The people who get pissed when someone goes against the book in blackjack annoy me. It’s a 6 deck (if not more) shoe with an autoshuffler. Card order is, for all intents and purposes, entirely random.

Plead this one down to littering. After all, they did leave garbage on the courthouse lawn.

Even though all my devices (Android phone, PC laptop, iPad) have 3.5mm headphone jacks, I moved to Bluetooth headphones a year or so ago, and would never go back to wired.

As a caller, I can say that the “silent hold” is incredibly annoying. Just having a dead line there makes we wonder “have we been cut off?” I know it’s not your doing, my complaint is with the folks who set the incentives under which you work.

I’m always polite to call center reps, for several reasons, both ethical and practical:

I recall reading about a press conference where the SecDef was asked about the F-19 stealth fighter, at which point he very clearly stated there was no such thing as an F-19. The statement was, of course, absolutely truthful - it was the F-117.

I spent many hours playing F-15 Strike Eagle on a PC-XT with a greenscreen monitor. So many polygons to destroy, so little fuel to get back with.

The swing wings added something special to it as well. I think I understand (at a very high level) the engineering rationale for it (higher lift at low speeds with the wings out, lower drag at high speed with them back), and I haven’t the faintest clue if it was the best solution to the problem (I would imagine it…

At the start of any case, lawyers should need to swear that, if they were on the jury for the case, and presented with all the information they know, they would decide in their clients’ favor.

He probably would have been gone already, except that Trump is, for all his bluster and Twitter attacks, deeply cowardly. He’s happy to attack someone remotely, but actually looking someone in the eye and telling them they’re fired (outside of a fully scripted game show) terrifies him.

If they enjoyed having a mint Marauder in the garage, then great, more power to them, to each their own hobby.

Last year, 168 people were struck by trains (48 were killed, about 2/3 of which were suicides). Of the 168 people, 12 were outside of a station (people in the tunnels), 31 were in a station (mostly people who fell onto the tracks, or went down there to retrieve a lost item), 71 were on a platform (mainly people who…

So, based on that ratio, you’d expect around 1 death on the tracks per month, to be comparable. Where are you located?

You don’t have to live in NYC to work for the MTA, there’s no residency requirement. Also, median income in NYC is right around the US average.

All valid points. I just wish judges were more free to sanction lawyers who do bring spurious cases.

Unless you’re blessed with several dozen extra kidneys, forget about it.

They’re pretty much gone. Got outcompeted by the CHUDs.

How many people ride the subway every day where you come from? In NYC, it’s well over 6 million. Per day.

FYI, lots of the “civilized world” doesn’t have platform doors, although they would be a good idea. Expensive, though, think several billion dollars.

8.5 million people in NYC, so, using US averages, that means around 1,100 suicides a year. City has reasonable gun laws, so not super-easy to lay your hands on a firearm. Subways, on the other hand, are pretty readily accessible to the vast majority of the city population.