RaptorJ

"Amazon" isn't a thing that has wants or feelings. You can not make a profit and still pay your executives a bundle of money.

kilopounds feels like a weird bastard but I think it makes sense. The actual values of the metric system are just as arbitrary as US Custom/Imperial (a particular mass, 1/10,000,000 part of the quarter of a meridian, such and such hyperfine transitions in a arbitrary atom, &.) The value of the metric system is decimalization -- the centi-, kilo-, mega- prefixes. Really, if americans ditched miles and tonnes and stuck to kilofeet and megapounds the systems would not be meaningfully different.

On the other hand, having your prime factors be 2 and 3 rather than 2 and 5 are nice when you divid things into quarters and thirds regularly (inches).

There is some contention [weasel words] about what is the better way to refer to people with disabilities/diabled persons. Here are two perspectives:

People-first: http://www.asha.org/publications/journals/submissions/person... and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People-first_language

Identity-first: http://www.xojane.com/issues/i-am-not-a-person-with-a-disabi... and http://cheshirekit.wordpress.com/2014/01/23/the-social-model...

I'm not sure if this is what they do, but it seems like a solution would be the git commit hashing procedure. So at the end of a day/worksession have the app take the hash of ( what you entered today + yesterday's hash) so you create a provable trail of changes.

Yeah, but we don't say the computer was beaten by the collective action of the neurons of the chess master. Or at least, that doesn't seem like the most useful way to think about the problem. This is just a recasting of the Chinese Room argument[0].

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_room

Similarly, I think these would work much better with incandescent lighting vs flourescent or LED.

An interesting switch, but who cares? There are gas stations everywhere.