Yes: Don't rely solely on an electric fence to keep dangerous animals confined.:-)

Hello. I've patented that method of naming variables with the letter 'a'. You'll be hearing from my attorney.

I think they suck. For the hosts, they're expensive and messy. If you're a guest, you're stuck in a long drawn-out dinner where the only conversation is with your immediate neighbors.
Facebook wins.

Hey, I'm an old fart (in my 50s!), and I get together with friends all the time using Facebook and text-messaging. Before these were available, I didn't have any friends.:-)

But think of all the people from around the world who have been cooperating on various open-source projects. The thought of going to war over some perceived national slight seems even less attractive when you know that your 'enemies' are the same sort of computer geeks as you.

#12: Thou shalt not use goto's in they code.

Exactly! But it also makes what they're doing fairly reduntant: Anyone who wants to find a mate who's not too genetically similar simply needs to date outside their ethnic or 'racial' group. I see this all the time.

Obviously, you haven't seen my collection of MP3's from Emusic or my Monkey Island2 savegame files!

Maybe they should have had male dancers offer lap-dances to the women.:-)

I went to a dance festival a few months ago where they offered a 'lap-dancing for men' workshop, and women were invited to be the recipients. I attended this, expecting that there would be lots of men but few women willing to be our 'partners'. Turned out I was wrong, and there were more women than guys. Even though we weren't generally a group of hot men (... I'm a middle-aged software engineer), I was suprised to find that such a large number of women wanted lap-dances!

And BTW, lap-dancing is hard work! My legs were sore for 2 days afterwards.

There might be some truth to the publishers' worries. I'm currently reading one of Dickens books, and, well, it's a bit long and doesn't move very fast. So I'm taking months to read it. And during this time, I'm not buying anything else.

Yep. I was reading Dombey & Son, free from Guttenberg, on my netbook, but it just never felt right. So I ended up buying a used paper copy at the bookstore for around $4. There are lots of recent books available for under $10, and a book takes a lot longer to get through than $10 worth of music.

Yea, especially for a guy. All the hot women will be going into the Apple store.

I'm going to dig up my old Hercules graphics card so I can drive one of those new green CRTs!

How about a modern version where you drive up I5 from California, buy a great house that you think is really cheap compared to back home, and then ruined when the real-estate crash happens.

I agree. But since I stopped watching television and rarely go to movies, I find this pereception has gone away for me. In the real world, you don't see that many of these model-thin women unless, perhaps, you're hanging around an area like Beverly Hills.