True. I have a Chinese friend whose parents collect napkins. Thousands and thousands of napkins. They are also of that age group. I suspect they fear running out of napkins. Many of my older Polish family members, especially those born in Poland between say, 1938-1989, displayed similar behavior...presumably for similar albeit somewhat less severe reasons.

I should clarify...I mean in most of North America. Granted, certain immigrant groups may display a greater predilection for mushroom collecting, and I know it is a bigger deal in the Pacific Northwest of the US along with in Europe, but still, in NA it isn't a HUGE pastime.

Is this hype because it is finding its way into the food supply in stores either via getting into commercial operations accidentally or being picked and sold as something else by wild collectors, or is it just journalistic pomp? Because, as somebody who regularly photographs fungi while out photographing native orchids, I'm willing to bet only a very small percentage of the population would ever even consider eating a wild mushroom. Even 90+ percent of my hiking buddies, all of them reasonably good at plant and fungus IDs, would never consider taking that risk unless it was something very expensive to just buy, like morels.

As for airlines, sometimes it cuts both ways. United's one-way price is sometimes less and sometimes more than round trip. Actually, often the same. Once, to use some flight credit for a pair of cancelled seats booked separately for the same flight, I had to book two one-way, multiple hop flights (at the advice of a CS agent) to use the credit, because it couldn't be combined in any way. The whole thing ended up being absurd. There was no price difference.

Here's the real problem...Dice bought a niche website catering to a non-mainstream audience and is frustrated that ad revenue is not commensurate with a mainstream website, so now they want to maximize revenue by pushing the site to a wider audience. In other words, dumb it down, white space and images everywhere, probably sensational headlines...a copy of every other website out there. Here's what Dice needs to realize about Slashdot... We are your content. You are otherwise nothing more than a link page. A cheap version of Google News, and on to delay at that. We come here to make and (more importantly) read comments from the audience we have NOW. A wider audience will just mean it will turn into the CNN comments section tragedy of the commons and your content (read, us) will wander off to greener pastures. Just leave the option to use classic permanently, or make beta nearly indistinguishable from classic from a functional and feature standpoint, or best yet, do nothing. Accept that Slashdot is not going to be a cash cow for you. Maybe, if you listen to your customers and are very careful, you can pay the bills with it. But alienate your customers and that will be the end of Slashdot, slowly, but surely. Just accept that the product you purchased is for a specialized audience and stop trying it widen that audience. Instead of trying to maximize ad revenue by bringing more users that will change the community, try to maximize your profits in less obnoxious methods. Sell Slashdot apparel more openly, maybe develop a line of printed matter useful to the maker scene, consider adding a dedicated reviews section in current formatting. If you want an example of a site I think has managed to squeeze all the life out of their original classic page design while staying current would be Photo.net.

You miss a valid point...while holocaust denial is obviously not taught by any reputable institution, a history teacher would be remiss in not pointing out that some topics surrounding the holocaust, such as whether the term should include non-Jews, are areas of legitimate debate within the historical community. But then...in history there is an acknowledgement that there is ultimately no one "true" answer, rather just the one most people agree is "most true." As a non-scientist, my perception is that science doesn't necessarily teach such nuances at as early of a level as most humanities. Probably I'm part because truth in humanities is harder to prove.

I grew up in Westminster. Bustling in 1984? It wasn't bustling in 1994, even, unless one was from say, Taneytown.

I'm impressed by how clever this particular animal is in relation to the others.

I'm sorry. Not interested. I don't want to waste fuel carrying around equipment I don't need, much of it will be reporting back on my driving habits, listening habits, and shopping habits. I deliberately picked my car to have as little cruft in it as possible with only the features I wanted. Even that was a huge pain nowadays.

I read this as a multiple choice question with a defined answer. I was disappointed when I figured it out, because I was hoping I had correctly picked D. Sigh.

Here is the actual article, not the article about the article... http://www.greencarreports.com/news/1089292_tesla-updates-software-to-cut-charging-if-wiring-may-be-bad

The number and capacity of the transit links may suck, but the maintenance quality on the bridge/tunnels between NYC and NJ were much better maintained for decades, largely because of the heavy independence of the governing authority, along with the tolls. While the difficulty of building new links is a valid point, it is somewhat simplistic to argue that political divisions between the states are the biggest issue in transit in the NYC metro area.

Read up on the Federal Do Not Call Registry. It is a useful tool, but you may also want to check if your state has its own registry. The Federal version is pretty toothless...but ours here in Tennessee actually has teeth. I reported a violation and the state not only fined them but followed up with me to send me the associated filings.

Yeah, kinda odd that was omitted as an option.

Anybody knows if this is a location tested by 23andme (or Ancestry)? I've got results from several providers and I'd be curious to see my results, as I'm a fairly negative person.