>practice good prostate hygiene

We all know what that means, don't we?

"Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservative." ~ John Stuart Mill

No mod points to bestow, but I'd like to buy you a beer.

I toured Europe with a Lumix LX3 in 2010, taking 1700+ photos in two weeks. I traded up to the LX5 not long after that, and now I'm loving my LX7. Panasonic deserves kudos for identifying and catering to the market for a feature-rich compact digital camera. Do you have the add-on WA lens? Pricey but worth it.

I bought my GF a Canon A720IS before I knew better. It sits on a shelf now -- she's using the LX3.

Photoshop from sixteen years ago is as good as any open-source photo editor available today? What a depressing thought.

built from my old gaming PC with two 1TB drives in a mirrored configuration. The really critical data is also stored on an external HD at work.

> As far as sci fi day dreams go, I'm guessing something more like Rishathra than Bitcoin.

What about 'Whuffie' as described in Cory Doctorow's Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom?

> patriotism is pride over your arbitrary location on a single, tiny blue planet divided by imaginary lines.

Patriotism was invented because religion had lost its ability to induce people to kill and die for the benefit of the wealthy.

"It's a bit of an annoyance, but most people around here simply use the native Chinese versions and don't notice anything of the outside world."
In other words, it's working exactly as intended. :-(

The Chinese are more like Americans than you expected?

Windows 8 will be nothing but a bug-fixed Windows 7, but we're going to charge you for it.

Very interesting. I don't think I've ever gotten a false positive from Gmail's spam filter.

Maybe they do know it's a symptom, but refuse to acknowledge it because there's nothing they can do about it?

Definitely a YMMV situation here. I found the effects of Salvia divinorum to be decidedly unpleasant. The best thing I can say about a salvia high is that it's over quickly.

They could not tell the fully story. Literally. They left out Tom Bombadil and Goldberry. I can understand that back story behind that, but as a child, I understood him to be literally beyond the powers of the rings themselves. That grabbed my mind and imagination.

I could forgive Peter Jackson for that, but I will never forgive him for excising "The Scouring of the Shire" from ROK. Tolkien himself stated that it wasn't an afterthought or epilogue, but an essential part of the story.

Why would someone do that?