...from Zack Parsons. Nothing's really changed all that much.

I used to get called two or three times a day, every day, from... somebody. Every time I picked up the phone, they appeared to immediately hang up. I eventually got tired of this and reported them to the CRTC via email (I'm in Canada) because I'd no idea what else to do to make it stop. I got a reply from them in less than two hours. They said that the caller was a company in Ontario (I'm in BC) who claimed they were attempting to contact "a previous owner of the house" as part of some collections thing. I'd been living in my house for five years; the calls had only been going on for about a week. I suspect they fibbed to the CRTC. :)

Anyway, I never received a call from them ever again after that. Thanks, CRTC. :)

I started attempting to log in at about 12:04am. It only took me a few tries to get past the authentication server into the character creation screen. But the creation of my character consistently and repeatedly timed out. Eventually, it seemed to get stuck so I started over at the log-in screen. By this time, most of the people who had gone out to the stores and bought a physical copy had clearly arrived home and installed it, since it took me almost an hour of repeated attempts to get past the log-in screen the second time.

When I did get through, I saw that my character was indeed created. I clicked the Start Game button, went into the game and never had a single problem with it for the next three hours.

But, how many countless games in the past, particularly cartridge games, had only three or five "save slots"? I don't see the difference other than available storage, cartridges being light on that sort of thing. It seems reasonable to me for Blizzard to not want millions of people to fill up their server-side storage with eleventy-million characters, most of which will rarely, if ever get played.

Diablo II would exterminate your battle.net character if you didn't play it for a period of time (three months, I think?) Frankly, I'd rather have limited reliable storage than risk my characters' perma-death due to inactivity.

Having seven and then nine billion people guarantees we will be unable to stop the increase even if we all live in mud huts, eat vegetables and bury our poop.

So I can stop burying my poop, then?

I don't think changing the question whilst I am in the middle of attempting to solve it is the best way to keep me engaged with the test.

Hear, hear! If I could, I would get the hell rid of every channel that broadcasts any show with the words "Wars", "American", "Alien" or "Science" in the title. I also don't need access to every province's individual CBC feed. And I'd like to get HBO without having to shell out an extra $28/month because it comes with fourteen other channels I don't give a crap about.

...that they are constantly trying to convince us that watching movies and sports on a 4-inch display with horrible, tinny speakers, is somehow a desirable thing.

Never mind that a lot of batteries won't survive an entire movie or sports game unless they were fully charged in advance.

One might think, if Zimmerman was injured as claimed, despite being given medical attention prior to the video, that there would perhaps be *some* blood on his T-shirt and jacket, but in that video, there is not one drop of blood detectable on his clothing, as far as I can see.

It didn't use to be illegal. That law was a response to people melting them down because the copper was worth more than the penny. A more rational response would have been to just ditch the penny at that point. There are other good reasons to get rid of it.