Presumably it would be the last, or near to last, edits made before you abandoned your Wikipedia account?

No one ever, ever, cites a diff when they are bitching about Wikipedia on Slashdot.

Where do you live?

I'm guessing that miltant crazies don't really know what a hard drive is, or where the memory is stored. It's just a devil box at that point. Hell I don't think most US fundamentalist crazies would know either.

AGING is just the American English form of AGEING -- both are acceptable.

MSNBC and Fox are not somehow equivalent extremes. They represent the corporate crazy right and the corporate center-right.

Oh, don't worry, people with Wikipedia horror stories almost exclusively never actually back their stories up with concrete examples and links.

This just enforces my point -- as pointed out in the article the social benefits of drinking from time to time, and the quality of life they ensure, outweighs the biological side effects of poisoning oneself with ethanol. (well, that, and the fact that abstainers in the study were much more likely to be poor, with all the life expectancy decreases that come with it.)

I bet if you control for socioeconomic status, the gamblers would also prove to live longer for the same reasons -- while it indeed shits on their wallets, it also means they aren't uptight puritans and can roll with some punches in life and blow off stress.

Explain how people learning math would put the lottery out of business. People are gambling for an adrenaline rush, not to satisfy some mathematical equation. Guess what, some people posion their bodies with alcohol on occasion to enjoy the side effects. Some of them even have extensive education in biology and medicine.

What's wrong with Priuses?

I think its simple -- if you could get by in the past on a high school diploma (provided by public education funded by taxpayer dollars), then we offer a taxpayer funded college education to our citizens so they can compete in the present world.

Don't all of those extremophiles (that we know of, on Earth), generally start out as more mundane organisms living in less extreme conditions? Then through process of evolution, some of them adapt to to the extreme conditions in which they eventually are thrust or spread to?

I have a hard time believing life can get started independently in those sorts of extreme environments without having someplace slightly more nurturing to get a foothold. Heck, look at humans, we can survive in space due to all the neat tools we build with our brains and thumbs, but this took a lot of steps to get there -- it doesn't mean we should start looking to outer space as a likely zone for life to be found.

Still a heck of a lot of hours, but 75mph is pretty common out here in the west, that makes it a bit more bearable.

It seems to me the problem is not that I drive 900 miles everyday, just that I drive 900 miles maybe 2 or 3 times a year. If I can't afford multiple cars, how do we solve this so my road trip stays on track?

Seems to me that you need the vast majority of gas stations to have facilities for me to plug my car in so I can get that 80% in 30 minutes -- not as convenient as a pit stop at a gas station, but probably acceptable as long as I don't have to do it more that once or twice on my 900 mile drive (is that actually the case in 2011? I have no idea). Maybe contract with someone like McDonald's to put some outlets in their parking lot so we can eat/pee while the 30 minute charge is happening?

Bonus points if there are charging trucks or portable batteries that can give you a 20% charge or something available in places like Evanston, Wyoming. What's the current scenario if someone runs out of "fuel"?

They should just deny the cable company license to do business in the greater community if they don't just provide this for free. Problem Solved, people win. Let the cable company do their civic duty if they want to be deemed a citizen.