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A concise weather forecast tool for general aviation pilots.

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What do you mean by term "sub-optimal"?

I'm no lens expert but I'd imagine that the differences in lighting and motion in landscapes and portraiture between takes might obscure the subtle differences between the lenses t…

30 minutes?

I don't know which is more surprising: that they can calculate inflation since 1968 with such astonishing precision (median income was $32,844) or that buying a car from a defunct …

If the trackee removed this from his own car and attached it to some other car, would he be violating some law?

Mr. Speaker, where does Representative Jackson think that the Chinese spend the dollars that they make from producing iPads? And which American jobs does he propose to eliminate in…

Thou shalt not rely on spelling correctors.

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/young%20turk

Also, for those of us who think in terms of horsepower, 1200 watts is about 1.6 hp. A blender might be a more useful kitchen appliance comparison than a toaster to grasp the amount…

An infinite wing would not have induced drag but it would have infinite parasitic drag. There are two kinds of drag at play. As one is reduced the other becomes more dominant.

FTA: "menus made entirely from image maps"

I wonder if the 90° orientation really does make people feel more secure as the narrator claimed. Did they conduct some kind of research or just declare it to be so? Personally, I'…

If Donahoe was speaking, rather than writing, how do we know that he didn't make a slip of the tongue and use the possessive form "its" when he really meant to say: "it's." Maybe t…

Very disturbing. I'd like to hook those sons of bitches up to their own milking machines.

Wouldn't it be better if people debated these topics rationally rather than, you know, worrying about what meaningless rhetoric other might people hear? Last night I heard an inter…

I agree that the term doesn't carry much meaning, but what is "dangerous" about it?