The compliance tests are primarily for how much force the helmet can take and still maintain its structural integrity. Basically, if it will keep your brain inside your skull, it passes.

So, I can send money to someone without a gmail/wallet account and it goes directly into their bank account?

I think Square Cash is actually the most useful for tech-illiterate people. Only requirement is a debit card.

I’m a big fan of Square Cash. I don’t like anything that is “holding” my money. So, Paypal, VenMo, and Google Wallet are out. I also like that it’s EXTREMELY simple and intuitive for people who aren’t familiar with electronic payments. The fact that it’s not necessary for the sending party to have an account with them…

And that is exactly how unfair systems are allowed to continue. Someone has to be willing to make the sacrifice for the greater good. Where would the world be if Martin Luther King Jr. said, “You know what being arrested is too hard ... it’s a lot easier to just keep quiet?”

The revenant is an awful movie. Good story, but an awful movie. It is about an hour longer than necessary.

That situation was clearly lingering backlash from Spygate. Roger Goodell went full-on coverup mode (as he has been instructed to do in most cases by the NFL owners) as soon as spygate happened. Unfortunately, as it leaked to other owners how deep it really went they became pissed off and wished they had done…

I kind of like the shootout... but they should make everyone take a turn. This should include the goalies.

LOL. Very true. From my experience, most dispatchers are helpful... but serving the public is LOW on their list of reasons they like their job. Helping officers/firefighters and being a critical part of bringing order to chaos brings satisfaction. The people on the other end of the line are more likely to be the CAUSE…

The experience in my center is a lot different. You either can do the job and stick around forever or you can’t and wash out in the first year. There are very few people that make it 2-3 years in and decide to leave. However, we are very well paid in comparison to what I see across the industry and I’m willing to bet…

My center uses a dispatch/call-taking software stack that was developed in-house. We have 3 full-time programmers that can update and make changes to the system on-the-fly. It links to off-the-shelf software provided from our radios (Motorola), phone systems (Positron), and GPS tracking systems (BCS MARVLIS) and…

911 Dispatcher here. The low pay for dispatchers across most of the country blows my mind, because it is easily one of the most difficult (and important) jobs out there. Our success rate for trainees to make it through their first year of training is hovering at about 25%. Luckily for me, my center is very well paid…

I think it depends on who owns the dog. Dogs in “brown” neighborhoods are more threatening than dogs in nice neighborhoods.

I don’t think that is it... the tide has turned and most fans think rostering goons with zero hockey skills is stupid. They are ironic votes to send a message to the NHL.

Where do you think the money went that bought the ticket in the first place? If you and everyone else stopped buying on the secondary market... the ticket brokers would stop purchasing from Snyder and the prices would drop. So, yes you are giving your money to Snyder.

I didn’t listen to the interview... but what he said was true. If you are selling something on craigslist and someone offers you $300 and another offers you $400, who are you going to sell it to.

There is. We went that route with Iraq and it created this situation.

In early days Tesla was EXTREMELY overeager to completely replace the drivetrain. I chalk this up to Tesla selling cars in a “beta” state. I read numerous reports of people saying things like, “I complained about a minor humming sound at freeway speed and Tesla sent a truck out with a loaner vehicle and then…

I’ve seen it many times on Highway 5 in CA aka the long boring stretch of highway between SF and LA. In fact I was was driving 90+ and had a girl in a small sedan blow past me like I was standing still while driving with her left foot out the window resting on her driver’s side mirror.

Because Hangouts is a bloated app that is trying to do too much. If you don’t need/want the gChat or internet calling features, Messenger is a clean and simple alternative.