Random, impulsive from-the-hip...facts

[hm insulators]

There is never time or money to do a project right the first time but always enough time and money to start all over again and do it right the second time.

[OracleUsr]

Did you know that Old MacDonald was a terrible speller?

Yeah, I went there

COW C-O-W-....E-I-E-I-O

[OracleUsr]

Another mutual exit #....I-640 at I-275 in Knoxville.  Both are Exit 3 off each other.

[CNGL-Leudimin]

I'm back at Standard time. However, I won't change my forum time offset only to change it again next Sunday.

[english si]

I'm back at Standard time. However, I won't change my forum time offset only to change it again next Sunday.

Speaking of, I gather Spain might skip a leap forward sometime soon to move off Berlin time and onto a more logical time zone? Am I right?

[Alps]

More than half of available area codes are already in use - 300 in use, 288 left.

[Pete from Boston]

We're now further in time from the start of the Second World War than it was from the end of the Civil War. 

[US71]

There is never time or money to do a project right the first time but always enough time and money to start all over again and do it right the second time.

Just ask the company working on I-49

[Zmapper]

More than half of available area codes are already in use - 300 in use, 288 left.

How are there only 588 codes?

Using only three-digit numbers, 1000 codes are available (000-999). Assuming no code can start with zero or one reduces the number of available codes to 800.

[US71]

More than half of available area codes are already in use - 300 in use, 288 left.

How are there only 588 codes?


Using only three-digit numbers, 1000 codes are available (000-999). Assuming no code can start with zero or one reduces the number of available codes to 800.

There is also no 911 area code... and likely never will be.

[Zmapper]

Subtracting eight codes for the n11 numbers results in 792.

[Pete from Boston]

To scratch the surface,

http://www.nanpa.com/area_codes/

[CNGL-Leudimin]

We're now further in time from the start of the Second World War than it was from the end of the Civil War. 

I take 'Civil War' as Secession War. Because it was already further in time from the start of WWII than it was from the end of the (Spanish) Civil War by February 1940.

[Pete from Boston]

We're now further in time from the start of the Second World War than it was from the end of the Civil War. 

I take 'Civil War' as Secession War. Because it was already further in time from the start of WWII than it was from the end of the (Spanish) Civil War by February 1940.

United States Civil War.  Sorry, speaking to what I assume os a predominately US crowd.  Where do they call it "Secession War"?  Certainly not in the U.S.

[CNGL-Leudimin]

I always heard it in Spanish as 'Guerra de Secesión'. Perhaps I did a mistake translating.

[agentsteel53]

I always heard it in Spanish as 'Guerra de Secesión'. Perhaps I did a mistake translating.

really, not "Guerra Civil de los Estados Unidos"?  I'd have thought that would have been the term much in use.

the US war that would most logically be classified as "Guerra de Secesión" would be the one of 1775-83, fought against England.

[Alps]

To scratch the surface,

http://www.nanpa.com/area_codes/

Unavailable:
Anything beginning with 0 or 1 - leaving 800
Anything with a second digit of 9 - leaving 720
Anything with the same 2nd and 3rd digits - leaving 648
The 288 was based on my count of unassigned numbers. The 300 was from a quick Google search, so it's possible that I missed something. But if that's the case, then we're even farther beyond the halfway point.

[hotdogPi]

To scratch the surface,

http://www.nanpa.com/area_codes/

Unavailable:
Anything beginning with 0 or 1 - leaving 800
Anything with a second digit of 9 - leaving 720
Anything with the same 2nd and 3rd digits - leaving 648
The 288 was based on my count of unassigned numbers. The 300 was from a quick Google search, so it's possible that I missed something. But if that's the case, then we're even farther beyond the halfway point.

300+288=588

But you just said there were 648.

[vtk]

From PUCO website:

How many total area codes are available? How many are used?

There are a total of 681 usable area codes available for assignment. Of that number 325 are currently in service in the United States (as of August 31, 2004). In addition, over 40 area codes are in service in other countries that participate in the North American Numbering Plan, including Canada and a number of Caribbean nations. By comparison, there were 119 area codes in service in the United States at the end of 1991.

[english si]

the US war that would most logically be classified as "Guerra de Secesión" would be the one of 1775-83, fought against England.

That wasn't secession, nor against England. It was against the Kingdom of Great Britain* and it was independence.

Secession is the Act of withdrawing - the colonies weren't part of the Kingdom, but ruled by it.

The South trying to leave the Union sounds like 'war of secession' isn't too far off the mark. If they had won it would be called something like that, but the North won, the Union was one again, and therefore its considered a Civil War and the Civil War in the USA.

*Scotland get really annoyed when you ignore them for the good stuff - lets give them the bad stuff too. And most of the population of the 13 colonies fled there from England as the Scot in power over England was oppressing them.

[Pete from Boston]

1861-65 was a war of secession.  That's just not the name commonly used. 

I suspect something like "Confederate War of Independence" would have been used by white southerners.  I'm sure their slaves would have had some less cheerful ways to describe it. 

[kkt]

*Scotland get really annoyed when you ignore them for the good stuff - lets give them the bad stuff too. And most of the population of the 13 colonies fled there from England as the Scot in power over England was oppressing them.

The Hanoverians were Scottish?  Wow, the things you learn on the internet.

[mgk920]

From PUCO website:

How many total area codes are available? How many are used?

There are a total of 681 usable area codes available for assignment. Of that number 325 are currently in service in the United States (as of August 31, 2004). In addition, over 40 area codes are in service in other countries that participate in the North American Numbering Plan, including Canada and a number of Caribbean nations. By comparison, there were 119 area codes in service in the United States at the end of 1991.

Also, the 'thousand number block' assignment system for local telephone service providers that is now in use in the USA has had its effect - demand for new area code numbers in the USA had dropped precipitously.

For example, NANPA announced an 'overlay' area code ('274') to cover my home '920' area code here in Wisconsin several years ago (mid-doubleaughts?  I'll have to check).  Since then, the 'thousand number block' assignment rule took effect and in consequence, that overlay has been indefinitely delayed.  I'm not expecting it until sometime deep in the 2020s, if even then.

In Canada, OTOH, it is still assignments in blocks of 10,000 numbers, even for the smallest local service providers in the smallest towns.  Thus, Canada is now what is eating up most of the newly-assigned 'World Zone 1' area code numbers.

Mike

[english si]

The Hanoverians were Scottish?  Wow, the things you learn on the internet.

I think you'll find the fleeing to the New World was 100-150 years before the American War of Independence.

[Zmapper]

According to the US Global Change Research Program, most ocean-going ports are in low-lying coastal areas.

http://nca2014.globalchange.gov/report/sectors/transportation