One for the Dark Lord on his dark throne
In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie.
One Xbox to rule them all, One Xbox to find them,
One Xbox to bring them all and in the darkness bind them
In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie.

Was going to post that in primary thread as it was first thought to come to mind about the name. Then I saw you preempted my LOTR, so I will post under you in deference to your Palantir Cloud of intrusiveness...

I would postulate that hellholes might have a lot of effective government when these tax evaders eventually get to them...

I did the same. However I found that new "editions" usually would just intentionally mess up the chapter and page numbers making it difficult to follow along.

Had nothing to do with content, and everything to do with primitive DRM.

I smell sequel!

Try buying a new phone and see how many other fees they have.

There are a ton, and even when they offer promotions to waive some, there are always others.

As part of the promotion to sign another 3 year contract as an existing customer, they waived the "administration fee".

However when you go to get your actual phone, you have to now go to a brink and mortar Bell Store, who will charge you an "upgrade fee", which apparently is something totally different than an administration fee.

If I didn't absolutely need a phone, and with complete certitude know that Rogers is just as bad, I would drop them like a bad habit.

Unfortunately we have little choice up here in Canuckistan.

What is something Spock would say for 100$ Trebek.

How exactly is the time calculated? Does anyone know? I mean I have heard of several methods, from carbon dating to a few others, however this one is a bit exotic. It is not explained in either the article nor the paper, but only references another paper as which title seems to say potential method, which doesn't sound awfully conclusive.

They mention the encapsulating rock formations are billions of years old, and I can get behind that analysis, but it is my understanding that you can find billion year old rock in a lot of places. How does one date water? How do you know that it has been trapped all that time, and not captured at some point through various geological processes.

The paper references the African goldmine, but they used microbes, which I have to believe they haven't found yet. Something to do with levels of Xenon seems to be indicator, but what does that mean?

Anyway I remain skeptical until I see the details... however the only problem admittedly is the details might be beyond my level of comprehension... Still it would be nice to know and at least attempt to explain how this is possible.

Well technically someone had to write the malware...

Unless of course we have malware writing more malware... at which point we know the end is neigh...

Personal mail not so much, maybe 10-20 a year (which is still annoying as I have lived at my house for like 8 years now, but I am getting mail for two different people who haven't lived there in 10+ years)...

However I also through work send out a big mailing process to thousands of clients. It clearly states where to return the forms in the letter, which no one reads (which varies depending on where you live, which is why I can't just use that as the return address). A ton of clients simply return it to the return address on the envelope, which of course is totally incorrect. I have tried asking our vendor to remove any return address, but apparently Canada Post won't deliver it then. Sigh, so I am subject to dealing with hundreds of returned letters personally, sorting them, and re-sending them to regional offices, because no one can take the time to read 2 sentences, even though I send them the stupid thing every year.

Pushing to go electronic, and can't wait, but it is more complicated than it sounds (or at least it is where I work).

A few years ago, we got a "new" data center. I was all excited to move our old and busted applications at least off of old an busted hardware!

However what we got was a new building.

Rather than getting new servers, what we actually got was a few days of downtime while they unplugged and loaded it all on a truck and drove our busted hardware to the new building! Progress!

When I was told, I had one of those laughs... Although all I could think of was what would happen if the semi truck carrying all our stuff crashed... sure it is all backed up, but man we would have been screwed.

The 16,666 times increase is to deter other filthy criminals... Seems reasonable.

One of the big reasons I dropped my iPhone in favor of a Galaxy S3 was iTunes.

1) It is slow, terribly slow.
2) It is a resource hog, how is it so bloated when Apple are supposedly these geniuses?
3) It has an update every 4h, and then tries to install and update every piece of software Apple makes...
4) It is broken in so many ways it is not funny, and has been for years, you can easily google the issues.
5) Apple will intentionally NOT address a bug or issue if it means it might make more money for them at the cost of user experience. Try fixing hundreds of broken links...
6) When a user community finally gets fed up and creates their own java solution to fix the errors Apple refuses to, Apple will release an update to intentional disable the fix.
7) In short, Apple would rather make a buck than improve your user experience, and are a bunch of asshats. iTunes is garbage, and you should stop using it.

It is already 0.05 here.

All it does is make a mockery of the law.

First of all, a police officer isn't going to test everyone. They are going to test A) those that show driving impairment (or smell like booze I suppose), and B) those that pass by those occasional checkpoints.

Two things are going to be the result, neither of them positive to the whole idea of DUI enforcement.

First more people are going to be breaking the law, and not being caught. This will cause people to not take it seriously. People will be over 0.05 all the time, while showing no impairment, and not being tested. Which will then start giving people the idea, who cares about the law. It's like driving 120kph on the 401 in Ontario, it is against the law, but no one pays any attention to it anymore, including the police.

Second, for those that do get caught, by passing though some sort of random check point crack down (even then you would have to look impaired), people will be incredulous about it "What do you mean I blew over, I only had two drinks! Do you really think I am impaired?" label it bullshit and write it off as simply a ludicrous law further eroding its legitimacy.

You are also going to have more people challenging the accuracy of the measurement devices, which there have been a lot of proven problems in the past.

MacBook Pro came up 2nd on the Google search.

While Major Basic Protein came up first, the later makes more sense given the context...

This has happened countless times over history, this is far from unique. There is little evidence to think it will stop, unless it is more valuable as ruins.

Hadrian's Wall is a perfect example. "Hey free building stone sweet!" In this case it was used for roads, rather than dwellings. Old castles are subject to this as well. Heck the Vatican has destroyed a huge part of history, recycling ruins, particularly for valuable easily accessible marble, bronze, and just about anything from roman ruins. I am sure they felt that not only can they get great materials on the cheap, but also the destruction of heathen, pagan, temples is just a bonus!

Ironically I think there should be a special place in hell for those that intentionally destroy historical artifacts that that.