• (cs) in reply to lolwtf
    lolwtf:
    Now, secret questions, there's the real WTF. Especially when you're forced to choose one, can't write your own, and they're all things anyone could find out about you with minimal effort. Especially "make of your first car" - maybe this works in Europe, but how many guesses would this take for an American? Even before eliminating those less than 8 characters. Lesee, Ford, Chevrolet, Honda, Toyota, Mazda... you're probably in by now.
    First car! So that means lots of defunct US makes are possible, like AMC or Studebaker. Heck, there are a lot of imports that have been popular for 60 years, like VW. I went to HS in the 80s and one of my friends had a Renault and a Nissan... poor bastard.
  • (cs) in reply to the beholder
    the beholder:
    Pedantry:
    Fusion occurs at about 10 million degrees Kelvin (10 million degrees above absolute zero). In terms of Fahrenheit temperature that's about 20 million degrees Fahrenheit (in round numbers).

    Freezing occurs at 0ºC (32ºF).

    My bad. In my language, the physical change from solid to liquid is called fusão, and I assumed it would translate directly. Turns out I would be right if we were speaking about atomic bombs, but not about liquids.
    Yep. In English, fusion is used to mean joining of things. Nuclear fusion is just that. Alas, in English fusion can imply the opposite of what you expect: it can imply melting. You fuse two materials, using heat, so that they melt together.

    There are plenty of languages where the word with same ancestry is used very differently. Fusion is one such word, coming from latin -- here, Spanish preserved the original meaning, but in English it diverged somewhat. In Polish and Russian, the word dworzec / dvorets has same ancestry, but means entirely different things: a train station in the former, and a palace in the latter. I'm sure there are plenty such words in many languages.

  • (cs)

    Thing is, though, that railway/subway stations in Russia do look like palaces.

  • cappeca (unregistered) in reply to BS
    BS:
    AverageJon:
    {Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow} = 10 days.
    I'm sorry, Tomorrow is not a valid *day* of the week.

    Caturday!

  • (cs) in reply to cappeca
    cappeca:
    BS:
    AverageJon:
    {Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow} = 10 days.
    I'm sorry, Tomorrow is not a valid *day* of the week.

    Caturday!

    What about Afterwards?

  • (cs)

    Vive La Révolution! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal_time#France "Decimal time was introduced as part of the French Republican Calendar, which, in addition to decimally dividing the day, divided the month into three décades of 10 days each"

  • Medinoc (unregistered)

    It means YOU have a cold -- With a very nasty fever.

  • (cs) in reply to Medinoc

    Free beer tommorrow

  • (cs) in reply to Physics Nazi
    Physics Nazi:
    the beholder:
    73ºC is quite hot. Fusion happens at 0ºC and boiling at 100ºC. Do the math.

    That would be cold fusion.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enthalpy_of_fusion

    Addendum (2011-08-02 17:52): Derr...I see this point has already been made

  • (cs)

    I guess if 165C qualifies as "cold", Mark must work at a fusion reactor.

  • dmentedkitty (unregistered)

    I think there was a study that people tend to buy products with suffix of "99" on the price... even if the price is actually more expensive than the competitor's.

  • dmentedkitty (unregistered) in reply to AverageJon

    I was thinking 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, Jack, Queen, King... Ace...

  • Kasper (unregistered) in reply to caecus
    caecus:
    Kasper:
    If I came across a site that would allow me to choose "What is your favorite Internet password?" as a security question, I would totally choose that password and write PthTylV4goHrU3iMDsmGlNE46IqhE2Tx as the answer.

    Noted.

    script deployed to try each site username: Kasper password: PthTylV4goHrU3iMDsmGlNE46IqhE2Tx

    Ah, but luckily for me you couldn't guess my username.

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