No, it has only pussy on its mind.

What took us so long?

What percentage of Americans want ads at all?

Ignorance is bliss.

Maybe they simply live well-rounded lives and don't toss and turn all night worrying about the next day. Do they run themselves down every day? How are their dreams?

Point being, two genes in two people is an easy coincidence weighed against the vast sea of conditional variables that effect us all. For myself, if I spend a day doing relatively nothing I wake up somewhat naturally the next morning on 6 hours. If I go all day non-stop, then I can sleep for 12 hours.

If sleep is when our bodies recover, then do people with the mutation recover faster?

If you want the best sound when shooting in consumer/prosumer land, run your own recorder and stripe* timecode. While balanced inputs would be nice, you still would be stuck with cheap A/D converters and 16 Bit recording. On-camera sound is a convenience: it's second place to price/ video quality with most manufacturers.

Unless you can drop 50 grand on a multicamera Genlock setup, drift will always be potential issue with multicamera shoots. In my experience even the cheapest usable cameras may only drift a few frames an hour, which can easily be fixed in post by slating at the beginning and end of long shoots.

*Stripe meaning record a track of audio timecode on each camera and recorder for sync in your post-production software.

It would only take one person on the team or an organized handful of technically inclined pacifists with moral objections to making war a game to take down the auth servers. Not to mention America's wars are not exactly popular right now, and many execs would have no problems pocketing the funding for reasons so well described in the parent post.

Unfortunately competition has been the primary funding motive for space programs world wide.

Make a nice tree-looking sculpture out of the drives, usb cables and glue, then put one wave file on each drive. Each wave file should be one note of the holiday song of your choice. Then write a script to play each note in sequence so the flashdrive leds blink as each note is accessed. Put the video on youtube and proceed to think of anything other than giving someone a low-capacity flashdrive as a gift containing something you could just as easily have emailed.

Or make them all get together to hear the "secret message" (ultimate weapon?), sending one person a pile of usb hubs and cable and the script.

It's in here: http://www.last.fm/legal/terms

If you read the Terms of Use when uploading, you basically give Last.fm the right to do ANYTHING:

"When you upload Your Upload Information via the Website, you irrevocably grant to Last.fm, its parent, subsidiaries, affiliates, and partners, without any credit or compensation to you, a non-exclusive, worldwide, perpetual, unrestricted, irrevocable, royalty-free and fully transferable, assignable and sub-licensable right and licence to use, reuse, modify, adapt, alter, display, archive, publish, sub-license, perform, copy, reproduce, disclose, transmit, communicate to the public, post, sell, translate, create derivative works of, distribute, make and export Your Upload Information (in whole or in part), or to incorporate it in other works in any form, media, software or technology of any kind now known or developed in the future, for any purposes whatsoever including, without limitation, for advertising, marketing, publicity and promotional purposes, such as developing, manufacturing and marketing products and targeted advertisements using such Uploaded Information. You hereby waive any moral rights (or any similar rights in any jurisdiction) you may have in and to any of Your Upload Information, even if such material is altered or changed in a manner not agreeable to you."

It is very cool of you to care for a friend's well being, take the 90% of these "fend for yourself" posts with a grain of salt.

We all have things in life that we want to spend all our time doing. What is most important is that we choose something healthy, something that benefits the world around us. At the very least and for the sake of mental health, our endeavors should benefit our future lives.

The best you can do is be a positive influence. Talk about your life outside of home whenever you can. Talk about girls, projects you're involved in, parties, music.
If you have any good lady friends tell them the situation, that you have a good friend in disconnection peril and want to help. It's a noble and selfless cause; women can be great company for such things. Try to get him to hang out when you're out with her and her friends. Sometimes just spending time with the opposite sex can get you off your ass and caring about your body/mind health again.

A good girlfriend can be a great way to clear yourself of addiction. But the most important thing you can have and the thing that will eventually help maintain a healthy relationship is self confidence. A first step is exercise. Try to plan some outdoor things with mutual friends. Organize a kickball game, get out a frisbee; hell, anything to get the blood moving other than video game-induced adrenaline and Flamin' Hot Cheetos.

In the end the best thing you can do is be his friend. Talk to him whenever possible, don't abandon him. If he's flunking out or missing work then drastic measures may be in order. Otherwise all you need to do is show him the path; leave it up to him to walk it.

Or just take a sharp object and destroy the lens, maybe even pry it out.

Seriously, if you never use it it's just bling.