Why are laptops so often black and desktops so often white?

Why are laptops so often black and desktops so often white?

ANS: It's the colour that the faceless ones have decided you should have - try buying a different colour - 'I want my desk top to be a vibrant blue ...... Sorry sir we don't do that and then the classic No-one wants that colour!

BUT I JUST ASKED FOR THAT COLOUR which only goes to show that I'm a Nobody as far as they are concerned.

You can paint your plastics any colour you want providing you get the right type of paint.(Get the wrong one and your lap top or desk top will slowly dissolve before your eyes)

What is the origin of the phrase SCOT free - why not Irish free or Welsh free, for example?

What is the origin of the phrase SCOT free - why not Irish free or Welsh free, for example?

In this context 'scot' has nothing to do with nationality. It derives from the old word 'scot' meaning tax, payment or reckoning. Thus to go scot-free means to go without payment or penalty.

Why do we name hurricanes and name them alphabetically and why did they name them origianlly with female names only?

Why do we name hurricanes and name them alphabetically and why did they name them origianlly with female names only?

Experience shows that the use of short, distinctive given names in written as well as spoken communications is quicker and less subject to error than the older more cumbersome latitude-longitude identification methods.

History of Hurricane Names
Hurricanes used to named after the particular saint's day on which the hurricane occurred. Clement Wragge, an Australian meteorologist began giving women's names to tropical storms before the end of the l9th century.

In 1953, the United States weather services began using female names for storms. The practice of naming hurricanes solely after women ended in 1978 when men and women's names were included in the Eastern North Pacific storm lists.