This.
I'm tired of people hiding evil with "whoops!"

1) Don't store most things on a local HD.
2) Especially don't store email on a local hard drive.
3) I really really, really must emphasize that anything important should not be kept on PCs hard drive.
4) Audit steps 1-3 regularly.

Oh, BTW, telling the IRS you're missing documents from before they declared an audit isn't grounds for dismissal of the audit either.

And soon, the team will be named "The Washington USPTO asshats"

Off the top of my head, this does not sound like a bad exchange.
Plus: Underwater Disneyworld.
Like Rapture, but with more mouse.

While I generally agree with you, there is some interesting research ( I can't think of it off the top of my head) that points to the stress of being poor actually causing poor judgement in these situations.

Who's Ronnie?
Oh, you mean Ronald Reagan. The guy who went out of office 26 years ago.

I agree. I actually had a discussion the other day in which the person I was talking to stated "But your guy, Reagan..." Uh, my guy? I couldn't vote then.
My response was "Yeah, but your guy, Millard Fillmore..." I don't even know what party Fillmore was in. But as long as we're dredging up the past.

I'm not sure what's worse: that I read through this thing, or the run-on sentences were the most notable aspect to me.

I try to do the same thing, as I'm getting very tired of everything closing down. Who wants to live in a town with no stores ( other than a few restaurants and liquor stores)?

Pretty much all of them. Star Wars Monopoly, Battlestar Galactica Monopoly, My First Monopoly....

The only reservaton I have is the idea that one gigantic business is somehow going to treat me better than another gigantic business. Giant Douche versus Shit Sandwich comes to mind...

Oddly enough, the police chief of detroit has recently been speaking about allowing citizens to defend themselves. He's heavily anti-vigilante, and careful to say that he does think his department is doing as good a job as they can, but he's reasonable about the idea of Detroit citizens protecting themselves in the city.

This I don't get. I know so many smaller women who are physically at a disadvantage in bad situations, who loudly deride guns. As if a large man who intended to rob/assault them would even need one to do that.

Then move. seriously, no anger meant. If you like it that much, consider immigration.

I'm buying more guns recently, not because I'm afraid of the "da gubmint" or worried someone will burn down my house, but because I enjoy shooting, and each gun shoots differently.
Sometimes there isn't a serious reason for things.