Air Force? Forget traffic accidents, you're much more likely to get struck by lightning on the base golf course.

If the State of California were the U.S. Congress, then you'd definitely have a point.

States have historically had more leeway in such matters; there used to be no problem, even Constitutionally speaking, with an individual state having an official religion.

I'm using the 9.10 netbook remix. On the old laptop I can't remember which version...probably 9.10 also.

They both did weird things, like show networks with odd undecodable Unicode characters in them that I've never seen before. Like you try to connect to a network and all you see are letters with umlauts and Mahjong tiles.

This is my favorite Mac fan characteristic...the complete 180 when the new thing comes out with absolutely no hint of compunction.

I remember when they were singing the praises of cooperative multitasking.

Wait a second here. Wasn't the lack of multitasking a feature that made the iPad and iPhone so great? It allowed you to relax and compute!

What are they doing? Why is Apple taking all of the zen out?

That's huge. I love Ubuntu on my eee 1005, but the default Gnome network manager is a piece of shit. It's a piece of shit on an older laptop I have too...it works sometimes, if you shake the laptop right and the stars align properly.

I installed wicd on my netbook which is great except it forgets ssid's of hidden networks. Apparently this has been fixed in the latest wicd, but the changes have not propagated to Ubuntu yet. I have a script that logs me on to my home network...but that sucks and means I can't recommend Ubuntu to anyone who wants to put Linux on an old computer.

This is basic stuff; I'm surprised given Ubuntu's track record that it's not perfect by now.

Conductive doesn't sound safe to me...

Costco sold real sugar Coke from Mexico (Mexicoke) during Passover for the Jews who won't eat corn-syrup.

I almost converted to Judaism because they're on to something...it was awesome. We couldn't stop drinking it, and I'd pay double to get it any time of year over the corn-syrup stuff, which I rarely buy.

Amen.

What most people don't realize is that the decisions you make now with your money are a choice between what you want now and all possible future uses of that money. Do you have a DVD collection, and a TV? You've chosen that your enjoyment of those things now is more important than saving that money and using it to extend your life later. Seems reasonable, but when you don't have that money when you're older and the inevitable medical expenses arrive, is it a good decision?

This isn't a serious problem until other people are paying for your care, and you decide that their DVD's and TV's aren't more important than helping an 80 year old woman live another year or two. Surely we'd all give up most or all of our entertainment expenses to save lives, right? And well, in all honesty, you don't really NEED that second car, and you don't really NEED to heat your house to over 60 degrees F to live...

But nobody thinks about things in these terms, even though this is the exact decision you have to make when talking about health care.

For a more detailed discussion, see here.

The most accurate thing you can say about medical prices in the US is that they have little relation to what actually gets paid. This is part of the problem.

The media and politics in general are based on emotional appeals, because most people don't understand logical arguments.

It's governance by irate mom, and ludicrous, but off we go.

The funny thing is about the socialist health care method is that now we're all forced to care about these things and decide what's fair for other people, and put a value on their love, volunteer work, etc.

This isn't an issue when people pay for themselves.

Especially since you only say that in Blackjack.

You joke, but in Java that represents a substantial amount of work.

You can also send registered mail home to discuss these things, although that's probably up to your CO.