Middle click automatically opens up in a new tab? All this time I've been right clicking and using the menu to do so...thanks!

I don't doubt that Mark Steyn said that, but what he said is false. In April 2010, Moody's lowered Greece's rating from A2 to A3, which is definitely not the same as Aaa. It is closer to "junk" rating than a triple-A rating. It is also worth noting that less than two months later, in June, Moody's cut the rating all the way to junk status, Ba1.

It's ok, Texas can have them. They can take Lieberman while they're at it, too.

Sincerely,
A Connecticut Resident

I didn't double check your math, and you're obviously intentionally exaggerating the speed of a jump, but someone who could jump at 18m/s would have a vertical leap of about 16m or 50 feet on Earth.

They haven't changed them here in CT or in nearby NY yet. There are, however gaps in the numbers sometimes...not sure if it's because the exits were removed, planned but never made, or someone didn't know how to count. For example, the first exit on I-95 in CT is exit 2.

Not to even a casual Simpsons fan...or at least it shouldn't be!

Yes, there is a limited supply of iron on Earth. There is also a limited supply of atoms on Earth, because the Earth is not infinite. However, iron is the most abundant element on Earth (source), although a good portion of that is in the Earth's core. The value of iron compared to the cost of mining it outside of our gravity well doesn't really add up, though. If mining iron outside of Earth ever becomes a profitable proposition then we're likely in dire straits already...

It's not that spammy companies are willing to pay more. It's that the cost of putting up a few ads is measured in dollars while a 30 second spot on a major network is likely measured in the tens if not thousands of dollars (or millions during the Super Bowl). Additionally, the major companies don't need to *pay* for advertising because they have their free facebook pages (i.e. advertisements) that people willingly go to.

You have noticed that nearly every commercial on TV now includes a url for the company's facebook page instead of (or rarely in addition to) the company's own website -- the reason for this is that if you go and visit their facebook page, maybe you'll "like" something on it or comment or something like that which will then cause your network to then see activity on that company's facebook page.

Funny you should mention that, because I'm pretty sure the Cranberry Lambac is the worst beer I've ever had the pleasure of imbibing. It's always in the winter packs, and after the first time drinking one, it's now left in the fridge until the summer when it finally gets thrown out. The best way I could describe the taste of it is "cranberry vomit". I guess everyone has their own preferences though.

Not a fan of fruity beers either, although pumpkin beers in the fall are a nice break from normal. Not sure if that would count as a fruity beer or not.

I call shenanigans! Unless you have very windows-user-friendly SSH software, CTRL+V is not going to help you out too much when trying to paste.

Yes and no. I would imagine that if you could define "exceptional people" empirically and then correlate "high achiever" to them and the schools they attend, you would still get a disproportionate number of people from the "elite" schools such as Harvard and Princeton (as a Harvard grad, I balk at the inclusion of Yale on principle).

These days, especially with a weak job market, who you know is just as important (or in many cases, more important) than who you are -- at least for getting your foot in the door. As people at these "elite" schools are already in a disproportionate number of high-level jobs, you are more likely to have a contact that will get you in the door.

I've seen this first hand. I had a friend that went to a state school for college -- he was very much my equal or superior (and his resume reflected that), yet because my resume had "Harvard" on it and his didn't, there were a few cases where I got called for an interview but he did not.

But at least if you type in your password into a comment, it replaces it with asterisks when anyone else views the comment. For example, my password is ***********. When I post this, it will appear as aterisks to you, but to me I can still see the password in the comment.

You are confusing FaceMash, which did do this, with "TheFacebook" (later just "Facebook"), which did not. The two, aside from both being created by Zuckerberg and both including the word "Face" in the name, are not related. Everything that was on the site when facebook launched was provided by the actual students.

While the term "habitable" doesn't necessarily have a scientific definition in this case, I'm pretty sure the use of the word "habitable" when talking about exoplanets is to refer to the possibility that life could exist as-is on the planet -- not that humans could go and terraform the planet to live on it. A "habitable" planet is one that could potentially harbor extra-terrestrial life (as we know it). You could argue that pretty much any planet could be considered "habitable" by your definition, as it is likely we would eventually acquire technology that would let us settle in nearly any environment.

+1 internets to you, sir.