No he's not.

Ever suck on a thermometer?

I saw a TV report on this and it showd him "reading" the word CAT in 4" high black on white letters.

Really quite amazing, but similar in a way to Braille.

So much worse than treating the sick, regardless of wealth.

Excuse me if I don't shed a tear.

Ah, you'll be a Latter Day Jedi then.

I don't think there's going to be any good stuff...

From TFA,

Jobs: If we moved forward to commercialize it, "I'll just sue you."

Schwartz: And that was the last I heard on the topic. Although we ended up abandoning Looking Glass

As in life, bluster and threat are commonplace in business

It seems unfair to call it "bluster and threat" when the reason that Jobs didn't go through with his promised action was that there was no need to...

This reads like a lot of bull to me.

Mayan calendar is likely out sync anyways and DID WE GET ours right to start anyways? Like did we start on 0 or 1? did we even all start the 0 on time DID we for get about leap years for some time? What did time zones do to the sync? The railroads started the time zone thing.

Unfortunately, the explanations given by the Federal Constitutional Court can be read as an instruction manual on how to create a data retention law 2.0 that will pass the courts muster. Shouldn't take those politicians too long to come up with the new version. :/

I think that on average quakes tend to increase the roughness of the Earth's surface (large mountain ranges such as the Andes are created by the cumulative effects of quakes). This will increase the radius of gyration of the planet and therefor lengthen the day. However, the increase in roughness is counteracted by erosion.

No, you idiot , element 118 would be in the noble group and not reactive. No sir, not with oxygen.

Radon is also a noble element, but is reactive. Many predictions suggest that 118 would be more reactive, but as only three or four atoms have been detected I wouldn't expect proof any time soon.

It's bad luck to throw words like "idiot" around...

modern civilisation wouldn't exist without gold

if by civilisation you mean economy, and even then it may very well have.

I think the point that was being made was that gold had an agreed-upon value and could be transported from place to place, country to country. It allowed the growth of commerce and the construction of the current free-market world, for better or worse.

I don't think the original poster necessarily meant gold as such, it could well have been something else rare (but not too rare), durable and relatively easy to identify as genuine.

I work on my own. Do I count as my own coworker?

Are you remote from yourself?

It really amazes me how Apple can act like total pricks and so many here trip over their own feet rushing to defend them. Is the shiny THAT damned blinding?

Maybe people read the story (OK, the summary), had a think about it and regardless of who was involved, came to a decision.

I'm not saying that's what happened, but you have to admit, it's a possibility. In the real world most people aren't rabid fanboys who have a default opinion based on who makes something.

That said, if Apple wants money back for the software development they put in iTunes, they need to charge for it.

Well, they sort of do... in order to use it with a portable music player you have to buy an iPod.