Uh you do understand this "border" checkpoint is nowhere near the actual border, right? It's just some random spot on I-10 like a 100 miles from the border. Completely ridiculous.

That said, you'd think people would have heard about this and avoid I-10 like the plague in that part of the state.

Wow I'm totally shocked, what's the world coming to? :) All you have to do is actually read the linked article to see there's no sort of thermodynamic violation of any sort implied, not that most of the people posting here will bother to RTFA.

Decisions of how to deal with the massive asteroid are best left to the individual.

http://www.theonion.com/articles/republicans-vote-to-repeal-obamabacked-bill-that-w,19025/

Note we're talking about condensed matter physics here, so this isn't the discovery of a fundamental particle that is a Majorana fermion, just a composite particle (similar to a Cooper pair) that appears to behave like a Majorana fermion. I'm sure this is an exciting discovery, but I tend to get more excited about fundamental particle discoveries.

BTW, maybe someone can enlighten me further, but since neutrinos have mass wouldn't they probably have to be Majorana fermion? You could catch up to a neutrino and make it appear as right-handed in some reference frame which would presumably make it's anti-matter right-handed counterpart? Neutrinoless double-beta decay is what would confirm that, right?

Yet another example highlighting the fact that "illegal" does not necessarily equate to "wrong".

Bah, everyone knows it was Apollo *11* that discovered aliens. They even made a documentary about it where events occurred in real time, it was called "Transformers Presents: Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon: The Quickening" or something like that, by Average American Voter.

It's real simple for me, Android is an awful platform to develop for (as are all the lowest common denominator cross platform API's). I have fun developing for iOS and really like the native API and developer tools. It's important for me to actually enjoy what I'm doing. I've definitely lost some projects because I don't offer an Android, but it's not really mattered since I have more work than I know what to do with anyway. Even after culling Android and only taking projects that really interest me, I still have to turn down projects because I'm already booked up.

Android is just not my cup of tea, if it's yours, then more power to you.

I find it hard to tell the difference between those candidates and the "actual" Republican candidates.

It's what's *on* the TV that's the problem. I realized the other day that I don't watch a single TV show on the 3 major networks, I don't even really know or care what's on their schedules anymore really, and only one on Fox, The Simpsons. The few other shows I watch like Breaking Bad, Justified, Curb, Daily Show, Colbert, are all on cable. Although the dearth of quality TV can be a good thing as well, I'm no longer tempted to veg out on the couch anymore.

I can only hope you contacted them anonymously and covered your e-mail tracks (and/or are far outside--presumably--US jurisdiction) otherwise you just opened yourself up to a huge world of trouble. I'm going to assume you're a young person and haven't yet realized you are surrounded by a world of idiots and can't fix everything, you just need to keep your head down and pick your battles, this isn't one of them.

CP violation in weak interactions has been known for some time, specifically in neutral Kaon decay. If I'm understanding this results correctly, the surprise here seems to be the magnitude of the CP violation in this case.

Can I still complain about none of the candidates being worth a damn, and it not making any real difference who I vote for? And the fact as a practical matter we live in a plutocracy?

I've been having great fun (and make quite a bit of money) writing iOS apps for people. I get all sorts of different projects, and programming for the platform is fun.

What about the saying "opposites attract"? I mean, my wife is pretty much my exact opposite, and we complement each other quite well. I can't imagine living with someone just like myself.

No, I'm making 100K at my day job. It's more convenient for health insurance and tax purposes as well. I can just adjust my withholding on the fly at my day job to account for my freelance taxes without having to do the whole quarterly estimated payments nonsense.

Another good portion of my clients are companies that need in-house apps or other programmers than need components or whatever. I really prefer those guys the best, they pay on time and know what they're doing.

I have to wade though a lot of fluff like "I want a game/app just XXX (Angry Birds usually :)" but at the moment even culling out all that I have more work than I know what to do with. I've stopped doing game projects, they usually turn into too much of a time sink and aren't worth it for what the client is willing to pay me. I usually do flat fee contracts, but work out the budget based on 75$/hr. Usually I do a gross "this will take 20/40/60/80 hours" type estimates.