I would never buy a Kindle, unless it was about $50 and didn't have all that DRM crap. I tried the Sony reader and it was OK I suppose. Even then, I would use it solely for technical manuals. I've tried reading fiction on an electronic device and it just feels wrong. Sitting down and reading a good book is one of life's simple pleasures, and life is too complicated nowadays.

The only advantage I can really see with an E-Book is if my library caught fire it'd be a lot easier to replace everything!

It's surprisingly easy because we used to be nobility up until the reformation happened. We had backed the Parliamentarians, and once the King Charles II came to power we lost the majority of our lands. Oh well!

Time Travel - Not feasible (in spite of how much I'd love to skip forward a few hundred years)

FTL Travel - Goes against the laws of physics, but I'd like to think we'd be able to find a way around this one someday or we're stuck in one part of the Universe forever.

Human-Level AI - I expect to see this in my lifetime.

Discovery of Aliens - I'm in the "they're out there somewhere" club, but I don't think we've had any contact yet. I hope we'll find evidence of other life before I die, probably in our own Solar System first.

Immortality - I can trace my family history with near certainty back to the year 780. I have 3 kids of my own. You could say we're already immortal (at least for the next generation). I doubt true immortality will ever be a reality, but current research shows promise for significantly increased lifespan.

World Peace - Ha! Not a chance.

Sharks With Frickin' Lasers - Technically already feasible, but very silly.

Not to worry, most of the kids who bullied me in grade school are now working menial jobs because they felt making other people's lives miserable was more important at the time than studying. It's the best form of revenge. :)

You'll love college, most of the people are there because they WANT to be not because their parents forced them. Therefore, the maturity level is higher. Mostly.

Just another clueless web designer putting up an open relay form. I thought I'd seen the last of these back in the 1990s! I'm sure the web site in question has been blacklisted by all the major DNSBL lists by now.

I'm actually pretty good at finding my way around when alone, the problem is if someone else is driving I tend to not pay attention to the route we're taking.

This got really embarrassing when I first started driving (I didn't start driving regularly until I was in my 20s because frankly I didn't need a car until then) because I would make ridiculous wrong turns in areas I'd been travelling around regularly for years.

I have a tendency to explore off the beaten track which definitely helps in learning how to navigate.

I'll agree with other posters, I moved from the UK to the US and was screwed up for several months because the stars where in a different place (relatively speaking).

I recall buying a 512Mb thumb drive in 2004 for something approaching $60. Now you can pick up 2Gb ones at Wal-Mart for $15. I've ditched USB thumb drives now I have an SD converter since those cards are even cheaper.

They're useful if I want to transfer large files from work to home since they can be a little touchy about me throwing gigabytes of data over the network, but beyond that they spend most of their time gathering dust.

My baby toys are at my parent's house and my nephews play with them. The Fisher Price ones from the 70s have survived nearly 40 years being played with by dozens of kids and are still good as new! They will probably be excavated intact by some future society thousands of years from now, long after the rest of our civilisation has crumbled.

In spite of all the many controversies his music was groundbreaking and inspired multiple generations. If the allegations against him are true, well he's already paid the price now and there's nothing we can do about it.

Let's not forget a larger than usual number of celebrities and notables died in the last few days also. A sad week for the entertainment industry as a whole.

Up until I was 7 years old we lived in an old house with an upstairs attic that had the same floorspace as the two bedrooms combined. You could only get up there with a stepladder. I remember it as this big room that hadn't been decorated in decades so the wallpaper was peeling and the carpet was all torn up. No electricity other than a light. The only furniture was some old mattresses we pulled up there and an ever rotating supply of toys.

Coolest. Den. Ever.

The new owners turned it into a third bedroom. Idiots.

Well, depends on what you call "primary".

-My laptop at work gets shut down every day but it's not technically a reboot, it gets "rebooted" whenever I install a patch or software that needs it.

-My 2008 box which I also use as my desktop I reboot only if I really, really have to since it has so many VMs running on it. In practise it starts acting weird if I leave it on for more than a couple of months and needs to be rebooted. Probably a memory leak somewhere.

-My UNIX boxes gets rebooted about twice a year if an important patch comes out, or I'm testing something.

I gave up the penis growing max uptime game years ago, I hit 450 days on a Linux box once and it only went down after a powercut. I'd rather have a current security patch, thanks.

One side of my family all seem to die young from cancer, but then again they all had unhealthy lifestyles.

The other side live well into their 80s and 90s. I'm hoping for 100+ but we'll see. If I don't see my Grandkids I'll be very upset.

A couple of my CFLs are approaching the 4 year mark (they stay on all night) and they take about 2 minutes to get to full brightness now. When they where new it was more or less instant.

Call me strange, but I have a Sun Model 6 (one of the newer USB ones) and it's the best keyboard I've ever owned. I've been clocked at 145 wpm and my fingers never feel tired.

We do that already, but you still don't get proper rest. Bear in mind also our kids are all below the age of 6.