He crouches to shrink the strike zone, he moves back and forth to destabilize the zone

If the ump is doing their job correctly this wouldn't make a difference. The strike zone is defined as based on the batter standing not in some goofy squat. The depth of the zone is always the location of the plate and not where the batter is in the box.

Two of them cover an area three time the size of Vatican City!

Wow? Vatican City is about 0.7 times the National Mall in Washington DC

I had a meeting in the boardroom of duPont once and they have a table that is at least the size of the one Putin is at except it was a single piece of wood. It was both the most ridiculous and most fascinating table I have ever sat at. They have a history of the making of the table, from the search for the tree to reconstruction of a couple floor of the building it is in, located just outside the boardroom.

Besides the vastly overrated Firefly being #2 a best of Sci-fi that doesn't include Babylon 5 in a top 50 means it is just a list of random shows.

Writer has some odd points. They say that this is a desperate move by MS to counter the success that Sony has had with the previous generation due to their success in exclusive games. So Sony having more exclusive games is good and Microsoft getting more exclusive games is bad. Which all of this is kind of this market as it was in the early 90s in which Nintendo and Sega had tons of titles which were only available for one system.Activision needed a full change in leadership and culture due to the absolute toxic environment that has been well documented at this point, which this author fails to even mention. There are many worse companies that could have gobbled up Activision (Apple or Amazon). I know people were upset when MS bought Bethesda (which they had already owned 50% of) but they cannot point out the great horror that was to come from it. Lots of people said Minecraft was going to die after MS bought it but it is actually bigger today than it was then.

It will look like one of the many other folding phones available today. This is typical apple in that they follow never lead so not sure why this would be neat.

Is this really new or just new to you? I have Sennheisers that are 8 years old that have what they call "pass through" which is this transparency mode and I am pretty sure when doing the research then that Bose had this then as well.

At the end of Halloween season? A number places by me started with the christmas stuff 2 weeks ago. Target has had stuff up since the beginning of Oct. Hallmark was playing non-stop christmas music when I went in 3 weeks ago.

Lego sets typically come with spare parts, sets of over a thousand pieces generally have dozens of extra pieces.

You know that duck stamp entry was commissioned by John Oliver right? It is also part of an auction: https://www.ebay.com/e/charity/lastweektonight

Personally I find that the last season of BSG really hurts the overall series way too much for it to be a top 5 sci-fi show.

This must be a story of poor imagination

They were getting by on the cheap if it is just 700 million, especially considering that this would be a 100% new vehicle.From an article a few years ago about new vehicle development costs:The price tag to develop a new vehicle starts around $ 1 billion. According to John Wolkonowicz, Senior Auto Analyst for North America at IHS Global, "It can be as much as $6 billion if it's an all-new car on all-new platform with an all-new engine and an all-new transmission and nothing carrying over from the old model."