I didn't realize they had that. It is a start. What I would really like is a la carte channel packages instead of bundles. But I know that isn't likely to happen any time soon because so many channels would be free-marketed into oblivion when ad revenue plummets because only a tiny fraction of the consumers want them.

On the other hand, maybe the lack of cheap accessibility is good. If the bar of media consumption is lowered too much, we may see a generation of people completely give themselves over to leisure.

The further removed we are from having to work hard, the more we forget what was sacrificed for the free time we enjoy.

If only content creators truly were providing a la carte content. HBO Go requires a subscription to a traditional service provider. Hulu is artificially restricted, and has ads. Netflix is marginalized by content providers striking deals with Amazon, Apple, and others, making their best content Korean action films and their original series. In the sports world, ESPN streaming requires subscription to a traditional service provider, and Fox Sports, the only one that offers their service separate from a traditional service provider (at $20 per month), was priced out of the Premier League market by NBC -- whose sports service requires subscription to a traditional service provider.

If becoming an alcoholic taught me anything, it's that it is amazing how little sleep you can operate on. And how good greasy food can taste.

I think they thought it would be neat for people to be able to let others know they were pooping and whatnot. But then people with lots of followers started making money off of the resulting notoriety, and suddenly a cottage industry of allegedly helping people make money off it sprang up.

I've seen Twitter accounts that do nothing more than re-tweet. I don't get it.

And then you get Internet and fried chicken!

I vote for death rays.

Spend any amount of time on Twitter and it is clear that "abuse" in forms other than malicious is rampant. For example, the guy with 17k followers who follows 18k people. His whole Twitter ring is a meaningless bunch of follows/followers/retweets designed to make people look (or feel) popular. In the end, it is just noise.

Except this one cash sniffing dog I saw -- gold grills; Rolex; diamond studs in his ears as large as dog biscuits...

The even older, even more refined nerds prefer a good night's sleep. And alcohol.

Generalize much?

A long time ago we asked to not be burdened with the task of policing ourselves. The opposite extreme is the Gestapo, and we've been inching closer ever since.

The lack of probable cause is not related to the fact that the officer already dealt with the reason for the stop. Hypothetically speaking, on the officer's return to the vehicle he could have noticed something that would lead to the moving violation turning into a longer detention. That was apparently not the case here.

And Mr. Do. But the open world of Minecraft offers near unmatched digging-based time wasting without the added stress of increasing level difficulty. And the possibility of finding shiny blue diamonds...Oh my, I do believe I'm a tad flush.

Is there an Android port available yet?

If you can think of a better program with which to spend three hours digging then I'd like to hear it.

By the letter of the law it is a computer crime, but by intention it is an act of vandalizing a computer. Those are two very different things. If he looked up test answers, changed grades, or altered attendance records, then I would accept it as a computer crime. This is an instance of blind application of a law.