Though not nearly as bad. I trialled a small business product designed to make managing your AV/Firewall across multiple computers easy via a central web interface. It was all great in concept, except the default configuration for the individual install blocked itself from communicating with the central service. And while managing everything on the web interface was slick, attempting to fix the configuration on the installs without the benefit of that centralized web interface was a huge pain in the ass. Needless to say, that trial didn't convert to a sale.

To sum up your post: entropy is a bitch.

But I was going down to the Toshi stations to pick up some power converters!!!

You clearly haven't played any non-lemmings titles by Psygnosis

This is a load of crap. If a book is good I'll read it for hours on end on my iPad without getting distracted. And before I bought my iPad finding good books and acquiring them was a chore so I hardly read more then 1-2 books a year. Now books are as convenient as plopping down in front of the tube, so I read 30+ year. When I finish one it's easy find another excellent book I haven't already read and be reading it in minutes.

Publishers/authors that have been slow to release their content through kindle/ibooks aren't getting any of my money, but those who aren't trying to fight the future are getting plenty of it.

Not just ridiculous amounts of energy, but ridiculous amounts of negative energy. Which as far as I know only exists in theory.

Heroin use does exactly that, diminishes other sorts of pleasure.

I've gotten in the habit of using google as a spell checker. It didn't correct my search for virii, so I went with it. After searching again and reading the first link that comes up: I agree, I sound like an idiot.

Newsflash: SOMEONE is already doing it on a scale so massive that human beings can't even come close to competing with. That someone is called The Universe, or more specifically in this case the Planet Earth.

Flu virii are replicating and recombining on their own. They do it all day every day in billions of organisms around the planet. By doing a tiny tiny tiny version of the same thing in a controlled manner in a lab, we can learn a whole lot about that natural process that will provide wonderful insights to help combat the really bad stuff that the evolution of these virii WILL produce at some point.

In all likelihood all of the combinations that these scientists come up with already exist somewhere.

This is why you subsidize research, not production.