Yeah. I'd like to see you post that non-anonymously, chump.

Nothing Is Any Good If Other People Like It.

Actually I hear they're banning it simply because it's crap and want to spare their people the suffering. They're encouraging their citizens to watch the IT Crowd instead.

Only real roads are paved. Metaphorical roads, such as the road to first post, can't support pavement therefore they are instead 'plagued'.

Thank you come again.

I totally agree with you. I mean - here's the thing that's always bothered me - if there is SO MUCH F-ing dark matter and dark energy then how is it so mysteriously EVERYWHERE ELSE in the universe but not anywhere near here? If the universe has been permeated by so much of this stuff there's no reason to believe it doesn not permeate our local little section of that universe is there?

This is why I'm with you: "dark matter" and "dark energy" are really just placeholders signifiying our model of astrophysics is less than complete and correct.

I'd say we're at least as far away from understanding physics properly as newtownian physics is from general relativity. And most likely even more far away than that.

And that's ok: it's part of learning. But don't try to buffalo us with some made up crap that is everywhere in the universe but not here. That starts to sound like 'god' to me. I thought scienctists had more humility than that?

I say we completely ignore it from now it it's not really worthy of our attentions is it within its' rotten miserable failure to be anything important?

Slavery was legal once too. Yet it was quite appropriate to discuss freedom.

The 'law' isn't everything.

I could never understand why anyone would want to be like that.

With a slide-out keyboard like the Sidekick had you can have a screen-sized keyboard AND a full-sized screen that isn't half-filled with a virtual keyboard that effectively makes the visible screen area smaller anyway. I just don't understand why we slide-outs aren't made anymore. They're superior to both the other options, in my opinion.

Forcing people to purchase new hardware and throw out perfectly good hardware because an unneccessary & new operating system wont run on their current XP hardware is at the very least environmentally abusive. Also it is disruptive to users because a forced hardware and operating system migration creates all kinds of problems that don't exist if Microsoft would simply offer XP security updates as a subscription service.

What would make you think that isn't exacty what's going to happen anyway?

This is correct.

Well fortunately (or unfortunately?) I don't think I have to worry about this because while I do try to reduce the amount of excess sodium I consume I still do consume enough processed foodstuffs to ensure a lack of salt won't be problem.

For example, even if I use peanuts-only peanut butter on my toasted English muffins those muffins plus the butter or margarine I also use end up providing me with at least 33% of my recommended daily sodium intake. And at three meals a day at that target rate (33%) each I'll be lucky to keep it under 100% but I'm pretty sure it goes over that more often than not.

Which is another reason I consciously attempt to cut it out wherever I can: if I didn't I'd be going over 100% every single day and by quite a bit, I'm sure. For example just think about those same English muffins with crappy salt-added peanut butter that alone would probably push me up to 38-40% just for that meal alone!!

People die every day. If you can't laugh about that then what CAN you laugh about?

Oh no - it's a scam all right. Consistently using salt stimulates your sense of taste so that if you don't use salt the taste is bland. If you stopped using salt you would be able to taste the unsalted food again after your sensitivity level returned. I have proved this to myself time and again with the first such experience being the move to peanut-only peanut butter. At first because I was expecting the doped-up tripe that serves for commercial peanut butter I didn't much like the peanuts-only peanut butter. However i hate to waste anything and forced myself to finish the container. By the time I was finished with it not only did I find I was enjoying it but I knew I'd never buy any other kind of peanut butter ever again (and I haven't!).

It's all about what you're used to and processed food manufacturers like to make us 'used to' large amounts of salts, sugars, and fats. That's because salts, sugars, and fats are cheaper than nutritious and quality ingredients and make you salivate for them more.

So yes. It's a scam