Loose tweets sink fleets?

And it's important to remember that some intolerance is good: we as a civilized society do not tolerate murder or injustice for example (at least that's our goal - we often fall short but not for lack of trying). So "intolerance" should not be used an automatically dirty word; if an intolerant position is bad, it's not enough to label it so - you have to demonstrate why.

We as a free society NEED to tolerate differences of opinion, especially on important matters. It's sort of a prerequisite.

I don't know about Paypal, but many TOS include a clause that the TOS may change at any time, and you agree to be bound by future changes (the "Vader clause"). The purpose of this is presumably to avoid having to keep track of which users have agreed to updated terms: even if simply visiting a site constitutes agreement (which most TOS say does) they'd still have to keep track of who's visited the site when. The danger of such an open-ended contract should be obvious (Lando knows), and as far as I know is untested in court.

Legally, it's probably valid, but I can't imagine people signing a mortgage with language in it like "you agree that we can change the terms of this contract at any time in any way without notice to you and you are still bound by them." Somehow people don't give TOS the same weight, they just click whatever button is necessary to allow them to upload bathroom selfies for the whole world to see.

That touches on a thought I've often had: if "ignorance of the law is no excuse", then I'd really like to see a physical copy of all the laws by which I'm required to abide - federal, state, and local. I'm sorta surprised no one's played this as a tactic - I would have expected some grandstanding politician to roll out wheelbarrows of paperwork to make a point.

Ah, thanks for clarifying. That makes more sense. I read TFA twice and did not get that meaning out of it.

Also keep in mind that tsunami waves caused by earthquakes are mostly internal, and only become large surface waves when the water becomes shallow, and all that displacement has nowhere to go but up.

It's clear from the article they're using the latter meaning of "wave". The definition above is a visual description of what are generally caused by wind. You want definition 11 in your link.

One unexpected finding ... was the degree of turbulence produced as the waves originate, as tides and currents pass over ridges on the seafloor.

Watch the animation.

NASA was just messing around, you see, they had an experimental EM drive... and next think you know they accidentally the whole spacetime.

I watched the show! My favorite episode was the one where they encountered a space-time anomaly while someone was on the holodeck.

This brings us one step closer to DUI Telepresence Crown Victoria Figure-8 racing!

I'm assuming they resorted to this method after unsuccessfully adding {{OVERRIDE_GRADE_MODE}{SET GRADE='A'}} and variants into all their essays.

And I thought hail was bad!

How do you loose a pair of cities on an industry?

Unless you're talking about DRM, in which case the users are already f***ed.

So? It's not an oval racer. It's built to a performance envelope defined by a specific event. The factors that are important here are acceleration, downforce, and mechanical grip; not top speed. Looking at the sketch in TFA, it's clear by the presence of the front wing that they're targeting massive downforce, which eats into top speed by creating drag.

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And here's the onboad video, which is pretty amazing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y20CLumT2Sg