By The Numbers

[NSFL]

What I find really interesting is how you know something in your mind, but it doesn't really register until you see a number attached to it. Like it isn't concrete in your mind until you can count it.

[Biff]

Originally Posted by NSFL

What I find really interesting is how you know something in your mind, but it doesn't really register until you see a number attached to it. Like it isn't concrete in your mind until you can count it.

I agree. It's totally hard to see how few Stanley Cups have been won by the Canucks until you see:

0 The number of Stanley Cups won by the Vancouver Canucks.

Weird.

[jolinar of malkshor]

1,643 Pounds of trash generated per person in the U.S. in 2005, the most recent year for which data are available. Some 32% of this waste was recycled, a rate that has doubled in the past 15 years

$236 billion Estimated annual revenue of the U.S. recycling industry

$850,000 Amount in bribes the former head of China's State Food and Drug Administration was accused of accepting to approve hundreds of drugs. He was sentenced to death in late May

60 Estimated number of hospitals and pharmacies in northeastern China that have been using fake blood proteins in patients' drips

202 Number of men who have been exonerated in the U.S. on the basis of DNA evidence since the beginning of the Innocence Project in 1992. Collectively, they served 2,496 years

45% Estimated percentage of those exonerated who have received some sort of compensation from the government, with amounts ranging from $25,000 to $12.2 million

[Azure]

Originally Posted by jolinar of malkshor

202 Number of men who have been exonerated in the U.S. on the basis of DNA evidence since the beginning of the Innocence Project in 1992. Collectively, they served 2,496 years

I just finished the first two seasons of prison break in 3 days....so I must say about this, good!

[jolinar of malkshor]

Originally Posted by Azure

I just finished the first two seasons of prison break in 3 days....so I must say about this, good!

I love that show. Do you know when S3 is going to start?

[Azure]

Originally Posted by jolinar of malkshor

I love that show. Do you know when S3 is going to start?

August 29...I believe is the first episode of season 3.

It was awesome...I started Friday night...was up all night, watched it Saturday at work, and finished Sunday afternoon.

Fabulous acting by everyone.

[jolinar of malkshor]

Originally Posted by Azure

August 29...I believe is the first episode of season 3.

It was awesome...I started Friday night...was up all night, watched it Saturday at work, and finished Sunday afternoon.

Fabulous acting by everyone.

I think the best actor is T-bag. I liked Haywire aswell.

[Azure]

Originally Posted by jolinar of malkshor

I think the best actor is T-bag. I liked Haywire aswell.

Yep...the actor who played T-bag did an amazing job.

Can't wait till August!

[fredr123]

Seriously? Great acting? The wife and I watched season 1 on DVD a couple weeks ago. The story seemed so far-fetched and the actors so... I don't know how to explain it. I wish the guy with the tatoo would speak up a little bit and put a little emotion in his voice.

That being said, as soon as one episode was done I couldn't resist firing up the next. It wasn't classic cinema by any stretch of the imagination but it was one of the best guilty pleasures in quite a while.

JofS: Do you have Season 2 on DVD?

[jolinar of malkshor]

Originally Posted by fredr123

Seriously? Great acting? The wife and I watched season 1 on DVD a couple weeks ago. The story seemed so far-fetched and the actors so... I don't know how to explain it. I wish the guy with the tatoo would speak up a little bit and put a little emotion in his voice.

That being said, as soon as one episode was done I couldn't resist firing up the next. It wasn't classic cinema by any stretch of the imagination but it was one of the best guilty pleasures in quite a while.

JofS: Do you have Season 2 on DVD?

I would agree with you that Link the Sink isn't a very good actor but I think T-Bag does a really good job.

I don't have season two on disk but I have them all downloaded if you want to watch them on the computer.

[Azure]

Originally Posted by fredr123

Seriously? Great acting? The wife and I watched season 1 on DVD a couple weeks ago. The story seemed so far-fetched and the actors so... I don't know how to explain it. I wish the guy with the tatoo would speak up a little bit and put a little emotion in his voice.

That being said, as soon as one episode was done I couldn't resist firing up the next. It wasn't classic cinema by any stretch of the imagination but it was one of the best guilty pleasures in quite a while.

JofS: Do you have Season 2 on DVD?

Difference of opinion I guess. I think the part Michael plays is very well acted. He is supposed to be like that according to the guys who wrote the story.

Its so popular BECAUSE the story is far-fetched. Thats what makes it good.

[Azure]

Originally Posted by jolinar of malkshor

I would agree with you that Link the Sink isn't a very good actor but I think T-Bag does a really good job.

I don't have season two on disk but I have them all downloaded if you want to watch them on the computer.

Link is alright...not great.

Thing is...you hate the bad guys. You hate that Kim guy...you hate Bagwell. That means the people who play those parts were good actors.

And the President. Ugh...she is ANNOYING. I want to puke when I hear her talk.

[jolinar of malkshor]

12% Percentage of employers who admit to consulting social-networking sites like Facebook.com for help with their hiring process

63% Percentage of those employers who declined to hire an applicant because of what they found. Suspected criminal behavior and faked qualifications are two of the top deal breakers

$100,000 Cost per plane to outfit domestic flights for onboard Internet access. American Airlines will start offering the service in 2008

$10 Price per flight for passengers to use the service

237 Number of reasons people cite for having sex, according to a new University of Texas at Austin study. Reasons include "It seemed like good exercise" and "The person was a good dancer"

4% Percentage of U.S. adults who have never had sex

8 million Number of Iraqis, nearly a third of the population, who are without water, sanitation, food and shelter. NGOs in Iraq say a humanitarian crisis there has gotten worse since the U.S.-led invasion in 2003

$37.4 billion U.S. federal funding for Iraqi reconstruction. As of May 2007, nearly all of it had been spent

2,819 Number of Cubans who have been successfully smuggled into Florida by boat so far this fiscal year, vs. 3,076 in all of FY 2006

89% Percentage of illegal entrants from Cuba who arrive in the U.S. by land through Mexico or Canada instead of making the 90-mile trip by boat; 9,296 Cubans entered by land this fiscal year through July 26

[fokakya]

Originally Posted by jolinar of malkshor

7.5 million Number of Ford Tauruses made in the sedan's 21-year life span, which ended Oct. 27

Funny thing is, Ford is bringing back the Taurus name. They found that sales dropped when they tried to follow their "Starting with F" policy with the Five-hundred and Fusion. They are rebranding again and I believe it will be the Five-hundred, but it might be the Fusion, that will be called the Taurus.

[Dion]

Originally Posted by fokakya

Funny thing is, Ford is bringing back the Taurus name. They found that sales dropped when they tried to follow their "Starting with F" policy with the Five-hundred and Fusion. They are rebranding again and I believe it will be the Five-hundred, but it might be the Fusion, that will be called the Taurus.

The Five Hundred was renamed the "Taurus"

The Freestyle was renamed the "Taurus X"

[Neeper]

I love useless information. I can't believe I missed this thread too.

[Dion]

"Stewardesses" is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand.

[HOOT]

Originally Posted by Dion

"Stewardesses" is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand.

It makes you wonder who and why someone figured that out....and how long it took them.

[Dion]

Originally Posted by HOOT

It makes you wonder who and why someone figured that out....and how long it took them.

I suspect that person had tooooooo much time on their hands

[Azure]

Originally Posted by Dion

I suspect that person had tooooooo much time on their hands

Just like someone else I know.