That was my totally favorite upgrade in Mail Order Monsters - recharge from the sub!

Wonder if they applied for a patent before April 22, 2004 ?

http://www.halfbakery.com/idea/Ever-Disk

No one escapes the commodore amiga/64/128 form factor all in one.

No one.

I think this has theoretical implications for how game theory scales - this is the scaled up version of the prisoner's dilemma, and I believe it has a different outcome for the players.

Set up a GUID field in a table, with a timestamp and a username

1. hash the md5(table+key)
2. check for a lock
3. insert a lock if it doesn't exist.
4. have ajax check, and pop up a div with partial alpha to make the record readable, but an obvious visual cue that it is locked.

OR, add the lock field to the table itself, and you can just do an Update where lock is null, and then check and see if you got the lock.

As a family caretaker of a U.S. Veteran (Vietnam and Iraq Round 1) who passed away from ALS, while under the care of the VA - I have to say that they really busted their butts to make sure he had all the assistance and medical care possible. They even called intermittently with questions about his service history to attempt to find out WHY so many people in his situation developed ALS.

I have to say, for all the problems people have had with the VA they took care of Jim. He had everything from his medications to a IPAP, oxygen, even a hospital bed delivered and set up here at the house.

Given the extremely bizarre nature of the disease, and that no-one clearly understands its causes, they did a damn fine job of trying to figure out what was wrong and making sure he had ample medical care.

If you coated a retainer with the visual surface, it would then attach to the teeth, and you could see by pressing the tounge to the roof of the mouth... or drop the tongue to speak/drink (not sure about eating, do you normally take out the retainer?)

Pensacola, Florida (specifically Santa Maria de Galve, pre Pensacola) was founded on a bunch of rich people in Tlaxcala (forgive my spelling) mexico rounding up all the poor people and shipping them off to another country... They also discovered they then had no one around to dig the proverbial ditch.

You're stuck.. Thats part of the reason.

Standing in your front yard on a heavily trafficed school area (just inside your property from a sidewalk) is also not in itself criminal behavior - but similarly controlled.

I'm a USAA member, and I know for a fact that many USAA members have needs above and beyond a "normal bank" customer. Imagine trying to buy a new car in Florida when you are deployed to Iraq. Think of how difficult it is to have both of your signatures on one sheet of paper... its not a big example, but it is the kind of thing you run into. Think about this, I once worked in an on-base video rental store - we had a guy rent a movie and then get orders that night to deploy... the computer just kept racking up late fees, even automatically reporting to his CO (also deployed) - we cleared it up after a month or two, once someone noticed. Military situations are just plain different.

Ok.. my father-in-law died from ALS (Lou Gherig's disease) - I wonder if this might be relevant in the nerve death suffered there.

Typical. ( http://www.twine.com/item/12ghl089r-cv/transparent-aluminium-is-new-state-of-matter ) Make it sound all cool for they layman, but then qualify it with "This turned the aluminium nearly invisible to extreme ultraviolet radiation. " - so, transparent - sorta. Still cool and all, but you won't be savin' no whales any time soon.

Actually, I was thinking more on the reverse side, the cost to the economy, not the "boon" . I should have changed that to "contributed to the economic collapse and/or slowed recovery"

Makes me wonder how much the latest crop of "storms" like Conficker have contributed to the economy?