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jonlumb
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Congenital lactose intolerance is a) extremely rare and b) almost always fatal.
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tombolt
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If it's almost always fatal, I can see why it would be rare. Given that it's congenital and all.
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brataccas
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james016
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SonicWall firewalls make my brain hurt
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ProfessorF
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The popularity of the Phillips head screw is largely due to Cadillac adopting them for car manufacturing in 1937.
By 1940, 85% of American screw manufacturers had licensed the design.
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jonlumb
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I take it up until that point it had largely been straight head screws in use? If that's the case, thank [LIFTED] for Cadillac.
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Linux_User
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I quite like flathead screws, you can use almost anything on them in a crunch, unlike the Philips design.
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JJW009
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Standard Phillips screws bug me due to the way they cam out, apparently by design. The Pozidriv is much more, err, positive.
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ProfessorF
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I think the Phillips design was only patented in 1936, so before then the flathead was probably the most common.
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jonlumb
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The problem is that is their only positive side. In every other regard they are diabolical [LIFTED] of the first and second order.
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cloaked_wolf
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Fecking cool. That's something I'd love to be able to do. How did you learn?
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ProfessorF
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Your a doctor though. Chances are your writing is already as indecipherable. 
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brataccas
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