What they need to do with urinal design is to make one that can catch the wide-spray of someone who sports a PA.

I worked as a temp once in a stae government building. It didn't have enough bathrooms. The toilets were of the type that drained/fastened to the wall instead of the floor. One day, someone big sat down and broke it. There was an angry announcement on the rarely-used building-wide speaker. Nobody owned-up to it.

Or Cinese noodles with Chinese tomatoes?

It sounds likw 2 domestic markets that China should use to rid themseves of their over-abundance of tomatoes.

The Library of Congress doesn't keep a copy of everything. It doesn't even try. I was shocked to learn this, as a child growing up I had been told the Library of Congress kept a copy of everything.

Basically, I have windows of 5 minutes when I can do almost anything, then she calls me to do something for her that takes 15 minutes, then I have another 5 minutes of work. Instead of coding, my writing efforts have transitioned to writing fiction.

The handwriting was on the wall with this issue since the O'Bama administration: he had been convinced that putting all health care records in one central repository i.e. server famrs, and then unleash AI-systems on all that data, would come up with a cure for cancer. And at that time, there was an electricity shortage problem.

Another server farm is the one that the NSA built in Utah where the local power grid has been unable to keep powered-up. That's the one purported to have the backdoor on everyone's internet traffic kept. But some people prefer I go away with my foil hat.

Restaurants wouldn't even need dish washers if they switched to paper plates. The pots and pans have to be washed by hand anyway. I was a dishwasher in a restaurant when I was only 14. I'd work a 12-hour shift on Saturdays because none of the 'real' dishwashers were available. The only perk I got was that I could have an occasional pipsi on-th-house. I also worked as a young adault in my father's restaurant. I'd come home from 'my' job every day, working on an electronics production line only to be shown the huge pile of dishes that had accumulated during the day. The production line paid me $2.50 per hour. My dad didn't pay me anything. But he let me park my 20-foot trailer in his back yard, which was adjacent to the restaurant property, and in the winter I had to refill my propane every 3 days.

I'm a vegetarian, so I don't eat meat with my fingers, or anything else.

That was how NAZI-Germany and USSR (communist) governments 'solved' their problems.

In the USA, we had this president named Ronald Reagan who solved the mental institution problem: he closed all the mental institutions and expelled the patients so the patients live on the streets. That's really gave us a new influx of homeless people on a national scale, and it hasn't improved.

I designed and built the box with the speech synthesizer, and it sat between the customer's computer, and a type-407 modem.

The Bell 407 modem was a large rack of many modems. Too pricey. Too big a hardware investment if you just wanted one incoming line. But we found something called a Tuck 407. The Tuck 407 utilized a 300-baud modem chip, and the one we had only could transmit in this mode. We didn't use this mode. We used the mode that utilized a touch-tone decoder and fed the digits out the modem's serial port. The modem also featured an input for audio, which it fed back into the phone lines. Thus, a voice modem. But the price of teh Tuck 407 was still somewhat pricey at $400 each. I only ever saw two of them cross my workbench, and they were resold to the customer.

My company built their own type 407 modem. They wanted basically a pc board level product that had the same footprint as the voice synthesizer board, so they could both be placed in the same enclosure (card rack). Eventually, that was done. It also chewed up about $30K in R&D costs. But it worked very well. It would have implemented the AT-style instruction set, but nobody was sure how to shoe-horn that on top of the hardware we'd built, that relied on extra control pins of the RS-232 connector into the modem. Several sample units were built, the product passed it's FCC part 15 and part 68 requirements, and only 2 initial sample modem boards ever made it to the customer that had also bought the two Tuck 407 modems.

The plans for the 407 modem got burned up in a fire. Almost like in a novel, it was so classic.