My municipality tried this whole incinerating thing.

The short version: the technology wasn't up to the task, the amount of energy they got out of it was woefully inadequate, the company went out of business.

Incineration technology just doesn't sound like where it needs to be, and it doesn't produce energy in a way that is worth actually doing.

It may be a good idea in theory, but in practice, I don't think it works very well.

She is a pop-country singer that comes up on a regular basis with catchy tunes with clean lyrics, and she did not build a career on dressing like a prostitute or releasing sex tapes. Already that makes her quite unique in that industry.

Not everyone likes pop music of course, but in that genre she is definitely top shelf, and her fight against bad music streaming deals is in line with pretty much everything she does. This is not U2 phony or Metallica greedy, this is someone using leveraging her position to help fellow musicians.

Try making stuff that goes on aircraft...

let's here about all these scenarios; as someone with extensive unsupported experience in eastern Alaska and Yukon. I know of only one situation. It does not favor a long gun. Out of 50+ encounters, I've never needed a gun. Of the several stories of acquaintances that have used their gun on a bear, I know of one that sounded legitimate. The rest wanted to take down a bear and its better with a cool threatening story. I'm interested in other threats in addition to one encountered by at most a few thousand people per year that should dictate national gun gun policy. I'm very pro-gun (I own 31), but this is patently ridiculous.

Why are you trying to waste other people's money? It costs money to run an office or man a phone to provide government services, and I'm sure you appreciate that at least some minimal services are necessary. So the more people who have internet access and can fill in forms online, receive emails instead of letters and get advice via wikis, FAQs, forums and live-chats the less of our money the government has to spend on call centres and offices.

You didn't think this through, did you?

Cut the military back to nuclear deterrent, coast guard, and small standing army for border protection, and allow the return of the merchant marine to keep trade routes safe, and you have a cut closer to 90%. We'd be better liked abroad as well, allowing us to reap the benefits of increased trade.

Yep. I moved from Australia to the US a couple of years ago. I am a very frequent flier (140+ segments per year).

In Australia it was never a problem getting overhead space because:

(a) The carry on bag size limits were enforced

(b) Most airlines (including the major two - Qantas and Virgin) allow one checked bag as part of the ticket price (I won't say 'free', but it's not charged as an extra fee)

(c) Less of those godforsaken small regional jets (EMB 120s, 175s and CRJ 200s and 700s in particular) that have tiny overhead bins. The proportion of flights in the US (and Canada) that these aircraft amazes me. You get them even between major (4M+ population) cities. You'd never get anything smaller than a 737 or A320 in Australia between major city pairs.

Having said that, addressing (a) and/or (b) alone would probably be enough to solve the issue in North America.

You realize that your entire justification for using your existing units is because you are used to them right? Believe me when I tell you that metric units seem completely reasonable for the kinds of everyday things that people encounter when you are used to using them. We even have weather maps, beers, and shoes!

At least try to internalize the fact that you aren't being remotely objective.

I've had the very same problem for years now. I get exclusively results that other people got, who searched something vaguely similar.

First, you have to enclose every fucking word between quotes or you get only Taylor Swift and Kardashian search results.

Second, even _if_ you do that, it ignores all the punctuations I enter. I _really_ want only the results where there are exactly the period or comma on exactly the place where I put it, how hard can that be?

If I search for carbuncles, I don't need to see cars of somebody's uncle.

And don't even mention if you use a VPN, then you'll get Estonian or Russian results even when you enter only English words.

Google has become useless other than for clueless teens.

Why can't they just have a checkbox that you can select:

Check this box if you can spell and really mean what you type.

I wonder if the Russian media does the same sort of thing, i.e. portrays Limbaugh as some kind of spokesman for Obama?

About a decade ago a British newspaper called The Sun ran a story about how Japanese women were being tricked into buying sheep that had been sheared to look like poodles. There were confused as to why they didn't bark or eat dog food. Of course it was nonsense, eventually traced back to a joke someone told. Anyway, other retarded newspapers around the world picked it up, and then the Japanese media noticed. Ever since there have been monthly stories about how stupid and gullible British people are, often featuring obviously false stories published in the Sun or Daily Mail. Of course some of it is actually true, like the pictures of drunk people having sex in the street or looting in London, but still...

So the standard angle is now that British people are kind of stupid. Similar to how there is a stereotype about Russian people, and the media likes to find idiots that exemplify it and publicise them.

EVERYBODY who's worked at Disney invariably refers to it as Mauschwitz (or Mouseswitz). The only other internal company name I've come across that's more universal is ex G.E. employees referring to it as "Generous Electric".

Trust, it takes a long time to build and just a few seconds to destroy

I will have to try your experiment, but I am curious if you would like Olive Oil as much as the fat. Vegetable Oil tastes awful, so it is no surprise there.

Don't call the police, call the bank and let the bank call the police.