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Could someone please tell me where this is? maybe someone could google it? -- TheGreenGorilla ( talk) 01:03, 3 July 2008 (UTC)
San Francisco California? i just pulled that out of the air. -- TheGreenGorilla ( talk) 01:08, 3 July 2008 (UTC)
will he lay down his arms if US threatnes to invaid? -- TheGreenGorilla ( talk) 01:37, 3 July 2008 (UTC)
Was Gen. Eric Shinseki (Ret.) a member of the U.S. Army Rangers? A Ranger Tap is clearly visible on his uniform, but the article does not mention him serving in the Rangers. Thanks. Acceptable ( talk) 02:41, 3 July 2008 (UTC)
what do you think of this? -- TheGreenGorilla ( talk) 04:41, 3 July 2008 (UTC)
they seem to be getting along with one another. clarify i didnt mean other type of relationship. -- TheGreenGorilla ( talk) 04:58, 3 July 2008 (UTC)
oops -- TheGreenGorilla ( talk) 12:23, 3 July 2008 (UTC) srry
Are there any well-known/famous people who are known to have accounts on wikipedia...apart from Jimbo? -- 212.120.246.239 ( talk) 07:42, 3 July 2008 (UTC)
-- TheGreenGorilla ( talk) 07:49, 3 July 2008 (UTC)
Is the London Guarantee Building (near the Michigan Avenue Bridge) the same thing as the Crain Communications Building? I asked at Talk:London Guarantee Building but haven’t received an answer. -- Mathew5000 ( talk) 08:56, 3 July 2008 (UTC)
I am groping in the dark to find the right code for the colour "red" in my user page. Can anyone point me to a place that lists all the colour codes used in Wikipedia?? La Alquimista ( talk) 11:24, 3 July 2008 (UTC)
Hi, a previous question reminded me of the time when I tried to browse through the Wikipedians with articles page, but soon gave up because it's just too long and I didn't find anyone I recognized by name. So I'd like to ask, who (in your opinion, I guess) are the most famous Wikipedians of them all? Are there any well-known celebrities or not? The only one I actually know of is Stephen Colbert, but that's sort of a given; and Richard Dawkins as mentioned before, probably. (And you know Jimbo never counts :D ) Thanks in advance, Kreachure ( talk) 14:05, 3 July 2008 (UTC)
Real world, definitely. I'd rather wait a little while until Wikipedia gets more popular to start asking for celebrities from Wikipedia :) Anyways, I found Grant Imahara from Mythbusters. Cool... probably. Kreachure ( talk) 14:42, 3 July 2008 (UTC) Weren't some country's royal family editing their article, identified by the IP being from the palace? Edison ( talk) 18:45, 3 July 2008 (UTC)
Well, Richard Borcherds, known on Wikipedia as user:r.e.b., is one of the most famous people in the world. (Except, perhaps, among non-mathematicians.) Michael Hardy ( talk) 02:41, 4 July 2008 (UTC)
There are a fair number of people I'm came across who have edited their own articles or talk pages (and perhaps one or two other minor edits). E.g. User:RichardDawkins. If you count these you probably have quite a few candidates Nil Einne ( talk) 14:40, 4 July 2008 (UTC)
Richard Stallman, who among other things founded the Free Software Foundation which created the license Wikipedia uses, edited as User:Rmstallman. Graham 87 17:02, 5 July 2008 (UTC)
At what tempreture do diamonds melt? If they sometimes come out of volcanoes, then the temp at which they melt must be hoter than magma, so what temp is it? 193.115.175.247 ( talk) 15:20, 3 July 2008 (UTC)Zionist
So at what temp does graphite melt? And what is the average temp of magma? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 193.115.175.247 ( talk) 15:39, 3 July 2008 (UTC)
In my backyard we have planted four sweet basil plants. The two nearest the house are doing great—constantly perky, lots of big, fresh leaves, constant regeneration of removed leaves. The two a little further our are doing lousy—droopy, yellowish, not very many new leaves, nothing very large. Both receive pretty much equal amounts of water and sunlight. Both were initially planted in soil with fertilizer.
What might explain the differences between the two? What ought I do in order to help out the struggling pair? I don't have much of a green thumb, so if this seems obvious to those who do, I apologize... thank you. -- 98.217.8.46 ( talk) 15:47, 3 July 2008 (UTC)
If I were you, I would consider if the ground is different for the two that are struggling, I would consider pulling them up *VERY CAREFULLY* and putting them in a different location, or else "work" the soil. This is where you take a spade or a gardening claw and "agitate" the ground around the plants. It the ground is too hard and dry, the roots won't spread well, and the plant will suffer. Soil acidity can also be an issue. I don't know off the top of my head what acidity is right for basil, but you could probably look it up at www.homedepot.com or something similar. The soil may not seem to be different, but it can change a lot within even a foot or two depending on what (if anything) was planted there before. Happy Gardening! Xavier —Preceding unsigned comment added by 139.76.224.67 ( talk) 20:07, 3 July 2008 (UTC)
I always understood that western governments favoured spending their way out of a recession. Yet here we are surrounded by rising oil and fuel prices, rising food costs, rising mortgage and interest charges, and gloomy forecasts about the credit crunch and low investor returns on the world stock markets. Yet the people who are sitting on the capital that could be used to fuel a spending boom so as to get the economy going again are doing exactly that ie. sitting on it. On a more local note, I have been looking today at holiday costs (I live in the UK where the weather at present is very poor, unstable and unpredictable) and am surprised (having just returned from Tenerife where there is massive unemployment due to the downturn in construction and tourism)to see that despite the generality of increased consumer concern about the economy, most of the bigger holiday companies are charging an arm and a leg for a basic 14 day bucket-and-spade trip to the sun. No wonder the resorts were 40% down on seasonal trends. So what am I missing here? If I owned airplanes, or hotels, or jetskis, or bars, or restaurants that depended on bums on seats to survive, but which were all sitting idle, you can bet I would cut my costs to rock-bottom to entice the worried customers in and spend what little they dared on giving themselves a bit of fun; and me a decent income. Or is that too simplistic for our esteemed leaders? 92.17.189.128 ( talk) 16:32, 3 July 2008 (UTC)
has anyone else noticed that not that much has changed in pop culture, music, fashion etc, (at least for white people) since the mid 1990s? JeanLatore ( talk) 18:44, 3 July 2008 (UTC)
how so my friend? JeanLatore ( talk) 19:26, 3 July 2008 (UTC)
the macro-differences are miniscule. Compare 1986 with 1996. Then compare 1996 with 2006. Furthermore, most of the songs on "new rock" radio these days are regularly 15 years old. I doubt back in 1985 the "new rock" stations were playing stuff from 1971 still. But that's what we have with Pearl jam, nirvana, stp, smashing pumpkins, etc still all over the new rock radio now. Fashions are pretty similar to the mid 90s, esp. for young women. JeanLatore ( talk) 20:15, 3 July 2008 (UTC)
Is there a link between sleep loss and brain damage or cognative impairment? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.23.66.167 ( talk) 23:05, 3 July 2008 (UTC)
I don't think you can get serious brain damage from a lack of sleep, but you do function best by getting right around 8 hours of sleep. Its not good to get much less, and its also not good to get too much sleep. Grango242 ( talk) 01:17, 4 July 2008 (UTC)
Ask a doctor. Wikipedia cannot give medical advice 4.158.201.138 ( talk) 02:40, 4 July 2008 (UTC)
The answer is yes (especially cognitive impairment), and in a big way. Sleep deprivation sums it up pretty well. Kreachure ( talk) 22:48, 4 July 2008 (UTC)
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<moved to entertainment desk [1] because we can't have original posters creating new desk purposes without consensus. And for optimal results! Julia Rossi ( talk) 08:16, 3 July 2008 (UTC)>
Could someone please tell me where this is? maybe someone could google it? -- TheGreenGorilla ( talk) 01:03, 3 July 2008 (UTC)
San Francisco California? i just pulled that out of the air. -- TheGreenGorilla ( talk) 01:08, 3 July 2008 (UTC)
will he lay down his arms if US threatnes to invaid? -- TheGreenGorilla ( talk) 01:37, 3 July 2008 (UTC)
Was Gen. Eric Shinseki (Ret.) a member of the U.S. Army Rangers? A Ranger Tap is clearly visible on his uniform, but the article does not mention him serving in the Rangers. Thanks. Acceptable ( talk) 02:41, 3 July 2008 (UTC)
what do you think of this? -- TheGreenGorilla ( talk) 04:41, 3 July 2008 (UTC)
they seem to be getting along with one another. clarify i didnt mean other type of relationship. -- TheGreenGorilla ( talk) 04:58, 3 July 2008 (UTC)
oops -- TheGreenGorilla ( talk) 12:23, 3 July 2008 (UTC) srry
Are there any well-known/famous people who are known to have accounts on wikipedia...apart from Jimbo? -- 212.120.246.239 ( talk) 07:42, 3 July 2008 (UTC)
-- TheGreenGorilla ( talk) 07:49, 3 July 2008 (UTC)
Is the London Guarantee Building (near the Michigan Avenue Bridge) the same thing as the Crain Communications Building? I asked at Talk:London Guarantee Building but haven’t received an answer. -- Mathew5000 ( talk) 08:56, 3 July 2008 (UTC)
I am groping in the dark to find the right code for the colour "red" in my user page. Can anyone point me to a place that lists all the colour codes used in Wikipedia?? La Alquimista ( talk) 11:24, 3 July 2008 (UTC)
Hi, a previous question reminded me of the time when I tried to browse through the Wikipedians with articles page, but soon gave up because it's just too long and I didn't find anyone I recognized by name. So I'd like to ask, who (in your opinion, I guess) are the most famous Wikipedians of them all? Are there any well-known celebrities or not? The only one I actually know of is Stephen Colbert, but that's sort of a given; and Richard Dawkins as mentioned before, probably. (And you know Jimbo never counts :D ) Thanks in advance, Kreachure ( talk) 14:05, 3 July 2008 (UTC)
Real world, definitely. I'd rather wait a little while until Wikipedia gets more popular to start asking for celebrities from Wikipedia :) Anyways, I found Grant Imahara from Mythbusters. Cool... probably. Kreachure ( talk) 14:42, 3 July 2008 (UTC) Weren't some country's royal family editing their article, identified by the IP being from the palace? Edison ( talk) 18:45, 3 July 2008 (UTC)
Well, Richard Borcherds, known on Wikipedia as user:r.e.b., is one of the most famous people in the world. (Except, perhaps, among non-mathematicians.) Michael Hardy ( talk) 02:41, 4 July 2008 (UTC)
There are a fair number of people I'm came across who have edited their own articles or talk pages (and perhaps one or two other minor edits). E.g. User:RichardDawkins. If you count these you probably have quite a few candidates Nil Einne ( talk) 14:40, 4 July 2008 (UTC)
Richard Stallman, who among other things founded the Free Software Foundation which created the license Wikipedia uses, edited as User:Rmstallman. Graham 87 17:02, 5 July 2008 (UTC)
At what tempreture do diamonds melt? If they sometimes come out of volcanoes, then the temp at which they melt must be hoter than magma, so what temp is it? 193.115.175.247 ( talk) 15:20, 3 July 2008 (UTC)Zionist
So at what temp does graphite melt? And what is the average temp of magma? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 193.115.175.247 ( talk) 15:39, 3 July 2008 (UTC)
In my backyard we have planted four sweet basil plants. The two nearest the house are doing great—constantly perky, lots of big, fresh leaves, constant regeneration of removed leaves. The two a little further our are doing lousy—droopy, yellowish, not very many new leaves, nothing very large. Both receive pretty much equal amounts of water and sunlight. Both were initially planted in soil with fertilizer.
What might explain the differences between the two? What ought I do in order to help out the struggling pair? I don't have much of a green thumb, so if this seems obvious to those who do, I apologize... thank you. -- 98.217.8.46 ( talk) 15:47, 3 July 2008 (UTC)
If I were you, I would consider if the ground is different for the two that are struggling, I would consider pulling them up *VERY CAREFULLY* and putting them in a different location, or else "work" the soil. This is where you take a spade or a gardening claw and "agitate" the ground around the plants. It the ground is too hard and dry, the roots won't spread well, and the plant will suffer. Soil acidity can also be an issue. I don't know off the top of my head what acidity is right for basil, but you could probably look it up at www.homedepot.com or something similar. The soil may not seem to be different, but it can change a lot within even a foot or two depending on what (if anything) was planted there before. Happy Gardening! Xavier —Preceding unsigned comment added by 139.76.224.67 ( talk) 20:07, 3 July 2008 (UTC)
I always understood that western governments favoured spending their way out of a recession. Yet here we are surrounded by rising oil and fuel prices, rising food costs, rising mortgage and interest charges, and gloomy forecasts about the credit crunch and low investor returns on the world stock markets. Yet the people who are sitting on the capital that could be used to fuel a spending boom so as to get the economy going again are doing exactly that ie. sitting on it. On a more local note, I have been looking today at holiday costs (I live in the UK where the weather at present is very poor, unstable and unpredictable) and am surprised (having just returned from Tenerife where there is massive unemployment due to the downturn in construction and tourism)to see that despite the generality of increased consumer concern about the economy, most of the bigger holiday companies are charging an arm and a leg for a basic 14 day bucket-and-spade trip to the sun. No wonder the resorts were 40% down on seasonal trends. So what am I missing here? If I owned airplanes, or hotels, or jetskis, or bars, or restaurants that depended on bums on seats to survive, but which were all sitting idle, you can bet I would cut my costs to rock-bottom to entice the worried customers in and spend what little they dared on giving themselves a bit of fun; and me a decent income. Or is that too simplistic for our esteemed leaders? 92.17.189.128 ( talk) 16:32, 3 July 2008 (UTC)
has anyone else noticed that not that much has changed in pop culture, music, fashion etc, (at least for white people) since the mid 1990s? JeanLatore ( talk) 18:44, 3 July 2008 (UTC)
how so my friend? JeanLatore ( talk) 19:26, 3 July 2008 (UTC)
the macro-differences are miniscule. Compare 1986 with 1996. Then compare 1996 with 2006. Furthermore, most of the songs on "new rock" radio these days are regularly 15 years old. I doubt back in 1985 the "new rock" stations were playing stuff from 1971 still. But that's what we have with Pearl jam, nirvana, stp, smashing pumpkins, etc still all over the new rock radio now. Fashions are pretty similar to the mid 90s, esp. for young women. JeanLatore ( talk) 20:15, 3 July 2008 (UTC)
Is there a link between sleep loss and brain damage or cognative impairment? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.23.66.167 ( talk) 23:05, 3 July 2008 (UTC)
I don't think you can get serious brain damage from a lack of sleep, but you do function best by getting right around 8 hours of sleep. Its not good to get much less, and its also not good to get too much sleep. Grango242 ( talk) 01:17, 4 July 2008 (UTC)
Ask a doctor. Wikipedia cannot give medical advice 4.158.201.138 ( talk) 02:40, 4 July 2008 (UTC)
The answer is yes (especially cognitive impairment), and in a big way. Sleep deprivation sums it up pretty well. Kreachure ( talk) 22:48, 4 July 2008 (UTC)