This might explain why grown men are more and more behaving like frightened old women these days.

The way I see it, the only possible problem is that the network claims that the show is based on real life. Otherwise, pretty much everything on TV is a made up story, including everything on "reality" shows, some of the stuff on the news, and perhaps even the occasional sporting event.

Or there may have been a tradition of this type of art dating back to a time before human populations migrated to different parts of the globe. We just haven't found anything older yet.

For me, the most fascinating thing about this story are the similarities between the Indonesian paintings and the European paintings, and that they are about the same age. It would seem that this style of artwork would be much older, and from a time before humans had migrated to those opposite corners of the world.

Exactly. My Subaru has a CVT transmission that I suspect gets its best efficiency higher than 55mph.

Well it was interesting until they started talking about everything being more efficient at 55 mph. At that point, I was ready to give the author a boot party. Do not EVEN start that sh*t again.

We've gone from "too big to fail," to "too big to complain about."

At first I thought, "How do they get away with this?" Then I realized, it's probably in the EULA somewhere that everyone clicks on and nobody actually reads.

At first I thought, "No way! My hands-free function on my car is great, and far less distracting." Then I remember the frustrations I had when I first started using it. This is an example of the type of "conversation" I would have:

Car: "Voice command please."
Me:"Call Marty Klugman"
Car: "Calling Mary Kliegleman. Say yes or no."
Me:"No"
Car: "Voice command please"
Me:"Call Mar-ty Klug-man!"
Car: "Calling Harry Chelphon. Say yes or no"
Me:"NO!" ...etc, etc, etc
The next thing I know I'm arguing; YELLING at my Car!

Yeah, that was distracting, and dangerous. I'm glad there was no other traffic around.

I would just like to remind everyone that Gartner was the same group that repeatedly warned us what a global disaster Y2K would be.

I see things are progressing nicely on Airstrip One.

It's true. Good genes lead to academic performance. For example: if you have genes that make you a great football player, you will have no trouble getting good grades.

I've seen the same thing, but as a couple of responders said, the emails are not actually coming from my account, but are coming from somewhere else. You're probably changing your passwords unnecessarily.

"...We're focused on providing the most secure experience possible for our users worldwide and are continuously working to protect our users' data."

Marketspeak. I guess communications majors are taught to always do this. The problem is, we've heard crap like this so much, we've become inured to it. Nowadays, the minute I see a sentence like this, I assume everything else the spokesperson has said is a complete fabrication.

I don't know about "healthier". You will probably find people who would want to debate that point. But it is certainly cheaper to go without meat. I'm Orthodox, and we regularly fast from meat about 180 days out of the year. I've gotten to the point where I abstain from meat about 330 days a year. I only have meat about two or three times per month. Buying mostly fruits and vegetables and cooking them up yourself at home is considerably cheaper than eating meat at every meal. It costs a fraction compared to eating out.

It probably would help if we stopped promoting vegetarianism vs carnivorism as an all-or-nothing lifestyle. It's like training for a marathon: you don't start out by running the full 26 miles the first day. Start small. Abstain from meat one day or two days per week, then gradually increase the ratio of non-meats to meats.

Will it make you healthier? Maybe yes and maybe no. I know this much: I have a lot more disposable income.