I'm noticing lately that authorities are displaying traits of fascism. We need to blow up all the police stations and the offices of educators who..

***CARRIER LOST***

Money is severely over-rated as a driver.

Only when you already have it. Which, to be fair, he likely does.

Seriously, look at California's GMO bill. Which was apparently polling around 80% and then amazingly lost...

I was genuinely shocked when that failed. Of all of the props on the ballot this past month I thought that was for certain one of the shoe-ins.

Clearly you have not ridden on a Boeing plane with this "Blue Sky Interior".

Ah, well this I couldn't deny. Still, I suppose I like the idea so long as kinks such as you describe are sorted out.

Watching the "Passenger Experience" video it was almost obnoxious how much attention they kept giving the ceiling lighting, but looking at the different settings for the dynamic LED lighting it is actually pretty cool. I like that it not only changes the brightness but also the color of the cabin for things like meals and pre-landing.

Oh, you can leave boxes blank. You can show up, vote for 3 out of X of the local/state propositions and leave the presidency blank if you want.

I tend to leave boxes blank for issues or offices that I didn't (for whatever excuse...what? It happens) properly research and thus only vote on what I feel I have an informed opinion on. I've only broken this on a few propositions in the past that crept up on me that were obvious bald faced horseshit.

Eh, I'll give Trisquel a download and check it out in Workstation. Pretty much expecting a by the numbers Ubuntu based distro. But hey, why not?

They seem to have their work cut out for them. Looking at the gallery it really just looks like a bunch of junk in someone's garage. But I guess if you put everything in back in the right place and give it a nice coat...

Much like the submitter whoever would mug me for my phone would be VERY disappointed.

"Well...at least it has Texas Hold 'Em..."

Carbon dating to me seems to be used to further scientific data, in order to achieve the results they want.

I'm not sure what you're trying to imply here. What "they want" is the most accurate answer our CURRENT tools can provide. And as the margin of error of the tools gets reduced over time, they measure again. Trying to narrow down our accuracy doesn't exactly scream "hidden agenda" to me.

...because it is impossible to get within a few hundred years, let alone decades.

Christ! I can appreciate the desire to really dial in our techniques, but expecting that after only about a half a century of refining these techniques that we know the difference between 10,643 and 10,633? We're impressive creatures but it sounds like you're holding out for Doctor Who to swing by and show you history.

Really, it's the best tool we've currently got, and you don't throw out the best tool you've currently got in favor of eyeballing it. Looking at the current margin of error and throwing carbon dating out is throwing the baby out with the bath water.

There are not enough sub atomic particles in the universe for there to be a life-possible planet statistically - the numbers will blow your mind if you look at them.

I tried searching for these numbers but couldn't find what you're referring to here. Perhaps I wasn't looking in the right corner of the internet.

At any rate, the only way I can see interpreting this claim is if you meant that with a higher density universe there would be more chances for a life-supporting planet to form. With our universe as it is, however, these odds are astronomically (pun?) low.

If this is what you're referring to then I HAVE seen this claim presented before. What's interesting is every time I've seen it presented it's actually been a, relatively, small number. Again, I wasn't able to find the numbers YOU are referring to, but in the past I've faced lines such as, "The chance of a planet being able to support life is literally TENS OF BILLIONS to one!". Well, considering that the Milky Way alone is estimated at 300-400 billion stars and that something such as the Hubble Deep Field can take a picture of a TINY arch of the night sky and find 3000 OTHER galaxies...eventually life is going to happen SOMEWHERE. Why not here?

And by the way, filling in a knowledge void with a wild, off the top of your head, "stop looking now I have the answer" answer is NOT what anyone with an open mind would do. And to clarify it is really that third "stop looking now!" aspect that I really hold issue with. It is OK to say "I don't know"! Many people do it everyday. There are many more everyday who prefer to find a place holder for it. They recognize that there are things they don't, and probably never will, understand and thus find something to plug the wholes with so they can get on with their life. Done responsibly, this is fine. People have their lives to live and it can be complicated enough without staying up wondering what was before there was anything.

However, there ARE others who are looking. They're looking, and solving puzzles, and unraveling mysteries. THESE are the open minded people. The people with no sacred cows. To walk up to these people and say, "Don't worry, you can stop looking. I have a gut feeling on this" is just irresponsible.

If we come to the end of it, the real end of it, and we come up with very real and hard proven data that there is what we call a God* then I will genuflect, pray and then take a leaf from Tim Minchin's book and carve "FANCY THAT!" on the side of my cock.

*I qualify God as such because if we turn out to just be in some sort of cosmic petri dish I don't think I'd call that being a God so much as "the asshole who dropped us in the bucket".

As mentioned this isn't first time Pinkie Pie has made bank off of Google. This appears to bring his yearly earnings from this to $120,000. Seems like rather profitable work, but assuming (hoping?) the limited number of zero day exploits I reckon this quickly becomes a tight zero-sum game for the participants.

Well, cigarettes and tobacco ARE taxed. In California the rate is 87cents per pack of cigarettes and 31.73% on other tobacco products (pouches of tobacco, snuff, cigars, etc.). Earlier this year a proposition got shot down that would have added an extra dollar to that 87cents.

Since they are already taxed at the counter your example sounds more like a "Getting Caught" tax (I know that sounds dickish over the internet, but I'm not trying to be).

I thought Godwin's Law was specific to mentioning Nazis and Hit....ah hell.

What's worrying is that this seems to be a mixture of busybodies AND robber barons. That is, it seems to have been done both for the "benevolence towards our employees' health" and to squeeze costs on employee health insurance at the cost of personal freedom.