No, you don't understand, this thing looks *exactly* like a Fluke. It's not just that they used the color yellow, it's that the shape and coloring are similar enough to be misleading. Without a clear view of the label at the top, a lot of people would think it was a Fluke. I applaud SparkFun for wanting to sell cheap multimeters, but I've seen plenty of other $15-30 multimeters and none of them looked like a grey market clones of an existing product line.

Are you sure we don't? I looked at some EPA data, and it seems like on our bad days (in August) we're up in the particulate range that Paris is in now. We also have a lot of trouble with ozone. I'm pretty sure LA's air quality is better than ours now, or at least was for several years.

I don't think comparing Houston to Mexico City or Beijing makes sense. They have a lot more people crammed into a smaller space with worse cars.

There is no center. The expansion happens everywhere at once. A mediocre but helpful analogy is to the surface of an expanding balloon. Imagine drawing a bunch of dots on the surface. As the balloon expands, every dot moves farther from every other dot. There is no center -- or rather, *every* point looks like a center.

(Note that in this analogy, the universe is the *surface* of the balloon only. The 3D expansion of the balloon has a center, but the 2D stretching of the surface does not. It's a bit confusing, which is why it's a mediocre analogy.)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metric_expansion_of_space

He doesn't have to actually do it. All he has to do is project enough uncertainty to stop Russia from launching a first strike. That's enough for MAD.

Personally, if the missiles were in the air, I wouldn't actually retaliate, at least not massively. If the U.S. is already doomed, what benefit is there from killing 140 million Russians, almost none of whom had any say in the launch decision? We couldn't even enjoy watching Russia burn, since their missiles will arrive first. Maybe I'd launch a couple missiles at Moscow to try to decapitate their government.

Technically, *you* don't pay anything -- you're dead. The people receiving unearned income from your estate pay the taxes.

I've been going back and forth on this. I keep hearing it's really good, but I hate having to reinstall Origin for one game. I wish EA would stop holding their games hostage. But wishing for EA to be less greedy is pretty hopeless.

Currently at #1: Rush Limbaugh's self-insert U.S. history fanfic.

I swear to you I am not making this up.

Perhaps Randall should pass on publicizing this particular honor.

Interns, sure. But internships are often done through colleges that the company has a relationship with. Once you graduate, those opportunities are gone.

I love it! Did you write that?

Your premises are flawed, but I'll answer anyway. Solitary confinement cannot be societal revenge because it's not publicized at all. What society sees is an arrest, a public trial, and a prison sentence. Extra disciplinary punishments inflicted by prison guards are not public and do not involve due process of law. If solitary confinement is overused (as the article says), then it stops being discipline and starts being extrajudicial torture. That's obviously bad.

(If you don't see how extrajudicial torture is obviously bad, then let me tell you about this great deal you can get on 8x10 ft apartments...)

Oh look, a bank-like entity failed and people lost money. Good thing the FDIC is there to--

Oops.

If cryptocurrencies are going to repeat the last 100+ years of economic history, can they hurry up and rediscover monetary policy too?

You have your credibility backwards. Blue's News predates Wikipedia by five years. It's not as big a deal as it used to be, but it's still a good news aggregator for video games. It's got useful information in a lightweight, text-focused design that doesn't arbitrarily change every 18 months.

Oops, I was looking at the first link and didn't even notice the video embedded in the Slashdot article. My comment is about the video in the Orlando Sentinel article.