That's an interesting way to define millions of dollars in free publicity.

I know. The first time I went to school I could only afford to go to a small tech school in Cambridge. I hope to move up in the future.

I understand perfectly well what the guidelines are for the awards. Unless you are sitting in with the committee as they make their selections, then their motivations are unknown to you.

>undereducated followers

Wait. I have to go out and get another goddamn PhD before I can follow Randi?

The Nobel Prize is an arbitrary award given by a committee with motivations unknown to the public. It is taken way too seriously by everyone.

Another Chemistry Nobel award goes to physics researchers. May the besotted and cigarette-smoke wreathed shade of RB Woodward haunt the Committee.

When Columbus pulled into harbor that day in 1492, he had to wait for a berth as the docks were crowded with Vikings, Chinese, Egyptians, Phoenicians, Micronesians, and extraterrestrials.

Good for you. You recognized a potential dysfunction and prevented it from becoming a problem. But look at the larger picture from a female perspective. You hired a male who was going to mistreat your female peers in a negative way. 1. What percentage of the pool of potential male employees fits that profile? 2. What percentage of potential female employees are liable to come in and disrupt your company by mistreating their male peers?

Where did I specify that they were not related?

We are heading toward that good old English system of tipstaffs and sponging houses.

The major problems are going to be:
1. Too many people
2. Not enough fresh water
3. Not enough food

3 is a distant third.

How are things on Margo?

Mr. Rockefeller, there is a Ted Roosevelt on line one.

How much money is going under the lunch table to reporters to generate this excitement?

Ballmer always struck me as a Gump-like character who accumulated wealth and thus influence through no talent of his own. He stumbled into Microsoft with no more to offer the world than a guy off the street who pulls a slot machine arm and wins a billion dollar jackpot. At least Forrest was likable.