1) Traffic - LA is known for its traffic. Getting to LAX from anywhere except for El Segundo is just about the worst commute in the world. Things just back up and traffic piles up so easily in the area. There is no turn off from this terminal. You can pick someone up at Terminal 1 and still find yourself in an hour of…

Unfortunately, I do not live in the area anymore, but I still go on Google maps and mind-drive various roads in the area. Here's another one I've found:

Here are "my" curves.

Soccer teams have done a good job integrating the sponsor logos into the overall design of their kits as well (to be honest, when I was younger I thought the O2 and Vodaphone logos on Arsenal's and Man U's jerseys were actually part of the design). MLS teams have done a good job following that trend. Even NASCAR does…

As a confirmation reference of what you said: http://www.smf.org/helmetfaq#aSAM…

According to the article quoted by gentrifying_bastard, males drive 1.56 time more miles than women in the US. The only traffic violations with a smaller M:F ratio than that are Stop sign/signal violation and Failure to yield, at 1.53 and 1.54 respectively.

Even the way things are pretty much everyone practices penalties, especially in the run up to larger tournaments. From what I've read even top tier teams will end a lot of their practice sessions with a penalty mini-tourny.

Perhaps. I think it'd be a close call. I think even the worst penalty takers can score and a high percentage from the spot than most players can score even from great scoring chances, but I don't have any facts to back that up.

I completely understand what you are saying.

Why is it a hypothetical? Advantage is a Law of the Game, and if a player was in such good scoring position that a team felt it was worth it to give up a penalty to a weaker penalty taker just to stop the scoring chance, I am confident that any referee would play advantage.

I don't get what you are getting at. The ref always can play advantage if he feels the fouled team has a superior position continuing play.

If the foul happens off the ball, the referee can still and probably would play advantage, allowing the play to continue. The only thing fouling a player away from the ball would do is net the fouling player a card.

Yes, and then you made the reference to Hack-a-Shaq. My point was that even if the player who was fouled did take the penalty, you still would foul players intentionally in the box because no matter who is taking the penalty, it's an improvement in scoring chance.

Penalties might not be as easy as they appear, but they are easier than scoring during the normal course of play, even if you are in the 18 yard box. It'd be pointless to foul any player within the box simply because they are a relatively poor penalty taker. If they were in a position where they had a better chance of…

Another question about garlic:

Which is awesome.

Not for LeMons I believe. He could have just left them off and been fine.

Yeah, but he also took the time to put indicators in the horizontal stabilizers.

I believe so.

I'm most impressed by the fact that the Cessna is road legal.