Fantastic reference. Best series ending song of all time. I need to listen to it now.

Good question, do you eat eggs?

I love chilled chicken embryo with all of the embryo's nutrients for my benefit, fried or scrambled.

I also enjoy (and can tolerate) bovine mammary gland excretions with some milled and baked oats or corn (I'm a Kix kid).

Ethics isn't questioned in these examples, they are food. What's worse, aborting chickens for fried eggs or taking the nutrition that was intended for a baby cow?

I grew up raising a small number of cows and quite a few chickens for food. "Bessie" burgers will always be a fond memory. I played with her in the field, and then we butchered her and over a year, ate her. Circle of life.

As for pets, humans are really good at dog and cat reproduction, so we should also be good at handling over-population issues with such as well. Such is a civilized society.

I'm waiting for the concepts to merge : Over on Dice, contributor Bennet Haselton writes....

The current Linux integration is around backend components, with UI being HTML 5 or some web approach. It's a lot easier to embrace the web approach than attempt to write native rich client ports (I'm a huge proponent of rich clients for internal applications).

And the integration is for the applications, not the development environment (Visual Studio is still Windows only).

At this time WPF isn't being ported. They are giving Xamarin a lot of press at the event, that's the current approach to mobile UI development at this time (I've been using Xamarin for over a year at this point for Android development).

They talked to this a while ago while taking Twitter questions, during the Halftime Show (go down and there's a jump link), it's about 15 minutes long.

Here's the link.
http://www.visualstudio.com/co...

All of the presentations can be seen here (it's live through this afternoon and tomorrow as well):
http://www.visualstudio.com/co...

Remember, remember, the 5th of November.

Oh wait, that was two days ago. Move along.

That's quite a bit out of my price range, but thanks for the info. My "charger" if the battery gets drained will continue to be my vehicle...

I bet a lot of high prices are for games that include original boxes and or instruction manuals. I picked up my 2600 with 80+ games for $75 about 10 years ago (box of games, no original boxes/manuals). Still works, but we no longer pull it out for parties.

Shoot, I even got ET with the set, but I recall the pain it caused me a long time ago and would never want to relive even a taste of that.

I asked in a reasonably factious way, realizing that in any event, dredging the ocean for beach sand would be prohibitively expensive by a long shot.

And thanks for the link, I love the very specific nature of the list, my favorite was:
  * Releases toxic compound Tributyltin, a popular biocide used in anti-fouling paint banned in 2008, back into the water.

Damn that's specific, but I followed the link wondering how long that would be an issue, Tributyltin has about a 30 year life in an ecosystem.

Maybe it was a proposition, based on the conservation of natural resources. Say, if Abraham's descendants were to protect the beaches, their numbers could be nigh limitless. But, if those descendants were to cause the destruction of the sand on the seashore, maybe god would go a little "Old Testament" on them.

Further, I'm not sure of god's position on natural beach erosion and its effects on population.

The summary states that desert sand is too fine for use on beaches. And I didn't even RTFA, the summary had a nice level of concise detail.

How expensive would sand mining on the ocean floor be?

Interesting. Do you know of any small fuel cells (of any type) that output 12 volt DC? I found a small one by Brunton that outputs to USB, but that's not what I'm looking for.

I'm looking to supplement a 12 volt lead acid battery (supplement = charge) that I take while camping (yeah, I'm a car camper, but I bring along 4 years olds...).

The states do what you describe all of the time for things like alcohol. Tequila, by name, comes from Mexico. Very regulated and taxed.

Unfortunately, since the Commerce Clause is a part of the Constitution, the 10th Amendment doesn't apply since it is a delegated power. It is up to the Supreme Court to determine the boundaries of the power.

10th Amendment:
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.

An amendment to the Constitution would be the most effective way to limit the Commerce Clause, with Supreme Court decisions being a weaker control (and one that has proven completely ineffective time and again).

Is such an amendment possible? Of course. Probable? Not so much.

The link you provided is good, and these changes are great. I'm just waiting for a State to make it law that the DEA can't operate or enter its borders. The DEA certainly isn't mentioned in the Constitution, it's well within the 10th Amendment powers for such legislation to occur. Of course that State would have to face drastically reduced Federal funding for a variety of things, no doubt (all else fails, tighten the purse strings to get what you want).
Hope for that which isn't going to happen is futility, as you pointed out.