Internationally, companies are referred to in the plural because one consists of many people, rather than the fact that it is a singular group. Saying Are and Is are both correct.

While I second much of what you stated, the one point I will nitpick from you is that the xxAA are engaged in entrapment. They are a private entity, and specifically because they AREN'T police, they can't entrap. As irresponsible some of their tactics are, they aren't entrapment. It also comes up from time to time that police are entrapping filesharers and other people. It's only entrapment (in the US anyway) if they get you to commit a crime you would not have committed already...like asking you if you want a program so you can get a new album illegally, and then arresting you for it.

Well, it could be unique in that it's crap. I'm not sure how that abnormally stresses the engine, if at all.

ASAIF, Harley simply trademarked the design of the engine that produces that sound. http://auto.howstuffworks.com/harley3.htm Basically, the pistons don't fire evenly. I'm sure other slashdotters know much more about the design than I do, though.

And that's why it's called statutory; it's an arbitrary limit coded into law. Statutory rape should not be called rape, end of story. Any adult having sex with either a young teen or a child is already going to be charged with a litany other crimes like soliciting a minor.

It's not sexist, it just ignores the two possibilities of you penetrating someone against your will: A woman forcing you to have sex with her, or a man forcing you to penetrate him. More than likely, a male raping another male will involve the rapist penetrating the victim in some way, not wanting to be penetrated by the victim. Or perhaps the woman wants to stick something inside a male victim. While rape by women is extremely underreported, it would take an EXTREME stretch of the imagination to assume close to 50% of rapes are committed by women on men. Bottom line, being penetrated against your will is how the vast majority of rapes happen, regardless if it's a man or if it's a woman with a strap on on another man or woman.

Sad and true. My friend lives near Berklee and it's like 2 grand a month for this crappy little thing that's so tilted the doors had to be shaved to compensate for the doorway's now parallelogram-ness. Move to Roxbury; it's dirt cheap and awesome if you walk around wearing a bullet-proof vest.

Or the movie Teeth....worst. movie. ever. IT'S VAGINA DENTATA!!!!!!!! ::while every guy tries to rape her and promptly has their unit chomped off::

Go with the Trans-Am...or better yet get the Firehawk. I used to have a Trans-Am. If I can afford ones again...I'd cry if I could get a 2nd-gen TA and a 2002 FH. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v320/DJRedBarron/Barrons%20Vehicles/2002%20Firehawk%20Trans%20Am/GraphicsKit2-10.jpg Beastly.

To expand on H4rmony's comment, and paraphrase your link, only those 3 will be available to consumers. Enterprise is just Ultimate for VLKs, and Starter/Basic are for emerging markets only. I think h4rmony's point was simply that consumers only need to think about three versions, and businesses just get Enterprise and everyone holds hands feels terrific.

On 2nd thought, I just read a comment further down and found out you can change the time of the computer to make it look like that.

One could look at the date the files were created. It's unlikely that some Geek Squad kid would maliciously change those to make it look like the file was created weeks or months before the computer was brought in. As well as under what username they were created (I'd imagine there's a way to check this?). As far as it being someone else ( on their username, anyway)...I'm not positive if precedent has been set but similar to what happened with WLAN, one is responsible for their computer, as well as who uses it unless it's a public computer.

$60 was also nearly $100 in today's money. Sega games cost a similar amount throughout the '90s. They don't HAVE to be profitable near-term, but if that becomes a typical policy, it becomes a much harder gamble as to whether or not they'll make their money back. The price we pay has plummeted compared to the budget of recent movies. It would encourage studios to make a few "good" movies, but again...if a movie flops, it screws them. This could mean a studio with a such a large operating budget could....downsize or split, and you have many smaller studios...better but then they don't have the resources to produce a blockbuster film. I'm not trying to argue for the studios, just rationalizing what they're doing in the business sense. I think $35 for a BD is absolutely ridiculous. If they went down to $15-$20, it would replace DVD within a few months.

Could be useful, but I think too many people hate the idea of recurring charges unless it's an MMO where it's expected. Also, you'd have to differentiate between playing and simply having it installed. If it's installed and you get charged while it's installed, you get screwed if you stop playing it but are like eh, I'll leave it installed just in case I feel like playing it soon (which does happen with me from time to time). In the end, you end up paying substantially more. Within 10 months, you've already matched what you'd pay for the game to begin with ($10+($5*10)...It could be cheaper for people anal about hdd space and make sure to always stay on top of things; but most people who aren't necessarily even Luddites would get screwed royally (one could argue that it's their responsibility to pay attention). But, like I said...if they could find an effective way to charge based on when played (phone home when loaded?), it could work.