Wow, blast from the past. Back in 1978 when the *Superman* movie premiered, my local big-screen theater put a phone book in the lobby with some Clark Kent clothes hanging in it...somebody added a pair of pantyhose.
I have a memory snapshot from years ago, when I was driving through the Vegas casino district. I had to stop abruptly to avoid an ambulance, cornering hard, lights and siren on, tires squealing...and the driver was steering with one hand and sucking on a Slurpee-style cup in the other.
OK, so you're in a country where they're suspicious of photographers. A cop comes up and asks to see what's in your camera. Sure, you say, and let him download your files. Oh, I see they're encrypted, he says...well, thank you for your time. Right?
...for strictly psychological reasons. Atmospheric refraction magnifies it a tiny bit, but that's below the threshold of detection for your eyes. The illusion of increased size is related to the presence of other objects in your field of view.
OTOH, refraction does alter its observed position: when it appears to be sitting on the horizon, it's entirely below the horizon in a geometric sense.
There used to be a railroad in the eastern US called the Seaboard Air Line Railroad, "air line" being a railroad term for "as the crow flies". Its stock price had a tendency to follow airline stocks.
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Considering the level of supervision in some school IT departments I've seen, they might be mining it.
Not even a Star Trek first...James Doohan was reported dead online years before he really was.
"What is this, an interstellar restroom stall?"
Wow, blast from the past. Back in 1978 when the *Superman* movie premiered, my local big-screen theater put a phone book in the lobby with some Clark Kent clothes hanging in it...somebody added a pair of pantyhose.
I have a memory snapshot from years ago, when I was driving through the Vegas casino district. I had to stop abruptly to avoid an ambulance, cornering hard, lights and siren on, tires squealing...and the driver was steering with one hand and sucking on a Slurpee-style cup in the other.
that guy on the CB is protected unless you can show he's interfering with protected services
His linear is a violation.
Without Power, your car will be rather dead in the water.
Especially if you're driving over a bridge at the time.
Your admin might be clever enough to notice that it's a by-consent option.
You could have just said no to the mining option, y'know.
And we need something that alliterates with "spelling" too, because it's pedants, not pendants.
Glad I'm not the only one who noticed that.
OK, so you're in a country where they're suspicious of photographers. A cop comes up and asks to see what's in your camera. Sure, you say, and let him download your files. Oh, I see they're encrypted, he says...well, thank you for your time. Right?
...for strictly psychological reasons. Atmospheric refraction magnifies it a tiny bit, but that's below the threshold of detection for your eyes. The illusion of increased size is related to the presence of other objects in your field of view.
OTOH, refraction does alter its observed position: when it appears to be sitting on the horizon, it's entirely below the horizon in a geometric sense.
WTF?
Sanjay Gupta and friends
Sandeep, not Sanjay the TV doctor.
Danke schön.
Lots of people would pay good money to see a train wreck in slo-mo.
And don't throw me in that briar patch.
A major city suffers a blackout for more than 24 hours, and we find hospital delivery rooms overflowing 9 months later.
Welcome to Snopes. May I interest you in a JATO-powered car?
Numbers are painted with the leading zero.
...Just wake up on the Riverworld.
The states are the laboratories of democracy...and some of those laboratories are run by Walter White.
Never underestimate...(you can fill in the rest).
Another good one, less zoomed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
There used to be a railroad in the eastern US called the Seaboard Air Line Railroad, "air line" being a railroad term for "as the crow flies". Its stock price had a tendency to follow airline stocks.