There aren't enough Jehovah's Witnesses for them to be a major focus of research expenditure.
There are plenty, thanks. The only problem is getting rid of the empty bodies once you've consumed all of their blood.
Double? Try 20% more nominal, and 19% less (PPP).
For many of us, the cost of living in Australia is vastly more expensive. An example: we in Australia pay approximately double per litre of petrol (gasoline) - which, for those of us who don't live in major metropolitan areas and have to make a 110km round trip to get to work and back every day, makes for a very big hit in the back pocket.
...just as it's rare to find an English major that's good at math.
Curiously, though, by far the majority of my math professors have impressed me as being exceptionally well-read, erudite and articulate. I can honestly say they were an inspiration to me, to the extent that I sometimes felt that it would have been worthwhile to study math more than as a discipline incidental to my other studies.
However, honesty compelled me to admit that although I can comfortably handle a differential equation, I would never be more than a plodder in the context of post-graduate math, which is where you only begin to scratch the surface of new ground.
Where do they recruit them, the local zoo?
Well, part of my edited post did make reference to chimpanzees and Shakespeare.
you'd think an "editor" for a popular site would know a modicum of English.
Fix: You'd hope so. But apparently in vain. All too often (if we take the trouble to look, or if we notice that our own submissions are bowdlerised) we see perfectly cogent posts mangled to the extent that any relevant content is entirely non-existent. Maybe there's a new species of crypto-editor that needs to be added to the corpus of cryptozoological studies...
Calling fine software (audacity) that millions of users use 'crap'...
No, he was talking about "Adaucity", which is apparently so obscure, not even Google can find any developers associated with it. So that program might indeed be crap, but we'll never know.
I can't comment on the cost of consumables...
On this topic: Unless Hewlett-Packard has changed its policy with more recent machines, every one of their printers I have ever used since ~1997 spits out innumerable test pages at every opportunity. I can only imagine this is a deliberate effort to gouge their customers, and I now make a point of refusing to buy any HP printer, and advise anyone else who asks likewise. It's a pity, because quite a few of their machines are otherwise quite good.
You may miss some vapid messages. Is that a bad thing?
No, indeed. And even when we are "plugged in", far too many websites have a ridiculously high-frequency autorefresh (via scripts that I haven't found a way to disable) that serve up exactly the same inane drivel that we were foolishly attempting to read in the first place. Serves us right, I suppose...
"Here's something to think about: How come you never see a headline like `Psychic Wins Lottery.'" -- Comedian Jay Leno
