Plus, while campaign finance reform had party-line sensibilities, it was never a straight party-line issue. If McCain-Feingold had a provision allowing campaign money to fund free abortions for all, then it’d be a different story.

Would they have been that different? If McCain has a organizing trait, its that he has never heard of a military adventure he didn’t like, and in that respect, who knows? W’s wars in Iraq and Afghanistan could have been McCain’s wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, Iran, and God knows where else.

It’s beautiful, butttt the one thing is that a lot of states, by law, growlers have to have the brewer’s name, etc. on them - so you can’t fill a growler with “Brewery X” at “Brewery Y,” or a plain growler without a name at either.

It’s beautiful, butttt the one thing is that a lot of states, by law, growlers have to have the brewer’s name, etc.…

That’s smart. I’ve got two kits: One for toiletry items, and one for chargers and cables. I’ve found its a huge time saver when packing: For whatever reason, I seem to take about as long to pack one item as another, and toiletries are a pretty large number of items, all things considered.

The real advantage is that when you run out something at home, you’ve got a secret back up stash. I usually buy toothpaste in multipacks on sale; I thought I had another tube, but didn’t. The travel toothpaste in my kit got me through the night and I bought more the next day.

I’m not sure how Siri’s coded, but as far as I can tell, it’s not AI at all. A human being codes Siri to do certain things based on the presence of keywords: “Will it rain today?” triggers a specific query, via a weather API that sends the location and time in question, and then formats the response.

Ironically, it’s not educator salaries that’s been driving the increase in costs. It’s largely the growth of administrative ranks - people who don’t teach - and partly also from the building boom that’s been going on for two decades (donors will give for shiny new buildings. Not the full cost, but a big part of it.)

I guarantee you that more devices will ship with USB-A and microUSB ithan USB-C in 2017, and I’d bet good money that that’ll still be the case in 2018 and 2019.

But that’s precisely the issue, because French Guiana isn’t another national team according to FIFA.

How about “being born in the overseas department or having one or both parents from there?”

If these refs knew this and decided not to, I like them a lot. CONCACAF is just being ridiculous with those rules when two teams in the tournament (French Guiana and Martinique) are part of France legally speaking and thus aren’t eligible to field teams in FIFA competitions at all.

Another case in point: French Guiana is part of France, legally. Everyone from French Guiana is a French citizen; they elect members to the French National Assembly in Paris and the European Parliament in Brussels.

Except Surinam and Guyana are both independent countries; French Guiana is a part of France to an greater extent than Puerto Rico is a part of the USA. Anyone born in French Guiana is a French citizen. They get to elect members to the National Assembly (the one that meets in Paris), the European Parliament, etc.

But French Guiana, Martinique, and Guadelope aren’t FIFA members. Malouda is French. He holds a French passport. He’s a French citizen and a French national. There is no such thing as a ‘French Guianese’ citizen any more than there’s such a thing as a citizen from Ohio that isn’t also an American citizen.

Because CONCACAF says so? Apparently, CONCACAF is fine letting them be full members even if they’re not FIFA affiliated, but not OK letting them play the best players they can get.

CONCACAF’s rule is just utter BS, though: French Guiana, like Martinique, is an overseas département of France. Neither team are FIFA affiliated at all. In other words, French Guiana can never make it to the World Cup, since they’re not even eligible to qualify.

Guzan’s a reaction-based goaltender who’s getting older, and therefore less able to react.

In the French-speaking parts of FIFA’s headquarters, that’s just called “bon vivant.”

How does that even work with station wagons and SUVs? Does that mean anyone who has a bottle of wine in a smart car is breaking the law? So dumb.

That’s really common, we ties in to my pet peeve, that people need to buy cars from dealers.