Because I'm not American?

We already know how. Keep nuking the atoms until they split into stable elements. The primary problems are that 1) each step isn't 100% reliable, and 2) some nasty, nasty things are created in the meantime.

Apparently you haven't seen Z-Axis tape yet.

The tape in action

I dare them to take their scheme to the streets and fairly find 1000 people that can get them right.

Pfft. Disregard this, obviously I didn't read the full summary.

But in other news, "middling" is the new "good".

The "downside" is that even though battery life is improved, it's still terrible.

Bah, where did my mod points go?

I have access to both a MFC-7840W and a MFC-9325CW. The former worked perfectly under Linux (network print *and* scan) until I installed the drivers for the latter. Now whenever I try to print to the 7840W the printer disappears from Zeroconf temporarily, causing CUPS to error out. USB printing still works on it though. Maybe I'll get around to reinstalling the driver eventually...

And the latter has a feature that I affectionately name "Manual Misfeed": unless you are *absolutely precise* about the positioning and angle of a manually-fed page, it will "jam" until you open it, close it, and wait a minute for the printer to warm up for the fifteenth time in a row.