This is also why it makes me unhappy when people use "Time on Page" as a meaningful reporting statistic in Google Analytics.

You oversimplify. Facebook changes privacy policy for the worse, users complain, Facebook backs off (though rarely all the way) or offers (torturous and convoluted) ways to bypass new privacy violations.

I won't dispute the "base is full morons" point, but to say everyone there just whines to no effect is inaccurate.

In fact, the way Google Adwords works, some of those advertisers might think that bidding higher to move up in the list would help their dwindling click-through rates.

They might pay *more*.

I think I saw a movie about that. What was it, "Bloat and Re-Render"?

If you're talking about grass as the cattle feed, then that's *not* 1.5 tons of food. Not until I get those other three chambers installed in my stomach, anyway.

Or at least chosen a different string.

How can one accelerate and not be able to maintain speed at the same time? I think you may be confused on the definition of "accelerate".

Wouldn't normally be this pedantic, but when you start a thread out by calling someone else an idiot...

Just be sure to consult your molecular biologist if you experience a nanotechnological enhancement lasting more than four hours.

Says the user posting for the heck of it, on the site created for the heck of it back in the day...

The point that you seem to miss (or intentionally ignore) is that we're talking about climate variations within 100 years. If you put that into the 50 million year perspective, it will disappear in the graph. It doesn't disappear because nature has a lot more impact than human beings. It disappears because the 50-million year perspective is irrelevant to the human race as we know it today.

Meanwhile, your grandsons may visit what today is our coastline if they know how to scuba dive.

I'd certainly prefer a future where AGW is not a reality. But instead of just hoping for it and shout phony at it like you insist in doing with your blind defense of "freedom" (your freedom now, screw the rest), I prefer the idea of avoiding the worst case scenario by replacing insensitive development with a responsible one. It's not like it kills progress. It just demands a little more effort.

And for those of us who's ISP's Terms of Service inclue a line that boils down to "Thou shalt not run a web server on your home PC unless you pay for a buisness-class connection"... well, what then? Just... don't use Opera?

Google has had the foresight to cut their losses before...

I have an Android phone. It was a gift from Google. Admittedly, it was an early version so maybe Android 2.0 looks better, but frankly when compared to an iPhone it looks like a high school science fair project. I'd rather pay for an iPhone than use the Android phone for free.

It has never been confirmed by the govt, but if I recall, it was the Blaster worm which caused the big power failure of '03.

I believe the computers which were supposed to prevent a cascading failure were down with Blaster that day, as were a number of other prominent world-wide networks.

I can't help but wonder how much of our critical infrastructure is still running Windows?

Quite right. But what if the house found it in their financial interest to use a shill at one of the player seats, to irrationally hit (and try and suck up the 10s/As) on a favorable count? Maybe someone wandering around the floor, getting buzzed over to tables where the pit boss (or computer in the sky) suspects a counter?

I haven't thought that all the way through to decide if that would ever be possible or practical, but if it is, I'd bet on the casinos doing it.

It was just a bat clinging to the inside of the accelerator.