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Actually, in the USA that is common anyway. Before my stint with the U.S. Navy as a contractor, I worked in private industry and rose to managerial levels. There were many cases where we were instructed to low-ball and we learned WHY we were instructed to low-ball. Sometimes the interview...

Today I have already helped my wife get downstairs so she can do things around the house. This "help wife down stairs" task is temporary pending doctor's orders post-surgery on her foot and thanks, she is actually doing quite well. Scars are healing, no pain, no obvious infections, and she's...

For me, "minimum viable action" means that once I get up for my morning bathroom visit, I might as well stay up.

The USA also differentiates by states. I don't recall the details, but many states use 18 as age of consent while others use 16. Some have exclusions when the older party is no more than two years older. Others do not. There was a somewhat famous case years ago in which an 18-year man got a...

Bee, I'm not surprised that the Marvel-based movies do nothing for you. For me, it is a matter of expectations. Perhaps that is why so far, I have preferred the Marvel movies over the DC movies. And it derives from something that perhaps you would understand more intimately than some others...

The answer is a two-parter. First, what is the legal definition of age of consent in the culture / country where this putative event occurs? Second, at age 15 (even if only mental age 15), people have started the trek into adulthood - because the brain begins its final phase of development...

In primitive cultures, there was no such thing as high school and the general rule was "old enough to bleed, old enough to breed." From such cultures we have early ages of consent. As cultures became more protective of kids (or educationally more demanding), the age of consent seems to have...

For various reasons, my wife and I have not gone on a formal holiday in quite a while. We go once a year to my family reunion in central Alabama, but our last three "trips" were hurricane evacuations. Hurricane Katrina in 2005 forced us to Fort Worth, TX (to follow my job to a secondary...

If you count DVDs at home, I just saw Justice League and wasn't terribly impressed. AT BEST mediocre. The DC Universe, except for the Wonder Woman movie, has been a bit TOO dark and gritty. IF you compare Justice League to the Avengers, Marvel wins that one hands down.

Or, you could do as I do, misquoting the admiral: Damn the dislikes, full speed ahead!

Man always seeks explanations because having a workable explanation is a type of control - and a survival trait. People who have the best way of thinking or best explanation tend to survive better and even thrive. And since Man learned to talk, Man became the animal capable of passing along...

Yes. The individual blood glucose reading is generally useless for long-term diagnosis, though you would be able to determine if someone were in hyper- or hypoglycemic shock and could then administer an appropriate palliative for the immediate condition. The only time this particular test is...

As to your "car accident more likely" argument, that fails in that you dilute its effectiveness when you can also use your car when NOT going to vote. It becomes a "background noise" item. The only way to avoid that one is not only do you not vote, but you never go out to get food or...

Long-term glycosated hemoglobin. It's a measure of the long-term average amount of sugar in your blood. (As opposed to the more traditional "snapshot" method that gives you blood glucose.)

Jon, I'll toss a negative-logic bomb at you (figuratively of course). On the day that someone gets elected and you viscerally loathe and despise that person, and the vote turns out to have hinged on ONE VOTE of difference, and you had chosen to abstain... how absolutely horrible would you feel...

Well, my morning went well. I visited my general medicine guy. My BP was 138/72 and I had lost 5 pounds. My A1C was down 0.3 points and it went below one of the important thresholds. (I'll leave it at that.) A good checkup will brighten my day any time.

Physicists use what language they have to describe something that is really just an equation of some sort. So they say "some amount of time" after the BB because otherwise they wouldn't be able to say anything at all.

@AI: I have to agree. @Jon: American humorist Mark Twain is quoted to have said "But in this country we have one great privilege which they don't have in other countries. When a thing gets to be absolutely unbearable the people can rise up and throw it off. That's the finest asset we've got...

Ah, but Uncle G: Currently, the universe IS converting matter to energy but the universe is still expanding. If time speeds up we will never know it because we will be inside the effect of the speed-up. (Relativity at work.) The only folks who would recognize the speed-up would be our...

Thanks for seeing that, Bee. It gets crazier. According to the math, our current concept of time didn't apply for up to several hundred thousand years after the Bang. Remember, of course, that 100,000 years is nothing when the age of the universe is 14,600,000,000 years. It is unclear...