Radio, on the other hand, even if you hear a piece of music that you like, the chance of actually being told the name of the artist is close to zero.

Many car radios at least will display artist/title information on FM, if the station provides it. If they don't (or if yours doesn't do that), you can fire up SoundHound or something similar and see what it says.

Data migration and expanding RAID containers is a major PITA. I absolutely loath the task!

That's why you don't use RAID. Instead, use something more flexible. I've been running Greyhole for a while now. Adding storage doesn't require shifting files around (unless you want to rebalance storage), you can use drives of different sizes, and you can control the level of redundancy you use (more for important files, less for stuff that's easily replaced). You can yank a disk out of a Greyhole installation and read all of the files off of it with standard file-copy tools.

Important stuff that doesn't take too much space (documents, Git repos, etc.) is backed up daily to Tarsnap. Less-important stuff (movies, music) and larger files (photos) get dumped to BD-R and are stored in binders in my desk at work; images are prepared with dvdisaster for added error recovery capability and are burned to single-layer BD-R HTL media.

My parents moved from Phoenix to Dayton a few years ago...they had gotten tired of triple-digit temperatures for 7-8 months of the year and, as they put it, wanted four seasons. As for me, I'm still in Las Vegas, 26 years after we moved here.

As for sounds you don't hear much anymore, try this: multi-engine prop planes with piston engines. The sound of a B-17 (or anything similar) taxiing or flying overhead is different from any airplane you're more likely to run across. There's no turboprop whine, and four radial engines sound nothing at all like the 4- or 6-cylinder boxers you'll find in smaller aircraft. (For a sample, pop in your copy of Airplane!, where they dubbed this kind of sound over 707 flight footage as a joke.) At this point, about the only time you're likely to come across it now is at the larger airshows where they can afford to bring in an old bomber or cargo hauler (they're more expensive to keep flying than fighters).

What difference does it really make that guns, specifically, were used or not? It is less of a crime if they were all stabbed and cut to death (and/or beheaded) with knives, machetes or swords, or doused with gasoline and set afire, or grenades were thrown through the doorway, or a car bomb was set off, or a hundred other ways you can kill someone?

Yeah, I just saw those yesterday after posting. However, I also read some Nexus 7 owners who said L was worse than K, so now I'm thinking I'll just sit tight. Maybe even backrev a bit.

I was hoping against hope that might speed it up, because even 4.4.4 sorta sucks on my mine, especially Chrome.

I have a first gen 2012 Nexus 7 tablet, and they haven't released lollipop for it yet that I can tell I check daily. Chrome on 4.4.4, at least on my Nexus, is worse than a horrible joke. It's beyond slow and buggy, so I stopped using it, Dolphin is 400% faster.

I'd attribute a good portion of that delay to the disarray and infighting the christian world was in after the fall of the Roman Empire. There was a lot of ebb and flow in the hostilities and peaceful times between the two religions, there was no unbroken 500 year long period of calm between them. Eventually Europe got it's own act together enough to have the wherewithal to do what was seen by the crusaders as a way to recapture lost glory.
It'll always be controversial, even professional historians are disagreed on motive, but there are likely more than one.

The trolls are taking over. I read it can even be a source of income now, from certain countries. Oh yay. Now, jokes, OTOH.. a little levity never hurts.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B... A bacteriophage /bæktr.i.ofed/ (informally, phage /fed/) is a virus that infects and replicates within a bacterium.

Not all bacteria are bad. The point is, it's a virus as I said, it's destructive, it replicates, and goes well with the whole 'phobe 'phile suffix thing.
Also, http://en.memory-alpha.org/wik...

Your turn to enlighten me further.

Again with the "brown skinned people" trope. Maybe that's all you care about, yes? Goes both ways.
There's a difference between Verden and south America: The conquistadors primary aim was secular, to claim territory and riches for Spain, and to forge a better trade root to China and India; the religious component was there, and I admit I'd not thought of that, it certainly adds to the tally; but their evangelical motives, while strong, were secondary; they'd have slashed their way through South America even if it were already Christian (but technologically inferior), same as they tried warring against the English in vying for land and gold.
I stand by my statement: the attack on Verden massacred 4,500 pagan saxons directly for their refusal to convert to Christianity. That was an attack committed expressly in the name of Christianity, much like Islamic extremists are doing today.

Besides, slavery /= death. The post I replied to claimed the Catholic church was responsible for more deaths than all other religions combined. Granted, death was prevalent among the american natives due to diseases which the Europeans already had immunity to and probably didn't think much about. I doubt there was anything they could have done about it anyway, as they had no knowledge of microbes and viruses in the 15th century. . I've seen no evidence it was deliberate religiously based biological warfare, though I'm sure they figured it was a sign from God that He was on their side.

Nope, not a typo. Islamic extremists ARE a virus, and they intend to spread their virus to all uninfected hosts, AKA "infidels".

Noted.

Unfortunately, you're right about American journalists/cartoonists. It's politically incorrect to allow free speech where Islam is concerned, that must be deemed, "hate speech"; of course, any and every other religion or group is fair game every day.

AKA Dearbornistan.
My worry is, though the moderate majority may indeed intend no harm nor foul to non-muslims, if the time comes when their hand is forced to pick a side when things get more heated, I'm betting more than half will fall on the side of their islamic brethren.

I'm also sick of hearing people, including Obama, state that IS is "not Islamic". I've never heard a more prime example of the "No True Scotsman" logical fallacy.