If you have good genes and have taken care of yourself 75 can be a no-brainer. Personally I'd prefer a wait and see approach and see how things pan out. My mother is a vibrant 80 yr old who's currently having a lot of fun trekking around the planet. Sometimes you get lucky.

I've always thought http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U... ( from Poison Ivy) might be useful somehow in warfare. I got a dose of it last month from a trek through the woods and was really impressed by it's effects. I got a really light brush from a plant and the effects took better than a month to heal. Do a Google Image search and you'll see the effects can be very impressive.

I'm thinking these guys don't care much for studying history either.

Or at least data demand would if it could. Seems to me the focus should be on improving bandwidth and speed throughout the system rather than focus on prioritizing today's relatively low resources. In 20 years data transmission will be 1000x where it is today.

Are you of russian heritage by any chance?

Invest in a very high speed Internet connection and you can just download anything you want relatively instantly via torrent. Makes local storage a practical waste of time. IME anyway.

There a couple of torrents of the video there. Mostly it's all rhetoric, some of it voiced by Foley himself. The actually beheading isn't shown, just the start and end of it. My reaction to watching was simply that these bastards needed to be put down ASAP. Presumably not the response they were hoping for.

U gotta love Linux's repository model for this. Less choice but a lot more stability/honesty.

You would prefer that the studio keep the money instead?

I grew up in a haze of tobacco smoke with two heavy smoking parents. In the home, in the car, basically any time I spent with them I was exposed. As an adult living in a apartment building I regularly experience coughing and teary eyes from smoke that comes through from the hallway. It'll probably never happen but I'd be utterly thrilled is tobacco was entirely banned.

In any other context the scriptor of those words would be considered a mass murderer/psychopath.

I'm 50 now and I had lasik done 3 years ago. For 2 years prior I had stopped being able to use contacts, age related dry eyes I guess. Right after the surgery I had better than 20/20 vision but I've lost a bit of that. Not enough to make me want to endure a touch-up, not yet anyway. I find during the day and outside I feel I have perfect vision. Into the evening as I get tired and the light drops I notice a real change in acuity. No issues with halos after the first month. To watch TV across the room I need glasses now with a minimal prescription. The operation was pretty pricey at $3800. But the ability for me to go through most day without glasses, not even for reading, is priceless.

Why not do both (all)? I did a contract a few years ago where the data from a select group of Canadian GPs was anonymized and collected for the general aim of checking on adherence of best-of-care guidelines. As in if you have diabetes there's an accepted protocol of treatment steps that's supposed to provide the best care possible with the resource available. It was a good thing. I think the motivations here in Canada work. The government wants to minimize costs and that means keeping you healthy. And going back to my previous point, I also have a condition where imbibing caffeine causing symptoms mimicking Bipolar II. The humans in the mental health profession here in Ontario missed it for 25 years. I'd sure like to give AI its shot. It sure couldn't do worse.

I always figured we lost that gene because our ancestors lived in trees and largely fed on fruit making the gene useless, in that context anyway.

The sooner projects like IBM's Watson can get their teeth into our medical data the sooner our lives will be much improved. I spent 8 hard years suffering from Celiac disease before receiving a diagnosis. There is much to be done in the medical field.