No, they should not add an off switch.

They should add an on switch. The default state shouldn't be "spend my money for me on something that mostly benefits you and not me."

No, it was lost due to bad ratings.

How is this a problem?

It's important to note that "an eye for an eye" was a prohibition of escalation. It was a prohibition of taking more than an eye for an eye's worth of injury.

There is a book described within 1984 that was something of an instruction manual, or a warning, nobody really was sure any more.

1984 actually does come pretty close to meeting the definition of the book described within it....

Germs? I always thought the purpose of hot wash was to increase its solubility for whatever you're trying to separate from the clothes, and also to ruin wool. More dangerously, I have heard this sterilization idea brought up regarding the dishwasher, as if it's an autoclave, I guess. (why don't we us kitchen autoclaves....)

Soda and vinegar? Are you trying to make a laundry volcano?

Comparatively low-res?

Since the 1080p panel size won the supply-chain wars, most computer monitors are just TVs without tuners. The resolution is the same. Or it should be. Does anyone know what the hell "overscan" is and why I need to turn it on to get my 1080p desktop stretch to fill my entire 1080p LCD television screen when connecting using HDMI? (also why it stretches a little too much?)

The period where you're claiming to benefit form savings time, you're actually under standard time....

There already is a feature for that, ANI, where the information is sent by the phone company rather than by the caller themselves over the "voice" portion of the call. It costs more than caller ID, and I'm not sure you can even get the phone company to offer it to you as an individual, but many business use this feature. Probably the spam callers themselves are using it to avoid receiving unwanted calls...

I try to make sure that the only clocks I have are connected to the internet other automatically adjusted sources - computer, cell phone, DVR, "atomic" radio clock, etc. If it's not connected to the internet or some other source for updating time zone data (because, not only do we need to change the time twice a year, we need to change when we do it, too, and differently depending on location), then I try to buy one that doesn't have a clock so I don't need to bother.

The only clock I still need to adjust that I don't just ignore is my car radio. Do new cars have internet-connected clock/radios?

Despite this great convenience of automatically adjusting clocks, DST is still stupid.

So, now they have to have special "summer" and "winter" hours, which they may or may not have needed to bother with without DST. Exactly what is the benefit of monkeying with everyone else's time?

Yeah, most people don't care. Or think they don't. They still have to waste time adjusting to it, though.

Only morning people actually like it, because they get to be extra smug for the following week while their co-workers, friends, and neighbors adjust.

Which is a good question to ask, completely separate from any global warming debate... Where can you go for statistics on how the normal weather percent-chance predictions match to the actual record?

Grape juice came with a warning that was also complete instructions for the thing it was warning against?

I'm not sure that that 20% is accurate. At least a few of them are really just wrapped in Wine, rather than actually made to run natively under Linux or OS X. This does, however, suggest some potential options that they could take when a vendor can't or won't offer a native version of their game:

• Some Games: Try to run the game under a vendor-supplied Wine wrapper
• Some Games, if vendor doesn't supply a wrapper: Try to run the game under a steam-supplied, somewhat optimized Wine wrapper
• All Games: Try to run game under a default/user optimized Wine instance