What degree of separation is a potential terrorist? You don't need to get that far from me to find bad records, but I'm in no way a murderer, drug dealer, or terrorist. You can find them quick n the social web though.

I almost wouldn't mind the tax payers paying, and flight being a public good, like trains, but actually flight cost went up. Though also, I am pretty sure I pay the tsa as a line item on flights.

What I'm more cautious about is the definition of links to terrorism. I am more skeptical of the fact that any of these people are risks, than the sloppiness f the tsa. Even though we know the tsa can't even find a weapon.

I'd go as far to say, of you have to pay for a phd, the school assumes your output as a student isn't going to be worth having you around, and you will be a burden.

Many schools have money for promising phd students, because they benefit from reputation of good students, and in more STEM type things, actual research done.

Granted, I only know a few people that got phd's over the last decade, but the ones that went to good schools all were paid 20-40k/year to go. They had to teach a couple classes for the money too

Also, in response to some comments I read above. A phd is not about getting an education, it is about creating knowledge.

A master's is about mastery, but phd is about extending the thinking in a field (IMO).

That's what common law means.

Case law actually helps the law be applied uniformly, and helps one know what is legal.

I would think the president isn't in line at all. They are already the president.

Google seems to push relevant parts of its other stuff into the results, rather than overwhelm with it.

If I search for a place, they show me the map, a news topic, they show me news, etc etc.

They don't push me to news when it's not relevant.

I'd like to see the contracts Hulu has, I always kinda hoped the subscription covers their cost of running, and the ads cover their payments out. They certainly have a lot more content on presumably far less money than netflix.

I wish I could watch the movies without all the damned ads (and as you say, all four of them), and I don't want to watch Hulu+ ads on Hulu+.

They also pull the same BS as on demand, where if you get into a show late into the season, you miss the beginning, that's probably my biggest gripe, I expect to go through all the Criterion Collection movies I want to see, then cancel them and get HBO Now.

The Hulu movie selection really is quite good, I wouldn't mind suffering money making ads if that's how they get the library, but the self advertising to something I am paying for is just upsetting.

What I really don't get is why it's so hard for them to sell ads, everyone I know paying for Hulu+ has disposable income, and they should be able to target much better than they do.

Or do those shitty buy now deals that the cable networks do late night, there has to be enough of them to spread the advertising out a little, and those are usually simply paid with commission.

They also need to stop advertising shows they won't have (Oats and Garfunkel for example).

When I was in England, it was pretty common to call the half liters pints.

In the US though, you are correct, there's a lot of 14oz glasses designed to look like 16oz glasses, and it sucks, but the Imperial pint was still bigger than the US pint (19ish US Fl Oz I think, some bars serve births beer that way).

I think England going metric reduces the need for US to, as at least we don't have different weights and volumes for the same words anymore.

Obviously we need them measuring some.

Just by virtue of pints not being pints.

I actually didn't even think they sold computers with dvd drives in general.

I hope they move to half liter pints at the bars.

If we use imperial units in the US, I need to talk to my bartender, I've been getting ripped off.

I tend to agree that as time goes on it's actually less relevant, with conversions being easy enough now that everyone has computers in their pocket. In my day to day life, I actually find being able to divide by 3 and 4 in round numbers fairly useful (well, as mildly so as the easy steps up to ten would be, which is to say not very, but a perk).

It used to suck to remember tea spoon to table spoon to oz to cup, but familiarity fixes that, and if it does't (table spoon to oz for example) I can look it up almost instantly.

I don't need to know how many feet/yards are in a mile (about 5000 and 1500 I think), because the scales are far enough apart it won't come up.

I like that pretty much all of my weather falls between 0 and 100 (this is obviously regional, but where I live both are generally passed a couple times a year max).

Sure, a lot of this is familiarity, but theres will be 300,000,000+ people familiar with the US measurements into the distant future, and the reasons for changing are less relevant as time goes on.

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The e at the end of a word like that (one consonant between it and a vowel) makes the vowel say its name. The z / s sound essentially the same in was/waze/ways, though perhaps in some areas ways has a softer s, the a is very different in was to waze. Think daze with a w instead of d.

I wish the notification area of my phone did. And I thought some tvs were oled.

Though of your point is screen sleep is the better way, you're right.