1.) Pearls Before Swine ( http://www.gocomics.com/pearlsbeforeswine?ref=comics )

2.) Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal ( http://www.smbc-comics.com/ )
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3.) Romantically Apocalyptic ( http://romanticallyapocalyptic.com/ )

4.) A softer world ( http://asofterworld.com/ )

My first reaction: "Yeah, that makes sense. Gotta take some kind of brain disease to make you wanna play American Football".

I've always been lucky enough to have reasonable managers; we just agree on registering the vacation to have taken place in, say, July/August, then I go on vacation whenever it suits me and the project best.

Usually I take my summer vacation in September or October (especially October kinda sucks to spend in Finland anyway, so it's a great time to go travelling, also the tickets are generally a lot cheaper then), but with this approach I can also move a week to spring if i want to, since the salary office won't need to be involved.

Americans do not allow their soldiers and airmen to be tried in foreign countries because of politics never allowing a fair trial.

Yeah, I guess the US policy of simply not having trials at all and just detaining "enemy combatants" indefinitely without any legal hearings is much more fair.

Quark (as served with jam).

Actually, we did something better -- the N950, but Microsoft^WNokia wouldn't let us sell it.

You're correct that Sweden isn't a NATO country. But to say that Sweden does not have strong ties to the US is bullshit. Sweden has previously assisted the CIA to transfer two persons who were seeking asylum in Sweden to Egypt where they could be tortured. This in direct violation with international laws.

Sweden has also acted as a happy sock puppet for the US in the whole The Pirate Bay fiasco.

Sweden is definitely an ally of the US, and as for high integrity... I think that went out of the window with the FRA law ("Yeah, any and all information can and will be exchanged with foreign intelligence services"), The Pirate Bay, weapon exports to dictatorships, etc.

I'll do a food trip, as usual. Most years I choose my destinations based on the cuisine in the country as whole (hence I've been to Spain, South Korea, Italy, France and India the last few years), but this year I decided to pick just one restaurant (The Waterside Inn in Bray, UK).

Hopefully I'll be able to score a reservation at The Fat Duck (also in Bray, UK) or Noma (Copenhagen, Denmark) next year.

At the very least Hillary would require some surgery before she could...

Because the committees are just recommending YES/NO based on their specific area of (sometimes "so-called") expertise.

For instance, a committee specialised on power and industry might be totally for opening another coal mine. A committee specialised on environmental issues is probably gonna be against it.

Since ACTA is a trade agreement, the Trade committee is the main committee, and their recommendation thus -- normally at least -- carries the most weight.

In the end though, the representatives in the parliament are the ones deciding whether or not to follow the recommendations of the committees. The EU parliament can be quite unpredictable from time to time...