Haha, that's cute - I'd forgotten about that joke. But I was focusing more on the time frame than the depth. The statistician deserved it if it took ten years for the water to get deep enough for him to drown.

There is no such thing as a "negative" impact on the biosphere. There are only changes, and these changes are neither positive nor negative, except from a distinctly human perspective. The biosphere doesn't give a rat's ass what happens to it. Life will adapt and evolve under any conditions, just as it did for 4+ billion years before us, and will long after we're gone.

Are you implying that the Bangladeshi aren't smart enough to get out of the way of a 0.4mm annual rise in ocean levels? Or is it that they are so short they will drown in 18-59cm of water that will rise in the next 90 years? Your post does not make that clear.

Cf: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Current_sea_level_rise

I think you need to re-evaluate your understanding of sea level rise and any "catastrophes" it may cause. There are loads of antropocentric problems that will arise in the next 100 years as a result of the rise, but people drowning is most decidedly NOT one of them.

Try learning Russian, French, or any of the other languages where the addition of negatives strengthen the negative instead of cancelling it out. It's only your Germanic language roots that are making your head hurt.

You need to read more of the writings of Thomas Jefferson. Much of what he wrote about government vs. the governed is EXACTLY what the right to bear arms centered around. It's about the right of the people to defend themselves from any oppressor, foreign or domestic. This specifically includes the government.

Depends on who you are. There is exactly one chain restaurant in Old Town (a Subway), and someone threw a brick through their front window the week it opened. Going to protests is a normal Friday social activity for a lot of people there, and rent control makes it possible for people to live there that couldn't afford anywhere nearby otherwise.

That said, it's a great town in a lot of respects. (I lived there for a while.) It has kept a lot of small-town charm despite sharing a long border with the District of Columbia, and it has some of the best little shops and restaurants in the surrounding areas.

But you're right, there are a few people who see the waiver as the beginning of a slippery slope.

In the US, Flight Levels don't start until FL180 - ~18,000 feet AGL (above ground level), using a standard barometric pressure of 29.92 inches of mercury (which is why it varies based on current atmospheric conditions).

Mostly only small turboprops or short-haul passenger jets use flight levels below 24. Commercial air carriers generally cruise between FL250 and FL340. Business jets such as Learjets are capable of flight levels of 450, and some military jets cruise much higher.

Bullet damage != explosive decompression. A small hole in the fuselage will most likely be more than compensated for by the excess capability of the pressurization system, which pressurize (in most cases) to 8000 feet MSL (above mean sea level), not FL100 (which does not exist - flight levels are only for Class A airspace, above 17,999 feet MSL).

The reason those countries copied the cell infrastructure and not the landline one is that it's cheaper. For all the talk of "New Energy", fossil fuels are still by far the cheapest form of energy available, and will continue to be so for quite a while. If wind, solar, or nuclear energy were more economical (financially and politically), they would ignore the fossil fuel infrastructure and build those instead, same as mobile phones.

This is true, but how long would it take? Remember the old adage: you can have it fast, cheap, and good... but you can only pick two. The model you're proposing is cheap and (hopefully) good, but certainly not fast.

Curt Schilling: 216 MLB wins
Sean Connery: 007 wins

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Zombies, Run! hoped to raise $12,500 from Kickstarter; they ended up with over $72,000. They have already passed version 1.0 (which works nearly flawlessly) and are constantly adding new missions and features. I actually bought an iOS device just so I wouldn't have to wait for the Android version (which is due out late May/early June). The game is fantastic - excellent premise and a lot of fun (and I've already lost almost 5kg playing it!). It's a true Kickstarter success story.

Unfortunately, they're not just targeting spam. Try posting a link to fbpurity.com (which, combined with ffixer, are the only things that make facebook bearable to use, IMO) on your wall, and see what happens.

Facebook has begun actively inserting itself into the mono- and dialogues of users. While this is no different or scarier from what they have been capable of in the past, it forces shee^H^H^H^H users to acknowledge that fact for perhaps the first time. As such, I'm all for it.

Correct or not, "what have you gotten" has a different connotation from "what did you get". (It's similar to the French imparfait vs. the passé-composé.) The former phrase denotes an action that may have occurred over time and may or may not be complete (cf: 'What have you gotten so far?'), while the latter implies that the action is finished. And while I despise the misuse of grammar as much as the next !z, I have to rule for the finesse of meaning with this phrase.

Here, for one.

It shows that Stalin did not, in fact, kill more people than Hitler. But the two of them together killed 17-20 million people. (The article mentions that this combined figure sadly doesn't even come close to the 30 million who died as part of Mao's revolution in China.)

Communism is responsible for far more deaths than the Nazis, by multiples. But Hitler wins vs. Stalin.

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