Maybe I'm being dumb, but how did they know it wasn't already going to be exhausted before it reached the capital?

The mayor consults an expert team of babushkas stationed on the front steps of tenement buildings across Moscow. If the babushkas begin complaining about their arthritic knees more than usual it means rain is imminent.

Hehe, that master student you will see at the second linked page is me ten years ago

Even so, blue jean jackets have been out of style since the 80s, dude.

play with your feet., overcome your disability yourself

I believe you're thinking of Drum Hero.

Flash should only be considered if the government can mandate that Adobe provide and competently maintain a Flash player of comparable quality for all major desktop, mobile, and handheld OSes and platforms. The alpha-quality Flash player for 64-bit Linux sucks donkey balls while Windows gets star treatment. Open source would be another plus, but right now I'd settle for a 64-bit Linux binary that didn't crash my browsers constantly.

Full audio here. ;-)

I just the other day got, a Congress was sent by my staff at 10 o'clock in the morning on Friday and I just got it yesterday. Why? Because it got tangled up with all these things going on the Congress commercially. [...] They want to deliver vast amounts of campaign contributions over the Congress. And again, the Congress is not something you just deposit something in. It's not a big bank. It's a series of tubes. And if you don't understand those tubes can be filled and if they are filled, when you put your money in, it gets in line and it's going to be delayed by anyone that puts into that tube enormous amounts of cash, enormous amounts of cash. -- Former Senator Ted Stevens, (R) Alaska

Cool story bro.

Is there no place for the man with the 105 IQ?

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I think you've already found it.

They both have pussies.

I didn't have time to wait around for Google to fix its system, so I had no choice but to play in the field that they created.

Then what you're doing is tantamount to playing football on a baseball field. The purpose of Google's main search engine is not to rank businesses or serve as yellow pages (although you can pay for placement within results that appear at the top of the page and are clearly marked as being paid for). Yahoo's yellow pages, BBBonline and Angie's List are more appropriate indexes/venues for your business's publicity.

I realize that most people probably stop by Google first when looking for a plumber, computer repair, etc., but as you point out that strategy is sub-optimal for them and for you, as it's more akin to asking their friends and neighbors about something than it is to looking in the yellow pages. Between the customers ignorant of all the online resources available to them, and SEOs gaming search results forcing Google to approximate something it's not designed for, can you really ever expect a satisfactory outcome for any party involved?

Oh great, my site drops from position #4 to position #44, with no explanation as to why.

Conversely, if a search result goes from #44 to #4 simply because someone paid some SEO firm to make that happen, the search results should state so explicitly. When you pay for SEO you're feeding a disease that renders the search algorithms increasingly ineffective. Gaming a public resource is selfish, and with this "reset" by Google you're witnessing how your actions can come back to hurt you in the long run.

And it makes no sense from an objective relevance standpoint.

Please explain how paid gaming of the system is objective.

So it's basically true that pirates are simply avoiding compensating the creators of a work?

For some pirates that is true; for others, not. But let's not define who "pirates" are too narrowly. Are the RIAA member companies compensating the creators of a work? We might find out soon.

Sorry, posting this from ISS.

has always been the cup holder. That shit always snaps under the strain of my 48-oz. coffee.

It can be reasonably argued either way as to whether funding for volcano monitoring belonged in that particular bill (I urge you to consider how the economy might be affected by a volcano-scale natural disaster -- the possible nullification of any progress stemming from the bill's other economic recovery provisions).

More poignant however was the obvious subtext of Jindal's message, which was mockery of science. You probably wouldn't agree, but it'd certainly be worth my taxpayer dollars to fund a permanent residence for Gov. Jindal at the summit of Mt. St. Helens.