Kaspersky and McAfee both publish scan-but-don't-fix AV software. I'm sure others do as well.

Many crimes have been committed through the centuries, yet one thing has always been a constant: The perpetrator was breathing oxygen. I move that we ban oxygen, then ration it out on a "not-comitting-a-crime" basis. After all, consuming oxygen is a hallmark of criminals. Do YOU want to support their criminal agendas?

I have to agree. My local ISP (Vyve Broadband) advertises "up to 8Mbps", but in reality never delivers over 1Mbps. During prime time, it drops to around 150kbps. I've raised heck with them time and again, and it never helps anything. I even called the BBB on them, and they just said "You're out of contract, so if you don't like the service, leave." They cost about $60/month.
The other option here (CenturyLink) does give a better download speed (about 4Mbps, advertised as 10Mbps), but their upload speed is hard-capped at 128 Kbps. I've called and visited with tech support, and that's a hard limit they set. They don't even have a more expensive plan available for those who want more, because "if you want more than that, you must be running a server". It causes disruptions with using webcams, VOIP, and even multiplayer gaming, and makes a YouTube upload take an eternity. They cost about $120/month.
So yeah, I'd love to have someone bring in 4/1 broadband. Especially if it cost under $100/month.

If he wants to be cool *and* revolutionary, he needs something more like this: http://www.disappearing-car-door.com.
Granted, these look like they'd be a nightmare in a blizzard or freezing rain, but I'm sure there's some way to engineer a fix. Or, alternatively, they could just make the doors slide vertically. That would have a similar 'cool factor' to a gullwing, except with the advantage of no clearance space needed, and would avoid the potential issues found with the disappearing door. Only issue would be that they would block the contents of a roof rack while open, but is that really a problem? How many people need the car doors open while retrieving their roof-mounted bicycle?

Preach it, brother.
Private school is often significantly higher in performance, while having much lower per-student costs, when compared with public school*. If public school weren't paid through taxes, nobody would be able to afford them; we should remove them from the tax base, and let the parents choose which school gets their money, rather than forcing everyone to pay for public school whether they want it or not. Children would get a superior education, taxes would be significantly less, and schools would have to (gasp!) compete with each other for the students, which would probably mean no more tenured teachers, better facilities, etc. For those who still can't afford private school (after the tax reduction), there could be a program like S.N.A.P. to pay for it. The only people who would lose in this situation are the ones who are corrupt and are already milking the system.

* Wyoming (my home state) spends over $15k per student for annual tuition. While private schools vary on cost, our local private school in my hometown charges $6k/year for tuition. While some (mostly secular private schools targeted at rich kids) have average test scores, religious schools tend to have better than average test scores in all subjects.

Aboslutely. The other thing that should be taken from this is that things need to change less. Change for improvement is one thing, but change for the sake of change is simply not worth the hassle. When XP support ended, this customer was panicked, and felt that she couldn't stay on XP any longer (thanks, CNN), but she is so averse to change that I knew Windows 7 would not be a good change. I set her up with Lubuntu, customized everything to look as close to XP as possible, and still had tons of greif to deal with. In the end, though, it was a very smooth transition; everything she did in XP was possible in Lubuntu, icons were in the same places, programs worked the same. She fussed -- a lot -- about the fact that some of the fonts weren't identical (which would have been worse in Wn 7), and that the desktop icons were slightly larger than in XP, but otherwise things went well.
I definitely appreciate how projects like Lubuntu have given us the ability to 'hold back time', as it were, for folks who simply cannot handle change. And as a bonus, I successfully converted someone to Linux. Man, I prefer supporting Linux boxes over Windows. So much easier to fix.

Forward it to their grandchildren? Try forwarding it to themselves. I have a lady I support who has literally about 40,000 emails -- all of which are incredibly important -- and when she finds one she wants to keep (as opposed to the ones that sit unread in her inbox), she forwards it to herself so that it's her name in the 'from' field, so it's easier to tell which ones she's seen before and liked.
When she finds a picture on the internet that she wants to keep, she downloads it to her hard drive, attaches it to an email, then sends it to herself. I kid you not. I've tried to explain how things should be done, but learned the hard way that it's not worth it. Instead we've just switched her to Thunderbird, since Outlook Express couldn't handle that many emails. Thunderbird is holding up under the strain quite nicely. Boy was it hard to get her used to it, though. Probably spent 20+ hours one the phone helping her find the 'forward' button and her address book.

This is of course purely anecdotal, but from my personal experience, this is pretty average in the city. The exception would be the rural towns too small to support public transportation, and those who live in the intra-city areas, and often, they are the ones who already use public transport. Every city is different, though, and I have only lived and worked in the Western half of the United States (Wyoming, Montana, Colorado, and Washington), so other areas may vary substantially.

While I've admittedly never been to New York, all of my colleagues from NYC purchased cars after they moved away. The city streets are almost exclusively used by taxis and public transportation. Most people apparently use the subway to get around.
NYC is the largest city on our continent, and also one of the oldest. Infrastructure design isn't the reason for most Americans using cars. It's the fact that most of our cities have very separate housing and business districts, and there's no practical way to transport everyone 30+ miles each way every day to work, especially when the residential areas are evenly distributed in a circle around the business districts. If there were a functioning light rail/bus/subway system, it would take an additional hour or so of your day to use it, since there would have to be several interchanges to make it reasonable. NYC is the exception to this, since it was built before fast transportation existed, and hence the residential areas were mingled with the business districts.

Posting to undo an accidental moderation -- shoulda been 'funny', not 'redundant'.

Huh? Methinks you're confusing measurements of weight and length.
A cubic ton is a relative measurement; it's essentially like saying "40 cubic feet of timber from the average trees in the average forest weighs 1 ton, so instead of weighing all of our timber, we'll just sell it by the cubic foot instead, and call it 1/40th of a ton." It's a sloppy, approximating measurement method.

This, exactly. I've got pretty bad carpel tunnel syndrome, and my old MS Ergonomic Beige PS/2 keyboard is awesome to use. Unfortunately, nobody makes a laptop with anything close. There was an Acer about 5 years ago that had a slight curve to the keyboard (not even as much as a 'comfort curve' has), but that's the closest I've ever seen (and besides, does anyone really want an Acer?). I just want a laptop with a keyboard that physically splits and raises up when you lift the laptop lid. As long as it's done like a children's pop-up book, and not with electric motors, it would work reliably enough for the masses, wouldn't threaten the LCD, and wouldn't really increase the laptop thickness or weight.

This. However, I will add something: Having similar goals and work ethic is important. I think, ultimately, people can work through almost any differences with a positive outcome, as long as their religion, work ethic, and life goals are similar. Pretty much the 'big picture' stuff. Of the girls I dated before marrying my wife, I can honestly say that I *could* have made it work with any of them, with the exception of those points. Religion is, frankly, flexible enough that it doesn't seem to need to be an exact fit unless one of the people involved is totally consumed by their religion; the two real important points, though, is whether the two people are going in the same direction.
One of my former girlfriends was extremely lazy. She wound up marrying a guy who fits her perfectly; a disabled vet (dare I call him that? He was in the Army for 1 year before being medically discharged, never got deployed), and they now live on welfare while neither of them works, instead spending their foodstamps on alcohol & cigarettes, and their time making babies.
Another girl I dated was headed through college with the goal of becoming a middle manager for a large corporation. I'm not sure where she is today, but last I knew, she was getting married to a guy who didn't really have a career goal; seems like a perfect fit to me, since it seems most middle managers need to relocate a few times.
Now, for contrast: My goals were to become self-employed and start a chain of electronic shops. Early on, that meant many 16+-hour-days with very little pay. I'm now past the really hard part of starting a business, and am well on my way to opening my second shop. The girl I am proud to call my wife is a perfect fit. She's a hard worker, her life goal was basically to spend as much time with family as possible, and she's good at seeing 'the big picture'; we've been married for almost 6 years now, and there's no question that we're a perfect match. When we first met, our interests, tastes in music, hobbies, food preferences, culture, families -- they were all pretty different. Of course, in the past decade or so, we've gradually become more alike, but ultimately it all really had no bearing on our happiness. The only thing that mattered was that we were going the same direction.
Also worth noting: we met on the Internet and became friends before we met in person or really got a good idea of what each other looked like. We didn't base our relationship on physical attraction, but rather on friendship.

He deserves all the recognition we can give him. Whether he did things the right way or not, he did what he thought he should do for the good of Americans, even though he knew it would result in his becoming a refugee in another country, or possibly imprisoned and tortured here in the states. He didn't do it for money, and I doubt he did it for fame; he did it because his conscience told him he had to. He is a patriot who deserves to be treated as one. Here's to hoping he gets a Nobel Peace Prize.

Wow -- according to his Tripod site, he still has an @webtv.net email address. That almost sounds like some sort of punchline.