Possible hairsplitting but Romans 1:32 says "are worthy of death", not "are people who you should kill".

Less hairsplitting is the context. The next verse is 2:1, "You, therefore, have no excuse, you who pass judgement on someone else, for at whatever point you judge another, you are condemning yourself, because you who pass judgement do the same things". So it's not a "kill these people" at all, it's working the reader up to agree and then be told "btw, you're just as bad". 2:3 "So when you, a mere human being, pass judgement on them and yet do the same things, do you think you will escape God's judgement?"

Interestingly the last bit of Romans 1 is also what is used to justify "teh gays r teh evil".

Yes, I know lots of Christians are pretty hopeless at not judging others. You're free to quote Romans 2 to them. Please, please do.

And Revelation is Jewish apocalpytic literature -- taking any of it literally is a sure sign of ass-hattery.

Intel is the underdog!

Just like Microsoft was when it entered new markets.

And legacy old x86 code gets easier to run under emulation each time a new generation of CPUs come out.

The best thing about American politics, to a non-American, is the ability to stand outside and point and laugh at *everyone*. Seriously, do you guys ever take a good long hard look at yourselves and realise that you've become the laughingstock of the world? I may be not be happy with domestic politics here (New Zealand) politics, but they're still much much saner than yours.

The worst thing is that American foreign policy affects the whole world, and if your domestic economy tanks you'll drag down the rest of us (if the banks don't beat you to it). And your domestic policy is pretty hard on the poor. Hint: expecting to run into homeless people downtown is a sign there's something wrong.

The other thing you could get is a work-life balance. I hear there are jobs where you don't have to answer emails out of work hours. I know they exist, because I have one -- but then I'm one of those weird people who voluntarily takes a pay cut in order to not work Mondays.

I wanted to see the scouring of the shire -- like banemc, it's one of my favourite bits too. The soft focus hobbits smiling and wedding scenes and Gandalf and the boats and all that -- not needed at all. Ending with Frodo and Sam on the side of Mt Doom, with evil vanquished, was the right thing to do. The epilogue added nothing, and it was 20 minutes long! (Yes, I saw a midnight showing when it came out, and yes, I timed that bit.)

Doom on DOS had multiplayer LAN (and dial-up modem, IIRC) support. Ages before Marathon. With all the horribleness of IPX -- but it had it, and it worked.

The old palmpilots were great for that. Hold in one hand, use your thumb on the scroll buttons.

Yes, I used to walk to university (50 minutes) reading off one. And on the way back, at night, with the backlight on.

2G GSM has limitiations due to the time-division nature of its air interface that makes covering large areas not work due to propogation delay. 3G GSM *is* CDMA. It covers large areas well at a lower frequency, but initial deployments were all at 2.1GHz which has issues with signal propogation (read: doesn't go through buildings/etc as well as sub 1GHz GSM).

Minor nitpick: in the above I use "CDMA" to mean "Code-division multiple access", a generic description of the approach that the IS-95 and 1xRTT air interfaces use -- they are commonly referred to as CDMA, they're what sprint/verizon use/used, but there are other protocols that use that approach too.

I didn't read the article, and I'm not a 7 digit. Just sayin'.

I can't believe I just read that.

...as well as having less impact on important modern nations and therefore less impact on modern man.

Yeah, those subhumans in less affluent nations don't count for squat -- which is also, coincidentally, what they get paid for assembling your consumer electronics and running shoes.