Tomorrow:

U.S. Central Command had a moderately stronger twitter password but still looks like idiots.

Yeah here they just dump it in a swamp in New Jersey.

Why would someone that has been at the cap for over a decade need to karma whore? Also, funny mods have not increased karma for at least as long.

The joke here, for people that lack either foresight or humor (and, to be fair, you are right, most xkcd jokes are just not funny); is that while they intend to merge the standards, they will probably end up either picking one of the two or creating a third one.

Note how the article (did you read it?) worded this. "set up an as yet unnamed organization" That sounds like a 3rd standards body to me. While they might actually pull this off (look at the Micro-USB charging standard for phones for an example of a successful standards merge)... I have no faith that they will actually do it.

I would be happy if they could just make a reliable wireless charger. I have a Google Android wireless charger. The thing is flaky at best. I never use it in a situation where I must rely on the charge to work, such as when I am using the phone as an alarm clock. Also it does not work with any other charging brick other than the one shipped with it. (I have tried quite a few.) And there is no way to hook it up to 12V for a car charger.

Yes, but why did you piss on the floor in the hallway?

So, they did not use a particle accelerator?

If anything this would protect the police as well. Was a suspect hostile enough to require tazering? Could help head off lawsuits.

Around here community collage is already nearly free. As long as you are a resident of the county and have at least a part time job the grants you get cover a lot of stuff.

Of course if republicans that get mommy and daddy to pay for expensive but useless private schools realized it is a way for poor adults that want to work into a better career, they would probably have the community colleges shut down.

They have agreed to merge their two organizations by mid-2015 and set up an as yet unnamed organization to “accelerate the availability and deployment of wireless charging technology on a global scale,” according to a statement Monday.

Well you know what that means.

Also I English good.

I am hoping that if I working on my car a few more times I will end up with enough spare parts to build a second one.

There was a guy on ./ years ago with the sig "re-eat your corn".

Goatse is the reason consoles dominated gaming in the 80s and 90s?

With a used rocket you risk faulty assembly as well. They have to take the whole thing apart and inspect every bit of it. But hopefully that inspection would reduce the wear and tear risk. As long as the recovery, inspection, and reassembly is cheaper than building an entire new rocket, everybody wins.

It's just like when I work on my car, there are always a few bits left over...

The three largest telescopes are in the northern hemisphere. But there are big observatories in both the north and the south. A lot of them are in Hawaii, which is decently close to the equator, so it gets pretty good all around views.

The the next two super telescopes are already under construction, ESO's EELT in Chile, and the TMT in Hawaii.

Orion is a winter constellation in the north. You are only missing out if you are too wimpy to go outside in the winter. :)

But this is the case for anywhere, you need to observe year-round if you want to see everything.