Could you imagine if an OPEC style coffee cartel formed? A coffee-embargo on the U.S. would spark uprisings in American streets that no government could withstand.

Add another digit. Your odds of winning are effectively no less "zero-er" with n digits than they would with n + 1. However, the cost of winning with this strategy just went up exponentially. And just like with the mega-lottos, You start getting the really big jackpots that bring in the revenue.

Foreign investors willingly paid a $25M+ idiot tax into the coffers of Texas. Even though they received a larger payout than they paid in, that payout was generated by the prior rounds of idiot taxpayers and organized gamblers, not from Texas coffers. The odds of any actual Texan buying a jackpot winning lottery ticket is, for all intents and purposes, zero. You're not going to win. Yet, someone willingly pays taxes to your state. Still winning.

And here I figured we were already contributing to an AI training. I guess I can stop finishing my requests to Alexa with "please" and "Thank you" now that I don't have to worry about the AI taking over.

Never mind addressing health care, or student loan forgiveness. But at least he can claim one bill that isn't feeding roasted poor people to the wealthy come election time.

And I still forget my reusable bags in the car. It has led to a mind shift. Where I would have dropped my 3 or 4 items in a bag, I'll just carry them out instead. Not that .08 breaks the budget, but it puts a value on what was once a free item, helping me remember that they're not invisible things that disappear once I'm done with them.

Bad idea for whom? This is a great idea for those that control the money. They're watching this with baited breath.

A sewing needle, a magnet, and the raw disk. Anything else is weakness!

It's no surprise that many students pair with others in their major, especially in harder disciplines. You ask someone you find attractive if they would like to study for the big test. About two hours into it is the perfect time to trade massages to work out the study kinks. Whether you get back to studying is never guaranteed after that.

Local backups are well and good until a fire or some other disaster takes out the data and the backup device. While it's easy to plan to take a backup off-site, it's another matter to get someone to remember to do it unfailingly every day. Finally, lugging external drives around subjects them to physical damage. A cloud provider solves this dilemma.

Bacon flavored coffee. Or coffee flavored bacon - but you would have to find some way to keep the pigs from bouncing.

There's only so much you can get for a spoon that only works in the Amazon bowl.

+12 stonemasonry?

All Your Base Are Belong to Us?

The study is interestingly-timed, given the 3/28/14 release of http://www.imdb.com/title/tt19....