It's actually the Border Patrol and not the military. We don't have a militrized border on either side but especially on the Canadian border. These are not military Predators.

Most states have an uninsurable option already in place. They require insurance companies operating in the state to pay a certain percentage of the premiums the receive and place it in this pool. This goes to the uninsurable who can then receive this insurance for the average premium rate in the state. Obamacare is so not needed.

Ice Cream Sandwich has added a peopl hub integrating social networking like WP7. It has a new "Roboto" theme that resembles metro. It now does app switching similar to WP7. It also has added a lock screen to camera feature like WP7 has.

iOS5 has added the split keyboard like WP7. It has also added twitter integration like WP7 (though in a terrible way). iMessage has copied features from WP7. Auto-uploading of pictures was added much like WP7 already has. Made the volume button a hardware camera button along with a lock screen shortcut to camera which are both features that WP7 had from the beginning.

It's really not that big of a deal. Everyone takes what is working from each other and incorporates it in their own way. The point is that there are enough features that are really good in WP7 that Android and Apple feel the need to copy. It definitely shows it to be a contender.

No you're not.

Also, I forgot to mention. Backups are automatically done to windowsphone.com. I've used it several times and it works great.

I also own a WP7 running Mango. It's far easier to use than Android and is probably on par with iPhone, though more innovative than a screen of icons. The app store hasn't been a problem yet for me. You'll find all of the 90% apps (as in the ones that 90% of the people use). Where you can have some trouble are apps made for a specific companies services such as bank apps, though I use the mobile site instead. The wifi does switch off when the phone is locked but only when it's not plugged in. This is purely to save battery. You can turn the 3G off in the settings so that it never uses it, though being a smart phone, you have to have some data service or else the phone company won't hook you up. Getting pics is done through Zune which is fine, but not as straight forward as a mounted hard drive. There is a trick you can do to mount it as a hard drive, but I haven't tried it but supposedly once it's done, it's easy after that. I really like my phone (Samsung Focus). In fact, the only reason my wife (who is very non-technical) went from a feature phone to a smart phone was because she saw how easy mine was to use. Android intimidated her. I'm sure she would have been fine with an iPhone as well, I just hate the ecosystem that's thrust on you.

You can always try the Guru plug Display. At $199, it's not a bad price.

The globe is warming on average. This point is virtually undisputed, and is verified by temperature readings all over the globe and by satellite IR readings.

In science there is always things to dispute

Put the same password on both accounts. Alternatively, my wife and I use the gmail imap access and Live Mail syncs both accounts at the same time.

Except that because the TSA is part of the governement, they could care less if the airlines get more or fewer passengers. The free market doesn't work in this case, only bad press and lobying.

We have a lot of writings from George Washington where he states his abhorrence to slavery but he also lived in a tough economic situation. It was impossible in the south as a farmer to survive without slaves. He was competing with others that were using free labor. There was also a shortage of laborers for hire because there just wasn't a market for it.

He felt so strongly about it that he never bought nor sold any of his slaves and freed them upon his and Martha's deaths. He often faced serious debt because of his part in the revolution and because his land just wasn't that good for farming. Also through his slaves having children, he was supporting a lot more people than his plantation justified. He could have paid off debts and reduced his expenses by selling some of his slaves but he refused on moral grounds.

It's easy to judge with our 21st century lenses, but they lived in a different times and circumstances. Regardless, it doesn't ever negate the incredible good he did for not only America but the whole world.

I loved Space Taxi!

Sounds like a dictatorship.

Maybe it's because very few people in this country actually know what consequences are. Myself included.... I blame it on the WW2 generation

That totally made me laugh. It almost made Dr. Pepper come out my nose!

That is a fantastic story. My family has had great experiences with hospitals using EMRs in the past. Particularly, the St. Vincent Hospital system in Portland, OR was fantastic. My wife had to have some MRIs and CT Scans and then talk to specialists. As soon as she registered at the first doctor she saw in the system, she never had to re-register at any of the other doctor's offices. They always had all of her medical information that any of the other facilities in the system had including the MRI and CT Scans. It was a dream from the patient's standpoint.

Other medical systems have had horrible EMRs. We've always tried to get copies of all medical records for the family wherever we've lived and it's appalling how many have no capability to give it to you in an electronic form so we have a file folder 12 inches deep filled with paper copies which are almost as useless as not having any at all because they're in a format that's extremely hard to find information and to look back over time to identify trends.

The one good thing the government does is establish standards. They've been doing it at least as long as when they established a standard size for railroad tracks in the 19th century. If the government can establish a standard for all doctors/medical facilities to interchange information in an electronic form, it would make gathering and storing information for a patient extremely easy and it transferring information to new doctors and facilities extremely easy. The biggest problem with the current EMRs is the lack of standardized interfaces. If the government can facilitate that, we'd be light-years ahead in being able to manage our own health care.