The Off Topic Topic

[Valmy]

I've subscribed to online edition of Washington Post.  This is the first time I subscribed to a digital media, they broke me. 

There is more than enough free stuff for me to consume.  I refuse to subscribe to anything that requires payment. 

Why would you? You will just find a way to illegally steal it.

[Razgovory]

I've gotten two calls from scammers today.

[Grey Fox]

I've subscribed to online edition of Washington Post.  This is the first time I subscribed to a digital media, they broke me. 

It's such a slippery slope.

[Valmy]

The internet seems awfully determined that I date Slavic and/or East Asian women. I guess this is concern for low birth rates in those parts of the world

[Eddie Teach]

The internet seems awfully determined that I date Slavic and/or East Asian women. I guess this is concern for low birth rates in those parts of the world

Not sure how you bringing them to America helps those birthrates.

[HVC]

The internet seems awfully determined that I date Slavic and/or East Asian women. I guess this is concern for low birth rates in those parts of the world

what kind of google searches have you ben making

[Admiral Yi]

I get the same stuff.  Sign up for a dating site and you're going to be spammed for the rest of your life.

[Liep]

"The idea was to make a loving poster for our sketch show. I don't understand who wouldn't feel included in this, they're holding a balloon globe together!"

So that's three white actors and one from, I think, Pakistan (the one in black face with the banana ear rings).

[Tamas]

The banana earrings really drive the message home.

[HVC]

Nothing says togetherness like a jaundiced Fu Manchu

[Tamas]

You can kinda' see why Europe cannot integrate minorities from different cultures very well. I mean, look at that pic. Wasn't it also Denmark where somebody like a US ambassador lamented on the usage of the term "3rd generation immigrant", which they did?

[The Brain]

You can kinda' see why Europe cannot integrate minorities from different cultures very well. I mean, look at that pic. Wasn't it also Denmark where somebody like a US ambassador lamented on the usage of the term "3rd generation immigrant", which they did?

Most Chinese are much better integrated than the one in the pic.

[Tamas]

You can kinda' see why Europe cannot integrate minorities from different cultures very well. I mean, look at that pic. Wasn't it also Denmark where somebody like a US ambassador lamented on the usage of the term "3rd generation immigrant", which they did?

Most Chinese are much better integrated than the one in the pic.

Which is exactly my point.

[mongers]

Interesting bit of science:

Forget Bruce Willis, Earth's atmosphere is our best defense against meteorites

Porous space rocks just can't handle the pressure

By Iain Thomson in San Francisco  11 Dec 2017

Researchers have discovered why most meteorites disintegrate before they reach Earth - and it's all to do with atmospheric pressure.

Previously it was thought that compression of air particles is what causes meteorites to wear away as they make their way down to our planet's surface, but many, like the 2013 Chelyabinsk meteorite that injured over 1,000 people, explode in the atmosphere. New research suggests that air is forcing its way inside the meteorite itself.

The research, published in the journal Meteoritics & Planetary Science, notes that in the last few years of exploration we've discovered that many meteorites aren't solid boulders but instead loose conglomerations of rocks that have glommed together through gravitational attraction.

Porosity rates of up to 20 per cent have been found in some meteorites and this could spell their doom once they hit Earth. As the rocks hit the lower, denser atmosphere air is forced inside the porous meteorites and heats up massively, so that the pressure increase eventually blows the object into tiny fragments.

"There's more going on than what had been thought before," said Jay Melosh, a geophysicist at Purdue University in Indiana. "Bottom line is that the atmosphere is a better screen against small impacts than we had thought."
...

Full item here, worth a read:
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/12/11/earth_atmosphere_final_defense_against_meteorites/

[CountDeMoney]

"The idea was to make a loving poster for our sketch show. I don't understand who wouldn't feel included in this, they're holding a balloon globe together!"

So that's three white actors and one from, I think, Pakistan (the one in black face with the banana ear rings).

THERE WERE NO JEWS HARMED IN THE MAKING OF THIS MOTION PICTURE