Take my road bike, for example. At top gear, I have roughly a 5:1 gear ratio. The manufacturer's comparable mountain bike has roughly a 4:1 gear ratio. The bikes' weights aren't that far off, and I would imagine the weight would really come into play on very long and/or stage races. A bike of comparable weight is still going to be hamstrung by the gear ratio. Even in the unlikely event that I get the commuter bike lighter than the competetion's racing bikes, they are going to have a more favorable selection of gear ratios. I'll be at top gear and have to spin faster to go the same speed. To a point the faster cadence is going to be favorable for energy systems used, but after that point I'm hitting my lactate threshold and its bonk city.

If I had to use a commuter bike that I could modify on a race, I'd be thinking about changing the gear ratio before dropping a marginal amount of weight.

Funny, I was thinking the brainstorming went something like this:

The iPhone interface is kind of cool.
We should do something like that.
If we do squares people will realize we are just copying Apple.
Let's do circles instead.
Let's do it!

If you look at the post, that's exactly what SuperKendall was saying.

That's pretty much my MO as well. I try to find what will be the fastest line and get in it. Cashier speed is usually the biggest factor. I've seen cashiers that regular shoppers avoid at all costs, sometimes even when they don't have a line. I've seen others that a long line at their register is still faster than a short line at another. If I have a good handle on who the fastest cashiers are, I won't want a single line/multiple register approach. Otherwise I would welcome it.

Stick with vampires. Twilight vampires. No one (worth listening to) will complain about comparing the RIAA and MPAA to Twilight vampires.

Actually it is a year earlier than previously thought. December 12, 2011 is when my daughter can get her driver's license.

While that might be true it still misses the point of the gp or ggp or whatever post that brought up burning the Bible as a form of protest against the WBC. It is intended as an attack at a group of the larger religion, but it becomes an attack at all within the larger religion. Burn Qurans and you may piss off all Islam. Burn Bibles and you may piss off all Christianity. That is the appropriate comparison being made.

Add to that the fact that some people enjoy driving. Taking mass transit is distress and driving their car is eustress. That is a pro/con that is hard/impossible to quantify.

What are you talking about? The scene doesn't even make sense with Greedo shooting at all. He is there to bring in Han to collect the bounty. He either is going to take the money from Han or bring in Han to get the money from Jabba. He is no good to Greedo dead. There is no reason to think that Greedo would shoot unless he is first shot at. It just fits with the dialogue for Han to shoot when he does. It makes no sense that Greedo would just arbitrarily shoot at that moment. Never mind the fact that a guy with a gun already trained on his target for a few minutes is going to miss a point blank shot. Throw in how Lucas tried to make Han look like he nods to one side to avoid getting shot before returning fire. The reworked scene is an amazing display of idiocy on the part of Lucas and anyone involved who wouldn't show he had a pair by saying "this is just stupid." In the original it makes sense, it flows, and it shows Han being Han at a very early point in the narrative. In the retarded edition (hey, special is used in place of retarded a fair amount. It really fits here.) the Greedo scene makes no sense, the flow is fubared, Han is still Han, but he has this artificial nobility now. To top it all off the scene looks horrible with the wrong guy shooting and the other guy dodging. The effect is quite jarring if you are really familiar with the original. Makes me think of the part in the 70 minute Episode I evisceration where the guy referring to the opening scene of the original says something to the effect of "This scene is so perfect (or maybe genius) that I'm convinced Lucas had nothing to do with it." He puts his stink on things over and over again. He just can't leave crap alone. The result is the guy that should be delivering a masterpiece special edition with fixes and tweaks is upstaged by a fan working with off the shelf stuff at home in Star Wars Revisited.

I don't care what they do with facebook. I just want them to friend me and join my mafia.

The stuff looks really good, but once you tear open the packaging you'll realize there is nothing of substance inside. You'd be better off choking down a greasy, super-sized, value meal.

Yeah, they are basic shapes, but they don't have a logical sequence to a non-Playstation player. On an X-box or Dreamcast controller if I see something say "A" or "B" I don't have to look at the button to know which one to push. When I look at the screen and it says press SQUARE or CIRCLE, I have to look at the controller to know which one to press. I had this exact problem while playing my nephew's PS3 earlier today. Nothing like having to look down at a controller to know which button to press in the middle of a firefight.

While I completely agree with it, I think the reason why some "content providers" will behave like EMI in your example might be (I'm completely shooting from the hip here) because they can't make money off of the success outside their playground. If the group got a lot of sales from outside the UK in your example, it might put money in the coffers of some other publisher.

We could always send up a mission to retrieve the dead satellites with the space shutt- Never mind.