Only up to 8,999 I've heard.

It's not healthy to care that much.

I think PAL came after NTSC ;)

I got a L702X last year and still love it, it flies. Still have the original 640GB HDD but extra drive bay demanded an SSD. Its got a bloody 3gb graphics card in there. Unlike many I'm not really bothered by the weight, I only take it places occasionally.

The general American perception of what constitutes 'left wing' is always vaguely amusing to me. "left" to you is probably "centre right" to most developed nations.

They've killed him off now. Doesn't do much for your genius theory.

Music to shareholders' ears... ;) I suspect this is the reason why the vast majority of corporations behave exactly as you'd expect from a psychopath.

Poisoning little girls. Yes Mujahideen are indeed brave souls though terrified of women getting taught anything. Deeply deeply pathetic creatures.

Creationists are not interested in listening, they are entirely ideologically motivated. They have no arguments of merit to make. Their arguments consist of logical fallacies and misconceptions. They're annoyed that science doesn't support the conclusions they were taught by their magical book, and will attack it through any underhanded, intellectually dishonest means available. Like passing bullshit laws such as this. They cynically target children because they know that when it comes to religion, it's all about the first thing to get to your ear.

I would agree that the New Testament is a lot more sane and 'nice' as it were - but it makes me wonder why they don't throw away the old book altogether. Keeping the Old Testament and picking the few nice bits to be found strikes me as slightly disingenuous. I've been to Mass a few times over the last few years for funerals, weddings and such - the 'liberal' feel is very striking nowadays, with priests saying things like it doesn't matter what religion or denomination you are etc. - this seems to me to come more from some kind of modern social zeitgeist than from any part of the bible. That's just the impression I get. I'm pretty sure there's nothing in the New Testament that says homosexuality is OK (at least if there is I haven't seen it).