That Chick Fila dude died last month btw.

Its a shame, the fast food there is good stuff and the service is excellent, but knowing that underneath that face is a overbearing religious stench that permeates the organization from head to toe is quite dissapointing. I've spoken to people who worked there when younger, and they said there was definitely a lot of religious posturing within the stores. The people who were successful tended to be the ones who tooted their own horns about missionary trips and youth camp and whatnot. A lot of the whole 'I'm more holy than you' nonsense.

I honestly think the only way these things will take off is with the whole charging pad system that has kept popping up in the news lately. Most people take off their watch when they go to bed, but plugging it in along with other devices is inconvenient and obnoxious, esp if you're fumbling around late at night. A pad to put it on would make it feel less inconvenient.

Every single government form and department has a record retention policy of some kind. This is a labor certification record held by the department of labor. This doesn't tell you anything except that the person had the H1B and was OK to work at their original hire date, its a work verification not a visa data repository. The actual visa application and so-on would be with US CIS or US CBP. I'm honestly surprised they held it for even 5 years, since most forms of this nature have a retention of only 2-4 years.

I think the point is that Religious text literalism, regardless of religion, is dangerous, and ALWAYS has roots in devout religious beleif. ISIS is the result of literalism of the holy text, just as creationism is the result of literalism of the holy text. Did you know that circa 200 AD, virgins who were raped were considered sinners among the leaders of Christianity? Why? Biblical literalism.

The severity of the acts committed doesn't change the fact that they have the same roots which remain unquestionable and absolute to those who follow them. The practice of this literalism is the cause, creationism conferences and beheadings are only the symtopms of that cause.

My favorite was a night flight, flying up to Toronto. It was very overcast and cloudy out, except for this one strand between the fronts which just so happened to be direct line of sight to a large city, I think Detroit. The city glowed in a golden color from all the lighting, with the surrounding clouds on the sides and top making the light visible in a halo-like effect around the city. It looked like some of the artist depicitions of El Dorado.

It does, but it also takes the most calories to digest. In that sense, it's the least calorie dense of the three.

I'm gonna have to agree with what the GP posted since this line was quite succint:

This is the problem I have with exercise. I agree that it can be meditative, but for me it rarely is and my brain already has to be mush from something else that day. I simply can't turn my mind off. It can make exercise unbearable, not for the phsyical reasons but for the mental reasons. Its very frustrating. I've tried listening to music, but my preferrerd choice of music typically has a high BPM and if I don't watch out, I tend to sync my breathing to the music and hyperventilate.

Also, I can feel my mental ability leaving me as I exercise and my blood flow gets diverted. Its a really creepy and unnerving feeling.

The very core of No Child Left Behind was about tieing funding to passing percentages. The cascade effect of this was to eliminate gifted programs to prioritize passing non-gifted students, with disastrous results.

Mod insightful. Very succinct way of putting it, but right on the mark. I'm not good at that kind of stuff, but I have seen how much effort goes into it by some of my colleagues. In my business, there's only a handful of major contracts available in a year, and it takes YEARS of work and networking to get the right results.

FLSA mandates they pay time-and-a-half for all hours over 40 per work week, unless, being in the tech field, they were exempt by the specific type of work and making at least $27.55/hr. Obviously this isn't the case.

Its also likely that because of willful infringement, the employer is responsible for paying ALL of the employee's share of employment taxes and income taxes, plus the necessary employer match for the employment taxes. They were also likely fined by the IRS and State Unemployment for the willful infringement on the tax side, which wouldn't show up in the punitive back wages fine listed above.

In short: The workers got paid overtime, and the total penalty is probably the above mentioned $3500, plus about 40% of what wages were listed. Also, if it ever happens again, they'll likely get some jail time.

I think population density and mobility is what has people more concerned. Yes, a lot of the places in the Ebola outbreak have poor sanitation and a moderate population density. However, a much lower percantage of those populations travel for a living, and they do not have the dense population centers like we have in the US.

That and the massive uptick of apocalypse/disease movies. People get so invested in it that the idea of being prepared for a disaster becomes part of their identity. Kinda like that one dude who predicted the second coming a few years ago. They can't revoke their assertions because that would be writing off part of their self.

These ships don't work like that. If anything, it will usually carry less than the max. The rating is based off of a arbitrary weight for each container which is about half the max weight per container. If overloaded or loaded incorrectly, they can list or even split. Here's two pictures of things that can happen:

http://www.railroad-line.com/f...
http://shariaunveiled.files.wo...
http://www.marineinsight.com/w...

That paint is really thick, really heavy, and actually quite expensive. The point is to reduce drag in the water, and more importantly, to prevent buildup of barnacles, which ruin fuel efficiency. The cost isn't worth the benefit on cars.

Look up the Emma Maersk. E class and EEE clas are different designs. The E class is around 15.5k TEUs.

Whats really mind boggling about these things is the kind of odd issues you run into engineering them. They've gotten so big that you see bowing in the halls during rough seas becaue the halls are so long. It creates odd engineering issues, having to account for a possible resonance with the wave frequency causing a catastrophic failure and severely reduced lifespan due to stresses on the hull if not designed properly. 14% is a really large improvement when you realize they're sitting on the edge of materials capabilities.

Its no longer economical to build these ships in the West, as you said. Maersk, the purchaser of these ships, actually owned a shipyard (Odense) in Europe which it used to build its original E-class ships. Shortly after, that shipyard was put out to pasture. All of the major cargo shipbuilders are located in Asia, like Hyundai Heavy and Daewoo. These things take a lot of labor to manufature.