I'm sorry, what? If I shoot you in the face I have broken a law, even if no one knows.The fact that I'm arrested just means everyone knows I've broken the law against shooting people in the face.

Then enlighten us about your preferred consumption method of modern history.

For intelligent people with good reading comprehension wikipedia works for cementing knowledge that is not debatable, and much is bland facts (eva braun and hitler killed themselves where and when, who was the last Plantagenet King, and various lists).

New editions in cutting edge fields make sense, but in such things "basic" botany or biology , not much has changed in the last long while. Some professors understand this and let you buy older editions, sometimes they tell you that you could fail the class without the newest edition.

Well for many textbooks the cost difference can be 95% between 1-2 editions, I'd recommend buying the half.com copy for $10, and compare it to the new one, sometimes every sentence and page#s match. First time you save $100+ dollars.

His morals may be fucked but his tears taste like honey..

You don't need a weather man to know which way the wind blows.

Just a 2.6 pflop computer.

I meant a non-profit group controlled by them.

I would buy a bunch of 747s and run them between major international airports around the world - with no one on them. It would be an kinetic art project about unsustainability.

Note: Mr. Gates is worth about 2.1 times more than the endowment of the school he dropped out of (Harvard).

I think him and Warren Buffet are doing it more slowly. Non profits are required to spend a certain part of their endowment yearly - by holding on to it and investing it and donating a trickle (a billion dollar trickle... he made several billion in one year just from having money) which could last indefinitely. I think they pledged to give much more upon their death.

I wonder why they don't set up some kind of non-profit investment group where all proceeds yearly would then fund a charity. One big donation could do $70 billion of good once, or $3-7 billion dollars of good yearly, forever..

Bill?

Wow, I never realized the majority of people struggle with this.

Amazon's only youtube app for kindle is a viewer/dowloader, haven't seen Google complaining. Though you can sideload the YouTube one.

Your cynicism is bullshit. Go to a real police state where they won't let you leave, you're insulting those people that can't leave. There is also only state press. The US has a state press... NPR, besides that it is free. A massive violation of press freedom is something to watch, rand closely, yet it is not the same as not being able to say what you want.

The system is not irreparably broken, with enough will it can be changed. You've already lost with your bullshit attitude so either shoot yourself, tie yourself up because the interrogators are on their way, or suck it up and point out what can be done to fix things, or prevent them from getting worse; and despite your baseless whining, things can get A LOT FUCKING WORSE.

Was offered escargot at a not too fancy steak place, it's in most nicer supermarkets canned. This is in Texas.

I'll eat roasted insects before some of that stuff you mentioned.

I don't think they break down cellulose, rather the stuff living in their gut flora does the job. Termites can't even digest cellulose, and rely on some single cell stomach creatures to do the work.