That's a pretty Wilde slogan.
That's a pretty Wilde slogan.
I don't know, but if people keep whining about it, it'll certainly be Jerry-maundering.
Absolutely. Hooray for trains to Portland! And also the EastLink, and the Lynnwood extension.
Surprisingly, not true. First, much of the colonization was incremental: your parents would move west, and then you, in your turn, would move further west. Second, almost all of the colonization was done with wheelbarrows, no matter where it started -- travel by train was *very* expensive.
This ignores the interesting fact that Clarke's Law ("Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic") is actually due to Heinlein.
Like I said, Nunavut. Northern Canada is incredibly empty. And *huge*. Canada is the largest country in the Americas -- it's not even close.
No, we didn't. I live at the Western terminus of the Great Northern Railway, and it was a failure as a passenger line. It was even a failure as a *freight* line, despite massive subsidies. We literally gave huge chunks of the West to the transcontinental railroads -- and they all failed repeatedly.
There is indeed -- just as there is a line from Chicago to Seattle. (I know; I rode it earlier this month with a stop at Glacier National Park. It's been on my bucket list for a long time.) But it is not a viable service.
Which only strengthens my case. We all agree that the line West from Winnipeg makes no sense economically -- but it would have served the vast majority of the population of the Prairie provinces. Why hasn't it been built? Canada can easily afford it, and is not run by the US car companies.
Well, fair. I will point out, in my defense, that I keep talking about Canada, and I'll see your Australia and raise you Nunavut, the Northwest Territories, and the Yukon. Not to mention most of the Prairie provinces.
Once again, what about Canada?
And Seattle metro has a solid light rail system because the city is on an ithsmus.
And before you show me a map of the 1940's rail network, let me point out two things. (1) Passenger rail didn't start to die in the US until the late 60's. (2) Canada doesn't have a viable passenger rail network outside of the Windsor peninsula. It isn't the lack of subsidies
Welllll...no. China does have a great rail service in the part of the country which is densely populated, but it is nowhere nearly as good in the rest of the country. And the rest of the country? Is as empty as north America and much more impassible: upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/co...
In addition, I don't think that non-Americans (and this is not just people not in the US; this is non-Americans in general) realize just how empty North America is. Building a viable rail network outside of the cities, particularly in the western part of the continent, just is not possible.
Many of the consultants you're talking about are deeply invested in things being how they are.
It looks like peaks at all the harmonics of the once a year peak. That would suggest that what we are seeing is the. Fourier series of a complicated but basically periodic pattern embedded in the original signal. That's what the original graph seems to show.
Nope. A 'cracker' is a poor rural White. There were no plantations where the crackers lived.
Portrait of the Secretary of State as a young man www.artic.edu/artworks/937...
Blandie
As soon as the mountain's official name is corrected, I'll call it Tahoma; for now, I'm sticking to the better known, but incorrect, name.
Welcome to Seattle! It's a Rainier to Baker day today: both mountains are visible.
If the holdings are appreciating faster than the face value of the loan plus any accrued interest, you can borrow to cover the new interest costs
You borrow against your holdings, and you may never pay the loans off if your holdings appreciate fast enough: you can, if you wish, borrow against your newly appreciated holdings.
And it took guts to sing that song when he sang it. Calling out von Braun as an ardent Nazi who committed war crimes at Peenemude in 1960...
I am having pizza with extra cheese. I am 64, and have a freshly implanted pacemaker. I am not immortal, but I intend to enjoy the time I have left.
Is that like O'Felon?
Coastal state senators are much more expensive than that. Or at least that's what one of my friends told me.
What if his wife fires him? If she owns the place, then she has hire and fire, doesn't she?
Proof by induction: {\bf Base case ($n = 0$):} $0 ^ 2 = 0 \ge 0$, as required. {\bf Inductive case ($n = m + 1$):} $\{ \ldots \}$
Measure twice, make cut once joke 1000 times
It's OK. You can be wrong about it.
Me, too. Did I like, say, pork, back when I still ate meat? Well, yes, but since it now makes me quite sick...
It’s every parent’s nightmare, isn’t it? you check your child’s bulletproof backpack and find a picture book about gay penguins
That is a truly distracting background
An order *can* always be refused. The question is what the consequences of the refusal would be. In this case, the question is "Is it illegal to obey an illegal order?" (Think My Lai Massacre or Kent State.) And the answer to *that* question is "Absolutely, that would be a crime."
Watching that, all I could think was "Oh, I know that very particular smile."
I looked at that and read "TAKEOUT" or "MAKEOUT". Those are my new shorthands...
Also, the Inevitable End of All Things is such a good excuse. "I'm sorry, I can't pay my rent this month. I've been working to postpone the Inevitable End of All things."
Which is true, but kind of irrelevant. ULA exists to provide an alternative, yes -- but that alternative doesn't exist right now. Right now, the US govt doesn't have an alternative to SpaceX.
As Sebastian might sing: Yes, you see that he's a mess, Causin’ chaos just to stress. Take a stroll… Block the troll. Don’t respond, don’t quote, don’t fight, You don’t need that vibe tonight. Mute that soul… Block the troll.
You had trees? I had to start my day by traversing a maze of twisty little corridors, all the same.
No thing beside remains. Round the decay Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare The lone and level sands stretch far away.
"We played Sun City in defiance of the boycott, helping to keep apartheid alive. Brian May still calls that a 'silly boycott'."
The astronomy app that I use (SkySafari) has a cheerful little chime it makes for events like the ISS coming into visibility overhead. They should work up some sort of sad-trombone noise for SpaceX Starship re-entries.
Our house is old enough that the standard 'shrub' for every house's yard was a rhododendron that had been dug up somewhere in the nearby national forest and repurposed. All the flowers in the neighborhood look the same at this time of year, but at least they aren't invasive
That could be a part of it, but there are other benefits of the G-Suite that MS Office doesn't provide, most particularly better collaboration tools. In particular, Teams is an abomination, and Google Meet, for all its flaws, is far, far better.
From the decision: "We now construe the application as a petition for writ of certiorari from the decision of the Fifth Circuit. Translation: "You didn't have enough time to decide? OK, I guess that means *we'll* decide."
Doesn't that suggest that the right answer to the question is "When did you stop beating your wife?" There seems to be this weird belief that you need to respond to rude questions politely. That's ridiculous -- respond to a rude question rudely and then put that up somewhere people see it.
In your case, the line "Because I foresee the end of the universe" would be both funny...and accurate.
The Episcopal Church says it's terminating its partnership with the government to resettle refugees, citing moral opposition to resettling white Afrikaners now classified as refugees by the Trump admin. "We are not able to take this step." www.npr.org/2025/05/12/g...
I'm 6' 4", 230. I absolutely need to lose quite a bit of weight, but I don't have that big a waistline.
Why do you assume that honors enrichment material isn't available to would-be honors students? My spouse's biology department offers every student the option of earning honors in non-honors courses by doing an extra set of assignments based on advanced material presented in class.
It really is this simple. #TransRightsAreHumanRights
Is there a BibTeX pope? Or is he strictly a LaTeX pope?
No, no, no. He's telling the truth (or at least a truth). What he isn't saying is another truth: "And it isn't going to be anything anybody will ever see either."
Right now, the very teaching of computer science is political. Is data gathering legal? When? Saying "It shouldn't matter," the standard technolibertarian response, is itself *very* political, even though it probably doesn't seem that way to him.
Yeah, I noticed that this would be the second time I've seen an announcement of a renovation of that particular dorm since I graduated. It would make me feel old if this weren't going to be my 45th reunion, which is quite enough by itself.
Also there's a small issue of being an ordained priest. And, you know, celibate.
Does that mean is was a walk in the park?
It's a steampunk interpretation of Clippit
Eugenics isn't even pseudoscience -- it's concealed racism and nothing more.
That's awesome. How do we weaken him on border security?
Were you checking on the claim that some shrews are, in fact, venomous. Not metaphorically, but in reality; there are genuinely venomous shrews. There are also metaphorically venomous shrews.
Well, now we know why they've been using Signal...
You keep using the word 'scientific,' but don't think that you mean what RFK means. You can make up data is only a few hours.
Trump has created a new option type: now, in addition to 'puts' and 'takes', there's a new class: 'got took'.
Not to mention that mustard has isn't a neurotoxin and want used in has chambers
Look, Josh, NASDAQ isn't even down by 1000. Nothing to see here.
Where does that come from?
_The Odious Billionaire_ sound so much like a forthcoming sequel to _Starter Villain_
According to flight trackers, DFW has imposed a gate hold due to major thunderstorms in the area, with delays currently at 1 hr. 14 min. and increasing.
Maybe just locally enhance the effects of dark energy.
It's a great poem.
Saint Elmo's Dumpster Fire.
This line is heartbreaking: "Steege’s fear of leaving her surviving family members saddled with her student loan debt came to pass on March 15, when she died."
"Crushed and scrambled"? It must have come as one shell of a shock to her.
I hear that the President has renamed those images as "The Four Fiefdoms" because Norman Rockwell was a stupid leftie.
So let me get this straight: you are so gullible that a random person off the street can join a conversation that sensitive. Isn't that what you're saying? What are you going to do when a genuinely sophisticated person tries to join your chats?
Signhazi, actually. Or perhaps Signazi.
I'm trying to figure out if "It's what opec people will tell you" is part of the cope or if you're saying that yourself...
That tongue...
I wish I could laugh -- but kids are going to die because of this. Some poor kid who was getting extra support because they're emotionally fragile is going to decide that nobody cares about them after all when the counselor who'd been supporting them gets fired.
Yes and no. My spouse teaches at a public high school in a wealthy district.Richer parents can get extra support for their children outside of school, but there is no replacement for IEPs, 504s, and even simple accommodations.
Elongate is the future name of this particular scandal.
Several of my papers are there, as are a couple of my wife's. So, fine, they're from the early 90's, early relative to the database, but not stunning. But then I found a collection of my *father's* papers from the 70's. Should I be aggrieved or flattered?
Are there any intermediate samples? This might well be a genuine change in public opinion, but I'm reluctant to draw any conclusions without more evidence of a trend.
I wonder what the statutory minimum is.
"In regard to your work environment, how peculiar to your job are your skills?" - Very peculiar - Somewhat peculiar - Not the least bit peculiar.
And to threaten the judge who issued it. Don't forget that.
It's behind literacy. Nobody ever gets there; the winning meta runs through 'military might'.
Probably not. I'll bet that calls saying "Hi, I'm from the SSA, here to help you with your recent issue..." will be very successful. (My spouse just went through the process of handling the Medicare enrollment steps you have to take care of when you turn 65. They were daunting.)
Well, it's true during parts of the winter in the northern hemisphere. Stupid journalist didn't do their research about the summer, though.
He makes me think of Yevgeny Prigozhin.
Now, whether Musk should be deported is a different question. If he obtained his citizenship fraudulently, then he is, by definition, persona non grata and should be deported immediately. If, however, he obtained his citizenship legitimately -- where would you deport him to? Texas?
You are completely wrong -- not because validation of extralegal violence is bad, but rather because the one of the two fundamental rights of the state is the use of violence. One can argue, in fact, that the whole purpose of the State is the threat of violence.
Not surprising at all. The R code you can find on the web tends to be written by people who actually do statistics for a living, and who either know how to write good code or know how to reuse other people's code. Which is what the AI's do. And people, too, for that matter.
I don't get it. What's special about 1996? I mean, 2025-07-18 = 2000, so I can see how that day might be special, but I don't get 1996.
The narthex need not be small, nor need it be the only entrance to the church. My church's narthex is almost as large as the nave (the part of the church where the pews are) and has entrances to both the west and east. There is, in addition, an entrance to the south.