La Guardia is right next to the Triborough and at the top of the BQE. You can get to midtown via taxi in 20 minutes in heavy traffic. It takes ten minutes from the time you are off the Jetway, down the escalator, at the luggage carousel, and to the cab stand.

Granted, landing and taking off can be... exciting. One day we had a nasty tail wind, so the pilot had to gun the engines as we were making the turn onto the runway to get enough speed - something I've never seen anyone do before.

Otherwise, I'd give up useless amenities for expediency.

The images for 5.0 on Nexus went GA in mid-November of 2014 for Nexus. Reports started coming in about OTA upgrades at the end of that month. I didn't get my OTA upgrade until February.

I thought the whole point of Nexus was that it would be a first-tier Google device. If Google is going to hold back on pushing updates to appease partners, why bother having them in the first place? They are *great* tablets (except for the new 9" model which, IMHO, is a dog.)

Yes, it is Google's fault. My Nexus 7 2013 got 5.0 OTA three months after it's release. That's the *Google branded* device. And it was buggy.

5.1 came much faster - took a few weeks, and it's much better.

When iOS 8 was released, it was available on our iPad Air the next day.

Stop all federal funding for new construction projects in all of Hawaii. Cancel everything. Close all federally funded operations. Close Pearl Harbor and move the base back to the mainland. Cut all federal spending for Hawaii, including energy, roads, and education.

There, now Hawaii is protected.

Would this ever happen in normal operation? I would think that every few hundred hours of flight time the plane would be pulled out of service for maintenance where everything would be shut down for a couple of days.

What on earth are you talking about? It's a "wingnut" position that the professional organization for psychologists probably shouldn't be advising the government on torture techniques? Please explain your logic.

Same difference. There are libraries filled with books you can read for free. It's a sunk cost. What specific problem are ebooks going to solve?

Exactly. Now take the money wasted on ebooks and fund that instead.

So we're blowing money on e-readers when, last time I checked, libraries still exist? How about $250 million worth of more free pre-school for underprivileged kids, which has been proven to lead to better outcomes?

I'm sorry I forgot to put the /h after Watt.

Seriously, I've never seen mechanical energy expressed in BTUs, and I'm in the US. I know a few automotive engineers and they use W/h when calculating engine efficiency.

Why is energy here measured in BTUs? I've usually seen total energy use expressed in Watts, especially in the mechanical realm.

I've yet to have anyone explain clearly why having the internet under the same regulatory regime as the telephone system would be a, net, positive thing. Title II explicitly permits a lot of bad behavior. To me, it fixes one problem and introduces a few dozen others.

The company I work for has only ever hired one H-1B worker, because he was literally the only qualified candidate. That's one worker over a ten year period.

The H-1B program is useful, but I don't see why it needs to be expanded.

That may not be the best example for alleging hyperbole.

LOL regulatory capture :)

http://grist.org/politics/2011...

EPA: We need to see that study.

Researcher B: Sure, it uses a novel Beysian quantitative analysis based on 3 dimensional heat maps of multivariate data. I'm sure you have a team of domain-specific PhDs to go over the statistical methodology.

EPA: No, we're going to need more evidence...

Researcher B: What's that? I can't hear you over the screaming Greenpeace and Audubon Society protesters. Seriously, you need to do something about this industrial toxin poisoning our biosphere!