Which was prefixed by a link to the article and “tl,dr”, so I’m pretty sure an intelligent reader would realize I’m summarizing the thing I just linked to. The impression I got from the atlantic was indeed that there is a section in the koran setting out rules for what is and isn’t a caliphate, and that a huge amount…

When the leaf came out, I remember reading an article where Nissan indicated that the heated steering wheel and seat were there because it was much less electrically expensive to heat the steering wheel and seat than it was to run a blowdryer-type contraption to heat the whole car. But the effect on the driver was the…

The “random people” were quoted by the atlantic (and then those paragraphs we re-quoted by me), and were generally muslim scholars, people involved in ISIS’s international recruiting arm, or even people that tried to go to ISIS themselves.

Me: “In order to establish a caliphate, you must hold territory” -> Atlantic, Paragraph 6: “ The Islamic State, by contrast, requires territory to remain legitimate, and a top-down structure to rule it. (Its bureaucracy is divided into civil and military arms, and its territory into provinces.)“

The atlantic has a really good writeup of ISIS’s claimed religious backing.

One of the rule changes this year was to actually make the front wings more effective, which is probably why it feels there’s been much less competitive passing and dicing this year compared to last. It made the cars much more sensitive to dirty air.

Because their short-term performance doesn’t matter anymore. Mccown is better and was the right pick while playoffs were still a remote possibility, but he only has a couple more years left in the league thanks to his age.

Investing in the stock market has a positive expected return in the mathematical sense over a huge variety of time windows. Even brainless non-skilled investing* where you just stick it in a broad-based mutual fund is expected to create positive returns of 5-6% per year in the long term.

The main advantage of a plane is that they are air-breathing, not so much the wings. Oxygen is really heavy, and sucking it in from the atmosphere massively increases your system’s mass efficiency, since it doesn’t have to carry the oxygen for the atmospheric portion of flight.

My life seems so much more normal now that I’ve read that [at least] two other people also had to search through trash after tossing out a retainer.

Did it at a fast-food restaurant once. Put the (brand-new, multi-hundred-dollar) retainer on the tray->tray contents get tossed in trash->OH SHIT.

Depends on the level of motorsport. If you’re a good mechanic, many LeMons or ChumpCar teams would probably trade a shift or two in return for an engine or transmission rebuild.

The issue for RB I think is that the engine rules make it _much_ more difficult to catch back up. You get no out-of-competition testing, you get limited chances to develop the internal components, and if you have reliability issues, you get even less running since if it blows up at a race, that’s 2+ hours of running…

Math-wise it all works out. Since your engine generates negative energy, you’d have to crank it yourself. As you went backwards, it’d generate diesel fuel out of the energy of your cranking!

It’s particularly stupid for a libertarian to oppose such testing and enforcement, since pollution (aka externalities) is supposed to be one of the rare things they believe a government-like body is supposed to police.

Depends on whether the delete was simply removing them from the inbox, or actually doing an on-disk delete. Quite possibly you could implement an email database where the DB row representing a given email simply gets marked as “do not show to user”, with all the data retained.

The real chemtrails.

From reading up on the An-2, it looks like a very common usage of the plane is as a small (12 passenger) passenger plane. So likely for that reason.

As a total aviation outsider, my guess was that it might prevent a mistake/missed checklist item or let them focus a bit more during high-workload periods as they navigate through weather/terrain as magnox suggested, or just repeated normal checklists over the lifetime of the unit. Over the course of thousands of…

What do you think the cost is of an average go-around? Airlines have to put up passengers in hotels, hand out vouchers, burn more fuel, put more hours on the airframe, etc.