I just don't have a good grasp on the whole "awareness" thing. There are plenty of things that plenty of people are not aware of, and probably should be, but it just doesn't seem that the more common deadly diseases fall in that category.

Q: "Were you aware of breast cancer?"
A: "Why no, I've never heard of that. Is that white meat chicken stuffed with crab meat?"
Q: "No, in fact, it's a life-threatening illness where doctors have to cut your boobs off to save your life."
A: "Outrage! Every boob is sacred! Why aren't we doing anything about this most important issue?!"

If the "awareness" is meant to drum up political support or funding, then okay, but I don't understand the strategy other than that.

So there's a financial incentive to keep IE6 around - for you guys.

Actually I do know my neighbors.

That's why I don't hang around with them. We have no common interests. I've got more in common with my coworkers (engineers/programmers/geeks who like scifi/technology/etc) and people I meet online, than the people in my hood.

Well, I don’t know about neck features, but I bet $100, that Jobs already has a least a dozen patents on himself. ^^

Really? Seems like the people throwing the fit are all the Android fans with their egotism and inflated idea of their own importance. All you guys do is bitch about Apple day in and day out. Ironically, creating more brand awareness of Apple and Apple mind-share in the blogs. All the while burying Android stories. Rather than complaining about Apple you should be chatting about Android if Android were actually better. But the Android interface blows compared to the Apple OS as several reviews have demonstrated.

One thing many first-day reviews of opera-mini said was that it was much faster then safari, even while on wifi.

I tried it yesterday (on wifi, since i have an ipod, not an iphone), and opera mini took serious time connecting to the opera servers, after which loading was fast. however, the opera-server connection pretty much killed it for me..

Opera mini is a nice try, and some things do improve on safari, but on the whole, what i really want is opera Mobile (and once the app store is open enough, CHROME) for the iphone/ipod

Unfortunately its a local company for me so i would be sad to see it go. It would lose our local economy a few dozen jobs, including mine.

Then you need to find some better retail channels to shop at. It's not clear from TFA whether this is supposed to be an internal or and external drive, but I'm assuming external. Even Best Buy has cheaper 500 GB external drives .

Pepper spray is illegal for use in war under the Geneva Convention, it falls under riot control substances, which are banned.

What they are talking about doing is feeding it to their soldiers in cold weather. That definitely wouldn't help their cold weather survival because it would boost circulation, increasing heat loss, so it must be about making them more capable in cold weather - essentially making them "better soldiers" in the cold at the cost of having to be more careful with hypothermia.

I can think of some I watched back then on the 50s, for loose, very loose, definitions of science fiction, although the last two in the list were pretty good, more..hmmm..science fantasy/horror.

Superman
Flash Gordon (One of my cats is named after Ming...the Merciless, Flash Gordon's nemesis. He's a rather aggressive and "catcho" tomcat)
Rocketman

One Step Beyond
Kraft Mystery Theater

There's probably more, and certainly a ton of sci fi movies from back then, but those are the TV shows I remember readily.

Wait, wait. So people will pay me... to play games with them. In this current job market. ...Where can I sign up?

Yes I realize this. I was more trying to say that I am horribly biased on this one part of the issue. The only real way for that part to get through is for it to be viable either through insurance (how the bill is now) or through a single payer system (how I would prefer it). Anything else results in what you have already said.

The study might be side effect of parenting decisions. The parents that let their kids sit in front of the TV for hours might also be the same kind of parents that let their kids eat a big bowl of ice cream right before dinner. Or serve their kids less nutritious meals deciding on convenience rather than nutrition.

If you are the true owner of your website, you would be allowed to put whatever you wanted on it. The government is in effect saying that no person fully owns any website. This is similar to how the government owns the mainstream media by fining organizations for the use of certain words that the government finds offensive. People choose to visit websites just as they choose to view certain networks. The government clearly doesn't believe that the individual has the capacity to judge which websites contain "appropriate material" as they define it.

In the future?