Conference back40::soapbox

    Perhaps the plethora of tater tot equations belong here.

    How many tater tots does it take for Carl Sagan to say "Bbillions"

what does antithesis mean?????
       
Paul

    Damn! missed it!

    Most masters candidates would rather just get a degree and forego the
    work.  They would be considered antithesis.

<-----  {chuckle chuckle}

A large percentage of contestants on the quiz show "Beat the Reaper" die.

    Your radio station replaying "Beat the Reaper" re-runs or are you a
    Firesign Theatre fan, Mr. Regnad Kcin?
    
    Dan

    
    Koop, at Hillary's kick-off of the weight-loss program :
    
       "Americans are too big."
    
    bb

    Ya, but I thought the issue waas weight...

So does that make you a Japanese-Irish Jew?

    The world will end in 30 seconds....
    
    30-29-28-27-26.....

    4-3-2-1..... I've been wrong before !!!
    
    Sorry :*)

    
    <--------
    
    DAM YOU!  You went and got me all excited for nothing!
    

    sounds like a personal problem to me

    
    re: .166
    
    >DAM YOU!
    
    
    Hoover????????
    

Re .16

Now *that* is grim!

:^}

\C    

    about 20,000 people die from Cobra bites in India each year.
    
    Yikes!

    
    
    Ban Cobras!!!
    

    Taken from: http://www.infi.net/~redtape/bureau.html
    
    In 1993, the nation's regulatory system cost Americans $581 billion --
    about $5,900 per household per year. Other fun facts: 
    
         The annual cost of federal regulation is projected to rise to $662
    billion by the year 2000. ("CEOs Call for Sweeping Reform of U.S. 
    Government Regulation," PR Newswire, June 21, 1994, citing Thomas D. 
    Hopkins, "Costs of Regulations: Filling the Gaps," Reg. Info. Service
    Center, Aug. 1992)
    
         If the hours spent complying with the tax code were put to
    productive work, they'd represent the entire annual outputs of the U.S. 
    auto, truck and aircraft industries. (The Dallas Morning News, June 30, 
    1994)
    
         "The Lord's Prayer is 66 words, the Gettysburg Address is 286
    words, and there are 1,322 words in the Declaration of Independence. Yet, 
    government regulations on the sale of cabbage total 26,911 words." (Letter
    from David McIntosh [former member of V.P. Quayle's Council on
    Competitiveness] to Grover C. Norquist, Oct. 13, 1992)
    
         Between 1987 and 1992, the federal paperwork burden increased 261%
    to nearly seven billion hours, according to the GAO, with tax requirements 
    comprising most of that burden. And regulatory costs tend to hit small
    business harder than larger companies which "often welcome new
    regulations because they know the regulations will help consolidate their 
    market share and wipe out small business competitors." (Karen Kerrigan, 
    president of the Small Business Survival Committee, Investor's Business 
    Daily, Sept. 8, 1994)
    
         "President Clinton's first year saw the most regulatory activity
    since President Carter's last. The page total for 1993 of the Federal 
    Register was 69,608 pages, the third highest total of all time . . . [And] 
    from 1988 to 1992 regulatory staffing increased by over 20 percent to 
    almost 125,000 employees. Under President Clinton, the largest number of 
    Federal bureaucrats ever, 128,615 people, were called for to run his 
    Federal regulatory  apparatus." (Statement by Congressman Tom Delay [R-TX],
    Congressional Record, May 12, 1994)
    
    And then there's the human cost...
    
    Excerpted from the Wall Street Journal, Sept. 16, 1994.
    
    Bill Pierce, owner of a Cincinnati engineering firm "let his salaried
    employees, most in their 50s, set their own schedules. All they had to do 
    was work 80 hours every two weeks. If they chose to work fewer hours for 
    less pay, or more for straight time, that was fine. 
    Mr. Pierce says the employees, with annual salaries of $45,000 to
    $70,000, treasured the system's flexibility. Enter the
    Department of Labor. . . it filed a lawsuit in federal court in January
    1989 accusing him of flouting an obscure provision
    of the 1938 Fair Labor Standards Act. 
    In a new interpretation of that law, it argued that any salaried
    employee docked for unpaid leave in increments of less
    than one day automatically becomes an hourly worker. It ordered him to
    pay nearly $50,000 in back wages, penalties and interest. 
    Mr. Pierce says he spent a small fortune in legal fees and thousands of
    hours fighting the department's charges. His business suffered, and he 
    began letting his employees go. In early 1992, a judge ruled he owed only 
    $3,100. But by then, he says, he was broke. 
    He says he laid off his last employee last December.
    
    

    <--- and there are over 7,000,000 words in Title 26. 
    
         Go figure.

    
    PopUp Video on VH1 reports that it takes longer for humans to decompose
    nowadays because of all of the preservatives in our food.
                                 
    Marc

    VH1, a great source for news and facts.

    particularly when delivered during a video of Talking Heads.

    But, if you can't trust Pop-Up Videos, who can you trust?

    RE: 119.25
    
    Hey, Binder and EDP are not always available ;-)
    
    Marc

RE: .28

Take it to note 11!!