For the record, a) I purchase a $5/yr plan from Google for extra storage space (not sure if that makes a difference); and b) if you upload using Picasa rather than going to the website (inefficient at best), goto Tools>Options>Web Albums and choose "Original size" in the Default size dropdown menu.

I realize I'm still a n00b (I read /. for the educational value) and it's possible I'm wrong here, but I don't believe they do. I use Picasa to backup my digital pics, so I just downloaded a photo I archived there, and compared it to the original. The md5sums match. That's close enough to original for me: goo.gl/GKgs9

Okay. But you should know that sudden serious brain injury causes the victim to bite down. Hard. In fact, I understand the bite-reflex is so strong the victim's jaws have to be pried open with a crowbar.

I'd suggest cutting corn and ethanol subsidies before NSF funding. Specifically those going to Nebraska. It's bad juju to use food for fuel, and just as bad to use food acreage to grow fuel.

Because right and wrong DO exist, despite your value judgment that they do not. Yes, it is difficult to establish absolute values of right and wrong from the morass that are "culture" and "value judgments," but that doesn't change the fact that they exist.

My typing teacher would go into the supply closet and spike her bourbon after assigning the day's lesson. But you would too if you spent 6 hours a day listening to 30 IBM Selectric IIs hard at work.

A lot of the sedatives they give you often cause partial amnesia as well. My last conscious procedure was a flexible sigmoidoscopy. I asked them if I could watch the monitor as they worked, and I know I did, but damned if I can remember any of it. So they sent me home with snapshots.

I don't believe the above is a troll.

What is missing from this discussion is the major difference in procedures. In female circumcision, the orgasm-producing nerves are removed in an extremely non-clinical setting. No anaesthetic, no sanitation, and the after care often involves rubbing ash or dirt into the wounds. In the other, the head of the penis is left intact, there may be anaesthetic during the procedure, and after care is sanitary. Even for non-clinical male circumcisions, a mohel's kit is generally cleaner than the knife used for female circumcisions.

I will not discount the possibility that a male circumcision results in decreased sexual enjoyment, but female circumcision results in little to no sexual enjoyment.

Check with the benefits administrator for your employer. Many life policies offered through your employer have "portability" or "conversion" options. Portability is cheapest, but either one will keep you covered. There's usually a very small window of opportunity to exercise those options though, so talk to them before your last day of employment.

No, it is singular, in the same way army or pride (of lions) or murder (of crows) are singular, referring to a group. You can talk about batteries, armies, prides, and murders, all of which refer to multiple groups of multiple items.