My niece (now 5) has flown regularly (2-3 times a year). Since she was old enough to eat them a bag of Gummies Bears as a treat and to help with take off and landing pressuring has been her trick. She also buys a new toy and downloads a new app so that there is something new and exciting to do on the flight. If you…

I might feel more strongly about this if the seat went back further than 5 degrees. But I’m just as uncomfortable as 85 degrees as I am at 90, so I leave it up.

“A monopoly is perfectly legal until it abuses its monopoly power.”

I would get really annoyed working at an office like that.

Not on delta but on numerous flights I’ve seen people going to the bathroom while we are taxing before takeoff. Never seen it become an issue like this.

Yes on granite. Marble tends to be too smooth to be of any use with anything hard and dry, you end up mostly sliding over what you are trying to grind. Also, don’t buy a tiny mortar. Get the biggest one you have space for and can reasonably lift. A large pestle means the weight of the pestle itself does nearly all the…

MD and JD are Medical Doctor and Juris Doctor, not doctorates of M or J. That’s why the research doctorates outrank them.

Here is an article discussing how PhDs are about “advancing knowledge,” whereas professional degrees (in this case, MDs) are about “apply[ing] existing knowledge.” In the classroom setting, only those with PhDs (or equivalent) are automatically approved to teach doctoral and professional students. When in an applied…

It seems to me that when Luke says that he is still on Ach-To early in the film. My guess is that we find him discouraged and disenchanted, but then the First Order shows up and Rey convinces our reluctant hero to not give up on the Jedi Order.

I was not prepared for that. Absolutely wonderful tribute and I’m glad they showed her rebellious (heh) side, showing the Carrie Fisher we all fell in love with. It’s like hearing she died all over again.

It’s their plane. They’re allowed to kick anyone off a flight for whatever reason. Yes, they have to refund you, yes it is a shitty thing to do but that is how business works.

“We are partnering with a few creative influencers, like Tavi, who are great fits for our residential buildings,”

It’s amazing (to me) that a movie I had not heard one wit about has a trailer this good. Do you want me to see your movie? Because that is how you get me to see your movie.

Comes in convenient 6 batch 24 6-serving boxes.

I place the little cut-out from a bottle opener under the edge of the lid. Then I pry it up gently and slowly just until the vacuum seal breaks.

Comcast in particular used the throttling tactic on Netflix when negotiating for “streaming rights”, making it appear that Netflix was the bad guy when in reality they were using throttling like a mafia boss.

You really are that ignorant! If content from companies paying ATT is free...and you have to pony up for content from everybody else, that impacts everybody’s internet.

Critical importance? Really? There was never any significant problem that net neutrality was designed to address. The whole thing is based on a straw man. Regulations of this kind of impact should only be used to address real and imminent issues in the market. A little spat between Netflix and Verizon (2 companies…

Gotta say, compared to the crap the rest of the Trump administration has been pulling, this stuff doesn’t seem particularly horrible. Yes, granting a discount to poor people to have internet does sound good, but the Lifeline program has had issues for decades (See http://www.consumerreports.org/cro/news/2015/06/fcc-lif…

But if it’s all one piece (without seams, completely covered in silicone), you don’t need to take the head off to clean it.