Was it a Crucial M4? If so, maybe it hit that firmware bug where it craps out after a few thousand hours? There is a firmware update to fix it.

What did you do wrong? :(

There are always those douches who never wash their hands after using the toilet.

Now it's a good time to have a campaign:

WASH YOUR HANDS OR DIE OF EBOLA.

In his novel, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A...

Wish he was alive to see this.

Heh also sounds like the gaia field introduced in the Dreaming Void series - and I think the gaia field is even better than in the Reality Dysfunction. :)

I have a theory that this is why the Japanese automakers were so successful in North America too.

Where is the evidence to support this assertion?

I here this all the time, that rape is all about control. But i have not found any scientific evidence to support this. Maybe rape is...a desperate way to get sex?

It was probably one of the hospital scenes in Hard Boiled. I think they had to reshoot that at least 3 times.

Americans sure love their friendly fire! (A bunch of Canadians in Afghanistan were bombed by Americans by mistake)

According to this you are wrong:

http://www.ufppc.org/us-a-world-news-mainmenu-35/9627-background-gulf-disaster-recalls-ixtoc-1-blowout-in-1979-1980.html

This would be the 2nd time a BOP has failed.

An example can be found here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halftone

Note that dot size can vary, as well as the patterns used.

Ah, but the dots are scattered around, not in neat rows - at least, with more modern printers anyways (publishing and inkjet), so you won't see "screen door".

One thing you forgot: Print does not have the screendoor effect that LCD does.

Screendoor effect = the gaps between the pixels of an LCOS/LCD/DLP/AMOLED display. Print does not have this issue because of the dot spray pattern of ink.

Iain Banks did this in his Culture books, back in the early 1990s. :)

Amiga?