Yeah, I don't get the opposition, either. Considering nearly every writer I know loves books stores of all kinds, including used book stores, it seems absurd to object to reselling a digital one in exactly the same way physical ones have been resold in the past. I tend to assume most of it boils down to the fear if someone can resell once they'll resell a bunch of times.

Assuming it's just one night of drinking, the alcohol will have left the mother's system before the fertilized egg is implanted, possibly even before the egg is actually fertilized.

Funny aside: I knew a gal named after a wine varietal, because a bottle of that type of wine had led to her conception.

Apparently I stand corrected, but that's still a crazy number. Going back to the famous quote, "Nobody went broke underestimating the stupidity of the average person," I am astounded that there are that many unwanted pregnancies. Are people really that completely incapable of managing birth control?

I have to question that number. There are roughly 112 million Americans aged 18 to 44, which is a good enough approximation for childbearing year. If half of those are women, that's 56 million women.

There are 4 million babies born in the US, that means there are 52 million women not having a baby in a given year.

You're suggesting that roughly 2% of eligible American women are getting pregnant, deciding they don't want to be, and having abortions every year? Or that nearly 20% of all American pregnancies are terminated?

I'm probably wasting time responding to an offtopic post by an AC, but that number just doesn't make any sense to me.

I was on a subway in a city, Chicago maybe?, that had a picture of a soda, and then a picture of 20 teaspoons of sugar, with a tag line that read, "You wouldn't eat 20 spoons of sugar, would you? That's what's in this soda." It's been a couple of years, and I still get kind of disgusted when I think of that one. That's a quality educational ad.

Aw, sig line stuff is fair game. I don't find an affiliate link spammy. At least it's a technical topic, and even an answer to a question that people on this forum may be asking.

The problem I have with it is it's factually incorrect, on both counts. If you're looking for inexpensive, 1and1 is at best moderate. And if you're looking for "good" there's lots of more reliable places, though many of them will cost you more. They weren't lousy, mind you, but I had a string of boneheaded interactions with tech support, like the case where I spent half an hour filling out and refilling a ticket until the support agent was satisfied with all the details of the case (having problems with email) only for him to conclude at the end "we're experiencing a denial of service attack right now, so all of our email is down."

But I'm quickly getting off topic ...

It may be that her pieces are usually interesting because Supreme Court decisions are almost always important material, but I'm always genuinely enthusiastic every time Nina Totenberg has air time. She does a great job of distilling the information. As I was reading this article today I was looking forward to my drive home and the segment that will surely air.

The almighty $ has always been life's primary cheat code.

Kingdom of Loathing has a text-based puzzle where you have to select this sequence to pass through a gate.

I'm looking forward to it, but they're a little too young. Both seem to love the computer, but the one-year-old just wants to eat it, and the three-year-old thinks it exists exclusively for home videos and coloring programs. As soon as I teach her to spell, though, all bets are off.

I'm just one guy, but I'm definitely going to try to teach my girls to code when they're old enough. I won't force them if they're not interested, but I'm going to work pretty damn hard to show them how fun it can be before I give up.

I've often wanted +0 "inciteful" - a combination of insightful and flamebait, for those posts that blend useful information with a barrage of unnecessary name-calling.

Er, retract that. I check three sources which all agree with me and post, and then find one referring to the Chicago Manual of Style which indicates the version with spaces is preferred. (Though it also says both versions are common, and there's obviously disagreement.)

And don't get me started on programs like Microsoft Word which auto-format three dots into a special, even tinier, ellipsis character automatically.

You've got this wrong. There are spaces before and after the ellipsis, but the ellipsis itself is three dots in a row without any spaces inside them.

I keep a running list of potential band names. Here are a few for your continued enjoyment:

* Meatyocrity
* No Shit Sherlock
* Indecipherable Mumbling
* Spoiler Alert
* Redacted
* Blurbing Stack