StrangeSox

They can mandate that their non-clergy employees abstain from birth control? Or do they only have employees who fall under the clerical exemptions?

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Jul 16, 2015 -> 01:17 PM) We're now onto our range. There's a GE Cafe that we like a lot, but i'm not sure I want to drop 3k on it. We'll probably wait until the fall when there are good deals on the 2015 models. Honestly unless you do a ton of complex cooking or are in a "high-end" house where those sorts of appliances will be expected by buyers in a couple of years, it's probably not worth. You can get a nice fiver-burner range with convection oven for $1000-$1500.

QUOTE (Cknolls @ Jul 16, 2015 -> 01:12 PM) Who is paying for the insurance? The Little sisters pay for the insurance? No. That's the point of signing the form. Shouldn't matter regardless, but really doesn't matter because they would not be providing it.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jul 15, 2015 -> 02:21 PM) So what's with the mountains and no craters?

"I would give it an A": Why nuclear experts love the Iran deal

Crime is actually down in New York year-over-year. I'm not really trying to argue whether or not De Blasio's policies are good or bad, but he still absolutely supports "broken windows," his police commissioner is clear about it and he gets criticized from the left for it.

QUOTE (Y2HH @ Jul 15, 2015 -> 05:57 AM) Apparently he's not or they would still be doing it. They are edit: and what do cknolls and that writer want to see happen? Continue overcrowding our jails with vermin the mentally ill? Given that this behavior hasn't been decriminalized yet, how is it any sort of indictment on "liberal policies"? Did no mentally ill homeless people urinate on the street or bump into people for the 20 years before De Blasio became mayor?

QUOTE (Alpha Dog @ Jul 15, 2015 -> 12:13 PM) Next we'll have laws mandating the use of preferred pronouns, punishable by fines and/or jail.

QUOTE (bmags @ Jul 15, 2015 -> 09:18 AM) The sanctions snap back if just one of the five believe Iran has cheated the agreement. They may decide not to impose the sanctions, but they could do that now just the same. I agree though that we should probably have families of hostages to inform our foreign policy. Seems like a no brainer. Obama is only in office for 18 months anyway. Edit this deal strengthens Iran economically and with conventional arms down the road, but I don't see how this does anything but weaken them with respect to nuclear weapons. They're removing a majority of their refining capacity, they're changing it the core of their reactor, and they are eliminating almost their entire existing stockpile. Is it the perfect deal with every condition the west would want? Of course not, but Iran has no reason to go along with something like that.

Yeah what a terrible thing.

President trump will be in office soon!

You can't exactly hide a bunch of enriched uranium or the enrichment facilities themselves though. And I'm sure we'll park a satellite over any facilities to watch for suspicious activity before and after.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jul 14, 2015 -> 02:13 PM) Generally yes, it has something to do with volcanoes. When magma rises up, it has to break solid rocks in order to move upwards. Cracking and splitting rocks produces earthquakes, those are directly related to the molten rock rising up. They generally aren't strong, but there's a lot of them. Those aren't the only ones though. If you drive down by the active eruption site on Kilauea, you'll see there's a huge scarp, known as the Hilina Pali. That scarp is actually one of a great number of large faults on the island produced by the growth of the volcanoes. When you pile up dirt on top of a central spot to build a hill, eventually things break off and avalanche down the sides once it gets too steep. Rock has a little bit more trouble doing that, solid rock can't avalanched downward without cracking. Hawaii is kind of like that - the volcanoes want to grow upwards and gravity wants to drag them back down. If there's a weak layer beneath the surface, those weak layers can serve as breakaway points where the rocks above them start sliding downwards. Those cracks, therefore, form normal faults - the kind where one set of rocks slides downward compared to the other side. The Hilina Pali is a giant normal fault scarp that keeps getting covered by Lava. A magnitude ~7.9 earthquake occurred on this fault in the 1800s. Those aren't the biggest things they can do though. Once the islands start growing, sometimes they actually collapse along those faults. Off the coastline of the Hawaiian Islands there are huge landslide deposits, formed when parts of the Island actually broke off and slid into the sea. The map view of Molokai shows these really well, the north and south sides of the island are pretty close to straight lines and each of them is the remnant of a giant landslide that broke away on a fault like the one on Kilauea. When those happen, they're probably very large earthquakes and they probably produce tsunami waves large enough to devastate the islands. Thankfully those are rare, probably every few hundred thousand years or so. Thanks! We were wondering what caused that huge "ledge." I posted it several pages back, but my wife and I were staying just outside of Volcanoes NP a couple of weeks ago when they had a 5.2 magnitude hit, probably right along or near that scarp. Unfortunately, the area in your pic is no longer the active area--lava hasn't been flowing into/towards the ocean since late 2013. Crater's still active, though, and the glow coming off of it at night is surreal.

Since they're not on a plate boundary, what's the source of Hawaii's earthquakes? Volcanic activity?

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jul 14, 2015 -> 12:22 PM) As a natural disaster nerd, this was a great read on the real danger of The Big One on the west coast, only it is in the Cascadian Subduction Zone, and not the San Andreas. http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/07/...-really-big-one thanks for the link

"Find a nuke" isn't exactly an easy proposition (they've been "18 months away from the bomb" for a couple of decades now), and then they'd still have to be completely suicidal in order to actually do anything with it. They have their own motivations and interests that don't align with the West and really do hate Israel, but I don't think nuking Israel is a realistic threat.

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Jul 14, 2015 -> 10:06 AM) Able to obtain ballistic missiles in 8 years. Only a matter of time before they do something stupid with them. That's the questionable part that stood out to me, but the Iranian state isn't exactly ISIS. They seem to be pretty rational actors who are interested in their own self-preservation, and even run-by-a-crazy-guy DPRK (North Korea) only saber-rattles now and then with theirs. The bigger worry IMO would be them funneling more arms to the various groups that they currently let do their dirty work.

QUOTE (SnB @ Jul 14, 2015 -> 09:05 AM) Navy Pier is touristy but your kids will love it for an afternoon. Definitely take a boat ride while out there, the river tours are great. Museum of Science & Industry should be your #1 museum destination. Completely geared toward kids. Yeah, that's a solid recommendation. We did that once or twice when I worked at a summer camp, and the kids had a blast.

Almost a decade in the making, a deal to lift economic sanctions on Iran in exchange for limiting nuclear activities and increasing inspections and access was announced this morning. Iran Agrees to Halt Nuclear Program in Historic Deal With World Powers

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Jul 13, 2015 -> 10:31 AM) Doubt you'll find a hotel in Hawaii for that cheap. Check VRBO.com, might be able to rent a house for a few hundred a night with some other people. You can find condos in Kihei for less than $150 a night through VRBO and airbnb, not sure about around Lahaina or Kaanapali, though. Kaanapali seemed to be mainly the big-name resorts and big "vacation club"/timeshare places for Marriott, Hyatt etc.

Brookfield's a ways out of the city, have you considered Lincoln Park Zoo instead? It's not as big, but it is free. Also the planetarium is incredibly boring, and I say this as someone who's usually interested in space/astronomy. I'd definitely pick Museum of S&I over that.

Last night on the Hawaiian Islands

QUOTE (Cknolls @ Jul 11, 2015 -> 08:53 AM) http://nypost.com/2015/07/10/apparently-it...-new-york-city/ How on Earth could this happen? Oh wait, who lives in Gracie Manision? I say bus them all to his mansion and in front of his house and see if he cleans this vermin up. Let them piss all over your property DeBlasio. Ahhhhhhh the effects of liberal policies coming home to roost. Lol. I think he should raise taxes so we can give these people homes. Maybe s***head in Washington will do it for him through regulation. After all that is the only way He governs. The best part about this article, which is pretty dumb even by NY post standards, is that de blasio actually supports broken windows policing.

I'm not going to read a brietbart link. That will only worsen my opinion. Saying terrible things that make people uncomfortable isn't some sort of virtue. And I saw jerry Seinfeld winningwhining about college campuses because of something his 14 year old daughter said, which is weird because his humor has never been offensive or edgy and also his daughter is not a college student.