Yeah, we have never elected Presidents and Congressmen whom we know to be cocaine users, adulterers, drunks, lechers, more-or-less murderers (Chappaquiddick), racists, sexists, anti-Semites, or just plain boors.

Oh wait.

She couldn't say so the person who stopped her? It's in her file, they could look it up if they didn't believe her.

I mean, this is a stupid rule put in place by stupid people. Don't add to the stupid.

I will bet $100 that the iPad and all of its following generations will not push 50 million units within the next 5 years, starting from the point of first sale. They simply don't have the versatility required to break out that big.

1) Take the date 3 months after the iPad is fully available in Europe and Asia.
2) Count the sales from that date 1 year forward.

It won't be anywhere close to the number of netbooks sold during that period.

Using the iPad's first quarter as some kind of predictive benchmark is foolish.

Not for nothing, but that actor autographing scans story was bullshit PR.

But I agree with you in general.

Pornography is defined at least here in the states as being primarily for prurient interests and having no social or artistic value.

Heck, Wales uses the same criteria in the summary.

So Venus de Milo wouldn't count.

What else do you got?

The worst one for me is that they've moved the DVD section (almost all family-oriented) of our grocery store into the breakfast ceral aisle. So now every parent taking their kid to get cereal has to say "No" to all of those DVDs.

Terribly frustrating.

But I would never want government to say a grocery store can't do this. I can always choose another grocery store if it gets ridiculous.

First, "regulating everything" does not equal "massive government control." In fact, government's first and foremost job is to "regulate everything."

Secondly, that Obama has a philosophy of massive government control is news to me, I haven't seen anything to really indicate that that's the case, care to expand on that?

First off, they do NOT have that right, because that would be an illegal restraint of trade.

You don't seem to understand that the basic concept of a "free" market involves things like "no extortion." So if Apple had the monopoly on smartphones, and went to Best Buy and said, "Either you stop selling Windows PCs or you can't sell any smartphones," that is an illegal restraint of trade, and that we as Americans WANT exactly that to be illegal. We don't want anyone to be able to get to the top, monopolize it, and then stifle innovation or competition through restraint of trade. They ALWAYS need to be competing for our business and our capital.

We want fair competition on all products, THAT is how a free market grows and prospers.

Your protestation is merely a technical one.

Expand the "point" to a "zone" that accommodates 90% (or more) of passenger vehicles. That zone will most likely be less than 50 feet in length. Bus and truck drivers should already be aware of their unique braking scenarios.

I think what the OP is suggesting is that if you removed the yellow, you could just have a longer period of "all-red" during which people who had already committed to entering the intersection could do so and complete their travel.

So instead of green light -> 4 seconds yellow -> 2 seconds all-red -> another green light, it would just be
green light -> 6 seconds all-red -> another green light.

.... except now Ryobi knows it'll get hosed by a jury out of $1.5 million for every saw they have out there without that business decision.

Which is what the whole article is about.

Forcing Ryobi into a bad business decision because of bad torts is the definition of rent-seeking.

Actually, their cultures pretty much come from the available living areas: Europe's being much smaller developed a lot more competitive means of survival. In America, if one group came and started harassing you, you could move pretty much anywhere to get away from them.

Guns Germs and Steel is a great read. Highly recommended.

Your point only emphasizes the original: Neither one of them was that great. So why is one of them mythologized and one of them demonized?

I think the confusion lies in your bizarre implication that "natural" can only have one meaning, when clearly that's not the case.

Oh, I see, adolf is trolling. Quelle surprise.

Stealing the car isn't the proper analogy. More like you got in a hot rod race with your new spruced up car and it crashed and burned.