans (unregistered) in reply to Jeremy

    Erm, re: Magellan - they are quite aware of the number of >states, but they only preload the data for the continental US >- IE 48 states.

    they should probably SAY continental or contiguous United States, then, no? because this way it makes them sound pretty stupid, even if they DO know how many there are.

  • Smash (unregistered) in reply to James
    James:
    proxy:
    The 48 states thing is a little silly, I feel it is clear they meant the 48 continental US states.

    Of course, the problem there is that there are 49 continental US states. Unless Alaska has been removed from the continent?

    What you mean to say is contiguous. Congratulations, you've created your own WTF...

    Either way, with no qualifier, saying "the 48 United States" is wrong.

    I shouldn't be telling this, but Alaska is just a deliberate and carefully placed hoax. It never existed.

  • Smash (unregistered) in reply to Loren Pechtel
    Loren Pechtel:
    What I want to know is what's the difference between "Horse Dealer" and "Horse Trader"?

    Hmmm... maybe a horse dealer buys and sells horses, while a horse trader exchanges a horse for another?

    And after that I suppose one takes his new horse to race in the jockey club, since he obviously needs some money to keep both alive

    FredSaw:
    axus:
    Hmmm... if I've traded AND dealt horses, which job do I pick?
    Horse thief.

    lol that was WAY too fun!!

  • Joel (unregistered) in reply to Someone You Know

    Not to Juneau it isn't ;)

  • Joel (unregistered) in reply to Joel

    should have looked like this:

    Joel:
    Someone You Know:
    Eli:
    Uh, there's no WTF on those maps. Unless you think you need *driving directions* to Alaska or Hawaii? Duh.

    Your point is valid for Hawaii, but do you honestly think it's not possible to drive to Alaska?

    Not to Juneau it isn't ;)

  • BillyBob (unregistered)

    I get it, the real wtf is that they listed "Househusband No Employer" as one of the occupations when it should have been "Househusband, enslaved by evil tyrant overlord"

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