My suggestion would be to start at the "Reboot" in 2005 - the episodes are available on Netflix, are modern in their production, and won't be "dated". It's also a hell of a lot less material to catch up on.

The reboot also has the advantage that it was trying to bring in a new audience, as well as re-capture the old one - you won't be missing anything that isn't explained at some point, aside from a handful of in-jokes / references that won't break the show if you don't know them. They're mostly there for the old fans.

An inexpensive Laser Jet. Go with a simple Brother B&W, get Duplex, Networking, Color, Scanning, etc. only if you need it. The toner will sit for months and still be fine, and is cheaper per page than ink. Hit up the Brother page to find the model you want, then Google to find the best price. Your local Staples or such may even have sales or floor models cheap. (Also, Craig's List, etc. if you want to get a second hand one...)

While the poster contains some hyperbole, some of it is (sadly) true. I bought a more expensive laser printer over a cheap ink jet, after my previous ink jet did the "One color cartridge is expired, nothing B&W will print until you replace it" routine twice in a few months (and the colors were not sold separately, necessitating two separate three-packs of colors for the two I needed).

Laser jet toner, fortunately, has a MUCH better shelf life, and if you shop around, you can get a good printer that is both color, and has a high-capacity black cartridge that doesn't need replacing as often. The savings in toner (which also costs less per page than ink jet ink) can save you money in the long run. Just make sure it uses black toner for black printing - some color devices will use RBG combined to make black, even when there's black toner present. (Canon, I am looking at you!)

It's a combination of factors - as noted above, there's tire tracks in the snow, there's tail lights (hopefully) directly in front of you to follow, and generally speaking, where a car has driven ahead of you, the road is not as bad. Multiple people following this trend reinforce it by clearing a path in the snow that is easier to drive, and by creating a visual trend which is easier to follow than actually staying in the lane. (That, and psychologically, if the car in front of you is still moving, that means it's safe - if it suddenly vanishes, spins, or stops, you know to stop as well and find an alternate route. Let the guy in front of you be the trailblazer...)

In the case of the first person on the road (or the first person after additional snow, making the road "new" again), the distance from the edges is a safety thing, since you cannot see the curb / shoulder / edge of the road under the snow, and do not want to risk driving off the road or damaging your car. Once that is established, everyone else follows, as outlined above.

I need to question the methods used to measure Spam, specifically what is being measured - while I can see the volume of spam emails dropping, the number of spam accounts attacking the forums I run is ever-increasing. Despite numerous tools (Blacklisting, CAPTCHAs, etc.), the sophistication and frequency of spam accounts and posts on forums seems to be increasing - to the point of humans joining communities and contributing in semi-relevant ways so that they aren't just auto-banned when they sign up.

I don't think that Spam is declining, I just think it's shifting methods to new ways that aren't being fully measured yet...

In the IT World, "Active Opposition" can manifest as geek / nerd ego. I've seen IT Staff / Departments overflow with anxiety because certain individuals would make it a point to oppose anything and everything they could, to make themselves feel important and needed. Everything needed to be researched, checked, verified, approved, and vetted before it could be executed... and, of course, with so much work, there wasn't enough time to do it all, making it worse.

In one case, every single IT project in our company came to a halt while one person prevented them from moving forward. Once he was fired (for unrelated reasons that could be quantified), every project suddenly began to move, and was completed in a reasonable time frame. We still did the work right, we just didn't oppose each other while doing it.

No matter what promises were made, it's inevitable that the images from the scanners would be able to be saved... for evidence. Imagine if someone was actually caught with a bomb in their pants. When the case went to court, there would be no image from the scanner to provide a reason for the arrest, and the whole thing would be based on "He Said, She Said."

I would more believe in a policy of "not retained for more than 48 hours" than "Not able to be saved at all" - the former is more realistic, even if it's admitting they can be saved.

This, rather than the classic suction cup, is what should be on a Dalek's non-weapon appendage. FAR more versatile!

Like many things in doctrine and dogma, it's about control, specifically thought control. If people think for themselves, they might interpret the word of their faith differently, and then they would no longer be under the control of those who are chosen to interpret it for them.

This is not unique to any one religion. Many, MANY faiths have punished those who thought outside their boundaries, or questioned the faith's word or interpretation. Those who are the people of authority in a religion discourage free thought, because they lose control when it happens. History is filled with people who questioned, or stood up to, authority in religion when they felt the message had been lost for the symbols that represented it, and were punished as a result.