One common setup is to have your monthly allocation (eg I am on 20gb/month) and the 'month' starts on the date that you signed up for the service. Every anniversary date it gets reset. Therefore it tends to naturally stagger out pretty well.
Of course, the biggest ISPs just reset everyone on the first of the month, but that's the least of the problems with their service.
And those 13 include an economist, an engineer and an astrophysicist.
TFA specifically commented that the "Many leading scientists question climate change" myth was from a list of people, many of who were not climate specialists, and many of who had been retired for years, and who mostly advocated caution about the 'global warming panic' as opposed to denying its existence.
The linked article appears to fit this description pretty closely.
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Not sure where the GP is from, but I know this system applies here in Australia.
According to wikipedia, there are many others
One common setup is to have your monthly allocation (eg I am on 20gb/month) and the 'month' starts on the date that you signed up for the service. Every anniversary date it gets reset. Therefore it tends to naturally stagger out pretty well.
Of course, the biggest ISPs just reset everyone on the first of the month, but that's the least of the problems with their service.
And those 13 include an economist, an engineer and an astrophysicist.
TFA specifically commented that the "Many leading scientists question climate change" myth was from a list of people, many of who were not climate specialists, and many of who had been retired for years, and who mostly advocated caution about the 'global warming panic' as opposed to denying its existence.
The linked article appears to fit this description pretty closely.
Another fun thing about xkcd is that Randall put extra jokes as popup text for the comic images.
As an example, more raptors may be found here.