I guess it was a happy new year after all.

If ever a first post should be modded funny...

Then major militaries of the world spend billions on space defence. Bettering space tech for all. I'm all for militarization of space.

Grub?

I find your conditions for respecting life intriguing. If we gain from it, then it's ok to treat them badly?

Correction, there is no apostrophe.

The point of this is that the department did not consider all the available options. Google has made sure that they do so, and it's good for google if they choose anyone other than microsoft. The worst thing for google, is microsoft getting bigger.

Worked so far hasn't it? However like they've said, costs are increasing every year, so in the coming years you may indeed be right.

What happened before if you refused a breath screening in florida?

Of course any slashdotter would be distracted by a laptop, because you use computers so often. However your distractions are your own, you just need to deal with it and concentrate more. It's only when the distraction becomes obnoxious (forcibly impairing your ability to pay attention to the class) that something should be done about it. Laptops are an excellent learning tool in the classroom/lecture hall. I myself find it much faster to type notes than to write them. The only person thing that will be affected by off-task students are that students grades.

It's obvious that they don't plan to simulate "everything", just everything that we have data about.

I know my country has already gone electronic.

Was his question not just as legitimate as OP's? Does he not deserve the same respect you expect of him? Is this how everyone that questions open-source gets treated?

I'm not entirely sure whether it means keeping christmas away from you (by a mile), or "going the extra mile" for christmas.

Many pornographic sites are named in such a way that children could come across them by mistyping a website they were trying to go to.