I guess Embassy Suites fits in the middle somewhere. The last time I stayed at one the parking and made to order breakfast was free. The internet access though was expensive and only available via wifi, there was no wired access at all.

I don't even think it'd require all that many steps if you designed a weapon meant to be built and assembled by amateurs. During WW2 some clever people actually designed what became known as the STEN, which could be easily produced in significant numbers by resistance fighters and used the ammunition stolen or looted from the Germans. Sure if you want to replicate something as complicated as an M-4 you are looking at a lot of work, but something like a STEN could be done much more easily.

How do you have a story that doesn't have a plot. You could have a one sentence story and it would still have a plot. Not every story has a complicated plot, but a plot is pretty much just a simpler explanation of events.

And as the Anon's have already said, Breaking Bad had a well done ending. I would add that the ending for Dexter was good also.

I've never really understood the use of having multiple desktops under the same user. To me it has always struck me as a way of making work harder because now you have things seperated even further. I like having two monitors because I want more desktop space, using virtual desktops doesn't give you more space because you still end up tabbing back and forth between them.

Because giving you a $200 per diem likely doesn't cost them $200. For instance if that money has to be spent at specific vendors that they have worked out a deal with. This is one of the things that the US and organizations like The Gates Foundation get criticized for. It's like company script in place of being given cash, you can only spend that script at the company store, where the company is happy to sell you a $10 shovel that only cost them $5 to obtain and stock. The US frequently gives foreign aid with the stipulation that it be spent on US goods and services, the gates foundation likes to drive business to partnered for profit businesses.

I picked out my current TV based on a number of other variables and eneded up with a barely smart TV with 3D. The Netflix 3D selection is pretty sad, but Youtube has more stuff, and the kids/cousins love watching stuff in 3D. And since I have young children who don't like baby sitters I occassionally treat the wife and myself to a 3D blu-ray of something we would have liked to see in the theatres, and as exepensive as movie tickets are these days it's just as cost effective to own the blu-ray DvD combo pack.

This was probably in the firehose long before it showed on the frontpage. I wouldn't expect any limited number offer like that to survive more than 60 seconds once it made it to Slashdot in any fashion. We're lucky that the kickstarter servers didn't just crash and burn under the load that a posting here can bring.

This is of interest for me exactly because it isn't locked to using Chrome. I've only ever used Chrome when I was trying to establish if a website's functionality was just broke or if it was a Firefox problem.

That is a cool feature I was previously unaware of. However I still won't pin stuff because I hate the way it takes up taskbar space, and when you have a number of applications open, they then aren't displayed in the order that you opened them on the taskbar.

Most everybody loves food, regardless of what culture they come form. And just because someone is genetically linked to one culture doesn't mean that they are predisposed to favor that cultures foods over another. I can't tell you how many times I've met people who were the first generation of their family raised in the US, and when asked about their favorite foods it was all generic American stuff. Whatever their Mother cooked for them growing up, no matter how amazing to someone else, was just the norm for them and by default boring.

It may be my imagination or something, but I've noticed that a number of foods that I like have a better taste when they are also spicy hot. Is it possible that capsicacin oil acts in a similiar way to salt in enhancing flavors? For example I order pad thai mild for my children and hot for myself. On occasion I'll eat their leftovers for lunch and it always seems that the flavor isn't nearly as strong as mine was.

I actually upset a co-worker, who must not have been very far into the TV series when she was discussing the series with some others. I quiped that "They all die." She took it as a literal spoiler or something somehow. The Author has as much as said that anytime a character becomes a critically important character to keep alive for the story to progress, that he starts figuring out how to kill them and keep the story going.

Personally I'd like Jon, Arya, Bran and Tyrion to survive at least until the climax of the series. But I doubt that even half of them will make it that far. I'd be surprised if half of them made it into the last book.

I've wanted to buy into some Tesla stock for a long while, but I didn't have the liquid funds when they had their IPO. Since then I haven't thought of it when their stock price has had a sane P/E ratio, or more accurately a valuation that was anywhere near in line with the actual value of their assets. Stock values of businesses that are popular in the media and making lots of headlines rarely have any connection to the actual worth of the company, Facebook stock being a great example.

If they were smart enough to figure that out then they would probably just make their coffee flavored milkshakes at home and put it in a thermos. Or get one of those single cup coffee machines.

Journalists and aid workers in a war zone are about as far as you can get from a bunch of federal employees working for the CIA at the pentagon. Those people that ISIS has beheaded on video weren't picked because of what they were doing, they were just easy to find, capture, and killing them gets a rise out of the civilized world.

If anyone at the pentagon thinks they work there secretly they are fools. All you'd have to do to determine who works there is set up a series of hidden cameras to capture plate numbers of vehicles entering the facility. Then feed those numbers through a batch of people who have access to the national plate registry system, cops do this for practically every traffic stop. It would be a joke for a nation state to obtain that kind of information and it is definitely inside the realm of possibility for groups like ISIS or AQ. Some of the vehicles will be essentially government limo service, which makes tracking the identity of the person being given such privilege a little more difficult but it also tells you a lot about their value as a target.

The Oklahoma thing was only tangentially related to ISIS. It was a work place violence issue and the method he chose on the spur of the moment aligned with his sympathies. This is really only an issue at the Pentagon so far as regular work place violence is.

Operational Security is a real thing but it doesn't really come into play when talking about an eating establishment labeling you with a name inside a secured facility.