Well, that's what Apple wants, isn't it? Hello capitalism! Two expectations for this... a. Apple is going to stop including CD/DVD drives with some of its computers, particularly low-end. b. The Mac App store is going to be the only way to install apps on your Apple TV (in the future).

There's a Congressional speech from Bernie Sanders about this very thing... worth watching, IMO.

Gee, when you put it that way, it almost sounds hard.

Yeah... I think I remember hearing that too.

FTA: "Every odor we tested aroused the participants," said Hirsch. ... "Nothing turns a man off."

Now, what pie will arouse women? THAT'S the pie I need.

Well, Bush was ridiculous in that way. Whenever he spoke, they would set up "protest zones" several blocks away. You could only protest within those zones, far out of sight of news cameras or anyone really following the President.

Obama seems to have swung back from that, somewhat, since there have been civilians with automatic rifles and loaded pistols walking around his events.

Truth be told, Matthews and Olberman would be down in the coal mine with Beck and Limbaugh, and a whole lotta other TV news personalities. (I hesitate to call them "journalists".)

If America was like the Obama administration, Fox News would have been squashed a long time ago, and media types like Beck and Limbaugh would be quickly losing weight in a rock quarry somewhere.

Remember how even the liberal news organization had to come to the aid of Fox News to keep them in the press pool? Liberals are only tolerant of themselves.

And then Obama sent in troops with big guns and rounded up all the other news organizations too, and had them all thrown in prison. Now Bill O'Reilly is sharing a cell with Anderson Cooper and Keith Olberman.

Oh wait, that's not what happened. The other news stations said, Hey, that's not right, and Obama backed down.

You said, "Liberals are only tolerant of themselves" but, one sentence earlier, you said "liberal news organizations had to come to the aid of Fox News". At face value, it sounds like you are contradicting yourself. Which is it? Do they only tolerate themselves, or do they sometimes stand up even for Fox News?

Sir (or ma'am), I truly wish I had mod points.

In America, you can say whatever the hell you want about the government -- even if it is slanderous, false, crazy, whatever -- and unless you are directly threatening to kill somebody, you can get away with it. That is NOTHING like a totalitarian government. If the Obama administration was really like China, Fox News would have been squashed a long time ago, and media types like Beck and Limbaugh would be quickly losing weight in a rock quarry somewhere.

This is why I only anonymize and encrypt nonsensitive data, like MySpace traffic, dating sites, etc. You want my shopping wish list on Amazon?! CRACK MY ENCRYPTION, NSA!!! But that stuff about overthrowing the government is wide open. Throws 'em way off.

I had the same thing with my sister (who does not have children). My son was in another room and I yelled over for him to put back the thing he'd just gotten out of the closet. My sister ran over and looked into the room and was amazed that, yeah, he had done exactly what I said.

It's not magic. It's just being extra alert and knowing your kid's personality, mood, likely interests, etc., and being able to make short-term projections about what they are doing. And frankly it is damned exhausting.

Obviously he's not a parent. We already have eyes in the back of our heads...

I believe one of the reasons why students cheat on the Humanities is because we don't value the humanities and we force students to take course that they simply aren't interested in.

I agree with you. Unfortunately it's not limited to courses in which students are disinterested: this "shadow scholar" apparently wrote a dozen graduate thesis! I would assume that someone in a graduate program might actually be interested in the topic...

In development now: ForeverEverCookies, then NeverNeverCookies, then SuperCantTouchThisCookie, then ImGonnaEatYourDamnCookiesForBreakfast.

So, I went and read much of the excellent Ars history, plus other relevant articles.

At no point was the Amiga considered a "huge" commercial success. It was a huge technological success and, at times, a mild commercial success in the home computer market, moreso in Europe than in the U.S. According to the chart here, Amiga appears to have had as much as 5% of the personal computer market at one point. So I'll face-palm myself for being wrong. It did better than I thought. And Commodore may have killed it through bad management, though there were other problems too.