it will be like in the 1950 where the commercial will be in the show

Do you watch "The Amazing Race?" Ads for Ford, Travelocity etc. are right in the show.

/. should just come clean and rename "Overrated" to "I disagree"

But they already have 'troll' and 'flamebait' for 'I disagree.'

Good luck supporting it like HP, Dell or Cisco does.

This.

A number of years ago I was involved in supporting some hardware in a ski resort a few hours outside of Denver. One snowy night a piece of gear failed and the service contract said 'replace it in three hours.' Sure enough, 2.5 hours later headlights appeared on the snowy road as the tech showed up with the replacement part, which he installed.

What a lot of anti-tax folks don't realize (or choose to ignore) is the fact that a tax regime that creates a civil society (educated, healthy populous, rule of law) in turn creates an environment that allows companies like Facebook to flourish. It's much harder to create wealth in an environment where your employees are illiterate, hungry and sick and corruption is rampant. Sure, you can drill oil wells or mine for gold, but you can't really create companies with IP in those environments. I guarantee you the next Apple or Google is not coming in Nigeria. Why do you think India is working so hard to create institutional change?

I remember the day when you could build a Heathkit H89 PC

I remember when I was in Grade 7 I had a buddy with an older brother who had built one of these. We used to play with it all the time. I still remember the blinking cursor preceded by the words "Benton Harbor Basic."

Since when does socialism have to be all-or-nothing?

Because it's a term to describe something specific. You're a human. You're not a banana. It's all-or-nothing. Same deal with socialism - It's a term to describe a nation-state operation where the state ("the people") own the means of production.

Europe has tons of socialism. The US has too much of it as well.

Europe, the USA, my country (Canada) have social programs, all to varying degrees. There's no such thing as "tons of socialism." You're either socialist (Cuba) or you're not. If you don't have mass state-owned enterprise you're not socialist.

All socialism fails

Correct, however you need to head to the library and do some reading on what socialism actually is (unless the library is too 'socialist' for you).

Europe, Canada etc. are not socialist nations. Do they have social programs for their citizens? Yes. However, socialism is defined as state ownership of enterprises. A good example of a socialst nation is Cuba - The state owns all means of production. Cuba is failing, which is why they are moving away from socialism.

My toddler LOVES Oliver Jeffers:

http://www.oliverjeffers.com/picture-books/lost-and-found

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KPTigw_CNZk

I suppose they're not technically comics, but with the artwork you can almost consider his books graphic novels. Start with "Lost and Found" linked above.

Lost and Found is also available as a short animated film:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaOqMuOTsOc

I still wonder how it is that they are profitable. Nobody pays anything for the service, other than with their privacy.

Same way television was profitable for many years for the likes of CBS, NBC & ABC. Nobody paid anything to watch TV either and the broadcasters had tremendous infrastructure expenses.