oh dear... Mormons are Intelligent Design believers, not Creationists specifically, there is a difference.

(Full disclosure, I'm an Agnostic, I don't believe in ID or Creationism, but was raised Mormon)

For some reason I read that as "It transformed my car in to a giant robot."... which also would have been cool.

Precisely

Soapbox - failed

next option... well, The Conservatives have proven willing to sell Canadian citizens and their rights. The Liberals, as usual, are internally divided and as such will bury their heads in the sand and hope it blows over. The NDP... well they get THIS issue right, but they have the financial management skills of my 12 year old with a credit card, and lately every time they get the chance to do something run away like frightened children.

I suppose we could try building a new party... we've been known to do that from time to time up here...

Ballot box - inconclusive

Hey I have an Idea to fix the recession! You guys down there have any bullets?

Ironic when you consider that many of those old school digital watches were LED backlit...

I'm curious as to what you believe some women are doing with their Nokia phones... oh wait you meant a Sybian.

Except sales don't count for much to the musician(s) unless they are selling platinum and then they still make more money off of major concerts.

Bio-polymers are fairly cheap to refine, have been in use for thousands of years and relatively plentiful, but most are simply incinerated today as industrial waste. Investing in their development hasn't been a priority for a few centuries because oil was cheaper, but the fact they still exist and compete with oil based polymer products indicates to me that the cost threshold shouldn't be to much higher than oil, especially since most sources can be grown in such a manner as to not compete with food production. As for fertilizer, again it's simply a case of synthetic solutions being cheaper to manufacture due to a readily available source, and the cost of oil hovering just above the profitability threshold for the alternatives.

He's over simplifying. Other things being equal, a population with a higher reproductive rate will out compete a similar population with a lower reproductive rate. The key there is other things being equal differences in organization of a complex population can be sufficient to counterbalance a reproductive rate advantage.

Ok, I don't mean to get pedantic here, but the general layout hardware wise is almost identical to my old Palm IIIc. Thinner lighter and more seamless perhaps, but that's more a result of technology changes than any design decisions. If you are referring to the software interface I'll give you that they had some influential Ideas, but again it seems somewhat obvious given the technology used. I'm not saying that isn't unique or influential, The FSM only knows how many kludgy interfaces some people can and have come up with for various types hardware, but hardly non-obvious to anyone who is willing to put some effort in to the interface design.

You are all missing the point. ISOhunt does not host .torrent files. It indexes them. Period. No tracker. No .torrent's. The only thing downloaded from the site is an index of where to find the .torrent files.

Yes it looks bad that he told people how to rip copyrighted material. The same could be said of any site that states diesel fuel + fertilizer = bomb or explains how to induce the fission of uranium.

and every site that points out that you can Google these things. If ISOhunt goes down, Google, Bing, Yahoo! et al are equally liable.

Bah, use correct descriptors. Atheism == no god; Agnostisism == do not believe in god.

Wait, this is M$FT... I thought humiliating the customer was already their business model.

Plants are the most efficient at storing energy as some form of hydrocarbon. We already have a huge infrastructure to distribute hydrocarbons.

I'm not aware of any plant which uses hydrocarbons for energy storage (or anything else). Plants typically use polysaccharides for this purpose.

<pedantic>Polysaccharides = Polymer of Saccharides; Saccharides = subclass of Carbohydrates; Carbohydrates = Subclass of Hydrocarbons </pedantic>

I think he means dot product. In scalar numbers the dot product and cross product are the same thing so in some cases it is conventional to write 2 X 2 = 4 or 2 . 2 = 4 interchangeably (note the 'dot' should be at center (around the same height as - ) however there is no such keyboard character) and the difference is only relevant in vector algebra.

I may be able to shed some light on that one. IMHO what he is fighting for has nothing to do with money or power so much as it has to do with legacy. In all likelihood he has committed more time, effort and personal resources to building up NewsCorp than he has with his wife or children, certainly more than he has spent working on world peace or saving the environment. 15 years ago he was well on his way to building what seemed to be an everlasting institution that would be a constant factor in the lives of every individual in the western world, an institution built on what appeared at the time to be an industry essential to our way of life and civilization. While you and I and many members of /. would consider our primary contribution to society (our kids, our communities, the passion for understanding and discovery that we instill in those around us) he made a conscious choice to neglect in favor of what appeared to be a more monumental and potentially even more enduring monument to his achievement.

Now the industry on which he built his legacy is crumbling. While he could devote his final years and vast fortune to things like his family, friends, and community, and sit back and watch while his corporate monument fall, he would never have the chance to recover the lost time and effort it took to build what he perceives as greatest contribution to society. 15 years ago he was looking forward to being remembered for being the architect of an enduring corporate institution, today he's facing the possibility of that being reduced to being a footnote on the Wikipedia page describing the spectacular fall of the corporate news industry.

A similar perspective could be used to describe why we see so much resistance from other industries failing as a result of new information technologies, they are afraid of becoming irrelevant, from falling on the wrong side of the current technological revolution and becoming lost, and forgotten, a fate worse even than their certain death.

Or he could just be evil... whatever works for you.