I agree, get off the earth as soon as possible. All kinds of bad things can happen to life on a single planet (Fermi's Paradox?) and we shouldn't expect to have free rein for ever.

In the real world people work as much as necessary or as much as they want. I'm sure Bill Gates and Warren Buffer work far more than 40 hours/week. It's obvious that, to them, it's worth it. Now, you have to expand you horizons and see that probably a lot of people have decided that their salary is worth the time required even if they aren't billionaires and millionaires. Would they like to work less, hell yeah, but we can't all live in Greece.

Facebook has what are effectively public forums where friends are not personal friends but friends of some activity or idea. There is no reason to insist on a documented name for something that doesn't require trust.

Not sure what came first, the decline of new species or the decline of taxonomists. But there has been a steady decline in the number of the taxonomists. In the field of botany lots of newly discovered plants are not described because they just aren't interesting enough for the taxonomists to work on them. Anyway, the best way to stop the perception of an extinction event is to create more species! Admittedly, that would be a short term fix.

Wax is hardly immortalizing. There is this place near Keystone, South Dakota that has some few people reasonably immortalized! Woz isn't (yet) one of them.

I just put a kid through college in Florida. It wasn't all that expensive with the Bright Futures scholarship and Florida's relatively low cost for college. I spent more on the car than I did on tuition and that was certainly optional. We never even considered getting a loan.

Come on guys/gals, it's obvious that this was a honey pot. They didn't catch a bear but I'm sure there are dragon prints all over the place and major laughter from team USA.

OK, when France switches to a metric calendar... Seriously, if we can tell time with a stupid 12/24 hour clock and dumb seconds/minutes/hours/days/weeks... why can't we deal with inches/feet/yards/fathoms/leagues/miles whatever.

It didn't happen if there are no pictures. Seriously, I can't image that Chrome is 10% faster or slower loading web pages than Firefox. Let's see some hard data showing that Firefox is slower.

be an American. Not exactly the first time but to paraphrase those who should know better...

I think Hitler tried something like that already.

Wow! You just like to make stuff up. Pure hyperbole, not a fact in sight.

So maybe greedy almond growers are the real problem. I can't imagine anything more stressful than doing this.

"..80 percent of the world's almonds come from California's central valley, an 800,000 acre area of almond orchards that are 100 percent dependent on bees pollinating the trees. Surprisingly, almonds are the number one agricultural product in California.

Once a year, in late winter, 1.5 million bee hives from around the country are delivered to these orchards where the bees' pollination efforts take place over the course of just a few days. It's the largest mass-pollination effort in the world."

Do you check for @aol.com after race, gender, sexual orientation, age, height, weight or before?

I'm proud to say I don't even know what UID you social weenies are bragging about and I have lots of friends and almost all of them are human.