You're right! If he hits her that way, she should hit back!

Girl should get revenge by exposing the guy for the asshole he is, so that he loses his job, status and maybe an existing girlfriend! That would be fitting. What future girlfriend would want to go out with an asshole who'd done that to an ex, no matter what justification he was able to conjure?

I used to live under the flight path in Windsor - it was certainly pretty impressive. If you were sleeping in, it would put an end to that.

And I remember sitting in my car in stationary traffic on the M25 just near Heathrow early one evening. It was dark, and suddenly my car started to shudder, as though it was thundering. And then I saw Concorde flying over, just taking off for its evening trip to NY. It had its burners on, and it looked like the Millenium Falcon, with bright white light pouring from its engines. It honestly looked like it was powered by light!

Then the burners went off, the sound collapsed and it just disappeared into the evening. Amazing.

Gravity_wave - fluid dynamics phenomenon

Gravitational_wave - General Relativity

Wikipedia does not constitute proof, but it's probably right in this case.

So the lesson is "if you suck up to local gangs and pay protection money, then you'll live in a better society"? Cool!

Simple.

People talk at a volume appropriate to their own surroundings, and they forget that the other person on the call isn't in the same environment. You usually have to talk loudly in noisy places - turns out it isn't necessary on the phone, but a lot of people don't realise that.

Also, we are trained to treat "half-conversations" as high priority interrupts. If you hear "Hello!" ... followed by a silence ... it calls your "maybe they are talking to me?" handler. And even after you've suppressed the interrupt, it still wakes you up. Really annoying, but kind of interesting once you realize what's going on.

Definitely. We used to call it "PPL" - Property-file Programming Language - the tendency for simple name-value property files to acquire strange little bespoke syntaxes and nesting structures. The question isn't whether you will do it - it's how soon you face it and how elegantly you'll achieve it.

You kidding? Apparently I've even got windows on my computer!

Hi,

You really have to put that AC idea away. The poster was talking about the UK. In the UK, air conditioning is something we have in server rooms, meeting rooms and cars. I don't know anyone here who has AC in their house. In fact, you have to call it "air-conditioning", because if you talk about the AC, people here start thinking about the mains supply.

We have warm-ish evenings in summer, but mostly by the time the lights go on, the temperature has dropped enough for you to wish there was a little heating on. I never bother to turn the heating on specially, but that doesn't mean that a little extra light-bulb heat isn't wanted. There is a summer every 25 years when it's warm enough for this not to apply!

In cold places, light-bulbs are about as good as any other form of electric heating. Even the thing about convection optimization is fake - all room heaters heat the ceiling first and fill downwards, and light-bulbs just ensure that the ceiling fills quicker.

In one way, light-bulbs are better than other heaters - they are generally likely to be on only in rooms that are in use (assuming you are careful about leaving lights on). Most central heating systems don't do that.

Cheers!