Thus, it must be a letter! Except in hexadecimal notation letters are numbers, so 1/0 is a color?

Well, in the real world you also can't give two apples to half a person, so this whole analogy is pretty off.

Just throw an absolute value operator around it, and you're set.

Yeah, the bundling drives me crazy. I get constant ads from Charter saying "get internet, tv, and phone for $30 each!" But I'm paying $60 for internet alone. Frankly, when their advertising sets $30 in my mind as the appropriate price for each of their services, I can't help but be ripped off paying twice that much. In other words, their advertising is making me angry with them.

I have zero interest in phone. I've asked about internet + TV, but for some reason that's $110, rather than $90, which isn't just a ripoff, it's insane.

Well, if they "throw garbage out the car window" on the way to the American mall, apparently that's like stealing. According to her analogy, at least.

You may have said a lot, but it was seen and appreciated. Thanks.

My palate may be screwed up, but my homonym detector is in prime form!

72 hours? Hah. Recently for me it was about two weeks. I mean, yeah, they autoreplied to the ticket immediately, and I got a computer-generated useless response half an hour later. But once I responded to that it was two weeks, and when that didn't work, it was two more weeks for another go-round.

Now they did apologize a little, and they said they were working on dealing with one really big backlog, so maybe it's not always that bad, but I was pretty unimpressed.

Sure. But I think a response to that is to accept what you have to and then keep going. If you take a lowball wage just to make the rent, don't sit there for years waiting for things to magically get better. Use that new position as your fallback, and keep looking, because now you're not in the position where you're forced to say yes.

People say this all the time. What nobody ever says is how to not be the first party to name a number. That would be a useful tip for someone to include here, if anyone has it.

I agree with you. That's why, as an author, I chose for my ebooks not to have any DRM. I'd rather someone who enjoyed my book lend it to a friend or family member and have them also enjoy it than not buy because of the DRM.

Frankly, I also don't really care how many individual readers download one of my books for their own enjoyment, especially if they take a moment to post a review or recommend it to someone else. That's darn near close enough to payment as far as I'm concerned. I do draw the line at anyone trying to resell my work as theirs, and there's definitely some discomfort at places like those in the article that might be profiting by giving away what isn't theirs to give.

This feature is of course a necessity for the coming zombie apocalypse. Imagine if you were trying to make a getaway, and a single zombie could stop your car by lurching in front of it. Something like that could single-handedly doom the straggling remainders of humanity.

Hah. I remember that one!

Think about it some more. There is a place near the south pole where the effective circumference of the earth at that latitude is exactly one mile. So if you started one mile north of that spot you could go south, make the circle, and head north, and be back in the same place.

Then, as the GP says, there's an infinite number, because there's also a spot where the effective circumference is half a mile, a third mile, a quarter mile, etc., where you're just doing more laps around the same ring when you head west, before heading north.

A sign at a nearby farm read "cheese making beef eggs". I think it used to have dots/dividers between some of the words, but they'd faded. My wife saw it and said, "What are beef eggs? And how do you make cheese with them?"