Keith --

Remember when all pop (or soda if you prefer) was sold in bottles and were ten cents (including the 2 cent bottle deposit)? We used to walk to the corner market (a privately owned small grocery that today would probably be a convenience store chain) and pick up enough discarded bottles to buy ourselves a bottle. Then, we would drink it down and go back in, get our two cents back and spend that on penny candy. I don't know how the clerks learned to be so patient with us as we tried to decide what to spend our deposit money on. Seems like it was a major decision back then.

Not a real co-ordinated recycling scheme that worked Dave!!

Remember when the milkman would leave the bottles at your door and collect the empties to be sterilised and used again. We used to save the aluminum foil caps for a local Guide Dog for the Blind Charity who recycled them into cash. The Milkman had electrically powered Floats

The modern way is drive to an out of town supermarket in your Gas Guzzler and pick up tons of plastic which we bury in a big hole in the ground whilst the Supermarket exploits the farmer so they can make the most profit.

"Helping you spend less every day"


They call it progress

Sek my rant over back to you and the pasta

Maybe more Computers are being left on all night boosting the First benchmark.
Then the Human Usage factor is inflicted on the Computers for the Second Benchmark.

Ah yes the good old days
I remember bugging my mom for $.16 cents so I could walk (Alone)
down to the MacDonald's to get the $.15 cent "Regular Hamburger and a
Coke special".
The $.4 cents on the Dollar tax had started with the Penny being added
on at $.25 cent mark.
The State Government had inched it down so the first penny was being added
on at $.10 cents. (While still charging only $.4 cents on the Dollar.)
We kids called it the Candy tax. A good civics lesson. We learned that the
Government would do anything for a Penny. Even to Children.

Dave A:

First half of the day covers daytime Eastern hemisphere, nightime Western hemisphere, vice versa second half. If bulk of work is done during the day, then Eastern hemisphere is cooking first half, Western second half? East is beating the West in growth (West is steadying out on growth)? Would be interesting to see the first half-second half numbers by geography.....

Dave B:

How about strawberry and raspberry Ne-Hi's (grape and orange were ordinary), Stuckey's was THE place to stop on road trips for a burger and shake (plus a pecan log roll on the way out), watching George Reeves in B&W in the original (not reruns) Superman, Gene Autry and Buck Rogers serials, Mighty Mouse (Looney Tunes were a given) cartoons and the best shakes were at the drug store soda counter.

Check this out Robby

Keith it used to be the other way around. Can't believe we have reached saturation point yet for the western half of the globe. Maybe knreed has access to all those IP addresses and could shed some light on progress on get ting the message out