the several months old Sony Blu-Ray player I have plays them just fine. Sorry, don't feel like pulling it out to check the model.

So two wrongs make one right. Got it.

So you're like the others here, and prefer James Earl Jones...

Very interesting theory. As someone who only occasionally hears a computer generated voice each week, I definitely prefer it to be female. And I prefer her to be tenor/alto, not soprano.

"none of them are inherently wrong"

Is that true, in an absolute way?

Some '68 Beetles had IRS, and all '69 Beetles had it.

My '64 and '67 were extra fun when one of the rear wheels left the ground. More dangerous than swing axles on Bugs were the Lilliputian brake drums.

Confirmed. Just upgraded the work computer here: Firefox 3.6 to 4.0. On a Pentium dual 2140. Went from 4 fps to 33 fps.

Probably wont get much work done today...

Try this: find a kid in high school and ask her what's easier to buy: booze or weed.

If weed is so easy to purchase today, it doesn't follow that legalization will create a significant increase is usage.

Get away from the bias of wanting to believe that legalization will significantly or dramatically increase drug use and abuse, and you're left with the realization that the current form of government addressing the ill of drug abuse is far worse than the abuse itself.

Tribal Identifier render your opinion on Dennis Miller worthless. Really.

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is the dollar per degree of temperature effectiveness given the state of green tech? Really, how many trillions do we have to spend to affect each .1 degree K?

Shouldn't be too hard to calculate, given that this is science we are talking about, right?

I'll pass on the strong dose of ideologue fueled hyperbole. Besides, I only buy dogma from people over 30.

Alcohol-related collisions involving fatalities.

Speeding isn't an accident. If we're drawing lines and defining reasonableness, then let's start with fatalities. No need for exaggeration just yet.

When alcohol related driving deaths represents 40% of all driving fatalities (in the US, in 2006), then it seems we're right up against the defining line of what is reasonable and what is not. Does increasing that percentage to, say, 99% then pass the test of what is/is not reasonable?

That's advocating the devil's position: Personally, I'd rather take the route where being convicted of a DUI ends permanently one's legal ability to drive. One strike you're out.

and remote: there exists a real possibility that both his internet and cell phone service don't work during the same period he needs to call an ambulance. Some people value preparedness over trendiness.

If somebody with a size challenged funny bone can make money writing comedy, then you should make a killing.

Mark Twain received many death threats, probably at couple of those from professional comedy writers.