Saint John, New Brunswick also used to have a terrible smell from the pulp mill. Last time I was there I didn’t notice it, so maybe they have cleaned it up.

It’s specific to chemicals used in the Kraft process for making wood pulp. Other Mills might use at different process, with their own issues (like SO₂ gas).

My only meeting was that the “they” who revolutionized gaming are not the same people who are in the company now. I have no doubt that they are absolutely top-tier game developers.

John Carmack, Adrian Carmack, John Romero, Tom Hall. These were the founders of ID software. None of them are there now. It’s a different company.

That’s not to say that Microsoft isn’t stupid and evil for this and many other things, but they didn’t lay off the people who revolutionized the game industry.

Ah, that makes sense. Thanks! I even checked with the Omni calculator and it checks out.

I just watched this movie last night. I thought it was trying to be Disney. Cute alien sidekick, happy ending. Not much tension, because it was obvious that they were going to survive and save the day. I kept hoping for a shocking loss, but it never came. Or when it came, it turned out not to be a loss after all.

There were some really good elements in the plot, the science waved its hands in just the right places to make it plausible, and the visuals were spectacular. Gosling did very well as the only person in the majority of the movie.

One thing bothered me: they were at Tau Ceti, 11.9 light years from earth, but the return trip was only going to take 4 years and change. How did that work?

No way to be sure? It is absolutely sure that they are harvesting every bit of data they can from you.

My wife was shocked when she googled herself and found information that could only have been obtained by reading all of her emails. I explained that Gmail and other mail services are not charities, and if you’re not paying for them with money, you are paying with something else.

Next thing you know, they are going to want English speakers to say Roma instead of Rome, Napoli instead of Naples, and so on.

I have taught in Quebec schools this year, the first full year that cell phones were banned. I have not seen a single student using a phone. The teachers at my schools have also been unanimous in saying that there has been a significant improvement in the student attention, as well as communication and activity between students.

Any reason it it spelled “Mithrall” instead of “Mithril”? Is that trademarked or something?

I mean, it seems unlikely they could deny that it is heavily based on Tolkien mythology.

And since the dogma of infallibility was proclaimed close to 200 years ago, there have only been two instances it has been invoked.

Kraft Dinner, or KD.

500mg of salt is about 1/10 of a teaspoon, not very much.

After you accomplished some missions, you had enough money to buy a docking computer. From then on when you got close you just pressed a button and it would dock automatically, playing The Blue Danube waltz just like in 2001.

I don’t know if it’s still true, but I believe that MySQL used to ignore anything after a semicolon in a single command. It’s obviously better to prevent SQL injections and used parameterized queries, though.

You could check out FolderFort. Sometimes they have lifetime pricing. I paid something like $170 for 3TB lifetime.

They have SFTP access in beta.

Maybe she used the words “sexually abused” when speaking to agents. Then this would simply be accurate reporting.

Or maybe she said “raped” or use different words. Without saying the original it’s impossible to know.

Not to mention that the current royal family was originally named Saxe-Coburg, changing it to a more palatable “Windsor” during the first World war (which was fought against subjects of the German Kaiser, who was a cousin of the British king).

I heard a very interesting argument that if the Royal family can remove Andrew from the line of succession, then the line itself can be manipulated, and anyone else could be added. In that case, what is the point of having a royal family?

You might want to look at something like Drupal as an alternative to WordPress. Drupal tends toward a lot more open source for its plugins (which they call modules). As a developer myself, I also find it better engineered than WordPress, although maybe that’s just because I used Drupal more.

As my wife is fond of saying, professional sports has far too much money involved to leave the results up to the athletes.

Not always true, I’m sure, but not always far from the truth.