Thread: Pasties

....... and your sig doesn't help. I'm on patches after 15 yrs. 9 days so far and counting.

> 9 days so far and counting.

Good Luck! As for the sig, don't worry - it'll be different tomorrow...

Anyway.... the answer is ..........

because tin is extremely poisonous (in its ore form) miners needed something they could eat without ingesting the tin ore (no washing facilities in those days). The pasty was that shape so they could hold the crust to eat it, and then throw the (by now poisonous) crust away.

Fascinating, eh?

Originally posted by Brian
Why would anyone need supercomputers anyway?

Computers vs Supercomputers

1. The only way to dicover the nature's law is "trial and error" (since Einstein is dead, remember, and nobody else proven his theory anyway)
2. Computers (normal or super) are programmed by humans.
3. Therefore, they produce the necessary errors.
4. More of them, the better.
5. Supercomputers can provide exactly the same results (see 3.), with an increased speed.
6. Time is money.
7. From which: suprecomputers are needed.

Because:
1. The only way ...