You seem quite behind. Not only have they dumped the "Spawn" feature, they've dumped LAN play as well. They announced it months ago. It's all Battle.net now.

I think you're confusing Ireland and Scotland.

Find me a case anywhere in the the first world where any of that has ever happened.

You also clearly have no idea what it means when hospitals refuse treatment based on inability to pay. Have fun dying unconscious in the ER because you were in an accident and no-one knows who you are or where your insurance card is.

Or are you planning on getting yourself chipped with credit rating and insurance info? Is that the free conservative utopia you imagine? A society in which the EMTs first action is to scan a potential patient for their income and social status?

Or we'd have to do something at least as difficult as adding an atmosphere to Mars, slam asteroids into Venus in exactly the right way to speed up its rotation. FYI, a martian day is already quite close in length to an Earth day.

The whole completely replacing the crust every half billion years that theorized to happen on Venus is a bit of an inconvenience as well.

You know, there's a really profound point there. Whenever someone starts to make an argument about how the market, through the rational behavior of consumers will correct abusive behavior by corporations, they should be forced to work Customer Service/Support lines for 8 hours.

THEN, they can come back and tell us about how well the system works. If they can manage not to choke on their bullshit then, I would be amazed.

Wait, so Ghostbusters is the new Matlock?

See there's a critical distinction there that you're missing (possibly intentionally). Liberals did not want the USA to lose, we believed the USA was likely to, and for that reason pursuing it was a bad policy.

The recent dramatic increase in violence in Iraq should serve as an ominous sign we may very well be proven correct.

Whether you want to acknowledged it or not, there is a real difference between the liberal fear (circa 2000) that George Bush would pursue policies that would prove disastrous to the United States, and the current behavior of the Right, cheering for Democrats to fail so they can regain power.

Correction: Most criminals that are known, aren't known for their foresight or intelligence.

*choke* *spew* *hack*

Bullshit. Just bullshit. Supports not there. And the integration isn't either.

I'm typing this on a Mac, but seriously how can you even claim that when every time Apple releases a new model, there's some (perhaps very large) portion of their existing base that gets screwed over and hung out to dry. Examples? Want to use one of the new machines with that super expensive Apple display you bought just 6 months ago? Sorry, the converters aren't out yet, or even worse they are, and they don't work. This shit has been going on forever, and Apple's track record about addressing it in a way that takes care of their customers is absolutely abysmal. That's why its standard advice to never buy a "Revision A." Apple product (And especially never at launch! You may be able to get away with it six months later, after all the suckers have found out what's going to be broken).

The OS is fantastic, but the hardware is hit or miss, and the support is fucking horrible.

That's completely unworkable. For one, SSDs are at least an order of magnitude too slow, and two, while the number of read/write cycles for DRAM is effectively unlimited, the number of Read/Write cycles for even SLC flash is not.

The ability of wear leveling currently to keep a Flash drive functional when used as Swap space is just barely there, use the flash as main memory and there is no hope. You'll constantly be killing cells.

^ ^ That. Seriously. But secondly, You're asking about EULAs. The GPL is not a EULA. None of the libre/Open Source licenses are EULAs.

What you want is purely the domain of contract law. The conditions under which you license software you own are between you and the licensee. Plus whatever court has jurisdiction if either of you decides to sue. Hire a lawyer if you're not confident on what provisions are likely to hold up under a judges scrutiny.

Jeepers.

Students built some sort of radio which they used to communicate with someone at distance?

Will the wonders of this modern era ever cease?

Wait, what?

I think you're wrong about .wav being worthwhile there. .wav has no native support for metadata (There are solutions out there, but their hacks, and likely incompatible across apps), while FLAC has excellent support for it. And if you want to, in the space you save using flac, you can add .par2 file sets for redundancy, which will drastically decrease your chance of data loss if you have a drive/filesystem error.

FLAC is still worth it, IMO, if only because it is a modern file format, with modern features, while wav is ancient. You lose nothing by using FLAC as your primary archive format, and gain quite a bit.

Congratulations. You just ignored the distinction between "Interested Public" and "Public Interest." The actions of government at all levels, and the public actions of the people who make up government are central to the public interest. There are many other types of information that fall into into the Public Interest as well.

In general, murders and car wrecks don't, they are the daytime talk show fodder of the interested public.

Don't be an ass.

Biotech research, and particularly creating artificial, but organic life like systems, is a parallel, and often directly contributory line of research in relation to robotics and AI. The two fields have a steady exchange of ideas.