If the specials are so âspecialâ(TM), print them on a piece of paper and give me the paper. The servers speak quickly and expect me to remember what theyâ(TM)ve mumbled after I go through the written menu. Wonâ(TM)t happen. I have NEVER ordered a special for this reason.

That is such a bad, against-the-odds bet that most people who have ever played poker think either that she is incomprehensibly dumb or is cheating. She says she is a good player. She has gone from playing at low level tournaments to a small string of significant wins at big cash games. Only really, really bad players would make a bad bet like that.

Define the 'upper echelons' and where the factoid comes from. If Bernie had run and won, would that make the most-upper echelon 100% Jewish?

They haven't been 'tracked', I don't think, as much as they have been recorded as text or even images attached to records in NCIS database. That's the National Crime Information Center not the TV show. (https://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ncic) I would suppose, without reading all the associated articles on the NIST site, that the program is aimed both at recognizing types of tattoos from images and characterizing them in an associated record in a searchable database and a kind of image matching search that is done by Google and Tin-Eye.

From years of looking at photos and editing them, my attention is distracted from the content/subject of the image by little things like a horizon or a vertical wall being slightly tilted - even as little as half a degree, unless it is clearly an artistic choice. For me, at least, flat appearing horizons and walls that are vertical (as I know and expect them to be) make the photograph easier to see and appreciate.

In NYC, where there is a large concentration of Jews, they are ubiquitous in most areas of industry. In other parts of the country, where they migrated for opportunity, they are generally concentrated in fields which are transportable. Lots of doctors, attorneys, businessman, teachers, social workers, scientists. We lived in a small New England town. The only Jews were either in the professions or were shopkeepers. I assume you're an ignorant bigot and didn't know all that.

There are some facts that you may unaware of. There was free entry to and from Gaza until Hamas started rocketing in 2001. The wall, which in most places is chain link fence, was erected as a reaction to the suicide bombings - which have essentially disappeared. Gaza has a border with Egypt on the south (Egypt refused to take Gaza along with the Sinai when the Sinai was given back to Egypt as part of a peace process.) Jordan annexed the West Bank as part of an invasion and remained there for ~20 years - (1948-1967) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.... The current status of the West Bank is a 'disputed territory' and Jordan actually has renounced any claims, although Jorfan still has guardianship of the Al Aqsa Mosque.

Sorry I don't have any mod points to mod this up. I read the referenced articles, the open letter, searched for the original blog about BMW. Whatever the inferred tone, the facts seem to speak for themselves about the event being late and poorly planned and the BMW being screwed up. Elon Fanboys need to take a step back.

In the early-mid 80's I used a portable computer (sewing machine form factor) called a Zorba that would boot in one of 20 or 30 CPM formats depending on floppy disk used.

This reminded of the only time in my working life that I was reported for harassment.
I was coming out of my office (CIO medium-size medical foundation) just as a woman from another department passed, trailing a nice perfume. (I knew her by sight only)
'Nice smell', I said and went on about my business.
And she walked directly into HR and filed a harassment complaint.

Sorry, wrong.
The relative expansion, contraction of materials allows margins of fillings to leak.
The benefit of amalgams is that they corrode in the margins and the corrosion products seal the gap.

They were free to enter and leave, sans barriers and checkpoints after Israel withdrew from Gaza.
Then Hamas started rocketing Israel and the current situation evolved.

I am waiting for anyone to point to a situation where the Israel response could have been different and Israeli lives not be threatened.

Like Organic Chemistry

I only have experience in one prison and teaching only classes in statistics but a good many of the guys I come across have little or no education but are enormously intelligent.
A prison acquaintance committed a truly heinous crime when young, spent 30+ years in prison and earned batchelor's and master's degrees while incarcerated. All this without access to the internet or much in the way of books for resources.
The really painful part about teaching there is dealing with human capital that is going to waste.