I hate to burst your bubble but the median household income in 2014 was $53,657. That's regardless of single or dual income. I would be willing to bet that most people on here are lucky enough to have never made below median income, and that most of our friends are above this threshold as well, so we never see it. source: http://money.cnn.com/2015/09/1...

I appreciate the calm and considered response. Wealth is power, and while none of these companies own a nation, they are bigger than nations.

you mean like capitalism?

[quote]“It is known that there are an infinite number of worlds, simply because there is an infinite amount of space for them to be in. However, not every one of them is inhabited. Therefore, there must be a finite number of inhabited worlds. Any finite number divided by infinity is as near to nothing as makes no odds, so the average population of all the planets in the Universe can be said to be zero. From this it follows that the population of the whole Universe is also zero, and that any people you may meet from time to time are merely the products of a deranged imagination.”[/quote]
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The argument is that the earth "should not" exist, not "does not." This model shows that the conditions conducive to an earth like planet are exceedingly rare, even on a universe scale. At some resolution, it's safer to say that the universe is dead, rather than having any life.

My friend used to do this job for Turner networks. His job was to watch content set to air in foreign countries and document every moment that needed to be flagged due to censorship concerns. "At 0:52:13, use of the word 'fuck.' At 0:55:43, exposed nipple..." If he ever missed anything, he would have been fired, so he had to watch every second of the film. If he became distracted, he would have to rewind. Apparently he loved this job. It sounded miserable to me.

While I appreciate your study, I feel your math, like the math of these videos, may be flawed...

Or this is an attempt to stop the scourge of baby assassins. You have to worry about those kids, they are the terrorists from within: http://forward.com/opinion/176...

That's 1% of the problem. The other 99% of the problem is that they see someone who looks different from carrying an unknown device and think "bomb."

I'm not passing judgement on the act, just stating possible why's that come to mind.

France is one of the top 5 arms exporters in the world (http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-31901493), they have a history of racial tension against immigrants (https://news.vice.com/article/france-is-getting-more-intolerant-and-racist-according-to-human-rights-report). You treat those beneath you like shit, and occasionally, people fight back. Those would be two motives, I'm sure there are more.

Except bitcoin mining is inherently tied with transactions: https://www.bitcoinmining.com.... bitcoin mining is how the transaction system works, verifying each transaction. The system blows through cheap energy to make fake cash. The whole system results in a massive waste of energy for an inefficient currency.

I would think his comment goes to the idea of bitcoin mining, which to my knowledge, serves no other purpose than to prop up bitcoin itself. It's a massive waste of energy on something completely intangible. I'd like to see a more in-depth study, but some estimate that a single bitcoin transaction could power a house for a day and a half (http://motherboard.vice.com/read/bitcoin-is-unsustainable). What a fucking waste. At least folding@home used energy for scholarly purposes.

I have a friend who has a cabin in the San Juans, just across the water from Canada. He spent a summer out there one year, and worked with his wireless provider to ensure that he would not get billed for data coming in from a Canadian tower during that time. Problem is, they never turned off his roaming data. By the end of the summer (streaming music the entire time), he had a $30,000+ bill. Thankfully, he had a paper trail.

Fish is fine. My complaint is that while many items have simulated the same flavor, the texture is off. Consuming food engages every sense. You can hope to match the flavor, but if the feel is off, the experience is off. For instance, we have excellent vegan sausages out here, flavor wise, but the vegan items will never be as moist or have wonderful flow of juices when breaking through that "skin." It's those moments that define the food. Without them, it's not as memorable.

My issues aren't moral in the sense of animal rights, but environmental. Meat is a resource hog, so I consume less to, well, consume less. Unless there's a breakthrough, I would imagine that I'll continue to focus on making the ingredients stand on their own, as opposed to matching something they are not.

Or is it the texture? I'm an omnivore who tends towards vegetarian most days, but when I find that I have a craving for meat, it's not the taste that matters, it's the texture. I have yet to find any non-meat meal that has the same sort of tearing/chewing goodness that a good meat dish has. I can satisfy umami cravings with other dishes, but there's something about that feeling that's hard to satisfy without the going for animal protein.