Three hours seems extreme. I live in Manhattan and can get to LGA in under an hour on a public bus, or by taxi in 35-45 minutes, and a taxi to JFK might take an hour but certainly not three.
You could read this as a cautionary tale about the difficulty in launching a social networking service: Even with $1.6 million cash (earmarked for a development project in Pakistan) and 500,000 mobile phone subscriber records (stolen from the incumbent telecom), their free service couldn't reach 5% market penetration and was shut down when it ran out of money.
The federal Animal Welfare Act specifically does not apply to farm animals, and many state statutes also make specific exceptions for agricultural operations.
The Guardian's UK stylesheet calls for this treatment of acronyms that are pronounced as a word -- people say "Icann", not "Eye See Aye En En" -- which does seem odd but may be acceptable as a regionalism.
Intriguingly, 349 of the largest Bitcoin transactions ever are all part of an interconnected and obfuscated web of exchanges between November 2010 and August 2012, involving at least 430,000 BTC.
It turns out that zip codes aren't as populous as you might imagine.
As of the Y2K census, only a dozen zip codes have over 100,000 residents -- 80% of all zip codes have less than 15,000 residents, with the median zip code at 2,500.
I use a cooperating set of Mac apps: connect to the server using Cyberduck, browse to a file and double-click to open it in TextMate, edit the file and type command-s to save, peripheral glance to the corner of the screen where Growl puts up a notification that the transfer completed successfully, then type command-shift-r to tell TextMate to tell the currently open web browser to reload its front-most window to see if the change had the desired effect.
A number of Mac file transfer clients and text editors support this type of integration.
As I understand it, there was some vague talk about being selective, in case they maxed out the capacity of the space, but in the end I believe they sent out tickets to everyone who signed up, and nobody was turned away.
I was at the same FourSquare hackathon today, and you're right -- there was a lot of socializing going on, and there were people who seemed to be trying to figure out how to present their previously-existing project or startup.
On the other hand, the New York hacker scene is anemic enough that we can use any chance to socialize and network that we get -- and there were people there actually coding things from scratch today, myself included.
I had to leave before the presentations, and haven't see most of the apps people have been working on, so I can't comment on the "overly polished" aspect of this... But in an ideal world, I would hope that people would be able to enjoy whichever aspects of the event were relevant to them, and not get sidetracked by the people who were on a different track.
It's the latter -- the quoted passage is referring to relocating the existing long-term prisoners already housed at Guantanamo. ("Bargaining to empty the Guantánamo Bay prison")
My understanding is that new prisoners are no longer being brought to Guantanamo, but instead to other sites outside of the United States.
Obviously, a passive income doesn't just depend on "smarts", it also requires initial assets and cultural capital that are generally inherited from the previous generation.
Disintermediation typically refers to "cutting out the middleman", not introducing additional middlemen.
Cf: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disintermediation