You're assuming there are no medical conditions that are treated with birth control. Women I've known have had Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome (PCOS) or endometriosis, both of which can be treated with long term birth control.

The total lifetime cost of paying for treatment is not insubstantial.

I would be fine using my own Windows machines (I have an 8.1, a 7, and a Vista at home), so yes. In the last few years, all of the compromises to my credit cards have been due to improper server admin somewhere in the "cloud", the latest being Target.

I'd also be fine using a Chromebook, but they don't do enough for me to even consider one.

If it's on my MP3 player, right click the folder and select 'create playlist'. Everything on my MP3 player can just be copy/paste from the PC. Since it's already in a folder list by /artist/album/ it's easy to find.

If I'm on the PC, right click folder and 'add to VLC media player playlist'.

If you want to save the playlist for multiple playbacks, save the playlist with VLC.

I've never used iTunes. I just use folders and store everything by /Artist/Album. It's easy enough to right click the folder and select "play in VLC".

There's actually a list of GRAS (Generally Recognized as Safe) at the FDA Website. To my knowledge, GM foods fall under this listing.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GRAS
http://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/fcn/fcnNavigation.cfm?rpt=grasListing

and here's a short listing for GM items listed under GRAS.
http://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/fcn/fcnNavigation.cfm?filter=genetically+modified&sortColumn=&rpt=grasListing

I bet Brian May could help Icecube. They should collaborate.

I've checked a few places and it seems as though you can expect a 70% power efficiency with this type of inductive charger. Some of the higher end models reach as much as 85%.

It strikes me as odd that in a time where we want as much energy efficiency as possible, we'd push towards something much less efficient with the potential to be so widespread.

Sources:
http://www.wirelesspowerconsortium.com/technology/total-energy-consumption.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inductive_charging

As an INTJ personality type, I applaud Google's attempt to automate human interaction. If they integrated this with Google Glass and I could automate pleasantries, I'd buy one.

Why must you re-open that old wound of mine. I'm going to go cry now.

My electric heat is powered from the nuclear plant ~5 miles from my home. Then I go to work at a wood burning power plant.

There are fewer coal plants being authorized for building and many existing coal plants are being converted to biomass or closed.

They must've done that after I replaced the only Dell I ever bought.

In my case I had a power supply go bad. A replacement from Dell was 2x as expensive as a top tier off the shelf replacement. Everything was fine when I did the plug in but the mounting holes didn't line up and I had to mangle the case to make it fit.

I decided then that I'd just build my own and I have ever since.

Apparently, innovation recommends I specifically use Google Chrome to play the game but offers to let me attempt to try it in other browsers.

Those numbers are nice and all but I just ran a tool that checks whether or not my browsers are Internet Explorer.

The only browser that passed the Internet Explorer test was Internet Explorer 10.

I also tested Pale Moon and Comodo Dragon and they both got 0% on the "Is my browser Internet Explorer" test.

I think Valve's target audience are the console gamers that can't be bothered to build a gaming rig. I know quite a few of them from work. They're intimidated with using a keyboard and mouse for gaming.

I'm not really interested with trying to play 99% of my library on the "big screen". There's really no benefit to bringing the remaining 1% to the TV as they play just fine with what I already have.

I'm not their target audience.

This 'disaster' is much worse than the time my kids gave me a rotavirus and I had trouble sleeping for fear I might wake up without bowel control.

There were dozens of reports! DOZENS!