I accidentally opened a metro app and had to google how to close it. There is no excuse for that. But other than that I've been fine with just ignoring the metro part and treating it like a win 7 machine.

I think the main difference is it wasn't a drug company involved, it was technically a pharmacy that botched it. So it's traveling down an entirely different path.

You can say the same about leaches. Over the course of a life time the few cc of blood won't make a difference. It might just as easily be good for you if you happen to have certain medical conditions.

You can protect yourself easily with antibiotics, so why worry.

Finally, it could make someone else sick, and you'd be in a great position to pick up stuff cheap at the estate sale.

I'm confused. How can it the government be selling off massive stockpiles and driving the price down and there be a shortage at the same time. Surely they can't both be true.

On the other hand the insurance companies would benefit if we all went 20 MPH everywhere and never had a major accident. Actually getting to a destination in a reasonable amount of time is of no benefit to them. So maybe they aren't the most objective.

Not really much point, they are already capable of going faster than humanly possible to race. The rules seem to mostly be about slowing them down. Any changes or opening of the rules will just cost teams money on R&D that could be going into their pocket. I like NASCAR but it's all about the money and having everyone drive a 1965 Chevy pickup with generic sheet metal makes everyone the most money.

I like to watch Australian racing as well. They do actually have stock cars like NASCAR had in the 60's. I think I would prefer the Australian way to the US way if I had a choice.

The ironic thing is that even with the fuel injection NASCAR cars still have more in common with a mid 60's Chevrolet pickup than a modern stock car.

I've always liked the idea. It's very similar to battery power. A lot of the negatives are the same, but you gain some things. Quick recharge, and you'd probably get free air conditioning.

I think the real problem is there's no upside potential. It's all mechanical, so there's not really much chance of a big improvement like there is with batteries. They can keep tweaking the motors and compressors but realistically there's not much to gain. With electricity storage, who knows what the limit is?

Yes, I'm moving so I wanted to sell my 1000+ sci fi books. Couldn't even get any inquires about titles or anything from craigslist, I thought at least someone would want to come in and cherry pick a few. I bought a scanner and scanned in my favorites, the rest went to the thrift store for the tax deduction.

I don't think the problem was a software bug at all, or that they deployed without enough testing. Another article mentioned they deployed their test system with the production software. I think this was probably a packaging issue. Or even a network issue, where they plugged their test system in to the live network accidentally. It's entirely possible the problem is too much software testing.

I wish I had taken a statistics course and some accounting courses instead of all the calculus that I've never once used. I suspect most programming jobs are like that.

Don't forget the Kudzu disaster in the South. Around here there's a smaller nuisance of wild rose bushes the conservation department had everyone planting at one time. It will take over pastures and nothing will eat it. There's probably a list of things like this somewhere, and it's probably huge. But it's different this time, they know what they're doing now.

In the world I live in we have these things called poor people. They drive 10 year old beaters in need of a tune up that get lousy mileage. They live in crappy neigborhoods where there are no jobs and so drive their junkers way more miles than they should. They spend a much higher percentage of their income on gasoline than you do. If the price of gas doubled there would be a _lot_ of really angry people. Not to mention what it would do to the price of food and everything else.

Except that our capacity problem is during the afternoons, not at night. Changing to CFL's will likely do little to solve the capacity problem.

I also am seeing my name brand CFL's burn out as quick or quicker than my incandescents. It's gotten so bad I've started writing the dates on them so I can keep track of exactly how early they went.

If you actually use your machine there's not near enough room to start everything from the taskbar. It's annoying to have to jump through hoops to get quicklaunch back. I have 35 icons in quicklaunch right now.


I don't mind windows 8 too much. I don't run any metro apps and so the only real difference I notice with 8 is the start menu is full screen and I have to hit the windows key to get there. They do need some better management tools for it. I somehow ended up with 30 extra tiles and the only way I could figure out how to get rid of them was to do them 1 at a time.


There is a real problem though if you do accidentally open a metro app. There's no obvious way to close it. I had to google it to find out how. That is completely unintuitive.