I'll definitely need this at some point - my XP box is sitting in my closet, waiting for its day, but eventually it'll die along with a whole lot else. Mind passing along the secrets here, too?

Our job is to get the word out about corruption here at home while supporting those that are taking on the blatant corruption elsewhere. Our corporate greed feeds their dictatorship, and their dictatorship gives good cover for our corporate greed. We're all in this fight together.

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Never says anything about "directly", nor does it say you can't have someone help you through the process, which is what the sacrament is.

At long last the Vatican actually says something with clarity and timeliness. Maybe they finally hired a communications director. So I'm quite glad they came out and made sure that this was clarified. The whole thing about contraceptives for medical purposes wasn't new but the Vatican had never been explicit about clarifying things, so we all went apeshit at the announcement. Good of them to get in front of the curve on something for once.

I believe it's because Klingon uses a lot of glottal stops, (the blank spot, for example, in "uh oh!") and represents those by apostrophes. Many languages that have very new and contrived writing systems (like St'at'imcets) use Latin characters in different ways than we might normally be used to.

I'm unsure if "skeptic" is the right term, but a quick jaunt to Wikipedia ought to help. To summarize: it's a large area of the ocean where the concentration of plastic particles is significantly higher than normal. Most of the particles are too small to see and are essentially dissolved into the ocean. There are some bits of visible garbage floating along, but the patch still looks and acts very much like normal ocean.

Oh but it's not happening now in most parts of the US: witness the proliferation of a third rush hour around lunchtime in many parts of the country. Typically, those lunch jaunts are to destinations less than a mile away from the workplace.

I saw a girl on the metro once with the symbol of the Sun tatooed at the bottom of the back of her neck. When I asked her about it, she said it was a project: to get all the symbols of the planets tatooed down her back. I asked whether she'd include Ceres or Pluto (it was during the debate on dwarf planets) and she didn't know yet. Still, were I female and if I wanted a tatoo, it would be that. Therefore, my good anonymous, that is my suggestion.

Maybe I'm just an idealistic capitalist, but having informed consumers is the (ostensible) basis upon which our economic system is built. If companies cannot be expected to provide the information required to make capitalism work properly, we have a much larger problem that cries for a regulatory intervention, much as I hate to say it.

Bush had his moments. Not many, but they were there.

And to us fans of "classic" metrics, we have:

5.34 x 10^14 olympic sized swimming pools (534 trillion)

1.24 x 10^13 Libraries of Congress (12 trillion)

4.475 x 10^19 firkins (45 quintillion)

And the depth is equivalent to 18.32 furlongs or 8.2 Empire State Buildings. You're welcome.

There's always been feel-good news. And plane crashes certainly sell. My god man, just look at the Fox News website and count how many tragedies they can line up next to sexy photos.

Assuming that 21 1/3 firkins are in a barrel, and 121,000 seconds in a fortnight, you have approximately 25.8 million firkins of oil dumping into the sea. That's a lot of firkins. Oh, and the Library of Congress has 5,960 furlongs of shelf space.

According to Wikipedia, it's about 10^9 Libraries of Congress, not including images.

WTF? The fuss makes no sense for a number of reasons: 1) A former high-level Google official has emailed other high-level Google officials through his Gmail account, and is probably friends with them.
2) High-level Google officials will be interested to see what the CTO of the Executive Branch is up to, no matter who that CTO is.
3) This needs to be kept an eye on, but is not indicative of endemic corruption by any stretch. Get a grip, folks!