Depends on the story for me. He could be in it and play Han Solo, but they best have the Han and Leia kids be the main focus.

Agreed, I build a upgrade PC every 4-5 years for 500 or less. New ram, board, cpu, graphics, and half the time a new HD. Keep the previous CD r/w and DVD r/w, case, power supply, monitor, keyboard, mouse, and speakers. When I get a new case I'll usually get a new power supply with it. I generally stick with boards that have sound and networking on them. With my latest build I finally trashed the floppy drive I had from my original 486dx2. I have a few things that make me an exception, but I would suspect a common exception. I work from home moderately often. I watch DVDs on my PC moderately often. I immediately rip any CD I purchase and some movies so I can upload them to my Kindle when I want to watch them on it. When I upgrade it is usually because the old PC died, not for performance. In a sense all I'm doing is paying an extra 50-100 for a nicer video card.

I work at a hospital in IT, this is what I've gleamed from the info around me.

Yes and no. The flu is like the common cold there are many versions of it and most are different enough that just because the body learned how to fight off one it doesn't know how to fight off the other. The flu shot covers the worst of the versions going around. People can still get the flu, its just not the as nasty versions.

ya, but how far outside of Manhattan do you have to live to have an affordable living location? I like working in suburbia, I can afford to live a mile or so from the office. Working downtown means I have to live in a neighboring town and deal with rush hour.

I've actually wondered what the quality of coffee from a percolator is compared to a normal drip. It seems like a percolator would get more use out of the grounds? At work we have an espresso machine that gives me well enough coffee from a single cake of ground coffee. At home I have a basic drip machine for the weekends and it seems like I have to use way to much grounds to make it.

Things such as my mother-in-law typing in google into the quick search to get to the Google home page so she can search for something

I think the only person that could do a good Sandman would be Tim Burton, although Guillermo del Toro might be able to do it acceptably.

Music wise there isn't enough I want out there for me to even bother downloading. The few artists I do enjoy I buy directly from them via what ever method I think will give the artists the most money. Movies and TV shows I don't have qualms over downloading. I'll download a movie that is no longer available and not yet available for rental / netflix. If I enjoy it, I'll often buy it, but many I don't even finish watching. 90% of the time I'm downloading an episode that the DVR didn't record for whatever reason. The big issue does end up being about money. There is more cost to entertainment than most people can really afford. All they're really going to do is push people to other forms of entertainment, which may be a good thing. We could all stand to get some exercise and/or read more books from the library I'd imagine.

I haven't read into this, I wonder how detailed the law is about the retention. Is it simply that you must retain the logs that you do? Or, does it define exactly what you are required to log? If it is the latter then I'm surprised some ISPs don't turn off logging all together.

It varies but usually progressive metal/rock: Tool (and related), System of a Down, Pink Floyd, Radiohead, Gorrillaz, and many others. I also listen to powerful (best description off the top of my head) classical music a good example would be E.S. Posthumos. Occasionally I'll listen to folk punk and vaudevillian: Katzenjammer, Hellblinki, Dr Steel. It really doesn't matter, if it is music that I enjoy then I'll still day dream. It's just the way my mind works. I'm the type of person that will start thinking on something when talking and just zone out for a bit mid sentence.

I share your concerns with bandwidth. I constantly stream music at work to listen to, and I worry that I'll get in trouble for bandwidth usage. If I bought every song I listen to (I have quite eclectic tastes) then I'd go broke quickly. In the car I mostly listen to NPR or a book on CD as music tends to give me Highway hypnosis (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highway_hypnosis) and eventually I become narcoleptic.

I do buy a few albums from my favorite artists, but that probably averages out to one or two a year. Due to storage space and cost I'm very picky about what albums and movies I buy.

So EULA on selling the car that states that the car's residence shall remain in your driveway and that you are allowed to use it whenever you like with precedence over the new owner?

My opinion is that most new stuff hasn't even been worth downloading. Several of the "blockbuster" movies that I've downloaded I deleted within 15 minutes. For other people I think Netflix and Redbox are an acceptable alternative as well.

Exactly, this is how the human brain works. Exact math is slow, estimates are quick. AI and autonomous things could do very well with this.

Since we're so fond of car analogies here, lets take the autonomous car. The car wouldn't need to know that it is 23.1532 meters away from the car ahead of it. It would be perfectly fine in just knowing that it is around 20 meters away and it can stop in about 15 meters. Of course all this depend on knowing what the significant digits of the calculation are. If said car is attempting to parallel park in a tight space then rounding 6 cm up to 1m would be an issue

This could be the case. But we have a moderately early Hybrid so we knew we were taking a risk. The newer ones have a longer warranty on the batteries I think. Part of the reason was I went to the store wanting to buy a used CR-V for myself, to replace the 94 Cavalier I'd driven for 15 years. But, my wife didn't want to ever have to drive it. So then we looked at a new Fit which was comparable price. But, it was red and why should I have the "pretty" car. So for a little more I bought a new Civic Sport cause I was tired of dealing with the hassle and wanted something I liked. I would have looked at the Hybrids more but one was white and the other was tan. My preference was gunmetal.