As an owner of two cats, I love the name. Besides the whole game is about preventing the explosion of a kitten on your watch.

I don't care if big names use Kick Starter or not. An existing celebrity doesn't hurt anything by using KS, all it really does is bring more traffic to KS. It makes KS a little richer no doubt as they get to scrape their cream off the top. But it brings lots of people to KS some percentage of which will end up browsing and looking through other KS projects. The only thing I can think of that it hurts is some obscure projects chances at earning the title of biggest KS every, and honestly who cares about that?

Visiting a friend in a hospital though is not like sitting around in a doctor's waiting room. Most of a modern hospital's patients aren't infected with some infectious disease. Patients are typically kept in rooms by themselves or with one other patient. There is also a lot of effort that goes into trying to keep it a relatively sterile environment. The only area of a hospital that you could accurately equate to a waiting room in a doctors office would be the emergency room, which if you are going there to see someone who is already admitted, you won't usually even enter.

It is in large part because the actors add a lot more to the performance than just the recitation of lines. That aside if you can't see the humor in a holier than though know it all being called out on his own personal cowardice then it might follow that you are possesed of the same flaws as Sheldon's character.

The millennium challenge was a little bunk. The "cheating" was basically relying on abusing the game mechanics. For instance they wanted to use messengers on motorbikes for communication since blue team had no effective counters for that prepared, but assume that communication would be instantaneous instead of slowed to the speed of a motor bike. The suicide speed boat tactic was very similiar in that it relied on using hundreds or thousands of boats but counted them as basically functioning like an equivilant number of cruise missles. Just the logistics of fielding such a force would be monumental let alone managing effective communications in the midst of battle without radios.

I had to force myself to finish War and Peace, I'm somewhat of a completionist once I start something. The underlying story was actually interesting but the method of telling the story was incredibly tedious. People complain about the wheel of time series but honestly it's got nothing on war and peace in this regard. I think this partly stems from my age and expectations based on what I've already read and am accustomed to reading. Although I've noticed some of the same issues in other works like the scarlet letter, which when I read them I can't help but think of the fact that these authors must've been paid by the word.

When we get down to the really cheap economy level I'm thinking we might see options for purchasing lower capacity battery packs and such as replacements. That could result in the batteries being a quarter of the price for a full size pack if you are willing to go with a quarter of the capacity, which would still far exceed the average daily mileage for most people. And that is without any increase in battery performance or decrease in cost. If batteries improve significantly we could get to the point that the cost of replacing the battery pack in a 20 year old electric with something adequate for your daily needs would displace the vehicles currently populating the $500 junker market, where you get a rust bucket that you hope to drive for a year before replacing.

In my experience there is no feedback at all unless you are actually selected for the position or picked for an interview. The agency I have experience doesn't bother with interviews until the GS-13 level. If your resume doesn't explicitly demonstrate experience or training that backs up what you put down on the survey it'll likely be tossed. If you aren't a veteran your chances are also diminished, although this isn't as much of a built in disadvantage as it used to be, however there are a lot more veterans looking for work.

It may or may not need that new battery after 8 years. I seem to remember seeing somewhere that the electrics and hybrids out there that have been on the road for a decade now still mostly haven't had to get a new battery. It is also very likely that by the time you do need a new battery it won't cost as much as it does today. The new battery pack will probably be cheaper, store a lot more energy, and possibly be more efficient making for an actual upgrade. Given that electric cars have relatively few moving and wearing parts a Tesla Model M might be perfectly road worthy for 40+ years, only haveing to replace the battery pack a couple times.

Regardless, arguing economics for luxury cars is a bit silly. Anyone who's buying a Model S today and claiming that they are doing it because gas is too expensive is delusional. If they can afford $60k plus for a car the price of gas is trivial. The Model M, when it's finally ready will have to answer to questions of actual economy. But then again it probably won't be a big deal because it still won't be in the real economy section of the market.

Even if it was a honey pot so long as the torrent files were good it wouldn't matter. VPN's are pretty cheap and easy to use. Simply use a VPN service so that your actual IP address never enters into the picture. For bonus points you can use a VPN server located in another country that doesn't recognize US copyright law.

The odds for finding a big bag of cash are probably better than winning one of these lotteries. However the payout for finding a big bag of cash is significantly smaller than winning those lotteries. A million dollars weighs around 20 pounds, so even a hundred pound bag would only have about five million dollars in it. The other difficulty of finding a big bag of cash is that it definitely belongs to someone else who is missing it. That previous owner is likely to be operating outside of the law on a routine basis and so keeping that money which you can't legally claim becomes more of a liability than windfall.

Not really new by any stretch. It is part of our Puritan heritage at this point. The social media sites all have those policies so that they can censor what they find objectionable, they aren't the government so while we can ridicule them for it they aren't legally beholden to anyone to empower this kind of speech. That said this article is about a news agency, errr I mean entertainment company, hosting the video online. I haven't actually seen any links hosted by any of the social media web sites, and I wouldn't expect them to last long if they showed up there.

If his grades weren't stellar then an entire week of suspension could easily tank his grade for a semester if the timing was bad. Some teachers assign grade proportions differently but I remember a few in particular that pegged 30% of a semesters grade on an exam. If you are under suspension then you aren't usually allowed to make up any grading activities that fall in that time.

Suspension, in my opinion, has to be the most idiotic form of punishment in school. It only actually punishes kids that care.

This strikes me as a great opportunity to use delivery via cheap drone. Although I suppose that would mean you'd need a delivery person of your own on the customers end which kills the advantage of an online seller. And it wouldn't have saved this guy anyways since he was busted picking up his product.

I hadn't heard about this previously. If the owners of those businesses can't use banks what are they doing with all that money? Or is it just that they can't use banks for the transactions but are still able to make deposits at the end of the day?