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[Iolo]

Since computers, basically.

People were taught to put two spaces between sentences when using typewriters because typewriter characters are monospaced (i.e., all of the characters are the same width), which generally makes the text look really uneven. Two spaces were necessary so you could actually see the end of a sentence.

This isn't a problem when typing on computers because the characters are proportional (except when using a typeface like Courier, which is intentionally monospaced). Two spaces between sentences is overkill.

Wrong Mr. BertramCooper, it's because typographically there should be more space after a sentence-ending period than interword space or after an abbreviation-ending period, such as Mr. Because unfortunately typography on the Web and in Word sucks.

Spoiler

(you can't see because html collapses the spaces)

^ tl;dr Opus was right.

Edit: identical space across the board is called "french spacing".

 

[Hexa]

He just holds the glass, then tosses it out when no one's looking like Bruce Wayne does.

The similarities are striking.

 

[sangreal]

No history of ever using alcohol? k....

did he actually drink it though? Trump is a well-known teetotaler because his brother died of alcohol abuse or something

e: oh, I'm late sorry

 

[BertramCooper]

Wrong Mr. BertramCooper, it's because typographically there should be more space after a sentence-ending period than interword space or after an abbreviation-ending period, such as Mr. Because unfortunately typography on the Web and in Word sucks.

Spoiler

(you can't see because html collapses the spaces)

^ tl;dr Opus was right.

Edit: identical space across the board is called "french spacing".

Find me a single print or online publication that still uses two spaces between sentences.

A legitimate one, that is.

 

[BertramCooper]

GOP Sen. Bob Corker Failed To Disclose Millions In Assets And Income

 

[Macho Madness]

So Carson continues to free fall and the support mainly goes to Cruz.

 

[Wilsongt]

GOP Sen. Bob Corker Failed To Disclose Millions In Assets And Income

Yawn. Think of more exciting scandals to be a part of, GOP. That legislature who lied about being in an extramarital affair with a man when he was with a woman instead was a good one.

 

[sangreal]

Bill Hill's rant on 2-spaces following a period: https://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/TheChannel9Team/Bill-Hill-There-is-only-one-space-after-a-period

 

[B-Dubs]

Find me a single print or online publication that still uses two spaces between sentences.

A legitimate one, that is.

Pro tip: they don't exist. All of the style books call for 1 space after a period. First thing you're taught to do as a copy editor is a find/replace 2 spaces with 1 space.

 

[FreezeSSC]

GOP Sen. Bob Corker Failed To Disclose Millions In Assets And Income

Hes the same senator that went on live TV and told people to short Fannie Mae, even though he's actively trying to kill them in legislation, so no surprise there.

 

[Iolo]

Find me a single print or online publication that still uses two spaces between sentences.

A legitimate one, that is.

I answer only to The Donald. Knuth, that is.

 

[Makai]

^

 

[Teggy]

How funny that both Donald and his Dr. use the same overly exaggerated language.

 

[QuiteWhittle]

How funny that both Donald and his Dr. use the same overly exaggerated language.

Wouldn't be surprised if he wrote it and just had his doctor sign it.

 

[Iolo]

How funny that both Donald and his Dr. use the same overly exaggerated language.

http://www.nytimes.com/politics/fir...ical-report-calling-his-health-extraordinary/

The note begins as an open letter, “To Whom My Concern,” apparently meaning, “To whom it may concern.” The email from Mr. Trump that contained the note said it was from his doctor, Jacob, which he also posted on Twitter. According to an obituary, Jacob Bornstein died in 2010; the note lists Jacob Bornstein as Mr. Trump’s previous physician.

Wonder if Trump has ever met his doctor, Harold, who he's been with since 1980.

^

Subtle.

 

[B-Dubs]

http://www.nytimes.com/politics/fir...ical-report-calling-his-health-extraordinary/



Wonder if Trump has ever met his doctor, Harold, who he's been with since 1980.

I fucking knew it! I knew that shit felt shady!

 

[Makai]

They're probably father and son.

 

[Teggy]

Wouldn't be surprised if he wrote it and just had his doctor sign it.

That's what I was implying.

 

[Hexa]

They're probably father and son.

Yeah. An intern is probably the one that posted it on the Facebook and accidentally wrote Jacob instead of Harold. That's it. lol

 

[Black Republican]

Ohio's jon husted tweeted:

The significance of the Trump filing as a Republican Candidate--under Ohio law he now cannot run as an independent candidate in #Ohio

Interesting

 

[B-Dubs]

Ohio's jon husted tweeted:

Interesting

I'm sure his army of lawyers won't want to challenge that if it comes to it

 

[Veritigo_X]

Ohio's jon husted tweeted:

Interesting

There's still a path to a 3rd party run.

Winger said the Ohio law specifically prohibits a sore-loser candidate from appearing as a minor candidate by petition, but minor party bids are typically nominations.

http://www.cnn.com/2015/08/13/politics/trump-third-party-run-barriers/

 

[BertramCooper]

If Trump is running as an independent, it means he doesn't have any legitimate chance of winning and is instead trying to play spoiler.

Which means it doesn't matter all that much if he's not on the ballot. He can still inflict plenty of damage on the GOP nominee as a write-in candidate in a handful of states.

 

[Makai]

gremlins

I can think of three characters between both Gremlins movies.

 

[thepotatoman]

Trump literally off the chart. Going by those numbers, Trump losing would dwarf Hillary's loss as the biggest upset in presidential polling history.

Using RCP's averages, it'd only be about tied with Hillary's loss, so at least there's that.

 

[Roland_Gunner]

Trump literally off the chart. Going by those numbers, Trump losing would dwarf Hillary's loss as the biggest upset in presidential polling history.

Using RCP's averages, it'd only be about tied with Hillary's loss, so at least there's that.

Trump also has a much larger lead in the early states. By now Obama was ahead in Iowa and within the margin for error in NH. While Trump is probably 2nd in Iowa, he has huge leads in NH and SC.

 

[PBY]

Trump also has a much larger lead in the early states. By now Obama was ahead in Iowa and within the margin for error in NH. While Trump is probably 2nd in Iowa, he has huge leads in NH and SC.

Basically, I agree with Nate Silver's "but wait" views, but what is driving his lack of confidence in Trump at the moment outside of his favorability and endorsements? Is it just endorsements, because his favorability has been ticking upwards.

 

[ivysaur12]

@NRO
The only #climatechange chart you need to see. http://natl.re/wPKpro

lol

 

[AnotherNils]

Even at that tiny size I can see it trending upward 20-30 years, and that it never was that high before.

 

[PBY]

lol

2 things.

A. I don't understand why climate change is a partisan issue.
B. I don't understand why people think that "minor" blips in climate change aren't significant issues that we should be examining, given that its hard to contextualize how significant the impact of even just a few ticks upward of degrees could be.

 

[ivysaur12]

2 things.

A. I don't understand why climate change is a partisan issue.
B. I don't understand why people think that "minor" blips in climate change aren't significant issues that we should be examining, given that its hard to contextualize how significant the impact of even just a few ticks upward of degrees could be.

Well, yes -- what NRO fails to understand that even minor upticks are damaging, so zooming out to this scale is one of the least useful things you could do to understand climate change.

 

[sangreal]

to me that chart has the opposite of the intended effect -- it shows how remarkably stable temperatures were until recently

 

[RastaMentality]

The Y-axes on conservative graphs are always fucking amazing.

One of my faves:

 

[sangreal]

The Y-axes on conservative graphs are always fucking amazing.

One of my faves:

nah this is the best:

 

[HylianTom]

One of my favorite responses:

@sethdmichaels:
it's crazy how my height has barely changed at all my whole life

 

[RustyNails]

Since we're halfway through December,anyone have quick graphs of how the race for GOP nomination looked in 2000, 2008 and 2012 around this time? RCP for some reason excludes Giuliani and 2012 contenders.

 

[Coriolanus]

Pro tip: they don't exist. All of the style books call for 1 space after a period. First thing you're taught to do as a copy editor is a find/replace 2 spaces with 1 space.

Can also vouch for that 2 spaces nonsense not ever existing in South America, and i learned to type back when mechanical typewriters were commonplace. #bahhumbug

Best thing about that period is looking at petitions. So short. Almost always under 3 pages. Now? Copy and paste ruined the profession.

 

[kingkitty]

I can think of three characters between both Gremlins movies.

there's vegetable gremlin! and bat gremlin!

and don't forget islamophobe gremlin.

 

[Wilsongt]

Lol @ carson commerical. He made an political ad while he was in the middle east, apparently.

 

[PBY]

Since we're halfway through December,anyone have quick graphs of how the race for GOP nomination looked in 2000, 2008 and 2012 around this time? RCP for some reason excludes Giuliani and 2012 contenders.

http://elections.huffingtonpost.com...p-primary#!maxdate=2011-12-14&estimate=custom

Here's the 2011 status of the Republican primary.

 

[RustyNails]

http://elections.huffingtonpost.com...p-primary#!maxdate=2011-12-14&estimate=custom

Here's the 2011 status of the Republican primary.

I guess the Gingrich Carnival Barge was running out of steam by now.

 

[SpeedySwaf]

2 things.

A. I don't understand why climate change is a partisan issue.
B. I don't understand why people think that "minor" blips in climate change aren't significant issues that we should be examining, given that its hard to contextualize how significant the impact of even just a few ticks upward of degrees could be.

One way you could possibly put it is that a "couple degrees" is the difference between a person feeling healthy or sick, and is the difference between whether ice remains frozen or starts to melt. A "couple degrees" can literally be what separates one physical or biological state from the next.

And as long as it's taken to get the overall temperature up, it'll be just as hard, or even harder, to bring it back down. Meaning that once we start suffering the consequences, we're going to suffer them for a person's foreseeable future.

 

[User 406]

u wot m8

Spoiler

Yeah, I know he had asthma, but Trump's heart would explode within a week if he had to keep up with Teddy's level of physical activity.

 

[PBY]

One way you could possibly put it is that a "couple degrees" is the difference between a person feeling healthy or sick, and is the difference between whether ice remains frozen or starts to melt. A "couple degrees" can literally be what separates one physical or biological state from the next.

And as long as it's taken to get the overall temperature up, it'll be just as hard, or even harder, to bring it back down. Meaning that once we start suffering the consequences, we're going to suffer them for a person's foreseeable future.

Its just such a tough issue given that as humans, we are quantifiably terrible at calculating risks for things that impact our own selves down the road in our own lifetime. Add another generation and throw more nebulous timelines in the mix, and welp "who gives a fuck".

 

[NeoXChaos]

Its just such a tough issue given that as humans, we are quantifiably terrible at calculating risks for things that impact our own selves down the road in our own lifetime. Add another generation and throw more nebulous timelines in the mix, and welp "who gives a fuck".

guns are tough too.

 

[Veritigo_X]

I guess the Gingrich Carnival Barge was running out of steam by now.

Early December is when we started getting articles about Gingrich's woeful ground game. Around the same time an onslaught of GOP attack ads against Gingrich started going out in the early states. On Dec 24th we found out that he (along with Perry and Santorum) didn't qualify for the Virginia primary. By January, he was promising moon bases.

 

[PBY]

guns are tough too.

They shouldn't be that tough considering we have daily massacres reminding us about the real harsh consequences. The gun one is weird to me because it isn't just a data-driven point, there are real world tragedies that happen to ordinary people.

 

[sc0la]

lol

Show it in Kelvin. With "everything is dead" zones colored in

I can think of three characters between both Gremlins movies.

Gizmo, Badass Rambo Gizmo, and mystic Chinese dude?

 

[User 406]

They shouldn't be that tough considering we have daily massacres reminding us about the real harsh consequences. The gun one is weird to me because it isn't just a data-driven point, there are real world tragedies that happen to ordinary people.

It's because people are terrible at calculating the actual risks of owning a gun vs. the actual risk of being attacked vs. the actual probability of being able to successfully use a gun against a surprise attacker.

 

[Abinash117]

Someone wanted something like this.



http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/dec/14/saudi-arabia-announces-military-alliance-terrorism

Saudi Arabia has announced the formation of a 34-state Islamic military coalition to combat terrorism, according to a statement published on the state news agency, SPA.

“The countries here mentioned have decided on the formation of a military alliance led by Saudi Arabia to fight terrorism, with a joint operations centre based in Riyadh to coordinate and support military operations,” said the statement, which was released on Tuesday.

Analysis Arab states under pressure to do more in fight against Isis
Rivalry with Iran, disagreements over Syria, sectarian hatred and domestic public opinion among obstacles to deeper involvement
Read more
A long list of Arab countries such as Egypt, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates, together with Turkey, Malaysia, Pakistan and African states were named.