All categories - 19 June 2007

3 months ago my ex broke up with me, we were together for almost a year, i love him so much i still do love him! Going through a break up is hard, and he started talking to this 20 year old girl who lives in canberra, he is also 20 and i am 16 although i am fairly mature for my age. He is head over heals for this new girl, he says he loves her with all his heart and thier love is true and she feels the same about him. Its killing me so much, one week he loved me the next he loves her, and there is not one thing i can do about it! He says he is madly in love with her personality and alot more. She is even moving up here in QLD to be with him :'( do you honestly think this relationship could work out, he did move on very quickly?? Can you find your true love at the age of 20?? Its just killing me because i love him soo much and i told him i would probly be the only girl who ever truely loved him for him he said it isn't true because his new girlfriend does.. Will they last? It hurts :'(

2007-06-19 12:23:47 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous in Singles & Dating

2007-06-19 12:23:07 · 4 answers · asked by Susan S 1 in Respiratory Diseases

Does anybody know where num lock is in my laptop, I have a Toshiba tecra! I have no idea where it is, it is nowhere written! I pressed every button but didnt get it...
Is it a combination of buttons that I must press?

2007-06-19 12:22:51 · 4 answers · asked by Irouli 2 in Laptops & Notebooks

i touch precum from over the underwear of my bf (so my hand didnt get wet or anything it felt pretty dry) and then i hold hands with him for about 10 min then he fingered me can i be pregnant? does sperm on the precum can survive all that and make someone pregnant?

2007-06-19 12:22:44 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Pregnancy

Have you ever noticed a mixed guys hair when it's cut? (I'm reffering to a black and white "product".). It has like yellow blond patches and the rest is jet black. Like highlights. Why is that? I don't think I've seen any Whites have natural "discolored" hair like that. Or Blacks. Just curious here, I DO NOT want a racial flame war here.

2007-06-19 12:22:20 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Cultures & Groups

im craving basketball!!

2007-06-19 12:22:18 · 2 answers · asked by Cavs in '09 ♥ Hurry Back BEN 6 in Basketball

told the court it was consential i dont know if i spelled that right but if i told the court that how mich time would be knocked off? we live in pa if that helps any

2007-06-19 12:22:18 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Law & Ethics

POLICYMAKERS and legislators often fail to consider the law of unintended consequences. The latest example is their attempt to reduce the United States' dependence on imported oil by shifting a big share of the nation's largest crop, corn, to the production of ethanol for fueling automobiles.

Good goal, bad policy. In fact, ethanol will do little to reduce the large percentage of our fuel that is imported (more than 60%), and the ethanol policy will have widespread and profound ripple effects on other markets. Corn farmers and ethanol refiners are ecstatic about the ethanol boom and are enjoying the windfall of artificially enhanced demand. But it will be an expensive and dangerous experiment for the rest of us.

On Capitol Hill, the Senate is debating legislation that would further expand corn ethanol production. A 2005 law already mandates production of 7.5 billion gallons by 2012, about 5% of the projected gasoline use at that time. These biofuel goals are propped up by a generous federal subsidy of 51 cents a gallon for blending ethanol into gasoline, and a tariff of 54 cents a gallon on most imported ethanol to help keep out cheap imports from Brazil. The proposed legislation is a prime example of throwing good money after a bad idea.

President Bush has set a target of replacing 15% of domestic gasoline use with biofuels (ethanol and biodiesel) over the next 10 years, which would require almost a fivefold increase in mandatory biofuel use, to about 35 billion gallons. With current technology, almost all of this biofuel would have to come from corn because there is no feasible alternative. However, achieving the 15% goal would require the entire current U.S. corn crop, which represents a whopping 40% of the world's corn supply. This would do more than create mere market distortions; the irresistible pressure to divert corn from food to fuel would create unprecedented turmoil.

Thus, it is no surprise that the price of corn has doubled in the last year — from $2 to $4 a bushel. We are already seeing upward pressure on food prices as the demand for ethanol boosts the demand for corn. Until the recent ethanol boom, more than 60% of the annual U.S. corn harvest was fed domestically to cattle, hogs and chickens or used in food or beverages. Thousands of food items contain corn or corn byproducts. In Mexico, where corn is a staple food, the price of tortillas has skyrocketed because U.S. corn has been diverted to ethanol production.

And any sort of shock to corn yields, such as drought, unseasonably hot weather, pests or disease could send food prices into the stratosphere. Such concerns are more than theoretical. In 1970, a widespread outbreak of a fungus called southern corn leaf blight destroyed 15% of the U.S. corn crop.

Politicians like to say that ethanol is environmentally friendly, but these claims must be put into perspective. Although corn is a renewable resource, it has a far lower yield relative to the energy used to produce it than either biodiesel (such as soybean oil) or ethanol from other plants. Moreover, ethanol yields about 30% less energy per gallon than gasoline, so mileage drops off significantly. Finally, adding ethanol raises the price of blended fuel because it is more expensive to transport and handle.

Lower-cost biomass ethanol — for example, from rice straw (a byproduct of harvesting rice) or switchgrass — would make far more economic sense, but large volumes of ethanol from biomass will not be commercially viable for many years. (And production will be delayed by government policies that specifically encourage corn-based ethanol by employing subsidies.)

American legislators and policymakers seem oblivious to the scientific and economic realities of ethanol production. Brazil and other major sugar cane-producing nations enjoy significant advantages over the U.S. in producing ethanol, including ample agricultural land, warm climates amenable to vast plantations and on-site distilleries that can process cane immediately after harvest.

Thus, in the absence of cost-effective, domestically available sources for producing ethanol, rather than using corn, it would make far more sense to import ethanol from Brazil and other countries that can produce it efficiently — and also to remove the 54-cents-per-gallon tariff on Brazilian ethanol imports.

Our politicians may be drunk with the prospect of corn-derived ethanol, but if we don't adopt policies based on science and sound economics, it is consumers around the world who will suffer the hangover.
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2007-06-19 12:22:10 · 5 answers · asked by GREAT_AMERICAN 1 in Politics

2007-06-19 12:22:10 · 35 answers · asked by Anonymous in Polls & Surveys

Ambassador's Memo Asks for 'Best People'
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, June 19, 2007; A01
Ryan C. Crocker, the new U.S. ambassador to Iraq, bluntly told Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice in a cable dated May 31 that the embassy in Baghdad -- the largest and most expensive U.S. embassy -- lacks enough well-qualified staff members and that its security rules are too restrictive for Foreign Service officers to do their jobs.

"Simply put, we cannot do the nation's most important work if we do not have the Department's best people," Crocker said in the memo.

The unclassified cable underscores the State Department's struggle to find its role in the turmoil in Iraq. With a 2007 budget of more than $1 billion and a staff that has expanded to more than 1,000 Americans and 4,000 third-country nationals, the embassy has become the center of a bureaucratic battle between Crocker, who wants to strengthen the staff, and some members of Congress.

humm.

2007-06-19 12:21:52 · 4 answers · asked by rare2findd 6 in Politics

The Army is again considering extending the deployment time of our Troops.

My question is would you enlist to shorten the time our Troops have to spend in the sandbox?

I would today even with my previous service time taken off, I'm over the age limit.

2007-06-19 12:21:49 · 6 answers · asked by ฉันรักเบ้า 7 in Military

Thank you in advance.

2007-06-19 12:21:36 · 15 answers · asked by Maria Gallercia 4 in Medicine

Who are the only two wrestlers to appear on the 90's tv show "honey i shrunk the kids".
hint: they played themselves.they used their real names in wrestling also.

2007-06-19 12:21:26 · 4 answers · asked by BOB 6 in Wrestling

2007-06-19 12:21:17 · 10 answers · asked by Esqueesha 1 in Earth Sciences & Geology

I live in a one bedroom apartment and just bought a ferret. I love the little guy but her cage smells, now matter how clean I keep it. I'm considering getting another ferret soon, any suggestions on how to keep the smell down. Also, how big of a cage do you need for two ferrets? Thanks!

2007-06-19 12:20:52 · 6 answers · asked by Dsgnrgrl 2 in Other - Pets

i helped you...but you did not see it!

2007-06-19 12:20:45 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

My teacher told me and I forgot???

2007-06-19 12:20:35 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous in Words & Wordplay

The specifications are, Assuming a designers requires a motor veichle to accelerate its 670mm diamater drive wheels from a standing start to 40rads/sec in 6 seconds. If the mass is 1500kg the friction coefficient between road and tyres is 0.35 and taking its acceleration due t gravity as 10m/s/s.

Help with these question:
1) The angular acceleration of the wheels to attain cruising speed.
2)The forward velocity of the veichle when up to cruising speed.
3) The distance travelled to attain this speed.
4) The total load required to be produced by the engine.
5) The power developed by the engine in getting up to speed.

Thanks, full points given to the best.

2007-06-19 12:20:35 · 2 answers · asked by fanta m 1 in Physics

2007-06-19 12:20:24 · 18 answers · asked by tracyterry 3 in Astronomy & Space

2007-06-19 12:20:21 · 4 answers · asked by gavin12ic 1 in Other - Cultures & Groups

Is it the same for a man/woman?

A friend of mine told me he wasn't allowed to enroll in the army because he is an only child, is this true?

2007-06-19 12:20:17 · 15 answers · asked by bonita_itzel 2 in Military

2007-06-19 12:20:15 · 27 answers · asked by Anonymous in Polls & Surveys

I'm 18 now. and yeah people say once you've get to that age you think your grown and that u know it all. But i dont believe that is the case because if you ever had asian parents you know what kind of a struggle it can be. I'm not a bad person. i work for them at their business.I dont smoke or drink. I'm not a big partyer. But once every now and then maybe i would like to jus chill with my friends or go to the movies. But they bust up my phones calling me telling me to go to work..and i feel so guilty when i dont go because i know i owe them so much. Every time they call i dont pick up i get nauscious. only because i just want time for my life and i dont wanna hear it when i get home. I want really bad to just tell them to just treat me like an adult and jus give me freedom...How do i do that?

2007-06-19 12:20:09 · 8 answers · asked by krusti 2 in Other - Cultures & Groups

Hi,
I cannot afford to pay Lexus to do this. Can someone advise me please? Thank you!
Changing my 2004 Lexus ES 330 Air Filter

2007-06-19 12:20:02 · 2 answers · asked by rachelnine 1 in Lexus

obviously country music has won the hearts of millions but i never understood why more blacks aren't in country music when there are just as many country black folks as inner city black folks. on the other hand, whites (young people of course) are embracing hip hop and r&b but the same thing isn't happening as quickly in reverse(blacks embracing country music). we have had small steps (rapper nelly and tim mcgraw,etc) but nothing huge... yes i know about cowboy troy/ rissi parker,etc

2007-06-19 12:19:48 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Cultures & Groups

I have a contract with franking machine company, it's gone 2 years and 2 months. they say i have to cancel it on 3 months before the anivesary of the contract. how do you get out and can they do this. many thanks and kind regards.

2007-06-19 12:19:44 · 1 answers · asked by ann 1 in Corporations

Did anyone find it? If so, please return it, it was a gift.

2007-06-19 12:19:34 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Polls & Surveys

2007-06-19 12:19:29 · 1 answers · asked by toes_made_of_steel 1 in Other - Health

$39 is the cheapest I've found, but I would like to spend less.

2007-06-19 12:19:19 · 2 answers · asked by Zack T 1 in Amusement Parks