At my college the math & physics departments were basically at war over teaching methods and decided to swap who was teaching a couple of classes. Trying to take Differential Equations from a physics professor was a complete nightmare. Not only do you need to have compatibility between students and teachers, you need a good match between teachers and their subjects. It's like saying that a good manager can manage any department whether he understands what his employees do or not.

In the end there can be only one.

I think you meant to say, "I am fight grammar Nazi tendencies." But that's fine. For all intensive porpoises, their the same. Too different ways of getting your point acrossed. I could care less. =)

"Limited immortality" is accurate on a long enough time scale, even neglecting buses, etc. Extinction is inevitable unless we can somehow turn physics around and survive as a species after getting really, really fucking cold.

Extinction pretty much negates immortality.

Only for very large values of 1.

That's hardly fair. I know enough to surrender my shoelaces so that I won't hang myself for littering. It's a Thanksgiving classic as much as 'A Wish for Wings that Work' is a Christmas classic.

Your post makes me so mad I wanna kill... I wanna kill... I want to see dead burnt bodies with blood and gore and veins in my teeth - I wanna kill!

You were lucky. You should see what happened to the guy in this documentary when the robo-grader didn't hear the pen hit the floor.

In order for a species to survive, an animal only needs to survive long enough to produce children who can survive long enough to produce their own. Once you're old enough to survive to the point of reproduction, how does snacking on a parent hurt anything? In fact, if the parent isn't providing anything that helps you survive, you're just having a meal and cutting down on competition.

"It's people! You're eating PEOPLE!"

Good point. What's wrong with "apple.disgruntledpenguins.com" and "android.disgruntledpenguins.com"?

I think the proper analogy would be, "My neighbor would stop looking in my front window if I'd stop standing naked in front of it."

That's what I was thinking. I think visual cues would be much more useful to the deaf. The deaf only rarely care what something sounds like...

Counter-productive. If watching 'Weeds' taught me anything it's that semi-silent hybrids help with drive-bys. There has to be a market for that.

Disclaimer: I am an Honeywell employee, although in an entirely different division.

It sounds like Nest is doing a great job and may have outpaced Honeywell in the thermostat world. But you have to admit that historically Honeywell has reigned the thermostat world. In the local hardware store, the Honeywell thermostats are the only ones kept locked up. It's not any kind of company loyalty or astroturfing, it's just one of few areas where I respect the brand.

Monopoly? How can that be when the novel invention of a thermostat is so recent? How can you be so quick to yank it away from them?

Really, that's how it appears? Personally if I'm going to attack someone and start "beating his head against the ground," I'd at least drop my Skittles and iced tea first.