Well WTH, I have to pass half the terms in the summary through Wikipedia to figure out what the heck they're talking about? This is supposed to be a self-selecting site for smart folk, but being smart in one area doesn't make you knowledgeable in another.

It would probably help if the editors required more than just copypasta from the original article. I don't think I'm being dumb, just acknowledging that I'm ignorant of certain topics.

I'm still waiting for the President's "laserlike focus" on jobs to pay off. We've had close to 7 years of what effectively amounts to institutionalized stimulus with nothing to show for it except inflated CXO bonuses and Wall Street numbers that are being propped up by the Fed.

The leadership of both parties need to jump in the Potomac.

Be it a grain of sand or a rock, in water both sink

As a search application I cannot stand using Google or going to their website anymore. If Google isn't second guessing your typing it's including results that have nothing to do with your search.

My personal favorite right now is "ubuntu change bluetooth mac". Google claims 'About 4,890,000 results', yet you don't even get off the first page of results before the results have lost all relevancy. I get it if it's an esoteric search, but if it is just tell me '20 results' and leave it at that.

It's my perception that their results have steadily trended downward in quality for the last few years.

All that said, it's unfortunately still the best search engine.

Mailing? E-mailing? Is mailing like shipping packages, but with an e-mail you printed instead?

Isn't that how the use of the metric system was enforced in Great Britain? Good to know there are so many people that want to use the force of government to get their way on such piddling matters.

The California university system is larger than any in Taiwan and exists in Intel's home state. Anyone have any ideas why this research was offshored?

After all (and on another note), this seems right up the governing regime of California's "alley". Imagine the state using this technology to mandate your speed, or taxing you for entering the city core during certain hours, not to mention the wonderful surveillance opportunities.

no single water drop can be blamed for the flood

No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible .

Then it doesn't matter, South African's have "diplomatic immunity!"

My house is peppered with hardware I bought used because Windows no longer offered drivers, nor the manufacturer. Scanners, printers, all manner of peripheral. People sell stuff because it doesn't work with their new Windows PC, and then I buy it and plug it into Linux and it works great.

On the next episode of Hoarding: Buried Alive....

"Today, Congress voted to update the rules that have governed financial services since the Great Depression and replace them with a system for the 21st century. This historic legislation will better enable American companies to compete in the new economy.", said the Treasury secretary in 1999.

That's impossible. That would mean a Democrat (Larry Summers) said it. Oh wait, Obama, the smartest President America's ever had, trusted him as well...

What race or ethnicity is a dwarf?

Applying perceived generalizations about a group to individuals you do not know is textbook racism.

FFS, if that's the textbook definition of racism, please define prejudice! Words mean things, that's why we have different words for different things.

Now THIS sounds like racism.

Only it's not, it's prejudice. Too many people confuse the two.

I was in the same boat. I've never really worked out and work from home, so I was either in a chair or on the couch. Then I turned to bodyweight training, which doesn't require going to the gym or weights, so it can be done anywhere.

Currently I'm following Convict Conditioning, which only takes minutes a day, and excersizes like squats, pushups, bridges, and the early leg raise series can be done right at your desk. So now I still don't work out much, but I'm more muscular and stronger than I've ever been in my life.