Is it too late to answer Palm?

I think we are increasingly moving toward a model where people will subscribe to sources of information/entertainment if they don't want to see the ads, or they will get a free version that includes ads (and possibly presents other limitations in format or content).

Wouldn't surprise me to see Wikipedia go this way.

There are hundreds of millions of people on the Indian subcontinent alone who eat no meat - none whatsoever - from the moment they are born until the moment they die some 80 years later. They do not get horribly sick. They do not "wind up" eating fish or chicken. They live healthy, balanced, and lengthy lives.

Fact.

The key is to become a level 7 vegan - don't eat anything that casts a shadow.

It may or may not, depending on how the airline is currently trying to balance revenue, load factor, etc. IME many of the airlines run crazy seat sales every now and again, but unfortunately they're not consistent.

Yeah, a lot of times it isn't the airline that's at fault in this kind of situation. I've been lucky enough to avoid 5 hours on the tarmac, but I've done 2 plenty of times, and it's pretty much always been due to apron traffic control or air traffic control giving the poor pilot (and the 80 people sitting on the plane) the fuck-around.

This is a reasonable approach when one of these airlines serves both your origin and destination and the price is +/-10% ... but you're not going to be able to fly Singapore airlines if you're doing Atlanta - Minneapolis for example.

Dude - you do not live in a binary world. Yes, there are places like Burma and North Korea, but guess what? There are also places like Canada and Germany (yes, I mean modern-day Germany just to anticipate the next witty response) where roadside checkpoints have been a fact of life for many, many decades. And in those many decades nobody has used them as a tool to round up gays or dissidents.

Really? So what about the history that shows strict enforcement of impaired driving laws have led to a reduction in impaired driving in just about every jurisdiction where it's been done? The fact of the matter is you don't - and emphatically should not - have unfettered freedom of action when you live in a society of people who will be harmed by your irresponsible actions. Roadside sobriety checks are a proven way to reduce impaired driving, and hence road fatalities ... and I am struggling to think of an example of a country where roadside sobriety checks were some kind of evil stepping stone toward totalitarianism.

It doesn't just creep you out ... it feels you up.

My favourite part from that link is :

"The 38-page complaint alleges that Deloitte was lying when the company promised to assemble a team of its "best resources" for the project and when it claimed to have "deep SAP and public sector knowledge" when marketing itself to the county."

How naive are the folks at Marin county? In my experience, every single consulting firm in existence lies about the team they're going to place on a project. I have seen some utterly staggering misrepresentations.

Shhhh ... you're going to ruin the surprise.

The US dollar?

Most traditions are stupid and pointless from an outsider's viewpoint.

But to answer the question posed in TFS, "How would you change it for years to come?", I would have it spray viscous white fluid all over the assembled masses at the stroke of midnight.

A friend of mine runs an industry trade show. One time he was doing a periodic google of the name of his show, when he noticed some of the paid ads off to the side were saying "Buy [name of his trade show] here!"

He found it pretty amusing, and idiotic.