JB_UK

Have you considered including a lottery with the $20 perk? Perhaps every 100 customers could receive a phone. I wonder whether that might drive the numbers a bit.

'Here's a link to footage from Peter Capaldi's first episode' months before it aired. I was just sitting in my lounge on my laptop watching it, thinking, Jeez.

Was this the footage:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Blf073f2Lc

?

It'll be to the eternal shame of the writers of Doctor Who that they didn't make Peter Capaldi's doctor into Malcolm Tucker in space. Such an opportunity lost:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Blf073f2Lc

Just because it'll get buried:

GrimmsterINC:

Do you beileve in evolution?

morgan4tx:

It's my personal belief, so I'm not sure what impact it would have on policy-making at the federal level, but I don't.

Rather than get into a debate about why or why not, I would just leave it at this. As an engineer, the universe seems more like the result of a brilliant creator / designer than the result of chance.

Edit: Link with context.

three-standard deviation events have increased from 0.25% of the time (from 1951-1980) to 10% of the time now

For those who are interested, I believe this sort of analysis is from the James Hansen 'Climate Dice' paper, at:

http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2012/07/30/1205276109.abstract

Edit: Figure 4 on page 4 is probably the clearest way to see the effect that's being discussed.