the most useful talent I've developed is the ability to go to sleep fast and to wake up fast and alert

Your not fooling anyone, we can all hear snoring coming from your cubicle.

How's Moveon.org for Left and a petition for concerted?

http://petitions.moveon.org/si...

Or attempts from the administration themselves to study.

http://www.texasinsider.org/go...

What about an actual Democrat representative making legislative efforts to bring it the fuck back?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D...

Bullshit claim countered.

This - all the way. I'm a Libertarian, I don't consider myself traditional left or right, but I do see just this. The right calls upon their people to boycott (and it rarely works, right wingers are notoriously bad about sticking to boycotts over time), the left legislates and bullies and freaking PAYS protesters to picket.

Or how the left keeps threatening/trying to bring back the "Fairness Doctrine" because they don't like the fact AM Radio is dominated by right wingers?

Here, hold my beer...

It would've been more impressive if you'd have kept the beer and said, two minutes later, "It didn't even spill!"

Correct me if I'm wrong, but wall-building happens pretty much the same way every time. There are building codes and whatnot. The builder has built the exact same wall many times before.

Sort of. If the wall is built in a cold weather climate, the mortar mix is different than that of a warmer climate. Some walls are built to hold a load from the top, others may be built to hold back a load from the side. In the latter case, you'd probably want to use rebar and concrete to fill the voids (assuming it's block and not bricks). The differences may be more subtle than code, but my point is not every wall is built the same way.

developer's B bug only existed because of developer's A bug? Who fixes B's?

This is what I was thinking - what if the builder's bricks were falling out because the mortar he used was bad?

They already took billions to get internet to rural areas and then didn't do it anyway.

That's not entirely true, I live in a state that is mostly rural, w/ a very unforgiving topography. There is at least one local telco that is working on providing wireless access in as many places as they can erect towers through grant money they received. They are offering better bandwidth for less than DSL which is what I currently have. There's no cable where I live; it's too cost prohibitive to string the poles.

I read about this yesterday on zdnet and Win7 has always been available from the major OEMs:

Under Microsoft's sales lifecycle, big OEMs like HP can continue to sell Windows 7 PCs until at least October 2014. Every major PC maker takes advantage of that opportunity, continuing to offer a selection of Windows 7 PCs today. In addition, business buyers can purchase a PC with a Windows 8 Pro license and exercise downgrade rights to run Windows 7 instead. That's a longstanding policy that Microsoft has allowed for more than a decade.

Nothing but marketing tactics from HP, move along, nothing to see here...

I have three Lava Lamps at home. I like them. I don't want to lose them.

Is there an alternate LED/Heater I can use to replace the bulbs?

I mean, who the hell would want a normal $30 one

I own both a Springfield Arms 1911 and a Romanian AK (it's a 74, not a 47, meaning it takes 5.45x39 ammo instead of 7.62x39 like the 47 does). I paid $900 for my 1911 (brand new in the box) and I saw them at the last gun show I attended for up to $1500. I paid $1000 for the AK, 5 magazines and 1000 rounds of ammo. It is set up just like it would be in theater, and has hardly been used (muzzle wear and throat erosion are very low). The AK's I saw at the last gun show ranged from $650 up to $2000. Where are you getting them for $30?

The original XBOX used an off the shelf Celeron processor that we easily run circles around today, and an nVidia chip that was somewhat custom, but not so far out there we can't work around it, not to mention a customized version of Windows as a front end.

Last time I checked only the original Halo worked on anything else with emulation. The original XBOX should be among the easiest things to emulate all things considered.

I don't put much stock in X86 = guaranteed emulation at all.

Wish I had mod points, well said.

lack of term limits

You don't need term limits when you can vote for the challenger.

However, this takes an educated electorate, so good luck with that I guess.

We should simply stop giving tax dollars to these companies enabling these huge differences due to inflation paired up with government contracts. Put actual supply and demand in place and the problem they're attempting to address goes away on its own.