They could take a lesson from IKEA and ship the parts to build the car to the U.S. It would be one hell of a big box, though.

Microsoft introduces the Start Menu Ribbon!

That would be a useful addition to the Tom's test: cross-platform performance (although adding the test suite to Windows 7/Vista/XP/OS X/Ubuntu would make the test much bigger).

Anecdote: I just updated to Firefox 7 this morning and already had a page that didn't load correctly. I don't recall that ever happening with Firefox 6.

http://pubs.usgs.gov/fs/fs2-00/

Most of the current global land ice mass is located in the Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets (table 1). Complete melting of these ice sheets could lead to a sea-level rise of about 80 meters, whereas melting of all other glaciers could lead to a sea-level rise of only one-half meter.

So a 15% melting should show a 12m rise in ocean level.

http://www.climatewatch.noaa.gov/article/2009/climate-change-sea-level

Measurements gathered by tide gauges through the 20th century show that global sea level rose at an average rate of 1.7 mm per year – this translates to about two-thirds of an inch per decade. Satellite altimeter data gathered from 1993 to 2003 indicate that the rate of global average sea level rise increased to 3.1 mm per year, or about one and a quarter inches per decade.

There has been an 18 cm rise since 1900, and the rate of rise is increasing.

I expect it to be staffed by Homer Simpson.

Homer: [reading screen] "To Start Press Any Key". Where's the ANY key?
                I see Esk ["ESC"], Catarl ["CTRL"], and Pig-Up ["PGUP"]. There
                doesn't seem to be any ANY key. Woo! All this computer hacking
                is making me thirsty. I think I'll order a TAB. [presses TAB
                key] Awp...no time for that now, the computer's starting.
                  [reading screen slowly] "Check core temperature, yes slash no."
                [types] Yes.
                "Core temperature normal." Hmph. Not too shabby.
                "Vent radioactive gas." [types] NO.
                "Venting prevents explosi-on." Heeheee...whoa, this is hard.
                Where's my Tab? Okay, then, [types] YES, vent the stupid gas.
                  [Cut to a farmer tending his corn. The gas release blows away
                part of the crop.]
Farmer: Oh, no! The corn. Paul Newman's gonna have my legs broke.

Yes, I'm often out of reach of a handy finger-crusher.

Is his name Peggy?

W56.49 "Other encounter with shark" + W90.2 "Exposure to laser radiation" is all I've got.

One of my favorites is T63.192A: "Toxic effect of venom of other reptiles, intentional self-harm, initial encounter"

But, as silly as these seem, there are already codes to cover the category in ICD-9. The turtle attack correlates to "Other specified injury caused by animal" excluding dogs, rats, snakes and lizards, etc. Similarly, "Accidents occurring in music hall" comes from the existing code "Accidents occurring in public building". So calm down with the government overreaching attitude that I'm sure will prevail in this thread. Being able to say "Other contact with turtle, initial encounter" versus "Other contact with turtle, subsequent encounter" may seem unnecessary, but to medical coders, it's not.

Isn't this more like getting your house seized because a criminal crossed your yard on the way to robbing a bank?

Will they answer all questions 140 characters at a time?

It's one single system and organization that handles federal voting for the entire country.

So you're saying a central, single federal agency is more efficient than individual agencies using their own systems. Next you'll tell me that works for health care as well.

According to the Oracle of Bacon, Hitler has a Bacon number of 4, so you must be correct.

If your player died in the game, you can't play the game any more*.

*or you get to play some different game, depending on your belief system.

this in turn causes society, public opinion and government to turn from the protesters and their just demands in disgust, through no fault of the protesters

Right, who would ever want to hijack peaceful protests?