As an American-Canadian, I can say that Canadian Tories are often to the left of the Democratic Party. That's not as much support for Harper as much as an indictment as to how right-wing U.S. politics is at a global scale.

That's funny, because this is exactly how Canada feels about the entirety of the U.S. most days.

And one minute before 5:00pm EST, it hit past $950,000. Crazy!

$836K now. I wonder where this is going to stop? Fun!

$566K+ now. I'm having fun hitting refresh every few seconds and watching the number go up by a few thousand each time...hah.

For guys at least (and maybe women, but I am not about to start guessing), metabolism naturally starts to slow down in your late 20s-early 30s. Ultimately, the short answer is "diet and exercise," and by "diet" that means eating well and eating clean—no fad diets, no starving yourself—and, ideally, weight training to…

If Hamilton wrote it, he'd insist on super squats of course!

I've been weight training seriously over the past year and a half, and I can honestly say I've never neglected my legs. They look quite huge unto themselves now.

Actually, you can max out your Galactic Readiness and not play one iota of multiplayer. But it does require an iOS device and a lot of tedious grinding instead. Either way, it's stupid to require this out of players.

North American here, but I tend to count like Europeans apparently starting with the thumb on the left hand. Interesting...

Did you like the sound of these accents, or did you find that you hated them, but picked them up anyway? Just kind of curious.

Nah...that story is an urban legend. It's just a peculiarity of language evolution over the last 500 years. Other languages, including English, have had similar shifts in pronunciation over time too.

The distinction is called "ceceo/seseo," which is more of a regional phenomenon in Peninsular Spanish. Latin American Spanish is entirely "seseo," and since this is the kind of Spanish that most North Americans are exposed to, it explains why "ceceo" sounds particularly bizarre to us.

I've generally heard that you pick up accents that you like, while you don't pick up the ones that you hate. For the most part, I'd say it's true. When I lived in Boston, I hated the "native accent," so I didn't pick up anything.

If the Engineers are as Lovecraftian as implied, they could be "wise creators"—while also entirely disinterested in us. Humans might be as important as insects in their minds; a pest to be swatted when in their way.

Everything is better with bears, actually!

Since Ford takes the time to make different ads for Canada—and we speak the same language with pretty much the same general accent as the U.S.—I'm guessing they've already made a different French-language ad for France.

I feel that questions like these are generally based on very simplistic notions of genetics. Sure, there are simple dominant/recessive traits—and then there's everything else like dwarfism, which is dominant, but doesn't always express itself and thus can "skip generations." Or there are certain genes that are more…

So will apps developed for WP8 work on 7.8 devices?