That reminds me of discovering a moderately beaten-up Mary Kay pink Karmann Ghia (Type 14) that for about nine months was parked in a location I drove past every day coming home from work some years ago; I would point it out to passengers with the spiel "You know how, if you sell enough product Mary Kay will give you…

Cluster algorithms. It would be a sizeable computing task, but it should be possible to design a program could be run against the addresses of the population of a city/county/state with a number of centroids equal to the number of elected officials, and get back a partition of the city/county/state where each…

Even as satire, this is just asinine and ridiculous. It doesn't even work in sci-fi!

Why use a word taken from German when there is a perfectly-good English word — epicaricacy — for it already?

Has to be a RN ship if it's a Lynx; the Canadians invented the Beartrap system for just that situation, and it's been adopted by the US, Australian, and Japanese navies. The helicopter hovers over the flight deck and lowers a leader cable, which is attached to a winch cable on the flight deck of the ship, and drawn…

...and scariest of all FINGER NAIL CLIPPERS!!!!

That would depend on the bag; I've got a Belkin cover for my Kindle, and the only thing I have to do is make sure that it's lying flat in the plastic tub so the TSA peon on the scanner can get a good planform image — the same as I do with my laptop in its TSA-approved bag that clamshells open so that there's a clear…

Heavy combat in the SCA is still with rattan weapons, not live steel, and the armor requirements fall a fair bit lower than 'full plate armor'. I believe the sole provisions under which the use of 'live steel' is permitted is target shooting (i.e., archery competitions), where the weapons are directed at a target, not…

I don't know where you live, but I get a bill every two months for the water used at my house. It's definitely not free; the cost may be miniscule on a per-quart basis, but it's not free.

"Also comprehensive sex ed and cheap/free contraception!"

No, but if you go to the image link from the ESO website linked above, you can get a large JPEG, a 'publication' jpeg (3539x4000), or the 'fullsize original' (at 25.4Mb of image, I didn't bother downloading it), one of which would have enough resolution to create a background image from for any reasonable desktop.

Nothing about Simon Hawke's Time Wars series, which started out with soldiers being sent back in time to participate as grunts in ancient battles, with their respective performance being graded to determine a result for the two sides competing in that battle while agents worked to ensure that no significant changes…

Or you can print a transparency in positive or negative depending on what results you want, at whatever size your printer supports, attach any peripheral masking if you want to avoid borders like those in the lower-right subimage, and lay the transparency over the treated fabric.

...and the more it learns your browsing history, the more valuable you become to Amazon's advertising department, because they will be able to offer advertisers populations of people whose interests are more closely aligned with their products.

So because someone claims that a site is selling counterfeit product, that site is summarily cut off the Net? No requirement to prove a violation? Warner Brothers has already admitted in federal court that it has issued takedown notices to file-sharing sites for content that they have no ownership of; what makes you…

No, I have to agree with her; using that one expletive over and over again does display a lack of creativity — one of the people I used to work with was a sailor, and his command of invective appeared to consist solely of the F-bomb in its indicative, participle, and agent noun forms, which rapidly becomes repetitive.…

You mean you don't know deep in your soul, from watching all those movies, that the moment you feel any transverse G force, it means your car is about to flip, burn, and explode?

Sudden Deceleration Trauma — the unheralded killer.

"Reflecting the sacred will of the voters is the absolute priority."

Some preferential voting systems have 'No Preference' and/or 'None of the Remaining' entries, which drop your ballot out of reassignment if the elimination process gets down to that point on your ballot. The difference between the two is minor — 'No Preference' removes your ballot from the vote count, while 'None of…