You obviously have not played Diablo 3...

People arguing about WoW and calling each other morons on the intertubes makes me lolz.

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It's about 45 minutes door-to-door using public transit. I think on a light traffic day I'd be lucky to do the drive in an hour and fifteen minutes; on Friday's I get to wave at stand-still traffic as I continue on to my destination. Being south of the Bay Bridge in the East Bay makes for a quick trip into SF. Were I coming from Richmond or Walnut Creek, I'd be looking at probably 85 minute door-to-door but the drive would have the potential of being much worse. The tunnel out to Walnut Creek is atrocious in the evenings and there are so many stops through Berkeley that the Richmond bound trains take forever.

So in many respects, I'm in the perfect location for where I'm going to work (10 minutes drive to the BART station on one end and 8 minute walk to work on the other end).

You forgot the part where the mobile tech bubble bursts....

You can call BS on this discussion all you want, but it doesn't change reality.

Facebook and Google are no longer considered "start-ups"; they're both publicly traded at this point.

Most of the start-ups are opening up shop around SOMA or Union Square. It makes a lot of sense for recruiting talent away from the big players (Apple/Google/Facebook). SF is a bit more exciting than Palo Alto....

I live in the East Bay. I take BART to work everyday. From my stop in the East Bay to my stop in SF, it costs $4.15. Parking at the BART station costs $1. I live 2.4 miles from the BART station. Round trip, it costs me $9.30 to go to and from work.

Were I to be driving, my commute would be nearly 30 miles. I'd be driving across the Bay Bridge ($5 a day) and then parking in San Francisco would cost me a MINIMUM of $10 a day. This isn't even taking into account opportunity cost of time, wear and tear on the car or fuel.

The car is not cheaper in San Francisco. Ever.

Whoa....FarmVille is in space? No wonder the astronauts aren't completing their tasks! Someone should talk to the network guys at NASA and have FaceBook blocked...I'm not paying for NASA through my tax dollars to play social network games all day!

Erm....I's so confused....could you please tell me the difference between 100.000%, 100.00% and 100.0% ... my limited brain seems to think they're all the same.

And on another note, there's no such thing as a 100% probability of something occurring, you can just make something very likely to occur but not deterministic. Or to put it another way and to drop in a reference to fight club..."On a long enough time line, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero".

Regarding the life insurance policy for children thing, it actually can make sense if you find the right plan with the right monthly installments. It can be a great way to have extra money "saved" for education. Most life insurance policies let you cash-out what you've put in, so if say you're grand parents take out a life insurance policy for you at birth that requires modest monthly contributions, and at 18 it can be worth $20k+ ... My folks paid for my collegiate education that way...

Another element in the NASA debate is the fact that basically every president since the 1980's has taken office and changed NASA's course. Four to eight years isn't enough time to get anything done, and if you get a new boss who wants HIS LEGACY to be crafted through NASA .... welcome to space exploration in the US!

Don't think public sector is going to get much done in space anymore. It's now about presidential egos and partisan politics....Ahhh a capitalist democracy, the best government money can buy!

You are correct that many present day movie actors make terrible stage actors, but not all. Also, it's not that stage actors "overact" it's that the stage requires one to be "bigger". There is a huge difference between overacting (bad) and being "bigger" (good). Overacting, regardless of medium is bad. Modulating your tone for the medium is good.

Camera captures everything so all you really need to do is capture the emotional tone for a given moment and the eyes take care of everything for you (assuming you're one of them expressive types). Stage requires you to bring more of yourself to the character in order to reach the entire audience thus the requirement to be bigger.

TLDR: bigger...not overacting

I have similar experiences on the West Coast. Lived in Los Angeles for about a decade and I don't think I *EVER* saw a driver pulled over in LA County for speeding on a freeway. If traffic didn't throttle you to 5 mph, you were going 85. If you didn't go 85, you were a danger on the road...