So, 24 FPS is the vacuum tube amplifier of the film world - the distortion we're familiar with and like?

The (very Muslim) Egypt is also blockading Gaza.

Misrepresenting the facts. Egypt closed the border with Gaza among other reasons because Hamas is seen as part of the Muslim Brotherhood, who Sisi kicked out. It's because the Egyptian leaders are not Muslim that they're blockading, not despite of them being.

Both strongmen considered their victims to be their citizens and subjects. In the state of rebellion, but citizens nonetheless. Bullshit propaganda much?

Whereas Israel does not consider the Palestinians to be citizens? What are they then, an invading army?

How are they citizens?

They're native to the region, which satisfies the definition you linked.
Even the US will admit that anyone born on its soil is a citizen.

So? The "boundaries" have Israel on one of the sides - why aren't you claiming them to be citizens of Jordan and Egypt? At least, those two neighbors actually once occupied the entire West Bank and Gaza respectively - for twenty years...

Simple: Jordan and Egypt are not claiming that Gaza and the West Bank are part of their country, whereas Israel is.

Israeli government has changed many times since the country's establishment - swinging from Left to Right and anything in between. Never once have PLO or Hamas changed their official goal of destroying Israel.

Besides the point, verging on a straw-man. Whatever the Palestinians are, that doesn't make the Israelis any less far-right.

It pulls Palladium to shame since you can't install any apps except those provided by the Google overlords.

You don't know what you're talking about. I can install apps from anywhere on mine, and I haven't even put it in developer mode. That includes unpackaged apps I've developed on the device itself.

But even in countries with larger third parties, they're seldom major parts of government.

In Belgium we have the Christian Democrats, the Liberals, the Socialists, the Nationalists (two types, even), the Greens, and those are just the major parties of the north. I count 13 parties with seats in the federal government after the most recent election, and a coalition usually includes at least two northern parties and two southern parties, but often more.

The make-up of the government can change significantly, as well. For example, the big winner in the north of the country, the nationalist NVA party, didn't exist 15 years ago and now they've got the most seats of all parties (22%). Government negotiations this year are going to be a real pain because the Nationalists and the Northern Christian Democrats are at loggerheads with the Socialists and the Southern Christian Democrats, with the Liberals of both north and south are caught in between.

So far it doesn't seem to have led to a lot of radical change in outcomes other than making the election results take a couple of extra days due to the calculations involved when there's a dozen candidates.

If you want a laugh, look up the Belgian political crisis of 2010-11. It took the government 541 days of negotiations to form a coalition. I believe that's a modern world record.

We just started using ranked choice voting for elections in Minneapolis, which in theory eliminates the "lost vote" problem by allowing you to make third parties your first choice but still vote "defensively" by making some other candidate a secondary choice.

I support such voting systems, in the hope they will bring candidates to the center.

I agree with most of what you advise, and am encouraged by the fact that at least some high schools are looking to improve financial literacy. However...

Never own a credit card. They are all scams and are far more likely to ruin your credit than help it.

Nonsense. Get a credit card, but also set up an automatic payment to pay it off in full each month. You then get the fraud protection and convenience of a credit card without having to pay any interest.

And for me, having been out of the country for quite a while, it's the only practical way to build up a credit history at the moment.

Second, where can I search for other people's results? I want to switch to RCN in Boston, how does this webpage help me know how they're doing?

Manually set your area, and all ISPs in that area should pop up below the graph.

To quote the article...

Many astrophysicists believe that supernovas can also undergo a second collapse, generating an additional burst of neutrinos. Thatâ(TM)s why the detectors on Earth spotted two bursts.

Or is this a minority theory? I'm no astrophysicist, so couldn't tell you myself.

HR departments requiring a BA for the most menial of office tasks makes it the point.

This is the problem, but isn't the fault of universities. Why you expect them to change to suit the HR department baffles me.

Requiring a fucking MA to work in a library as a salaried employee and not a volunteer (the US is the only country I know of that does this) makes it the point.

Again, not the university's problem.

But sure, it's /all/ the student's fault for expecting something in return for all that money. /sneer

I have nothing but contempt for you.

Go fuck yourself.

Monopoly is not a problem per se, and there's plenty of entities that have a monopoly. The issue is when they use the power of monopoly in one area to gain an unfair advantage in another area where they have no monopoly.

Would you believe that I honestly wasn't trying to rant or troll? I don't understand what the streaming service has to do with Youtube, and was under the impression that they were two separate business segments. Please correct me if this impression is mistaken.

How is this not an abuse of monopoly regulations? They're using their influence in one sector - online videos - to strong-arm customers in another sector. That's what Microsoft got in trouble for with Windows and IE, right?

Try to find an e-mail address that a live human will read at Google.

That's reserved for paying customers, as it is with many other major businesses. I've twice had technical issues with a Chromebook, and both times have gotten a reasonably prompt email response that helped me fix the problem.

If it's safe for a bike to glide through stopsigns or treat all stoplights as signs, then it's safe for motor vehicles to do the same. In fact, it's recognized that this is sometimes the case - that's why there are blinking red lights. There's no reason to give bikes any special treatment.

You clearly did not RTFA, and the summary's lousy.

Bikes go slower, can stop faster, and have a better view of the road than cars do. A biker's acceleration is significantly lower than that of a car, so one way to get them through the intersection as fast as a car is is to let them retain their speed and roll through a stop. And, to quote the article:

In many cities, the low-traffic routes that are safer for bikes are the kinds of roads with many stop signs. Currently, some cyclists avoid these routes and take faster, higher-traffic streets. If the Idaho stop were legalized, it'd get cyclists off these faster streets and funnel the bikes on to safer, slower roads.

None of these reasons apply to cars.

since by scientific definition life begins at conception, and by genetic definition the fetus is a human being.

By scientific definition life began somewhere 3.5 billion years ago, just once, and we are all just a continuation of that one single starting point. Life replicates by splitting a living part of itself off into a separate entity, not by jump-starting new life in a separate piece of inert matter.

The question is when the mother and child become separate beings, rather than just the one being a growth in the other. That line tends to get drawn at the point of viability, when you could remove the child from the mother's body and still have it survive. That's not at conception, however.