I don't know why it's taking so long. I'm so used to everything being touch screen that I always find myself tapping on my wife's MacBook expecting it to do what it should. Oh right, I have to use that thing below the keyboard...

You might run out if you were trying to make a bigger universe.

It breaks some of the hardened salt (or sugar, or whatever crystalized substance) keeping the lid from turning. It doesn't work if the lid is stuck because of something viscous instead of hard; for those, a prolonged application of medium force works better than a very strong force of short duration.

> Also is there any pros for using oil filled heater over fan heater?

They're silent (so well-suited for a bedroom) and have less fire risk than some other products with an exposed heating element. They work like a radiator you can place under the window.

Right, non-gamete mutations can affect you (but not your children). Thanks for clarifying that.

But you don't turn into Hulk.

I wouldn't be too concerned about the width. On a 50x60 area, you will do 23 long passes with a 32" and 26 passes with a 28", so it's not a significant difference to me. My main concern would be how far it can throw the snow, which requires power. If it cannot throw it 25 feet away then you will have to move the same snow twice instead of just once. And if you have to send it diagonally to your own property instead of sideways to the neighbor's parking then it needs to throw even further (also higher because snow banks get taller over the course of winter). Your main regret would be to have bought something under-powered for your needs.

They probably need to identify a flesh-and-bone person to let them know what their favorite immaterial spirit cannot say out loud. So, congratulations to old fighter Abu al-Husain al-Husaini al-Quraishi (AaHaHaQ to his close friends). May his leadership endure half as long as the last guy.

You need a battery-operated motion-sensor light from the dollar store.

As soon as you know all there is to know about something, it loses all interest.

How do you feel about arithmetic?

On the other hand such planets could serve as a better interstellar transport than just a spaceship. If you spot one that's going in the general direction that interests you then get on it with tunneling and mining equipment. Now you have a whole planet to use as multi-generational ship so you can benefit from gravity, exploit its mineral resources, hopefully find more nuclear fuel, build entire cities underground to protect you colony against cosmic radiation and asteroid bombardment, maintain heat, etc. I would think it raises the chances that your descendants make it alive to destination. The biggest problem is that you cannot accelerate it to get there sooner.

Or that poor rock might have been struggling against tides, currents and waves to stay in the ocean, only to lose its heroic struggle. But thanks to you it will return to its loving underwater home again.

We'll have to wait for the movie to know for sure.

I agree. People don't make kids because kids that don't exist want to exist, that makes no sense at all. People make kids because they want them, for reasons that are entirely their own. They also make them accidentally. None of these kids requested to be born, nobody asked them.

Buy a laser printer for sure, but before you do shop online for replacement toner cartridges, because they likely cost more than the printer itself. Buy a printer for which you can buy cheap toner. Even if you don't print much (like me) it's still more expensive than the machine itself.

I've had a black and white Brothers for longer than I can remember, maybe 10 years. Toner was cheap, still is. It still works, duplex, wireless, no problem. Very happy with it, obviously.

Oh well. It would be nice if every comment you ever make receives only responses that precisely match your expectations. But if not, roll with it. It's better for your blood pressure. Have a good night.

Oh, it's because obviously (I assumed) people on board who are late don't like that. I didn't think there was anything more to say about this part so I said nothing. The point relevant to the comparison is that while those who are late will be inconvenienced, those who miss a bus that leaves early won't get there at all. Not getting there at all is worse than being late, and it's also a breach of the tacit agreement people make when they buy a bus pass: they expect to be picked up. Riders at large will prefer to be late than to not get there, so the comparison applies to all riders in general.

> why would they like to be late vs early?

As you must realize now, this is not about being late vs being early. It's about being late vs not being picked up at all.

Yeah, that's just poor delivery of the service. Some drivers just want to get to the other end of the line so they can go for a smoke or a coffee instead of getting to all stops as per the posted schedule. The bad ones need to be reported.

Of course it does. The topic of this thread is a comparison between two cases: early vs late. Late is bad and often unavoidable, but early is worse and entirely avoidable.

A bus can arrive early at the stop but it cannot leave it early, it must leave on time. Passengers already embarked won't be made late by a bus that leaves on time. Boarding passengers who arrive on time must not be made to miss the bus because it left early.

Or pure ethanol, which doesn't kill you but puts you in a party mood rather quickly.

> Like, how we orbit the sun and turn in different ways, why would we not see different parts of space in the sky throughout the year?

We do. Look up in winter and you see the winter sky, the set of constellations that are on that side of the sun. Six months later when the earth is on the other side you see the summer sky, the set of constellations that are on the other side. If we could see stars on a summer day then we would see the winter sky in daytime (and the summer sky at night of course). As the earth orbits the sun, the dark side of the planet provides a view of the surrounding space that pans a little bit every night.

I don't know if it it would look so great. At true scale, poster proportions would be around 1 x 30, it would be mostly a black band, with circles at both ends.

> Without the use of adhesives of any kind

Levitation? ;)

You probably need to pass the wire through something rigid (tube, trim...) so it doesn't flip-flop around, then attach both ends of this rigid "thing" to what you have at each end. How you do it without adhesive (and I presume without nails) depends on what you have there. You might twist a coat hanger into a hook if there's a door frame at one end, you might just use a paper weight if it's a corner or recess that doesn't tend to get kicked. You'll have to improvise with the situation.

> “The plan for abortion pills shows a stunning disregard for the health and well-being of the mother,” Herrod said.

If only Arizona could find a way for women to access the service safely... I guess it can't be done.

> “I’m not surprised that the abortion industry would care more about their bottom line and about selling pills than they would about taking care of women still,” she said.

Because they're making a fortune with these pills? Or because they are not providing the service Arizona women need but are denied?

Shut up Herrod.