The guy said "math is math" not "math is objective fact", and that there is "right and wrong", which did not imply moral issues. Yes, math is an abstract set of axioms and rules, but by golly, when you do a proof, it's either right or wrong; it's the implications that may be elusive.

Jeez, at those rates you can get Europeans too. They're closer to timezonewise to the West as well.

Sounds like the music and film industry. Soon the IOC is going to start complaining that revenues are down, because people in the city see the results for free in newspapers and on the internet and therefore don't feel the need to watch the games with all the adverts. So results will become copyright. Mark my word.

Heh. :) My wife dresses me. She was there with me the whole time and she really liked the muscular twins that helped her out. And yes, I'll put on a pink shirt if she says I look good in it.
Actually, the quality of the A&F stuff is very high. 5 years on, and today I'm wearing one of the shirts I bout there for the.. cough... 80 quid. It looks good as new and is probably one of my best made shirts (compared with Tommy Hillfiger, Polo, and some no-names).

This is a luxury apartment. Fully furnished. It's 45m square, so it's small, but it has over 20 light fixtures in the living room and 50+ in the bedroom (there are dimmable LED stars in the ceiling). The entertainment centers are built into the walls and you could only guess where the fridge is if given pictures. It's in good shape. Between tenants I prefer to invite my friends to the party pad instead of my house, because its NICER. My tenants were: a corporate real estate buff, who left a full bottle of Remy Martin XO cognac, a publicly traded company CEO, and now some expat Americans on the up take. The apartment rarely sees more than 3 interested parties before we sign the lease. But... you'll have to take my word for it :)

My thought on reading the headline was that this was a scent that Apple would drop into their new laptops. Not a bad idea, I thought.
This reminds me of my first visit to the Abercrombie & Fitch store in London. They spritzed the clothing in there with their perfume. And the hot girls that helped me pick the clothes also had the scent on. The experience ingrained the smell into my brain as the smell of "sexy".
Smell association is a powerful device. If you got Apple fans to associate Apple gear with a specific scent, they would crave the product if they just smelled the store around the corner.

But the smell of plastic and aluminum? Boring.

Says the guy, who probably slashed his fingers taking out ISA, PCI or AGP cards from his custom made tower PC.

When I was 15 the best TV you could get was a cylindrical Trinitron. All the other TVs sucked compared to it. Do you think most of my friend's parents bought Trinitrons?

Are you sure it's their own brand? Maybe they're still in negotiations with the manufacturers?
I seriously doubt Ikea has a consumer electronics engineering team.

And the iPhone is a poor idea for a product, because it's locked down. Next straw man, please.

I would have to disagree. In my experience, it's the opposite. About 5% is poorly built. My advice, don't buy the cheap stuff. Ikea has a lot of it on display, but it doesn't make a large proportion of the assortment.
I furnished a whole apartment from IKEA and 7 years on and 3rd renter (yes, I rent it) and it's still fine. The Kitchen, the closets, the chairs. Honestly, just because you have to put it together it gets a bad rep. I used to collect money to get IKEA stuff. When I finally got it, putting it together was something my wife and I REALLY looked forward to. It was like playing Legos all over again. And my wife likes it! It's genius. They're the Apple of furniture. Complain all you want about your pet insignificant peeve about it, but it sells like hotcakes and the customers absolutely love it.

No, I'm sure they use the alternative Nitrogen or something like that. Nothing dangerous.

Mod up. If this is correct, it's probably the most lucid explanation I have seen. Statements that "the theorem says so" amount to a faith argument, which doesn't convince me. But I'm no expert.

The predominant bias is to avoid details, backround information or anything that could consitute basis for an informed opinion based on presented "facts". While local media and stations may be biased toward one manufacturer or another, they are all biased against providing news in context.

I knew it, God reads Slashdot!