For any file up to 20 mb, you can create email drafts in Gmail and attach the files you want to save. Have the subject of the email be the name of the file you're saving to it. Then save it as a draft (don't send it to anybody).

Mod this up please. This is something everyone can learn from.

Here's why. Every individual has two commodities they own: 1. Time. 2. Money. People with #2 tend not to have #1, and vice versa. So for someone with a good income, it's just not worth the time involved to locate a torrent, download it from the few people seeding it, etc., etc. (Even if YOU could find it quickly, there's still a learning curve involved for the average person.) The people who pirate software almost always are those who wouldn't buy it in the first place, simply because they don't have any money. But by getting your software, a certain tiny percentage will help you via word of mouth, which in the end helps your bottom line.

Given that Google, which is everyone's favorite monopoly, controls 90+ percent of Internet advertising, I wonder why they don't offer free Internet everywhere they can. Does anyone know why not?

You should go to meetup.com. Seriously, check it out. There's lots of opportunities there to meet new friends.

Of course, law vs. reality can be entirely different things.

My favorite quote from that article is this: "If women truly did earn less for doing exactly the same job as a man, any non-sexist CEO could thrash his competition by hiring only women, thus saving 25% on employee salaries relative to his competitors." I've often wondered about that myself.

Conversely, if you could get the same work out of a woman for less money, why would anyone ever hire a man?

If the government seizes BP, for one thing there's the small aspect that it's not exactly legal. For another thing, now taxpayers are on the hook to pay for the clean-up. On the other hand, if BP stays in business, then it will be able to pay for the clean-up rather than taxpayers.

It's always important to ask the question, "And then what?" For example: "We have to seize BP. And then what?"

So you see, the world is not as simple as you think.

Wow! Best post of the article, definitely made my day. I'm 33 years old now, not old... but not too young anymore either. Age 50 for example no longer seems as far off as it once did. I'm definitely taking your words to heart.

How is that "white-supremacist" part relevant? It's not illegal to be ignorant, is it?

What was the last time a doctor prescribed or recommended aspirin, which is far superior to any of the more expensive "anti-inflammatory" medicines which are used for arthritis, pain, etc?

Actually, you mean ibuprofen. Good point other than that.

WSJ is reporting that the trigger was a very large sell order for P&G coupled with unchecked computer trading and some inherent flaws in the current system of fragmented exchanges.

Felix Salmon also did a good explanatory post that pulled in work from other writers about what might have happened and why.

Mr. Salmon's post links to a thought provoking post by a blogger named Kid Dynamite, who posits that it's a really bad precedent to cancel the erroneous trades because it lets the program traders off the hook for the consequences of their computer mess-up.

When a women is subjected to a hostile work environment, she might be told, "If you just shrugged it off then only your coworkers would know you are a slut. Now the whole world knows."

Clearly if this is said to a woman, then it is a blame-the-victim mentality and is wrong. It should also be wrong in this case, when it's a man who suffers from a hostile work environment.

I think this might actually be insightful. After all, the guys with big dicks were getting laid so much in high school that they had no need to develop their brains and become nerds. And the people who become nerds... well, it's simple logic. :)