My favorite was a night flight, flying up to Toronto. It was very overcast and cloudy out, except for this one strand between the fronts which just so happened to be direct line of sight to a large city, I think Detroit. The city glowed in a golden color from all the lighting, with the surrounding clouds on the sides and top making the light visible in a halo-like effect around the city. It looked like some of the artist depicitions of El Dorado.

It does, but it also takes the most calories to digest. In that sense, it's the least calorie dense of the three.

I'm gonna have to agree with what the GP posted since this line was quite succint:

This is the problem I have with exercise. I agree that it can be meditative, but for me it rarely is and my brain already has to be mush from something else that day. I simply can't turn my mind off. It can make exercise unbearable, not for the phsyical reasons but for the mental reasons. Its very frustrating. I've tried listening to music, but my preferrerd choice of music typically has a high BPM and if I don't watch out, I tend to sync my breathing to the music and hyperventilate.

Also, I can feel my mental ability leaving me as I exercise and my blood flow gets diverted. Its a really creepy and unnerving feeling.

The very core of No Child Left Behind was about tieing funding to passing percentages. The cascade effect of this was to eliminate gifted programs to prioritize passing non-gifted students, with disastrous results.

Mod insightful. Very succinct way of putting it, but right on the mark. I'm not good at that kind of stuff, but I have seen how much effort goes into it by some of my colleagues. In my business, there's only a handful of major contracts available in a year, and it takes YEARS of work and networking to get the right results.

FLSA mandates they pay time-and-a-half for all hours over 40 per work week, unless, being in the tech field, they were exempt by the specific type of work and making at least $27.55/hr. Obviously this isn't the case.

Its also likely that because of willful infringement, the employer is responsible for paying ALL of the employee's share of employment taxes and income taxes, plus the necessary employer match for the employment taxes. They were also likely fined by the IRS and State Unemployment for the willful infringement on the tax side, which wouldn't show up in the punitive back wages fine listed above.

In short: The workers got paid overtime, and the total penalty is probably the above mentioned $3500, plus about 40% of what wages were listed. Also, if it ever happens again, they'll likely get some jail time.

I think population density and mobility is what has people more concerned. Yes, a lot of the places in the Ebola outbreak have poor sanitation and a moderate population density. However, a much lower percantage of those populations travel for a living, and they do not have the dense population centers like we have in the US.

That and the massive uptick of apocalypse/disease movies. People get so invested in it that the idea of being prepared for a disaster becomes part of their identity. Kinda like that one dude who predicted the second coming a few years ago. They can't revoke their assertions because that would be writing off part of their self.

These ships don't work like that. If anything, it will usually carry less than the max. The rating is based off of a arbitrary weight for each container which is about half the max weight per container. If overloaded or loaded incorrectly, they can list or even split. Here's two pictures of things that can happen:

http://www.railroad-line.com/f...
http://shariaunveiled.files.wo...
http://www.marineinsight.com/w...

That paint is really thick, really heavy, and actually quite expensive. The point is to reduce drag in the water, and more importantly, to prevent buildup of barnacles, which ruin fuel efficiency. The cost isn't worth the benefit on cars.

Look up the Emma Maersk. E class and EEE clas are different designs. The E class is around 15.5k TEUs.

Whats really mind boggling about these things is the kind of odd issues you run into engineering them. They've gotten so big that you see bowing in the halls during rough seas becaue the halls are so long. It creates odd engineering issues, having to account for a possible resonance with the wave frequency causing a catastrophic failure and severely reduced lifespan due to stresses on the hull if not designed properly. 14% is a really large improvement when you realize they're sitting on the edge of materials capabilities.

Its no longer economical to build these ships in the West, as you said. Maersk, the purchaser of these ships, actually owned a shipyard (Odense) in Europe which it used to build its original E-class ships. Shortly after, that shipyard was put out to pasture. All of the major cargo shipbuilders are located in Asia, like Hyundai Heavy and Daewoo. These things take a lot of labor to manufature.

I buy a ticket about once a year or so just to remind myself how unlucky I am. I've gotten 3 numbers matched in my entire lifetime. I find it helps me appreciate my job and steady income more when I'm getting pessimistic about things.

Remember, competition in the car sales arena has pushed them to thin margins over the past few decades. The reason for the auto crisis follow-on to the recent recession was because the major manufacturers were using base models as loss leaders and only making money on premium models, addons, parts, and auto loans.

Dealerships often don't make money on the new car sale, but on the financing terms. The second item in that list is service, which dealers make a good penny on. Electric cars require virtually no service and are thus not beneficial in the long-term existence of the current dealership model. If every car was a tesla, the dealership would just be a glorified sales floor with no additional service revenue.

I'm as much of a lawn guarder as the next guy, but what? The ADHD spike really showed up in the 90's, well before this stuff existed or was commonplace. My stepmother's son has ADHD, born in the early 90's, and she's practically a luddite when it comes to technology.

If anything, I think it would have more to do with a double income household. The uptick aligns more with the lack of stay-at-home parents than with technology. I'm not surprised children don't get the attention they need when mommy and daddy are working 8-5 and burned out trying to keep up with the Joneses.

Incorrect. It indicates respect that the other person, a male, generally has to get off every so often for physiological reasons. Its not about jealousy, its about wanting to be part of your partner's sexual fulfillment. People in love don't go down on one another so that the other will reciprocate, its because we enjoy seeing the other person's exstacy.