Davis Guggenheim has an Oscar for “An Inconvenient Truth”, Al Gore does not.
Its possible, but highly unlikely, that the cop fired his service revolver.
Barley used. 
Wait are you trying to tell me New York and New Jersey are different places?
Well, you do have to wash them first.
Seeing the really incorrect salutes performed by actors portraying military members, even high ranking officers. If you are in uniform and wearing a hat, you salute to the bill of the hat, not to your eyebrow or definitely not in the middle of your forehead. And you are also supposed to make your arm and elbow into a 45 degree angle.
And don’t get me started on incorrect haircuts on actors portraying military members.
One that I don’t think has been mentioned…
Daddy-Longlegs, you know, this guy have extremely poisonous venom, but are harmless because they cannot bite you.
They are harmless and cannot bite, but they have no venom.
Pholcids can bite but they only have a mild venom:
opilionids can not bite and have no venom.
“Cannot” is all one word. (Unless of course you meant that opilionids do have the ability to not bite if they so choose.) I had a co-worker tell me there was no such word. 
But…this DEFCON goes to 11.
(I have the same problem remembering whether first-degree or third-degree burns are worse.)
*cannot *and can not mean exactly the same. Both are acceptable. I have no idea of why you’re wasting electrons to correct a non-error.
Many Americans don’t understand the tax code. They talk anxiously about their fear of “moving up into the next tax bracket,” thinking that they will *lose *money overall, when in fact the tax rates are marginal, meaning you will never take home less money by earning a higher salary. A higher salary will always be in your favor.
It is possible, but barely, that since withholding is calculated based upon brackets, that a very small raise could put you into the next withholding bracket, resulting in a smaller net paycheck. But that means a larger refund.
Also, they’re not spiders.
Also, also, most if not all brown recluse bites are complete misdiagnoses; spiders are almost surely not responsible. What’s more, medical practitioners are trained to assume they opposite.:smack:
Ran into this oldie yesterday. Some bozo writing about C operators called the “%” operator the “mod operator”.
No.
It’s the remainder operator. The slash in the percent sign should remind you that this is division related.
Note that -1 mod 2 is 1. The remainder of -1 divided by 2 is -1 hence -1 % 2 is also -1.
If you confuse the two, you’re going to have serious errors in your programs.
How can something this basic be gotten wrong by so many people in a field noted for picky people?
(Of course, even worse, are those programming languages that use the keyword “mod” for remainder.)
The world is much simpler if one thinks only in terms of positive integers. Lots of folks in programming are in over their heads as soon as they get past that point.
At least that was my experience with coworkers when I was in the business.
I agree there’s a not so rare misconception of marginal tax rates, which in principal will never give a lower after tax income for a higher pre tax income.
However the US tax code is so complicated with things piled on top of the other at different times that it’s actually not impossible for higher pretax net (after deductions) to result in lower after tax. In recent years my federal tax has been at or near a point where various complex provisions intersect in a way such that a $1 increase in gross income or decrease in deductions increases the tax due by a few $1,000. When I end up within range of this discontinuity, I simply don’t claim certain deductions (you aren’t required to claim all the deductions for which you are eligible) to increase net income to just above the discontinuity, and therefore increasemy after tax income. Edit to add: this isn’t like Dr. Deth’s case where you might have a smaller net take home due to withholding but still a higher net after tax income after getting a refund: this is really an increase in reported income resulting in a lower after tax income.
It is rare though.
Obama and potentially Hillary can appoint justices to the Supreme Court, but that doesn’t mean they automatically get in. See that seat that Scalia sat in? Still vacant.
Alt Min Tax?
I’ve been a professional C programmer for 20+ years and I would absolutely refer to % as “mod”. Wikipedia agrees with me.
I also am well aware that % is hazardous to use when signed integers are involved, and if I were for some reason going to use it with signed integers I would double check that it did what I intended.
It is a surprisingly common mistake. And the use as in that article of “Modulo (integer remainder)” without blinking an eye is also common. It’s like reading “chicken (cat)”.
Run this program:
#include <iostream>
using namespace std;
int main()
{
cout << -1 % 2 << endl;
}
You’ll get -1.
Here’s Google for -1 mod 2. (And Google for -1 % 2. )
Admitting to making a simple mistake for 20 years is the first step towards getting better.