I've known this for a while. For years, I've been skeptical every time a scientist claimed that the moon was 2,006,000 years old.

However I'm told that OpenSSL works a bit better.

I'm pretty sure that a national internet ID system would be a joke even if it included some sort of tire pressure monitoring

then why are they using computers?

There, it saw 4 baby turtlenets crawling in a green ooze...

Just like go to the Goodwill store or something, there are plenty of $20 tables there.

Microsoft was doing so great on their new feature set for IE9 up until they listed the ability to turn ActiveX back on.

I mean, after the morality squads reject the .xxx tld, Ill just have to get my hardcore porn at a website with a working tld: www.titfuck.jesus

I mean, if you try to sell porn across state lines, some overzealous, butthole-of-a-sheriff in Florida might extradite you for obscenity charges.

I mean, all you have to do is start up a $500 electronic device, log into a web service, and generate a bar code that has to be scanned at the register. In the past, i had to go through the painstaking hassle of quickly sliding a small piece of plastic across a device after audibly saying "I would like a coffee."

You can search the net with ease...

If your 5 year old is able to use an iPhone proficiently, then he/she probably should be reading something more complicated than a children's book anyway.

Speaking as a nerd, you should be fully aware that correlation does not nessecarily mean causation.

When I lived in Ohio, the town next to me, Brimfield (Brimtucky was the colloquial term, though,) was a rural town with very little going for it in terms of an economy. A Walmart was built, and then right after that, several small shops opened up around the Walmart. Walmart did not, in this case, drive out small business.

The people in my hometown petitioned to prevent it from being built there, and when it was built a town over, no small businesses closed down, the same people in my town who protested the place's construction now shop there, and instead Brimtucky recieves the tax revenue.

I'm not saying we should regulate the hell out of everything but I really miss having other options when I shop.

In the city to which I'm currently residing in Kentucky (you know, south of the Mason-Dixon, where all of those gun-toting conservatives people love to make fun of so much) there is a Walmart, at least 2 Meijers, several Kroger's, a bunch of specialty ethnic stores, a whole foods type co-op, along with both chain electronics stores and several specialty shops all over the place. "Other options" are doing just fine.