...I'm sure he'd spin it as "People no longer tuning in for Fake News is Fake News".

...by Laura Petrie on "The Dick Van Dyke Show".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

15:50

The other, less dead, batteries forcing current through it will cause it to heat up.

It's like electrical friction.

The more internal resistance a device has, the more it's going to heat up when current is forced through it.

If it heats up enough, it might be an ignition source.

Here's how we explained to our 5 year old how Santa cannot bring any toy.

Santa makes toys in his workshop. But he's only allowed to make toys that isn't under copyright. So he cannot make ... because of copyright.

Just keep reversing polarity on the warp coils and you'll be fine.

Are you renting or leasing that TiVo from the cable co, or did you buy it outright?

If the latter, then you aren't paying a monthly fee for the box, you're paying for the piece of hardware which you own outright to be able to use the TiVo Service, which is a combination of a month by month license to use the proprietary part of the software, and the listings service (unfortunately not as good with the switch from Tribune Media Services/Gracenote to their new overlords Rovi), and some other "intellectual property" type stuff.

Do you have to pay anything for the cable card or is the first one "free"?

(and yes "the first one is free" *is* classic pusher technique)

Google's main product is our eyeballs, which they sell to the advertisers.

We don't pay anything to Google the way a new Chevy rolling off of the assembly line doesn't pay anything to General Motors. They get their money when someone buys the Chevy.

*Was

and serves a purpose.

*Served

We no longer live in an agrarian economy and the major population shift to the cities over a hundred years ago makes the Electoral Collage a virulent aberration that allows the very ignorant few to rule over the many who actually pay the bills.

So she got the nomination of a major political party by being weak and incompetent?

...and search engines to be search engines, and both to know that neither is the other, and when I'm typing something on the screen I expect it to remain on that part of the screen and not jump somewhere else.

And I'd really like to be able to right-click on a link and have an "Open with..." option that offers my choice of all the browsers I have installed, and I'd like to be able to highlight and right click and be offered my choice of search engines.

You're forgetting that Microsoft redefined "cancer" as "Open Source Software" some years back...

If you were in Chicago, would you say you were on the Dan Ryan or that you were on Dan Ryan?

Orient was used a a verb long before orientate came along.

http://www.grammarphobia.com/b...

Frankly, orientate sounds like someone was trying to make themselves sound more educated and important than they were.

Sort of like what's happened to the language used by police departments at press conferences over the last 4 or 5 decades.

I've got no problem with the Los Angeles colloquial highway naming style, though. Some things should have regional flavor.