The better answer, from the full lore, is: union rules. The Ents and the Eagles were created to watch over flora and fauna, respectively, mostly to protect them from man. The Wizards were created to watch over man. These duties were handed down directly from the god of Tolkien's world (who's name escapes me). It simply wouldn't be right for Gandalf to ask the Eagles to do his own damn job for him.

Rescuing Gandalf personally, that's a favor to a coworker "sure, I'll give you a ride to work - pick you up where? A tower? OK, that's convenient, thanks."

But of course all of that is based on stuff from the Silmarillion - none of it is in the actual LOTR story, so it's no more canon than Mordor having emplaced 88s protecting Mt Doom.

Are you serious? The World is going to shit and she oversaw four years of our foreign policy. Russia is annexing parts of her neighbors, ISIS is on the march, China is bullying her neighbors, North Korea still has nuclear weapons, Iran may yet obtain them, and she was one of the biggest cheerleaders for regime change in Libya. That's just her list of "accomplishments" as SecState; wanna talk about her time in the Senate? Two words: Iraq AUMF.

I'd say her entire record as Senator and Secretary of State is a glaring failure. Why don't you proffer something she did right instead of saying she didn't completely fuck up?

Not exactly a ringing endorsement when one looks at the current geopolitical situation.

That depends on what kind of shape she's in. :)

The license plate reader image from the article shows a category for "other" along with "tax scofflaw". "Other" says nothing but fishing expedition to me. Unbelievable.

I noticed that too. Not being an American, what is a "scofflaw"? Is it an execution offence?

Adobe Reader can view PDFs instead of just freezing the computer solid and then crashing? Well, whodathunkit?

Hmmm, "exactly" the same? Well, if the person producing the PDF remembered to include the appropriate parts of the fonts. (I was trying to make head or tails of a PDF from a geology journal last night. All the diagrams completely labelled with uninformative square "don't have a glyph" glyphs.)

Pretty much every day for me too, since I got an account with Linked-In (of course I don't let them rape my address books!)

Every one gets blocked with a flg of spammer, and a rude return email to the effect "you didn't read my CV you fucking incompetent idiot. Because it says clearly and in black and white "I am not job hunting and will report any recruiters who contact me as being spammers."

About one in ten actually apologise ; the rest I take it, really are spammers.

What is the submitter's beef? Or cheese cake, or whatever the current slang is? Or does he/ she/ it/ they not actually have enough of a complaint to express what they're complaining about?

What a bunch of SJW horseshit. Makes me ignore the rest of your posts.

Getting OFF this rock is the most important thing. You're afraid of the weather. I'm afraid of that humonguous rock targeting earth, which will make weather irrelevant.

I was recently on a jury for a young black man with a volunteer defender. He was acquitted on the most serious charge - the lawyer was quite good, and just bored of defending DWI cases for a living. That's how the system is supposed to work. It's a pity that it doesn't usually, but that's human systems for you. The fact that he's black never mattered to the case (it might have to the cops choosing him to speak with in the first place, but it was definitely his choices that got him arrested).

If you want to claim that the system is biased against blacks over whites after people are arrested, you'll need some evidence for that. Every system gives at least a little advantage to rich people, of course, that's what rich means after all.

I have been using Firefox on the desktop since it was Netscape. About the only time I fire up Chrome is to check CSS compatibility in a web page. I dislike Chrome very much. Last time I recall checking, the Chrome executable was about 10x (!!!) the size of my Firefox, and slow, slow, slow in comparison.

One of the first things I did when I got an Android phone was disable Chrome and install Firefox.

Well, I think there are two important things to note here: first, IANAL but sharing this data between pharmacies without any patient input would appear to be a blatant violation of HIPAA regulations. Second, my state's prescription database is very definitely NOT supposed to be connected to any Federal database. That would be a violation of State law.

Palaeocene-Eocene Thermal maximum. The most recent example of what happens if you dump petagrammes of carbon (as hydride (methane) or carbon dioxide) into the atmosphere in a few millennia, and as such the best estimate we have of the near-future climate of the Earth.