I suspect the TSA won't be as quick to do anal probes now the Ebola is a factor.

I'm in favor of the CDC disseminating as much information as possible. I'm against the media spreading "OMG we're all going to diiie" type stories, as they often do with diseases.

Because, frankly, I'd rather have a chimp in the White House than most of the humans we've had.

All you need to do is gather a whole bunch of hydrogen. In a few billion years, you'll have enough that it starts fusing into helium under its own mass, and bingo, you have your power source for billions of years.

Yup! After my mom fell, I researched those "I've fallen and can't get up" things, and for a long time was getting ads for them.

Yeah, awhile back I was researching cars, and bought one. For a long time, I kept getting ads for the same model I already bought. Sorry, but I have no intention of buying ANOTHER car anytime soon.

Interesting point. I've never had trouble RECEIVING phone calls over my car bluetooth. But I recently tried to make a call, and with all the problems getting the POS to understand me, I was pounding on the dashboard and yelling all sorts of obscenities at my car. Luckily, I was still parked when I made the call, or I probably would have crashed into something.

So, does that mean we should move more people to California and let the earthquakes and brush fires take them out?

Heck, Al Gore probably consumes 70% by himself!

One of my gripes with OS/2 is that Windows software was even more unstable under OS/2 than under pure Windows. They didn't trash the whole system, but they did take down every Windows program when they crashed. OS/2 was rock solid running its native apps. Both of them.

I keep hearing that the reason it's so bad in Africa is that they are incompetent in handling it. Surely we're more competent at such things.

Oh crap, now I'm worried!

Well, I figure, any aliens able to get to Earth from who knows how many light-years away would regard us as an interesting species to study. Kind of like we might study some animals or primitive natives on an isolated island. An "arms race" would be like those natives harvesting more spears, and the ETs would probably get a few laughs out of it.

That brings up the question of when does a religion become different. Christianity, Judaism, and Islam are considered different even though they worship the same God. Sunnis and Shiites are both Muslims, but are they really the same religion? They obviously are different enough to want to kill each other.

As an American, I'm tougher than the Europeans, and I can prove it. I can take heat up to 104 degrees. The Europeans are in trouble when it's only 40!

I live in the Midwest, and I know what sub zero and over 100 feel like. I would classify those temps as unlivable, even if they do happen routinely.