If she is only retaining the logs of the IP addresses for a few months, and did not know this order was coming, she is safe.

FRCP Rule 37 states:

This may sound facetious, but I had a similar question the first time I saw a large Sodium-sulfide (NaS) battery. It was the size of a garden shed, and basically was filled with molten sodium. The engineers said that it was safe from thunderstorms, tornadoes, tree falls, and earthquakes. My first question was "it is safe from two or three of those if they happen at the same time?"

A now very pale engineer answered "no". I guess they hadn't considered a tree falling on it in the rain, and we all know how much fun sodium is when it gets wet...

No, its Frahnkensteen

How about Semperubisububium

Always wear under wear

Thanks for the tips. Grilled veggies are always a good side, although I was thinking more along the lines of beer-flavored celery, or buffalo-wing-bananas.

How about using the proceeds to make healthy foods taste better?

As a parent of both biological and adopted children, I can tell you that I went through a similar transformation that you went through with the biological kids, and then through a just as significant transformation with the adopted ones. (As a note, they were adopted right from the hospital.) What I was learning is that the "my" kids was not what any of them are*. They are not my possession, but someone I get to have an enormously close relationship ans responsibility to. This doesn't mean that there isn't a bond, quite the contrary, but that the bond is more realistic and better understood, just as you now understand what the bonds in your family friends ans S/O's through your children.

I know you had a question about surrogacy, and this is not exactly that. I will tell you that the bonding with the adopted kids did take extra time, but it is there, and it is just as deep as it is with the bio kids.

*Note: I am not trying putting words into your mouth, but this how I think I saw things with the first bio kid.

It sounds like you are working the Ballmer curve!

I agree with you with regard to flying "Western" carriers. The few times I have flown on a Korean or Japanese airline 747 (to keep this on topic) it has been completely different. They actually treat you like you paid for the flight, and that it is their job to try to make you happy. A complete 180 from "Sit down and shut up"-Continental.

You hit on a good point, but I think there is one factor you missed that may help these types of functions become ubiquitous: your electric meter. What is happening in the US and from what I can see in part of the EU, is that low-bandwidth network protocols are being implemented in the new meters which will allow your thermostat to see signals from your meter. What is being developed by the appliance manufacturers are controls for washers and dryers that can also respond to these signals and thereby give it the option of running when the price of electricity drops to a certain level. Most of these meter deployments (see map here) should be rolling out in the next few years. After that, the appliance manufacturers should follow with new functionality once the communications standards become more standard.

As for the standards themselves, I can only speak with certainty for the U.S. (but I know this technology is being used in the EU) when I say that there are standards being developed like the Smart Energy Profile being proposed by the ZigBee-Homeplug alliance ( not mentioned in TFA). From what I can see, this will allow for a relatively inexpensive chip to integrated into the appliance. Although they have devices that work at the mains plug, it is better not to cut power to the device completely if at all possible.

This isn't going to be the next Chuck Norris meme is it?

Ray Kurzwiel doesn't walk on water, he swims on land...