He did say that he has a lot of down time.

"I like a challenge, and since all of my goals outlined since my hire date have been met and exceeded, I have a lot of down time."

"You know nothing and you care less, as people say." is saying that you care less than nothing, which kind of implies that you couldn't care less. How does one 'care less than nothing'?

Pavement is the material itself, such as asphalt, concrete, etc. The word "pave" means to cover a surface. Sidewalk, road, driveway, and such refer to the use of the paved area. You don't typically call your house "bricks" or "wood" or whatever it may be constructed from, so why call a sidewalk "pavement".

Of course, you could ask Google "what is 15% of $14.56" and get the answer you are looking for. It is even in more natural language than '15% tip on $14.56'.

Sure there are exceptions, but many townships (at least the midwest US) have ordinances that limit property splits to a 4:1 depth to width ratio. So the worst your six acre lot could be in that case is 256 feet wide.

Maybe that was too harsh, how about "This is {insert most any news site}."

This is Slashdot. The truth is of little importance, as long as the headline is sensational.

5-6 inches? I hope you meant feet. The frost depth in southern Michigan is 42 inches. I'd imagine ND could be even deeper than that.

Well a sensible person would step over to the gravel shoulder if a car was coming, or perhaps even into the grass, if thats what it takes to avoid being hit. As a walker, I never assume that a driver will move over for me, or even see me as they speed by. Sure I have the right-of-way, but why even take that chance? So...walking towards oncoming traffic IS important.

Not true, we have football fields and libraries of congress as well! He meant to say it is just under 1 football field.

I'm in the same boat on this one. It isn't so much that $5 is a whole lot to part with, it is the principle of the thing. I don't feel that I should have to pay for a patch, or a service pack, or whatever other name you want to give it. With the earlier upgrades, much of that functionality should have shipped with the device, not been added later and then charged for. The vast majority of other hardware and software give you free updates once you have made the original purchase. Why should this be any different?

Actually, a 5' DIAMETER hole, would have a 30 inch radius, and therefore an area of 2827 in^2 2827*150000 = 424 million pounds of pressure. However, it is actually an 18 inch drill hole with a pressure differential of around 13,000 psi (see various calculations in comments for this post http://hardware.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1651510), which puts you at just over a million pounds of pressure. The blowout preventer that didn't work properly was a 450-ton device. It isn't much of a stretch beyond that to get a 500 or 600-ton block of something down there to just plug it up.