How long until Comcast sends YouTube a bill for carrying the HD content?

Your homework for this week deals with unit conversions - subway cars, Volkswagens, Libraries of Congress, African swallows, European swallows, a coon's age, a pinch, a New York minute, and many other units you will have to deal with in your daily lives.

Logical.

Folks, if you would just look right here for a moment. FLASH! What you just saw was the light of swamp gas reflecting off of the planet Venus.

I said we wanted a slope. Nobody said it had to be slippery.

A reviewer might think that the results are not implausible, so the paper can go ahead. Reviewers don't try to reproduce the results in their own lab.

The internal social network where I used to work became an echo chamber of self-congratulatory announcements by management followed by efflusive and fawning ass-kissing comments by the serfs. It got so sickening that I had Outlook send the email updates (which was the primary form of communication of this particular software) directly to trash. Nothing of any use to me ever came across it.

Wrong. I could buy an HDTV antenna and wire it and mount it - or I could pay Aereo to send be a signal from my own rented antenna and get exactly the same mix of local broadcast stations. Aereo was a service I was willing to pay for.

You are correct, except that was exactly what they were doing.

Put the Duke brothers' seats on the exchange up for sale at once. Seize all assets of Duke & Duke Commodities Brokers, as well as all personal holdings of Randolph and Mortimer Duke.

Better return that USB Fleshlight

Round one: Digital music replaces musicians. Actors and audience don't much care.
Round two: Holograms replace actors. Audience doesn't much care.
Round three: Virtual audience replaces real audience. Real audience doesn't even notice, as the computers find that the all-digital performance can be optimized by running the simulation at many times real life speed. Der Ring des Nibelungen takes only 1.5 seconds in the new theater.

Goodbye Older, Higher-Paid Teachers!

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Tis a joke, but your post is the inspiration for my next billion dollar idea:

1. Search Wikipedia for a couple of lines from an obscure algorithm to make a joke post
2. Realize that on Wall Street there is nothing too weird that some desperate suckers might not actually believe it
3. Publish actual stock market guide filled with cut and paste sciency-looking stuff
4 Profit!