I enjoyed the book and it is in my collection, but it was too brief and did not reveal anything new.
The point of it to a certain extent, and definitely the point of his followup book The Universe in a Nutshell was to take current knowledge and speculation and package them up for a (slightly) more mass audience.
Besides, 30% less on maintenance? How did you get that number?
Electrically-driven cars have fewer parts, and the parts tend to be similar. There's a lot that goes into a gas-driven car to turn gas into energy, all of which is missing or simplified in an electric car. There's no internal combustion engine, no fuel injection system, no oil changes, sparkplugs, etc. You'll still need to replace the brakes, though at a slower rate since they're not used as much (regenerative braking rather than friction braking).
Subject: Gimme my "disable javascript" checkbox back.
Disabling Javascript across the board just breaks most websites. This is why the feature is gone. You should use the NoScript add-on to Firefox instead (It blocks more than Javascript, too!)
Unfortunately, the new redesigned Noscript has a fucking awful interface. So much worse than the old one.
Yeah, but Tillerson already knew he was getting fired. The writing was on the wall, and he didn't really have anything to lose here.
The usual pattern for folks in the WH: Trump makes denigrating tweets about you, and then you're out. Trump had already started the tweets, John Kelly called Tillerson at 2:30am in Egypt (the night after he arrived in Africa) warning him of upcoming Presidential tweets that concerned him. Tillerson clears his schedule the next day due to "illness," he cuts his trip short, arriving back yesterday, and his firing was made public this morning.
Right now, I think the only saving Jeff Sessions is the Russia investigation.
Rex Tillerson never wanted the job. He publicly said as much when he was appointed.
Trump has been making derogatory remarks about Tillerson for awhile, and the general trend is that once Trump starts publicly bad-mouthing you, your days are numbered. Sessions will be next, though the Mueller investigation makes firing him more challenging. Not that that stopped him from firing Comey.
2. Has waterboarding ever extracted useful information?
As with most methods of torture, it leads to a lot of bad data. But again, the problem is that once you torture, you abrogate your moral authority. The US loved to claim moral authority, once upon a time. It used to have value.
Your own link is from 2011. Are you aware that he was president for another 5 years and renditions skyrocketed during that time? Tell us again about his promises to close Gitmo.
I can blame Obama for a great many things (including torture), but I can't really blame him for not closing Gitmo. Congress refused to authorize any funds because they wanted to keep the detainees there, and both Congress and the states refused to allow any detainees to be moved to any mainland detention facility out of safety concerns, as if they were a bunch of super-spies that would somehow escape and commit terrorism. Obama's choices were to keep the detainees in Gitmo or release them, and the latter would have been politically disastrous.
Given adequate food, water, love, and safety, yes, it can survive on its own.
Well, now we're adding more conditions.
There are babies born (sometimes through C-section, sometimes due to other trauma) extremely prematurely. The closer we hew to the natural 9-month cycle, the better for the resulting baby, but it's clear that there's no hard-and-fast line.
Scientists also don't use "my holy book written by a series of half insane ancient jewish guys says so" as the criteria.
Sure, but one doesn't have to be religious to have a moral objection to abortion.
An embryo has the potential to be a human but as it can't survive on its own, it isn't a human.
Can a 2-day-old baby survive on its own? If not supported by other humans, they will die 100% of the time. "Can't survive on its own" is not a criteria scientists use to qualify if something is alive.
Not this Reagan myth again. The ACLU is what is responsible for shutting down the mental health system, starting with cases in the 1970s. They're quite proud of it, for some reason. Apparently having crazy people die on the streets from drugs and exposure is better than having them well-fed, sheltered, and medicated.
They're proud of it for a few reasons. We have a long history in the US of involuntarily committing non-crazy people who happen to be "different." Gay folks, radicals, imbeciles, and people who are otherwise inconvenient, like rape victims. Care was horrible, and people who had committed no crimes were subject to horrible tortures to try to "fix" their condition. If you're not a physical danger to others in society, there is no constitutionally-justifiable reason to keep someone in a sanitarium against their will.
When something goes wrong like signalling problems, then everything falls apart. Passengers just start grabbing whatever train is available to take them that bit closer to where they want to go, ending up with crowding so bad that people are standing in the interconnects between carriages and next to the doors.
My favorite UK train experience was when I was in the standing-room area of a train, and a rather irate gentleman was upset that he had purchased a rather pricey first-class ticket and was standing wedged between the train door and the tea cart. That was a fun conversation to listen in on.
No, it is beyond stupid because not Florida will have a different time than their neighboring states that are in the same 'real' timezone and require constant calibration.
Then those other states should do the sensible thing and follow Florida's lead, for once ("for once" meaning that it's rare that following Florida's lead is the sensible thing).
That will not happen. I doubt such a thing would pass any serious court challenge. Just changing what the labels "6am, noon, 6pm" actually mean has been the only plausible way that we've been able to do this.
Rural people and the poor benefit from daylight savings, because it saves money on utility bills.
The poor aren't likely to be affected one way or another, and rural people DON'T CARE, because they never paid attention to the hour of the day in the morning. They got up at dawn, whenever it is, as the exact time changes a small amount every day.
The right way to do this is to eliminate DST, not make it permanent.
That is the worst of all the possible options that have been presented, and is really the only reason why those who fight for the preservation of DST do so.
I'm so sorry that you were born 200 years too late to own a black person. So sorry that you were born 60 years too late to say "fuck off, darky" when a black person sat down at a lunch counter.
So very, very sorry. It must be terrible to feel that you're living in the wrong time.
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We lost one of the greatest rap musicians of our generation yesterday.
I enjoyed the book and it is in my collection, but it was too brief and did not reveal anything new.
The point of it to a certain extent, and definitely the point of his followup book The Universe in a Nutshell was to take current knowledge and speculation and package them up for a (slightly) more mass audience.
Besides, 30% less on maintenance? How did you get that number?
Electrically-driven cars have fewer parts, and the parts tend to be similar. There's a lot that goes into a gas-driven car to turn gas into energy, all of which is missing or simplified in an electric car. There's no internal combustion engine, no fuel injection system, no oil changes, sparkplugs, etc. You'll still need to replace the brakes, though at a slower rate since they're not used as much (regenerative braking rather than friction braking).
Disabling Javascript across the board just breaks most websites. This is why the feature is gone. You should use the NoScript add-on to Firefox instead (It blocks more than Javascript, too!)
Unfortunately, the new redesigned Noscript has a fucking awful interface. So much worse than the old one.
So, Trump fired Tillerson just hours after this: https://twitter.com/ZekeJMille... . Delicious.
Yeah, but Tillerson already knew he was getting fired. The writing was on the wall, and he didn't really have anything to lose here.
The usual pattern for folks in the WH: Trump makes denigrating tweets about you, and then you're out. Trump had already started the tweets, John Kelly called Tillerson at 2:30am in Egypt (the night after he arrived in Africa) warning him of upcoming Presidential tweets that concerned him. Tillerson clears his schedule the next day due to "illness," he cuts his trip short, arriving back yesterday, and his firing was made public this morning.
Right now, I think the only saving Jeff Sessions is the Russia investigation.
Give it up Russian troll bot.
Why do you think he's a Russian troll bot?
Rex Tillerson never wanted the job. He publicly said as much when he was appointed.
Trump has been making derogatory remarks about Tillerson for awhile, and the general trend is that once Trump starts publicly bad-mouthing you, your days are numbered. Sessions will be next, though the Mueller investigation makes firing him more challenging. Not that that stopped him from firing Comey.
That you even use the terms "cuck" and "soyboy" doesn't say much for you as a person.
Please point to actual evidence that Islamic countries have in fact ever demonstrated that they have given the US any "moral authority".
No one "gives you" moral authority. You earn it with the combination of your words and deeds.
I assume you're just pretending to be obtuse.
He's just being a disingenuous troll. Maybe he thinks he actually has a point, but he doesn't. He just attacks strawman.
1. Is waterboarding torture?
Yes.
2. Has waterboarding ever extracted useful information?
As with most methods of torture, it leads to a lot of bad data.
But again, the problem is that once you torture, you abrogate your moral authority. The US loved to claim moral authority, once upon a time. It used to have value.
Terrorists are murdering innocent people and she's torturing murderers.
Oh, and these people were terrorists, were they?
Or... wait, half the reason they were "indefinitely detained" is they were picked up but we don't know if they were terrorists or not.
Murderers don't care about the people they murder so why should we care about them?
You need to be better than the people you're fighting. Better, not the same.
See? Now that's American-style humor. Much better.
Your own link is from 2011. Are you aware that he was president for another 5 years and renditions skyrocketed during that time? Tell us again about his promises to close Gitmo.
I can blame Obama for a great many things (including torture), but I can't really blame him for not closing Gitmo. Congress refused to authorize any funds because they wanted to keep the detainees there, and both Congress and the states refused to allow any detainees to be moved to any mainland detention facility out of safety concerns, as if they were a bunch of super-spies that would somehow escape and commit terrorism. Obama's choices were to keep the detainees in Gitmo or release them, and the latter would have been politically disastrous.
Given adequate food, water, love, and safety, yes, it can survive on its own.
Well, now we're adding more conditions.
There are babies born (sometimes through C-section, sometimes due to other trauma) extremely prematurely. The closer we hew to the natural 9-month cycle, the better for the resulting baby, but it's clear that there's no hard-and-fast line.
Scientists also don't use "my holy book written by a series of half insane ancient jewish guys says so" as the criteria.
Sure, but one doesn't have to be religious to have a moral objection to abortion.
An embryo has the potential to be a human but as it can't survive on its own, it isn't a human.
Can a 2-day-old baby survive on its own? If not supported by other humans, they will die 100% of the time. "Can't survive on its own" is not a criteria scientists use to qualify if something is alive.
Not this Reagan myth again. The ACLU is what is responsible for shutting down the mental health system, starting with cases in the 1970s. They're quite proud of it, for some reason. Apparently having crazy people die on the streets from drugs and exposure is better than having them well-fed, sheltered, and medicated.
They're proud of it for a few reasons. We have a long history in the US of involuntarily committing non-crazy people who happen to be "different." Gay folks, radicals, imbeciles, and people who are otherwise inconvenient, like rape victims. Care was horrible, and people who had committed no crimes were subject to horrible tortures to try to "fix" their condition. If you're not a physical danger to others in society, there is no constitutionally-justifiable reason to keep someone in a sanitarium against their will.
When something goes wrong like signalling problems, then everything falls apart. Passengers just start grabbing whatever train is available to take them that bit closer to where they want to go, ending up with crowding so bad that people are standing in the interconnects between carriages and next to the doors.
My favorite UK train experience was when I was in the standing-room area of a train, and a rather irate gentleman was upset that he had purchased a rather pricey first-class ticket and was standing wedged between the train door and the tea cart. That was a fun conversation to listen in on.
No, it is beyond stupid because not Florida will have a different time than their neighboring states that are in the same 'real' timezone and require constant calibration.
Then those other states should do the sensible thing and follow Florida's lead, for once ("for once" meaning that it's rare that following Florida's lead is the sensible thing).
Change official business hours if you want, not the goddamn clock.
How about a solution that actually has a chance of happening instead?
pass a law to curtail working hours
That will not happen. I doubt such a thing would pass any serious court challenge.
Just changing what the labels "6am, noon, 6pm" actually mean has been the only plausible way that we've been able to do this.
Rural people and the poor benefit from daylight savings, because it saves money on utility bills.
The poor aren't likely to be affected one way or another, and rural people DON'T CARE, because they never paid attention to the hour of the day in the morning. They got up at dawn, whenever it is, as the exact time changes a small amount every day.
The right way to do this is to eliminate DST, not make it permanent.
That is the worst of all the possible options that have been presented, and is really the only reason why those who fight for the preservation of DST do so.
I'm so sorry that you were born 200 years too late to own a black person. So sorry that you were born 60 years too late to say "fuck off, darky" when a black person sat down at a lunch counter.
So very, very sorry. It must be terrible to feel that you're living in the wrong time.
If the Airbnb customers felt they were being shat on, they'd spend their money elsewhere. Oh, you meant people not even involved in that transaction?
Yes, because the people around in the area are affected by the transaction, even if they aren't one of the two parties.