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That's unlikely an option due to North Island, though.

I worked at a Subway while in high school, and I agree the smell is not very inviting. Even the dough, once thawed, has a strange odor to it, though the biggest cause of that funky odor you smell is the bread proofer located beneath the oven. It circulates warm moist air around the bread to help it rise. The thing is, it's not cleaned regularly (at least it wasn't at three different stores I worked in), and when left unchecked mold forms on the bottom.

Nice.

I'll just add, any sane implementation of make should already define $(CC) for you.

The phrase he used has a fairly well understood meaning, so of course the substitution would read differently. It would be an entirely new phrase. Different words/phrases have different connotations.

Replace "proprietary" with "open source" and the argument is virtually the same. You still need to trust the third party running the software.

Yea, this seems to be the case. I've had the leading zero stripped on a few occasions when receiving items at an FPO AE address (all APO/DPO/FPO AE zip codes start with a zero).

Just to add, union dues and initiation fees are also tax deductible in the U.S.; however, you can only deduct the amount above and beyond 2% of your AGI.

The A-10 was the first plane to come to mind when I saw the description, as well. Living in Tucson as a kid, I saw these planes flying around quite a bit.

My point here is, if you're in the military now, you're volunteering for war. If you're an injured soldier, I'm sorry you got hurt. You didn't deserve it, because nobody deserves war and mayhem. But you volunteered for it. We need to stop saying "support the troops". We need to start saying "prevent kids from joining unjust war".

I'm currently serving, and I agree. It gets tiring having complete strangers walk up to me, while I'm in uniform, and saying things like "thank you, for all that you do.", as if I should bask in the glory of their appreciation. Perhaps they really are thankful, but the whole encounter is always awkward. At first I wasn't sure how to respond, but I've settled on saying "you're welcome", even though it sounds arrogant to me. Then you have individuals and corporations who profit on this whole notion that we should donate to "support the troops" at every opportunity we get. Many of us don't deserve support. Some of us may make sacrifices at times, but that doesn't mean we deserve everyone's affection or undue favoritism. We have the same issues as any one else. I'd much rather people pressure their congressmen and women to provide the benefits our service members were guaranteed. For those that feel compelled to give, I'd urge them to do so locally by contacting their local VFW post.

Now, I don't want to seem ungrateful. There have been instances where I felt I experienced actual appreciation. Once I was out enjoying sushi with some family and friends and a stranger paid the bill. They left without us ever having known who they were. I'm grateful for what they did.

According to the Apple Pay site, that'll be the case for in-store purchases.

Indeed.

I originally enlisted in the Navy as an Aviation Structural Mechanic (AM), and my first command was an F-14 squadron where I was assigned to airframes. On average, we scheduled 40 man hours for each flight hour (sometimes as high as 60). The F/A-18's that eventually replaced the Tomcats took about half that, but for most aircraft you're looking at 10 MMH/FH, at least, for mx alone.

That said, not all aircraft are created equal, and not all those Tomcats required all 40 scheduled man hours. Maintenance manning, at least in the Navy, is largely determined by man hours. So it isn't uncommon for commands to log as many hours as they can to keep billets, and possibly get a few additional ones. Billets are taken away if you show you can operate at fewer man hours.

I can only assume your coworker had quite an elaborate setup, as most ircds (e.g., ircu, charybdis, ircd-hybrid) take an hour, tops, to configure and get running.

Also, a cursory search for other candidates seem to indicate Mitsubishi Corp has a market cap of 3.1T? ...

That's in Japanese Yen, which is ~34.5B USD.

Easiest way to remember, if the sound of the word's first letter starts with a consonant sound, you use a. If it starts with a vowel sound, you use an.

Also, your US numbers of course vary by state.

For example, Arizona driver's licenses don't expire until the person's 65th birthday (and every five years thereafter).

You're improperly conflating the two issues, though I agree DADT was a horrible policy.

There simply weren't plenty of linguists before or after those discharges (which obviously didn't make the situation any better). There still isn't for languages like Arabic and Persian Farsi. Attrition rates for DLI are high.

It varies by state. Anywhere from 3 to 10 years (for non-IRS collections) depending on the type of agreement.

Quite the opposite.

Many countries have national laws prohibiting cooperate espionage, but it's not necessarily prohibited by international law absent a declaration of war.

That report doesn't really dispute his point, though.

The U.S. accounts for about 35% of R&D research worldwide for prescription drugs. Nearly half of the pharmaceutical companies revenues and profits come from the U.S. market. They even get something better than tax subsidies (and they do get quite a few tax breaks)... Medicare's prescription drug program. So, yes, U.S. taxpayers are very much footing the bill, even if the industry doesn't need the outrageous profits they claim.

Higher freight traffic in the U.S. has partially something to do with it. Buffering strengths here require that a passenger train be able to withstand 800,000 pounds of force without deformation, leading to trains that are nearly twice as heavy (and thus slower) than trains in other parts of the world. Europe, on the other hand, doesn't have quite as stringent requirements, and instead of requiring rigid frames they mandate crumple zones, which are arguably just as safe. MetroLink in SoCal has started employing something similar on their cars.

To give an idea just how big freight traffic is in the U.S., freight by rail is something like 1.7 trillion ton-mile (39.9% of freight by ton-mile). The total across all modes in the EU is 1.4 trillion ton-mile, of which rail makes up 17%, so only about an eighth of the U.S. in freight. This has led to fairly different rail systems.

Which they acquired in 2006 (less than 20 months after YouTube launched). They've been driving YouTube for quite some time now.

The (C)C-130J, which is what's used today, has little in common with the C-130A other than appearance. These aren't 50+ year old aircraft.

I'm pretty sure that statement was tongue-in-cheek, given the recent water woes in West Virginia.

Every branch has mandatory sexual assault training (I just attended one three weeks ago), but I agree it's not enough, nor working. Air Force JAG held a summit last week to address this very issue. Part of the problem is the way the military criminal justice system works. Commanders have too much discretion in whether or not to prosecute service members, and the ability to overturn or lessen convictions. A lot of victims don't report attacks out of fear of retaliation from their own command. Prosecutorial authority needs to be taken out of the chain of command for sexual assault cases, if not at the felony level entirely. That alone will have some impact.

There's been some effort to amend Article 60 of the UCMJ within the Senate; however, it's never gotten past committee.

There isn't any specific reason, really. It's a matter of preference, and they can be used interchangeably (which wasn't always the case) nowadays.

I don't know, but "Disabled" is still selected when I visit that page after viewing my location history.

When I visit the dashboard, there's a notice at the bottom stating as much, as well... "Google Location History is not yet enabled for your Google Account."

The U.S. doesn't even have an official language, at the federal level, nor do some of the states. Hawaii has two official languages (English & Hawaiian). Some states have given Spanish and French special status, while others are de facto bilingual.

This isn't a huge problem for Southwest though, as checked baggage for domestic flights do not have to be pulled (and rarely ever are) in the United States. It'll be stored at the final destination printed on the tag until you pick it up, or you file a baggage claim to have it sent back.

Or... perhaps he just doesn't know for certain, and gave an honest reply.

They've deployed ships.

I took part in the 2008 humanitarian relief det when Typhoon Fengshen hit land, and our response time was about seven hours from the time we got the phone call and had planes and helos on the ground delivering supplies and providing medical care.

Those response times are largely based on how quickly we can get supplies from USAID, and receive an actual request for assistance.