I'm in Michigan and well over a decade ago a push was put in for a high speed rail between Chicago and Detroit. The local city had small streets with rail crossings closed, nice fencing was put along the rails in the city. It was part of the push to be one of the possible stops along the way. Still no fast trains. I mean sure who would want to go to detroit.. maybe leaving it fast makes sense. But plenty of reasons to go to Chicago. Still way slower than driving. Also very pricey.

The south shore line goes from Chicago and ends at the South Bend airport with a few stops along the way. That is also a very slow ride, is packed, and is no more than a slow people mover. The last time I rode it was for a nephew to get a boy scout thing for riding a train. That will be the last time I ride it since driving would have been cheaper, and faster.

Don't porn movies have to list actors on file? Where's the interactive map for this?

As a kid toilet cleaner and aluminum foil in a bottle was an instant hit after a certain MacGyver episode.

The brief article doesn't say if a warrant was issues. Did the police just bully the mom into opening up the door and letting them search?

At first glance your argument appears valid. But even high population areas suck in comparison to other countries. If it was just rural areas and small cities that had bad Internet I would agree with you. However take any of the major metro US markets and compare to any similar major metro markets in other top countries and you'll see the US is vastly underserved by our telco / cable duopoly.

My local congress critter was sitting house chair of the House subcommittee on telecommunications. His entire plan for increased internet presence was given to him by major telcos - roll back the '96 deregulation act that forced competition and they promise they'll make things faster. Telcos were some of his largest campaign donors. That got rolled back, the promises didn't materialize, and the congressman went on to the more powerful Energy subcommittee. Ahh politics!

It's now up to 300 billion in accounting. Of course it'd take some politicians with real convictions to hold them accountable so we know that won't ever happen.

Deadwood was a great history lesson.

I'd also like a citation. I won't dispute that MS does some neat things but I've seen a lot of Pro-MS postings tossing buzzwords around lately. At least this posting was on a relevant story.

Story made me think of this old manifesto http://www.mithral.com/~beberg/manifesto.html

I won that game. Fall down hole, find a part, levitate out. I kept playing hoping it was worth it. Sadly.. it wasn't. It shows that even aliens have crappy jobs to do.

John Archibald Wheeler was also a supporter of a participatory universe - as noted in the wiki page. Quantum physics needs an observer so the universe evolves to have an observer present to make it happen. So next time you look through a powerful telescope at something no one has seen before, remember, Thou art God

Time to switch to Planetside 2.

They'll make better ads. I've seen a few sites that detect ad blocking and won't show links if you have it on. I doubt this will catch on with mainstream sites but the workarounds are out there.

I read TFA and see that the person charged made the mistake to friend someone he didn't know was a copyright holder. So yes he was the exit node, he was stabbed in the back by a "friend". I don't necessarily agree with the finding but if you use retroshare and only friend people that are oh.. friends.. then you should be fine.

Oddly enough my nephew saw one of those Genesis plug in handheld games that has 80+ old school games and he wants it for xmas. He has gameboys, a 7 inch android, a wii, and a PC with steam, and he wants something with a blast to the past appeal. Makes me want to dig out the old pong system with the score slider on the case and wrap that up.

For the ManPro - Manufacturing Processes - class at GMI (Before it became Kettering) we did green sand casting. Had to pour the molten aluminum in and were warned entering the room if you so much as sneeze, spit, sweat, etc in the vicinity of the aluminum you will get hurt, badly. That was a fun class!