And when you exit, I hope ...

The RIAA haven't undertaken raids on their own authority, nor have they used their own forces. In these cases, they are influencing government (police SWATs) to use its monopoly on force to "enforce the law". Maybe it's a fine line, but it is a line. This is not to say the government is any more justified in taking unjust actions, however.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article6229529.ece

Or "Nimoy" for that matter ...

Or, for better views from around the same time, see Foxfire (1996): http://today.ccopinion.com/images/2005-12-jolie-foxfire1.jpg

It probably was the 12V lead-acid battery many are familiar with. They are typically recommended to be replaced after 4 years.

For sequential read/write -- yes, they are faster than Intel's offerings. Random read and write operations, on the other hand, are another story. That's one of the biggest issues that SSDs solve versus spinning platters, and no one has gotten it right so far, except Intel.

May I introduce you to shoulder-fired missile systems ...

Not to feed a troll, but ...

"Tolerance" is about freedom of choice -- until that choice begins harming others against their will. Most genital mutilation is done before a child even learns to speak, never mind before the child is mature enough to make the decision in the first place. Calling circumcision and other kinds of genital mutilation a "religious freedom" is nothing short of barbaric.

My parents loved me enough to allow me to make the choice whether to keep my foreskin. Yeah, I'm not getting rid of it anytime soon.

That would be four quaternary bits to make a byte, I believe.

2^8 = 256 possible values (binary; 8 places, 2 possible values each)
4^4 = 256 possible values (quaternary; 4 places, 4 possible values each)

Alas, it looks like invites are unavailable at the moment. Not sure if this is just for me, but that's what the knowledge base on the site said. Sorry.

Well, I did RTFA, and that's not what it said. It cited several studies that concluded there was no benefit to speed from using Dvorak over QWERTY. They didn't really say anything about ergonomics, however.

You're missing the "blind" part of what I said, I think. Same for the other reply. People should follow authority, when it makes sense, and they should understand why it makes sense before doing it.

Do you, by any chance, live in Tuttle, OK?

Humanity does not need to get rid of religious people, or atheist people. What we need is to get rid of religious tendencies -- anything that requires blind devotion or submission to a deity or other entity, imaginary or otherwise.

The atrocities you mention were accomplished by regimes that put into place a sort of cult of state. All were forced to submit to a national ideal, in the place of religion. It had the same problems as a religion, just without the typical face of [insert your pet faith here].

It's not about whether atheists or religious people have committed atrocities; there's plenty of blood on both sides. It's about freeing our minds from the shackles of blind faith and submission, allowing for freedom of inquiry and flow of information. That's all.