We in California have all the water we could ever want. We just do not have the political willpower to access it. It's called the Pacific Ocean, and the process is desalination. Which, if it cost us as much as it does Israel, Saudi Arabia, and other desert nations to run, would result in LOWER water costs that what we pay in Southern California (I live in Ventura). Plenty of water - just no willingness to create the necessary desalination plants - and accompanying power plants - to make the water desired.

Massage parlor?

You're not supposed to be watching your stereo...

That's how it is in Thailand, at least. The Nissan and Toyota trucks I drive there have the turn signal on the right. For the first 3 days I typically end up using wipers to signal a turn and blinkers to clear the windshield. It's not that effective.

Once the construction is done, all it takes is a few exploratory drivers with Waze turned on (such as locals going outside the neighborhood), and it will quickly learn that the roads are open again. Have you never had a problem with ants? This is how ants work, only they leave scent trails behind instead of needing an internet connection.

Northwest Austin has a similar problem, though on a much smaller scale. The only two roads that go out from the city are US 183 (a surface highway upgraded to freeway in the past two decades) and Parmer Lane (a 6-lane highway street with traffic lights, though mercifully the worst intersection has good topography for an overpass someday). There are roads that cut across perpendicular to them, but not parallel. (Part of the problem is that development beyond Parmer is blocked by the Robertson Ranch area, which the heirs want to unload slowly for tax reasons, while beyond 183 is too hilly.)

It would be worse if it was a major through-traffic route (like I-35 is), but it's a major rush hour traffic pain as it is.

It's not really amazing if you think of it in the right context: Any music not acquired via RIAA-approved methods must be piracy, according to the RIAA. Ripping CDs is allowed, but only grudgingly, because it was already being done before they knew it could be a "problem". P2P file sharing (aka Napster and its many descendants) is right out.

Also, e-mail? Of all the ways to get music files, that doesn't really seem convienent. Do you watch Netflix movies via e-mail? Just because you could do something doesn't mean it's a great idea. And I've never heard of Windows users sending music via e-mail, so as far as cheap shots go, that's a pretty lame one.

Not to mention that Apple has already switched Macintosh CPU architectures twice, so it's not like they haven't done it before. However, both of those times they bridged the transition with emulation technology to ensure that older applications would still run until "fat" versions appeared. Could they get away without an emulation period this time? Maybe. Having an existing app infrastructure in the new CPU architecture will certainly help.

And why don't we have a Seawater Nutter Troll?

Wasn't Galicula the one about the dyslexic Roman emperor?

"A person who is accused of committing a crime is innocent until proven otherwise"

Unless it's a tax or a drug case.

You got the founder of Islam right, but Judaism is considered as founded by http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J...">Abraham who precedes Moses by multiple centuries. And Christianity was founded by this guy named Jesus, called "the Christ". He predated Constantine by about 300 years or so... Abraham and Jesus were most assuredly NOT warlords.

And this time, we do it right.

I heard the new version comes with Red5 bundled to let people use the new Flash control panel.

You beat me to it!

Idiots got what they wanted, now they are unhappy.