What other companies _actually_ care about the consumer, the product they sell, or the world in which they operate? Modern society boils all of business down to a search for short-term profit. Consumers only matter because they have wallets, products only matter because they need to open the consumer's wallets somehow, and the world at large only matters when it begins being bad for business.

The market of lesbian porn for lesbians is, I imagine, pretty small in comparison to the market for lesbian porn for heterosexual males. The whole porn industry is geared towards what will sell to the maximum number of people for the lowest investment of time, effort, and/or bodily fluids.

Why on earth would you download Debian 5 ten times for ten people? Download it once then burn it ten times!

I say "traditional" just because there's some debate as to whether or not he was actually born in 1 AD.

um, I dunno. I was just answering the GP's question of what people with no religion do for a calendar.

It's all about troop movement. Where did England colonize? America, India, and East Africa. All accessible via sea-routes. And for the more inconveniently-located colonies (East Africa) it was a neat coincidence that they weren't all that technologically advanced or well-organized, so it's not like they exactly needed many troops.

But getting troops to Russia is a bit of a tough nut to crack when you're in France, especially when the Black Sea route is carved up between Turks and Russians, and the northerly sea-route just sucks ass all-around. Pretty much the best way to invade Russia (not that there's any good way to do it: but probably the least-worst) from France is overland, and that means you have all of Europe to wade through. And countries are notorious for not being all that excited about just letting foreign troops waltz right through.

Though it's not exactly like Napoleon started his campaigns with the intent of conquering Russia; he got drunk with power and success after conquering or bringing under his influence most of Europe, and, realizing the troop-movement problem was solved and always being game for bringing more land under his direct control, figured Russia might make a good addition to the French empire.

That's up for debate. But whether or not he existed doesn't really matter; even if he did exist most scholars agree he wasn't born in year 1 anyway.

Speaking as an atheist...

I don't give a fuck. The traditional birthday of a Jewish rabble-rouser with delusions of grandeur is as good a year as any to start the count from.

Um, do they have to pay? I don't see that anywhere. Just that Apple was affected by the scam. And I would be surprised if Apple was in on it, since it seems like Apple would have a vested interest in keeping LCD prices low, not high, what with it not being an LCD manufacturer.

The most entertaining pizza I ever had came from a pizza shop in a train station in Madras, India. It was this franchise called "Conizza" who specialized in an ice-cream cone/pizza hybrid: a hard pizza crust rolled into a cone, with pizza fillings on the inside. From no angle does that make sense when you're trying to hold a burning-hot cone filled with burning-hot filling it's your job to eat, but just for the novelty I'd say it was my favorite pizza-eating experience. But to answer the poll question, North America.

http://www.conizza.com/

FTFS:

Idle question: how accurate is it to describe a screensaver as "innocuous" if it's been infected with malware?

Then you haven't seen the pictures of this thing, because there are no clouds on which to project an image.

My vote's on the rocket hypothesis. It's simpler than supposing somebody managed to project an image of spirals onto an invisible screen in the sky for no discernible reason.

Yes, but the story isn't in German, is it? And if it were, they'd probably refer to the German parliament by its proper name, Bundestag.

No, you have it backwards. People place a lot of value on it because that's the only Amendment they can remember.