Yeah, but they did it in that order. You are now 11.

I absolutely disagree with this, but I don't have time to discuss it now. If you want to discuss this further, you can reach me here:

Dan Cruz
656 Maple Ave.
San Diego, CA
Home: (901) 271-5342
Work: (901) 887-4040 x523
Cell: (901) 279-8601

You can reach me at my $65k/yr job from 8 to 2, and then I go to the gym for an hour. If you have to reach me next week, I'll be on vacation with my wife Julia for six days, so call my cell. Also, this reuben sandwich is dee-licious!

1a. Help & Preferences -> Dynamic Index -> Exclusions: Put a check next to "kdawson"
or
1b. Help & Preferences -> Classic Index -> Authors: Uncheck "kdawson"
2. ????
3. Stop crying yourself to sleep every night there is a kdawson story

Unless the essay is brilliant to two humans, in which case the computer is corrected. The computer only really decides whether a second opinion is needed.

How about something like this?

http://www.cracked.com/video_17823_helpful-tutorial-game-that-would-confuse-einstein.html

It's a myth that got perpetuated for a few reasons:

1. There was one case in Minnesota in 1988 where a ruling on an assault case was based on the defendant's martial arts experience.

2. Long before the US was familiar with something other than boxing, servicemen were supposed to register their martial arts training with their service. This was more about training QA.

3. A few high-profile boxing matches would have the contestants register with a sheriff as a deadly weapon - but it was a matter of publicity.

4. Some shady martial arts instructors offer to register their students, and produce a license card - all for a reasonable fee.

A toaster is something you *can* fix. It's not like cancer or something else where you have little to nothing control over it. You can just do it, if you really want to.

Wait, were you disagreeing? I can't tell.

If you're depressed or fat, and don't care for it, go get help.

This is the standard link for the "How do I get into games?" question.

http://www.gamedev.net/reference/start_here/

Unimaginative parents?

Under the "Discussion" preferences, there are two options I've found helpful:

The first is "Retrieve (few|more|many) comments". I think "many" is the new default, and "few" was the old default. The switch is probably why turning it off and then back on loads all of the comments.

The second is "Get (highest rated|oldest) comments first". The default is "highest rated", which causes it to load the best comments, but then it scrambles to dynamically stuff subsequent comments where they fit. Switching to "oldest" loads the comments in order, eliminating the script that arranges things. This has reduced my load time to a few seconds, an improvement over almost a minute, excluded hanging scripts.

(Of course, if that doesn't help, there's always "Enable dynamic discussions = false"

This makes me picture Elmer Fudd in a leisure suit.

They are not!

Steve Jobs and I.

Isn't everything? :)