This is exactly what I was going to say!

I was going to go "friend" you due to the coincidence, but then I checked your last few comments, and find your views on global warming (and your admitted part in it) to be selfish and unsettling, so we'll call it even.

So many of the great things you enjoy today are due to humans that were more than just "live for today" hedonism. And you're content to live off their spoils while the getting is good, but make no effort to make the world a better place for the next generation, if it means you can't do whatever the heck you feel like at all times?

Blechh.

This (preferential) is desperately the voting system I want, even more than proportional representation. (If only there was a way I could vote for Preferential, but have my ballot default to Proportional in case the vote count for Preferential is too low to have a chance to win... ;)

See you everybody, I'm moving from Canada to Australia!

Also, I strongly disagree that there's no difference if you choose a candidate randomly when the results are a statistical tie. Yes, there's no difference _to the will of the people_, but imagine what would have happened in the US if Gore had been installed instead of W Bush... nowhere near a "toss-up" as far as outcomes go.

As a Canadian, I brought a small bottle to relatives in the "provincial" captial of L'Aquila, Abruzzo Italy (yes, the one the Earthquake ravaged a few years ago). They were gracious, but looked baffled as to what it might be, and what you would do with it. There was a lot of confused looks among them, and some stereotypical Italian fast talking and expressions. Explaining that it's sweet and you can put it on pancakes, waffles, and even gelato didn't help. Maybe I should have suggested they dip their biscotti in it.

Damn, I had 4 mod points left that I was saving for just a moment like this, and they expired before I got here!
(P.S. It's Krusty)

This isn't redundant, it's exactly what I thought, and it wasn't already mentioned (at least in the thread order I'm reading)...

Perhaps your wife shouldn't be driving? Sounds dangerous for her and everyone around her.

I have an 8 year old daughter who has the potential (she thinks like a computer, anyway), and if you're willing to share something that sparked an interest, I'd love to try it out on her. I thought /. used to have a way to DM other users, but I can't find it, so posting here - please contact me using the same username I use here on slashdot, but at yahoo.ca Thanks! I think I wouldn't show it to her right away, but I'd start teaching her binary (up to 8-bit) which she might find fun, and only introduce your simulator after I think she's got the basics needed.

(Sorry, didn't realize I wasn't logged in the first time.)

Anyone remember the game that was bundled with Super Mario Bros. and the original NES?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duck_Hunt

I would consider the "gun" controller a "handheld vision based absolute pointing system".

(I haven't been modded up in years and I finally think I have a neat point - please mod up!)

Thanks for that - I'm glad somebody else knows the real version.

This one was my Dad's favourite to use in various speeches he made as a high school principal. It stuck with me since he told it to me as a kid.

Which shipping company gives you the least annoying option when they (in their infinite wisdom) are surprised when you aren't home to sign for your package DURING THE WORK DAY!!! When I lived in Markham, Ontario (high-tech centre just outside of Toronto), it was almost an hour drive one-way through typically slow traffic to get down to the UPS distribution centre, which was your only option if you weren't going to take days off of work hoping to catch the delivery guy when they happened to arrive. I think FedEx was almost as bad, except that after phoning to express my displeasure, I found out that through a simple phone request, they can transfer the item to a satellite office in nearby Richmond Hill. That option isn't mentioned on the door hanger they leave behind when you (gasp!) aren't home at 2pm. They call themselves a delivery company, and then make you go pick it up in a horrible location. Nice. Meanwhile, good old Canada Post can deliver almost as fast, cheaper, and they leave it at the drug store a few streets over, or the nearest post office.

There, fixed that for you.

Or maybe be proven right. I don't think he'll be co-authoring the Mexican paper.

Ah, but what can you do? Especially so early in the morning?

Not to mention that most people who are intelligent and green-thinking enough to buy a hybrid are likely going to keep it for more than 5 years. Because to them, efficiency and economics and anti-waste are stronger driving factors than "OMG I NEED TO OWN A NEWER CAR BECAUSE I'M A NORTH AMERICAN AND I'M ENTITLED!"... (or "Marketing", as it's known here).

David
-- Yes, IOAH.

Thank you parent and great grandparent. This is the same question I had, and I wondered if ads could have anything to do with it, but knew I hadn't noticed ads on youtube before. Do people get paid per ad viewed, or ad clicked?

Anyway, thank you Ad Block Plus - I don't even realize that I almost never see ads anymore.

Sorry for the newb question, but what does FTW mean?