I understand the idea of gossip, but not when it relates to people you have never even met. While it doesn't appeal to me, I can understand gossiping about the neighbors or even politicians, but about Singers and Actors?

The question is, how many are baffled, and how many just don't care to learn it? Learning for the sake of learning doesn't seem to be popular anymore, people squeeze by with the bare minimum they can cram into their skulls so there's more space left over for American Idol, Reality TV and celebrity gossip. At least that is what I see here, I can't think of any reason it would be any different in the UK.

I've lost track of how many times I've been on one of those automated call systems that used voice recognition only to have my daughter cry in the background and select the wrong option for me.

I don't believe the web search will return results for the lowest sex offender level, which is where public urination charges would be found (unless they were publicly urinating on someone), so I'm wondering if the lower levels are also banned or if they are still allowed to use social networking sites.

Another thing to consider on sexual offenses are messy divorces where one parent accuses the other to gain custody, I knew someone who took nearly a decade to clear his name after his psychotic ex-wife accused him of molestation to win the kids (and the support payments she was really after).

The last thing I see as a major issue here is that they will attack the ones we have no problem depriving of their rights first, and when we let them do it to them they will eventually move on to us.

I knew this was a problem when I started seeing "participation" trophies for kids. Translation, you're a loser, but we need to spare your feelings rather than encourage you to do better next time. Is there any wonder that our jobs are all going overseas? Not only is the work cheaper there, but employees actually think they need to earn their keep rather than just have it handed to them.

Heh, I usually click straight through to the article, didn't even notice that in the summary. Guess I'm kinda backwards for slashdot.

This is slashdot. How many people actually RTFA?

If I'm paying for it I want it at full quality. In order to use it on a portable device I'm going to have to transcode to mp3, but that doesn't mean I want to buy an already degraded quality.

Since when does Amazon offer FLAC?

Umm, kinda like CompuServ, only worse.

From the download page:

Well, at least they have a Wine guide, more than most people bother to do.

Nah, those worked better as storage, the CDs were only good as a coaster or a Frisbee. I didn't mind AOL sending me floppies, saved on my disk budget.

Now if only they'd distribute DRM Free lossless files online, and kick the RIAA to the curb so the artists can be paid more than the lawyers, they might get a customer back. But let's be honest, that will never happen.

I thought CDs were those coasters AOL used to send you.

The rest of it went to buy a few toilet seats.This is the government after all.