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February 22

House Arrest

What would incline a judge to put someone on house arrest? By that, I mean, what do the "criminals" do (specific things) in order to be put on it. Would popping someones tires and pretty much damaging their car be one? Thanks in advance! (also, If you could list some things that a person would have had to do in order to be put on it, that'd be great.) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.211.8.100 (talk) 01:07, 22 February 2008 (UTC)

Depends on jurisdiction. See House arrest and, for the UK, Home Detention Curfew and Electronic tagging. Couldn't speak for the USA. --Tagishsimon (talk) 01:36, 22 February 2008 (UTC)

Yeah, I looked at the house arrest article, but It didn't have what I'm looking for. Thanks anyway —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.211.8.100 (talk) 03:21, 22 February 2008 (UTC)

I think usually it's like if you're a teenager or a non-violent normal person who gets caught up in something that happens to be criminal, that sort of thing.. you get sentenced to prison as the law requires, but the judge commutes your sentence to house arrest :D\=< (talk) 04:36, 22 February 2008 (UTC)

Or if someone can be shown to be too sick or infirm to be in jail as illustrated by Uncle Junior in The Sopranos. Another, this time in Myanmar, the house arrest of Aung San Suu Kyi for political reasons. Julia Rossi (talk) 05:15, 22 February 2008 (UTC)

Original TMNT being 80s

Does the original Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cartoon count as an 80s show? Heegoop, 22 February 2008 (UTC)

In the sense that it was produced and first broadcast in the 1980s, yes. --Tagishsimon (talk) 01:32, 22 February 2008 (UTC)

Sleep schedule

If my sleep schedule is out of whack, would staying up for two days help me or not? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 199.98.20.59 (talk) 06:29, 22 February 2008 (UTC)

I just tried something similar last week. I ended up sleeping for 15 hours straight and being even more screwed up —Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.101.53.141 (talk) 08:32, 22 February 2008 (UTC)

Not likely. They say for every hour sleep you lose you should sleep 2 hours (no idea if that is true or just the adage of a lazy person!). Anyhoo the best way to get yourself back to your 'normal' sleep pattern is to get yourself back on that pattern. So go back to sleeping at the time you would normally/want to longer-term. It'll be difficult to start with but will soon get back to normal. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 194.221.133.226 (talk) 14:52, 22 February 2008 (UTC)

Light_therapy#Jet_lag might be helpful. --Sean 15:36, 22 February 2008 (UTC)

Typical advice given for sorting out sleep schedules is usually termed sleep hygiene. That article should help give you some ideas, but specifically where it says Timing

   * Try to arise at the same time every day.
   * Try to maintain a consistent bedtime, but go to bed only when sleepy.
   * Any nap should be short and earlier than 3 p.m.

The most important initial part of getting your sleep schedule back is getting up at the time you should; falling asleep at the right time should follow. As anyone who has fallen into bad sleep schedules knows, it isn't as simple as just going to bed at the right time, as you don't initially fall asleep at that time. Unless you really need to sort the sleep schedule out fast (as in, by Sunday) I wouldn't recommend missing a whole night's sleep. 79.74.0.57 (talk) 17:19, 22 February 2008 (UTC)

This is original research but here goes... I work nights. The schedule is four nights on, three off, three on, four off. So that allows me a few days to sort out my sleep schedule and be a "regular" day person. I've found that when I get home in the morning from my last day of the week, it's best to get about 3-4 hours of sleep then force myself to get up. Usually this is around 2 in the afternoon. I'll then go about my normal day life with my family, have dinner, watch a movie, and then go to sleep at a reasonable hour. By that point I'm tired enough from having had only a little sleep that day that I will fall asleep rather quickly. I'll sleep the whole night through, and then be back on schedule for the rest of the "daytime" world. Dismas|^(talk) 17:31, 22 February 2008 (UTC)

"Try to maintain a consistent bedtime, but go to bed only when sleepy" is flawed and contradictory advice: the problem for many people who have problematic sleep schedules is precisely that they don't get sleepy at consistent times. —Lowellian (reply) 23:02, 26 February 2008 (UTC)

british standards institute

I am wondering if anyone knows anything about bs 381. I am writing a report about coding of materials in their supply form and need to know about it. i ask the question here because i cannot find anything out on the internet about bs 381.

Can anyone help me.

thanks

J L P. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 172.206.144.151 (talk) 16:06, 22 February 2008 (UTC)

Does this help? BS381 Fribbler (talk) 19:21, 22 February 2008 (UTC)

And if you just need to know about it, this might help. But Fribbler's is the better link if you want to get an idea of what the colour codes are. 79.74.0.57 (talk) 21:53, 22 February 2008 (UTC)

Bluestocking

What is the above? as taken from a users page... Yes, I am a bluestocking and a feminist Thanks, and do you speak Russian? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 12.191.136.3 (talk) 16:13, 22 February 2008 (UTC)

See Bluestocking. Also, from the article references "...bluestocking itself is getting to be rather an old-fashioned pejorative description for an intellectual woman..." AlmostReadytoFly (talk) 16:29, 22 February 2008 (UTC)

LSD

Is it possible to create the above substance at home. eg plastique can be made using bleech, boiled, then frozen strained then the crystals microwaved, crushed and mixed with bluetack. or Napalm is polytyrene left to disolve in petrol. How can one make LSD, just curious. Thanks —Preceding unsigned comment added by 12.191.136.2 (talk) 16:20, 22 February 2008 (UTC)

According our article on the subject, "Manufacturing LSD requires laboratory equipment and experience in the field of organic chemistry. It takes two or three days to produce 30 to 100 grams of pure compound." So, unlikely, unless you happen to live in a lab. It is also, apparently, sensitive to UV light and oxygen - perhaps not the kind of thing you could whip up in your kitchen. I suppose you could eat some mouldy rye instead (please don't). --Kateshortforbob 18:31, 22 February 2008 (UTC)

If it was easy to make LSD at home, The Anarchist Cookbook would presumably provide a recipe, which it doesn't (I have a copy). For one thing, it's much more difficult to obtain ergotamine tartrate, the precursor from which LSD is usually made, than it is to obtain the precursors of other illegal drugs such as methamphetamine. Also, LSD synthesis is a difficult process to master. For these reasons, the DEA estimates that there are probably less than a dozen chemists who manufacture nearly all of the LSD available in the US.[1] That being said, a Google search on "LSD synthesis" does turn up hits, such as [2]. There's also a book by Uncle Fester called Practical LSD Manufacture.[3] MrRedact (talk) 18:43, 22 February 2008 (UTC)

Cookbook

Who wrote the anarchists cookbook, widly distributed in the early 90's? as refered to in the above question. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 12.191.136.2 (talk) 16:23, 22 February 2008 (UTC)

See The Anarchist Cookbook --Ouzo (talk) 16:31, 22 February 2008 (UTC)

There are two works with very similar names floating around. The more common one on the Internet, usually called "The Anarchists cookbook", is a collection of files of uncertain origin, covering such subjects as breaking and entering, computer hacking, phone phreaking, and explosives manufacture, usually with instructions that won't work, will get you caught, or will get you killed. The other, titled "The Anarchist Cookbook", is the 1971 book mentioned in the above article. --Carnildo (talk) 00:25, 23 February 2008 (UTC)

Is there that much demand for cooked anarchist? Clarityfiend (talk) 03:26, 23 February 2008 (UTC)

Yes, I'll Have the Emma Goldman flambe a la mode. Cryo921 (talk) 03:05, 26 February 2008 (UTC)

Scanning Problems on my Epson Stylus Photo RX 520

Sorry if I should have asked this on the Computing Desk but here goes anyways. I bought the above model so that I could mainly scan in my largish collection of hard photo's and retain them in My Pictures on my PC. Generally I can do that with few problems but boy, when it wants to play up, the Epson sure knows how to. It previews the photo and then begins to scan proper, and just before the green progress bar reaches the end, the scanner rejects it and zeroes the procedure. I can reduce the dpi and the compression but the result, if at all successful, is undersize and grainy. But if I persist several times more, it takes the unreduced photo without problems. Is it me? The Photo? The Scanner? The PC? All the above???? Thanks81.145.240.57 (talk) 19:17, 22 February 2008 (UTC)

Talk to the manufacturer? Take it back to the shop? Julia Rossi (talk) 23:25, 23 February 2008 (UTC)