You're sort of right; you just have it backwards: there are South American genes (via Easter Island) among some of the Polynesians (the migration was westerly, away from South America).

If you're not asking Gartner Group, I'm not interested - the answers simply won't have as much comedic value. ;)

LOL! I think you might have made that last batch of Koo-laid a bit too strong...

Partial apologies are due; I misread the name of the submitter (in my defense, I'm used to you Dice guys scraping the bottom of the barrel; just saying...)

Tim, you're a writer (or, at least, attempting to play one on TV); as such, you might want to actually learn how. The saying is "goes with the territory."

(If I don't tell you, who is?? Your editors?!) ;)

Why do shepherds wearing flowing robes?

'Cause sheep can hear a zipper from a mile away...

You make a valid point but nonetheless it's *exactly* like telling a rancher he's small-minded for insisting on raising grass-fed beef because more and more [ignorant] people are content with the flavorless, factory-farmed dogshit being pushed-out by BigAg on behalf of McD's and Walmart.

Quite possibly the market you describe simply isn't the one that Neil wants to focus on.

Very much so. :) FYI, this occurred at Kenyon (small liberals arts school in Ohio); Neil was there visiting his daughter.

Neil's easily the most vocal proponent of replacing 16bit/44khz audio with 24bit/192khz and that's a contentious subject... but all the yammering and clamoring aside, if someone were to take a decent pair of speakers (nothing necessarily extreme, mind you; my preference would be an older pair of Klipsch Reference floorspeakers, $1000 on CL) and bi-amp 'em to a decent used receiver (Marantz, Denon and HK come to mind, $300 on CL), feed 'em with optical S/PDIF from a pc or SACD player... and then audition the uncompressed recording of your choice (presumably something you're used to and love) at 16bit and 24bit... there's an excellent chance you'd be able to tell the difference in a double-blind test. As for being able to tell the difference between high-bitrate compressed and 16bit lossless? It's a foregone conclusion and anyone saying otherwise is either tone-deaf or talking out their ass; that "high quality" MP3, WMA or proprietary stream (i.e. Spotify on its highest quality settings) is going to sound muffled by comparison; particularly the highs.

Totally orthogonal to the topic at hand but a true story definitely worth relating: while my kid brother was at college, one of his friends was cranking Neil Young loudly in his dorm room... and there came a loud pounding on his door. He yelled "come in" and Neil Young opened the door and yelled "Turn it down!" with a shit-eating grin.

No, not in any meaningful sense (i.e. the context of the comparison in question): fracking-induced quakes are highly-localized and miniscule by comparison; i.e. just because you might be able to pop a zit on your face quite easily doesn't mean that you can use the same technique to remove a brain tumor... but yes, both the zit and the tumor are located in your head. ;)

Unless its core is continuing to undergo a fissile reaction...

Um, 'cause shale layers != tectonic plates?!

But surely we need a way to move soil samples around!

When all you have is a hammer, every problem looks like a tablet. ;)

Not quite true; from what I recall, their democratically - elected gov't (back in the 50's?) was a threat to a particular western oil company with vested interests in Iran... and thus we have the situation you see today... ;)