You are very correct. Not liking a minority for the sake of that person/group being a minority is prejudice. Not liking someone that happens to be part of a minority group is not racist.

Is it possible to plug in an IDE cable backwards? I thought they were cut at two corners to prevent this?

I am confused so hopefully someone can shed some light. They say there is no need to swap public keys with the person you are writing the message to. Does this mean anyone with the tool in Firefox can decode your message? Is there some way to specify who the reading parties are? That I am a little confused about and couldn't find any info about it in the articles. Hopefully someone can clear it up.

With "cognitive dissonance" the data isn't erased or ignored. The individual with competing goals/ideals and reality will go out of there way to justify their reality to their goals/ideals.

They have geolocation software that blocks IP addresses from outside the US. A while ago I tried some free US proxies and I think they were blocked as well. I am sure there is probably other ways around them blocking people outside the US and I would be very welcome to suggestions.

Now only if it were available outside the US.

A thought about this. I know that the rates charged by credit card companies to process a transaction tend to be very high. Does anyone know how the pricing structure works? How much of the final transaction will actually be paid to Pandora?

Pandora was available in Canada.

Last time I checked (which was yesterday) my local library carried both a wide range of music and movies.

I don't think you can be sentenced for that if they were allowed to work on a project. It wasn't their responsibility to confirm that the contract their employer/teacher had signed had stipulations on certain foreign nationals working on the project.

Personally I see could computing as a form of distributed computing. The current infrastructure given by Google, Amazon, etc. I do not see as very distributed since they run a few huge data centers. If they are taken offline then that is a major hit to the overall infrastructure. What I envision as cloud computing is that everyones computer using the cloud acts as a node in the whole infrastructure. Serving pieces of applications and data that reside on the cloud. I have mentioned this idea before and someone made similarities to a giant botnet or I see it as similar to a torrent network. Anyways the current infrasturture given above is not what I envision as cloud computing infrastructure, more of a giant hosting infrastructure.

I like the idea of a distance based tax instead of the amount of gasoline consumed. Since roadways are a major, major source of infrastructure dollars and the majority of those roads and only used by drivers. It is just the idea of having a government controlled GPS device scares me and they should think of a different implementation other than using the GPS device.

No but if manufacturers kept to a certain chip design many components in a computer would be reusable. Replacing merely the chip instead of the entire until. Replacing the motherboard a little less often than that, replacing the RAM even a little less often, replacing the CD/DVD drives when they break, replacing a mouse and keyboard when they break... there are many many ways we can limit or decrease our comsumption.

Well I agree with the idea of recycling but a new paradigm is needed. We as a species consume way too much which creates way too much waste. Around 1% of all consumer goods are disposed of within months after purchase. We are in need of a cycle that is more symbiotic and less parasitic towards the earth.

This is damn hypocritical.