Why not take it one step further, with Up / Down, Waiting, and Loading / Unloading? There would be two doors then, an entrance and an exit, hopefully not located directly next to each other (to discourage using the "Unloading door" for getting into the elevator). This would make it so a stopped elevator in the process of unloading would not block an Up or Down shaft. It also makes it so you don't have those super important SOBs that crowd the entrance as someone tries to wheel off a cart or something. I suppose an alternative to this would be to have the Ready shaft be for loading and unloading, with doors on both sides to facilitate unloading. Or maybe I'm over-exaggerating the problem of people blocking an elevator exit.

Clearly, it's a collaboration with the nearby liquor stores. Price by volume is always higher for the smaller bottles. Now, instead of buying one bottle of 750ml, you have to buy 2x 375ml, or 4x 200ml, or 15x 150ml (airline size).

Thanks for playing, but he's British, not American. Try changing your TLA.

Well, I was going to point out that you were probably referring to https://xkcd.com/678/, but you got the reference wrong, if that's what you were shooting for. The correct reference is "It has not been conclusively proven impossible".

Back in my day, we only had in-laws, and we hated them!

+1, Made me LOL

I think the most equitable they could do would be to leave some of the gas tax in place (because pollution), and then make a miles * weight formula for the rest.
Something like:

$0.15 per gallon gas tax AND
$0.015 * miles driven * weight ÷ 4000 (approx average car weight in lbs)

This would attempt to give some of a break to those with fuel efficient cars (no/lower gas taxes), some of a break to those with lighter (less road damage) cars, and push some of the tax onto those who do the most damage (semi + trailer at about 80000 lbs). Semis could be taxed based on each load they take, to make the taxes more accurate, and not penalize them for the miles they drive as just the tractor (~7-10 tons).

Yes, but because of that, the right lane is what gets resurfaced (30x)* more often.

* See? I can make up numbers too! Not disputing the potential accuracy of your claim, but still

Anecdotal, but here's my experience. I had a 5i5 for about a month (then returned it in anticipation of the 5i7, which I got two weeks ago). The 5i5 didn't really get loud, even under heavy load, which was very nice. The 5i7 will wind up and whine whenever Plex has a new video to transcode, which it seems to decide to do at random times (read: when trying to get to sleep). In the same room this will become an issue, but it is fine in the next room over. However, I don't know that I would really recommend the 5i7 as an HTPC, as the volume would get annoying while watching a movie or TV show. The 5i5 should be able to handle all that, anyway.

(The main reason I got the 5i7 instead of the 5i5 was that I want to try to Hackintosh it at some point. There is a MacBook [Air?] with the same CPU/GPU as the 5i7, so it should be supported, there isn't one with the same CPU/GPU as the 5i5.)

People *can* have more than 3 days of food, yes. But some people don't. Those are the people that live on restaurants, takeout, or work cafeteria, etc. There are actually people with fridges like in Fight Club (http://dejangrba.dyndns.org/lectures/img/references-in-visual-arts/003-fridge.jpg no food, just condiments).

Warning: lp0 on fire.

The thought that someone actually "literally recoiled in horror at the idea of someone not being on Facebook" makes me metaphorically recoil in horror at the thought of associating with such a person. Seriously? I guess I shouldn't be surprised, given how overreactive people seem to be these days (just now, I almost typed "how overreactive everyone is", what an overreaction that would've been!).

I hope that comment was to the world at large, not just to me. I was interpreting the study based on the wording of the summary.

In a study, I can understand stating that it was white users, for the sake of full disclosure and clarity. In a Slashdot summary, it's click-bait, so I put on my racism hat and reacted the way I was supposed to.

For me, the page is blank but then redirects to: http://www.sciencedirect.com/s...

From the PDF:
The participants were Italian and white. They were psychology students (N = 96; 48 women, 48 men) who volunteered to participate without any reward. Their mean age was 24 (SD = 2.82).

Nice of them to not even test black people saving white, that way white people can feel like shit.

Pretty sure the main premise for many zombie apocalypse settings is that the zombie outbreak is caused by a disease that infects healthy, regular humans, possibly killing them, possibly not. When they die, however, they become zombies. This means that there is an unknown disease spreading, potentially worldwide, that infects people *before* we start seeing zombies. That's not a single zombie infecting the rest of us.