But he's also considered a villian HERE, because of his actions as shown in the documentaries.

And since it happened long ago in a galaxy far, far away, I think it's not totally inaccurate.

If I'm doing a full backup/data dump of gigs at a time, it's a bit faster to just plug in and go than wait for everything to make it over wifi.

Those kinds of tricks are fine for Google, where there's a ton of folks who don't care or won't notice (gmail UI changes and the left panel on the search results in particular), but I think it's kind of funny that they're trying it here, in a place that's known for users with strong DIY tendancies, grumpy users, and useless frippery-type changes.

It took me about a minute to get it back the way it should be, but I really wish they'd announce the changes and let us decide to check it out.

Heresy!

I'll give it another look. Thanks for the head's up.

This doesn't always work the way you would expect it to.

I have an older, but perfectly functioning Canon USB scanner that I primarily use to deposit checks into my bank account.

When I upgraded to Windows 7 I thought I could get the scanner running with XP Mode. Nope. If Windows 7 doesn't see it, XP Mode can't see it, so even though my scanner works fine in XP, it won't in XP Mode.

I used to work for a State government, and I hadn't seen a bona fide raise since around 2003. The only pay bumps I got were when I changes jobs, the last of which was in 2006. My pay was actually negative because the money I might have gotten as a raise went instead to health insurance. If it weren't for my outside consulting gigs, I would be in some serious financial trouble.

I finally jumped ship into the private sector a few months back, so we'll see how it goes.

If a firefighter had gone in to save those animals and been injured, he would have been just as out of luck as those homeowners were.

Their worker's insurance won't cover them if they're not "on the job," which they're not if they're tromping through a house with no fire protection policy in place.

My wife's a teacher, she has not seen a pay increase in over 4 years. She can't go elsewhere because if she does she'll be at the bottom of the stack and the first to go if (when) there's a budget crunch. She's a consistently good teacher who keeps her students engaged and works within their personal requirements as best she can. Her metrics have shown that she is a good teacher, and she does a ton of extra training every summer.

Her retirement plan will give her around 40% of the average her top 5 years of income if she retires after 30 years (Florida Retirement System [FRS]), and at 8 years of service, pulls in just over half of what your sister does.

Teacher compensation is all over the place because every state and county does things differently.

Now give up and go to sleep!

That and publishers aren't exactly forthcoming about their payments to authors, and most won't easily grant the author audit rights to the books.

So now you've got a content creator who signs away their creation to a company who then markets it, takes all the money, then tells the author "trust us, we won't let you down." If you don't have a lot of market clout (like Stephen King) or market savvy (like Piers Anthony), you're going to have a long row to hoe to get fully and fairly compensated.

It has increased a monoculture of trees in the form of stripped native forests that have been replanted with pulpwood trash pines.

DAGS on the American Chestnut tree to see what can happen to a monoculture.

Sure more trees is better than fewer trees, but a 5 year old slash pine isn't nearly as useful to the environment as a 150 year old oak.

Maybe in the Midwest there's plenty of farmland or pastures available for developing, but in everywhere I've lived in the southern US most new housing development have come at the cost of native forests.

Yes, urban sprawl is much better for humanity and the environment than living in a city.

Why, when I was a kid and went to Jacksonville Beach, I could drive for miles along the coastal highway and not see a house or a condo. Thank goodness the developers were so forward thinking that they plopped huge condo developments and beautiful beach houses all along the highway so that the water can't even be seen any more!

And look at all those nasty forests that have been clearcut to bare earth, razed, paved, and piped so that people could escape the "concrete hell."

There's nothing wrong with city living. There is something wrong with living your entire life in a closed environment. The more people live in the cities, the more area we have to play in when we just have to GTFO of town and relax.

I may sign a petition not because I necessarily agree with what it's advocating, but because I think it's an important enough topic that it should be included in the greater discourse.

My vote in the ballot box is what actually matters. I don't have much of an opinion as to whether or not something is just TALKED ABOUT, but I have a much higher standard for deciding whether or not to support that same thing with my vote.

There's a Penny Arcade for just about anything:

From Wiki Answers:

Mach is a relative measurment of speed and fluid temperature.
example;
Mach 1 at Sealevel (0 feet) is 761.2 MPH (Calibrated Airspeed) and 761.2 MPH(True Airspeed)
Mach 1 at FL50 (Flight Level 50,000) is 285.8 MPH(CAS) and 660.05 MPH(TAS)
Mach 6 at Sealevel (0 feet) is 4567.3 MPH(CAS and 4567.3 MPH(TAS)
Mach 6 at FL50 (Flight Level 50,000) is 3147.97 MPH(CAS) and 3960.31 MPH(TAS)

So that's like going from Atlanta, Ga to Honolulu in just over an hour.