A gun has legitimate and illegitimate purposes, but assault rifles are still banned. If the only reasonable purpose for a crack is piracy, "it's just a tool" isn't a valid defense.

The Albermarle County Circuit Court is not exactly a hotbed of left-wing activity. This judge isn't striking a righteous blow against Cuccinelli, he's doing his job.

Except for this edition which has both versions on the same disc.

This is supported by Ezekiel chapter 16:

Behold, this was the guilt of your sister Sodom: she and her daughters had pride, excess of food, and prosperous ease, but did not aid the poor and needy. They were haughty and did an abomination before me.

The men of Sodom were certainly sodomites, but that's not why their city burned.

If I had to start with assembly I would have left the programming field entirely after that first high school course. Fortunately, they started me on something more approachable (C++, although Python would have been even better) where you can have a working program within an hour of sitting down at the keyboard for the first time.

Yes, if you pulled everybody out of Iraq and Afghanistan tomorrow you could fund this health care bill. But that would cause far more people to die than health reform would save.

but college students are some of the most strongly connected people around. They are more likely to be friends with their neighbors (who all share their age and occupation), Facebook adoption rates in their social circle are very high, and they have a very strong overlap between work, living arrangements and social life.

This isn't generally worrisome for the rest of us, who aren't Facebook friends with everyone on our street or office building.

I remember EditPad's "Text encoding mismatch" error message, although it's a paragraph of obtuse text relating to something no normal user ever checks. Why? Because instead of saying "OK" at the bottom, the button said "Bummer."

I thought the most valuable part of motion capture data was the actor's face, as it's the most difficult to simulate in CG. This is a neat system, especially for the price, but it doesn't provide the best feature of the original.

A side-scroller probably wouldn't improve your peripheral vision at all, because your eyes are generally focused on the right side of the screen rather than the center. A first-person shooter or racing game, on the other hand, requires you to look at the center of the screen fairly often but also to be alert to quick developments on the edge of the screen. Of course, you'd have to be very close to the monitor to actually exercise the edge of your vision in this way.

Deep within Microsoft's help site, there is a process that lets you consolidate all your downloaded stuff, licenses, etc. onto a single Xbox so that anyone can use them. But you can only run this once a year. Do it wisely!