It even has a name. The teachers I taught with in Japan complained that they were becoming 'wapuro baka', word processor stupid.

And yet my students in Japan would always go to a shrine before a big test or a big baseball game. Spirituality in Japan is complex, but I know that doesn't fit your argument, so carry on.

I think that you have hit exactly upon his problem. The game is a Western shooter/simulator, not a historical simulator. If it was historical a lot more of the cowboys would be black for one thing. The Old West of a Clint Eastwood movie is no more real then a sci fi shooter. Which is just as well, since I want to be the guy from High Plains Drifter, not die of dysentery.

And we respond by cutting down more rainforest and acidifying more ocean...

As ar as I can tell from the article the resonator is in a supersposition of energy states, not positional states. I don't blame you for being confused though, since the article is written in journalist-speak. The state will collapse upon measurement of the energy in the system.

'2013 First suspect indicted on DNA only evidence, no previous criminal record. New FBI program hailed a major success.'

This happens now in rape cases, to prevent the statue of limitations from running out. They will just indict the genetic material from the rape kit taken on scene.

Also, you need to lay off the caffeine.

Do you know a lot of vending machines that accept half-dollar coins (the size that is large enough for the microSD card)?

Which is of course why the movie is worse then the book, as they left out the last chapter. The 21st chapter, a number symbolic of adulthood, where Alex discovers on his own that the violence of his youth has stop being as appealing, even without external enforcement. In other words, he grows up. Thus the whole meaning of the story is changed.

I love you. No really.

The OP is in fact being asinine, but that being said I don't Drive on New Year's Eve for precisely this reason. Icy conditions and drunken revelry are a bad mix. If I am not somewhere with public transportation I just stay home. New Years is a stupid holiday anyway.

'[U]tter agreement from the vast majority of staff on how to approach the matter.' has another name. It also begins with a U. Of course, 'union' is a dirty word on slashdot, and apparently in IT in general outside of government. Which is why these people continue to be exploited.

Ha! Amateur. I had an undergrad professor who liked to say Pi ~ 10, to an order of magnitude. Estimation is a good skill to have.

I believe the correct comment here should be "Thank you Comrade Stalin for our happy childhood."

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I'd do both and build my greenhouse out of semitransparent photostatics.