As long as the bots keep up with Mafia Wars, I'm okay with it.

At the very minimum, pay for dinner.

Did that include the reoccurring monthly fees?

Just in comparing troubleshooting sections of both Apple and Microsoft, I've come to one conclusion. They both suck. Microsoft's Knowledge Base search is (at best) a pain in the ass. Regarding Apple, I've tried multiple times (across multiple dates) to log into and report an Apple related bug at https://bugreport.apple.com/ and have gotten nothing better than an error after logging in. Regardless of platform used (Windows with firefox and IE, Powermac with firefox and Safari) the end result was the same.

That's not true; it's easy to get in a roaming area in the western, less populated states. Driving from Utah and across Wyoming recently with my G1 I was roaming for quite a large portion of it.

Just a couple of quick points to consider.

The laws are different from state to state, even within a state. Utah, for example, the bars can (and do) get sued for fake IDs. There wasn't a lot of personal responsibility for someone with a fake until this past legislative session.

Secondly, having had a hand in producing some scanning software to work with Utah Law (there are only so many items you're allowed to pull out of the license from the mag stripe or the bar code), what gets pulled also differs from locale to locale. For example, here you're not allowed to pull address or SSN. British Columbia likely has the same constraints, as do most states in the Union.

And finally, it's really not that difficult to fool a scanner. I had one test card that looked legit; Utah's State Seal hologram was fine, the plastic was not obviously tampered with, paper looked fine as did the type, but upon scanning the information printed on the card was obviously not what was coming out of the display using information pulled from the barcode. A "22" year old white male from Provo was, according to the software, a 37 year old female from Ogden; so just having a red light/green light system would not work. Take into consideration, none of this interacted with an online database. Information on the bar codes and magnetic stripes are ridiculously easy to read and code/decode.

Side note, it's Friday, it's quitting time, so I'm going to go make sure my license works at a few fine establishments with loose womens and beer.

Sure, $299 obviously is more expensive than the $120, except for the fact that I can throw together at least one box from discarded parts at my desk for $0 and use the windows, as opposed to having to pay X amount for an apple product to use the $120 snow leopard. That's something to take into consideration when comparing this particular set of apples and oranges.

Not to mention that Snow Leopard is just an upgrade (hence the 10.6 in the version), where Windows 7 is a completely new release.

Showing up on time. It usually doesn't happen.

A good point, especially if you take out the need for landing at some point.

G33k.

If we're going to spout off insults, the world you live in has way too many emotional nuances to even have reality.

The law 150 years ago wasn't changed due to some decisions of the SCOTUS to consider all humans, human. It was however changed by the will of the people and their legislative officials, as well as the executive branch.

The law 60 years ago wasn't changed due to the feelings of the SCOTUS either, to remove segregation. It was changed due to the unconstitutionality of the laws that were passed. The whole checks and balances thing in play.

SCOTUS in your example: conservative, progressive, liberal, are all political goals, aspirations or choices. I'd much rather have them doing their jobs, being a check in the system so the other cogs don't do stupid shit like enslave half of the country, or whatever comes next down the pike, then try to legislate on the bench (one political direction or the other, it's not their job).

On the inverse, would you expect someone starving, homeless, and bearing a child after being raped to fairly judge someone not in that circumstance? Life experiences don't mean squat when it comes to the bench. What experiences I have in life shouldn't matter if I'm called to make a judical call on someone else; it's based on law, not feelings.

It looks more like being arrested for mouthing off to the cops. Tact not a strong point?