As long as you understand that your and my definition if data hog may not be synonymous?

http://grammarist.com/usage/ha...

How does one get the job of "editor" exactly?

This times a BILLION.
Just to have a crawlable time/date stamp on pages consistently....delightful.

IIRC there's a google command-line tag like sort:date or something that will give you freshest pages first, but i've never found it useful - dunno, maybe changing ad-content 'refreshes' page ages to the point of meaninglessness?

...you're suggesting a project announced to great fanfare on the web might not be realistic or even possible?

But...they have a website!

(Anyway, I'm sure the process of tearing their plan apart was actually a fairly interesting engineering exercise.)

Funny, I was going to say exactly the same thing...but focusing on the "US" bit.

If anyone thinks that China, Russia, Germany, Japan, France, UK, hell, even Brazil aren't doing *precisely* the same thing to the greatest extent of THEIR capabilities, they're idiots.

It's funny, and more than a little bit sad.

I'm an American, and proud to be one. I firmly believe that there IS an American Exceptionalism in a number of positive ways. But as I'm growing older, I have to admit - we just don't handle being a superpower very well.

I thought the postwar era of 'utterly thoughtless American "we won the war" bullshit hubris' ended with their noisy collapse in the 1960s. - the era of dumping radioactive dust at elementary schools to trace possible fallout patterns, giving LSD to mental patients, or a foreign policy shot through with arrogance and amoral choices.

Now, it seems again that we're returning to an era where the folks in Washington again see themselves as beholden to no one, responsible to no one, and capable of absolutely breathtaking hypocrisy and conceit without a trace of conscience or humility (or, for that matter, historical perspective).

For those outsiders observing the US: please note that we are talking exclusively about the US FEDERAL government, for the most part. That is (ever more) distinct from the United States as a nation, culture, and people. Not to say that the US states don't cheerfully do this sort of stuff too, but they are more immediately connected with both their victims and the voters (who are often the same group) and are thus managed more closely.

Obviously we need a Federal government; but personally the advantages of a stronger one (and there certainly are some) don't outweigh the concomitant dangers. Some of us believe - as did the Founding Fathers - that the task of American democracy is about constantly and assertively constraining the Federal government (not to eliminate it, to preclude the libertarian strawman that always seems to be dragged out at this point) to limit their functions narrowly to only needful roles, and NO FURTHER.

Perhaps - lacking a strong federal government - the United States couldn't so easily assert its desires on the international stage. Perhaps we forego some of the 'macht' of a superpower. But perhaps that isn't all bad. That power corrupts is a cliche, but never is it more evidently true than within the District of Columbia.

I've been kicking around the internet since before the web, since one was delighted by the capabilities of gophur, etc.
And:
"We've all experienced the frustration of trying to access information on websites, only to find that the data is trapped in outdated, difficult-to-read file formats and that metadata..."

Nope, not even once.

Nonsense.
There may be a lot of people who refuse to work for less than they +think+ they're worth, but that doesn't actually say anything about how much they're really worth.

If a business can get that talent for what they are willing to pay, then that's what it is actually worth.

Salaries are not about what you think you're worth or how much it cost to get that talent; they're about replaceability.

I believe that University of Colorado environmental studies professor Roger Pielke Jr.should start us off by reducing his carbon footprint to 3rd world levels as an example.

"These companies are free to build space ships and rockets all they want. "
Actually, no, they're not. The private space industry has repeatedly hit regulatory roadblocks, NIMBY, and bureaucracies that are barely in the 20th century let alone the 21st, and for whom "don't you do anything without a) a government agency approving it and b) paying some sort of license/tax" is dogma.

Yes, this CURRENT issue has to do with government bidding and contracts, and LIKELY doesn't* prevent them doing what they need to with their own funds.
*note, however, even the summary implies this is in question: "...officials have not commented on whether-or-not the companies can continue working if they are using private funds..."

What? That doesn't even make sense? Yes, different results might have prompted me to speculate on different bases for the behavior. Is that astonishing?

In the first place, using your backwards example, if there was a study showing that people watching thin people took less food, yes, I'd probably say that it could be because people watching healthy people are going to emulate them. We're a social species, we do lots of things because of simple emulation.
If there was a study showing people behaved CONTRARY to fat people behavior - ie took less food when they saw fat people gorging - I would indeed have speculated that we may have internalized that fat=unhealth and thus were subconsciously trying to avoid that outcome. ...because internet forums are kind of about "open speculation"? What sort of a dilwad doesn't understand that? New to the internet?

He did, which was amazing since by that time he'd gone blind.

I can think of a billion-dollar segment of the recording industry that's pretty much predicated on the use of the word in every album they produce, is that good enough?

Top 10 Rap Songs On Billboard.com as of 09/25/2013:

Jay-Z ft. Justin Timberlake â" Holy Grail
Number of âoeNiggaâ Occurrences: 9
Eminem â" Berzerk
Number of âoeNiggaâ Occurrences: 0
Macklemore & Ryan Lewis â" Same Love
Number of âoeNiggaâ Occurrences: 0
4: Macklemore & Ryan Lewis â" Canâ(TM)t Hold Us
Number of âoeNiggaâ Occurrences: 0
J. Cole â" Crooked Smile ft. TLC
Number of âoeNiggaâ Occurrences: 2
Sage The Gemini ft. IamSu â" Gas Pedal
Number of âoeNiggaâ Occurrences: 4
Big Sean ft. Lil Wayne, Jhene Aiko â" Beware
Number of âoeNiggaâ Occurrences: 2
Rich Homie Quan â" Type of Way
Number of âoeNiggaâ Occurrences: 3
Macklemore & Ryan Lewis ft. Wanz â" Thrift Shop
Number of âoeNiggaâ Occurrences: 0
Sage The Gemini â" Red Nose
Number of âoeNiggaâ Occurrences: 1
Bonus Track For Fun:
Birdman & Lil Wayne ft. Fat Joe â" About All That
Number of âoeNiggaâ Occurrences: 27

...from the colleges point of view.
It is almost completely arbitrary, non-quantifiable*, and obfuscatory - meaning they can admit whomever they want, for whatever reason.**

*note that the one place it IS at least somewhat quantifiable by outside observation, that of race/gender demographics, they've scrambled mightily to make sure that 'diversity' is reached. Well, that is until women are overrepresented...then I haven't noticed as many righteous protests about gender balance in education. (?)
** as a non-public system in a capitalist society, this should be ultimately their choice; however, the moment the US government felt that it had a compelling interest in mandating "freedom of association" as meaning "freedom to associate as long as the right mix of genders and races are present", I believe we've long since set a precedent of Federal meddling in private practices in this context.

I know, we should do one of those White House petitions online, I'm sure that will make a difference?