The envelope is made of polyethylene, I wonder if it's chlorinated. in that case, dioxin. also, it's not particularly biodegradable, so you need complete combustion even if it were safe to burn

It's probably all that is publicly known at this time. But the urge to be first with a story leads to a tendency to fill in the details later.

There's no good reason to do that, you can run old linux on an SBC and get it in a teensy package.

I had netbsd on a IIci with a cache card. Oh, the novelty! Then I binned it. Because it was just uselessly slow. Hilarity: My first Sun machine was a 3/260, which had a slower CPU and graphics than the IIci. Had more RAM though (24MB instead of 8)

IIRC the hottest 68k in a DIP package was the '020

If you do any notable amount of DTP, you should be investing in a big pivot display, anyway. I got mine used, it's 1920x1200 and it's pretty to look at all day. But I seldom pivot it, because I usually work with facing pages, and widescreen is awesome for that. But I could :p

I don't know about you, but every time I want to do something big and complicated it involves sidebars and/or apps side-by-side. Also, my 16:10 25.5" IPS has a pivot, you insensitive clod! I don't use it.

No, you won't — at least not from the FDA or USDA. That's because the "food pyramid" was designed on a specious basis, the idea that eating fat makes you fat. But humans have known for centuries that eating carbs make you fat. And on the basis of one NIH study which showed that taking drugs to reduce your cholesterol levels also reduced your risk of heart disease, we were told that eating cholesterol raised cholesterol levels though there was no evidence for that, and that eating carbs was the way forward though there was no evidence for that.

So no, your central point is nonsense. Scientists actually knew that the ideas put forth were bullshit. Now, doctors didn't know. That's because they're not half as clever as people think they are, but they like to sound clever, so they simply repeated what the government told them.

Well enough for what purpose?

The reality is that the people pushing those recommendations knew they were bullshit 30 years ago. How can you say they were a failure? They accomplished their given goal of pushing money towards Big Pharma and the processed foods industry at the expense of the health of the American public. We don't need a smoking gun to understand that there could have been no benevolent goal because the science did not support the recommendations. Since we live under capitalism, we simply follow the money. Who got rich, and at whose expense?

Yes, and meanwhile the milk that goes on the cereal still carries a note about how the FDA has stated that milk from cows given rBGH is just as good as the real thing and you can't tell the difference, even though it's been shown in court since that it isn't and that you can tell the difference, for fear of a lawsuit from Monsanto. It's crony capitalism all the way down.

No, no it is not. It is completely relevant where those calories come from. Eating 2500 kcal of carbohydrates and eating 2500 kcal of fats and proteins will have dramatically different effects on the body, especially as pertains to weight loss.

The caloric rating of food is based on setting it on fire and measuring the heat produced. Why would anyone believe that this has anything to do with what it will do inside of your body?

...that the patent system is fubar.

You might want to find out whether you can tilt them by 90.

I always thought it's odd that monitors are wider than they are tall. Isn't it far more convenient to use them, well, like we used to use paper?

Because Drupal has security flaws, too.

Not everyone wants to write their own CMS and deal with the security issues. Wordpress probably is the absolutely worst choice, though.

The problem is that the US can ignore the law when it wants to. Although we're not seeing the average US citizen whisked off to gitmo, the general lack of respect for rights means that you cannot count on yours being protected.

What can I say, I'm a product of my time and upbringing.