Get a robocall--press *13 (for example ) to automatically report the previous incoming call as a do-not-call violator. Reports will dwarf web-based reporting even though awareness will be minimal.

Then have the NSA use their AT&T "listening rooms" to track down Rachel.

There's already a * code for reporting harassment. It costs money and requires separately filing a police report.

Yeah, that would be the "One Drop Rule". Something no doubt familiar and comfortable to Republicans.

The Left has their own extreme PC stupidity. My favorite is the documented Undocumented Immigrant.

Your right to not choose their service means just as much as your right to not buy products entirely or partly Made in China.

I still own an MP2K.1. It lost the ability to set the date sometime in 2010. It reverts back to the 1970's. If Apple wants to patent something, they should patent that.

The tablet gadget I use now is a Nokia N810. Best tablet Apple ever made.

SF's composting law caused businesses to compost edible food that they used to send to charities for people to eat. Yay good intentions!

Speaking of bears... ...a large culture decides that bear gall bladders will make them horny. Before ya know it, the last known bear dies at the hands of someone who bribed its zookeeper. Everybody wins (unless you were a bear).

Yeah, it cost your right nut and, even worse, still works as well as it did when new, but now it's just a valueless collection of plastic and toxic metals.

Almost half of WB's Ka beams are on Anik-F2. They should also be out unless "out of control" has a some very subtle nuances. Maybe CBC doesn't report on anything south of the border.

This summer ATT Long Distance decided to impose minimum charges. So, anyone NOT insane enough to pay $0.39/minute gets to pay $2 anyway. And it's not $2, it's $4.50 after the below the line fees they now add. I figure that $2 is their internal usury cost for collecting the fees, which makes sure that those fees remain pure profit. Blatant greed.

I wondered what an EMP will do to LEDs, particularly the ones in a flashlight.

You are not the only one.
Reminds me a but of the sentiment that cropped up in Western-genre stories where the old-timer sees the frontier close and feels a sense of loss that none of settlers understand.

It mystifies me that there were people who invented a programming language and thought it was a good idea that you turn over control of browser to these programs whenever and wherever it found them. Genius!

newegg decided that their product pages wiil now only display pices with javascript (I wonder how many realized that). How can I convince newegg to not do that? I can't--"be a good little consumer and run our javascript, we wouldn't hurt a fly". How can I run just the javascript to show the price? That's web2.0 heresy--run it all or get off the net. Like grandma says, a little bit of javascript is like a being a little bit pregnant. (hint: the price is in a javascript array of html snippets in a separate js file. Genius!)

Turning off javascript is not allowed.
<script>browser.turnJavascriptBackOn()</script>

As a monument to bureaucracy. It also "landed" closer to Houston than the others.

Several years ago some hucksters proposed capturing water from some rivers in northern California during the peak winter runoff and dragging it down to San Diego in a giant plastic bag. Since freshwater is already buoyant, er, floats in seawater, all they needed to do was keep the water from mixing with the ocean. The locals began to yell and scream immediately. I figured that the most likely outcome would be that the con men would vanish the instant their multi-acre bag of muddy water broke open and draped the coast with the mother of all grocery bags.

browser.display.use_document_colors defeats background-image in firefox. At least I think that's the correct one. Whatever it is, it's user accessible through the gui prefs interface. There may be some side-effects, like not being able to buy from amazon.com, but they're pretty insignificant.