Cap'n Refsmmat

You'd have to go to medical school, of course, and take all of the basic courses there.

A true optimist, you are. Glad to say that while I did get one, I have never used it, and it's most likely rotting away into disrepair.

You mean Visual Basic?

You don't need any extra packages, you just need GD--I had it running on a PHP 4.3 webhost. They may have compiled it in, though (have to look at phpinfo to be sure) but many softwares, like image galleries, require GD, so most hosts have it.

Helicopter gunships. Lots of them, blasting away the German Panthers and Tigers. Oh yes, and some M1s to clean up the rest. And some nuclear submarines to wipe up the U-Boat fleet.

Well, not really. If your wall is thick enough, the blast will dissapate before it can penetrate and kill you.

No, that's not his IP--that's the IP of the person who's looking at it. So when I see it, it's my IP, etc.

No, it's most likely made with PHP with GD (an image creation library). At least, that's how I did mine. One way: http://www.swish-db.com/tutorials/view.php/tid/383 (Google for it)

Unobtanium works better.

Static electricity has tremendous voltages but tiny currents, and all you get is a little zap. 120v AC can kill at 60mA, unless it has a direct current to the heart (i.e. through the blood) where it can be under 1mA.

Indeed. It's latitude that matters. At Kennedy Space Center (28.5 degrees north), there's a boost of around 911 mph. The French have a launch site in French Guiana, latitude 5 degrees, which lets them get closer to their 1035 mph possible boost. As insane_alien said, every little bit counts.

There's nothing in there saying that it has to spontaneously combust without outside "help" (i.e. a blowtorch).

Well, boost over what you'd get if the Earth didn't rotate at all. But the closer to the equator you are, the less fuel the rocket requires, which is certainly advantageous. When NASA was considering launching from California, they had to design fiberglass booster casings to reduce weight and make up for the lost rotational speed. The political bit would be Johnson Space Center in Houston. There's already a control facility in Cape Canaveral, so the Houston space center really wasn't worth it: just an extra few million in personnel and construction costs, plus shuttling astronauts back and forth. (Canaveral handles launches/landings, and Houston handles the rest... but both are capable of handling the entire thing). Johnson Space Center was mostly created because Lyndon Johnson is from Texas.

Being near the equator gives it the advantage of giving the rockets launched there a 800mph boost in speed. It's also on the coast, which means if the rocket blows up it falls into the water instead of killing civilians (NASA was going to build another launch site in California, but scrubbed it because of Challenger proving that the Shuttle could fall apart, and decreased speed boost from latitude).

Ah, you have a border on it. Well, I frankly have no idea. I've gotten two-column layouts to work (the longer column has the border on it, and the footer has a border, so it looks like they're both of the same length) and such, but no three-column ones. Your best bet would be a table (!).

That's not quite what I meant. I meant a footer div at the bottom, outside of the other two.

Indeed, I convinced dave to put in the link on the sidebar. It won't get that much traffic, but the link will put us up a bit in the search-engine ratings (and get Google to notice us more) so that should help some. I do seem to remember that blike tried creating a Paypal account long ago for donations, but got so few donations that he took the link off. The account might still be there. I'll ask him about it.

No. What you can do is have a footer div (with clear:both) that supplies the bottom border for both of them, so that it'll at least look like they're the same height.

You'll need to burn that CD and then set your broken computer to boot from it. It's usually a BIOS setting--when the computer is starting up (before Windows starts loading) there should be a thing telling you which key to press to get into setup. From there, set it to boot from CD first and you can then use Knoppix.

You can get a Knoppix CD that will let you at least boot the computer and restore the file.

If you want to start a discussion, give us something to talk about, not just a statement.

Thanks, we'll need the help. Please, folks, come out and help WiSci!

I just read an interesting article in Scientific American about how Darwin didn't really become an evolutionist in the Galapagos after discovering all of the species there.

1. Indeed. I've stopped importing articles altogether. 2. We have a simple page like that, but we need to insert the link. I'll see if I can hack in a way to do that. 3. I fully intend to start doing that as soon as I'm sure things are ready. 4. The point of those links is to encourage people to create those articles.