LOL! Oh to have mod points for you...

I'm a big Apple fan, but WTF Apple? Not cool.

iOS 5.x can use iCloud for everything including backups and syncing. My mother-in-law has an iPad that was set up and deployed without a computer, the iPad being her first gadget.

I cherished the goatse links! I'd innocently click on a link and milliseconds later be staring at a gaping anal maw. Then, seriously, I would laugh and think "got me"

The fact that goatse, lemonparty, 2g1c, etc. are now whined about makes even more vigilant to troll against Political Correctness at every opportunity.

for those who don't Get It.

How soon until Slashdot goes NSFW

You don't browse at -1, do you?

I had a Sony Trinitron on an old gaming rig that I ran at 100 Hz (most it could manage). I used an Elsa Revelator setup, 3D shutter glasses and video card.

Each eye got 50 FPS and it was smooth as butter for most games (late 90s, early 2000s). For some purposes higher rates monitors are a good idea.

Not analytic thinking, just thinking should work

(and I know Winnipeg isn't in the US, but we're all of 120ish km away) What happens in the US for downsizing often starts in .ca

The IBM building across the road from the lab I work at here in Winnipeg just had a "For Lease" sign go up yesterday.

Actually I would hope health insurance companies in the US grow a pair and refuse to pay for hospital treatments for kids who are unvaccinated (by choice and not medical reasons).

Make the parents pay for their retarded behaviour.