or perhaps even, view each other as just other human beings. Rather than "that black dude", or "that asian chick", etc, you think of them as people like yourself.

But I am a white dude. So ... all them black dudes and asian chicks are white dudes... got it.

Hmmm Amazon Car Service...I've never thought about that.

It would go something like this:

1) File Service Ticket online & Describe Issue.
2) Repair Service comes to pick up or tow the car.
3) A temporary car is left for you to use in the interim.
4) When the car is fixed you get an invoice.
5) When paying the bill, you choose delivery time within 2-24 hours (when you will be home).
6) Car is returned. Temporary vehicle is picked up.

LastPass, and make your master key be a sentence-like phrase. Thats what I use, but then I run the sentence-phrase through a generator I wrote which outputs things like:
tsÃMÃ--Ã09kÃÃyW>Ã17gËoeÂâsÃzxéYÃwMã8w
Of course we are on slashdot, almost none of the high-ansi characters will display.

Steve Jobs. It's all his fault for not running the company anymore. They should'a animated his corpse or something.

What the fuck is up with this time-post-limiter. I'm logged in for christ's-sake and it's two different articles.

Exactly. Why do anything..cuz you know human nature.

Yes, two-share types (or multiple share types) are much more common now.

Similiar to what was mentioned in regards to Alibaba, except I think it's only one share type - of which the "Alibaba shares" are actually in a holding company with no voting rights.

I wish more founders kept control of their companies -- they tend to give a shit about "the company" and "the employees" compared to need-to-be-more-rich Board's of Directors.

I wouldn't want to make too close of a comparison to scripted-langs and non-scripted, but this part that you reference

The difference, as the summary noted, is that when using a scripted-language, you are trading all your compile-time (build breaks) for runtime errors that your users will see.

Is not true for all scripted languages. AutoHotkey for instance gained a #warn flag, that among other things:
1) Tells you when you have a local variable with the same name as a global. The local trumps the global, unless it's a forced/hard Global, but it lets you know so as to be aware.
2) Tells you when you reference a variable that hasn't been assigned a value, prior to the reference.
3) Warn when an environment variable is automatically used in place of an empty script variable.

AHK is written in C++. Supports normal braces usage {}. Has an interesting take on Objects, as well as things like Regexp Match objects. Can pass functions as variables to functions, ByRef variables, varargs, etc. AHK Can be compiled to an .exe instead of just run-time interpreted.

Lexikos has done some pretty cool stuff with it since ~2007; AHK2 is shaping up. More info here for anyone interested.

Note: autohotkey.com has been subverted by a f'ing wanker that wont give up the domain-name and is pushing an agenda. He also only provides a version of AHK that hasn't been updated in 7 years (from 2007).

I read something about that recently, but I don't know its veracity --- that the way capital gains taxes were done (or changed) made it better for companies to play the overseas shell games and focus on stock growth than to pay dividends. Of course the stock growth aspect isn't always necessarily "real value" and when it auto-corrects/adjusts you can be left holding a bag oh shit.

In April Google also did a stock split, and started offering Class-C shares that trade under "GOOGL", they have 0 voting rights. Granted you can still purchase class-A shares, as before...but even before this stock split there were still two classes of shares:
Class-A :: available to the public, and Class-B :: - primarily held by Larry Page, Sergey Brin, and Eric Schmidt.

Class-B shares have 10 times the voting rights of Class-A, and gives the Class-B holders 61%+ of the voting rights.

Yeah it's kinda crap in some ways. It sure is a nicer/cleaner/more readable/less-typing syntax though. Kinda like Groovy v Java.

One of the more interesting Nova episodes I watched, a few years ago now, focused on a group of Catholic scientists priests (Astronomers, Physicists, Biologists, etc). It was refreshing to see that even within the Catholic Church there is room for faith and science, as they are sanctioned and paid by the Church.

There are a lot of "nutters" that do abuse Religious doctrine and pound the shit out of their bibles. At least the official stance of the Catholic church acknowledges and respects science, and doesn't discount it out of hand.

It really does shine a bad light on those fringe states that continue to push for their creationist agenda in schools, when not even the Catholic Church has that stance.

Haven't dealt with Alibaba, or its smaller subsidiaries... though I was tempted quite a few times. Ebay is probably fine for physical goods, but a crap-shoot for software. Ebay prices really don't impress me, as once you factor in shipping, bidding or even insta-buy - it's almost always been a better deal to just buy from Amazon and get it in 1-2 days. Just wish we could buy from Amazon.uk for a few things.

Amazon customer service is the best I've encountered ever, anywhere. They respond to inquiries and suggestions within 12 hours. Returns are never refused, even for reasoning like, "didn't like it, wasn't suitable."

So its a tweaked 780/790... and Nvidia bumps the leading digit by 2? WTF. Shouldn't this of been an 8xx series at most? Pretty f'n misleading.

The ABC, NBC, CBS, FOX, and PBS stations that are provided via Cable may or may not have "some" Canadian content. Most-likely not. They are not local stations. Your local cable company has made a deal with an American affiliate to carry that channel. Except for when Global, ATV, CTV, ASN, or CBC simulcasts a show the Ads aren't even changed from what that American affiliate airs.
I lived in Canada for 39 years, the only "Canadian-Content" I ever saw on American television Networks was the odd time they would cover a Canadian news story. Less than a half-dozen of the countless Canadian television shows ever made it to the US. More than likely as America always does, they would take scripts/ideas and redo the whole thing instead of airing the original.

Global, CBC, ATV, CTV, etc have to to comply. The stations that rebroadcast or simulcast American Television content.