"practically anyone who encrypts pages of a web sites to protect users' privacy"
but conspicuously not the U.S. Govt.

Don't you mean, a whuffie bat?

Well, they had to do something to keep people from stealing those products.

With an assault rifle, he can get all the hi-def TVs he wants.

Amen to that. I don't print color frequently, maybe 1-2 color pages per month. By the 3rd or 4th month, one color (C,M or Y) of the cartridge would be dried and cleaning wouldn't help, so new color ink cartridge and a trip to Walmart before I could print what I needed. My cost per color page on inkjet: approaching $5. Color laser is a little less in photo quality, but passable. I paid about $180 for the color laserjet over a year ago and am still on the 1/2 full starter toner cartridges.

Same here. I',m not an anti-Apple-fanboy but I won't be writing Phone apps because I don't want to be forced to buy a *Mac to do so. My Nexus One sync'ed with my existing Google accounts with no problems, the apps I have downloaded work as expected. I do have an iPod Touch and the only thing I miss is the pinch on the web browser, but I'll probably download Dolphin tomorrow and see if that fills that small void. But you are 100% correct. People are quick to complain about any problem they have. Pitifully few are as quick to submit praise when things go smoothly. Granted, it isn't unrealistic to expect most bugs to have been worked out, but still...

Oh, man. So that is what they sell on kids.woot!. I thought it was just toys.

Didn't Arthur C. Clark or someone theorize that at some point in any space-faring civilization, they would lose (at least temporarily) the ability to return to space due to the density of debris orbiting their planet?

One supercolony makes it sound like they have organization (of the ant-ish variety) that spans the globe. This is just a bunch of small colonies whose scents are so similar that members of the other colonies are unable to discern that they are, in fact, not from their own colony.

I couldn't have been the masked robber of that liquor store. Right here on CopTube is a video of me littering 10 miles away at that moment!

GODWINS'S RULE. You lose.

A huge plume of CO2 located off the eastern coast of Florida.

When I play Half-Life2, in the places where you can set undead with head crabs on fire, I definitely try to do that. But then I do feel wrong when they stagger around on fire, moaning.

Get your facts right. Because there wasn't a 0, the new epoch actually began at 1234567891

You mean werewolves:
one at Heathrow International Airport, near London,
and mummies:
and one in the United Arab Emirates