It's what's *on* the TV that's the problem. I realized the other day that I don't watch a single TV show on the 3 major networks, I don't even really know or care what's on their schedules anymore really, and only one on Fox, The Simpsons. The few other shows I watch like Breaking Bad, Justified, Curb, Daily Show, Colbert, are all on cable. Although the dearth of quality TV can be a good thing as well, I'm no longer tempted to veg out on the couch anymore.

I can only hope you contacted them anonymously and covered your e-mail tracks (and/or are far outside--presumably--US jurisdiction) otherwise you just opened yourself up to a huge world of trouble. I'm going to assume you're a young person and haven't yet realized you are surrounded by a world of idiots and can't fix everything, you just need to keep your head down and pick your battles, this isn't one of them.

CP violation in weak interactions has been known for some time, specifically in neutral Kaon decay. If I'm understanding this results correctly, the surprise here seems to be the magnitude of the CP violation in this case.

Can I still complain about none of the candidates being worth a damn, and it not making any real difference who I vote for? And the fact as a practical matter we live in a plutocracy?

I've been having great fun (and make quite a bit of money) writing iOS apps for people. I get all sorts of different projects, and programming for the platform is fun.

What about the saying "opposites attract"? I mean, my wife is pretty much my exact opposite, and we complement each other quite well. I can't imagine living with someone just like myself.

No, I'm making 100K at my day job. It's more convenient for health insurance and tax purposes as well. I can just adjust my withholding on the fly at my day job to account for my freelance taxes without having to do the whole quarterly estimated payments nonsense.

Another good portion of my clients are companies that need in-house apps or other programmers than need components or whatever. I really prefer those guys the best, they pay on time and know what they're doing.

I have to wade though a lot of fluff like "I want a game/app just XXX (Angry Birds usually :)" but at the moment even culling out all that I have more work than I know what to do with. I've stopped doing game projects, they usually turn into too much of a time sink and aren't worth it for what the client is willing to pay me. I usually do flat fee contracts, but work out the budget based on 75$/hr. Usually I do a gross "this will take 20/40/60/80 hours" type estimates.

I'm reliably making money from the App Store, $75000 (on the side, in addition to my day job) in the last year and half actually. How? By writing apps for all those people that think they're going to get rich from App Store. I'd say probably 10% of my clients have made any money from their apps. Personally I don't try to feed their notions, I just produce the best product I can for them, and they can worry about making money from it, I'll take my money upfront for the coding thank you very much. I always turn down the projects where they want to do "profit sharing".

I do laugh at the guys that make me sign an NDA before they show me their super secret idea. Dude, ideas are a time a dozen, somebody's probably already thought of whatever idea it is you have.

God forbid we should adapt our economic system to these new realities. I mean capitalism is the be all and end all, right?

Here here. I get more work than I know what to do with doing freelance programming on the side, and I'm competing against those same dirt rate Indian programmers. Why? Because people still pay for quality. I don't know how many times I've seen clients get stuck with crappy code from these guys. In my case, I'm even benefiting from another creative person who created an entire new industry that I'm working in. That person? Steve Jobs. iPhone programming on the side basically paid for my new house. Thanks Steve! Rest in peace.

To me, it's not science vs religion, it's more like science vs shit that doesn't hold the slightest relevance to my life in any way whatsoever. Yeah be nice to each to other, treat other people with respect, don't lie, cheat, kill, etc I get it, no shit, thanks religion, like I didn't know that already, now go fuck off.

"God has no place within these walls, just like facts have no place within organized religion."

God and such a terrible burden it is. Of course I guess the alternative in a wonderful libertarian utopia would be deny to medical treatment to anyone not wearing a seat belt during a crash, after all that's that would be the logical thing for an insurance company to do. Yeah let's do that rather than mandating the minor inconvenience in order to save lives and reduce overall health care costs for everyone. I guess you're against speed limits as well? If I want to drive 100 mph in a school zone I have every right!

Well that's a dumb analogy, given the fact the person would be given eventually clothes at some point. As far as beging homeless, they would be given some shelter if they were arrested obviously.

You know, living in a society there are a few things you can actually get free (gasp socialism! everything should be paid for obviously) in a modern society complete glutted with products. I'm really sicked by people that make those arguments that the poor don't have it so bad since they have a TV. Oh it's so hard to acquire a TV. Let's just chuck those old CRT's in the landfill then while we buy our new flat screen TV's rather than give them to people that lack one.

That said, I really hope the law is struck down so that perhaps we can move towards an actual single player system like every other civilized country, rather than that horrible half-measure combining the absolutely worst of both private and public. Yeah those private health insurers are definitely looking out for my interests more than some government managed system would.

Well to put it as concisely (and more than likely as unintelligible to 99% of the people reading this :) as possible: The temporal order of events separated by a space-like interval is not invariant.

To put it it more simply, if you send a faster than light message, which thing happened first (you sending or the recipient receiving of the message) will be different depending on your the frame of reference. For some observers, the recipient will appear to receive the message before you send it.