I don't think evolution had anything to do with that, and there's nothing intrinsically wrong with burying people in the garden. Europeans used to surround their churches with graves, with few ill effects to the people attending the church.

We bury or cremate our dead for sanitary reasons, but I think we confine our corpses to cemeteries for cultural reasons.

That particular line read like SimCity 2000's newspaper "articles"

See #1: middlemen don't like being cut out.

One thing they both have in common: neither is actually available for sale

Or not reproducing, as the case may be.

So you accelerate half-way there, turn around, and accelerate in the opposite direction for the remaining half. The engine never needs to shut down and bam! you're parked right where you need to be.

I don't think the moon stretched our technological limits by any means. All the basic technology required for a moon landing existed before the goal was announced - no new and revolution computer or rocket design required. It was more of a project-management problem - how to engineer rockets powerful enough, how to ensure reliablity, how to guarantee the trip went off without a hitch. The decade from announcment to landing was spent training people and figuring out how to build bigger.

Well, it was good enough for Microsoft...

You're forgetting that, under the current system in the US, no one owes you a job. If you have a job, no one owes you more than minimum wage.

So what if you have a mortgage and bills to pay? That's your problem, not your employer's.

Pot, meet kettle.

Huh?

I'm not a statistician, but >95% seems like a majority of people to me. How does it make the GP's claim ("significant portion") less extraordinary?

Source, please? Your claim is rather extrordinary. Pretty much every person I know owns at least one television, and almost all of them have cable (as much as they complain about the cost).

It's not the job of the DNS server or protocol to check the source ip; that job belongs to the firewall.

Its a little like when your mom kept your old school work. As an adult, are you really interested in your own child-like scribblings? Is anybody else?

I like history. I'm even a little curious about my own, but the novelty of seeing my childhood photos wears off quickly. The novelty of seeing my wife's, or my own childrens' photos, wears off quickly too. I study history to understand how the world got to the way it is now, perhaps to help predict the future but certainly to put current events into perspective. Personal history is generally less useful, especially when viewed from a personal perspective.

I'm more interested in what's going on now - what are my kids are doing now, what my spouse and friends are thinking about now, what I'm capable of now. It's generally greater than before. The past is a less polished version of today.

Actually, iPhones ARE assembled by hand.