You guys are missing the obvious solution: make like the Japanese and their artificial islands. Fill in the Bering Strait and just build a paved road on top of the ridgeline you just created between SIberia and AK.

WCPGW?

One good reason to discourage the pasive voice is that it leads the reader to believe things "just happened," rather than emphasizing the causative agent.

"War broke out" vs "A small band of vocal rabble chose to separate from England rather than pay excessive tax on tea"

He clearly suggested spending less on Defense Dept and more on socialist anarchist anti-American [[sarcasm]] !

We can't have that now, can we?

Or MGM, or Sony, or Disney.

(sarcasm)

Yes, LEDs are far more efficient and use less electricity yada yada. However, it's pretty much guaranteed that this will not lead to cost savings.
Historically, every time a cheaper lighting technology came along, from candles to oil lamps to gas lamps to Edison bulbs to CFLs, people simply increase the amount of lighting and the length of time (into the night) that they keep the house lit up. I see nothing to suggest that conversion to LEDs will change this trend.

See, I'm only going to do one eye. That way I'll look really unusual (or worse terms :-) ) , plus I'll have 2500 to waste on hookers and blow.

Not to mention a USA birth certificate.

FTFY

You got semi-whooshed there: the quote is from one of the all-time greatest pinball machines: Attack From Mars. Which, BTW, is available as a sim via PinballArcade.

damn.
Sleepyhead am I

So, in the limit as T.S. Eliot --> ee cummings, please .

sorry

Ahhh, c'mon: the post you refer to most likely came from t.s.eliot.

Really -- someone suggests a computer program could identify when to laugh at a sitcom? When humans are likely to disagree rather strongly about which parts are the funniest? Heck, even Mycroft's first jokes were on the weak side of humor. It took a lot of coaching from the humans to get (his) jokes classy.

Make sure to wear your hyper-visor during the game!
(ok, that wasn't as funny as I'd hoped before i wrote it)

I've been waiting since, well, forever, for staropenlibre office's word processor to have a Draft or Galley mode (called "Normal" in Microsoft Word, or at least it was). Why in the world people think they should see the header, footer, and margins while writing and editing a document is beyond me.

That's one reason I would love to switch to LaTex all the way: the IDEs out there have one panel where you do your writing and editing, and a separate panel for viewing the fully rendered result when or if you want to.

Captain! They've broken our secret Starfleet code!