@AviD heh, not sure about that, apart from being on the panel, I've not been too heavily involved.. not sure if they're planning to do anything for chapter leaders.
I've booked my hotel anyway, took the opportunity to burn 260,000 airmiles
@ScottPack national borders in general are often pretty crazy.
for example, the famous "Green Line" here in Israel - they drew a border on the map using a magic marker. Turns out the line produced by a marker is not of negligible width.
Things being wiggly wobbly lines that follow natural boundaries (rivers/ridges/etc) or are drawn through one-upsmanship or because one side just gets tired of yelling over a swamp makes sense to me.
Even the funny things that happen like with the jut in Minnesota because of a mapping issue, or when an earthquake moved a river in Kentucky and changed a border. I find those interesting, and they somewhat make sense.
The idea of there being enough dickwaving to say, "Fuck all ya'll. I don't care if we are indistinguishable from each other and we have lovely diplomatic status. Here's a goddamn DMZ.
@AviD So since the magic marker is a line of zero width, and not a zone, the trick is figuring out where exactly the line exists on dirt?
@ScottPack no, the other way around - since the "border" width can be several hundred meters, even more in some places, the tricky part is in deciding which side owns the dirt under the line.
@ScottPack starred because DMZ.
@RоryMcCune yeah, in that article they actually pointed out that its not AT rsac, but happens to be nearby.
So. I'm looking at a review from a place claiming to be Turkish nearby. Something about it makes me feel suspicious.
> A "varied menu" of "quality" Turkish "favorites" doled out in "generous" portions will "transport" diners "to Istanbul", while the "beautiful" traditional decor will have them "feeling like a sultan" at this midpriced chainlet; "cheery" service is another plus, as are the patios (in Dublin and Bexley only).
I got about halfway through the first book and had to put it down. I couldn't handle the terrible writing. That was also nearly 15 years ago. I should give it another shot.
something about that thing where it goes white where the surrounding skin is pink, and how long it stays like that is indicative of how dehydrated you are
Entertaining is so very fuzzy, which is the problem with the word. It's not quantitative measure. Things aren't inherently entertaining. You simply find it to be so.
@ScottPack True. I'm pretty sure all the people I know who have guns, have at least two. Most of them have more. But they're altogether a small percentage of all the people I know. And that's in the "Gunshine State".
@ScottPack Ah, right. OH is fairly gun-friendly too, isn't it? I believe OH & FL are the two states with the highest reciprocity for their CCW permits?
@ScottPack @Iszi Most of the studies I've seen have U.S. gun ownership at around 30% of the adult population. So, you're right. Even though we have 9 guns for every 10 people, it's only 3 out of every 10 who own them all.
Hell, my high school (in KY) had an explicit exception in the "no firearms on school property" rule to allow the storage of guns in student owned vehicles during hunting season.
only because they were suing anyone that had the word candy in their name and someone on slashdot pointed out the irony that their entire game is a ripoff
