I just want to get decent food for a decent price.

Subway it is then.

I'm curious about this. Have you tried varying genres?

Personally, I'm not a fast reader of books. I use them to stimulate my thinking and my mind wanders. The better the book -- non-fiction of course -- the slower I read it.

So you take the Costco stamps approach. You carry the ridiculously-large-cardboard-covered-in-fancy-printing thingy to the cashier...and they give you a tiny roll of stamps. Ridiculously-large-cardboard-covered-in-fancy-printing thingy then gets reused by Costco.

The user should have a choice. How about the first 5 times it boots up, it gives the user a choice? As well as a check box to "make this selection permanent"?

Well, alcohol is a solvent like water is a solvent.

Like dissolves like. Alcohol and water are polar molecules, so those looking for their polar solvent fix could substitute water for alcohol and pocket the savings.

Traditional "solvent", like say Turpentine or paint thinner is a non-polar molecule. Used to dissolve other non-polar molecules, like alkyd paint, or grease.

Hawking (or earlier).

(1) you didn't "fix that for me" -- you generalized it to "the world". If anything, that is an endorsement of my point.

(2) Since I didn't express my own worldview, I am not sure how my worldview could be left behind.

(3) Did I say anything was "getting worse"? If anything, things are the same as they have been for the past x thousand years.

I am leaving Slashdot as soon as subbing beta with www in the address bar doesn't work any more.

(4) if anyone seems to have an eroding worldview, it would appear to be you, Frank.

The "Using half the screen" feature is not good. And 3 levels of nesting is insufficient. Speaking of slashdot nesting, why don't nested comment systems allow users to set their own level of nesting?

Slashdot forums are now infested with social justice warriors and organized causes censoring and controlling vast swaths of content to make sure it maintains their particular view on the world.

1080 tall, you ninny.

/me ducks a blizzard of -=whooshes=-

He was a little bit sloppy with his EV/QV reference. Typing "Quantum Vacuum" into Wiki produces this page. In other words, QFT.

In what way should anybody be surprised that a wearable, wireless device has implemented security in a completely incompetent way?

Right. Since Fitbit wearers are the product, to a vast array of companies wanting personal information, it sounds like the Fitbit is designed exactly how they want it designed -- to increase the value of Fitbits in the ultimate marketplace.

A locksmith sells few keys to secure locks...

This seems like more of a big deal to me.

Then why is inflation the very first "unsolved problem" on this hefty Wikipedia page?

Mr. Siegel's wonderfully know-it-all blog post is based on inflation...i.e. the assumed explanation for an unsolved problem.