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When you don't take it out of context it's a 100% accurate statement. The asteroid is heading straight towards the Earth/Moon system, it's just that the portion of it that will be hit is empty space.

I wouldn't mind getting an invite from someone if possible, my email is my slashdot username at gmail. Thanks.

I was wondering the same thing. First there was the promised x64 release for Firefox 4, then the promised x64 release for Firefox 5. I'm guessing the real reason is Adobe dragging its heals with an official x64 release of flash more than anything but the only explanation I can seem to get is that they didn't have time because of the tight schedule for the Firefox 5 release. If that was true then we'll never get an x64 release because their new high pace schedule will make every release "tight."

I must have missed that feature while playing around with Lotus 1-2-3 and VisiCalc back in the 80s.

Yes, but she admitted herself that the way the law was worded it could be used to ban books. She defended the law for it's good uses and simply said that it's ok that it could be used to ban books because "no one would ever use the law for that." It's similar to defending a law that made jaywalking a crime, and made it legal for the president to rape people because "no one would ever use the law for that." Yes, that is an extreme example, but I consider anything so blatantly unconstitutional to be extreme.

She might not have outright supported banning books, but she was fine with a law that could let it happen. The law is unconstitutional. Defending, voting for, or introducing a bill or law that you know full and well is unconstitutional while in a position of political authority should be criminal. If it's found that a law is too broad, or could be easily twisted to do bad things, fix it. If the same people keep trying to pass bad laws they need to be removed from power.

Both parties are guilty of these kinds of appointments. All they seem to care about is if the appointee is allied with their party and support a few of their pet causes. Who cares if they have a few other views that are insane, we'll just try to cover that up or accuse the other side of being petty because they're not happy the appointee isn't allied with their party.

Sorry about the ranting, but watch C-Span for any length of time and your eyes are opened to just how corrupt the whole system is and you start getting a little angry about things.

I have a text file I just created that's dated January 1st, 1753. The poll wasn't exactly clear on whether the file had to actually have been created on the date the timestamp says it was.

I'd imagine the transit pass would be useful for obtaining new employment. Not having transportation while unemployed is extremely frustrating when searching for new work.

The battery in my laptop is basically totally dead. It's only there because it's required for some reason even while plugged into an outlet. If I unplug it the laptop instantly turns off.

Reasons I've seen:

They advertise the best. Most people in management positions won't go with something they've never seen in an ad on T.V.
"If it's so good then why haven't I ever heard of it?"

They cost the most.
"Something that cheap couldn't possibly be any good."

It might not be an undue burden to Amazon, but what about smaller online companies? You could use software to manage the collecting of sales tax for everything but the real problem comes to sending off that money to every town, county, and state that collects sales tax. Someone buys something for a couple bucks and suddenly you have to send payments of a few cents to three different places. Even if you save it all up and send it bi-yearly you could be looking at thousands of separate payments based on how widespread your client base is.

You can't just look at a huge company with millions in revenue and make a one size fits it all decision.

It isn't that American university degrees aren't completely suspect. The majority of graduates from our universities are actually fairly bright individuals. The problem is that there the three ways to get a degree are to either be rich and donate a lot of money, bring fame to the school in some way, or genuinely be intelligent. The first two ways only really comprise a small fraction, the only problem is that they generate an inversely greater amount of attention. This is mostly what lends to the American universities are bullshit attitude that we see thrown around most of the time.

Now I'm not saying that famous people and rich people are inherently stupid, but their actual intelligence usually doesn't factor into their acceptance most of the time.

Not only would the applicants be breaking the terms of service but the City of Bozeman would be guilty of all the "Unlawful Access of a Computer" laws we have all over the place. Since most of these online sites are hosted somewhere outside of Montana they would be guilty on a Federal level. The City of Bozeman should be prepared for all the lawsuits they're about to receive.

What amuses me the most about this story is I see things like "WTF" all the time with the non-vanity plates here in Colorado. If you try to get it on a vanity plate you run the risk of being denied.