That's true. I have a 5-digit I can't use anymore due to a dead email address. Oh well.

They did leave. That's why current posters have an virtual orgasm when someone with a 5 digit, or dear god 4 or 3 digit, uid posts. They moved on.

What the insurance gets billed and what they pay is rarely close. If they get billed $1,000,000 for a transplant, they might pay $250,000.

Good deal. That means we can ignore this!

I know that. You asked who the main investor was, not who it was owned by.

Sure. You can print/mint any currency you want, as long as it's not meant to pose as federal reserve currency. There is nothing illegal about it.

No one, unless they are buying stocks.

1. The United States federal government.

That's good enough for me.

The definition of marketing:

  noun
the action or business of promoting and selling products or services, including market research and advertising.

I don't see the word bullshit, or any synonym of it. Therefore it is not "by definition".

Because it's another notch I the feature list that no one uses, or cares about.

That said, I have a sixty inch I just bought that doesn't have 3D.

Why troll? This is absolutely correct.

That's nice.

Wikipedia is not news and news outlets are not an encyclopedia. They aren't related and can't be compared.

Welcome to 2002.

Slashdotting doesn't really happen anymore.

I've seen the show in person, there are indeed people there laughing. It's no secret there are paid people mixed into the crowd to get them going. Very few sitcoms use laugh tracks, they use professional audience members.