The same can apply to meters, and say 1 meter 8 decimeters, and find a notation to represent it like feet.

But... Doesn't that notation defeat the express purpose of SI? I was taught that the beauty of it was being able to use decimals. You know, base ten and all...

Hey Anonymous coward. How many of PF Chang's, Target's, Jimmy John's, and Home Depot's POS machines were running Linux?

And the Feds going after Apple will find a bit more resistance than some poor shlub running an auto body shop trying to eke out a living.

Joel was way funnier than Mike.

Plus there are no payphones anywhere anymore. When I was a kid, I always had change so I could call from a payphone. When the school district built the new fancy schmancy high school, they didn't install one single payphone. Band kids and players getting back from away football games late on Friday had to use their cell phones or borrow one from a friend to get picked up.

Half of my machines at home are Linux based. When my daughter went through high school a couple years ago, the "compatibility" of Open Office with Powerpoint sucked. We tried. Valiantly. We had to use MS Office to get her Powerpoints to look right. And they did a LOT of Powerpoint.

You obviously don'y have kids in school. My school district is sending down all kinds of these ridiculous edicts for purchases. We are having to buy all kinds of shit to be collected by the teachers and provided to the classroom at their discretion. On my kids' 8th grade school supply list this year, besides the TI calculator:

A home computer
A Printer
Computer paper
Internet Access
Microsoft Office

I didn't miss your point. My daughter is out of state and the ONLY way she communicates in a timely fashion is by Facebook. She doesn't even have a celllphone and only calls infrequently. Therefore if I want to communicate with her, I have to use Facebook. I detest it as much as you do, but Tinfoil makes it less retchworthy. My love for my daughter is stronger than my hate for Facebook. Between Tinfoil and emails notifying me she has sent me a message, I find it acceptable. Tinfoil only runs WHEN I want it to run and does not use my location nor does it "send or receive" text messages without the owners consent.

I use the Tinfoil app for Android. It's for the paranoid inside everyone. I seriously doubt they will ever preload anything.

Vulcans? Don't they use copper?

I have all my private files in a Boxcryptor folder on Dropbox. It is compatible with EncFS on Linux and there is a compatible client on Android. Sure, it might break file deduplication and search on Dropbox, but isn't that the point. The price was right too: free.

Yeah, I guess the USSR failure had nothing to do with being bankrupted in a futile arms race and proxy wars with the US. Or the failure of a central economy to meet the needs of the population. Or the fact that a reformer General Secretary came in an made modernization changes with glasnost and perestroika. It was all those denials of "human values," whatever that means...

The most strident defenders of the sanctity of children's innocence seem to have the notion that children maintain blissful ignorance of their own sexuality up until they cross that magical 18 year mark and they suddenly become hypersexual. Just as children are mortified to realize that their parents are engaging in the dirty deed, parents are likewise horrified to think their precious little bundle is exploring themself, often with their peers. Yet when that peer age differential increases to only a few years, it becomes a horrendous crime that requires registration for life. And rational folk who point this out are accused of moral relativism and coddling pedophiles. The older I get the more I realize that most people are not rational and survive solely on emotion.

I think the KEY factor here in declaring the validity of any study cited is "independently repeatable" which is very difficult with the subject matter being discussed.

What about ignore my hypocrisy when I am lecturing you on tolerance?