Only in this case they may have a point. Gates, along with Pierson Publishing, is largely behind the Common-Core idiocy. Pushing that on those kids there won't result in smarter Africans, just more money in a few people's pocket.

When people want to refer to Canadians, they just say "Canadians", there's really no confusion. If they want to refer to people of the whole north continent (both US and Canada), they can say "North Americans".. there are also Central Americans and South Americans, but the continents are collectively referred to as "The Americas".. there is no *single continent* called simply, "America"; it's understood by everyone but pendants that "America" means the USA.

or crafty.. instead of using an old law with just enough power, they willingly forget it and write a new one with a whole lot more power.

This is spot on. In my area, there's really only Verizon or Comcast (and I can't even get FIOS here with Verizon). Both of them gouge the consumer, they're just two different heads of the same coin. I'm not a fan of big government, but some degree of regulation is a must in a capitalist system, and if anyone needs a taste of regulation, it'd be these two.

Death was relatively kind to everyone, I thought. He seemed hurt that anyone would think he actually killed anybody. Maybe he'll give Terry a chance to ride Binky.

It does. I've been reading the DiscWorld series for the past year and half now, I've read nearly all of them, except for a few of the NightWatch books. I'm in the middle of reading Unseen Academicals right now. He will be sorely missed. However, suffering with Alzheimer's is horrible, and at least he's out of that misery.
I can just picture him finally meeting the Discworld's Death (and the Death of rats squeaking close by), and him choosing to live on the Discworld as his personal afterlife. That would be a really cool final dream, anyway, but most likely the Alzheimer's deprived him of any opportunity for that.

I feel snubbed. Everyone else got two species! =)

No, but they're related from a common ancestor. We went down one fork, the great apes went down another.

Throw in some nudity and body oil and you've got some good Hentai.

Of course it is, but this skewed experiment will go viral and lead to more cries of racism and civil unrest, more references to Ferguson and how evil non-brown skinned people are, possibly excluding Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Thai, Vietnamese, etc.. Like Morgan Freeman says, "If you want to end racism, stop talking about it so much".

Librarian, is that you? What are you doing outside of Unseen University?

Obama doesn't have anyone sent to Gitmo anymore.. expect a drone to bomb his house instead.

That's insane. No economic system in it's purest form is good, from Capitalism to Communism, because human nature always skews things over time and corruption creeps in. Only a system of checks and balances can prevent that.
I'll choose Capitalism over Communism any day of the week, but look what happens to Capitalism when it's left completely to it's own devices: child labor, abuses, monopolies, price fixing/gouging, employee rights erosion, etc...
The very heart of a free market ideology is destroyed by a series of increasingly larger mergers and consolidated control that unregulated corporations exercise. It eats it's own. It's entropy of the free market. Communism is even worse, as it puts all it's eggs into a single basket right from the onset (the government), so the abuses happen even more quickly.
All systems need a set of checks and balances, and that means regulations for corporations. The only question is what to regulate, and how much, but to completely remove regulation would destroy the country.

May as well lump Australia in there too. If it's not a marsupial, it's deadly, and even some of those are dangerous.

That should apply to a lot of software, not just Firefox. More icing is pointless if the cake is falling apart. (Unless you use concrete or spackle for icing..!)