I was with you here right up until I started to consider what the hell sort of solution the OP had conjured up for himself and the wife from the gentle Spaniard at Lowe's ..

Fair point but you've more or less responded to a question asking "Can x survive without y" with the answer "That's silly, y will never disappear".

The article in essence posits that Microsoft, if it loses a grip on the gaming and workplace PC market (however unlikely), will struggle.

> scan through long but high rated post

> see "shoot they're pets"

> immediate loss of any will to read through comment

Agree to a point - so how do you go about changing culture then? Law should form some role in guiding the ideal future direction of society?

And a lawyer. For shame.

Try Path of Exile. It's entirely free to play (or as they call it 'fair to play' to avoid the growing stigma), start to finish. The only things you can buy are entirely cosmetic - except extra stash tabs & character slots, both of which as unnecessary unless you're putting a substantial amount of time into the game (trust me, it's generous). Maybe not as flash looking as D3 but far more deep and complex. And, y'know, moral.

Surely that depends on how you define 'going through life'. If you accept death as part of the process, and agree that plenty of those who make it to the end will die relatively peacefully, then your contention that it is impossible is clearly incorrect.

The other point you are missing is that it's perfectly valid to pay for said health care in the event that it is needed - you do not necessarily need insurance to receive care, and again because we are dealing with carefully calculated probabilities here I would argue it's a valid choice in its own right also. Health insurance is in essence a process of betting on the likelihood you will need $x of care .. the health insurance companies are making massive profits so they must be doing something right calculating premium vs risk, despite the high cost of care in some instances ?

Let me get this straight - despite the fact that the entire insurance industry is based on the study of PROBABILITY, you cannot conceive of someone going through life without having anything adverse ever happen to them? And OP is the fucking moron?? Take a moment to revisit your post and realign your hostility will you.

As a resident of "the rest of the world" outside North America, that's pretty much the scariest piece of advice I've ever read.

I don't mean to bash, but this comment really needs to be fixed. "Japanese school children are given the tools for rational and critical thought?" You couldn't be further from the truth. The education system in Japan at primary, secondary, and most worryingly of all tertiary level is based first and foremost on _rote learning_ and memorisation. Participation and debate are not required at any level of education and there is no incentive or reward for critical thought at university - you just memorise what the teacher thinks and regurgitate.

Anyone who has actually attended or taught at Japanese institutions will tell you the same.

And finally - Tokyo University is Todai. The others you are trying to reference are probably Waseda and Keio.

Putting yourself in a sealed box with Acrobat to protect yourself from malware is like sealing yourself in an airtight tupperware container to protect yourself from germs. And the tupperware container also houses a hungry, scabrous, and lecherous tiger.

With boxes as with platitudes, it's what's inside that counts.

If you read TFA, you'll find that that is exactly what Nokia have been doing. The direction, however is "down".

Great. I have no fewer than three student email addresses, but because they all end in .edu.au, no dice. Thanks, Google.

Just did the test, got the same results as everyone else.. ie -3 for just about everyone. I just clicked especially hard for the 'ogres' :)

Initially I thought 'what a good idea', just implemented poorly due to the low quality of the models. But thinking about it some more I think the whole study is misguided.

I suppose they used generic grey models to avoid complicating the issue and becoming unable to attribute what is sexy and what isn't, but doesn't that kind of defy the point? And surely there are enough unique people in the world to find a good example of every body type / combination of body features that they want to test for?

I used to like computers a lot.. spent all my spare time with them. But now that they are my job (no, I'm not in IT - just need to use a computer all day) I've come to really not care any more. Something about having to sit in front of one all day removes all compulsion for me to boot up another when I get home..