A can of beer is one thing, a decent can of beer is another! These days there are many breweries putting out cans of beer with a special lining inside to protect the deliciousness from the aluminum. Is there anyone out there who can testify to the effect such a lining might have on the do-it-yourself project in question?

Or at least speculate?

Worst case I suppose I'll have to get a sixer of High Life and a sixer of Brew Free or Die. You know, for science.

This new plug-in, known as the HTML5 Extension for Windows Media Player Firefox Plug-in

It's not a catchy name, but at least it's descriptive.

I would tend to imagine that the number of people who have never wasted some sperm in their lives is close to absolute 0.

So between that and no contraception, what's the difference?

If God gave us wet dreams, he gave us the right to waste sperm in little rubber containers. Or spray it all over the wall, for all he cares. I mean, it's a little hard to believe that God expects us to be chief financial officer for little dudes we create in the billions.

I would expect it is simply much more logical to assume those religious beliefs were codified in times where we really didn't have a clue how all the plumbing worked.

Between more effective methods of avoiding creating real world problems and assuming that those beliefs reflect the true will of God, I know which side I fall on. Pluck a person who's never been exposed to the teachings of the church, and they would have never ever even considered such a theological limitation. People get it from their churches, who got it from older folks, who got it from older folks ... there are some notions that, even if I accept the possibility of a theology, are far more likely simply to be a spiritual case of broken telephone.

I love how mixed up people are these days, and the mere idea of hallucinating is associated with the most harmful of effects any chemical could have on your brain. When in reality, there are several natural, human made substances (like DMT, check it out) that cause you to hallucinate (near-death experiences anyone?). If magnetic fields do cause people to hallucinate, there aren't inherently any health problems. There may be health problems with hanging out in that much magnetic field, but if there's not, then this would be really awesome, and there's no reason on earth why we should "think of the children"
I know you were being sarcastic, but people really do think that way :P

When a music/video piracy article pops up here it seems like somebody always points out that copyright infringement isn't theft. Nobody is being deprived of something, blah blah blah, yadda yadda yadda, you know the arguments.

It seems like there's no stealing or theft involved here either; it's just a copy and nobody is being deprived of anything. Don't recall anybody pointing that out before in this context.

Case A) Copying bits, but it's not theft it's copyright infringement.
Case B) Copying bits, but it *is* theft.

It would seem that there might be a distinction, and I'm curious where people draw the line.

What's IT?

Great question. It's such a broad field, and so often every facet of it is just lumped together under the generic label of IT.

Imagine this exchange: "What do you do?" "Oh, I work in cars." Cars (like IT) covers a heck of a lot of ground. You can assemble cars, create individual bits of cars, service cars, sell cars, drive cars, wreck cars, write about cars, and wash cars. There are many different types of cars too.

But nobody (that I've ever heard, anyway) says that they "work in cars." These days I try to avoid the generalization of IT and make a point of being a bit more specific, unless I don't want the conversation to go that direction. Mostly because I think that IT sounds about as general as 'cars'.