2. I should have been clearer that I was speaking about multiple-income families. IBR scales quickly with income and can end up being higher than the standard repayment plan. If I were single with my current income (about one-third the student loan debt), my IBR payment would be about half of the standard payment. …

And, most importantly, the extra-solar planets we've found are known to be biased toward systems with large planets close to the star simply because those are easiest for us to spot with our current methods.

I don't think it's that, I think he's still a little bit crazy...and maybe an asshole too. The thing is, we never got to see Phil before everything happened. He may have been the naive person you describe or he may have just been a dick. And now that he has somebody to be a dick to (multiple somebodies actually),…

There are a lot of factors to consider on this, though.

Goddammit people are so fucking greedy. This is a process. Do you understand that. It was always going to go this way. We're talking about the third company in the second wave of cord-cutting and do you know what they're offering? Pretty much the exact thing before for half the price. Isn't that great?

Most of those also require a monthly fee, at least if you want a programming guide and don't want to go back to the days of programming VCRs. Either way, like I said, it's a value add.

You should check your television's menu options. We recently discovered that our television actually has a program guide for our OTA channels. I have no idea how it works (it's not a smart TV), but it's there.

AMC has the one highest-rated show on television. But how far is that going to carry them? Aside from The Walking Dead, here were the highest-rated programs that aired on cable last week:

It kind of depends on what features you have. When we cut the cord a year ago we were paying $115/mo but only about $70 of that was actual content (including a $10/mo add-on that we usually rotated between BBC America, HBO, and ESPNU).

Frankly, if a service gave me the ability to pause live TV and watch OTA shows the night they air (just not necessarily at the same time), I would consider that a value-add. We cut the cord about a year ago and the one thing I miss most is the ability to watch shows the night they air. We can still see things the…

The problem you're facing is that a lot of these channels are owned by the same companies. Turner owns both TNT and TBS so you're never going to find a package with one and without the other because Turner has no reason to sell them separately. Same with ESPN/Disney/ABC Family, Food Network/HGTV, and probably…

It took modern scientists at UC Davis seven years before they determined that an evolved "biotype" of phylloxera had overcome the resistance of AxR #1, the particular rootstock that was prevalent in California.

I knew this was coming, but I can't help but feel bad for the participants. I've heard or read interviews with probably a half-dozen potential candidates and every damn one of them has seemed 100% certain that, not only was this happening, but that they were either going to be going or that they would be getting deep…

It's a good way to get real angry at the war on drugs and the way it has changed the relationship between police and citizens. Probably more relevant today than ever before.

I've got two or three rotisserie chicken carcasses sitting in my freezer right now just waiting for the next time I need to make stock. It really is the easiest way to go and makes really good stock.

I think the showrunners don't want to go past seven seasons because they want to keep the narrative tight. All I hear from book readers is about how slow the fourth and fifth books are and how little happens and how spread out the story gets. I think it's probable that Benioff and Weiss are looking at ways to…

I have a coworker who just had a procedure to repair a macular hole that used something like this (I don't know if it was SF6 or something else). Part of the procedure required her to lie or sit face down for a week to keep the bubble from moving around too much.

I'm a librarian and I very rarely read books. In fact, very little of my job has anything to do with books anymore. For the most part, I'm a professional researcher, as are most people in the profession.

Sorry, I should have clarified. I do, occasionally, connect my laptop to the television, but I do so using a 4 ft. cable because I don't want cables running through the middle of my living room.

Because I like to do things on the computer while I watch TV. I can't do that with the computer hooked up to the television.