It’s Independence Day in the United States today and for those of you who have the day off, enjoy it! Ryan and I are taking half of the day off to go BBQ with some friends and watch fireworks later on tonight, so this is our last post for the day.
Here are some interesting 4th of July statistics for your amusement (source):
—4th of July by Numbers—
- Number of hotdogs to be consumed on July 4th – 150 million
- Amount of chicken purchased in the week leading up to July 4th – 700 million pounds
- Amount of red meat/pork purchased in the week leading up to July 4th: 190 million pounds
- Percentage of American households with outdoor grills: 87%
- Amount of fireworks sold to individuals for personal celebrations in 2006: 252 million pounds
- Amount of fireworks sold to cities and municipalities for public celebrations last year: 25 million pounds
- Amount of fireworks sold to individuals for personal celebrations in 2000: 102 million pounds
- Total dollar amount spent on fireworks in 2007: 900 million dollars
- Total dollar amount spent on fireworks in 200: 350 million dollars
- Dollar amount of fireworks imported to the US from China in 2006: 212 million
- Dollar amount of American flags imported into the US from China in 2006: 5 million
— Fireworks!—
Other than the fireworks show that was going on in the parking lot last night at 3 AM when I was trying to sleep, I like them! I’ve always heard that the Macy’s Fireworks in New York are awesome, but I have yet to see them in person. I also know there are some pretty amazing Fireworks shows around the World, so where’s the best fireworks that you’ve seen?
Note for tomorrow: Posting will be light tomorrow as well so that we can prep to launch the new site!
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I’ve had the spam glitch blocking my account since Jul27 – that’s EIGHT days! I’ve done your “contact us” several times.
RE the story…
I’m surprised chicken is so much more popular than steak. Come on, nothing’s more American than red meat! Oh yah, I almost forgot Independence Day is a day to go buy fireworks. Too many cities (like where I am) have gone hippie on us and outlawed them. What ever happened to that liberty we found this country on. I thought we didn’t want the government trying to control everything? Salute to all the soldiers who fought, and are currently fighting for our freedom.
Hi Netster -If you used the contact us, we did not receive any of the messages. Whenever we receive a message that the spam filter has caught a comment, we immediately take care of it. Sorry you incurred problems.
In the future should that happen, another idea would be to just leave a message in the Forum about it.
Happy 4th of July to you
Happy 4th of July!!!
FYI: The problem STILL isn’t fixed
I had gotten the one tip from you awhile back saying that your comment had been caught as spam, specifically this comment:
[tech.cybernetnews.com]
I pulled it out immediately when you sent that, and we haven’t received any other contacts from you and we see no other comments that have been caught as spam. Sorry, but we don’t know what else to do?
We have to use a spam filter because otherwise our site would get 1000+ spam comments a day no matter what type of captcha we try to use, and we simply don’t have the time to filter through that many comments.
The best fireworks i’ve ever seen was the disneyland fireworks spectacular. it was awesome.
Is it possible that it’s that story? I think I may have tried submitting to that story twice. It definitely did say 2 then go down to 1. Now it’s stuck at 1. Isn’t there some sort of administrative way for you to clean a user’s spam count?
testing (will it work?)
UPDATE:
Wuhu, it worked! Thanks
Hey, I’m an All Star!
Also, I need to update my account’s Email address. On the old site, it gave a warning about losing your stars or something when doing this. Now I don’t see any warning. Can I change my account’s Email address on the options site safely (I won’t lose my newfound All-Star status)?
[tech.cybernetnews.com]
It appears you’re good to go Netster
You can go ahead and change your email address as much as you would like. We used to track comments for all-stars by the email address as well, but now we just do it by the user ID’s. Therefore you are good to go!
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