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Maybe this site explains the differences between acronym and initialism better that yours.

$20.000.000 ? How about the parties settled out of court for an undisclosed amount less than $600,000?
https://www.todayifoundout.com... and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... and many other places.

Contrary to popular belief, the term jaywalking does not derive from the shape of the letter âoeJâ (referencing the path a jaywalker might travel when crossing a road). Rather, it comes from the fact that âoeJayâ used to be a generic term for someone who was an idiot, dull, rube, unsophisticated, poor, or simpleton. More precisely, it was once a common term for âoecountry bumpkinsâ or âoehicksâ, usually seen incorrectly as inherently stupid by âoecityâ folk.

http://www.todayifoundout.com/...

Yes, Uber has not solved the "moron' human Jaywalking problem.

There's too many, and since you don't trust the WSJ, I can't predict which ones you will trust. I suggest researching it yourself. For a general overview and links to sources, this isn't a bad writeup: http://www.todayifoundout.com/...

Interestingly, if you search for "dummy office thermostats", you'll find numerous places that sell them for this exact purpose.

Likely around 171 cm unless nutritional standards in the US change. We're actually on a height decline since the 80s.

The first documented instance of the Vulgaris Aerae (Vulgar Era, meaning “Common Era”) being used interchangeably with Anno Domini was featured in Latin works by Johannes Kepler in 1615, 1616, and 1617. The English version of phrase later appeared in 1635 in an English translation of Kepler’s 1615 work. (In the mid-seventeenth century the English “vulgar” took on a new definition of “coarse,” but it wouldn’t be until this “coarse/unrefined” definition would become more common in the 20th century that referring to the Vulgar Era would cease.) [1]

It's not like this is a new thing. And it really doesn't matter in ordinary conversation, at least for most of us. But when publishing in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, it makes sense to use the terminology of science, which does not recognize Jesus as "Christ" with all of the associated baggage.

[1] http://www.todayifoundout.com/...

The data needs to stand on its own. No adjustments are needed

Actually no.
Context matters.

consider for example Napoleon.
the age old myth is that Napoleon was short, and stems partly from the fact (verifiable historical fact) that at his death his height was listed as 5ft 2in.

but the reality is that he wasn't, and it arises from an error or mismatch in units used.
specifically, those were French units on his death certificate.

using modern units, we would say he was 5ft 7in tall, which is actually somewhat above the average height for a Frenchman at the time of 5ft 5in (again in modern units). http://www.todayifoundout.com/...

So no.
Data cannot stand always on its own.
Context matters and can change the entire meaning of the "raw data" you present.

Now relate that to climate data.
You have 4 measuring stations within a small radius, say, on an acre of land
small enough that we can consider them to all be measuring the same area.
yet their data doesn't match up.

why?

well, upon examination you discover:
-One sits in an under a lean too (open side, but shaded from above) among some trees.
-One is on the east side of a tree.
-One is on the west side of a building.
-One is on top of a small hill.

Q: which data set is correct?
A: All of them, and none of them.

Because each is biased by different factors.
the first one experiences no direct sunlight. it also experiences no wind, due to the trees.
the second one experiences direct sunlight from sunrise til noon, at which point it becomes shaded by the tree.
the third one experiences no direct sunlight until the afternoon, having been shaded by the building all morning.
the last one experiences direct sunlight all day. its also at a different elevation being on a hill, and being exposed on that hill, it also experiences wind, if its windy.

And that's reality. Different stations will have different biases depending on their installation.
IE, context.

And it matters.
If a direct sunlight on a hill station is replaced by one under a leanto next to a building, the two sets of readings are not directly comparable.
Thus, calibrations of the data so that they are.

We don't merge kernel code just because user space was written by a retarded monkey on crack. Torvalds, Linus

How many retards are going to be using github anyway? You seem to be under the impression that retard still means the same as intellectually challenged. Not in the 21st century - it generally means someone doing something stupid (like taking offence at words that have changed their meaning). And retard still has accepted uses, such as relative levels of mental retardation

the terms mild retardation, moderate retardation, severe retardation, and profound retardation

Or would you prefer that we go back to the previous terminology, which included moron, imbecile, and idiot as descriptors for the various levels of below-average intelligence.

People use these terms all the time to refer to others with average or above-average intelligence. Quit being a moron :-)

If that's honestly the kind of thing they're going to promote, then I could care less.

And minus 5 points to you for "I could care less".

http://www.todayifoundout.com/...

You mean this? (which I got from a single google search attempt)

http://www.todayifoundout.com/...

What are they putting into your water supply out there ?

Lead.

Well, if the past government reports and current laws banning it are correct.

That might be gasoline. And only for about 50 years. But apparently that's good enough to get a nice long mental retarding effect that matches well with the age of Internet forum trolls.

Like golf, cricket, croquet, boxing, wrestling, handball, water polo, darts... All football!

OK, every team field sport. Cricket and croquet would have been considered lawn games, not field games, as would "lawn" bowling, and the derivative tenpin bowling.

Funny how many people hate history because it conflicts with their opinions. Rugby Football League and Rugby Football Union are still the official names for rugby. The "association" was dropped from soccer, mainly as an anti-English aristocracy movement (more anti-English outside England and more anti-aristocracy inside England). http://www.todayifoundout.com/...

But all the retcon you want can't change reality. Soccer is the more accurate word for Association Football in English.

no mixing adam's apples & hymens?

That depends on what you think of "Mann" Coulter or Rachel "Man"-dow.

But seriously, some women do have a prominent larynx.

Actually it's correct: electrons in a typical copper wire move pretty slowly

I think it's less about who's an idiot, and more about who has what share of the responsibility. It seems sensible to me to think that the level of responsibility you should take for your actions scales with the amount to damage your actions can do. A pedestrian can afford to be an idiot-- if he runs into someone, he probably won't kill them. A truck driver, on the other hand, can easily kill a handful of people with one mistake.

So there are idiots among all of those groups? Fine. I don't disagree. But take away the licenses of the idiots among the drivers. If we can't stop them from being idiots, the least we can do is minimize the damage they do by making them walk.

We forget, in the years pre the mass adoption of automobiles, the streets belonged to people. You were free to walk in the street. Sidewalks were there as much to keep your feet out of the pre-sewer crap in the street (including horse crap) as anything. Kids would naturally play in the street, where else would they play? And collisions between horse-drawn vehicle and human were rare. Note that the term 'jaywalk' was originally considered a shocking slur used by those who could afford a car against those who could not. http://www.todayifoundout.com/...

Pretty sure that's not 100% true. You have a right to a chunk of the airspace, according to this article, up to 500-1000 feet.

One small clarification, you don't actually have a right to a phone call. Though, you will probably get one, and maybe more depending on your situation.
http://www.todayifoundout.com/...

Most doctors don't take the Hippocratic Oat.

http://www.todayifoundout.com/...

Nope.

http://www.todayifoundout.com/...

Let's face it. Lamborghini was originally a tractor manufacturer.

Unnecessary worldwide poisoning with lead through car gasoline (known to be neurotoxic for hundreths of years) still happens today in some parts of the world.
Read http://www.todayifoundout.com/... to see how we really don't deserve the name gaven to our species...

Nowadays, jet fuel, maybe even on purpose for solar management geo engineering (even unilateral as per CFR recomendations), is leaking all kinds of bizarre particulates all over the world.

There is a heated discussion on whether what we now see almost on a daily basis are contrails or chemtrails. Who cares! Just don't poison us!
What matters is that this is relatively new worldwide phenomenon ( less than a decade), and tests have proven that air quality is degrading everywhere.
Why not being more proactive, and make sure that whatever they add to the jet formulas is safe?
Look up, next time you see a nice sun shiny day turn to a misty, smoggy, gray day from air traffic, remember it took almost a century to ban lean in car gasoline. Do you feel safe?
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Why bathing was rare in medieval times

I don't see how you can eat meat without consuming some blood

For one thing, the red stuff you see coming out of properly drained meat is not blood; it's myoglobin. For another, God doesn't appear to look down on eating the trace of blood in well-drained meat. God told Noah as he was getting off the ark: "Every moving animal that is alive may serve as food for you. As in the case of green vegetation, I do give it all to you. Only flesh with its life--its blood--you must not eat." (Genesis 9:3-4) There are some people who won't eat meat at all, perhaps because of this trace of blood, but one shouldn't judge them for that.--Romans 14:2-3.

Also, since when is having a blood transfusion the same thing as eating blood?

Please see my other comment.

The whole thing is just another ridiculous hangover from dietary laws dreamed up in a hot, desert society.

For one thing, the area Paul preached in wasn't quite as hot and arid. For another, as is common with passages in the Christian Greek Scriptures, there's something in the Hebrew Scriptures to help interpret it, such as the instructions given to Noah mentioned above.

It makes you look like a moron.

Stupid here. It's makes you look stupid, or a fool, but not like a moron.

Moron is a classification of retardation, as in impaired cognitive ability.

Whereas with stupid or a fool, you aren't impaired. You have the brains, you just aren't using it (or appear not to be).

The saying is you can't fix stupid, not retarded (I guess there are ways to address retardation)

And Mr T pities the fool, not the retard.

(now somebody else nitpick on something I wrote, this is fun!)

Actually, most equipment, such as Scantron, etc, does. While it's possible to do it optically, it can be done much faster by using electrical conductivity. That said, when, instead of correctly spotting 100 marks on a multiple choice answer sheet, you only need to do a few points, optical sensors probably make more sense.

All of the Scanners on Scantron's page say they do Optical Mark Recognition and/or Imaging. And they can detect ink or pencil marks.

http://www.scantron.com/scanners/

Do you have an actual reference for equipment that uses electrical conductivity to count marks? As I said, I can certainly believe that early machines did, but not anything built recently. I really don't see how electrical counting could be faster than optical counters -- keeping a good electrical contact with fast moving paper seems a lot harder than bouncing light off the paper.

I found an article confirming that early Scantron machines did use electrical conductivity to count marks:

http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2010/10/why-you-used-to-have-to-use-2-pencils-with-scantron-forms/

The earliest scantron-like machines used electrical conductivity, rather than light, to read forms. Graphite is quite conductive, so the machines simply had a mechanism at each markable area location to make contact with the form and detect if an electrical current is detected across the area. These systems were used as early as the 1930s.

But it didn't say when optical scanning came into use.

That site also has the obligatory XKCD comic:

http://xkcd.com/499/

Ha, ha. I get it.

Shouldn't groups of Microsoft products be referred to as a rafter?

http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2010/08/why-you-generally-shouldnt-put-metals-in-the-microwave/

Ever seen a steak before it's cooked? Plenty of blood in there, I would say.

That's not blood, it's myoglobin in water.

Fuck it, I'll bite.

If you are, as you say, really curious, and not just some trolling piece of trash, then google can be your friend here.

You can claim there are many studies demonstrating IQ differences between different races, but equally, there have been many studies which detail where standard IQ tests are guilty of cultural bias. That is, if you have a certain type of background, you will find certain types of question easier. And these have nothing to do with how intelligent (or not) you may be as a person.

As for the other racist comments :

"They stink."
Incorrect. Their body odours may be different that you're used to, but again, that's cultural. Did you know that we in the west "stink" of sour milk? Apparently it has to do with the amount of dairy products in our diets. I heard about it the first time I was in India.

"They can't speak proper English despite over 200 years of being born in this country."
Again, that's just not supported by the evidence. Mangling the English language is not a feature unique to any particular race. For every Colin Powell, Tiger Woods, Barack Obama, Oprah Winfrey, Bill Cosby, whoever, there are thousands of white skinned trailer trash who would be incomprehensible to anyone except their parole officer and immediate family/tribe.

"Their cultural contributions include gangsta rap, glorification of thugs and criminals, the welfare state, bastard children, poverty, low test scores and political correctness."

Factually wrong in every case, except gangsta rap. I'd give you that.

"Oh yeah and something about peanuts."
Hmm. George Washington Carver and the peanut butter "invention".
If you were even remotely interested in learning (something which you think certain people shun, so I imagine you must value in some way) I'd direct you to read : http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2010/08/george-washington-carver-did-not-invent-peanut-butter/

But I wouldn't want to draw you away from Mein Kampf, now would I?

"Years of real racism didn't prevent the Jews from prospering"
Were the Jews slaves in America? Did rich white men have them killed if someone taught a Jewish person to read? Vast misunderstanding of the nature of the problem there.

"every problem the nigger has is blamed on racism."
Gee, with such tolerant folks as yourself in society, I wonder why.