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#902567 25-Sep-2013 17:04

#27 - 55% of people will yawn after reading the word "yawn"
#28 - There is something called the 1% rule: 99% of people online lurk while only 1% actively upload content
#29 - in 2007, a Bosnian married couple found out that they had been cheating on one another in an online chatroom...with each other.
#29 - The Universe, human brain cells and the internet all have similar network structures.
#30 - An internet addict is someone who spends more than 6 hours a day online, not doing anything important, regularly for 3 or more months.

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#902664 25-Sep-2013 19:46

#30

oh crap, so now I have another addiction :-(

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#902668 25-Sep-2013 19:49

crackrdbycracku:
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SaltyNZ: 21. Having a cell site near your house has no effect on your health one way or the other
22. Your iPhone doesn't work without them

I agree with this, my brother works on Cell towers in Aussie and he says the same thing.

Do you think you can go and explain that to the residents of Brighton, Dunedin who are up in arms about a tower. They have the nimby disease big time.

At least those people in Dunedin still have fluoride in their water.

I had to jump ship from 2d to Skinny due to those inconsiderate people, have spent weeks trying to educate them. Amazing how 10 people in the community can bugger things up (and cost money) for the other ~100+ relying on 2d getting a decent signal out here.

On well water here so no fluoride THANK GOD!!

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#902774 26-Sep-2013 01:15

BinaryLimited: Here are some interesting Technology facts.

Technology Facts :

The Atari Portfolio was released in 1989 and was the world’s first palmtop computer. Two years later it appeared in the film Terminator 2, where it was used by John Connor to hack an ATM and retrieve the key to the vault in the Cyberdyne lab.

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Still got mine. And still works. Used to use it at work. Boss was very impressed, once I showed him how I programmed it to help me do my job...

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#902817 26-Sep-2013 08:02

MaxLV:
BinaryLimited: Here are some interesting Technology facts.

Technology Facts :

The Atari Portfolio was released in 1989 and was the world’s first palmtop computer. Two years later it appeared in the film Terminator 2, where it was used by John Connor to hack an ATM and retrieve the key to the vault in the Cyberdyne lab.

Add more if you feel like it...

Still got mine. And still works. Used to use it at work. Boss was very impressed, once I showed him how I programmed it to help me do my job...

What work do u do? How did it help u?

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#902853 26-Sep-2013 08:53

BinaryLimited:
MaxLV:
BinaryLimited: Here are some interesting Technology facts.

Technology Facts :

The Atari Portfolio was released in 1989 and was the world’s first palmtop computer. Two years later it appeared in the film Terminator 2, where it was used by John Connor to hack an ATM and retrieve the key to the vault in the Cyberdyne lab.

Add more if you feel like it...

Still got mine. And still works. Used to use it at work. Boss was very impressed, once I showed him how I programmed it to help me do my job...

What work do u do? How did it help u?

At the time it was clerical work, and all I did was write a basic little programme to store invoice numbers, who it was for, with the invoice total, and it saved time paper shuffling in a filing cabinet when looking for which invoice had cost X dollars.

Did several programmes like that, to add up the total weekly, monthly cost, and how much had been paid to a particular company. Absolute basic database, spreadsheet stuff, but a LOT quicker than searching for for the invoices by hand in filing cabinets then writing down all the info each time weekly and monthly reports had to be done.

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#902863 26-Sep-2013 08:57

ha! that's crazy, sounds like lots of work!
impressed you still have your Atari tho!

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#903080 26-Sep-2013 13:36

31. The Internet doesn't weigh anything. This is because it was invented by Al Gore, who as we all know, is full of hot air

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#903086 26-Sep-2013 13:47

32. Unlimited internet in New Zealand doesn't mean unlimited.

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#903095 26-Sep-2013 13:59

trig42: Re #7: I had heard (ages ago) that the F&P Smart Drive washing machine had more computing power than the Apollo11 Spacecraft.

And, #16, I'm one of the 28%

Not sure if that is true, but I do know they can play our National Anthem.

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#903102 26-Sep-2013 14:13

33. Reserved for future use

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#903157 26-Sep-2013 15:45

SaltyNZ: 33. Reserved for future use

No place holding or backsies!

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#903165 26-Sep-2013 15:54

dclegg:
trig42: Re #7: I had heard (ages ago) that the F&P Smart Drive washing machine had more computing power than the Apollo11 Spacecraft.

And, #16, I'm one of the 28%

Not sure if that is true, but I do know they can play our National Anthem.

very cool

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#903263 26-Sep-2013 18:55

It's a well known fact that cellular base stations cause cancer

Fortunately, there are some very effective homeopathic remedies for this form of cancer

SaltyNZ:
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SaltyNZ: 21. Having a cell site near your house has no effect on your health one way or the other
22. Your iPhone doesn't work without them

You mean no 'proven' effect on health 'at this stage'. They used to say the same thing about smoking, and doctors even prescribed cigarettes. But you never know what scientists may find in the future, and it is largely all about funding to do independent research which is very hard to get.

Sure, if you like. But there have been study after study done over the last 30 years regarding the effects of cellular radios on health. The most damning studies showed that continuous radiation several million times more powerful than an actual cell site might have adverse impacts. As would drinking a million glasses of water or eating a million carrots a day, or standing a million times closer to that beautiful sunshine.

The last person who tried to quote studies at me to show that ZOMG CANCER cited a study which, if you spend 10 seconds reading the abstract, shows no effect whatsoever from cell sites. In fact, from the numbers in the abstract one could just as easily conclude that living near a cell site decreased your risk of cancer. The WHO put cellular radiation into the 'possibly carcinogenic' category a couple of years ago. You know what else is on that list? Talcum powder, and being a carpenter.

The fact is that if there is an impact on your health due to cellular radiation, it's so small that even after 30 years of concerted effort, nobody has been able to measure it. As far as I am concerned, that's as good as 'none'. There are plenty of dangerous things to panic over. Cell sites are not one of them.

You may also be interested to learn that doctors still prescribe cigarettes to people with certain illnesses. Despite their known impact on the lungs, they are an effective relief for certain kinds of bowel condition. For one person I know, the increased risk of lung disease later in life is far outweighed by the advantages of not spending that life sitting on the toilet.

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#903291 26-Sep-2013 19:47

shk292: It's a well known fact that cellular base stations cause cancer

Fortunately, there are some very effective homeopathic remedies for this form of cancer

And some extremely effective preventative measures one can take... like tinfoil hats for instance...

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