quality

I've been doing magic for about a year and a half now, and I've been practicing with cards I bought from Dollar Tree which are used casino cards. These cards are stubborn sometimes. They're hard to fan, and they stick together slightly making it hard to slip cards (but I can still do it just...

The Consumer Paradox: Scientists Find that Low Self-Esteem and Materialism Goes Hand in Hand So is increasing the economy always a good thing? I have long joked that it everyone became frugal to gain financial security our economy would collapse. I have heard it argued many times that the...

Hi, Sorry, not quite sure where to put this question on the forum, but El Greco mentioned s-video in the "Analogue Cables" thread here and it got me thinking. I'm hoping a knowledgeable soul will enlighten me. Back in 2000 I splurged on a Panasonic 36" wide screen, the TX-36PF10. It refreshes...

http://qsea.org/_wsn/page3.html Jeanne and Larry Caldwell are suing the university over its "Understanding Evolution" website which offers information and advice to teachers. The Caldwells run a Californian lobby group called Quality Science Education for All! which promotes "education that...

Hello all, Water is very important for us. Different places can have different constituents in their natural water. Water quality of different places can be different due to its chemical, Indicator & Microbiological parameters. People will have to take available or distributed/supplied water &...

I just got this in my email today--it had been stripped of any original source, so if anyone knows whom I should be crediting for this, please speak up. I post it here rather than in Humor because I found it a very non-threatening way to (via spam) remind people that their own particular god is...

Nebraska Fears Segregation in Schools Fri Feb 18, 2:26 PM ET By SCOTT BAUER, Associated Press Writer LINCOLN, Neb. - Dick Eisenhauer is tired of watching white families take their children out of the schools in his Nebraska district and enroll them in smaller, outlying ones where there are...

New Happiness Index shows British society peaked in 1976 By Mark Rice-Oxley | Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor LONDON – Britain was in the grip of inflation, drought, and punk rock. The cold war was in remission, the IMF bailed out the economy, and the Muppets and Starsky and...

This newspaper article discusses the quality of autos, and mentions their defect rate as "complaints per 100 vehicles." Summing it up, it shows: Toyota - 101 Hyundai - 102 GM - 120 DCX - 123 It looks like everyone is bound to have at least one complaint with a new car, so it's hard for me to...

I'm in the middle of a projected 360min burn to svcd. I burned a couple at vcd it took only 90 to 120 min. seing as i have 4hrs to wait for a direct comparison. any thoughts? :(