There's an app for that...

I assert that this should be the primary purpose for parking meters, and that the revenue from them should only be used to facilitate the parking meter system. Thus, a fraction of the population smart enough to game the system is pretty irrelevant and totally consistent with freedom. I think it is similar to the specialized knowledge of locals knowing the most efficient ways to get around the city during certain hours. Are you saying that cities should rely on parking revenue to provide more money to subsidize their spending habits? The residents are already taxed to death as it is.

Haha, what kind of crazy place is that exactly? Seems to me they probably just wanted their kids to read the classics rather than pop lit for school.

Some people don't think so. It is argued that the Federal Reserve central banking system is at fault for the boom/bust cycle due to artificial expansion of credit. That secretive, pseudo-governmental institution couldn't be further from the free market, which is presumably what you meant by "capitalism".

My MBP is working just fine with my D-Link Draft N router. From the Network Utility: "Link Speed: 130 Mbit/s"

Yep, Internet connectivity is a utility and should be treated as such. The sooner the ISPs realize this, and stop trying to act like they are a value-added service, the better. Quotas, false advertising, traffic shaping/favoring are all outcroppings from this mindset.

Being contrarian just for the sake of it isn't a virtue. I know lots of people who do it just so they can act self-righteous.

Is this something just came out? I installed IE8 on my Parallels VM the other day and the installer for IE8 prompted me for which search engine I wanted to use (Google was default).

You are not alone. Twitter is utterly inane. I think a lot of people really are that narcissistic that constant status updating appeals to them, but on the flip side, the amount of hype being garnered really is like the emperor's new clothes.

You have certainly painted the situation in such a way that you feel you have no time to do anything except sleep, eat, and work. If working out is a major priority to you, perhaps you should be looking for a less demanding job?

The trouble is, there is a large and growing portion of the government now which is non-elected and non-transparent to an apathetic and uninformed public—who might be able to do something about it if only they were aware and knew what to do.

When I switched to the Mac I found that one application that did not have a simple counterpart was MS Money. I tried Quicken and do not recommend it. I have tried iBank a little, and it seems worth checking into more if you definitely want a local application, but I ended up settling on Mint.com for the time being. While I am not totally sure about having a third party website with that much of my financial data, if you also like to live dangerously it is pretty cool and convenient.

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How is that a persistent problem?

Actually that just proves they can be—however to horrible effect.

With conditional stylesheets for legacy UAs you can achieve the correct look AND implementation. We'll never get anywhere if people refuse to change their ways. My impression of the argument over whether tables may be used for layout reminds of fighting with a child over whether a frog is a fish.