I know a ton of semi conductor tools that use floppy drives to back up the runs made on them. Considering some tools can see hundreds of runs a week it is probably where a considerable amount of them are going.

During my service we were forced to use power point for every lecture. Our CO stated that training without power point was not training at all!

FYI, AHIP (insurance company reps) wrote the health care bill word for word. Do you actually believe this will help the common man?

Sounds like the shipstones Robert Heinlein wrote about years ago.

Clusty is by far the best search engine. I don't understand why more people are not using it.

Pay no attention to the reports from residents that heard the levies being blown to protect the rich neighborhoods.

With the invention of the internet the main stream media companies are being caught more and more in their lies. From the lies that got us into the Iraq war to the photoshopped picture of the London bombers, the internet is exposing lie after lie. Is it any wonder that the more tech savvy generation realizes that most "news" is in fact just propaganda supporting a particular world view? And who is dumb enough to pay for propaganda?

Only if we use the Moon as a reaction mass to go to other planets, then yea eventually we would change its mass enough. But thats in the thousand of years scale. Actually ANY energy production will eventually cause a problem, just a matter of time scale.