This show was so bad that it is what you warn kids about so they will grow up to have sensible careers like toe surgeons and test subjects for clinical trials instead of film makers and TV producers.

Speaking of MST3k...

http://www.rifftrax.com/rifftrax/star-wars-holiday-special

This makes it a little more watchable. A Rifftrax for this particular Lake Video.

http://www.rifftrax.com/rifftrax/star-wars-holiday-special

Nice.. :)

I'll have to try it next time.

Oddly enough that really isn't as satisfying as you would think it would be. I took my old monitors and computers out to 'the pit' on some private farm land I owned. Using a shotgun was a little risky because of the potential of those pellets scattering and bouncing back when hitting metal parts. It's also too limited in range to use from a distance and I would rather not die from something as stupid as destroying old equipment. That left longbarrels like rifles. Those bullets just leave holes and do no further damage (Though one of the CRT tubes imploded when they were hit and took out much of the monitor.)

I next tried pouring my equipment with gasoline because of its high combustibility and hoped the bullets would collide with metal and create sparks. It doesn't work that well. Those scenes in the movies where the cars always explode after shooting the gas tanks--not as easy to do in reality as you would think. So imagine trying it on old electronics.

In the end the best two plans are to rig it with explosives or do the good old Office Space scene by taking a baseball bat to the office copier in a field. Not only do you feel more invigorated at letting off some steam at the copier but you will leave feeling much more satisfied. Just be wary of the flyback transformers in these old CRTs. Make sure they have been discharged before you mess with destroying monitors via the Office Space route.

And you're more qualified then most other people to be able to interpret a basic line graph?

I'm just putting this out there because you slamming a very large and ever growing crowd by calling them ignorant, unqualified and knuckle-dragging. You also go further and tell them their views don't count in this debate. And yet I don't see why I should value your views and opinions any more then I should theirs. What makes you so much better?

Something else bothering me about the case of the state trooper as well that your comment got me thinking. I mean, he is a state trooper. Don't state troopers have special training to deal with the handling of vehicles in emergency situations? If so wouldn't he have known to put it in neutral? He had enough time to do that because his brother was in the back seat and made a 911 call and from what we know the brakes were pressed so hard that they were burning up. That doesn't happen right away unless you have gone quite a few miles with them applied.

I tried to see if the problem occurred for me and it didn't. I did notice a small increase on CPU cycles (about 4% more roughly on my older 1.3 Ghz AMD with the window sitting open idle) but nothing what you are reporting.

Things to try (assuming you haven't already.) Disable all the Google Labs extensions and see if this helps. Try a different browser and/or even a completely distro or operating system. If you do come across the culprit and/or even if you don't, I am sure the guys at google's Gmail would be interested to hear about it. You can reach them under the Help at the top right of the window when you are signed in to Gmail.

It's easy to manufacture a new young pop star to pre teen and teen groups. The collective intelligence of such groups is usually in the negative digits so they are extremely susceptible to marketing. You could sell pet rocks to this group if you market it correctly and glitter them up... Hey that's not a bad idea. A return of the pet rock is about due. Let me just get some venture capital in place...