I don't know how it is in the states but here in Canada setting up a corporation can help you regulate the timing of your income but not avoid paying taxes on it altogether. If you set up a not-really-a-company limited company, and it makes a profit you will still want to transfer those profits into your personal account at some point...and when that happens the individual will be taxed on the income. (I'm not an accountant, but do have a limited company)

It probably depends on the audience. I appreciate good grammar when I hear or read it, and expect it from journalists and formal writers. There are definitely people who will judge you as an uneducated hick for using too much slang but sometimes in casual conversation using proper grammar just makes a person sound like a pompous ass.

That's a pretty good analogy. Mountain bike tires are optimized for traction. Take a look at the bikes used for tour de france which are optimized for speed and reduced rolling resistance.

I wonder if the increased fuel efficiency is simply the result of creating a smaller contact patch for the tires and reducing the rolling resistance. Maybe the same result could be acheived by using skinnier tires...but they wouldn't look as cool.

In java/C/php not equal is expressed as !=
In Visual basic you might say "not equal to"
In SQL you would use <>
  =/= seems to be popular these days. Programming hasn't been a major function of my career for about 5 years so I am a little out of the loop. What language uses =/= to mean not equal?

In an age where many suppliers use web applications that our employees need to place orders, research part specifications and more blocking the web isn't very feasible, and white lists are way too much work compared to occasionally re-imaging a drive. However ever since we put in IPCop to track web usage the number of viruses and other malware decreased significantly. But it could be just a coincidence.

I'm not trying to troll here but how do you write anything without variables? Or are you suggesting that some people will use too many variables like: $FirstName $MiddleName $LastName $BirthDate $Gender when they could have simplified their code with a single class called Person?

Speaking of rational discussions I haven't seen a good comparison of databases recently. I am building a database application. Which server should I use? MySQL, Oracle, Firebird. or Postgres?

Around 1999, 2000 we used to do an online radio show called MacShowLive. Every wednesday night we put together a show discussing new hardware, software and all things Mac related....it would stream live as the show was going on, and we archived each show so that people could download it later.... We long since stopped the show but I still have the hard drive from our BSD server, with all the shows archived.....That should probably count as prior art.