TFA specifies that the hydrogen will run out about ten months into the mission (including a month for systems check-out).

Microsoft probably pays engineers to sabotage F/OSS projects, using emails that can't be traced to MS! (yes, that's sarcasm...)

The word "Company" is derived from the French word compaignie, meaning a body of soldiers. That word is in turn derived from the Latin words "Com" and "Panis", meaning "with bread"-- i.e., the biblical phrase "... and they broke bread together" (this was still common practice for people working closely together up until very modern times; for that matter, coworkers stillroutinely eat together.) Therefor the word "company" refers to the people who comprise it, not the organization as a gestalt. Although I'm American and follow the American usage, I understand the reason for this particular British usage.

The first decade of the 20th century was referred to as the "Naughty Oughts", actually...

More specifically, the Pleiades cluster is sometimes erroneously referred to as a dipper. Thus, what we Americans usually call the Little Dipper (Ursa Minor) becomes the Big Dipper, and Ursa Major the Bigger Dipper.

Agreed!
I have the same problems with Firefox, and very rarely ever see this behavior in Chrome.
In addition, Firefox on my home laptop (which is admittedly getting closer and closer to obsolete) takes anywhere from 10 seconds to two minutes load, with no indication that it's doing anything. Chrome has never taken more than about 2 or 3 seconds to load.

Slightly more than that, but not by a whole lot. NASA's FAQ says each flight costs around $450m, which averaged over 138m taxpaying Americans (the 2007 taxpaying population) is $3.26 per flight per taxpayer. Figure three flights per year and it's still dirt cheap at $9.78/year/taxpayer. That's about what I spend on gasoline over a period of two days, and less than a single meal at Arby's.

I don't begrudge this expense at all, given what the program has given us.

Your argument is valid, but your numbers were slightly low-balled.

Ironic choice of planet, and I'm wondering if it was intentional. From Wikipedia's article on Plutocracy:

The word plutocracy (Modern Greek: - ploutokratia) is derived from the ancient Greek root ploutos, meaning wealth and kratos, meaning to rule or to govern.

What the article fails to mention is that the world 'ploutos' is derived from the name of the Greek god Pluto (or vice-versa, not sure which was the cause and which was the effect).

I knew someone would beat me to it...

Spouting gas produces rings? That explains my laundry...

Technically I guess you could think of our equatorial-orbit artificial satellites as a ring...

But not the proof of Fermat's last theorem!

I thought BE was of the crapola genre?

I'd personally prefer it if it encouraged fewer of them, or discouraged more... whichever paradigm works for you. Discouraging fewer of them seems like a goal that's entirely too easy to meet...

I'm in agreement about the doubtfulness of the idea of "expectation of anonymity" in this case, but not for the reasons you state. Port posted her comments in a public space. If she had simply defaced pictures of Cohen and showed them to friends in person, no harm would've been done beyond what routinely happens in any high school in the world. By posting her insulting material online for anyone to see, she put her nastiness in the public arena. Inside my house, I expect privacy. On the street, I most certainly don't. She chose to make her pettiness public, and in doing so, lost any expectation of privacy.

NYCL, care to weigh in?