This is, in part, because municipal annexation is difficult in Massachusetts. If you compare the "urban" (4.18 million) and "metro" (4.59 million) populations, you'll see that it's comparable to other large cities with a larger city proper. For instance, Berlin's Metro area is 4.5 million. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlin/Brandenburg_Metropolitan_Region http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston Maybe not competitive with the top 50 cities, but easily comparable to the top 100 in the world.

I don't much care either way, but he could presumably fill out some new version of the farm use exemption that refunds or discounts his taxes based on the odometer rather than gasoline usage.

I have a flight from Seattle to Boston that stops in NYC tonight. Looks like I'll have something to do! Hope I remember all the regex syntax...

Yep. I've been using Mac OS X since 10.0, and I've left the platform due to the downgrades of 10.7 and the plans for 10.8.

1. Declare major to something so esoteric that the school has to pay YOU to attend
2. Take Engineering courses
3. Switch major to Engineering at end of senior year
4. PROFIT!

I think he's referring to the Gil Amelio years.

It is, however, useful to be informed in the first place.

So the uneducated deserve to suffer?

Now that would be a good use of The Jester's botnet!

While this may stop aging (assuming it works in this scenario), it won't stop things like car accidents and murders, and probably won't stop things like heart failures, strokes, cancer, starvation, and obesity related deaths. Obviously there will still be a large number of people who would have died of old age who will no longer die, and this will change how a lot of things work (like social security, pensions, and such), but it probably won't cause an explosion in the population, just a higher proportion of tragic deaths.

It could do very interesting things with the way people live though. If a bunch of people retire at 60 with stable investments and a youthful body, they could do all sorts of things for the next hundred years or so.

Yeah, and some DVD stores have different categories between drama VS fantasy VS sci-fi. Is 4chan porn? Is images.google.com porn? Why not a violence domain?

The solution is to let people do what they want. This is not a real problem. The only problem is with people who want the government to get involved in this.