It's on Hulu, so go watch it now and redeem yourself. Peter Sellers did such an awesome job in it.

Trivia: The set with the interior of the bomber in it was designed completely by guessing what it would look like; no one on the crew of the film had ever seen one before as it was classified when the film was made. The end result was so accurate they received a visit from the military wanting to know who had leaked information about it.

They came in below the bar in the police state contest the US and UK seem to be competing in. I guess they decided they didn't want to be the losers.

Hooray for the underdog! Oh, wait...

I just picked one up for that exact purpose - Newegg has a Rosewill wifi adapter (with external antenna connector) for $20. Works great in Linux and OSX, as it's a RTL8187 device.

Same here. When FileVault (VileFault, if you like) first came out I ran into the same problem as you. I was able to repair it, log in, and recover some of my data (most resulted in the spinning beachball of death). Trying to convert back to a non-encrypted FS resulted in the machine telling me I needed roughly 12 petabytes of free disk space.

Shame really, it was a good idea, but a very bad execution I think.

Same here, after years of owning PPC macs and never having a problem, I've had endless trouble from my MBPs.

The first one I had was a first generation one and I kinda expected the worst, but it lasted three years with two trips into Apple Service (logic board replaced twice). The new one (last of the previous body style MBPs) is garbage though, it's been non-stop odd behavior that I can't pin down to any one thing. Crashes consistently and runs slowly with Linux or OSX. Won't buy another one.

It's not really fine. Well, sort of. The health care system has major problems because no one can really afford it without insurance. In fact, if you try and purchase medical care, the hospital will charge you more than they would charge an insurance company.

Funny, that. Most of the Blackwater guys that were here after Katrina were wearing plain clothes and weren't (AFAIK) deputized. They were just out of town thugs with guns, not too different from the local thugs with guns. The only way you could tell them apart from the local thuggery was that they had better weaponry.

I wasn't actually referring to Blackwater, even though it is of course applicable here. I was more referring to the NOPD guys that beat the schoolteacher up during Katrina, the ones that mug you, the ones that guard warehouses full of cocaine, the ones that in 2008 opened fire at an inspection sticker station because they didn't feel like waiting in line. People like Antoinette Franks and Len Davis (both NOPD officers and on death row).

Come to New Orleans. The only difference between the criminals and the police is a uniform.

Try Movable Type. It's maybe not what I'd really call "lightweight", but it isn't huge either.

As much as I'd love to work in the EU, it isn't that easy. I seriously looked into it a few years ago (and still do from time to time) only to come to the conclusion that many EU employers really don't want Americans working there. They'd much rather take care of their own and employee EU residents. Sucks for me, but I do see the truth of it.

While I think a reasonable punishment for a crime is great and all... what happens when an innocent person is convicted of a crime? What happens when you're walking home from the club/friends house/work and you get stopped by a police officer who's having a bad day? When he says you're stoned (even if he can't prove it), you're going to get caned, fined, beaten, imprisoned, and/or possibly executed (not in that particular order).

There's no such thing as an accurate and fair justice system; the least we can do is make sure that punishments aren't so horrible that they have a long term negative effect on your life when you're falsely convicted.

I'm just going to have to pass on the countries with harsh penalties like caning, even if other aspects of them are great.