1. Rumor
2. Streisand Effect
3. Somebody else does the work
4. ???
5. Profit!

Truly, I was just aiming for the negative mod.

I read 4 of the 5? Hitchhiker books and I just didn't feel that it was especially noteworthy. Too much rambling, I guess?

Douglas Adams sucks

(awaiting hate mod)

Uhmm... no anecdotal references here, but wouldn't most any black market be more free market than any capitalist nation, simply from the fact that they're unregulated?

Hardware feature creep, not software.

But even then he's still mostly wrong. Apple is one of the first to drop legacy technologies; the obvious one coming to mind is the 3.5" floppy drives. However, it is rather difficult to customize what you do/don't want in an Apple computer. You either get the whole shebang or a couple less features i.e. MacBook Pro vs. non-Pro (IANAMU, I'm not an Mac user).

Hooray an explanation!

I always wondered what was the deal with the stupid-looking folder convention

Big Heads
GSHNTTBNCTPRDCRD
Gosh not to be NC that's pretty crude???

Show the Credits
FDTHMGS
Feed them guys???

Yeah, you can tell that to my ASUS nVidia motherboard that I bought last year. I couldn't get the NIC to work on Vista or Win7 beta out of the box. However, I didn't have to bother with the driver on an XP install. It's one of the mainstream quality boards too, nothing exotic about it.

Well the summary actually says it's 30,000 mutations for skin cancer and 23,000 for lung cancer, but at least you got it right in your math.

Congratulations, you didn't do any better...

50 * 50 = 2500

So it's 2500/pi cm^2. And if each person gets 1/10, that's 250/pi cm^2, or about 79.6 cm^2.

The place where one of my friends work has this policy in place because the factory workers cannot wear headphones, so the office workers can't wear them either. So the office workers brought in stereos. Granted, the majority of the workers listen to country music, but it can be very irritating to someone like my friend, who finds that to be all the more reason to want to strangle fellow co-workers.

Seriously where did you learn to do your math...

From the last I heard or read, US healthcare is something in the order of 16% GDP, Canada is about 10.7% and everyone else is less (well as far as the EU goes). Yet we have something like 56+ million uninsured, mostly young.

On the young part, one of my friends went to the hospital (emergency room) for kidney stones and came away with a $3600 bill, $2000 of it for useless MRI's... WTF!

That's like asking him to pay for the grate and security guards to cover up the pipe he crawled through to get into the Pentagon...

Wow, my country-water school has been teaching touch typing in the fifth grade since... well since they got a bunch of computers with 5-1/4 floppies (I don't remember what they were, just they only had 5-1/4 drives). I know the grade before me used them too, so at least since... 1995