Think of it like Sputnik. It beams the anthem over and over to anyone who knows what frequency to listen on.

I saw that movie when I was a kid as well. My dad took me (obviously) and I always remember those roaches. I wasn't scared of them, I thought they were cool.

Now of course I know they were Madagascar Hissing cockroaches.

you better have a shoe ready and be putting some arm behind your swing, TOUGH bastards.

So like the ones in Damnation Alley

Based on how poor the weather reports along the East Coast have been for the last few months, the satellite must have gone down much earlier.

Case in point, the weather for New York on 5/20, after looking at several different sources the day before, all said the same thing: low 70s with partly cloudy skies. The result: cloud blocked skies and light rain.

If you can't get the report right 12 hours before something happens, why should we listen to you for something a few days down the road?

I don't want the U.S. to invest in loan guarantees for fly by night operations that have absolutely no chance of success.

So like Goldman Sachs, AIG, Wells Fargo, Bank of America et al?

I have been saying for a long time if these are our "best and brightest" can we give our worst and dullest a chance to see if things get any better?

Considering how poor SAP software is, this might produce a better product in the long run.

I have been saying for a long time if these are our "best and brightest" can we give our worst and dullest a chance to see if things get any better?

Considering how poor SAP software is, this might produce a better product in the long run.

Are you stupid? The person gave a perfectly reasonable explanation to why they are doing this by barge than by land.

You just have to realize the person answering is an engineer.

Is that like "Clinton Derangement Syndrome" because I know and have read of many people who still rant about how horrible that guy was despite having a growing economy, almost bringing some modicum of peace to the Palestinian/Israeli issue, being able form and enunciate coherent sentences and aside from getting a blowjob by a near heifer, didn't invade other countries just for the lulz.

The original vampires in Anne Rice's books, the ones who created all other vampires, had alabaster skin but were more like marble statues. They were a king and queen who were possessed by a demon. Akasha later killed her husband and got the full power.

When Lestat found her and drank her blood, he gained some of the power. That is why when he tried to kill himself by lying naked in the Gobi Desert, waiting for the sun to rise, he didn't die. All he got was a tan.

Yeah, I read the books back in the day. Despite her flip-flopping back and forth on the religion bandwagon, her portrayal of vampires and how they came to be was/is interesting.

This article talks about how in England there has been a huge increase in the number of measles cases since Wakefield published his claptrap about vaccines causing autism and other nonsense.

For those not bothering to read the article, this is part which you need to know:

This year, the U.K. has had more than 1,200 cases of measles, after a record number of nearly 2,000 cases last year. The country once recorded only several dozen cases every year. It now ranks second in Europe, behind only Romania.

it would be foolish to say that human activity has no consequence, though what matters is how much.

That has always been my opinion as well. We know the destructive capabilities we have on the environment (Love Canal, Bhopal, Agent Orange) as well as the general effects we have (heat islands around cities, depletion of water aquifers, increased desertification due to forest removal, etc), the question is, how much of what we do is causing the effects we see now? Is everything our fault, is this part of a natural cycle, or some combination thereof?

What's funny is we routinely see news articles where farmers are talked to and almost without exception they all say climate change is real and if you don't believe it, ask a farmer. Considering the conservative nature of most farmers, one would highly doubt they would be saying such things if they didn't believe it.

So do the decent thing America and get a socialized healthcare system

Fuck that. I shouldn't have to pay the medical expenses for smokers, alcoholics or drug users.

You want to ruin your body, do it on your own dime. I shouldn't be penalized for your actions.

When America can afford to look to the stars, they should. Until then, they are wasting their time (and precious taxpayer money).

If that isn't the finest example of short-sighted thinking, I don't know what is. What you're suggesting is we wait until the last possible second to explore what might be out there just because NASA's budget represents a fraction of a percent of the overall national budget.

If you're that concerned about Federal spending, we can cut the military by 50%, stop all subsidies to business (sugar productoin, ethanol production, farm subsidies in general, scientific advances, production incentives, etc), not to mention all the entitlements people complain someone else is receiving but not the ones they're receiving.

If you want to go that way, I'll back you, but you can't then complain when things fall apart because the private sector has come to rely on government largess.

Why should one have to disable these things? Why are they not turned off by default? Isn't that the mantra of the FOSS community, "Let me decide!"?

Or are we giving the Mozilla group a pass despite their continuing plunge into bloat and unnecessary cruft because they're Mozilla?