Some call it dust, but others, like myself, call it poo.

In addition, the CO2 levels that have been blowing up over the last century have significantly dipped since the global recession. If that doesn't show a strong tie, I don't know what will.

1-60 was revamped - the troll zone is new. 80-85 is new. 22 minutes to finish 9 levels on an exponential growth leveling scale is hardly surprising considering there are 85 levels.

I play maybe 3-5 hours every 3 or 4 days. Its enough for me. That 14.99 saves me from buying 49.99 video games every other week, "winning" and shelving them. Think of it as a financial investment. I have most fun PvPing in low level brackets - not end game content. I could care less about being king of the hill - like you said, I have a real life to be king of the hill in.

Facebook knows a lot about me: that I have no friends, no interests, and log in between the hours of 1 and 5AM from my mother's basement. I keep getting advertisements from Slashdot and World of Warcraft.

My lab loves beer to the point of it being annoying. You cannot leave a beer unattended around her - she'll wait patiently for the opportunity to knock one over with her nose so she can lick up the spill. Many of my friends have fallen victim to her alcoholic tendencies.

I have... many times actually. Every time I go through a metal detector or have my bag searched (nearly daily), the people are usually pretty friendly. It probably has something to do with me not having anything to hide, not being grumpy about it, and being friendly to the person. I found that their attitude correlates to your own... so if you want to be bullied, give them grief. If you want them to be friendly, be friendly to them. Same goes with any public facing employee: bank tellers, DMV employees, etc. The problem is the policy they have to enforce. They are human just like you and probably know the policy they have to enforce is backwards. No need to exasperate the situation by giving them crap for doing their job.

Not if the crime lasts under a minute.

The problem with this is that you are assuming prison inmates have good intentions. They might just be in it for a potential escape. You would probably have to disallow tampering with navigation and whatnot to prevent the prisoner from pounding on the controls or sabotage the rocket into a crash landing. I know its a bit unlikely, but if I was in prison facing certain death, heading off to a planet facing certain death, I would probably opt for an option C where I crash land somewhere in the Gulf and swim to a tropical paradise. Unlikely to survive or pull it off, but the odds are greater than surviving off sucking rocks and adapting to Martian atmosphere.

Good point. And here all I was seeing was political undertones...

Its not just the robots - its also the users. So we have these kids that are growing up being taught by robots. Just like how Generation Y embraced the internet and turned it into what it is today, let us wait and see what dreams and innovations these kids make by being exposed to them, making robots a normalcy.

Forget the parents - I'm thinking to myself, how long is it going to take ME to learn this to the point where it is competitively fast as chicken pecking a QWERTY.

Scope creep!

A hero is someone who throws themselves into mortal danger for the benefit of another. PERIOD. It doesn't say compensation is a dis-qualifier. I agree that not all cops, firemen, etc are heroes by default, but their profession does allow them to go above and beyond for another human being. A patrol cop handing out parking tickets is not a hero, but the fireman who saves a little girl from a burning building who would have otherwise died is. He put himself at risk and saved another. Sure, it might be his job, but it doesn't lessen the risk of him dying to save someone else.

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