The Invisible Man

A Civil War memoir mentions "Dog Cavalry"who committed crimes against noncombatants.

Is this a reference like "Bushwhackers" and "Jayhawkers"? Were these like home guard who went around hunting out, harassing, and abusing, local non-combatants?

What the Heck is Instagram anyhow? If you can't load from your pc to this picture source (I'm assuming that's what it is, like Flickr and Photobucket) why would you even want it? I do not have a cell phone or any of those other wifi toys, so how did an Instagram get set up in association with my Y! email. I keep getting notices that the password has been changed (three times just today). (Does this mean they gave a fake email (which just happened to be mine), or has someone hacked my Y! account? (I'd ask Y! but they seem to "run" on "autopilot." Click feedback and you just get taken to some Gravatar idiotic chat trainwreck that no one reads.)

My answer completely complied with the guidelines. I believe someone inadvertently clicked the report button. I lost ten points for trying to help someone, and my appeal was apparently totally ignored!

How did you know where to go? Did you find any gold?

I see nothing but a blank page when I go to Yahoo's main page when I am using Mozilla Firefox. This has been the case for about the last three versions of Firefox I have used on my computer. (Is there some sort of childish feud going on between these two companies?)

Are they a problem for growing ginger root (you know, the plants with the roots one uses to make ginger bread and so on).

Uhmmm...ok...more details: uhhh, there are exclamation marks all over the Y! Answers pages.

Often archives and libraries that keep old documents or research collections of old documents and copies have blurry copies of photos of documents. It seems to me pixels could be computer plotted to the gray "fuzzy" areas and merge them back to the darker median area so that a sharp image could be created.

I have looked at all the little menus looking for a delete question option and cannot find such. So one snide answer will automatically be considered best because the question is "in voting" for like the next two hours.

I'd like to get some small lights (LED???) that can work off their own solar panels and made so that they could be just set out everyday to be charged, then brought in at night.

I see no reason that at least minimal solar generated lighting cannot be practical today.

I have a yard ornament: a "lighthouse" whose roof and area around the cupola ("room" where the light is) is a solar panel. The light burns all night long.

I'd like something like that, say, on a stand about like a downturned flashlight. Its sides could be the panels that charge it, and a small rechargeable battery could be somewhere therein. (The light would be in the top end, and at night, I'd just bring them all in and scatter them about the house to burn all night.)

Does something like this now exist? (Is there a company you know of that would be willing to manufacture and sell them?)

The criticism for the use of methane is that being a true gas, it has to be pressurized into fuel tanks and that is a slow process. Well, duh! Hydrogen is a true gas also, and presurizing it into fuel tanks also is slow.

I think when it comes to electric powered vehicles, we have the wrong idea: that we need them as big and powerful as a Chevy Suburban. Nonsense, we need safe, light efficient vehicles that can get us from place to place at the least cost. Electric cars we need now would be little more than glorified golf carts---heck, I'd drive one instead of paying the current 25-cents/mile via internal cumbustion. So does anyone make a scooter that could be used in lieu of a second family car for light errands? Forget fancy schmancy batteries. I want one now and would be willing to use batteries we have now.

Not that I need the know how to do this, but I'm curious how, with all the firewalls, virus scanners, and so forth that computers have nowadays, how scammers can gain access to others' computers and use them as servers to mail out their fraudulent mail. How would a computer user even know that his (her) computer had ever been used for such a thing. Also, how do people gain access for what I think is called keystroking (knowing everything typed on someone else's computers). One would hope that is highly illegal!

If there was a cellulosic ethynol plant near your home that made cheap alcohol fuel for cars, would you be willing to gather yard refuse and haul it to the plant if it paid you a small amount to make hauling it worth-while?

Or, knowing it would greatly improve your nation's energy independence, would you gather and haul it for free?

If your town had such a program whereby you could put your used oil into, say, old plastic milk or bleach jugs and put it out to be recycled in making biodiesel, would you do so?

Do you know of towns with such programs? Or, do you give your oil to individuals who are making biodiesel?

That is, which woman do you think made the most significant accomplishment(s) or had the most important impact generally or in a specific field of endeavor?

before it essentially is just lost to the obcurity of burial behind so many other questions posted after it.

It seems to me good answers can't possibly be given because a question here is before the public for consideration for only like a minute before hundreds more are asked and thus knock it out of view.

And once it is no longer in view on the questions list, how does one even know the question is there (somewhere) and still open for consideration/answering?