Swing and a miss

From Wikipedia: "Hatch's son Scott is a named partner and registered lobbyist at Walker, Martin & Hatch LLC, a Washington lobbying firm. The firm was formed in 2001; the other two partners are Jack Martin, a staff aide to Senator Hatch for six years, and H. Laird Walker, who has been described as a close associate of the senator's.[21] In March 2003, the Los Angeles Times quoted Senator Hatch as saying that the firm was formed with his "personal encouragement" and that he saw no conflict of interest in championing issues that helped his son's clients.[22] Hatch has legislated for dietary supplements to be governed outside of the realm of drugs and food additives. Utah, his constituency, is considered the "Silicon Valley" of the supplement industry. When the FDA was reviewing the adverse effects of ephedra, Hatch defended the supplement industry. At the time, Walker, Martin & Hatch LLC were being paid, by companies with interests in ephedra manufacturing, for lobbying Congress.[22] In March 2009, the Washington Times reported that the pharmaceutical industry, which has "long has benefited from Sen. Orrin G. Hatch's legislative efforts", had previously undisclosed connections to Hatch. Five pharmaceutical companies and the industry's main lobbying group, Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA), wrote checks in 2007 totaling more than $170,000 to the Utah Families Foundation, a tax-exempt charitable foundation which Hatch helped start in the 1990s and had vigorously supported since. Walker, Martin & Hatch LLC was paid $120,000 by PhRMA in 2007 to lobby Congress on pending U.S. Food and Drug Administration legislation." Too bad they won't go after him for things he's already done. They probably just don't want to bring it up as they're waiting for their turn to do the same thing.

Jellyfish are people too...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prosopagnosia in case anyone is interested.
"Prosopagnosia (sometimes known as face blindness) is a disorder of face perception where the ability to recognize faces is impaired, while the ability to recognize other objects may be relatively intact. The term originally referred to a condition following acute brain damage, but recently a congenital form of the disorder has been proposed, which may be inherited by about 2.5% of the population. The specific brain area usually associated with prosopagnosia is the fusiform gyrus.
Few successful therapies have so far been developed for affected people, although individuals often learn to use 'piecemeal' or 'feature by feature' recognition strategies. This may involve secondary clues such as clothing, hair color, body shape, and voice. Because the face seems to function as an important identifying feature in memory, it can also be difficult for people with this condition to keep track of information about people, and socialize normally with others."

I tried real hard to find flaws in his appearance as I'd heard people complain and came to the same conclusion as you. I found it hardly noticible though. Had it not been pointed out to me that people didn't like the Clu 2 cgi I probably wouldn't have noticed the uncanny valley. Then again, it worked for me in the movie because he WAS a program.

They do if someone complains. I can think of a couple associations that might do that.

Exactly. And I shouldn't have to pay $5 every time I see a friend on the sidewalk.

Ha! The last sentence in the Wikipedia article reads, "In August 1995 the terminal business of Digital was sold to Boundless Technologies."... Boundless Technologies a red link :p a perfect end to a story

No matter how much you excersize, you're never safe according to Slashdot... speaking of which, is this not almost the exact same story as http://science.slashdot.org/story/10/01/20/011244/Sitting-Down-Too-Long-Is-Bad-Even-If-You-Exercise ?

Wow, I can see someone making the same joke as someone else because it was burried in the comments, but FIRST POST, modded up to 5, you missed? You must have been trying real hard not to look at comments before posting.

Odd. I see road construction through most of every summer, most notably on an overpass (aka bridge) I would very much like to use to get to work in the morning. Do you live somewhere that tax money only goes to somewhere like Afghanistan like, say, Afghanistan? If so, I'm pretty sure if you look hard enough can see US tax money going to bridges there too.

It's actually, "It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education." /pedant

Sounds like a great idea for a game, actually. Assuming there's a "Survive Russian Invasion" mode and/or or "Zombie Apocalypse".