IMHO, Reaganomics works only in a country where manufacturing is a strong industry (where the workers of the nation are actually needed); sadly, the USA no longer significantly 'makes' anything.

If these toll booths are in Chicago or New York he's barely making a living.
Move somewhere else.

That's completely beside the point. In those locations you're not going to find someone worth hiring for less. Hiring is as competetive as getting hired; supply and demand works on both sides. The question is "do I work in a toll booth or move", the question is "my toll booth is in Chicago, how do I hire someone who's not a felon, insand, or drug addict?" The answer is good pay and benefits.

I'd rather someone who at least has some accountability to me do it than my employer
And you think your Congress-critter with the gerrymandered district is accountable to you?

I can vote the Governor out of office if enough voters agree with me. There's no way to vote my boss out of his job.

If you actually look at impact on the environment, nuclear is competitive. The biggest impact by far is uranium mining and thermal heating of water sources followed distantly by the Chernobyl accident (which IMHO comprises virtually all radiation released by nuclear plants). Wind on the other hand has a much larger physical footprint per power generation and any large scale deployment will increase the amount of support infrastructure (access roads, power lines) in remote locations.

I know your point, but considering there are still plenty of people who enjoy playing Civ III, from almost ten years ago, let alone Civ IV from a mere 5 years ago, chances are there will be people in 10 years still playing Civ V, never mind Civ XII.

No office, no staff, low overhead....think we'll see a drop in insurance premiums? Nope. They have to pay for that fancy camera and 'puter. I bet you'll still have to pay a co-pay, even.

If it makes you feel any better, it's probably the US's fault on both sides. Which at least means that the US did do something good in Europe, even if they did a whole lot of crap in the US. Now let's just hope that the EU can keep to its senses in the long run. (Personally, I don't think there's much hope for any meganation, like the US or the EU. Once you get too big it's too easy to lose touch. I would prefer countries of five to ten million people, allied and with free trade and travel agreements, but not federated or confederated.)

Who knows where OnLie placed their server to make sure the response times were fast? How many other users were sharing that network connection? Probably none. Who knows if they lied to Columbia and told them the sever needed to be in the next room for [insert special technical requirement here]?

Include real world distances, response times and traffic on shared broadband connections (like cable) and you've got a dismal gaming experience.

They've been working on this for 8 years, and I don't doubt that they've busted their ass and developed some very interesting technology, but they need to get some cash coming in instead of going out.

If they're able to deliver the promised gaming experience with some magical new technology then they'd better serve their shareholders by selling it to carriers, ISP's and content providers to make the whole internet respond that fast instead of just their games.

Poseidon? Cthulhu need so lay off his Poseidon Masala! ^^

You're forgetting that the manmade global warming advocates like to latch onto every alarmist headline that they can and tout it everywhere. Such statements of fact merely get in the way of their agenda.

Can you say -1 flamebait, kids? I knew you could. Won't be the first time I get modded down for speaking the truth.

It's not my estimate, comes from the documentary uh... "Stories from the Stone Age" IIRC and I belive it was 3 weeks for one person to feed a family for a whole year.

For years OS X users have been duplication CDs and DVDs using Disk Utility on their Macs. Just make a disk image of the item then burn that disk image to a CD-R or DVD-R. You might have issues with DL disks. +R media works on some/many system too. Guess this means Apple will get sued next.

You do know that violence increased dramatically in his presidency, right?