What would you say if Amazon added Fifty Shades of Grey to your Kindle?

10^-5 faster, evidently.

We can define a photon just fine thank you. It's not because it doesn't fit in a human-scale model of comprehension that there's something inherently fuzzy or mysterious about the wave/particle duality. A photon is both a wave and a particle, exhibiting the properties of the former in certain scenarii and the latter in other scenarii.

Your analogy is also incorrect. A photon is an electromagnetic wave, it's not a vibration propagating through a medium. An ocean wave without the ocean is nothing, it's energy being transmitted through movement of the medium (same as sound). A photon can exist in a vacuum.

Your brother should've sued the living shit out of the county for frivolous accusations and gotten his record cleaned. I doubt the cop would've gotten fired because that's how things work (though he deserves no less), but at least he should've had a suspension.

Except from the looks of it that's not what was asked, and it's possible she plainly didn't know about her acquaintances being in those groups. You know, that presumption of innocence thing?

You got that wrong, this is the US providing heavy stimulus for foreign companies creating their own cloud services. They're basically giving free reign to European providers, who do not own a single server in the US, and telling them to go ahead and dominate the market. Europeans should be thanking them, if anything!

Minecraft is a PC game first and foremost. The console versions are watered down, limited, pale imitations at best. Microsoft is no longer a PC-centric games publisher (long gone are the days of Age of Empires...). The match makes frankly very little sense, which is why it worries me that it just might happen, and it'd probably cause a massive exodus of the modding community. You can bet that MS wouldn't want dirty modders reverse-engineering their new property's code, and yet destroying the modding community would spell the doom for Minecraft.

The "time to leak" for those would probably be close to zero, though, which'd defeat the point.

Don't worry, soon you'll be able to pay for your internet piecemeal, if the ISPs have their way.

Not even necessary. Just do what Valve did: make all of the community created work sellable at the maker's choice on an official platform and take a cut from every transaction. The authors are happy because they get to profit from their work, the users are happy because there's a truckload of cosmetics, including some really rare and valuable ones that they can flaunt around, and obviously Valve is happy because they're basically making money by doing nothing. It's working stupidly well for them with Dota 2.

Except obese people don't have to pay for two seats, as ruled by a Canadian court. The rest of your post is a series of non sequiturs, because there is choice in the same price range. I can buy shirts that fit me for the same price as a smaller person. The materials might be a bit cheaper, or the cut might not be as great, or it might not have a brand attached to it, but it'll fit me. I can do the same for cars, and for anything that's property. An airline ticket is a service, and there is NO choice. I can't decide to trade that second carry-on weighting 20 pounds that every person brings but that I don't. I can't decide to downgrade the seat's materials, or not to have food included, or to have to pay extra for every inch more that I want. I don't have an alternative.

Also, your money comment is absurd. Tall people tend, on average, to make more money than shorter people, but that in no way means that I have a few thousands magically floating in my pockets. I generally have less money instead, because between the clothing, food, doctor visits (for back problems, neck problems, knee problems, you name it) and whatever else, my student money isn't going very far. But don't let that get in the way of a nice juicy overgeneralization.

You can get airline tickets in Europe for under $100. That's often equal to or less than a bus or a train, and yet European flights are generally a bit better than American flights despite the latter costing more for similar distances. You're oversimplifying the matter.

If only stockholders and directors were forced to eat their own dog food (and not first class either), you'd see changes happen overnight.

Bullshit. Why should I pay more for being taller? This isn't a choice, is it? What the airlines are doing is essentially discrimination.

What infuriates me the most though is that I've heard more and more that obese people get special status and the ability to use two seats while only paying for one, but tall people get nothing. Obesity is not inherent to the person, height is.

I'm 6'5" and I am pretty much restricted to emergency exit rows. In rare cases, I'll strike an old plane that wasn't modified (Air Canada Rouge is AC's cheap brand and they use ancient planes without even TVs) and then I'll have plenty of legroom, but anything recent or "upgraded" means I need the emergency row AND I also need to be extremely wary of the person in front of me trying to recline. I generally manage to block it so solidly that they think it's broken or already at maximum recline, but that really is not enjoyable, and some people fight it for a long time (especially fucking children). I can't afford the 2-5x increase to go first class, that's basically corporate area anyway.