Audible has definitely made my commute a lot more productive, and a lot less boring. Been making a real dent in my to-read stack courtesy of my 45-minute commute.

What can I say? Al's a funny-looking guy.

I don't know. This _is_ the CIA we're talking about.

Depends on the language. Knowing French helped me a great deal while I was learning English. Knowing French, English, and Russian didn't help me one whit while learning Japanese, except maybe with gairaigo. Knowing Japanese, though, would make for a pretty decent beachhead into Chinese, if I ever decided to take that leap, or at least the dialects that still use the traditional character sets.

Not as mind numbing as your misspelling of "your".

The failure was between the seat and the brake pedal.

The real solution is getting the government out of the business of granting monopoly privileges over math.

SSDs are clearly the storage technology of the future, no doubt about that. My 80GB X25-M is the best $300 I spent on on my computer.

Right now, though, while they are still an order of magnitude more expensive per terabyte than traditional enterprise drives, addressing vibration sounds like an ingenious and cost-effective way for companies to squeeze out more performance out of available technology.

Funny, insightful, _and_ informative. Mod this man up!

Considering that deflation has been one of the biggest threats to our economy ever since Lehman went belly-up, inflating our way out of debt looks like a win-win to me. The trick is getting them to stop at a healthy inflation rate of 2% per year once things stabilize.

The question is, do these invertebrates provide more value to the human species than the pipeline would? If they do not, it makes no sense for humans to protect them.

By making them pay a fair market rate for their gas, and with actual money instead of IOUs at that?

There is no one will in Anonymous, no more than there is a will in a beehive or in an anthill. There is simply a vast number of individuals, independently responding to stimuli based upon a common set of simple rules. These responses, however, do end up producing emergent behavior complex enough to be comparable to that of a unified will.

They do say that information wants to be free...

That performance has, however, already occurred. My decision to pay or not pay and my decision to experience the performance or not experience the performance have no impact on that particular performance or the ability of others to experience it. As such, no matter what I decide, I am not depriving anyone of anything they possessed or utilizing any kind of limited resource, and thus I cannot be said to have stolen anything from anyone.

When I approach a book, a game, or a music album, I acquire it in whichever manner is most convenient for me. If its quality is sufficient to make me interested in experiencing that creator's next performance, I make sure to pay for it if I haven't already, because I view it as a vote in favor of that type of content and a call for an encore from the performer.