I used my phone book just the day before yesterday. Probably the first time I've needed it in 3-4 years. I had to look up the number for Verizon tech support because my DSL connection died.

I actually sat there for 5 minutes trying to figure out how I was going to look up the number without Internet access before I remembered the phone book.

You're just as likely to see that if the Republicans get a majority. The public reason would be the same. So would the private reason - just oriented toward the other pole of the political magnet.

And just for the record, ain't NOBODY gonna swap my cheeks! Either set! I've grown very attached to them over the years. Of course, if someone wanted to do a cheek swab - as in "run a swab over the inside of my cheek to collect cells for DNA testing" - that would be different. That would only require either sufficient moral or logical grounds for me to agree to participate or a Court Order to compel me to participate. No surgery needed.

Speaking as a (moderate, Republican) conservative who is married to a (moderate, Democrat) liberal I question your premise. It might apply to the radicals of both stripes but the radicals are a minority. An irritatingly overexposed, embarrassingly vocal and obnoxiously militant minority but still a minority.

I'd love to see a nationwide, scientifically/statistically accurate survey looking at where people actually are on the Radical Conservative---Moderate Conservative---Undecided---Moderate Liberal---Radical Liberal line. It'd be very interesting to compare those results to the "unbiased news reporting" we get from the various news outlets. If you listen to them it sounds like 99.9% of the people in this country are either radical Conservatives or radical Liberals. My personal belief is that the bell curve distribution would apply but we're only hearing about the extremes because of the "If it bleeds, it leads" policies that the various reporting agencies use either to espouse their own beliefs or kowtow to/curry favor from their advertisers.

Just my $.02 worth.

OK, just to get it said and out of the way...

Wow, check out the headlights on that girl over there!!!

If they're high enough intensity and properly installed (forward pointing) and you'll never need that Flashlight app on your phone ever again.

...a bare metal hypervisor that will let me toggle between concurrent Windows and Linux VMs AND also give me SLI and Twinview support so I can take full advantage of my dual GTX-260s and dual monitors.

Just remember one thing...

"I wear the cheese. It does not wear me."

Unfortunately, no. I believe it was in an issue of Analog but I could be wrong about that. It was probably well over 10 years ago.

Sorry.

I'm reminded of a (then) Science Fiction story I read several years back. IIRC, a man was accused of assassinating a public figure. He was seen doing it by several million people on TV. The only problem was that he was completely innocent. His image as edited INTO the video in real time - the flip side of this process. His image was pasted onto the image of the actual killer so everyone watching on TV saw him raise the rifle, pull the trigger and run away.

Consider that this technology runs on a tablet PC. Think about how much computing power can be had for just a few thousand dollars these days (multiple I7 servers, etc). Think about all the other video editing technologies that are old hat these days - wire frame, graphic overlays, scrimmage line markers on televised football games, logo blur, etc. Consider every conspiracy theory video you've ever heard about.

Scared yet?

Version 10.10 gets released on 10/10/10. That's 5 10s. 5X10=50. I turn 50 on that day. So it's all about me.

...for why Windows has more market share than Linux. ""Evil" acts in particular give a person a large boost in physical strength. "

...that the final shuttle flight touched down on Sally Ride's birthday?

I just tuck mine in my sock.