So Soros isn't a major corporate backer?

I agree with you totally. I speak English, Chinese and Japanese. If I have to go E->J or E->C I can usually go a while translating, but if it's more than an hour I get a headache. If I have to go J C I'll get a headache within fifteen minutes since neither are my native language. If I'm just speaking Japanese or Chinese the English part of my brain just shuts off and the other language takes over. I've months between times when I'd speak English without any problems.

I hate to burst your bubble but I lived in Beijing for four years and there were plenty of fatties all over the place.

She orders two more online (and gets them shipped to the store instead of her home, I don't know why) and goes to pick them up

Since she's Chinese I'd guess it's because she didn't want to pay for shipping. Same reason I have to go to the Mapple store tomorrow to pick up some iPads. *sigh*

Could be worse. She could have picked a huntard.

A bajillion years ago when I went to college we had an intro to computer course that was the same kind of thing. How to send e-mail, use word and maybe something else like that. I ended up failing the class because I was so bored I never went.

I went to the head of my department, explained what happened and asked if I could take a higher level course and count that as the Intro to Computing credits. He took a look at the course description of the new class I wanted to take, he approved it, I got an A, credits satisfied, case closed.

Actually most museums will let you take photos, but you can't use a flash or tripod.

Actually she wouldn't have to buy Photoshop and whatever video processing software for Windows again. You just need to call up Adobe and they'll give you new serial codes for the Mac version of a product you've legally registered.

It's summer so they're all repeats anyways.

True, but for the first two years of his presidency he had a super majority in congress meaning his party could pass any legislation they wanted no matter what the opposition wanted. What happened with that?

• - continued the Bush bailout policy

• - stayed in the Bush started wars, later started new ones

• - continued Bush violations of civil rights, and started new programs to curtail rights

• - continued Bush's tactic of screaming terrorist to take away those rights

• - continued torture and "secret" prisons started under bush

• - not only took no steps to reduce the deficit but ramped it up.

So the upside of Bush's 3rd term has been?

First check for free porn, then call New Egg about it.

They will get rid of the cool colors and go with 1970's beige and bland lighting. And what ever else they can think of to make sure flying isn't enjoyable.

Nah, the lights will stay. These days most trans-pacific flights have those multi-colored lights. Having blue or red lights instead of the white let people adjust to "night time" conditions, like the red lights on a sub. This helps peoples' circadian rhythm from getting messed up too much.

Is a real problem for Swedish daycares? How many Swedish children go missing from daycare every year? Wouldn't it be more cost effective to, you know, hire attentive teachers to watch the kids in the first place so they don't escape?

Usually you have some legal protections when using a debit card. Paypal has a habit of ignoring disputed transactions until it's legally too late to get your money back. I had a problem with them a few years back where they kept telling me to talk to the merchant to resolve the issue, but if the merchant never shipped my stuff and won't give my money back what else can I do? If I used a debit or credit card it would have been much easier to dispute the charges and get my money back.

Ok, some posting problems here. I meant to say: Great now we'll get: Grand Theft Auto: Detroit. Now with real hooker smell!