I’m a litigator. Sometimes I’ll do oral argument before the Court and think, “shit, that felt like rambling. I bet I sounded so dumb. I must do better next time.” And then I get the transcript back and I’ve spoken eloquently throughout it. Comparatively, I imagine Palin is like “nailed it” after a speech and then…

No, it proves mice are tenacious, curious, and smart. The mouse found out it could get out of the bucket, so it was worth the effort to go back and try to get the bait. You can see the mouse approaches the problem differently each time. Unlike Wile E. Coyote, it worked on it plan over several iterations.

To answer your question, China isn’t really close. US RMAX in GFlops is 172,582,178 and China is half that with RMAX in GFlops of 88,711,111. The efficiency question is answered as well by looking at the data. The US gets this kind of power using 10,733,270 cores and the Chinese machines are running 9,046,772 cores.…

I think the point is that Facebook told him all the people who hadn’t yet checked in as opposed to those that had. Imagine the difference between a friend calling to tell you “I spoke to John; he’s safe,” and “I haven’t spoken to Tim, and Suzy, and Lee, and Fred, and Tina, and Elena, and Jessica, and Rob, and Josh...”…

I’m curious about the first wife’s situation. I just changed my first tire a few weeks ago, by myself. I pulled the jack out of the trunk, put it on the proper spot of the car, turned it a few times until the car lifted about 2 inches off of the ground, pulled the tire off. At no point did I ask my wife to get under…

You mean a site that had the express purpose of helping married people bypass the rules of married life, was also completely ripping people off? WHODA THUNK IT

Perhaps I should clarify: I was talking about this as a tort (what one can sue for), which differs from criminal law (what prosecutors will charge someone for). Both battery and assault afaik require intent, regardless of whether you’re talking about a tort or a criminal charge. Lack of intent is a defense to both.…

If anyone, it’s my cousin Jason Itkin - his firm specializes in on-the-job injuries. I hope the referee contacts him. http://www.arnolditkin.com/Meet-Our-Attor…

I always liked the English version - Grievous Bodily Harm.

Tuesday is Mars Day. Wednesday is Woden’s Day (Mercury was his messenger)...Friday is Venus Day.

“MS-DOS is fine, it doesn’t need fixing.” - Andy Orin, 1985

“Hackers Threaten to Expose 40 Million Cheating AshleyMadison Users”

Richard Pryor and Eddie Murphy always had the moral high ground.

That’s kinda... morally wrong. This guy sounds like he’s kind of a jerk. Seriously, who just does that? In any industry?

If I’m at a busy bar with a group of people and I’m hosting them (meaning I’ll be placing the orders), I’ll approach the bartender, put a $20 on the counter, and say “Hi I’m tipping you up front bec I can tell you’re busy. We’re sitting over here but I’ll order all our drinks.” Then I place my order. If the bill is…

Bribing an employee to have them give away their employer’s stuff for free? You realize if they get caught they are going to get fired for it right? It’s essentially theft.

Don’t ask, the answer will just depress you. We probably could have fed every poor children in America for a year with what it cost.

Well, fuel, missile, drone, maintenance, salaries...probably a few million. Its still important to do live fire exercises. There is no training like the real thing.

Sounds about right. The missiles themselves are fairly expensive (about $1 mil depending on the model) so I would assume they would use ordinance that’s close to retirement for training exercises like this. Missiles are an odd type of aircraft though, they spend 99% of their life in storage and only fly for maybe a…