I'm sick of "First X Elected To Whatever Office." Haven't we moved past this yet? Ideas matter. Gender, ethnicity, heredity do not.

Agreed! But your post did invoke a mental picture of Spock as leader of the Klingon High Council...

A better description is simply 'a Titanium metal oxide' - the phase shift is between Ti3O5 and -Ti3O5. http://www.nature.com/nchem/journal/vaop/ncurrent/abs/nchem.670.html/

"This is the first demonstration of a photorewritable phenomenon at room temperature in a metal oxide. -Ti3O5 satisfies the operation conditions required for a practical optical storage system (operational temperature, writing data by short wavelength light and the appropriate threshold laser power)."

"one zoning amendment which the voters passed in April - to require cottage colonies to operate as such for three years before conversion to condos is permitted - was reversed on a vote count challenge by a recent decision of the Mass. Attorney General's office. "

From:
http://www.tnrta.org/docs/TNRTA-nwsltr-Fall09.pdf

It's not that scientists haven't been able to reproduce what happened over a million years that engenders skepticism. It's that scientists manage to make a nut and a bolt in the lab, and evolution cheerleaders point to it and say, "And in a million years, it becomes a car! WHERE IS YOUR GOD NOW, JESUS BOY?"

I think it's neat that we're getting hints about how life can possibly form from ordinary chemistry. But they're just hints, and it's just a possibility. Hand-waving, story-telling and invoking the million-year magick is not all that enlightening.

tell beck why the results of his arrogance is now something he has in common with barbra streisand. he'll love the comparison

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect

Back in the 90's, I had an accounting professor who did her whole class in PowerPoint. When I signed up and got the text books and I also needed to buy a packet of paper which had the whole semesters worth of PP slides with plenty of room to take notes. This way I never had to write down what was on the slides themselves, just my understanding of the material. And there was a lot of material.

That's right! He must enjoy watching that footage, and by golly he should be arrested for thinking those naughty thoughts.

Whereas the guy with a several-gigabyte collection of graphic gore and violence images is perfectly safe because unless naked children are involved, we can't arrest people for thought crimes.

True. In high school I had teachers who would either use the same overhead slides for years or worse, write the same notes on the board and never explain anything. Currently I'm in college and I'm taking a programming course where the prof reads each slide quickly and goes to the next within seconds. Worse, while she fortunately takes questions, she unfortunately neither knows nor cares about the material. Luckily I already know C

Back to the Future, dude. ;)

egads!

>>>have found virtually no alternative suggestions to combating piracy than DRM.

Don't. Trust that if you offer a fair product at a reasonable price, then the consumers will buy it rather than copy it. It's the same model that worked with Non-copy protected cassettes back in the 80s and 90s.

Also: The article is about the BBC which is funded by the taxpayers. In my humble opinion, the taxpayers entitled to take the product free-of-charge since they already paid for it.

(goes back to drinking German beer)

"A woman on the radio talks about revolution, but it's already passed her by. I was alive and I waited for this. Right here, right now; there is no other place I want to be..... watching the world wake-up from history. ----- I saw the decade end, when it seemed the world could change at the blink of an eye. And if anything then there's your sign. I was alive and I waited, waited for this. I was alive and I waited for this. Watching the world wake up from history! Right here. Right now."