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https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/12/business/media/cspan-russia-today.html

>Mr. Mortman [C-SPAN spokesperson] said the network’s early explanation for the interruption came from an internal analysis. He said that he was not aware of any previous such interruption.

>Had Mr. Burke and others who were watching C-Span online at the time not been interrupted, they would have heard Ms. Waters mention Russia and President-elect Donald J. Trump several times before she ended her turn on the floor.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/jan/12/lights-go-out-pompeo-cia-hearing/

>The outage came just as Sen. Mark Warner, the committee’s ranking Democrat, was making opening remarks. He was commenting on how he and the committee’s chairman, Sen. Richard Burr of North Carolina, are committed to examining the intelligence community’s recent assessment of Russian meddling in the U.S election...

>...The lights went out just before he uttered the word “Russia.”

Worth noting that the power outage happened during the confirmation hearing for the new CIA director

This is one of the best purchases I've ever made. I tell people about it at work (I'm American) and everyone calls me crazy.

Just go make it. There's a lot of good versions on Instructables. This one is my favourite. But I think this one was the first.

~~Did anyone try actually looking at the episode? This is a hoax.~~

See below. They really did this, but later went back and posted a non-edited version.

http://i.imgur.com/GTP94.png - you can see the woman in the lower right in green with her hands over her head, but she's not cloned. Don't take my word for it though - http://www.hulu.com/watch/251383/masterchef-elimination-18-cut-to-16#s-p4-so-i0

The image in question is about 5 seconds in.

Actually, it's not stupid, and I am surprised that no one is making a point about it anywhere. He could simply pay the health coverage exemption instead, which is part of the law. If Mr. Cruz wants to stand on his ~~principals~~ principles about the ACA being bad for America, then he is well within his rights to legally not be a part of it.

Pet peeve: sites and articles that talk about an app and don't directly link to the appropriate "App Store". Great way to make sure you get some malware along with padding their ad revenue. What a collection of tools.

Lockwatch is on the Google Play store here: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bloketech.lockwatch&hl=en&rdid=com.bloketech.lockwatch

Sorry to break up the party, but this story is based on a sample size of 10 businesses. 10 businesses that aren't necessarily representative of the typical distribution of deal types.

But I think we all share the intuition that if something sounds too good to be true, it is. And with Groupon's financial reporting being shady at best, we're all just waiting for their bubble to burst. Until then, we can chuckle at Groupon's expected IPO price value being below Google's acquisition offer.

Right until you say "well a card is all I have, so take it or you get nothing" (which is the law in Chicago). Then amazingly it works!

>The City of Chicago requires that all non-independent taxis accept credit cards. (almost all cabs in the city are affiliated) However, when trying to pay with a credit card it is not uncommon for the driver to say something like "Sorry the machine is down," especially if they believe that you may be a tourist.

> I can only imagine how much larger that number would be if we were to spend $30,000 annually per student.

No problem with have math.

$17.9 billion / $7000 per student = 2.6 million students

This jives with the number of people under 18 in Michigan according to Wolfram Alpha. So at $30,000 per student you would spend $77 billion total on education which is $59 billion more than they are spending right now or an increase by 330%. The total state and local budget for Michigan is $80.4 billion (KalamMekhar's link) increasing education spending to this level would require a 73% increase in revenue, or elimination of every other function of government in including pensions, health care, law enforcement, and public transportation.

• Men struggling to drink milk (NSFW)

• Men laughing alone with fruit salad

There is a tradition at Scot-Admunsen base called The Three Hundred Club. When the temperature drops to -100°F outside, they cook a Sauna to 200°F and then run outside to do a circuit around the ceremonial South Pole and back again wearing nothing but shoes as the ice can cut up the feet badly. Some alcohol is involved, but this is fun and helps liven up overwinters.

People should not be drunk on duty and hangovers can be an issue too with an altitude of about 2000m. However, there has to be ways for people to blow of steam. Sorry for those who disapprove but abstinence isn't going to go far in such a hostile environment.

True, he looks scary now but if you look at a timeline(nswf) of his body, he looked better than most well into his late 50's.

So I realize that most people on Reddit don't care for modern art, but it should be noted that the value of these kinds of super-expensive paintings (and $37 million is completely outlandish) doesn't really come from how good or interesting they are. Typically they are valuable as a representation of an artist's body of work, or as part of a more general artistic movement.

In this case, Jean-Michel Basquiat is notable for being part of the whole 80's urban/political/hiphop mishmash of an art scene - another good example is Keith Haring. A major theme of this style of art was reducing general forms into extremely simplified and minimal representations, so if it looks "child-like," a lot of that was intentional. Like Haring, he also produced a lot of works starting at a young age, and promptly died at 28, so that definitely ups the value a lot more. The candle that burns twice as bright blah blah blah you know. I kinda like some of his stuff, but I can see why you wouldn't.

Don't get me wrong, I for sure wouldn't drop 37 million on it, but the kinds of people who do generally have some specific reason for doing so. It's also worth mentioning that some of these paintings are fuckin big so seeing a screenshot of it doesn't do a whole lot of justice.

I might be falling on deaf ears here but I think art can be interesting even if it's not a nice pretty picture of a cool waterfall.

The documentary Finders Keepers is in the same vein as well. Follows the true story of a man who bought a BBQ smoker at a storage unit auction only to discover a human foot within. Turns out the foot belonged to an amputee who wanted it back, but the man who bought it wanted to put it on display as a roadside attraction.

It's on Netflix too!

>WHERE DO THESE PEOPLE KEEP GETTING ACID?

Most drain cleaners are either Sulfuric acid or Sodium Hydroxide. Both will fuck someone up pretty badly.

Sorry, I wasn't trying to throw the law in your face in a, "take that motherfucker!", kind of way. Consent was mentioned and I figured that actually knowing what the state law says about it would be useful.

That being said, I'm no lawyer and and I can't rightly claim to know what "the least-visited state in the union" would say about the man being a pedophile.

Source

https://www.amazon.com/Grand-Palace-Battleground-Branson-Missouri-ebook/dp/B0758WXPWD

Here is the book he wrote, which if his interview didn't make him seem a little crazy, probably should.

Just the Amazon listing is insane.

Highly recommend reading Modern Death by Haider Warrich. The definition of someone being “dead” is not concrete, since you can’t draw a line where death begins and ends. Is it when you lose consciousness or when the last cell in your body dies ?

And of course that episode is Season 4, episode 5.

And it's mostly funny because Tracy didn't request anything. Kenneth just knew.

Aaand clip: http://www.hulu.com/watch/108715/30-rock-real-actor

<em>Cleave</em> is a curious case because it was actually two distinct words in Old English: clifian meaning "to adhere", and cleofan meaning "to separate".

You can just order your own swarm.

https://www.amazon.com/1500-Live-Ladybugs-Guaranteed-Delivery/dp/B01B5BBNPS/ref=sr_1_4?keywords=ladybugs&amp;qid=1559833606&amp;s=gateway&amp;sr=8-4

The picture I simply extracted both frames with GIMP, displayed them with two border-less xv viewers, screenshotted with xwd, cut the region with xv, saved as PNG.

As for the ASCII stereogram, I didn't make it. David B. Thomas (xxxx at yenta.alb.nm.us) posted it in the alt.3d USENET newsgroup. Ah! I found google group's copy of the original message from 1992.

$35 an Amazon for a Luxe Bidet Neo 120. I bought three of these (actually two of the 180s, and one 185), one for each bathroom and couldn't be happier. The higher models offer dual sprayers (one sprays further forward), and different controls. Taps into the clean water line going to the tank so it is super easy to install. I recommend 1000%.

That's the dumbest fucking thing I've ever seen.

I want to fly out and force feed you a jar of Mayo for suggesting something ike that.
Here's my kickstarter to fly to Hawaii and force feed OP Mayo

edit. Updated with real kickstarter to cram mayo down his throat.

Ok, let's see how good/bad my "technical writing" may be...

• Fold bottom of a plastic straw 90 degrees across to one side, making a "small handle" for you to grab (about an inch from the end). This should obstruct air passing through the straw.
• Fold the top of the straw in the opposite direction. You should now have "two small handles" that you can grab with your hands, and a large amount of air space in-between (ie. unmodified section of straw).
• While holding those "handles" with your hands, twirl the straw end over end (much like the motion of bicycle pedals), trapping air in the straw in-between your fingers. Keep twirling until your "handles" are only an inch or two apart.
• If you're ambitious, you can fold now one handle over such that both can be grabbed with one hand (maintaining the seal while preventing the straw from unwinding).
• Have a friend (or use a "free" hand) to "flick" the center portion of the straw.
• If you've done everything right, it should result in a (sometimes very loud) pop.

Of course, after writing all that, I came up with the bright idea of taking a five second google search to find a video. (/sigh)

It's weird how most people in this thread are assuming it tracks the kid's location, or is a way to lock the phone in general. There are already apps that do that. This just makes sure they reply to a message that's actually important. The example from the article is:

> You just need to know if soccer finished on time — but she’s not responding …

And in addition to locking the phone, it also uses an alarm (eventually) which bypasses DND. The entire point is to make the message impossible to miss and demand an urgent reply. That's it.

Heck, the kid can even snooze it, judging by the screenshots on the store page.

I mean, sure, helicopter parents would abuse the hell out of it, but if you're sane about it, I don't see a problem. I wish I could do this to adults who refuse to respond to basic logistical questions like that! And, in fact, the developer allows his kid to send these messages to him, too:

> During the development process I spoke to Ben and showed him the designs and thinking behind the app and he likes the idea because he will know that if he gets one of these messages then he will always hear it and will know its important. He will also have the ability to send me these messages - so there is a mutual understanding that using ReplyASAP is only for important things and not because he needs new batteries for his xbox controller.

As you understand the idea of net worth (actual assets as opposed to the ability to borrow) I recommend The Millionaire Next Door ... a bit dated now, but one of the few books I can say actually changed my life.

I brought my Korean girlfriend to visit my family in NJ last year. Think Coffee was on her list of places to visit in NYC.

Infinity Challenge is a fantastic show though. One of the few Korean shows that I watch.

Here is another clip from that episode. You may recognize this man from the Gangnam Style video:

https://vimeo.com/49493382

Here to shill for the Brondell 1400 swash

This baby has a deoderizor, seat warmer, 2 cleaning nozzles, WARM WATER, and a dryer!

Vacation actually makes me kinda sad now cause I can't bring this thing.

[Citation Needed]

"The question of whether dogs recognize an emergency and understand the need to seek help from a bystander was tested in two experiments. In the first experiment, dogs’ owners feigned a heart attack in an open field, and in the second experiment, dogs’ owners experienced an accident in which a bookcase fell on them and pinned them to the floor. In these experiments, one or two bystanders were available to which dogs could go for help. The dogs’ behavior was taped for 6 min after the owner had fallen and was later scored for the frequency and time the dogs spent performing different behaviors. In no case did a dog solicit help from a bystander. It is concluded that dogs did not understand the nature of the emergency or the need to obtain help." source

Okay. Dictionary.com suggests that here it makes little difference:

>1. not legally permitted or authorized; unlicensed; unlawful.

>2. disapproved of or not permitted for moral or ethical reasons.

>Rimmer: [discussing his last exam] Lister, last time I only failed by the narrowest of narrow margins.
Lister: You what? You went in there, wrote "I AM A FISH" four hundred times, did a funny little dance and fainted!
Rimmer: That's a total lie.
Lister: No, it's not. Peterson told me.
Rimmer: "No, it's not. Peterson told me." Lister, if you must know, I submitted a discourse on porous circuitry that was too... radical, too unconventional, too mould-breaking for the examiners to accept.
Lister: Yeah. You said you were a fish!

Source

Nope, I'm 100% sure you would be able to pay the workers more if you wanted to. You simply approach the manufacturer/textile company you have the contract with and tell them "here's another £10,000 a month, we want £9,000 of it to go to the workers". Or, when you're negotiating the valuable contract you specify the compensation for the workers.

Here's an IRL example for you, Cards Against Humanity gave all their Chinese workers a holiday: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/dec/18/cards-against-humanity-chinese-workforce-holiday-hanukah

I doubt it's hard I just think no one wants to, because money.

> You can't just dictate operating details to one of your vendors. That would be like you going down to the local corner store and demanding that they raise wages because you buy their things.

I'm sorry but that's a horrible analogy. I have no leverage on my once a week purchases of Hula Hoops. If I'm ordering hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of goods from a company, I have infinitely more leverage.

Yeah. In Northern Virginia, you might get detained for accidentally turning into this intersection. It's not as obvious as you would imagine; I'm always surprised it's there's not a whole lot of signage.

Found it: 28°21'31.22&quot; N 30°25'34.03&quot; E

FYI here is an interesting letter from Huxley to Orwell claiming his version of the future is better.

Seems like they are selective about who to hate.

Here's another picture off their site with the words "Fuck Off" on it with no negative comments whatsoever.

Perhaps "Fuck Yeah" is worse than "Fuck Off"?

Perhaps some of the old biddies were having a particularly bad day when the first picture appeared?

I dunno. Perhaps something.

> Kickstarter manually approves most of their campaigns

Most, or some? &quot;Launch Now&quot; and simplified rules. Basically it's entirely possible to launch your campaign without human involvement.

1. I happen to like drag shows so I wouldn't object if the birthplace of NASCAR did have a drag bar.

2. But the birthplace of NASCAR isn't even in Florida, - its in Dawsonville Georgia - it grew out of moonshining.

http://www.ehow.com/facts_5585372_information-moonshine-festival-dawsonville_-georgia.html****

Which part? That he was going to reinvest profits to develop a better drug:

>Martin Shkreli, the founder and chief executive of Turing, said that the drug is so rarely used that the impact on the health system would be minuscule and that Turing would use the money it earns to develop better treatments for toxoplasmosis, with fewer side effects.

That Turing would give the drug away for free for those who can't afford it:

>For uninsured patients who meet financial need criteria, Turing provides Daraprim with no out-of-pocket expense under the existing product patient assistance program.

Or that Turing is not profitable, which is something that changes over time?

My sources are both over a year old.

That second one is easily the most emotionally charged pile of garbage I have read in a long time. Well done, Giz.

I myself was banned after making a slightly snarky comment regarding the title of an article on Giz. It was about Boy Scouts having a merit badge for videogames, the article linked to clearly said Cub Scouts. I commented with something along the lines of "Maybe you should read the article before you make the title." An hour later, the title was changed, there was an edit saying that the difference was basically irrelevant, and I was banned from commenting.

Link to said article

My wife and I got fatter after we got married. For us, it was a result of a change in diet. We cooked together and planned meals together. As a result we had more and tastier food than either of us regularly ate before. As a single man I often skipped meals if I did not feel hungry. Not so post matrimony; I would cook a big meal and sit down to spend time with my wife whether I was hungry or not. Meals that I previously cooked only for guests became our staples.

For instance, we had &quot;Lemon Chicken in Cream Pasta&quot; twice a month. The ~500 calories per serving wouldn't be so bad if we ever ate less than 2 servings each.

Highlighted in red is the Alameda County Bomb Range. The hill in question is likely at the North side of the red-marked area. it surrounds what looks like a cul-de-sac. The community hit was to the East of the marked area, just past the white circular object (water tower?).

It's a wonder why they didn't choose to fire to the North West where they have a communications annex, laboratory site, and radiation facility.

What kept me from buying one was the anxiousness of not being able to hook it up, causing a flood, basically breaking my toilet. What sold me was watching this unboxing/installation video for the model I ended up buying. The person doing the linked video isn't sponsored by them and self-describes as not an expert. I bought this brand because of how easy the installation was as shown in the video.

I've travelled in Europe many times and always avoided the bidets in my hotel rooms because I wasn't comfortable in how they worked. Now I can't wait to go back to Europe to use a 'real' bidet!

When you spritz your anus with this bidet, you will know where that extra 20 dollars went.

Keep in mind that you’ll need to get the pipe over to your hot water under your sink so if that’s an issue for you then maybe just get the cold water one. Everything you need to do it, other than a drill and a drill bit, is in the kit.

LUXE Bidet Neo 320 - Self Cleaning Dual Nozzle - Hot and Cold Water Non-Electric Mechanical Bidet Toilet Attachment (blue and white) https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00A0RX2UI/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_glc_fabc_.t1cGbPF58N7T?_encoding=UTF8&amp;psc=1

Oh, I do agree speculation is not pure evil and actually has some use. In any case, speculation is natural human behavior, and it is going to happen one way or another - Adam Smith talks about it in The Wealth of Nations. However I think in the current state of things we've gone far above and beyond the actual use of speculation and instead have turned it into a glorified pyramid scheme.

The CEO is the public face of the company. Not the COO. When you want the company looking good, you put the CEO up front, that's what they do. If the CEO does something stupid, it makes the whole company look bad. If the COO does something stupid, most people never hear about it.

Witness:

http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2010/08/hps-ceo-mark-hurd-how-could-he-do-something-so-stupid/61107/

vs.

http://finance.yahoo.com/blogs/daily-ticker/meg-whitman-trying-hewlett-packard-less-stupid-pressman-163517161.html

> I've always seen it as a way to give developers a start and whatnot, but, if it's for anything, then theoretically I could use it to pay off my car or help with bills, by the generosity of people?

Indiegogo is more in line with that sort of project. Kickstarter is for 'creating' things. (Potato salad would still count!) https://www.kickstarter.com/rules?ref=footer

If you use Firefox you can download &quot;Reddit Reveal&quot; . I've been using it for a while. You roll over a username and it shows the accounts age, comment score and link score among other things.

I use it to weed out posts by throwaway accounts (1-30 days)

Costco pallet: $1,160

1 Pallet = 40 cases @ $29/case

1 Case = 10 reams @ $2.9/ream

1 Ream = 500 pages @ $0.0058/page

172 pages = $1.0

15 Million * 172 pages = 2,586,000,000 pages = 258,620 pages/student.

That means for each student, 709 pages of paper must be used, every day of the year.

I think you're off by a factor of 10...

Pixels are just the smallest units of detail in a graphics system. If you think there are only 254 units of a detail in each inch outside, what do you think happens when you zoom in with a telescope (or microscope) past that point?

If we ask what that means for reality, we could be anthropocentric and define it as the smallest units visible light could reveal. That would be about 8,900,000,000 "pixels" per inch.

Light isn't really the best place to stop with, though, because reality keeps on existing and having detail past that point, and there are other ways to detect this information. It's however believed that there is a limit to the amount of zooming you can do before detail just stops. The theoretical limit for that is the Planck Length. Assuming Planck length as the smallest possible unit, there are 1,572,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 pixels per inch outside.

If we don't assume the universe just stops having information at Planck, then there are an infinite number of pixels per inch.

A lot of those words are basically latin anyways. So it'd be pretty silly for italians to want their own word.

http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=audio

>"sound, especially recorded or transmitted," 1934, abstracted from prefix audio- (in audio-frequency, 1919, etc.), from L. audire "hear"

http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?allowed_in_frame=0&amp;search=video&amp;searchmode=none

>1935, as visual equivalent of audio, from L. video "I see," first person singular present indicative of videre "to see"

To be fair, the word "deleted" has been around in its present form for at least 400 years, and in a form more recognizable than "baleeted" (the latin "dēlētus") for a couple millennia...

This is technically not true. While none of them are "customer removable," the iPhone 4/S design allows technicians to replace the battery. It's ridiculously easy to do yourself, though, if you can find a replacement battery.

Look at the PS3 outage because it thought there was a leap year in 2010: http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-10461881-1.html

or the Zune: http://gizmodo.com/5121311/30gb-zunes-failing-everywhere-all-at-once

There are how many thousands of system that could possibly have major errors from something as mundane as a calendar that changes.

He went to Vietnam when he was needed, right? Oh, Wait

Honestly, when he is referred to, it should be "Limbaugh the draft dodger." Every time. I'm sure it will catch on.

There are a lot more players in between the gov't and visa/mastercard/etc. in this, the % they pay is much higher, but definitely not 17.5%.

More likely to be around 2.6-2.7% plus 25 cents. As an example, here is Braintree's payment structure: https://www.braintreepayments.com/braintree-pricing

In the end, the exact % and cents are based on industry and partner, but it's WAY higher than 1% for the company swiping the card.

You're in the right to question a Daily Fail link but some simple text input on a search engine would give you many pages that aren't from a questionable source.

According to this guy evaporation in swimming pools are about 1-0.5 inches per day

http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_much_water_evaporates_from_a_pool

This would mean 4190 gallons per day in olympic size swimming pool when the pool was filling 3600 gallons per day so it would never fill up

But on the other hand this was about water company billing from 4 pools of water :)

Back story: Meth Labs and Dead Dogs: How the Founder of McAfee Antivirus Went on the Run in Belize http://gizmodo.com/5912379/meth-labs-and-dead-dogs-how-the-founder-of-mcafee-antivirus-went-on-the-run-in-belize

Nope. And kstar's video isn't right either.

Jesse Schell - When Games Invade Real Life

The point system starts around 18:00. I recommend watching the whole thing. It's pretty sensationalist and overly optimistic (unfortunately), but still quite interesting to watch.

As was explained in one of the announcements, the subreddit violated other existing rules, and that's what got it banned. No hypocrisy there.

She was told to delete her facebook comment not her facebook. Source http://mashable.com/2012/09/19/facebook-comment-jail/

This also got /r/law in a pretty heated debate about the latitude a judge can use in "Contempt of Court" charges...

http://www.reddit.com/r/law/comments/1053ra/facebooker_lols_about_car_crash_and_gets_jailed/

Why do you think that asking people to pay money for content isn't a sound business model?

Here's their income statement:

http://finance.yahoo.com/q/is?s=NYT+Income+Statement&amp;annual

$2.3 billion revenue - $0.957b cost of revenue - $1.0 selling general and administrative - other things ≈ 0

If they tweak something a bit they get become profitable again.

It's not like it is totally, completely unsustainable, it's just slightly broken.

I did a quick search, only see one copy on Abebooks.

"I'm not handing my pet to a the writer of any software EULA. What's my exposure if I click through a EULA to Microsoft Word?"

Not sure about Word, but do you use Playstation Network with a PS3? If you are online with it with any dashboard from the last year then you've signed away your rights to sue them by class action for any issue including them leaking financial and personal information by mistake But that's OK because the Playstation Network would never be hacked, right? Oh wait...

Or how about the Google? You use any of Google's services? You are aware that any and all data you post or store belongs to them now? "…you give Google a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free, and non-exclusive license to reproduce, adapt, modify, translate, publish, publicly perform, publicly display and distribute any Content which you submit, post or display on or through, the Services"

And while this isn't necessarily a horrible consequence, the Blizzard EULA basically allows them to cut you off for any reason or NO reason "Blizzard may terminate this Agreement at any time for any reason or no reason." and keep your money. Nice.

The point with the airlines is that when you get to the counter at the airline is when you see the forms. You're rushed, you have a plane to catch and plans that depend on you and your family making that plane. Is a reasonable average person REALLY going to look through the forms and see the potential warnings contained therein and put a stop to their travel plans at that instant any more than someone who reads the little pack in "side effects" sheet with a bottle of Tylenol going to decide not to pop a couple to get rid of their headache? Probably not.

This reminds me of the short story &quot;Thank You Ma'am&quot; by Langston Hughes.

I am not.

Mcdonalds has been selling their sauces for some time now.

It's legit big mac sauce from the mcdonalds corporation. I live in Canada if that makes a difference.

https://www.amazon.ca/McDonalds-Big-Mac-Sauce-355ML/dp/B06XRHNQ5V

Sold out on amazon right now, but they have a spot on the shelf in most grocery chains in western canada.

Reminds me of an excerpt from Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance:

>We take a handful of sand from the endless landscape of awareness around us and call that handful of sand the world.

>Once we have the handful of sand, the world of which we are conscious, a process of discrimination goes to work on it. This is the knife. We divide the sand into parts. This and that. Here and there. Black and white. Now and then. The discrimination is the division of the conscious universe into parts.

>The handful of sand looks uniform at first, but the longer we look at it the more diverse we find it to be. Each grain of sand is different. No two are alike. Some are similar in one way, some are similar in another way, and we can form the sand into separate piles on the basis of this similarity and dissimilarity. Shades of color in different piles sizes in different piles grain shapes in different piles subtypes of grain shapes in different piles grades of opacity in different piles and so on, and on, and on. You'd think the process of subdivision and classification would come to an end somewhere, but it doesn't. It just goes on and on.

>Classical understanding is concerned with the piles and the basis for sorting and interrelating them. Romantic understanding is directed toward the handful of sand before the sorting begins. Both are valid ways of looking at the world although irreconcilable with each other.

>What has become an urgent necessity is a way of looking at the world that does violence to neither of these two kinds of understanding and unites them into one. Such an understanding will not reject sand-sorting or contemplation of unsorted sand for its own sake. Such an understanding will instead seek to direct attention to the endless landscape from which the sand is taken.

I was coming to post the same thing. I'm in the middle of reading Economics in One Lesson by Henry Hazlitt. It's a great read, and really explains these types of situations well. I can't recommend it enough.

The Japanese had to borrow practical functioning industrial application type robots from the US because of the impractical nature of bipedal humanoid robots the Japanese seem intent on making.

Did you reuse a password from another online account? That's usually how these get "hacked". If so, check

https://haveibeenpwned.com/

and

https://haveibeenpwned.com/Passwords

for your account information. And stop reusing logins.

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/factual

How do you think journalists/politicians add spin? They structure statements that are verifiable accurate that contain words that evoke a powerful emotional response.

It's generally intended to provide pleasure.

On the other hand, let me tell you about Henry. (To protect the innocent, I would change the names.)

We use databases and somehow one day Henry mangled two database terms together, "Sharding" (a type of database distribution,) and "Charting". (Which some databases will facilitate.)

That is how Henry became our local "Shartist Supremo". So, when I saw this picture, I had to show it to Henry.

I looked up the drag coefficient of a long cylindrical object and it says it's 0.82. If I plug that into Wolfram Alpha I get 2.1 m/s.

Edit: Silly mistake. I left the surface area on default. Assuming a 3/4"x3" bolt has a surface area of 51 cm^2 I get a final speed of 31 m/s for a fall from 400 ft. So, 70 mph for us Americans.

Wolphram Alpha is fun.

Snopes debunks some of this: Snopes Link

Seems like more of the same to me. Especially since the most recent source at the bottom is now 5 years old (not even including the resources that source uses)

Haha, my mistake, turns out it was Oxford Dictionaries. Oops, no, wrong again, it was Google Dictionary

Why do I keep giving the "secondary meaning"? Because you don't seem to grasp the concept that the word changes its meaning based on the context. Let me try one more time, with small, simple words:

Slut is not a bad thing here. It is a good thing.

> it is attention seeking. But who cares!

People don't like attention seekers. You want to give this woman a free pass because she is attention seeking by doing something sexual, and your retarded world view somehow thinks that that validates the attention seeking.

>Some men want a slut in the bedroom, and their mom making them sandwiches. Make up your minds already.

I don't see the problem here, why we have to make up our minds? You think these two behaviours are mutually exclusive? They aren't. And that goes for both sexes.

Reminds me of this, from Robert Pirsig's Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance:

"'It was all those people in the cars coming the other way,' she says. 'The first one looked so sad. And then the next one looked exactly the same way, and then the next one and the next one, they were all the same.'

'They were just commuting to work.'

She perceives well but there was nothing unnatural about it. 'Well, you know, work,' I repeat. 'Monday morning. Half asleep. Who goes to work Monday morning with a grin?'

'It’s just that they looked so lost,' she says. 'Like they were all dead. Like a funeral procession.' Then she puts both feet down and leaves them there.

I see what she is saying, but logically it doesn’t go anywhere. You work to live and that’s what they are doing. "

Truthfully, it is very hard and time consuming to give up US citizenship and take citizenship in another country. Whoever is elected POTUS would do us all a favor by streamlining the process. If Americans no longer want to be Americans, it should take minimum paperwork and an afternoon for all details to be settled.

The most recent push to make things harder was because rich people wanted to leave and take their wealth with them. This really shouldn't matter as long as they paid their last taxes. But the government has become so, dare I say, niggardly, that it still wants to tax those who are no longer Americans just because they used to be.

Normal people freak me out! What are they up to!?

I'd go for the kid with the hoody/skateboard/mowhawk/tatts every time!

(*As long as that hoody hasn't got "Fred Perry" or "Henry Lloyd" written on it! See Charver)

I think the title is saying the Obama would fight the horse-sized duck for the reasons listed, not that he actually said that he would fight the horse-sized duck. Though, some of his staffers were debating it.

Little know fact: The US is still the world's largest manufacturer.

Reference: http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_country_has_the_largest_manufacturing_industry_in_the_world

Why do so many people think otherwise?

Well, it comes down to jobs versus output. When you think of a Chinese factory what comes to mind? Thousands of people on an assembly line.

But do you see that same thing in America? Well, not as much. At least not anymore. Most American factories are heavily automated. Robotic arms assembling widgets means you need a heck of a lot less people.

So while the manufacturing job base has practically vanished from America, most goods you buy (I think something like 75%) are still made here. (Just by robots, not people.)

Whether is this a good thing or a bad thing is left up to the reader.

Before I just though he was having a moment and dancing. Jamming along to some Marley is a little more understandable.

And let's us not forget the man who would have been perfect to play Rob Ford, Chris Farley, who passed away 16 years ago today.

Lethal injection sometimes (rarely) takes 30+ minutes to kill a man, so people argue that it's inhumane. There's also this guy, who survived 18 "lethal"injections.

Firing squad should be an instantaneous death.

Again, they're not arguing to replace lethal injection, they just want to make it legal so a firing squad can be used as a back up option, if necessary.

You touch on an important concern in this whole mess:

That this will be used to give the police even greater powers and for peaceful protest to become even harder.

> barbarians

Violence is far less now than it was in olden times

Bat penis. For those of you that can't help it.

Nope, it's real: http://translate.google.com/translate?js=n&amp;prev=_t&amp;hl=en&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;layout=2&amp;eotf=1&amp;sl=auto&amp;tl=en&amp;u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.maximonline.com.ua%2Fgirl_mate

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Obama has an assassination program that kills people, including American citizens and innocent civilians, with no indictment or trial. To call him and his administration disappointing is an understatement. This is disgustingly unprincipled and should be prosecuted as a crime against humanity.

https://theintercept.com/2015/11/19/former-drone-operators-say-they-were-horrified-by-cruelty-of-assassination-program/

> But each year, every dollar you've paid is lost. Gone. Poof! ... That money has done NOTHING to secure your healthcare long term.

False. 80 - 85% of consumer premiums that medical insurance companies receive are required to be spent toward medical care or reimbursed. Called the Medical Loss Ratio or the 80/20 Rule.

absolutely not. but saying that you don't have to follow laws or the constitution while "on the job" is basically giving them a free pass to fuck up anybody they want, for any reason they want, with not just no retribution, but no possibility of retribution. that's not ok by me. you're free to think it's ok, but remember: the germans were all on board with the nazis. The few that dissented were called liberals and traitors and were "putting the country in danger". Hell, there is even a famous quote by a famous Nazi describing just that. Let me quote it here for you:

>Why, of course, the people don't want war. Why would some poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best that he can get out of it is to come back to his farm in one piece. Naturally, the common people don't want war; neither in Russia nor in England nor in America, nor for that matter in Germany. That is understood. But, after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy or a fascist dictatorship or a Parliament or a Communist dictatorship.

>Gilbert: There is one difference. In a democracy, the people have some say in the matter through their elected representatives, and in the United States only Congress can declare wars.

>Göring: Oh, that is all well and good, but, voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same way in any country.

Let's see how history judges us in 20 years.

man, there is some really bad and ridiculously expensive art for sale on ebay, like reaaaly bad art. for example this bob barker painting/collage for only 3.5million dollars! is this fucking dr. evil painting this shit?

It's not a burden to healthcare, smokers are cheaper over a lifetime than healthy people. It comes down to smokers dying quicker, relatively cheaper deaths, while non-smokers are more likely to live many years after they retire (AKA after they stop paying income tax).

https://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/05/health/05iht-obese.1.9748884.html

This is just an abstract and it's super old, but it seems like they can actually develop to a degree in the dish.

I can't imagine how he could have actually stopped this instance as it was happening. But by publishing the photos, he can stop many more instances like this in the long term. I think photographers just have to keep repeating that mantra to themselves when they see horrible stuff like this, and that's why a lot of them get PTSD.

By definition, 68% of data is within plus or minus one standard deviation and 95% is within plus or minus two standard deviations. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/68-95-99.7_rule

Knowing this, my analysis does make sense. 68% are in rows 3.97±0.92, 3.05 to 4.89, and 95% is in rows 3.97±(2*0.92), 2.13 to 5.81. The rows max out at 5. That means from 4.89 to 5 is overrepresented as it has to make up for the fact that it can't go up to 5.81.

Here's an example I just made up to have numbers decently close. I only used whole numbers from 1 to 5 and the average is 3.933 (vs 3.97) and the standard deviation is 0.9444 (vs 0.92). Look at the histogram and you'll see what I mean. It's heavily weighted towards appearing in the lower rows. I could have made this data look many different ways but it shows my analysis makes complete sense.

Two years ago, the Czech Vodafone made a mistake when introducing iPhone 3GS and instead of 16,000 crowns ~ $900 (16GB) and 18,000 ~ $1020 (32GB) crowns, they set the prices to 800 crowns ~ $45 and 4,300 crowns ~ $245.

Nobody's sure whether it was an accident or a planned marketing strategy, but 30 people managed to order the phones with the wrong price and in the end Vodafone admitted they made a mistake and sold the phones for the initial, superlow price.

Google-translated article

Using the side provided by phormality, these are my results

Doesn't seem to be anything relevant, although Chato Band Space-Bold looks nice.

http://www.colourlovers.com/blog/2007/09/21/the-new-colors-of-us-money/

The photos are not as colorful as the actual money. The 10s are really really pink.

Oh and they use green because it holds color better than any other ink. No clue why.

Link to the CBC radio app for anyone that wants it. You can subscribe to shows and download audio. I also recommend Quirks and Quarks which is a great science show.

Android

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.nobexinc.cbcradio.rc&amp;hl=en

iOS:

https://itunes.apple.com/ca/app/cbc-radio/id325946767?mt=8

Upvote for being right even though this is Reddit and people here generally hate hearing this stuff.

Also, anyone complaining should go buy The Total Money Makeover and get out of debt and buckle down. It'll change your situations dramatically.