Paul did not decide to become the messiah. The point of the books is that this is the result of thousands of years of planning and that planning has gone horribly wrong. The Fremen decided he was their messiah and the Bene Gesserit gave him the abilities to match that expectation. Not only did the Fremen choose him,…

They don’t need to prove the source of the round. They only have to prove that no one between her and Baldwin added a live round to the gun.

Just millimeters away from being a solid sovereign citizen.

This could be a turning point - to understand that even though it is a movie set, every real gun that can be loaded with real bullets is possibly lethal and anyone handling the gun should have a day long course on handling that gun and identifying for themselves the sort of ammunition that is loaded into it. Touch a…

Ethanol doesn’t help America be energy independent. If it did all farm equipment would be E100 already. Ethanol in fuel makes corn farmers rich - that’s the main reason it exists.

Can’t get caught if you can’t get identified. Some places have wised up and are arresting those who show up to watch. 

It’s a good thing the driver is OK and a good thing the truck seems to have missed both the river monitor shack and appears to have not damaged the girders on the bridge. No one would be happy if the bridge closed to inspect and repair that. It does look like the sidewalk extension is destroyed.

This would tell a vendor how long a person took to make a selection and how many people are going past the machine. I doubt there is any particular goal for the data beyond getting a baseline of information to compare and look for trends.

The only problem is Christopher Walken always plays Christopher Walken, which is fine if the character is Christopher Walken, which is usually a guy barely on the edge of sanity and tough to tell which side of it.

What is not obvious is how the brakes work or they would have stopped to figure the steering out.

You are making the mistake of thinking that your personal experience matches the experience of every one of the other 6 billion people on this planet. Just about the whole of the rest of the whole prefers indexed shifters for their accuracy, speed and ease of use. There are a few luddites like Grant Petersen who swear…

Working class. Like muggers and burglars and car thieves are just working class. 

Why. Would. Anyone. Buy. That. Abomination? 4 levers to do 2 lever’s worth of work because some cyclists couldn’t learn to shift?

You can re-use the soda cup, just don’t draw a lot of attention to it.

At least Sarah’s children won’t be raised by either of them for a while.

It has two separate grips, one for the front derailleur and one for the rear.

We had a CEO that had a deal to get the option price as the lowest value in the previous 12 months. All legal as it was filed with the SEC and notice given to shareholders. There were some other not legal shenanigans that his son did; so the CEO paid a fine in exchange for not criminally prosecuting the son. The…

The main difference - when the value of a stock goes up - that is capital gains and is taxed much less than if it was cash. That’s why they are preferred. 

“We’ll sell you some number of shares at the current price ...” which is the price at which the CEO has driven/tanked the stock. See how that works?

The diameter of an O₂ molecule is 292 picometers, and that of N₂ is 300 picometers. Quite the difference. 97% the same size.The permability against oxygen can be notably higher - the question is, what is the loss per flight or per day of operation particularly noting that 100% nitrogen isn’t being compared to 100%…