This is just Obama's plan to drastically reduce the size of the military!! Would YOU stay if you had to work with Office 2007 AND Vista? Think about it.

"14+ cm"

How in the world did I never think of measuring in *centimeters* before reading your post? Brilliant! Genius! Thank you! Thank you!

"Flamamable" is easy, so I'll skip it. As for the other -- just think "inflamed" hemorrhoids. They don't call them that 'cause they *don't* burn!

His failure to cite was the best part! It made me feel all warm and fuzzy to see he was modded to 5 -- WITHOUT a citation. It means we're all family here, we get jokes without having to have the punch lines explained to us. To the GP -- Bravo sir! Bravo!

So once this is done, can I IM other drivers and give them driving tips? Like, oh, I don't know -- "Hey buddy! If you'd bothered to use your freakin' turn signal, I coulda made my left, and not had to wait another ten minutes for an opening in traffic! Thanks a lot!" Because, if so? Sign me up!

We need to borrow enough money from them to mobilize our forces and kick their asses!

Not only because of the risk of big brother hocking it downtown, but also for what I would think are even graver concerns. Take my situation, for starters. I'm a computer professional. I know all about the dangers of the Internet. I have a brilliant, beautiful, innocent, obedient, *GOOD* 10 year old daughter, who would LOVE for me to get her a netbook. Pink, of course. I'm terrified at the prospect of turning my little girl -- smart and good as she is -- loose on the Internet. Sure, there are lots of things I can do at home to protect her -- heck, I've even toyed with the idea of installing a keylogger on her system when I feel the time is right (ok, maybe that's going too far). And this is a kid I can TRUST! But what about when she's got her new toy at her friend's house? OK, ok, enough about my situation -- I think we can handle it. Now consider the situations of the children we're talking about today. (I'll be making a lot of assumptions and generalizations here -- please forgive me). No tech/Internet savvy authority figure at home. Heck, maybe not much of an authority figure at home at all! Peer pressures my daughter can't even imagine. Way too much unsupervised free time. A totally different upbringing than the one my kids have received. What's going to keep these kids safe? Oh well, I'm probably being naive and alarmist. And maybe for nothing, since the laptops will probably stay at the school anyway (no, I didn't RTFA).

WTFE. "A dollar or two" as a donation isn't going to make even the poorest child/family value the thing any more than they would a completely free laptop. Seriously -- a DOLLAR OR TWO? If you want them to value it, you either need to make them pay for it in full (or almost) which of course is a non-starter, or make them work for it. Community service? Picking up litter at a park? I don't know -- *something*. A dollar or two is ridiculous on many fronts. The costs associated with collection and accounting for a dollar or two from every student will be astronomically high compared to the cost of giving them away for free.

Another ebook reader.

"could the world of high-end PC graphics simply go away?"

I wish it would! I'm tired of carrying around all this envy directed at people with the kind of coin required to buy top-of-the-line graphics cards. I got a wife and kids to support!

RIAA/MPAA "Edited and Approved" US Government Advice

etc.

"Citation please. How has social networking sites become "so integrated into our society?"

Well, for one, I seem to recall a completely inexperienced and unqualified presidential candidate winning the most powerful job in the universe based partly on the fact that he was *cool* enough to use Twitter. Here's one of 4,790,000 citations on that available via Google: http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/08/13/barack-obama-overtakes-kevin-rose-on-twitter-mccain-is-nowhere-in-sight/.

Someone is impresonating me on Facebook! I demand action!
Sincerely,
John Smith