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If you work in a restaurant or other commercial kitchen, can you please estimate the prep and cooking time separately for one hundred portions of a common meal with meat, veggies, potatoes and sauce? Can you please also quote the prep time for a hundred portions of mixed salad (tomatoes, cucumber, peppers, mushrooms, carrots) with self-made dressing? Please do not include the time to plate the meal / salad or mix anything, only the time to wash, cut and cook everything. Thank you for your help!

What would be left of our "economy" that we can work with to build a "new system" without factors unknown to the public that manipulate the value of stock shares? Are there any (scientific) scenarios for an event like this or possible future systems similar to our current public understanding of economy, but without manipulation?

Considering critics about AGW conspiracies and general dispute about supposed facts, can you think of any particular scientific, capitalistic, political or even psychological reasons why anyone would want to fake data and make the world believe something that is not true (or might be true, but not important or fatal)?

I will be renting a compact car ("Chevy Cobalt or similar") from Alamo in Chicago O'Hare and Las Vegas McCarran and did check on the Chevy website, but could only find specs for the 2009 model.

Does anyone have details?

Thanks for your help!

I will be renting a compact car ("Chevy Cobalt or similar") from Alamo in Chicago O'Hare and Las Vegas McCarran and did check on the Chevy website, but could only find specs for the 2009 model.

Does anyone have details?

Thanks for your help!

It's rather obvious that the names have to match, but what if the addresses don't?

The story:

I am a german citizen working in the UK. I hold a valid german passport and a Working Holiday Visa for Australia (valid for 12 months). When I booked my flight from London to Australia over the phone a couple of weeks ago, I automatically gave my UK address, because it is my current residential and billing address. However, by the time I fly to Australia, I will, of course, have left this address and my workplace, and what's more, it is obviously not the same address as in my passport.

The only thing that "connects" me with both addresses is the fact that I noted the UK address during the visa application, so that it is shown on the details as my "current postal address".

Is that "connection" enough for the airport authorities to allow me to board, also on the return flight after 12 months? Do they look at the address at all?

Is it usually a problem to have an address on a flight ticket changed by the seller?

Thanks for your help.

It's rather obvious that the names have to match, but what if the addresses don't?

The story:

I am a german citizen working in the UK. I hold a valid german passport and a Working Holiday Visa for Australia (valid for 12 months). When I booked my flight from London to Australia over the phone a couple of weeks ago, I automatically gave my UK address, because it is my current residential and billing address. However, by the time I fly to Australia, I will, of course, have left this address and my workplace, and what's more, it is obviously not the same address as in my passport.

The only thing that "connects" me with both addresses is the fact that I noted the UK address during the visa application, so that it is shown on the details as my "current postal address".

Is that "connection" enough for the airport authorities to allow me to board, also on the return flight after 12 months? Do they look at the address at all?

Is it usually a problem to have an address on a flight ticket changed by the seller?

Thanks for your help.

"...everybody seems satisfied with how much they have of it."

Let's assume you had the possibility to become more intelligent (or less, if you like) for a special REASON.

When your wish is fulfilled, would that REASON still be valuable or relevant? Wouldn't you think different about being dumb or smart as soon as your intellect changed?

If yes, can that then be taken as proof of correctness for the statement above? What else are its implications?

If no, what then changes with the change of your intellect? And what would be better / worse if you were dumber / smarter than you are now? How would your life change? Is it really only a matter of "survival of the fittest"?

Do you remember when you used to watch TV just for the sake of it (if you ever did) and then started zapping through the programs, because there really wasn't anything worth watching?

My guess is that people are in communities like Y!A for the same reason: They have no idea what to do with their time.

I mean, of course, there are positive aspects to it, e.g. you are active in contrast to watching TV. But it is still far away from LIFE.

So my actual question is:

Do we still know at all what to do with our time?

If the internet broke down for a week, what would all those chatting, answering, downloading people do? Is it easy for you to make plans for the weekend, even if it's going to rain?

What does tradition mean in that regard? Was there more to do, let's say 50 or 100 years ago? Do we still have a life in that sense, or are we just lost within science fiction that became real, meaning that we do things because they can be done, but not because they make any good sense?

I read "Conversations On Consciousness" and quite a few papers and articles on the "hard problem" and heard about the work of Dehaene/Naccache, who (as I understood) found the NCC. After all, what explanatory gap(s) are yet to be filled? Apart from other mysteries about the brain (memory etc.) it seems to me that science found out already what consciousness is (for) and how it "arises".

Or is my impression really true that all the scientists are simply "fighting" over "I have the better theory!" while nobody really has a clue how to unite all accumulated knowledge instead of just presenting it like Blackmore bravely did in "Consciousness: An Introduction"?

I got confused after reading Ramachandran's "Three Laws Of Qualia". First I thought it's the same thing, now I wonder what makes Ramachandran think that connecting two brains with a neuronal wire would give both the same experience. I think that even then the experience will be subjective.