http://www.nobeliefs.com/jefferson.htm

He was a Deist. The Jefferson bible removed all supernatural and mythical features of the scriptures and focused on the moral teachings of Jesus.

http://news.slashdot.org/story/10/05/11/1440206/Oil-Leak-Could-Be-Stopped-With-a-Nuke?from=rss

Actually, there is, the soviets have used this method five times. Next objection?

I've found that's one of the best things about a large company (you're already in the door, so if you want to do something outside your degree field its usually relatively easy).

No marketing drone makes "hundreds or thousands of times" what a sewer worker does. Get a sense of proportion dammit. Yes, lets say a marketing drone makes $250,000 a year and the sewer worker makes minimum wage (both wrong in all but extreme cases). $250,000/year -> $125/hr, minimum wage is $7.25/hr which is a ratio of 17.2. Get real and drop the hyperbole. I even estimated in your favor in both cases. Sanitation workers tend to be paid relatively well and market droids tend to top out in the low sixes.

How is it hard to know that in advance, exaclty:

http://www.bls.gov/emp/

Then they can offer it for download just as easily. Anything that applies to DVD's applies just as easily (actually more likely easier given the lack of physical media production). If they recoup their costs from advertising, then great, put it up the next day for download/streaming at a reasonable price and cash in even more. I would be SHOCKED if they were getting anywhere close to $1-2 per viewer per episode in ad revenue.

Yet somehow they can afford to stuff that same show onto DVD's and nice fancy printed packaging for the same price. I can usually find a season of whatever show I want to buy for around $20 for a 22 episode season. Not too far off... seems like they can afford it, especially when the marginal price they're getting for the product now is $0. People always want to take the reverse view of reality. I say you should pay $$ for it so you should. Wrong, learn about the free market, supply and demand applies even if the supply is simply convenience and risk/reward.

So, you want to completely deny the coercion of the tobacco companies who knew the facts on nicotine addiction but continued to advertise them as a lifestyle enhancement and deny the health implications? You want to ask Native Americans how much of a choice alcoholism is? Have you noticed where the subsidies from the USDA go? We, economically, make it such that if you are lower middle class, the only nutrition you can afford is of such poor quality that you are just about guaranteed to either be starving or obese, not healthy. Its hard to not be sedentary when you're either dealing with malnutrition or horrid side effects from the onset of diabetes due to our ag system being a subsidized corn syrup production model.

Learn a little bit about the socio-economic factors and the serious corporate corruption in our system that cause these things before you start immediately blaming the "lazy poor". How many poor people do you know? I grew up wondering where the next meal was coming from and it wasn't because my mother wanted to work two jobs and never see her kids.

Why not just use the coax to pull cat5e/cat6 along the same runs? You're making it more complicated than it is, I think.

I don't bother with cable. The few things I want to watch are on hulu. I watch a few shows on delay via Netflix.

That's great and all, but I'd really like to watch all the online video available to the rest of the world rather than pay $80 a month to have a proprietary set top box stream the same crap at slightly higher quality to a buggy pos dvr box that I don't own, control, nor can I access the content as I please. I hate having to rely on cpu rendering when I want to build a low power quiet box and use the goddamned gpu hardware h.264 decoding to get deinterlaced rendered video.

This is why my htpc frontends will be moving to windows 7 in the very near future. MythTV backend, MythWeb for setting up recordings, browsing schedules, etc, and boxee as a frontend on top of w7 with hardware decoding!

And yet strangely I can post this comment from my 'berry.

And that's not just search results its all the public info, I just logged out, searched for myself and went to a result (on a public page I'd commented on) and my pic isn't there nor can my profile be accessed by someone not logged in. Others can be.

Turn your search results (Under Privacy Settings->Search->Facebook Search) to whatever level of privacy you'd like and "strangers" won't be able to see ANYTHING about you.

Hmm, lower UID, long comment history, and excellent karma... think that over again, huh?

Seems you're right on the stuff that shows up in search listings and profile views to everyone. However don't play the stupid games on facebook and use it like you're actually concerned about your private data and you'll be fine. I guess I don't care so much about the info that's in bold above. Its enough for someone I know to id me, but nothing particularly sensitive (especially if you know what's being shared). I'm Eric Rost from Peoria, IL, in the Caterpillar, Inc. network, have some friends scattered across the country, and I'm a fan of Weeds and some other shows. What exactly is the concern there? I don't play the stupid scammy games (and block the updates in my "live news feed" from them) and I use facebook to share pics and videos with my friends and family as well as keep up with some political causes...

It's a change that makes the actual search a bit more useful since you'd come across locked down profiles that you're not even sure are the person who you were legitimately looking for.