When I took the Adirondack south a few months ago, they kicked everyone out of the cafe car to turn it into the interviews-with-US-border-patrol car. I don't know if the Canadian officials do the same thing on the trip north.
Where does that claim appear in the Wikipedia article? I don't see it, and the Wikipedia article on moving walkways mentions both Paris 1900 and the earlier example at Chicago 1893.
Header reminded me of this SMBC.
@91: Yes, Stross was born in Leeds. And I don't think there's such a thing as Scottish citizenship.
@83: And when did Charlie become Scottish?
@55: That reminds me of my twin, who once contracted a bad cold solely by reading Wuthering Heights.
@1: PageRank is a logarithmic scale. Four is a lot less than six.
@18: Wikipedia tells me you probably mean something else, what for a moment I thought the Erisian Liberation Front was alive and well…
I hope some teachers are "actively trying to indoctrinate children into accepting homosexuality". A new generation more tolerant than the last seems like a good idea.
@101: "[… People ask me] 'Where do you get your ideas from, Ms. Le Guin?' From forgetting Dostoyevsky and reading road signs backwards, naturally. Where else?"
@618: I would use use-mention quotes: 'I do's. You could use use-mention italics instead, but then it's harder to show that the s is not part of the mentioned text.
@82: So it was done to save lies from an imminent threat, then?
@103: Pierre Bayard (In How to talk about books you haven't read) has a more fine-grained system: there are books he has read but forgotten, books he has heard discussed, books he has glanced at, and books entirely unknown to him. It's not clear if there are any books he has read and remembers; he certainly doesn't talk about them.
@35: Sidestepping slightly (following Charlie @38) from prosecuting torturers to prosecuting war criminals, I'm not convinced that there is anything else that should take priority. How is a US domestic problem like healthcare or education reform more important than setting a precedent which would deter future leaders from ripping other countries apart in wars of illegal aggression?
@183: I haven't read the UN Convention against Torture, but the UN special rapporteur says it requires that torturers be prosecuted.
@144: That would require the US to sign up to the International Criminal Court. Any word yet on whether Obama's likely to do that?
@8: You're underestimating. Folding@home is running on about four hundred thousand machines, including over fifty thousand PS3s.
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