My last auto loan from my credit union was 1.8%. Try to find a mortgage that low. In fairness, it's really an apples to oranges comparison. Auto loans are typically for 6 years or less while home mortgages are typically for 30 years.

Just 7 days? That was a cool summer compared to the years I lived there. The last summer I lived in the valley, the temp hit 122 at the airport and they grounded the airplanes. It hit 127 that day where I worked and all we had was a swamp cooler in an industrial garage.

Of course not. Scottsdale is. :-)

Because he really, really likes Zebra pens?

It is economic until the pain for the loser becomes so great that military aggression seems worthwhile. Consider why Japan entered WWII, for instance.

Chicken sashimi was offered to me in Japan, once. It was about the only thing I didn't eat there and I was offered some pretty strange stuff. It was explained to me that the chickens were raised in such a way that the illnesses I was afraid of were not a concern. I'm sure it would be quite expensive to raise chickens…

I tried to argue that, myself, in highschool... 30 years ago. Needless to say it fell on deaf ears.

Swan. It's what's for dinner.

It might help to read his essay from Wired, "Mother Earth Mother Board", in which you will find that sometimes coincidence really does, "bring people from all the way around the world together to do exhaustively-detailed lame things", and that can make for interesting stories.

There is a big difference in meaning between "is" and "has been" or "was". The U.S. is no longer the largest contributor to global warming. The U.S. has already cleaned up its act tremendously.

A map that would better inform who needs to clean up their act is one that shows current rates of contribution.

You are easily pissed off.

Talk Talk

You might want to actually give it a read.

A warrant is not legally required in all cases of search and seizure, some of them even reasonable. For instance, when arrested, police may require you to turn out your pockets without a warrant. "Reasonable" was decided by certain people (for instance, supreme court justices) at certain times and the legal opinion…

Well, that's never been consistent with law. Nice opinion you have there.

I think the term you are looking for is "unreasonable" not "warrantless". What constitutes unreasonable?

To what extent?

Why ain't it?

"...you'll just "arrive at your destination with a dead phone." Because good luck trying to get 4G at 30,000ft."