they all end with the lyrics, "All rights reserved".

Though it is adorable to see them start each school play with a 3 minute copyright infringment warning sketch in 15 different languages.

If we stop acting terrorized just because it made sense not to, then the terrorists would have to start doing things that *were* statistically dangerous, like driving drunk, cooking with trans-fats, or starting health insurance companies.

If males and females were sexually monogomous, they would run the risk that their mate was infertile, or shared the same recessive gene with them; and they would eventually be replaced by whichever members of the species were inclined to sort of hedge their genetic bets.

That's also why males and females react differently to perceived evidence of sexual infidelity. When a male cheats, the risk to the female is primarily that he'll find his "fling" to be preferable and pair bond with her - thus abandoning the original female. When a female cheats though, the risk to the male is that he's spending a great deal of time and effort to ensure some *other* male's genes make it to the next generation. So when cheating happens, it would be effective if females were more likely to forgive it as long as the male was otherwise attentive, and males to be far less likely to be forgiving.

Most of us are here because we're the descendents of couples which behaved in the most effective ways for them to pass alone their genes; probably long before there was any such animal as humans. And certainly long before there was any such thing as "The Jerry Springer Show", which is why it's so easy to picture monkeys throwing chairs at each other once they'd run out of poop.

Hey, I just went through the trial of one those myself. So far, I haven't opted for the permanent version you have because:
1. The area which needs the parathesia is on the way to my arms, so using it makes it impossible to use them for programming (my job) or music (my dream).
2. The only one who think it's a good idea is my insurance company. Every doctor who's treated me says, and has proven, that my injury can be corrected with simple PT - though for quite a bit longer than my current insurance policy allows.

If by the time I get a new insurance plan which this time, no foolin', really does cover PT as medically necessary (as opposed to "Medically Necessary" which is apparently totally different), I'll find out of PT alone can actually get me to a point where I can live without the Keith-Richards-Calibre pain medication they have me on now. If not, I'll have to wait another year to get a SCS.

I could hedge my bets and have them install the thing now while it'd be free to me, but I don't know how much maintence those things require over the first year. If I switch plans, the maintenance wouldn't be covered.

May I ask how many times you had to go back for repositioning, repairs, and reprogramming the first year you had it?

1. Be a nice guy and die tragically: making your last act on earth to make people sad.
2. Be a jerk and die any way at all: making your last act on earth to make people relieved.
3. Be a nice guy, and die in ironic or comical way: making your last act funny enough to take the sting out of your death.

If you've always tried to be a nice guy, when your time goes - try to go out on something that won't make your funeral any more morbid that it has to be. I can't really afford a segway, so I'm always on the lookout for a good sale on Rocket Skates or giant slingshots.

Unless it's just a page that says "Quick, look away!!!"

But you can only use it for rhetorical questions like:

"Soda and Pop Tarts - you call that breakfast?" or "This is thanks I get?"

For iPods and iPhones (as well as many network capable ebook readers like Nooks) putting them in airplane mode results in an "airplane" symbol being displayed at the top of the screen just like the signal strength. Next to jamming the signal (which is almost needless if they're on AT&T iPhones), requiring them to use devices which indicate they aren't transmitting or receiving visually would be the next best way to ensure they weren't sharing answers.

Unfortunately, every time they've tried to demo it, a fight breaks out.

It seems to me that a lot of activities which are described as "bullying" when done to high school kids, would be legally defined as "assault" if it were done to an adult. I understand the idea of granting minors some leniency in punishment, but I don't understand the downgrading the action simply because of the age of the victim. If those kids threw a full soda can at some 93 year old women, or pushed her down, or knocked her purse out of her hands - wouldn't that be assault, complete with arrest and pressing charges and all that?

While the idea that the iPad is "just a large ~$1000 iPodTouch" seems like a turn off - there actually is a real benefit here that won't be matched by Linux Pads or dedicated e-book readers. Why? Well, I got my mum an iPhone when they first came out so she could more easily learn her way around her first cell because it was a variation on her computer, an iMac. It's been like 3 years, and she's still only comfortable with a fraction of it's features.

For moms, the primary benefit of the iPad is that it *is* just a large version of their cell phone. So they already know how to use it, it just finally got a screen big enough for older eyes to read. Yeah, I'm getting one for myself first - but part of what made the buying decision easier was knowing that even if I don't like it - that can be the one I give to her.

I know it doesn't seem like in the middle of a slashdot thread on Linux iPads - but trust me, the vast majority of the rest of the world doesn't think technology is a fraction as interesting as most of us do. To them, it either make something they already do (read books, listen to music, watch movies) easier - or it's just a pain in the ass they don't need. However else you feel about Apple, they've got a pretty good track record of meeting that standard.

Prior Art: "Roshambo"