Before elevators:

The ground floor was most desirable. Less distance to walk upstairs. Upper floors were considered for poor people, because they had to climb more.

After elevators:

The upper floors are most desirable. "View" becomes an important factor when selling real estate. Since the distance to climb is no longer a factor, what you can see out of the windows of your apartment replaces that. The rich no longer want to look at a brick wall, they want a view of the city, and they are willing to pay for it, (since they don't have to climb a damned mountain to see that panoramic view)

Payphones were the only option to get out for MANY people. No internet, no power, no home phone service. Yet, payphones still worked fine.

I guess Mozilla just signed thier own death warrent. sudo apt-get delete iceweasel. Fuck them.

This should be applied to every degree program in the United States.

Already does this. I haven't seen an advertisement on youtube in years.

proves that "Noah" could not have done it. $18.25M and a year later, and it's still not done? Didn't noah supposedly build it in a fortnight without the aid of modern construction equipment?

I bet the fundamentalist Christians would love to do this in the USA.

Wasn't the X-Prize somewhere around $1M just to get into suborbital flight? The reward for this feat of engineering should be around 1000 times as much as it is proposed.

Whenever possible, it should be encouraged to integrate into society as a whole, either by working around the disability, or working with it. Forming exclusionary "cliques" just because they are defective is a guaranteed way to further marginalize these people. "Deaf Culture" can die to the sound of Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon.

this: There's 57 channels and nothing on.

The only reason copyright has been extended so long is so Disney Corp can protect Mickey Mouse.

Since my wife got her tablet, she's only used her laptop for school work. Besides that, she does everything on her Galaxy Tab.

Whip it!

“Live a good life. If there are gods and they are just, then they will not care how devout you have been, but will welcome you based on the virtues you have lived by. If there are gods, but unjust, then you should not want to worship them. If there are no gods, then you will be gone, but will have lived a noble life that will live on in the memories of your loved ones.”

Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

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