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A minor point... the morality rate of the Spanish Influenza was between 5% and 10%. The world's population was about two billion at the time. Half the population was infected, one billion, and between 5% and 10% of those were killed by it. Exact numbers aren't known, but in areas where it was...

Depends on the injector. In older systems, all of the fuel for a combustion cycle was injected at one time. Today’s modern systems allow several injections during a single combustion cycle. This allows engine calibrations to determine not only how much fuel is injected at each point in the...

Of course it is. The sequences have finally been done, and it doesn't contain bird flu as originally reported, but it does contain a reassortment of two current pig flu viruses, a reassortment combination that has never before been seen. The two strains whose genes are found in the hybrid...

I think going swimming increases your chances of getting wet.

No, it's not media overload. Looking back on it, SARS burned out quickly and didn't become pandemic. But it might have if the "irrational" responses hadn't taken place. Some of the actions taken around the world were indeed irrational, but banning flights from Mexico was not an irrational act...

I have an imaginary girlfriend. She's really hot.

Oh, it's way more outdated than that. It's a term that simply isn't in the mainstream. Never had been. It's a technical term that is from the Spanish and Portuguese "mulata" meaning a mule, or of mixed breed, a term originating from the 16th century when Portugal became master breeders of...

I assure you, Mr G and I are not the same person. If we were, I'd have exploded long ago. He is liberal in the extreme, a speudo-Marxist, somewhat Utopian, thinks all corporate-anything is bad, thinks everyone should share equally in the fruits of someone else's innovations and ideas, and is...

In most engines, big trucks engines for sure, B20 or below is supposed to burn the same way that B0 burns. B20 and below shouldn't clog fuel filters. B20 might be a problem with injectors, tho, so an injector cleaner should probably be used on a regular basis. Anything above B20 and different...

Holy crap. 50-1, Mind That Bird, came from 20 lengths back, exploded near the end, and made the others look bad. Horse was driven 21 hours from New Mexico by a good ol' boy in an old pickup truck and horse trailer. Horse was originally bought for $9500. Yee haw! Dunkirk stumbled out of the...

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@THE WHOLE WORLD I just drank some raspberry white tea

Today's Twitters are often tomorrow's quitters, according to data that questions the long-term success of the latest social networking sensation used by celebrities from Oprah Winfrey to Britney Spears. Data from Nielsen Online, which measures Internet traffic, found that more than 60 percent...

That's the argument in favor of locking older threads, or putting a prohibition in place against doing it. The odd old thread here and there isn't that bid a deal, but when someone systematically bumps up old threads, for whatever reason, there ya go.

Yeah, I read that early this afternoon. Bummer, but it's too risky to rum him. That certainly changes things. 1st..Friesan Fire 2nd..Dunkirk 3rd..Desert Party Looks like it will be be a muddy track, which could strongly favor Friesan Fire. That track's a fast drying track, so it probably...

1st..I Want Revenge 2nd..Dunkirk 3rd..Pioneer of the Nile Friesan Fire has certainly been on fire, 3 wins in a row, but he's also been on a 7 week vacation. Should finish in the top 4, and could be anywhere in there, including winning it. Hold Me Back doesn't know what to do on dirt. Maybe...

If an alien is here illegally, it is in violation of federal immigration laws, which makes it criminal, not civil. As to the rest of your post, uhm, wow. "...for the benefit of American corporations...", "...impeding their social progress...", "...the greed of our concentrations of...

One problem is the Constitution doesn't define what the Supreme Court's role really is. It took a little while, but eventually the justices decided that role on their own, that being interpreting the Constitution and applying the laws of Congress to Constitutionality. Over the years, several...

Obama says he wants to pick a justice who has lots of life experience outside the courtroom and the classroom, (I'll leave it to Layout to point out the thick irony of that one.) in order to be able to interpret and rule based on how these conflicts and laws affect people's lives, instead of...

If older threads here were locked, or if there were rules in place to prevent or restrict replying to old threads, it would have to be way longer than 30 days for a forum like this one. There are simply to many people who go out for 4-6 weeks, or longer, and then come home to the computer. Plus...