Oh my, that brings back memories... thank you. Or maybe damn you. I'm not sure.

I suspect that Apple is not legally allowed to own record companies, as part of the settlement with Apple Records.

Scientists should always, always use metric.

Real scientist here... astronomer, actually. And while we often use metric, and we never ever use Imperial units, we do often use units that are the natural scale. Mass is usually in solar masses; length can be in Astronomical Units (=the radius of the Earth's orbit around the sun), parsecs, or solar radii; power is in solar luminosities. And there's a good reason - knowing that a mass-to-light ratio is 2 M_sun / L_sun tells you a lot more than knowing that it is 10000 kg / Watt.

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I get direct transmission into the aural receptors of my brain, you insensitive clod!

What are these texts of which you speak? ;-)

(seriously, I really don't understand the point. Why text instead of send an email, which doesn't have a character limit???)

Yes it is. It's not that modern medicine doesn't make mistakes, it's that it learns from them. If a treatment is demonstrated repeatedly to do no better than a placebo, or even worse to do harm, it stops being used. Homeopathy says that if it doesn't work for you, you're doing it wrong.

Oh yeah, those logic gates with the ping pong balls were awesome! Probably my first taste of programming!

Can they put some of that money into ensuring that the stations broadcast with a usable amount of power? Most of the stations seem to put out enough power for decent reception only in their immediate vicinity - places that are far enough away that the analog signal is only slightly fuzzy (but still entirely watchable) get nothing thanks to the all-or-nothing nature of digital.

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