and that's though I'm quite a fan and usually consider your writing quite insightful.

> Becasue XBone sounds a bit rude, like boner

I guess that's true if one's still living in your mothers basement...

So they can take away whatever they want without proving you guilty in due process just because? Wow.
This is about the most ridiculous and frightening thing I read in a while and I would have expected it to happen in China (sorry, my predjudices) and not in the US. Wow, again.

What a remarkable person she was, what a beautiful couple you have been.
And what a remarkable person you still seem to be!
I sincerley hope that some day soon you'll give somebody else the chance of getting close to you.
Because otherwise it would be a loss to that person and that does not really seem fair to me :-)

> It works the other way around, too.

So how do you get a date to make the "right" impression if the fist impression is that you are not even interested in finding / taking a decent picture of yourself?

> The problem is that photos, generally, look less attractive than people do in real life,

Sorry, but this is nonsense and only valid if you do not spend enough time on choosing / making the right pictures. Yourself and the one reading your profile deserve your passion to finding the right picture and text.
And maybe ask some friends of the gender your interested in whether the picture you like most of yourself really is THE picture to use as a first impression :-)

I should have understood the article, first.

From the article it seems to be
www.yourfreeproxy.net

Well, who would not want to install an application that redirects all of their network traffic though their servers FOR FREE?

Whenever I read something like this it makes me wonder what "plausible" software is the means of infection.
I may be naive but I can not imagine that any of the companies and individuals I install stuff of on my machines would be shady enough.

What stupid stuff from what shady source do I have to install to get a Bitcoin-Miner I didn't ask for?

Maybe this:

"You have most likely all the resources to be an attractive person for a group of people large enough to find some corresponding most significant other(s)."

I consider it highly unlikely that you need plastic surgery to do so. Your nose is not what keeps you a from finding a partner, online or offline.

( >40yo GWM in an relationship of > 10 years here. Not because we are supermodels but because we're trying to stay "attractive" out of respect for the other. )

> if you are Average Joe and try asking out Supermodels Ann, Barbara and Cheryl, you're unlikely to get a reply.

This sounds funny.
From my experience many people I consider being quite above average visual attractiveness are attracted to decent Average Joes/Janes - if they are interesting, do stuff, learn interesting things, are caring, etc pp...
Even musicians, actors/actresses and models.

However, (Miss|Mister)-US-Of-Dumbnut may be only attracted to each other, but that's natures way keeping the carnage to the gene-pool low.

> The task was simple. Make a friggin website that takes user input and spits out insurance options.
> If this happened where I work, they'd fire the whole lot without question.

The task was complex because it involved a huge pile of laws, partisanship and legacy systems.

An essential step to avoid failing is firing people with your sentiment.

> What did we gain from discovering the higgs boson?

Some more knowledge on the most enigmatic mechanisms we still do not really understand. Maybe this will reveal new variables we can access to influence our physical world.
All of your modern life is based on those variables, most have not been known half a century ago, some not even a decade ago.
Yet they made possible - for example - this TB harddisk you are using.

Now please leave the Web as it was invented at CERN as a completely unintended consequence but necessity of boldly doing experiments of a size nobody had ever done before.

> Then there are the problems with neutrino radiation
> (I'm not kidding - it can exceed allowable dose limits).

I'm wondering what size the neutrino-dosimeters everybody has to carry will be :-)

> If you have just one ring, then you have to collide matter and antimatter

Your posting is as self-confident as it is wrong.
Please educate yourself using the internet before posting again.

#theUndeading:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ApmPQDAzYyM
(me, stupid)