Because they did not sit there and say that the risk had not changed and there was no way to know if there would be an earthquake or not. If they had kept saying that or just never had their press conference to begin with, they would have been fine. In previous /. stories on there, there were the transcripts of the public meeting. They started off by saying that there was no way to tell if there was any way to tell if there would be an earthquake or not, but under the pressure of public questioning to answer yes or no to something they don't know, they finally caved and gave an answer that seemed to the listeners to be a "no". In the end they said something along the lines of "Don't worry about it. Go home and have a glass of wine."

And that start is the ISS. They are doing the beginnings of the work and research that will be needed to get to Mars. Later will probably come a larger ISS type station because there is a lot of work that needs to be done before we venture into space. Later, we'll need a deep space version to test living outside of the protective magnetic shield of the Earth. Then probably some trips to the moon and even a moon base. Then, we can realistically look at some sort of fly by and landing on Mars.

So long as it's not the same uniform as their parents, they're probably fine with that.

Nope. Hipster hate has been around since at least the 40's when it was associated with jazz. Hipster is a pretty much generic term for whatever twenty somethings are doing currently. It was used in the 40's and 50's became hippies in the 60's and 70's. The 80's seemed filled with a variety of alternative subcultures so they all got their own names, but it has returned for at least twenty years where I have heard the hipster hate in my trendy section of Seattle. The twenty somethings in the neighborhood are always called hipsters and have had variety of looks in the last two decades from white belted rockers to the current lumbersexuals. The up and coming youth always want to do their own thing which somehow seems to involved dressing in their grandparent's clothes, listening to new music, and generally trying not to be their parents. The parents always hate this.

OK, but could a false vacuum universe spawn a lower energy false vacuum universe filled with energy, that could spawn a true false vacuum universe?

In that case wouldn't we see a varying degree of dark/strange/missing versus normal matter over time and thus have more missing matter in older galaxies that were farther away and be able to test for that?

They probably don't want to see all those minor drug arrests end up in Federal courts. I'm sure that if the Fed came down on the states, then local cops would be more than happy to call the FBI and request assistance and to turn over the perpetrators to them (or whatever the actual process would be). The end result would be that those arresting officers time, trials, and prosecutor hours would all end up on the Fed's budget and not the state's, not to mention prison costs. The Fed doesn't want that any more than the state.

Nobody claimed that Hearst and the rest actually knew what they were talking about, merely that they feared something and sought to criminalize it via dubious methods by lying to the public and invoking 'the children'.

True, back then most modern Republicans were still Democrats. The change over starting with the Dixiecrats and Nixon is still progressing as the South has only become solid Republican in the last few years.

Certainly not my experience at the two state schools I went to. Every single teacher had office hours and some practically begged students to come in for what would essentially be private tutoring. The matter of the fact was that if people who needed that tutoring were willing to put as much time into it as going to class in the first place, they probably would have done their homework and not be in the spot they were in. Most sat in there offices for those hours waiting for students to come to them for help and while they would get the occasional person flunking who did really want to pass, most of the people that ever went were the students that were already doing great and wanted to ask questions about the topic. On top of that there were study groups, grad students, and other resources to help undergrads that rarely got used. Universities want you to graduate because that's longer you'll be in school and the better chance they can hit you up for money as an alumni.

Well, there is lots of evidence for something out there. This something, after coming up with other options and rejecting them through testing, must not interact with electromagnetic forces to a degree we can detect and have mass. Thus the "dark" and "matter". I am pa physicist and what you aren't seeing when you read these articles is a lot of math. It's complicated because physics at this level is really complicated and to come up with these hypothesis, they have to come up with something that fits what we already know about matter and the universe. That's going to involve a lot of graduate level mathematics and physics that describe a world that even physicists have a hard time wrapping their heads around. That's how particles get predicted, the math works out that way, and physics without the math is just philosophy. Sometimes you end up with something like string theory where the math works out (or seems to) but it can't be easily tested. At least these options can be tested.

I work in health care and have seen everything from care to billing, and you are correct about it being because of the insurance industry, but not because of staff overhead (at least on the hospital side). Historically, insurance companies pay a certain percentage on the dollar of hospital costs. Usually around 33 cents but some of the better insurances pay up to 66 cents on the dollar based on the hospital's master charge record, the official cost of their procedures. Therefore, to break even, hospitals have to up their official prices to at least two or three times of what it actually costs just to break even. Of that $325 dollars the OP was charges, the hospital will most likely only see around a $108 of from the insurance company. As for self payers that get charged the $325, hospitals through experience have already written than off as non-payment. Sure some people pay the full amount, others work out a deal after months or years of nonpayment, but that is usually just considered bonus as they never expected to see that money anyway.

Of course, what is happening now, is that clinics are opening up and then contacting the insurance companies and making contracts for a set price per procedure. Thus they advertise their prices which are half to one third of the other hospitals and don't have to have the additional personel or equipment to do things like run tests, diagnose, or deal with inpatients. The regular hospitals are thus having their patients taken away after all the hard work is done. They'd like to redo their master charge record to reflect the actual costs too, but that includes new contracts with all the insurers and getting them to agree to do so, pretty much all at the same time.

Then expect to pay for a professional for his time and equipment for what is probably a three days worth of contract work. Besides just showing up at the beginning and leaving at the end after taking all those photos, there is usually quite a lot of post production work that goes into those wedding photos to make them look as good as the ones that were on their website or in their portfolio that caused you to want to hire them. They really want that because if nothing else, if they let you have a bunch of unfinished photos or ruin it by turning it into a B&W and tell everybody they took them, their business is what is being harmed, not your wedding. No matter what, a professional photographer has to make his money to stay in business, and where they used to charge for prints, now it's becoming a service industry and people will have to pay for time and like about any time a person wants to hire a professional to do something, it's going to cost more money than they were expecting.

The other option is to have your friend or cousin take the photos or otherwise gather up all the photos everybody there takes. It might turn out fine, or it might not, same as if you had a friend come over and build your computer or code your program for free.

I don't know about that. The network guys at the company I have worked at for the last twenty years have been preaching that entire time about the advantages of an X-term or some other type of thin client. Any day now, all our computers are going to be replaced by them according to them.

Great! Somebody should build it in Minecraft.