Slightly indeed... although the Mariah Carey is a bit more advanced, since it only needs to be guided by men in giant costumes, not directly controlled.

You know, I could be wrong of course... but I'm pretty sure it doesn't take the entire engine to power the lasers that run the engine.

Pretty sure your average household outlet could power all the lasers at once, or even just the car battery, if only for a second or two.

It seems he does, Pidgeon Get Parcel... Pidgeon Give Parcel.

64bit processors have a noticeable impact on things, mainly performance (good or bad), but IPv6 has no real impact to your average user...
"I have internet with IPv4, what advantages does IPv6 offer?"
"internet access"

There are advantages, but none that would really make Joe say "I want that".

I went there, it was full of hi-res penis.

Opera 11.1, Chrome 10, Safari 5, and IE8 all work fine... Firefox 4, and Aurora, both screw up... but in the case of a layout malfunction, they all have an "Inspect Element" (for Opera or Chrome, for IE it's Developer Tools, or View Source for Firefox/Safari) where you would be able to get the link from. Just a suggestion for the future.

Where the presentation was made, it was pointless, or even a "lose".

But for the average web-goer, if they saw a chart like:
IE___________| Other__________
Native HTML5 | No Native HTML5

They go "ooh" the background in that box is green, the other is red... go with green, doesn't really matter if it's factual or not.

Really?... that's when? I'm no fan of Apple, but I wouldn't blame bundling an OS with a computer to be the root cause, you might be able to argue that earlier Mac's being on a somewhat unpopular architecture "forced" you to use that OS... but really... buyer beware, buyer be 2% of the market, buyer have lots of other choices, almost all of which come bundled with an OS, some not pre-installed, but odds are "it came with it, may as well check it out" doesn't matter if it's installed already or not.

I'd say it was more an Eternal September type thing... it used to be far more common that if you were using a computer, you either knew how to use it, or were invested in figuring out how to use it. Now that everyone uses them, most people want it to "just work" at the click of a button, so developers are forced to implement automation to install things, enable/disable things, diagnose and repair itself, etc etc... for that to work effectively, it basically means it can't be disabled itself, since it will try and re-enable itself, it ends up being the normal/usual/default behavior of an OS, and subsequent software installed. Applications taking on their own life, the OS taking everything as a part of it's life... screw you, you luser, I want to live... and I want to phone my mother, and my siblings... stop using me, yer fucking up my schedule... I'm supposed to be defragging then updating the AV, scanning, then I gotta call my doctor and see if any more implants are ready, or need repairing... .. .

"A hacker that we'll call Carl S. or perhaps C. Smith"

I would have responded more quickly... but it took me about 3 minutes to track down the words I could copy and paste to form this.

No... no it's not.

Just because a large portion of the world has shitty internet, doesn't mean everyone should have shitty internet. It's only funny in the sad/pathetic/hopeless sort of way... just because they let it happen doesn't mean we do. If everyone else drank urine, and we drank water... we'd protest when people started pissing in our faces too...

I'm fine with universally limited bandwidth, ie: Xk/s down, Yk/s up... but throttling specific uses of it is retarded... from 00:00 to 18:00 I can download "normal" things (HTTP, etc) at 1.7MB/s (which also used to apply to torrents), torrents are limited to about 350k/s... between 18:00 and 00:00 it's limited to 120k/s... which isn't terrible, however whichever way my ISP chose to implement it, fucks up everything else at the same time (even if I haven't downloaded any torrents), it turns my cable connection into noisy WiFi... websites that take a few attempts to connect, occasional messenger disconnects, etc. It was "unlimited" for years, till about 2 weeks ago.

I wouldn't have much of a problem with that either, except they still charge the same price for basically half the connection. No real alternatives either except to rent a higher package from the same ISP (to get speeds that the current plan says it provides), or switch the ISP which also means switching the connection to WiFi, or Satellite... both of which are useless, regardless of whatever arbitrary speed in some other country may be.

Well, you would be falling... likely not flying. So yes, if falling excites you, then run with it... no need to worry about the inevitable, it will be quick and rather painless anyways.

Assuming the building, or the height at which you began falling is tall enough that it would kill you... if you are sort of falling/stumbling down the side of a pyramid, it would probably be a good idea to attempt to prevent yourself from falling further, since there's the possibility you will live, but not be happy that you did if you just "go with the flow" in that case.

No... where he lives, once a phone dies, it starts floating towards heaven.

His idea is to snag them while still around ceiling level, take them apart, and build a new phone out of their remains.

Assignment... people stopped caring about wildfires, so it's just being replaced with Global Warming...

Recent reports state that Global Warming is spreading across Russia, some people are worried this years Global Warming season in California could result in the most Global Warmings to date.

Pretty much, it's more like facial hue... even the best "watch dogs" are bound to eventually get bored with their duties since there's no real, or immediate threat. If they have some sort of quota, even if it's just to "look busy", they'll just pick people at random with whatever bias they have (sex, race, age, etc). Then there's the ones that have a sort of ego/erotic desire to dominate, they couldn't give a damn about facial cues, they'll come up with whatever reason necessary to go f**k with "that person!"

Generally the only time people really pay attention is when they need to, when was that exactly? I'm not even sure if 9/11 qualifies, especially since apparently there was a whole swarm of people... "19"... if there was one hijacker/assassin/etc, it might work... if there is 2 or 3... that aren't walking in the same group, it's bound to fail... if one gets caught, everyone flips out and either runs towards, or away from this person... ignores everyone else... the one guy is arrested etc... everyone feels safe, "omg what if?", laughs, jokes about it... meanwhile the other 2 going about their intended plan...