DC Tom

1) Roomba. 2) The Roomba is far smarter than AOC - it knows when it's wrong, and self-corrects.

Smart. With the shitstorm Kavanaugh went through, imagine how much worse it would have been with accusations of "Stealing a woman's seat on the bench" piled on top.

There's actually some evidence that the increase in technology use is the result, not the cause. Twenty-something males are more reluctant to pursue women and partake in a "hookup culture" where they're no longer certain of the rules and what constitutes "consent." Basically, they're starting to that Fortnite marathons are far less risky than trying to find a completely sober, emotionally stable woman on a Friday night willing to give affirmative consent.

Fascinating what modern science can do. I was just reading a book about the emergence of HIV, and they can use microbiology and genetic analysis to pinpoint the time and place it crossed in to humans: within 50 miles of Kuomou, in 1908. And just this week, they took a direct image of an exoplanet. But we still can't explain Gugny. Go figure.

Some peanut butter contains xylitol, which is very toxic in dogs. Most of the largest brands are safe, I think...but check the label.

It truly isn't. People don't remember that the rocket scientists told the lawyers "No, this is high-risk," and the lawyers said "No, it's okay, just watch." And it's worse today, with the "I'm a statistician, I have Excel!" crowd. The "statisticians" at work stopped sending me emails after I shredded their work one too many times. I consider that a sufficient result.

I'm guessing...you're a NASA lawyer, then? Simply based on the fact that I'm clearly smarter than you, too.

You don't even need that much knowledge to see this. With all the controlled air space they'd be flying through, how in the hell could it be the pilots that screwed up? Regional ATC centers would have had to have that flight plan on file.

No. I'm smarter than NASA lawyers.

I see multiple rape/assault/harrassment/hair smelling accusations in his future.

Actually, you can't confirm that, which is pretty much the whole point. It's widely scattered date, the variance is much higher than the mean. You also assume the Wonderlic score is an independent variable - which is a necessary assumption for a linear regression, but is nonetheless invalid: your chosen analysis requires it to be, so you treat it as such. But based on what? Do you see any reliable evidence of a normal distribution in that data? Did you analyse it for the best-fit distribution, or just eyeball it? And that's all beside the fact that a 0.31 correlation is a weak correlation. Pretending that's meaningful is the sort of piss-poor analysis that leads to space shuttles exploding - literally, you just duplicated the basic flaws in NASA's analysis of O-ring blow-by, that there was some sort of linear dependence on temperature. Their incorrect statistical model masked the simple observation that all blow-by occurred below a certain critical temperature. Much like your analysis: trying to pretend a weak linear correlation on non-linear data of uncertain statistical distribution masks the very simple observation that no QB with a score under 27 has a rating of 95 or higher.

Except that I know a correlation of 0.31 sucks. Sometimes linear regression is not the proper analytical tool. What's telling is that no one with a Wonderlic lower than 27 has a passer rating above 95. You want to draft a great QB, don't look at anyone with a Wonderlic below 30, and your chances of getting one increase significantly.

Last time I ran the 40 it was measured with the 2014, 2015, and 2016 calendars. But I finished.

Last time Joe asked this question, that was the answer he was looking for. Now it's "fresh haircut." Apparently he's gotten softer. Two years from now, his answer will probably be "a lavender scented body wash and cucumber face mask."

It'd be like watching an Oompa-Loompa club a baby seal. I may register Democrat and vote for Biden, just to see it.

A lot of what I've read in the past 10 posts or so seems largely irrelevant. How will Beto's DUI play in an election? It won't, because no one's going to change their vote to Trump over it. How will Harris' white husband affect things? Not much, because no one's going to vote for Trump over her because of it. The Democrats' problem in 2020 isn't so much that their candidate is running against Trump, as much as their candidate is running against "***** it, I'm staying home." Same dynamic as in 2016: high turnout favors the Democratic candidate. Except now the Democrats have taken identity politics to such an insane level that any candidate is likely to alienate part of their electorate. Their best bet is probably Gillibrand, since she's equally uninspiring to everyone.

That's not how this country works, Joe.

It's an airplane, not high enough to catch the sunlight from below the horizon, but backlit by skyglow, so it looks unusual., And it's not falling. If it were falling, it would look like it was getting closer and accelerating.

Must be @Gugny then.

Be careful. Leptospirosis infects people as well. It's not something you want. It infects by contact, so wear gloves while you're handling her, particularly in contact with bodily fluids (saliva, urine, feces - wear gloves when scooping.) It's also a pretty hardy spirochete...so if she's peed in your yard, the soil there could be harboring the spirochete for quite some time (weeks to months, I believe). Don't panic - it ain't Ebola or yellow-fever level dangerous. But it's not exactly something you want to catch, either. I know some of those drugs from taking care of my cats. Cerenia is an excellent, benign drug, and works well on my cat with chronic kidney disease - in fact, I have to prepare it for her right now. Which means she's going to keep me up all night telling me she feels better and I should give her something to eat. Two of the antibiotics are a tetracycline and amoxicillin, pretty standard stuff. Metronidazole and Famotidine together are a standard intestinal treatment - Famotidine, in fact, is nothing more than Pepcid-AC; our vet didn't even prescribe it, just gave us the dosage and told us to buy it over the counter. Denamarin I know nothing about. So it's a scary-looking list...but really, not as scary as it seems. Four of those are standard "tummy ache" treatment in my experience.

Know what this is? Him begging the left to call the Mueller report "fake news." They may very well fall for it.

So "letch" is a variant of "lech." So he was right, but you're still going to argue. Good luck, Mr. Schiff. In fact, I'm coining a new word for this: to "schiff," v., To argue past the point of being demonstrated wrong, in the mistaken belief that you can still win the argument.

I predict the Democratic response to this will be "You can't investigate a former president!"

Why is this even a story? Remember when a CNN commentator had foreknowledge of debate and town hall questions, and in her role as vice-chair of the DNC forwarded them to the Clinton Campaign? Or when Candy Crowley actively helped Obama debate Romney? Or when CBS worked with the Kerry campaign and its biggest donor to push false military records about Bush? This isn't news. It's business as usual. CNN/NBC/MSNBC/CBS/ABC working for the Democratic Party.

Who's "D"? "TPs" are "talking points."