inflation is a % per year; that makes it an exponential function

Except Adblock Plus in Chrome doesn't block YouTube ads which is insanely annoying.

This is why you go to a library or university or other public terminal, create a new hotmail | gmail | whatever address and send it from there.

Corrosion can either be designed for or water can be filtered or distilled, if it really comes down to a "we can't do nuclear because of a lack of fresh water" problem.

I'm not sure if you noticed, but our planet's surface is 70% water. Would it be more of a concern if we said "Also the huge amounts of dirt required to run a nuclear plant"? Fresh water may be an issue in the future, but who says you have to use fresh water? Most of the population of the planet lives pretty close to the ocean.

Dissolve the metal off the platters in concentrated sulphuric acid.

You could measure his capacitance...

We should shorten the copyright term to around 14 years...

http://arstechnica.com/old/content/2007/07/research-optimal-copyright-term-is-14-years.ars

Or.... make more good music? Wasn't that the purpose of copyright in the first place?

I've also switched to XFCE, and agree it's much cleaner; i can even use the few gnome applets that i really liked better than xfce's with the gnome-applet menu item; (gnome's clock and it's system monitor are both superior to any of XFCE's imho - especially the ability to have a unix-time clock). But it's just a little more light weight and feels 'cleaner'.

Who uses a window manager when you have the CLI! :)

Probably to shoot down any trees that try flying at his house...

This; when you've worked on an article over a month or so with a dozen people to make it better, and then random editors delete it for notability, it really turns you off from doing anything more...

Heck I'd go on that if it went to 300+ feet...

Well, the current definition of being spherical and clearing its local neighbourhood (and being in orbit of the star, not another planet), is a pretty good one I think anyway.