(I'm a heavy smoker and serial quitter, on my 5th attempt. 7 months so far.)

Have you ever watch someone you love die by lung cancer? Anticipated his approaching death even when he / she is somewhat healthy?

I'm sure there are worse, but this is not a peaceful process. You don't get a sudden call saying, "Lost the dad. Yes dear, heart attack", bury him the next day and deal with the memories. This is pure "He's skinny, in pain, dying. And we're powerless to even ease his pain" stuff. Give the family a break.

And no one needs your money for roads, education, utilities coming from tobacco tax. You'll cost much more when you're dying.

Wrong. Earlier theories should be testable, verifiable. Nothing to do with faith.

Percona, XtraDB, Drizzle

> The server for the Alaska Volcano Observatory appears to be overloaded and is unresponsive.

And we're helping the poor sysadm by linking from /. homepage, right? kdawson, you're da man :)

>My father has traveled much more extensively than me, and he agrees that it is absolutely not necessary to visit other countries if you don't want to.

Really?:) Ask the papa where you got this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamukkale
Or this:
http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/145
or
http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/1195

Your post can also be read as it's also possible to write high performance sites with VB.NET. This is a violation of /. usage guidelines.

Please correct your post accordingly. Thank you for your cooperation.