I guess you must have missed Andromeda's bathing scene.

How about a smokin' 22 year old girl in a skimpy bikini. Every 90 year old dad loves those.
The best part is that you could get him another one next year and he'll appreciate it just as much. No more stressing about what to buy.

This is a common misconception among people who don't use shotguns. Unless you cut the barrel down to about 4 inches, the spread at 10' (the distance from the end of the barrel to the other side of your bedroom) will be on the order of 8"-10". That's not enough to make much difference in your chances of hitting the target, but it will make a hell of a mess out of whatever it does hit.

Well, I bet if you got smacked upside the head by one o' them big propellers or fell off a 300' tower you wouldn't be baffled about the health effects. Them things is downright dangerous.

I certainly hope so. Oh, wait. Parking is actually about all they could pay for with my Mastercard right now.

They have milllions of accounts and all they can think to do is pay for parking? Sounds like the time my checking account got hijacked. I think what irritated me more than anything was that they went to the trouble of making a card then used it to buy a bunch of lame stuff at Kmart. I mean, if you're stealing people's money at least do something interesting with it.

I wish it had said "Solar Monster Tornadoes" - there are so many more visual images possible that way. It's even better when combined with the Pedestrian Tornadoes mentioned in the summary. Wheee!
I also wish it said "Tornados", but that's just because I live in the central part of the country.

Money is only wasted if you throw it in a pile and burn it. If it gets spent on something, regardless of how silly, then it stays in circulation; somebody will be using it to buy groceries, pay the mortgage, take his kids to the doctor, etc. A bunch of people will be employed on this project, and a bunch of companies will be selling goods and services. This is exactly the kind of stuff we want rich people to be doing with their money.

No, really, that's all they're doing. They're not looking at anything else on those computers. They're not using Zeus as a backdoor to access anything else. I promise.

3 Steps:
1) buy 2 Samsung TVs
2) set them face to face
3) tune them to the same channel at full volume and let the feedback fun begin.

Yes.

As always, nobody wants this stuff where they will have to look at it. Then there's the political brilliance in the linked article: "...the advantage of sharing costs across several states, potentially increasing political support for the plan." Yeah, a bunch of New England states are gonna jump at the chance to pay for something that benefits other states.

Just like when you worked elsewhere:
- Set the alarm and get up
- Take a shower, brush your teeth
- Dress for work (this one is important). I've known people who did the work-in-your-pajamas thing, and everybody could tell the difference.
- Keep proper food around for lunch, or if you can afford it go out for lunch most days.
- If you have a spouse/significant other you SERIOUSLY want to sit down ahead to time to make sure everybody is clear that just because you're home all day it doesn't mean that the cleaning, laundry, and dishes will be done at the end of the day. We all know that housewives used to do all that and more, but they weren't on somebody else's clock when they were doing it.

Also, be sure to set up a proper work environment even if the best you can do is to put a decent computer desk and chair in your bedroom. A couch or kitchen table is not a workplace, and you don't want it to be one.

Are they worth more?
How is the value of a life determined?

It depends on how significant the shareholder is.
Someone like Cook with 13k or so shares will make some nice pocket change.
He basically announced that he's giving himself and the other officers or board members a small bonus.