My calculations would say it probably went at a speed of around 0km/second, placing it now around 0km from Earth after 5 years.

You can automatically judge reviewers of large numbers of book by determining how well their reviews fall into a normal distribution.

That is - from a individual's subjective opinion, after reading 1000 books - should form a roughly normal distribution (the worst, the best etc).

So you weight a person's contribution to the overall score by their fit to the normal distribution on their own reviews and the number of reviews they have made.

A rough approximation for the purposes of a 5 star score is 1: 5%, 2: 15%, 3:60%, 4: 15%, 5: 5%. Of course these numbers could be adjusted to allow for equal numbers in each group if they wanted.

Of course it matters which was which, the Shadows had way cooler stuff.

stomping around the universe.

Best not to be underfoot during this battle.

So the question remains, which one is Samsung, and which Apple ?

on the 22nd of November ?

Was wondering why all the TV shows vanished this week.

Is there some sort of memorial for some people or something ?

Some Flowers for Algernon anyone ?

Our clocks don't change. However our interstate offices get to work an hour earlier, leave work an hour earlier, have lunch out of sync with us.

All up - most national businesses in Queensland lose around 4 hours of the 8 hour business day per day in day light savings.

In addition, much of our news is no longer live... nor sports, and our TV suddenly changes schedule all over the place.

Or trying to get tech support, and they close an hour earlier etc.

A right mess for us without day light savings, all because people can't leave their ClOCKS alone.

She was right - for all values of right.

In the hotter climates, people close the curtains in the afternoon to prevent the hot sun coming into the house, then open them after sundown for the evening and early morning.
So any change which alters the relative proportion of sun against closed curtains vs open curtains will indeed add 1hr of sun exposure per day to the curtains.
By 'the same time every day', most country folk will mean their habits remain constant.

Similarly, cows produced less milk in day light savings - not because cows know about day light savings, but because they didn't. The trucks turned up earlier, the cows milked at the same time... less milk.

But the real critical issue in Queensland as far as I'm concerned, is the 15+ UV rating at 10-2pm, which then extends to school exit times during day light savings.

DLS is designed for areas close to the polar circles, not areas close to the tropics.

Rant over ...

I live somewhere where we don't have Day Light Savings (for sensible reasons), but we end up having to make all the changes twice a year to cater for it.

It is sort of like a smoker smoking, and only the passive smokers getting cancer but never the smoker.

.. in a way.

Now that the US has designated this status, it gives many more countries the freedom to protect him. It gives him official 'political' refugee status in way more places.

Of course - it also paints a big target on his head, but everything has a down side.

No - an iPad is a tool, a Laptop is a tool - they are just tools for different jobs.

Using an iPad as a laptop is like using a fork to cut steak - you can do it, but it takes a bit of work.

We all know that alien computers talk seamlessly to Apple devices.

So the aliens have been collecting them for years.

What took the aliens so long to publish them - was talking to a Dell Windows laptop.

What he means is that once the Libs get in at the next election, they will stop it being built.

FTTH will be replaced with FTTN.

So - why does a cop car need a million bucks worth of Heroin in their boot ?

One option is - they nabbed a criminal.

... the possibility that the FBI was doing its job.

The only possibilities here are that the FBI or Apple are in the wrong, there is NO possibility that criminals did something wrong.

Remember that simple rule... the FBI and Apple sometimes make mistakes, therefore they are ALWAYS responsible for things. /groan