"That sounds great guys, and when we burn it again we can just make more, right?"

"Uh, actually, Obama wanted to burn it, but we can do better than that Mr. President, we can - uh - turn it into special bricks - special underground bricks - that we can build an underground wall to stop the Mexicans building tunnels into the US."

Shame you didn't work with lin.com

Not that it matters but with Luhn checks there's only a thousand to check.

I, for one, welcome our new suborbital rocket-launcher platforms.

You wouldn't be able to stack them vertically on that axis though, so it wouldn't be a useful measurement to give. You're right however, I should have at least specified that they were standard 340' football fields.

A football field is a unit of area, not distance. However, since we know a mile is eight furlongs, there's five furlongs to a kilometer, and approximately forty-five and a half brontosauruses per kilometer, we can quickly do the maths:

22,000 * 8 / 5 * 45.5 gives us an approximate distance of 1,601,600 apatosauruses. And since we know five brontosauses can be laid along the length of a football field we can correct the sentence from the article.

The 500-linguine rocket delivered the spacecraft larger than 237,000 grapefruits to an orbit higher than 320,320 football fields if they placed vertically end-to-end over the equator.

Like the move to micro-SD, always ended up using full-size SD adapters that just protruded needlessly from the side. I had one device damaged thanks to the SD adapter being knocked, damaging the board, and I know this has happened to many others.

Sorry, that's incorrect, name-based virtual hosts pose no problem to this.

The webserver determines which virtual host is being requested by examining the Host: field in the http header. This happens well after the tcp session has been established, and that happens after the ip address has been determined.

When the browser looks for domain.example, it'll ask whatever resolver it uses to find an ip address to use. Once it has that ip address, it connects to it, and only then tells the webserver which host it wants. There is nothing to prevent the browser from using it's own cached version of the ip address and sucessfully making a connection.

Our state exams at age 15 had an essay option for a book of your own choosing, and I did that with Magician, mostly because I'd already read it a half dozen times by then. The text is very accessible, and there's plenty of themes to work with. As noted, the language is relatively simplistic, so as a literary piece of work it's nothing special, but it deals with many common fantasy themes. The length is probably the main negative point. Also of interest, and possibly more appealing to both sexes would be his Daughter of the Empire series, which runs more or less concurrently with Magician, but is set on the world of the agressors in Magician.

The storm trooper uniforms are stupid, kind of remind me of French Legionnaire uniforms that always made me laugh when I saw someone dressed like that in the desert. The red flags on your shoulders make you stick out like a sore thumb regardless of where you are.

You have, of course, realised that that uniform is for ceremonial purposes, and not the battledress used in actual combat situations?

Here's an example of the not in dress uniform:

http://www.legion-2reg.com/modules_media/photo/2_5_02052009_232705.jpg

All they have to do is build giant concrete walls around the turbines, and stick a roof over the top. So long as they don't put any windows in, it should be safe for bats and birds.

It's crazy that they haven't thought of doing this.

How about "Gods peed"?