I think you just experienced backlash that stems from BP trying to use natural seeps to downplay the magnitude of the Deepwater Horizon event. Living on the gulf coast I experienced first hand their spin doctors at work telling us about natural seeps and microbes that eat crude oil.

From the large tar balls washing up on our beaches, the residue that stayed in our marshes, the deaths of marine animals and the increased erosion from the death of grasses and trees along the waterline, only a fool would have fell for their bullshit.

I know that you only meant to bring up a natural phenomena but bringing up the topic of natural seeps in a story about the Deepwater Horizon does make you look like a shill for BP.

Kentucky actually has their own clause for "Right of religious freedom" which endorses the concept of the separation of church and state. BTW most states do.

Making laws to exclude state support of religious functions or state endorsement(!) of religion, including display of religious symbolism in courthouses as appropriated by the staff under the same budget which does indeed allow them to purchase *anything* *else* as discretionary decoration, would be in violation of this whole "Congress shall make no law" thing. Taking action without first making a law, on the other hand, would be a Constitutional crisis of Executive overreach, by which the Executive branch acts unilaterally as an authoritarian arm (i.e. a dictatorship or oligarchy).

How about something from Kentucky's constitution?

Section 5. Right of religious freedom. No preference shall ever be given by law to any religious sect, society or denomination; nor to any particular creed, mode of worship or system of ecclesiastical polity; nor shall any person be compelled to attend any place of worship, to contribute to the erection or maintenance of any such place, or to the salary or supportofanyministerofreligion;norshallanyman be compelled to send his child to any school to which he may be conscientiously opposed; and the civil rights, privileges or capacities of no person shall be taken away, or in anywise diminished or enlarged, on account of his belief or disbelief of any religious tenet, dogma or teaching. No human authority shall, in any case whatever, control or interfere with the rights of conscience.

Kentucky is violating its own constitution as well as the US Constitution.

1. If you already have a mortgage and/or car loan the need for a credit card goes down. Besides the one with the highest credit score is the person willing to carry a balance and always make the payments. The score is not only about your ability to pay but also how likely you will carry a balance.

2. If you always pay off your credit card you can be subjected to fees to keep the card active.

3. You assume they have all of their money in a single checking account and really isn't a valid point.

4. I only had a problem with a rental company when they held a large sum of money (the agreed rental amount) and it took 7 days for the bank to remove the hold and show a credit. Since then I have a second debit card associated with my travel account to prevent any future complications.

5. Sometimes its better to cut your losses than to owe a shit ton of money to predatory lenders including credit card companies. You'll eventually lose your car and your house and owe money to your credit card company at an insane interest rate that will take over a decade to pay off.

6. My bank is proactive. After the Target and Home Depot fiasco, my bank sends me a replacement card and just monitors my purchases until the new card arrives.

It could be because after 1985 more career opportunities opened for women and they decided to go into a field they wanted to be in. I know a lot of older women who went into mathematics, accounting and computer science because in their eyes it was a small step from being a receptionist or data entry clerk where they can plant themselves at a desk and not get in anybody's way. A lot of those women would liked to have gone in business management and possibly be an executive, or in some other field altogether. This explains why the percent of women in CS went down despite the number of women enrolled as undergrads being larger (As mentioned in the summary).

Now we have revenue potential in fields that used to be too niched or hobbyist to be profitable. That is why you see women going into culinary arts, decorating, home remodeling, and other creative but profitable ventures. It's not because they are being stereotyped into those fields, it is because they WANT to make their career in that field. I don't want to give an impression that its just traditional women roles either. I know women who are stevedores, construction workers, farmers, veterinarians (the farm kind not the puppy and kitten kind), and physicians (rather than just being nurses or physician assistants).

My daughter said one of the biggest turn offs for her going into engineering and computer science was ironically SWE. They made her feel uncomfortable because it institutionalized the idea that women need special treatment to succeed in those fields. You have to do a better job of encouraging women into those fields without making them feel like the only reason they are there is because they are a women.

I think automation of order taking will be great for McDonalds and its employees. The only job being affected is the cashier and even kiosk order wouldn't put that job in jeopardy. Most of the labor at McDonalds is food preparation and cleaning. Kiosks will not be able to perform those functions.

What will happen is the cashier can now focus on preparing the order and delivering them while the line is moving faster because people will be able to place their order quicker at a kiosk.

I stopped by a McDonalds during lunch the other day and they only had two cashiers working a very long line. There were delays because the cashiers are the same people who fix the coffee, assemble the order, and hand it to the customer. If that McDonalds had a kiosk, I probably wouldn't have waited in line for 20 minutes and they would still have those two employees assembling the order and handing them to the customer.

It's illegal to sell or traffic counterfeit goods in the US: http://www.law.cornell.edu/usc...

I don't know about possession of one item, but if you have a large amount they will try to get you for trafficking.

IANAL

Modded off-topic? It's directly related to the parent.

I didn't say it was a good joke.

Reminds me of the old joke:

Cop pulls over a tesla going too slow. The nun, who was driving, explained to the cop that the tesla was malfunctioning and misinterpreted the I-30 sign as the speed limit. When he notices two horrified nuns sitting in the back seats, the driver explained that they just pulled off of I-369.

I don't like languages that don't require that you define that variables exist.

If only Python and Ruby offered something similar to Perl's "use strict".

I use Python. I have to also work with Python code written by other people.

Autopep8 is your friend and really it shouldn't have to be.