Gimme a 'fer instance'..

http://xkcd.com/681_large/
In particular, look at the panel of Earth, which is under Uranus and Neptune, lower right.

Geez, XKCD should win the Pulitzer Prize for this graphic. If a picture is worth a KiloWord, this is worth a MegaWord of explanation. This should be required viewing in all 8th Grade science classes.

among many ;-)

In 1990 and 2010, Saturn and Jupiter were in Superior Conjunction. In 1973, that condition had just passed.

Any chance that the Allais Effect with Jupiter, Sun, Saturn syzygy might be at work here? I know the Allais Effect is a quirky, difficult-to-replicate condition, but perhaps this is another data point.

Why do we want to see this guy's face as the Slashdot icon?

The Macs not only operate longer over the years, but in those years, they don't get crufted up and worthlessly slow. My 5 year old Powerbook G4 will out surf a 2 year old Dell laptop in this office any day.

If you buy a new machine every 2 years anyway, maybe the Windoze will cost you less. But if you want to keep the machine running, and *gasp* pass down to your kids, then buy a Mac.

...to hogs everywhere!

He should send a complimentary set of plans to the Flat Earth Society. They could use the perspective.

Once we have this Unique ID, a primary key in a Person's Table, many avenues are open to us! And high time...

1. Use the card, dongle, RFID chip, W/E to authenticate into your computer! No more stupid passwords!
2. Use it log into your ISP, so that they can know it's you, and ensure your safety on the internet. Mostly by providing the public portion of your identity everywhere you go, which hackers will not be able to duplicate. No more can they get into your bank accounts, those cute 'Site Keys' which show pictures that only you will know have been obviated.
3. Let's be frank. No one cares bout Pr0n anymore. surf away. And instead of surfing anonymously, surf "Securely ID'd". That is so much better.
4. Find and banish the haX0rz, KraX0rz, Phishers and Nigerians! If they can't get online without identifying themselves, they'll go back to traditional crime.
5. The best feature of all of this is the "Net License" we can keep anyone harmful off the wires and leave us good people to surf without a care.

Ok, how many of you read this far without picking up the sarcasm?

...except for the empty bags of cheese puffs, Rockstar cans, and several bottles of "lemon gatorade", no one would suspect that they had been there.

My kids inherited my 'gaming' gene.

Orwell is so '1984'!

This is Nineteen Eleventy! Seriously, you think anyone in charge of a school has ever read 1984? No one cares about history anymore...

Nah! The smaller of the females (survivors) will simply learn how to make the males larger. "The women are bigger. They beat at a lower frequencies" Evolution in action.

One thing I don't understand is why the astronauts and CAPCOM sound like they are talking on tin cans & string. Anyone understand this? It's called SKYPE! Look into it.