Your libraries must suck. Fines here are something like $.02 a day, and the book exchange program is free.

*WHOOSH*

Total whoosh.

Whoosh.

Assuming Folding@home is always running when your computer is on, then it's a matter of power supply wattage*amount of time Folding@home runs.

If you have a 1000 watt power supply (assuming it doesn't go into a stand-by or power saver mode), you are always drawing 1000 watts from your wall when you are running your computer. Your computer may not use all 1000 watts, but it's still drawing that much into the PSU.

Sounds like you need some marijuana.

I wish this were real.

Let's just hope that Futurama remains ahead of it's time. When the show originally aired back in 1999, it was far ahead of the pack as far as comedy goes, and it still remains my favorite show of all time. I dare say, it's even better than the Simpsons (and I have friends who back me up on this point). Anyway, it's been six years since we've gotten any new material (other than the movies, which I haven't seen). Does anyone really think the writers will be able to top what was once so profound (yes, I am calling Futurama profound)? The social commentary was biting and harsh, but still hilarious. Does anyone really think they can bring back the same feeling? I guess I'm just hoping the show doesn't just devolve into another Family Guy. I'm also afraid that my favorite show will be ruined by these new episodes, if they do indeed start the show up again.

Someone give this one a medal.

Movie theatre popcorn is NOT healthy, regardless of how much fake butter topping you put on it. I worked at a movie theatre, and the popcorn is popped in vegetable oil. Even if you don't get the butter topping, you are still getting tons of oil and salt (the salt can't be removed from the process because no movie theatre would ever pop an entire batch of unseasoned popcorn for a few customers who may buy it.

On a somewhat related note, the seasoning used is not just salt, and though I can't recall what's in it, it's the seasoning that gives the popcorn it's yellow coloring, not the butter or the oil.

Also, the seasoning is specifically designed to create that freshly popped popcorn scent, and that scent, wouldn't you know, was designed specifically to trigger that Pavlovian reaction that makes you say, "I want a big bucket of popcorn with all the fake butter topping I can get."

Let me point you to a quote from the good Albert Einstein:

'If I give you a pfennig, you will be one pfennig richer and I'll be one pfennig poorer. But if I give you an idea, you will have a new idea, but I shall still have it, too.'

There's no stealing when the source material isn't taken away from the owner.

Pirating software should be a crime, but it should never be equated to stealing.

So what you're saying is that you've figured out how to keep your PC running WITHOUT power? Why are we still driving gas-powered vehicles? Somebody get this man to Washington!

Also, keep in mind that the numbers you are citing from that study are the absolutes, not the averages, at least for mental decline. Of the 2000 or so sampled in the study, 27 was the absolute youngest they saw the earliest signs of mental decline. Not to mention, it also showed that the average person's memory didn't begin to decline, again, at the earliest, until the late 30's, and accumulated knowledge didn't begin to dissipate until the subjects were well into their 60's. To make a long story short, don't believe everything you read, and if you intend to anyway, at least read between the lines a bit, will you?

Wow. You're clueless, huh?

Correction: The end of the Universe. And actually, I got my reservations last week.