According to studies, passengers can observe when it is safe to talk and therefore conversations with them are less of a risk than conversations on a cell phone.

I don't think you're interpreting the results correctly. Of all the accidents Ham radio operators or truck-drivers get into, what percentage involve their radio(s)? That's the question.

Probably a dilute form of something that causes dehydration. Take your pick what that is, dilute it a lot, and then drink it. Voila, cure for dehydration. Homeopathy works! [Not.]

Only if it's diluted in enough water to drown you.

Thanks for the correction.

In effect, the IRS is treating Bitcoin like any other "foreign" currency, which amounts to the same thing as treating it as property. When you sell (i.e., spend) Bitcoin, you're realizing a profit or loss, depending on the value it had when you received (bought) it, compared to the value it had when you sold it.

IANAA, but as I read this, it means that if you get paid for work in Bitcoin, you would pay tax on its value at that time, and that value would be considered your cost-basis for future sales of Bitcoin, so you don't get taxed twice on the cost-basis amount.

It seems the postal analogy is better than the car analogy.

At one time (19th century?) when you mailed an international letter, you might have to affix postage for all the countries the letter went through. Not any more.

In effect, AT&T is trying to make Netflix pay for "stamps" to send "letters" into their system, even though most other "letter-senders" don't have to. (Of course, AT&T already charges its customers to receive the "letters" so whatup.)

But really I think AT&T is trying to set up its own cyber-fiefdom, and charge "import duties" to competing content-providers like Netflix.

The point is, since time started at the Big Bang, it's meaningless to talk about "before."

Yes, I know that sounds like a dodge. It's unsatisfying to me as well. The best I can do is consider that we need some other word than "before" to describe it.

Another one: "'Scuse me, while I kiss this guy."

This is known as a Mondegreen.

[I see what you did there. :-)]

Music is an artistic expression rendered in sound. It doesn't matter how the sound is generated. What matters is intent.

So I would say yes, this is music. But whether it's good music is an entirely different question.

I hear ya bro. When I get a pizza, I have them cut it in six pieces. Eight would fill me up.

Be careful what you wish for. Hook one up to Watson ... and we're all doomed.

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Be careful what you wish for. Hook one up to Watson ... and we're all doomed.

The Roman Catholic Church (and many mainstream denominations of Christianity) conceded that Darwinism was correct a long time ago. (Ditto for denominations of many other non-Christian religions.) John Paul II himself said that Darwinism was "more than a theory."

No, creation "science" is not science at all. It claims biblical authority and therefore does not recognize any scientific attempt to falsify it. Yet it has been falsified, and has no place in a discussion of "mainstream" science.