Frankly I have problems with those people when I'm driving a truck at speed.

They're just assholes. It has little to do with what you're actually driving, riding, flying, or walking on.

Do you work where I work? Sounds like my life.

I've ended up filtering everything that comes from our list to the trash, with the exception of a few white-listed senders. Suddenly I can breathe again.

Facebook doesn't negotiate ads -- anyone with an account can set them up and they're incredibly cheap. All Facebook does is deposit the check.

If you use AdBlock on Firefox, I believe that blocking *extern_js* gets rid of that and a lot of other crap. (I stopped using AdBlock for blocking ads years ago; now I use it for blocking poor UI design :p )

I personally just leave scripting of via noScript for all of *.google.com, whitelisting only maps and mail since they actually have some useful stuff going on in the AJAX realm, but I realize that's not for everyone.

Generally I ignore typos, but given that I just installed FF4 (flat out not going to 5 yet), I think "widdling" is a good description of what they're doing, yep.

At least as of now I can get it back to where it's useable.

Precisely what happened after my appendectomy. I remember being vaguely annoyed that the nurse wouldn't accept my pointing to my wrist band as the answer for "what's your birthday" and then I don't remember a damn thing until 4:00 that afternoon. Meanwhile Mom claims that they'd never have taken me out of recovery if I wasn't awake.

I think that proves that we have no idea what "awake" really is.

Which would be beautiful if not for the fact that the first thing the service provider would do with your number is sell it to telemarketers.

They did that, believe it or not, back when practically every line had its own gauge.

Basically they made the wheels wider with the flanges set for the narrowest gauge they planned to encounter.

Unfortunately, this is fairly unstable and therefore not a great solution. Also, I'm not sure if they were able to use it on locomotives or not, I can't remember. Read about that it a neat old library book full of old rail stories and I just wish I could remember its title.

This was true earlier this month, but they appear to have fixed it.

Now the fact that google maps now requires cookies to work pisses me off...

And it also assumes that you'd want Facebook to have access to your cell number.

Which I suppose a lot of people would. So never mind.

There was supposed to be a "Right on" in there somewhere. Stupid fingers.

And where's my mod points when I need 'em.

A standard framework stops being standard the moment you modify something. Then you may as well have written it from scratch.

Except for the part about living in Georgia, sounds a lot like what I went though.

Except that I made the decision at that point to pitch everyone out but those who I still was speaking to face to face so I knew whether they were insane or not.

I now live in complete ignorance of my high school friends politics. It's a beautiful place.

Many (Most? All?) US plans count a text as a text, no matter which direction it's going*.

This is rather like if an ISP decided they were going to charge you for every email you got, spam or not. Only the cell providers get away with it.

*This is somewhat less of an issue now that unlimited texting plans have a decent pricing structure, though they're still out of reach of many of us. I only went for the 250/mo myself, because I really can't spare the $10/mo extra for the big plan right now.

Though of course the landline option chains you to your home.

(Not to say I think this is a bad idea -- I think it's a great idea, so long as it remains optional)