I have my smart phone in my pocket at the gym, and my 30 dollar mp3 player in my arm band.

Bluetooth headphones seem to either be wicked uncomfortable (plantronic backbeats) or exquisitely sensitive to sweat (Motorola). So it's nice being able to listen to music over corded headphones, and still have the smartphone available to do whatever in between sets.

Also the mp3 player just fucking 'works' on demand. Spotify seems to crash about 50% of the time and requires a reboot of the phone.

Also having the headphone jack come out, then having my phone broadcast my horrible taste of music over its speaker after accidentally touching the screen/volume buttons -- was embarrassing enough to ensure it happened just once :)

i don't think it's even psychology or training programmes, it's the extreme tails of human genetic ability, and finding those really really fucking rare individuals who have the traits necessary to break rcords.

If a sport becomes popular (basketball in the USA, track in Jamaica), more individuals are drawn to those activities. And as a result the odds of finding someone who's genetically gifted for that event increase.

Human beings are not different in a genetic sense before or after Bannister broke the 4 minute mile barrier; what has changed is a wider pool of people competing.

agent smith plz go.

I in fact have empirical evidence that ponies do in fact exist. Check your sources!

These universities only exist to suck money from the department of education, and have nothing to do with actually educating or producing people with skills.

(traditional schools and their palatial grounds and constant build projects are an entirely different topi.)

you'll summon.. him!

So very very cringe-worthy, it's like a freshman abusing the fuck out of a thesaurus while writing his very first college essay.

The only point I was making is that Japan did not attack Pearl Harbor out of the blue. It was a direct response to embargoes placed on them by the US.

And, yes, the US was entirely in the right in placing them. Cutting off the Japanese supply of oil would have crippled Japan's war effort. Which was the entire point of the embargo. Sensing their vulnerability, the Japanese decided to attack the US, in attempt to disable the pacific fleet, and secure their access to oil.

you do realize the US (justifiably) goaded them into pearl harbor right? Something about an oil embargo...

You have obviously never played Civilization. You can even goad Gandhi into dropping nukes on you if you spy on him sufficiently.

Go play and then get back to us.

in all seriousness, when national pride is insulted, the french are complete dicks. I could see them hosting asange and snowden and telling the US to get bent.

i think the EU would be quite happy to let Greece and Spain leave.

Remember, this is China, so it would need to be a blue UI; a pink UI would be aborted before they even started UX testing.

wish they'd make a router with 'epilepsy' mode, where it dims/disables all front lights. I mean short of the electrical tape option of course.

I cannot imagine the Japanese doing that. Did you really just mean "China", but didn't want to put too fine a point on it? :)

(North Korean scientific claims, such as the recent ebola/aids/whatever cure are so obviously silly that they don't merit serious consideration)