I don't know, but I'm still loving their 12-core Opterons.

Yeah but I bet the good people of Kentucky would be too chicken to try that.

While we're at it, solder rhymes with "older" not "fodder".

Also "fanny" doesn't mean what Americans think it means...

Yes, but still...

It's outrageous! I'm outraged! Let's all get outraged at this!

I like your sig :)

However I would like to point out that Lucas is not the most guilty of graphics overkill. A lot of visuals in the Star Wars prequels for example were actually practical sets and models. Sure a lot of CG was used, but nowhere as much as, say, Sky Captain or Avatar.

Lucas gets the reputation for this possibly because he started out before CG was practical so we can compare the relatively CG-free original SW trilogy (before they were altered) to the CG-heavy prequels, with all their sloppy writing and atrocious acting.

To me the act of Lucasing something might be to create something, release a "new-and-improved" version, then deny that the original ever existed whilst pretending that your "original" vision was this new one.

Alternatively to "pull a Lucas" could be to unwittingly stumble into a high level of success then pretend you planned the whole thing.

Anyway, that's probably more than you really cared about. Sorry.

That would make it a RAED array.

Wait, so you're saying we should treat China as a charity case? Really? Perhaps you're not aware of China's government and their ridiculously massive military budget. Do you really want to keep feeding that beast? How long until they stop trading with other countries for raw materials (minerals and food alike) and just march in and take them?

You do realise that no matter what country you invest in there's always dozens of others that miss out - the opportunity cost. Do you worry about the impoverished people in India, Tunisia, Bangladesh, Peru or heaven forbid Mexico? Why favour just one country? China has their own economy - let them sort it out, even if it takes a revolution. The current model is just not sustainable.

You've written a lot but I'm not sure you've really thought this through - once all manufacturing jobs are outsourced to China what do you think is going to happen to your economy? Where is Mr Social Safety Net going to find his next job once his town's plant closes down? The jobs simply are not, and will not be there.

Stop buying Chinese made. Now.

Does your dad do his sprinkling at night?

Not trolling, but I often see these things running on hot summer days and wonder how much of the water actually makes it into the ground.

Is that still a thing?

I agree with most of that you said, however I don't see how a dam, once the lake behind it is filled, reduces the flow of a waterway.