I sure hope none of the court costs will be paid by taxes, think of all the jobs those guys could create with the bottom 99% underwriting the government services their business consumes.

This signals the beginning of the end for something.

America will sputter its last gasp under the alarmist jackboots of enviro-fascists who want us all to live in caves!

Why isn't anyone taking me seriously? Guys?

When the arsonists live in the same building as you, putting out the fire may not be fair but neither is letting it all burn.

Queue starry-eyed 500 posts about Ender's game by people whose idea of being a nerd is playing WoW while they wait for "the singularity", FTL communications, and REAL perpetual motion machines.

Your 3-year-old daughter is not setting up VPNs.

The reason your school hasn't gone full-bore with technology is because technology doesn't really revolutionize education.

Plus, it makes no sense to spend time and money implementing RSS for parents unless all the parents will use it.

Paper forms are the lowest common denominator and will be around for a long time.

This is the kind of embarrassing sophomoric musing that most people would be ashamed to read let alone write. Let's cut this guy some slack, in 5 or 10 years he's going to feel really stupid.

I have long suspected that phone service would be almost free if the government didn't force me to subsidize low-income subscribers.

What rubbish, next you'll be telling me that we should teach probability and statistical inference in high school.

It sounds like this regimen could be incorporated into sex, or masturbation if you're creative.

preemptive "slashdot readers don't have sex, lol"

Here's a breakdown of how it will work:

1. People act in their own rational self interest and stop buying Sony products.
2. Sony runs out of money, disappears
3. Other companies compete to fill the gap

This is economics 101, people!

With all the damage they've been doing to their reputation the invisible hand is surely about to come down, hard.

I bet you think Neil Gaiman came up with the concept of Gods, too.

Just listen to some of the shit he says to Terry Gross:

http://www.erim.net/archives/gene-simmons-and-terry-gross-inteview

You have. Thunderbird includes archival folders and a Lucene search engine.