I pretty much agree with that - I think one of the things other than the fact he’s so scientifically valuable about Otzi is that he was never buried in the first place, so it’s not like he was respectfully buried and we’ve come along, dug him up, and started poking at him, which puts him on a different level to the…

I assume they must, because every other cemetery there is above ground. Pretty sure people have been aware of that problem for a few decades now. I’m guessing it’s a poor area and the authorities can’t be bothered.

I must admit despite being an historian and having toyed with the idea of being an archaeologist I am in two minds about skeletons/bodies in museums. I feel if the bones are having to be moved anyway (graves found on building sites etc) there’s nothing wrong with taking the opportunity to study them, but I don’t think…

At the very least, I’m sure there are sanitary measures taken by museums and the like. Removing pieces of cadavers from a graveyard after a New Orleans rain storm and then shipping them around the country seems like it could be a legit public health concern on top of it all.

Agreed.

On the printer front: Most low end inkjets cost around $40-$60 and run $0.20/page in consumables. A low end laser costs $100-$150 but runs $0.07 a page.
So if you print a page or so every couple months you will never make up the difference in price by volume. On the other hand if you print a few dozen pages a…

The alternative to inkjet printers is laserjet printers. Although more expensive out of the gate, if all you’re doing is printing text documents, laserjets are the way to go. They’re quick as hell, too.

There are a lot of people who live in Crazytown and commute into Portland.

In some neighborhoods, mostly around metro areas as I’ve seen, houses in the 20's to 60's range had two-way boxes near the front or back door with cast iron, spring-closed doors for dairy drops. Some houses, such as the one I’m currently in from the 1890's, had similar doors that lead to chutes for coal delivery. The…

Yeah, people often forget about coal. I had to explain to my girlfiends family what it was in their house, they’d never seen a coal chute before and thought it was some weird porch door.

that’s what I was thinking! I was also thinking how come my braids never looked that good as a kid...

Are you from Portland? i think I saw someone handing out this same flyer outside the library.

Is it Jeebus?

A driving course? Buy a NASCAR or in the case of this wealthy Shiekh your dragster and race it yourself

We should get a shit ton more Shipping container houses made. Not ideal, but better than nothing, right?

That’s a piss-poor settlement. Splittting 8 mill? 40k each is peanuts. Those women deserve better than relocating to another shitty section 8 apartment.

I would bet on a coed American football team if they were playing against and Iraqi or Afghan one.

I am probably the wrong person to comment on anything to do with the Marine Corps, as I am one of those people who would like to see the Marines disbanded as needlessly redundant (as well as hopelessly anachronistic and probably detrimental to overall military function). It is no surprise, given the longstanding…

And how is this Uber’s fault...at all? The guy had no criminal convictions, so even the most thorough background check wouldn’t have prevented this from happening, and thanks to Uber, there was a clear electronic record of who he was and where he drove.

The thing is, no background check can predict whether or not someone will commit a crime in the future. It sounds like this guy had a clean record.

All I know is that I’m not getting in a 10 year old broke ass Crown Vic that stinks of puke when I Uber. New cars, clean, no need for cash (though I do carry enough to tip). A choice up to and including a comfortable black car. Very prompt pick ups. No rude dispatcher that may send a cab my way in an hour.