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is there anything you ALWAYS WANTED TO KNOW?

Killing_time, the dots aren't on the 'bottom' of the bottle that touches the table or gutter, but the bottom as in at the lower end of the bottle on the same surface the label is attached. Check it out next time you have a beer in your hand.

And for your question, I believe it is your modem trying to talk to the other modem by turning the information (ASCII) into a series of different frequency squeels, which are translated into a different string of 1's and 0's. As for the specific frequency of the squeels and why they are that particularly frequency FIIK.
 
edw1n said:
in those pool tables where you have to pay, how does the table know to role the white ball back but not the others?

also how did the nintendo gun for duckhunt work?
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1: yup, size does matter :)

2:

Lots of home video games and arcade games use some sort of gun as an input device. You point the gun at the screen and pull the trigger, and if you hit the target on the screen, the target explodes.

To create this effect, the gun contains a photodiode (or a phototransistor) in the barrel. The photodiode is able to sense light coming from the screen. The gun also contains a trigger switch. The output of the photodiode and the switch are fed to the computer controlling the game.

At the same time, the computer is getting signals from the screen driver electronics. If you have read How Television Works, you know about the horizontal retrace and vertical retrace signals used to align the picture on the screen. The screen driver electronics send pulses to the computer at the start of the horizontal and vertical retrace signals, so the computer knows where on the screen the electron beam is located during each frame.

The computer normally uses one of two different techniques to figure out whether or not the gun is pointed at the target when the user pulls the trigger:

* The computer blanks the screen and then paints just the target object white. If the photodiode senses darkness after one vertical retrace signal and then light after the next, the computer assumes that the gun is pointed at the target and scores a hit.

* The computer blanks the screen and then paints the entire screen white. It takes time for the electron beam to trace the entire screen while painting it white. By comparing the signal coming from the photodiode with the horizontal and vertical retrace signals, the computer can detect where the electron beam is on the screen when the photodiode first senses its light. The computer counts the number of microseconds that pass between the time the horizontal and vertical retrace signals start and the time the photodiode first senses light. The number of microseconds tells the computer exactly where on the screen the gun is pointing. If the calculated position and the position of the target match, the computer scores a hit.
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Pseudo G said:
I've always wanted to know this and will buy a beer for the person that give me an answer.

At the bottom of your beer bottle, whether it be local or imported theres a series of small dots spaced differently apart. What are they? And what are they for?

They're not braille, and their different for beers from the same manufacturer.
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i've always wanted to know this too, so i sent an email to CUB and this was their response

Thank you for contacting the Consumer Information centre.

The small raised dots on the bottom of the bottles are coding for the
bottle supplier.

Once again, thank you for contacting the Consumer Information centre
regarding your query. It is always a pleasure to be able to assist our
customers with queries.

Kind regards,

Cassie
 
That's what I thought originally astrosmurf but I thought it was weird that different beers from the same brewery had different dots. I just assumed that they'd get all their bottles from the one manufacturer.
 
I've always wondered why.. on television or in cartoons, mouse traps are always baited with cheese?

Mice dont like cheese.
 
Pseudo G said:
That's what I thought originally astrosmurf but I thought it was weird that different beers from the same brewery had different dots. I just assumed that they'd get all their bottles from the one manufacturer.
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Different "batches" of bottles within the same manufacturer I'd guess. Dots are perhaps a batch indicator.
 
Barney Gumnut said:
I've always wanted to know why I can't stop going to doofs
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because you had a life membership pass awarded to you for your contributions to the scene. its part of you now, just as you are part of it my child.
and the gumnut went unto the doof and did party.

speaking of which... the possibly secret doof in the gumnut forest (details of which i may have missed); will those Ds appear mysteriously in spgeddi at hotmail? or do i need to hunt you/it down?
 
QUESTION!!!

Do you have to be Christian, Catholic or watever to do a Confession in the Church and what is the procedure...like do you just walk up to the confession box and say 'dear father i have sinned' then state your confession and then the priest issues you with a repentance...is all sinns forgiven after this? and also wat are the forms of repentance ie what is 1 hail mary etc Im igorant about religion!
 
Yes, you have to be Catholic.

How it goes is: You get Christened, then you have your Confirmation around the age of 10-12 (where you first recieve the sacraments - ie. the bread & wine), then shortly after you have what's called your "First Confession".

Until the time of your first confession even catholics can't go to confession - so I very much doubt non-catholics can. (don't know how they'd police this in the average church though!)

The proceedure, when you do it, is to go in and say "Bless me Father for I have sinned - it has been (X number of days or months, years) since my last confession, and these are my sins".
He'll go "Tell us your sins" or "Go ahead" and you tell them. Then he tells you to go say however many Hail Mary's or Our Fathers as pennance and absolves you.

Now I've told you the secret code you could probably cheat - doubt if redemption would be forthcoming, but if it'd make you feel better...... ;)

ps. Can't BELIEVE I remembered all that - I haven't been to church in over 14 years.
 
^^ from a page I just read

this *is* the tRiCk
tah getting the dye to
stay,, esp blue,,
blue is 1 of the hardest
colors to get bold & dependable

+when ur dying your hair blue, get one of those silly looking *tee-hee* plastic head/hair covers, you know ... the ones with elastic around the rim that covers yer head/hair ...NOT the one with holes in it, just pure plastic...

keep it covered [your head that is], as long as possible, sometimes i even sleep with it on, and im telling you the blue results are FAB FAB FAB!!!

+ALSO use a hOt heAted blOw drYer on yer head/hair, when it is wrapped up in the lil plastic hair cover thing-a-mah-jiggy ... the heat penetrates the dYe deep into the shafts of your hair ... blow dry as often as you'd like, BUT, keep that plastic hat on

+another tip, if you want a darker blue, and have had it always come out too light blue for your liking, you can:

a. when bleaching down your hair color, dont go so far down to blonde, leave it more orangish and it'll help produce a more deeper blue

b. and/or add plum violet dye into the blue and it will give you a more purpleish hue to start off with, but than it fades into this awesome blue, and than into other hues [[[& that is way fun to mess with]]
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warning, it's ugly http://blather.newdream.net/m/mahayanas_dyed_hair.html
 
My question for the Catholics.
Why do you need to "confess" to the priest?
After all, Christ called for the repentance of sins (a changing of ways/mind and an understanding that sin is against God's law) and asking for God's forgiveness.
So how does the priest come into it?
I don't want to get into a debate over it, it is just a question.
 
No idea, I've never understood it - and you're not allowed to ask questions in Catholicism, one of the reasons I left the church ;)

Even though Christ "died for our sins" doesn't mean, apparently, that we are then free of sin. In fact, according to the church, every one of us as weenie innocent little babies, are born with something called Original Sin - you're already guilty right out of the womb.

So I guess in the whole "symbolic" sense, the priest represents Christ, and we just have to keep on repenting the rest of our lives. Guilt. It's one of Catholicism's favourite indulgences. :)
 
SLM, you have your first confession before you have the eucharist.

x2shy confession means a number of things depending on your point of view of religion, in particular Catholicism (but most Christian religions have confession). To some people confession is a way of instilling guilt into you so you be more "Christian" in the future. Personally I used it as a way to help clear my conscience of things that I've done that not only are against "God's law" but in general are things that haven't been particularly nice and I regret doing. Basically its a way where most church goers admit yeah they fucked up, god forgives them, they start with a clean slate and basically try to be more "god like" in the future.

According to religion (bible etc) Jesus died to forgive our sins. Sex is a sin, so technically we're all products of sin. When Jesus was alive he claimed to have the ability to forgive sins given to him by God (this is where he got in trouble with some folks by saying that as they considered it blasphamy). Jesus bestowed upon his apostiles (Mark, Luke, John, Ringo etc) the ability to forgive sins, it worked it was down through the bishops etc to the priests. But the priest only really acts as a foil to your asking forgiveness to God. The reason it doesn't really count if you just look to the sky and ask forgiveness is that you need to show your sincerely apologetic about commiting the sins and serious about asking forgiveness. That's where the going to church, talking to the priest and penance all come into it.

The catholic church gets a lot of bad press, as do a lot of religions lately. But like Islam and any other religion there are extremists (terrorists for Islam and right to life people murding doctors that do abortions for Christianity). The way I think of it is although the pope is considered the human closest to God, he's still a human so what he says doesn't count for much in my book. I believe God put me on this earth and gave me life to enjoy myself so long as I don't ruin anyone elses life (murder, adultery etc) and try not to piss him off (using his name in vain, worshipping other gods etc). And I mean, if I live my life as such, and die and it turns out there isn't a God, who fucking cares, I'm dead anyways.
 
Pseudo G said:
SLM, you have your first confession before you have the eucharist.

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Hmm, really? But they're pretty close together though right? I'm not surprised I can't remember - it was 19 years ago. I was also a little unusual in that I was only baptised in grade 6, so I did everything all in the one year. Like a fast-track course in holiness :D
 
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