Any Facts that Fit the Numbers

[Arneb]

229 months ago (Dec. 1988),
- Benazir Bhutto becomes Prime minister of Pakistan for the first time
- Pan Am Flight 103 is blown up over Lockerbie

[KLA2]

What protection does Section 230 provide?
Section 230 says that "No provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be treated as the publisher or speaker of any information provided by another information content provider." This federal law preempts any state laws to the contrary: "[n]o cause of action may be brought and no liability may be imposed under any State or local law that is inconsistent with this section." The courts have repeatedly rejected attempts to limit the reach of Section 230 to "traditional" Internet service providers, instead treating many diverse entities as "interactive computer service providers."
http://w2.eff.org/bloggers/lg/faq-230.php

Good news for Lance and others. :D

[Halcyon Dayz, FCD]

231 years ago (1777):
- Washington defeats Cornwallis at the Battle of Princeton.
- Stars and Stripes adopted by the Continental Congress as the Flag of the United States.

What protection does Section 230 provide?
Good news for Lance and others. :D

George (the ET Corn Cob Language guy) has sued James Randi c.s. AND 22 anonymous posters on JREF Forum.

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT - SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF FLORIDA

GEORGE R. SIMPSON
VS.
RANDAL JAMES HAMILTON ZWINGE, AKA JAMES RANDI
JAMES RANDI EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION
FORUM "POSTERS" WHO'S HANDLES ARE:
LOCKNAR, JSFISHER, NATHAN, LOSS LEADER, APOLOGY, QUIXOTECOYOTE, DREWD, JONNYFIVE, DARAT, PREWITT81, LISA SIMPSON, TIM, LIBRARY LADY, CHILLZERO, JMERCER

FRAUD; MISREPRESENTATION AND BREACH OF CONTRACT
INTENTIONAL INFLICTION OF EMOTIONAL DISTRESS;
MISFEASANCE; MALFEASANCE; DEFAMATION; 1ST AND 4TH
AMENDMENT VIOLATIONS AND ACTION FOR DAMAGES
COMPLAINT
http://www.etcorngods.com/complaint.pdf

Like the fool he is George has hired himself for a lawyer.
He has no change in hell of winning, but it is still a pain in the ass.

[Arneb]

232 years ago: US of A founded.

[KLA2]

233 is an irregular prime, a full reptend prime, a cousin prime, a Chen prime, and a sexy prime. It is an Eisenstein prime of the form 3n − 1 with no imaginary part. Since 233 × 2 + 1 = 467, another prime, 233 is a Sophie Germain prime. 233 is also a prime triplet (with 227 and 229).

It is a Fibonacci number, being the sum of 89 and 144. Being an odd-indexed Fibonacci number, it is also a Markov number, appearing in solutions to the Markov Diophantine equation: (1, 89, 233), (89, 233, 610), (233, 610, 426389), ...

In base 10 there is no integer that added up to its own digits yields 233, hence 233 is a self number. In base 3, the sum of 233's digits is composite, no smaller prime has this property.

{Who the hell figures this stuff up? Seems to me they need to get laid REAL bad ...}

[Halcyon Dayz, FCD]

234 CE, Emperor Xian of China dies. End of the Han dynasty.

[KLA2]

235 years ago, the British Parliament passes the Tea Act. This results, later in the year, in the largest steeping of tea in history, in Boston (harbour).

[Arneb]

On Jan 2, 2004, the Stardust probe flew by the nucleus of comet Wild 2 at a distance of 236 km.

[KLA2]

The Whys of Mating: 237 Reasons and Counting

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/31/science/31tier.html

After asking nearly 2,000 people why they’d had sex, the researchers have assembled and categorized a total of 237 reasons — everything from “I wanted to feel closer to God” to “I was drunk.”

Well, that pretty much sums it up for me.

"Hey, honey, want to get closer to God?"
"Is that what you are calling it now?"

or ...
"Does that tatoo say God?"
"Yeah, but get *closer* and it will say "Good Wood."

Someone stop me ...

[Arneb]

OK, I'll try *snickers*

[Achmed voice]SILENCE!![/Achmed voice]

Ludwig van Beethoven was born 238 years ago, in 1770.

[Halcyon Dayz, FCD]

Homer Simpson weighs 239 pounds.

(_8(|)

[Arneb]

240 is the highest possible winning score in the German card game, Skat, during rounds without doubled scores: Grand hand mit Vieren, Schneider und schwarz angesagt (the lowest winning score being 18 ).

In the higly unlikely event of someone loosing such a rare game, the score would be reversed and doubled (-480).

[KLA2]

Bedloe - U.S. Coast Guard Cutter, 241 tons, 125ft long, sunk in a hurricane Sept. 14th, 1944, Loss of all men onboard except for the Commanding Executive and Engineering officers with 9 enlisted men.
http://www.obxdive.com/NagsHead.htm

[Arneb]

Asteroid 3 Juno has a diameter of 242 km.

[Ronoh55]

243(number) redirects to 240 (number)

[Halcyon Dayz, FCD]

1764 CE (244 years ago) - city of St. Louis founded.

[KLA2]

A Bowhead Whale killed in a hunt was found to be approximately 211 years old (possibly up to 245 years old), the longest lived mammal known.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longevity

[Halcyon Dayz, FCD]

246 is the "Name" of the person who is the title character in Paul Robinson's book "Instrument of God".

[Ronoh55]

24/7 enough said

[KLA2]

Ross 248 lies about 10.3 light-years (ly) away in the northwestern part (23:41:54.0+44:09:32:C~, ICRS 2000.0) of Constellation Andromeda, the Chained Maiden -- south of Lambda Andromedae and near Kappa and Iota Andromedae. It is too faint to be seen by the naked eye. The star was discovered in 1925 by Frank Elmore Ross ...

Wow! Kinky astronomy.

[Halcyon Dayz, FCD]

Voltaire publishes his novel Candide in 1759 (249 years ago).

[Arneb]

2006 gave us total Mozart overkill when we celebrated the godly kid's 250th birthday.

[KLA2]

Evidence is mounting that 251 million years ago, long before the dinosaurs dominated the Earth, a meteor the size of Mount Everest smashed into what is now northern Australia, heaving rock halfway around the globe, triggering mass volcanic eruptions, and wiping out all but about ten percent of the species on the planet.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/20 ... 025854.htm

{Dang. Don't you hate it when that happens.}

[Arneb]

Joe Louis was World Heavyweight Boxing Champion for 11 years and 252 days before he retired, unbeaten, in 1949.

[Halcyon Dayz, FCD]

1 November 1755 (253 years ago), city of Lisbon destroyed by earthquake. At least 60,000 dead.