Actually, $2500 is not expensive for a premium watch these days. I looked a a Robb Report lying in my doctor's office (this worries me..) and was absolutely shocked at the cost of elite watches. Even "cheap" premium watches sold at Amazon are insane. Check out this list of the "best men's watches of 2010. Absolutely nuts!

I wear a ten year old Bell & Ross I bought during the net bubble when I was "rich", or a fifteen year old Movado I got for a birthday present.

I would one day love a Breitling, but I'd like a Ferrari too, and that's not gonna happen either.

Yet another opportunity to wear funny glasses for three hours and have pointy objects thrust at me repeatedly.

Maybe he'll buck the trend and NOT do it in 3D?

Boy, I sure hope you're a woman.

Cut out eyeholes?

Both my kids started out with a great little app called Keywack.
I took an old Mac Classic sitting in my basement, ran Keywack and the kids loved it. Never trashed the computer either, which I was sure they would do.

Keywack runs on anything, Win/Mac/Lin, and helped me get my kids learning about tech at around 18 months. The fact they are both capable programmers (one a senior in high school, another im middle school) might have something to do with their early comfort level, or it might not. But give it a try...

For drizzle.

I fucking HATE people like this, trading on desperation. They remind me of the Laetrile wackos in the 70's and 80's. It's no more legitimate than the frantically dying who spend their last few pennies going to Lourdes, or giving money to "doctors of healing of the Lord." My wife's mother did this when my wife was 12 and her description of the outright robbery by the assholes who run the place and the surrounding "guesthouses" made me nauseous.

He claims "in vivo" success, then spouts some BS anecdotal "I've seen miraculous Stage 4 cures" rubbish. You have proof of in vivo success in properly executed peer reviewed studies? Post the links or STFU. I'll bet you aren't interested in naysayers. Just the desperate with a checkbook.

He describes theoretical, early-stage research which MAY, one day, have some use, after it is peer reviewed and proven legitimate. Right now, I see nothing but the most early suggestions of biochemical ideas, and FAR from any "unified theory" by biochemists. That's just silly.

This boob is simply suggesting a variation on the long-discredited Induced Hypoglycemic Therapy bullshit, and doing it in a really inappropriate place. Hey Sparky, if low sugar starved cancer cells, why aren't diabetics cancer-free? BTW, neurons starved of glucose die way before any other cells. "Avoid sugar, not just HFCS." Pfffft. IHT is DANGEROUS.

Posting rubbish like you did in this thread is fucking ghoulish and if there is any real karma, you just burned a whole lot of it.

Um, if you think I was actually doing anything but saying "look at THIS revolting practice" y'all need your receptors checked.

I was watching one of the weird science documentaries my wife loves and saw one that beats this story by a bit. Jasper Lawrence had severe asthma and allergies and heard an old wives tale that hookworms could force the body's immune system to "cure" the allergies...so he went to Africa, stamped around in feces and got a nice case of hookworm. It worked.

Now, he has set up a business selling hookworms he harvests from his own feces.

I don't usually reply to ACs, but...

I know Holland went for the defendant, and said as much, but two justices supported him being executed because he filed his paperwork late. Charming.

And I didn't suggest that statutory limits were the reason the justice system is broken...I KNOW it's broken because I just came through it. We have the largest prison population in the world and the highest per capita incarcerated population. So, what...we're a nation of criminals?

Lastly, there is no "massive opposition" to RvW. Only the fringe loonies want to criminalize abortion. Google away but here's one example:

http://www.pollingnumbers.com/poll-of-polls/roe-versus-wade.html

or

http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/2009/05/cnn-poll-record-support-for-roe-v-wade.html

The issue is dead, stare decisis after almost 40 years is a no brainer.

You raise a very interesting point, with which I heartily agree. The US justice system is neither fair nor equitable. Here is Scalia's dissent in Holland where he quites statutes and time limits, and as the final arbiter of the law, gets to decide what "rights" we have or not.

Happens all the time. There are very fixed time allowances on appeals. For example, if you plead or are found guilty in federal court, you have ten days to file an appeal, or at least preserve your right to appeal. If you do not file within that ten days (even if you tell your lawyer to do so and he does not) you effectively waive your right to appeal. You may collaterally attack but collateral attacks are civil actions and you are no longer entitled to counsel.

Think that's unfair? There are cases that would blow your minds. How about a death row inmate who filed his pro se appeal late, and was denied appeal of his death sentence. He finally got heard in the US Supreme Court but Scalia and Thomas dissented, saying "too late, too bad, so sad.."

Time limit injustice is way too common, (and tolling is not often granted) but this injustice is not often discussed, because as I often say, citizens in the US know NOTHING about the system that can suck them in at a moment's notice.