Wikipedia says 9.6, 9.8, and 10.0 million km^2 respectively. Do these numbers include something (e.g. water) that the numbers you quoted don't? (They also peg Russia at 17.0 million km^2)
The numbers are land-only, but there are multiple conflicting ways of calculating it often due to land disputes. For instance, Taiwan/Tibet/etc. wrt China
One that I've hit recently is that an open colour picker window prevents quit from doing anything. It also doesn't show the colour picker window, so I don't know why GIMP isn't quitting, just that pressing a common key combination (cmd+q) doesn't work for no good reason (colour picking is not an operation that needs to block quitting).
If you now mandate that the worker salary MUST be $12 or higher than $12, McDs is losing money. So you either pray for an increase in business (sales), or cut costs (ie, fire people) and automate.
Or you increase prices. Or a combination of the three.
You increase prices, yes. You might trim the workforce too. But so does every other business that has a large contingent of low skill, low pay labor. This means that most things that are "made on the cheap" become more expensive. So now, the cost of living goes up for everyone who consumes from that pool of resources. This squeezes middle income families and hurts lower income families. Does the cost of living for which a minimum wage worker rise higher than the wage? I don't know. But with a higher cost of living and potentially greater unemployment, I'm not sure that raising minimum wage is a win.
I'm not aware of all the complex reason for why the following is the case, but my brother's mom (I know how odd that may sound) was able to rent an apartment when she was 18 working in fast food without tips. There is _no way in h-e-double-hockey-sticks_ that that could happen anywhere in America today. I'm not convinced that raising minimum wage is the solution -- it could be part of the problem. Models of human behavior and economics can get tricky and counter-intuitive. It is a hard nut to crack; I'll just stick to writing software. Now, if someone wants to pay me to make and become familiar with those models....
Getting even further off-topic, the p7z utility can create archives compatible withe the normal .zip format (WinZip and friends can still uncompress them) that are a fraction of the size of what most zip utilities will produce. :-)
This discriminates against users who cannot flag and users who do not flag. Since the only way to improve one's h-value is to flag more honeypots, it basically means that someone who can't/doesn't flag will have at best an h-value of -1. So would the h-value not be counted for people with few/no flags?
It would be nice if I could set shortcuts that don't include the command button. I'm trying to set next/previous tab to be ctrl+tab and ctrl+shift+tab, but I'm required to use the command button so it breaks the standard shortcut keys that pretty much every other tabbed application use.
Safari uses Cmd-Shift-{ and Cmd-Shift-} to switch between tabs, as does Xcode. However, you can change them to whatever you like by selecting Preferences->Key Bindings and searching for "tab"
I've done that, and unfortunately attempting to switch those to ctrl+tab and ctrl+shift+tab instead changes them to cmd+ctrl+tab and cmd+ctrl+shift+tab with no way to not use the command button.
Do you apply this to other mediums, such as movies? They are also self-regulated, so theoretically your kids could also purchase "scantily clad, dripping-with-blod warrior princess"-themed movies from a video store that isn't following the industry regulations.
