I'm gonna say you're wrong on both counts there. Maker's Mark is shit compared to stuff like Glenfiddich, Yamazaki, or any of the good colors of Johnny Walker. On the other hand, There actually exists some good beers, brewed right here in America. Personally, I like just about everything that New Belgium makes, and most Dogfish Head stuff I've tried wasn't bad.

I hate those things. Unless you are a very concise note taker, there is never enough room for decent notes, and IMHO they make the slide itself way too small. Also, (and I know this is as much the presenter's fault as the format) I HATE when the slides are "made available" electronically by distributing .pdf's of them in that format.

Everyone is suitably impressed that you lost your hearing killing brown people. That doesn't change the fact that this is exactly the kind of thing you were supposed to be fighting against. Targeting US citzens? The only difference between this and what the commies were doing is that we've upgraded from secret police in the middle of the night to robots in the sky.

I have to say I agree with the OP. I got my Ph.D. in Animal Sciences from a University with a Vet School. Several of the courses I took were taught over in the Vet School and later I taught in a couple of classes attended by Vet Students. MS and Ph.D. students (ie scientists) are expected (and in turn expect) to learn concepts, apply critical thinking skills, and reason out problems from day one. Vet Students (the AnSci equivalent to Med Students) are expected to memorize facts for 2 to 2.5 years. There is no expectation of critical thinking, no reasoning out complex problems, no application of previously learned concepts to novel situations until year 3 in Vet School.

They are very highly trained, but the training they recieve is very different from the training I recieved. I very quickly started thinking of MD's and DVM's as biological mechanics by default. Nothing I've seen in my interactions with them has led me to believe that I am mistaken to think of the individuals that way until they proove otherwise on a case by case basis.

In the US, unless a game gets an Adult Only rating (which, aside from porn games, pretty much never happens anymore) it isn't "censored" by its rating...and as far as I know, there are no laws about selling M-rated games to minors...most stores just won't do it. Besides, with the advent of the Internet and things like Steam, not being able to buy a game because you are "underage" is mostly a thing of the past.

As far as the sex vs violence thing, feh...I would much rather my young child see a titty getting fondled rather than a head getting shot off (although, again, if they can prove to me they understand the difference between "entertainment" and "real life", I honestly don't care what they see.)

Mexico is bigger than Ciudad Juarez which is more like a franchise from hell. Mexico is big my friend, do not buy ALL the crap, just the crap that seems reasonable.

I imagine the first question on everyone's mind will be, "Why do we need a new web browser?" To which I imagine the truthful answer is: "We don't. At least not for technical reasons."

To take advantage of the forefront in "tabs at the top" technology, of course. I am personally very excited that science has progressed to the point where we can now have tabs above the address bar.

This was my favorite part of TFA. Guess what? I use Opera, so I can put my tabs above the adress bar right now!