This is untrue, except in the basest biological sense.

Her ideas live on and will likely continue to live for much longer than the typical genetic line.

See also: Alan Turing. (Ah yes, now I see that you are trolling)

A comet hitting the sun is pretty awesome, I don't care how often it happens.

It's breathtaking to watch and beats 99.9% of "real news" any day.

I wish we had more mainstream news like this. It might cause people reflect more on all the petty crap that gets them down. "Wah, I lost my keys...wait, at least I didn't get smoked by a frickin' ice comet!"

Good point. It isn't much different. I suppose that's a plutocracy problem as well as a copyright one. It's large media companies that lobby for such extensions, not your typical artist.

Right. So the only people who would make money in art would be whoever can manufacture the cheapest container.

Yes, I agree. But why is it that OS supporters, who are invariably geeks and other variety of sysadmin, feel they need to constantly opine on arts-related copyright issues? Just because you listen to music and store it digitally does not make you an expert in the industry. Listening to geeks yammer on about alternate copyright for music is like listening to Lady Gaga talk about coding.

Yes, that's nice. Pro-tip: It is limited and is not perpetual.

Now I'm going to listen to Bob Dylan mumble on about how developers should be forced to release their source code after a limited time that he deems long enough for them to have made a reasonable return.

Yeah, and how was it a disaster? There appears to be a vast amount of music available at very low prices. Over the past 100 year music has evolved at an unprecedented rate. We now have thousands of different musical styles from millions of artists. And this was a disaster because you cannot publicly perform Happy Birthday without paying a small royalty?

People in fine arts on average earn far less than the average techie, so you know what? Stop trying to foist your "free" philosophy on everyone. It's disingenuous to suggest that art should be free (or even cheap) when you're pulling in $100k securing networks against people who would use them for free.

That's funny because both links I provided support street address lookup.

Oh, lookee here, another one!

http://www.zip2tax.com/

So let's continue to freak out about the complexity of a problem that has already been solved.

Sigh...

http://www.geotax.com/USTaxLookup/Centrustaxlookup.aspx

Among many others free and paid, if you'd bother to Google instead of spouting off nonsense.

I find filing my personal income tax exceedingly complicated what with all the possible permutations of credits/deductions/income sources/etc, so perhaps I will just throw my hands up in the air and not bother filing.

Or can only wealthy corporations skirt the law because things are "too hard"?

Or maybe they just meant that an early version of this spine provided a marginal wedging advantage, which allowed the current "power-up" version of the spine to evolve.

By the way, the only other 777 crash in history was another failed landing short of the runway. In that case it was British Airways.

Perhaps knee-jerk rants on culture are worthless and the whole story actually does matter, hmm?

I don't care if you're a racist or not. My comment above was in response to someone else.

I'm sorry you took offense to a comment that was not directed to you.

Gladwell based his theory at least in part on Korean Air flight 805.

The NTSB recognized hierarchy as a contributing factor in the crash of that flight. However, in doing so, the NTSB cited a study of US pilots to illustrate problems with such hierarchies and how they can contribute to crashes. Hence, hierarchy problems in the cockpit do not seem limited to Asia. This is further evidenced by the fact that the KLM flight crew in the Tenerife disaster was Dutch.

I'm not sure why you're bringing Confucianism and Korean culture into it. You seem to want to make generalizations. If Gladwell had any statistical training at all, I imagine that one takeaway from his writing would be: Do not generalize from rare events.