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Requiring successful enforcement of the current immigration laws before they can be changed is a non sequitur. It’s like saying, in 1932, that we can’t repeal the nationwide prohibition on alcohol consumption until we’ve drastically reduced the number of moonshine stills and bootleggers.
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Both the terms “warm-blooded” and “cold-blooded” have fallen out of favour with scientists, because of the vagueness of the terms, and due to an increased understanding in this field. Body temperature types are not discrete categories. Each term may be replaced with one or more variants. Body temperature maintenance incorporates a wide range of different techniques that result in a body temperature continuum, with the traditional ideals of warm-blooded and cold-blooded being at opposite ends of the spectrum.
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The telephone was an aberration in human development. It was a 70 year or so period where for some reason humans decided it was socially acceptable to ring a loud bell in someone else’s life and they were expected to come running, like dogs. This was the equivalent of thinking it was okay to walk into someone’s living room and start shouting. It was never okay.
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In running to any base, while trying to avoid being tagged out, the runner runs more than three feet left or right from a direct line between the base and the runner’s location at the time a play is being made.
“When Runners Are Out” (NCAA rule 8-5-a)
MLB rule 7.08(a)(1) [pdf] doesn’t contain the “left or right” language.
In my day, if the catcher had the plate blocked there were only two options: take the out or slam the poor bastard so hard he dropped the ball. No gymnastics allowed.
baseball player makes a Superman leap over catcher (via aashah1986)
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[N]o team is scheduled off days on any day of the week except Mondays and Thursdays. Therefore, every day of the regular season that is not a Monday or a Thursday will have every team playing, barring unscheduled postponements and the all star break.
Look at the pictures, of course, but take a minute to read about the design process too. It’s brilliant work.
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In the purer ages of the commonwealth, the use of arms was reserved for those ranks of citizens who had a country to love, a property to defend, and some share in enacting those laws, which it was their interest as well as duty to maintain. But in proportion as the public freedom was lost in extent of conquest, war was gradually improved into an art, and degraded into a trade.
Neven Mrgan's tumbl: Don't play The Tray
Trying to “clean out” your tray is not a habit you want to get into. It’s pointless, and besides, you can never win - as soon as you run another app, in the tray it’ll go. It’s like the world’s worst game of Whac-A-Mole. Instead, learn to see the tray as a “recent apps” area. If you’re in the middle of one task - say, writing an email - and you need to switch to something for a second - say, looking up a spelling - then the tray is your friend. But once you’re done with that, you’re done.
I was horrified when I first saw the tray; how am I going to make time for that without neglecting my inbox and trash can emptying duties?
