Can you think of any good targets?

Saudi Arabia - Sheiks, bankers. After all, they're the one pulling the strings of their 'jihadist' puppets.

Whatever happened to the great days of shareware?

The people making 'shareware' realized they had rent to pay and kids to feed.

Why do we keep putting people who have a history of being enemies of the scientific community to the scientific subcommittees in Congress?

"We" don't, the Republican Party does. They don't like pesky science - It keeps contradicting the bible.

Money in the hands of people who know what the hell they are doing and how to truly give help to those who need it (think Medecins Sans Frontieres) goes a lot further than some volunteer stumbling around.

But back when I had no money I did volunteer a lot at the local Boys and Girls' Club.

I have read this three times and I still have no idea what you are talking about.

Option 1: Spend your space $100K on this piece of grey plastic.

Option 2: Spend your spare $100K on food for your local food bank to help families in your community that are feeding their kids Cheerios for dinner. Or worse, sending them to school hungry because this month they had to put a new muffler on the car that they drive 20 miles to work.

I assure you that makes a "damn lot of difference."

I've walked through some of Saddam's old palaces, and the amount of money he probably wasted on that stuff while the rest of the country rotted is just staggering.

Yeah, but unlike Saddam I'd like to think we're not a bunch of assholes who would put an old video game ahead of the well-being of kids.

Time to put my flame suit on.

Done.

You want to know why they hate us? *THIS* is why they hate us. $100K for an effing OLD VIDEO GAME?

You know how many schools you could build in Kenya for $100K? How many goats you could buy for needy families? How many girls you could send to school in Afghanistan? How many life-saving vaccinations you could dispense? How many malaria nets? How many wells you could dig?

Hey bidders, if you seriously have this kind of coin go spend it on something that will honestly make a difference in the life of a kid.

Wow... Where to begin?

In addition to the ones already listed -

- Car backfiring

- Car engine dieseling

- Vinyl record 'stuck in the groove'

- Motor drive on a 35 mm SLR

If they have the resources to attack someone, it should be the cash-rich Saudis who fund these terror cells. If you want to hurt jihadists, cut off their money.

you should be measuring it in United States Coolness Units.

I live in Canada, you insensitive clod!

Also, in many cases, the HOA bylaws are not made available to you until closing.

That is bananas. Here in British Columbia you don't have HOAs, but when you buy a condo or townhouse you fall under the condo board's bylaws. It's perfectly reasonable to ask for them during the due diligence process (and in some cases they're publicly online for all to read, e.g. http://www.freesiavancouver.co... ).

You may be asked to cover the cost of photocopying them, but that's it.

Head to my nearest airport and observe what?

Did you RTFA?

Except, it has the potential to be many times faster

"Faster" was important when people couldn't afford to be out of contact with the office for 10 hours.

Technology is rapidly making that notion a thing of the past. If you can sit in comfort in first class on an airliner, and be online like you're in the office then it doesn't really matter if it takes you longer to get there.

Yeah, maybe that day will come... But as of today, my kids simply don't have the patience / attention span to 'help' as I replace the brushes in the lawn mower.

It's also a cultural shift - When I was a kid, I remember my dad being down in the basement for hours fixing stuff, working on the car or what have you, while my mum took care of us kids. Now that I'm a dad, I'm out at the park with my kids, or taking them to swimming lessons or just doing general Dad stuff. So while I have the aptitude for fixing stuff (likely inherited from my dad), I don't have the time - I'm busy parenting. It's just not acceptable for a Dad to be down in the basement or the garage for hours on end while the mum upstairs is going insane.