In sci.physics, RazroRog

wrote
on Fri, 1 Aug 2003 11:29:13 -0400
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"Uncle Al" wrote in message
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http://w0rli.home.att.net/youare.swf

The best reply I've heard yet for any topic on usenet!

Uncle Al likes to use that one fairly often. Not only is it
a great editorial reply, but one might even be able to
analyze it to figure out how to put sound into Ming. :-)
At least, I hope to at some point.

(OK, so that's more along the lines of comp.os.linux.advocacy... :-) )


I am giving below mechanism of Action device to generate
unidirectional force.

Hammer. It's been done.

Actually, with just one finger (not necessarily the middle one), I pushed
these keys (patent pending) and beat your hammer.
So, the patent shall be mine! Can you imagine how much money I'll make as
billions of people type on their keyboards each day?

The caveman's foot squishing the defenseless bug predates all of us. :-)
Or, if you prefer, slapping at mosquitoes, no-see-um's, midges, etc.

(Klonking women on the head also qualifies, although I for one
highly doubt that that was a frequent activity. For starters,
having one's brain hemmorhage would probably interfere with
any subsequent pregnancy.)

I claim prior art.



Ha ha ha.
http://b5.sdvc.uwyo.edu/bab5/snds/argcstpd.wav

Uncle Al is very wise.

Uncle Al is ... Uncle Al. Intolerant of obvious fools, bellicose
and belligerent, mostly right (which makes up for the bellicosity),
prone to using 50 cent and $1 words on occasion (presumably to
instigate thought), somewhat curious about Eotvos which apparently
is an experiment not yet performed, not into detailed calculations
but usually finds just the right flaw in an argument, and of course
a frequenter of these newsgroups.

He keeps us honest. :-)



I am indeed emotionally drained to extent of crashing.

You are indeed stooopid to extent of inanimate object. From the
country that gave us yogic floaters and 10^9 people ****ting in 10^6
toilets. "Monsoon" is Hindi for "big flush."

I think he crashed before coming up with the idea.

The Web is being slightly reticent on anything regarding
flush toilets and the number required in an office
building, but assuming we "'loo" every 2 hours and take 1
minute to do our duty (women may take slightly longer),
the obvious requirement is 120 persons per toilet (and
per sink) as a bare minimum. Of course the duration and
the frequency of such depends on an awful lot of factors,
which may include the number of trips to the water cooler,
the snackroom, the exercise facility, and whether one is
allowed out of the building on Saturday nights.

I'll admit I've not yet looked in the California building
codes sector, though. Unfortunately, California doesn't
*have* a Building Code as such, although the construction
of buildings has to be in there somewhere, possibly in
Public Resources, Public Contract, Water, Health and
Safety, or Civil Procedure. Section 114105 of Health and
Safety, however, punts back to local plumbing ordinances.
Aargh.

(http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/calaw.html and search.)

However, Section 114120 does go into some detail,
suggesting that 1 pair of sexually-segregated toilets be
provided for every 20,000 square feet of space. This helps
to establish an order of magnitude but one cannot naively
divide 10,000 into 36 square feet (the minimum size of
a cubicle, IINM -- I'd have to go looking for that, too)
and get 277 persons per toilet, as a lot of that building
space is corridors, elevators, walls, support pillars,
and of course the actual bathroom (some of which may even
have showers). In many cases some of that square footage
is taken up by computer facilities as well; they don't
need bathrooms, merely heat exchangers, air conditioning,
cabling, and other such. (I'd say the bathrooms are a
little cheaper, though.)

The current population in India as of 2003-03-19 is
1.046 billion, with a per capita GDP of about $2,540,
according to the CIA World Factbook:
http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications...k/geos/in.html
However, there's no mention therein regarding the number
of plumbing fixtures. (The US GDP/cap is $36,300.
No doubt we have more flush toilets.)

As for "monsoon" -- American Heritage in
dictionary.reference.com suggests it comes from Arabic
through Portuguese and obsolete Dutch. (What the current
Dutch word is, I can't say. :-) ) An alternate suggestion
coming from Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary,
however, is that it ultimately came from Italy: "monsone".
Apparently Webster's and American Heritage aren't exactly
on the same page here.

I don't have an account on OED.com so can't check there.

Typing in "monsoon" into the new Dictionary of
http://www3.aa.tufs.ac.jp/~kmach/hnd_la-e.htm
(found by searching in Google for "English Hindi dictionary")
produced nothing horribly understandable. :-) Altering
the spelling to "monsuun" as suggested by the accompaying
table did not change the result. Altering the spelling
again after pronouncing the word carefully (the system
apparently distinguishes nasalization) to "mOnsuun"
didn't work either.

Selecting "laRakaa" in the Exercise (one of the example
words; it means "boy", "son", or "bridegroom") coughed up
an internal servlet error (apparently the old dictionary
is not being maintained; I can't blame them) but it did
produce a meanings area when typed into the new Dictionary,
and a transcription into an unreadable (by me, anyway)
but rather pretty script.

*checks to see if this particular horse has been beaten 6 feet under yet* :-)


raz


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