When was being a professor not a service industry job?

Perhaps I'm letting my stereotyping get the better of me, but why on earth would we let a Republican from Texas be the Chair of the Science Committee? That particular combination seems intuitively like the worst possible combination for that positionn.

I'm sure you meant 7 nautical miles, but I totally read it as 7 nanometers.

Bone loss in space? Not a problem! They're already osteoporotic!

1. DRM becomes increasingly difficult to circumvent. 2. It becomes easier to make a similar game than break the DRM and distribute cracked software. 3. Amateur programmers start making independent, DRM free games for fun instead of cracking corporate software. 4. Free games for all! Probably a pipe dream, but...

Carefully consider the definitions of "patriotism", "bigotry", and "race". It seems you may not understand them as fully as you believe.

The problem is less that the modern use is unintelligible, and more that by using it, the original purpose of the phrase is not being associated with it any longer. The effect of allowing the phrase to degrade into ever broader meanings is the same as allowing a workman's tools to rust out in the rain, it deprives user's of the craft a necessary tool. Users of formal logic suffer from this misuse, not Joe the Plumber. Also, this "Saying that common English words lose their everyday meaning when used in that particular order begs the question: why would they? Telling someone they're wrong because of your theory that these words have magically lost their ordinary meaning begs the question." pains me deeply. You knew what you were doing there, and that's just plain mean.