[QUOTE=lavalamp;236274]Wrong link, it's this one:
[url]http://thesaurus.com/browse/courtesy[/url][/QUOTE]

I copied it straight from the question lol

Yes, but not the right one.[QUOTE=retina;236195][QUOTE=Oddball;236190]16.) Is it one of the items on this list?

[url]http://collage.cityoflondon.gov.uk/collage/app?service=external/Categories&sp=17&sp=X[/url][/QUOTE]Nope.

[QUOTE=Zeta-Flux;236202]18) Does it (or something very close to it) appear anywhere on the page: [url]http://thesaurus.com/browse/courtesy[/url]?[/QUOTE][i][b][u]Anywhere[/u][/b][/i] on the page? Then yes ... [size=1]kind of "something very close to it". Certainly a lot closer than you all have been getting so far.[/size] :wink:[/QUOTE]

Perhaps the answer is common sense and retina does not think much of science (re: answer 6). :razz:

[QUOTE=retina;236251]With the right inspiration and the right [i]resources[/i] [size=1](hint hint)[/size] I think that this one can still be solved. I have confidence in your [i]collective abilities[/i] to work this out.[/QUOTE]
I'm interpreting this as a loosening of rule 8: "Except 'point of order' posts, recaps, and clarifications: side discussions are discouraged."

My rearrangement question, in my mind, was an attempt to eliminate barn-raising, habitat-for-humanity, charity and resource distribution. I'm staring at retina's quote above; this looks like a very direct hint, but in this case I feel a bit like the dog that stares at the master's hand when it is pointing at something else.

From Thesaurus.com's "Courtesy" web page:[QUOTE]"[b]Resources[/b] on Dictionary.com"
Style guide
Confusing words
Word of the Day
Free tools
Blog
Games
[/QUOTE]

[QUOTE=retina;236251]With the right inspiration and the right [I]resources[/I] [SIZE=1](hint hint)[/SIZE] I think that this one can still be solved. I have confidence in your [I]collective abilities[/I] to work this out.[/QUOTE]
Maybe the dog staring at the hand - to use only_human's analogy - should not be staring at the word "resources" but at the second sentence in retina's hint.
Can the answer actually be the collective abilities to solve a problem as a team? But then formulated in such a way that animals are ruled out?
I don't have anything like enough confidence to ask the final question, by the way.

Voting recently occurred in the USA (Daylight Savings Time too). I consider that the question could have a contemporaneous component but also note that retina states that he never experienced an American schoolchild education.

[QUOTE=only_human;236314]...but also note that retina states that he never experienced an American schoolchild education.[/QUOTE]
and when I said "math" he said "maths". :wink:

:popcorn:

[QUOTE=retina;236339]:popcorn:[/QUOTE]
Well I am considering what our collective resources and abilities might be. Would [I]that[/I] be something mathematical such as an attack on SHA-1? (you say the string was only put through once) Wikipedia's picture of SHA-1 looks like the 2nd 32 bits of output is a faithful copy of the first 32 bits of the source data; something in this direction?

[QUOTE=only_human;236340]Well I am considering what our collective resources and abilities might be. Would [I]that[/I] be something mathematical such as an attack on SHA-1? (you say the string was only put through once) Wikipedia's picture of SHA-1 looks like the 2nd 32 bits of output is a faithful copy of the first 32 bits of the source data; something in this direction?[/QUOTE]See question (1). No math(s) needed.

I was thinking maybe "the internet" or something like that.

[QUOTE=Zeta-Flux;236344]I was thinking maybe "the internet" or something like that.[/QUOTE]

can't use electronics with microchips basically.