> 626,638 SMS messages, a figure described by a federal judge as 'staggering.'

The judge obviously doesn't have teenage daughters. Thank god they don't charge me by the message these days.

Well, other than that... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExWfh6sGyso

And somewhere in suburban Missouri, Todd Akin gets as the strange feeling that someone on slashdot is talking about him.

I'd like to see that in court. "Your honor, 'Unce, tice, fee tynes a maybe' is clearly a derivitive work and violates my clients copyright"

Yeah, that sort of sounds like how some 105 year old would describe them having sex. Of course I meant "Sexting" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexting

The laws start being even more inconsistent in states with lower legal ages. Here the age of consent is 17. So that 22 is fine having sex with that 17 year old. If they start sexing each other instead/also - then it's child pornography.

I agree than any additional 'supply' will lower the average wage. But I'd rather be competing against 55,000 green card holders, who can negotiate fairly with their employers for a competitive wage than completing against 55,000 H1B workers who are (mostly) tied to a single employer and have a significant disadvantage in any salary/etc. negotiation.

So does one of the parties want to eliminate/reduce the H1B visas and replace them with green cards? Because if so, then I support them on this.

Maybe they are teaching the Art History majors their most important lesson "You have wasted your money."

Normally it takes them 4 years of college and then a year or more working at Starbucks to learn that.

This reminded me of a scene in "The Day After Tomorrow" where they are trapped in a library and several characters are debating which of several classic books they were going to burn to keep warm. Then someone else walks in: "Uh... 'scuse me? You guys? Yeah... there's a whole section on tax law down here that we can burn." *problem solved*

Even with inflation, I'm pretty sure $20 in 1789 is still less than $1,000,000,000+ in 2012. (Agree with you on the hard-coding - unless their intent was to have it effectively approach zero over time.)

I was thinking we work with the Unicode people to get one or more of the 'smiley face' characters renamed to 'The Prophet Mohammed'. And then we try to register 4chan.(that)

While they are busy freaking out over that, we proceed with all of the gTLDs we were really planning on creating.

Forget all of that. I think it has an unsecured RS232 port. Just plug your laptop up to that.

Does anyone have a 60,000,000 km RS232 cable? Oh yeah, and a null-modem adapter.

As opposed to before, when you'd have to drive to wherever your bank was and withdrawl your money there. Not that there is any good reason for it cost multiple dollars for this privilege other than pure profit. (My bank refunds the fees to me up to some amount each month (that I never come close to) so don't really care about the fee anyway.)

So is the study methodology to put Fundamentalists in a sealed room and slowly remove the oxygen until they have a vision of some sort? If so, I'd like to volunteer Fred Phelps, and I'd like to know where I can contribute to the grant funding.

Then it should also not have any arrogant jerks who think they are right and anyone who believes something they don't is wrong, even though they have absolute 0 evidence to back up their guesses.

So I guess that means you and me both are out. Although considering I don't think the place exists, that's probably more upsetting for you.