Yes. Ads are tacky and fucking atrocious. If something is free, - meh, I can put up with them. However, if I'm paying for a service I absolutely WILL NOT tolerate them. Put ads on there and they can keep whatever they're peddling.

And no, I don't subscribe to newspapers are magazines either. Heck most of the "articles" in that archaic medium have just become disguised ads anyways.

Actually, no, I had no idea what they meant until I got down into the comments. I assumed that craters were actually popping and was reading the summary trying to figure out if they were just observing some recurring natural phenomenon or if (far less likely) the probe itself was disrupting something on the surface.

"You know what I meant" is a terrible excuse because half the time it's simply not true.

School aged vaccinations for this type of stuff are generally available for free (there's usually a local government-run "Health Department" that will administer them).

Basically all the mandatory vaccinations are that way. The yearly flu-shot isn't completely free, though almost all insurances cover it if you elect to take it. At work they'll bring a nurse in for a day or two and you can just stop in and get one if you'd like.

I do have to concur with this. Every "non-stick" pan I've ever seen - if its used regularly - has flecks and pieces missing from the non-stick part. Those have to go somewhere. Hopefully the sink or dishwasher during cleaning, but you know some of it is making its way into your food.

I will admit I do have some of them because frankly, when I bought my house I couldn't afford to outfit myself with an entire pantry full of quality cookware, but as I "upgrade" my stuff, I pretty much buy ONLY stainless steel. Any stainless steel pots/pans of decent quality will last a lifetime. You get 3 or 4 $50-75 pieces per year for a few years and before long you're set forever.

I think part of it depends on family size too.

I cook a decent amount. I actually enjoy it, however I've found that when I buy ingredients for a meal I'm looking at either eating the same thing for several days in a row or throwing out enough of it that it would have been cheaper for me to go out for dinner (ie, buying a whole bag of hamburger buns and then using one and throwing the rest out isn't very cost effective).

For more complex recipes I still enjoy the process but it's not uncommon to go to the store with a list of stuff I need to get for one meal and the total come up to $30 or more. Sure I've got enough to make a meal that would feed a half-dozen people, but half the stuff will go bad before I'll need to use it again.

Just from the financial aspect (not the health), it's far less convincing for a single person to cook unless they truly like it or they want to do it for the health benefits.

Wild turkeys can. As a hunter I've seen them do it quite frequently. Farmed turkeys cannot.

Hasn't been the case here in South Carolina. I graduated back in 2003 and its taken 12 years to work my way up to $62k per year - I started at $27k. I do have excellent benefits though - fully employer covered healthy insurance and an actual pension plan (I retire in 17 more years).

There just aren't a lot of companies here looking for programmers or tech talent, so you kinda take what you can get. I could make more money if I was willing to relocate to say, Atlanta, but realistically my friends and family are here. More money isn't worth moving to get it.

The Options button is a key one. The thing is tiny and aggravating to push. For any game that you end up using it a lot (ie, Dragon Age Inquisition) it gets annoying really fast.

Other than that though I have no major complaints. The touchpad I don't see as useful but it also doesn't really get in the way either. Bigger battery - yeah it would be nice but its not hard to keep it charged up (I just keep a second cell phone charger near my nightstand and connect the controller when I'm finished playing).

If they just got that options button taken care of that would work great.

Also - a cheaper wired version would be nice (even if third party). My 6 year old likes to occasionally play Skylander Co-op, but she generally doesn't need a great controller (and keeping two charged up is more aggravating). The availability of a ~$15 second controller is why we're still playing that on the PS3 instead of the PS4.

Hunters like to take long shots. Realistically the vast majority of gun crimes are committed with cheap "throw-away" handguns. The use of rifles - particularly bolt action scoped rifles - is negligible in overall crime rates. Strange though - SHOT Show (http://shotshow.org/) - basically the hunting/shooting equivalent of CES - is kicking off in 2 weeks. Seems like it would be a lot more appropriate there.

Google is your friend :).

Here's an article detailing Idaho's recent allowing of carry on college campuses - with it being the seventh state to do so. The others listed are Oregon, Utah, Colorado, Kansas, Mississippi and Wisconsin.

Depends on how strict your definitions are. Several states allow carry in colleges, and several others have varying degrees of restrictions. Here in South Carolina for example a person with a legal Concealed Carry Permit can't carry a gun on their person on school grounds, but you can keep it locked in a closed compartment in a car (the idea being that if you have a legal right to carry the gun you have to have some legal way to store it temporarily).

I don't get it ether. I'm comfortable at no higher than 76 and no lower than 70. I set my thermostat to those min/max temps 2 years ago when I moved in. I haven't had to touch it since.

I think too many people are just anxious to be fiddling with something. Doesn't matter if it's necessary or useful - they just feel the need to be fiddling with it.

Almost all multi-story houses that I'm familiar with have separate thermostats per floor - either with completely separate systems handling each one or with a zoned system where valves control which floors are receiving heating/cooling (ie, downstairs might already be cool, but its hotter upstairs, so the unit is cooling but the vents downstairs are closed off so that downstairs doesn't get colder). If you're letting a thermostat downstairs isn't going to be even remotely accurate for the temperature upstairs.

What I've found is that there are a lot of people who right off hand know how to do things these days. HOWEVER, for those actually wiling to try, the internet (and mostly Youtube) has generated a ton of reference material to learn how to do all sorts of things.

Replace an element on my water heater? Youtubed it.
Replace the fan motor for the AC in my car? Youtube.
Install an LGA771 processor in a LGA775 motherboard? Youtube.
Tap an existing power outlet to wire in an overhead light and switch to my garage? Youtube.

As I said - most people don't just know how to do as much as they used to - but if you have any desire whatsoever to LEARN it's a great time to be alive.

I've never got that use case. No one I know watches Netflix on their phone or tablet. Granted, it's all anecedotal of course, but Netflix is for longer content. Youtube videos sure, but everyone I know who does Netflix/Hulu, etc, uses either their desktop computer or more commonly, a set-top box like a FireTV, Roku, etc. Watching longer content a tiny screen just doesn't seem enticing unless you're on a flight or something.