In an ideal world, we would be able to eliminate CO2 from our atmosphere completely. And ultimately, if we as a species are going to survive, we need to do that. But in the here and now, we have to do the best we can. And cars produce way more of that poison than anyone on a bicycle. The Congressman is just an ignorant jackass who has no understanding of how our biosphere works.

The "potential solution" he seems to be advancing is "We should just all agree that open-source journals shall be as prestigious as the print ones." But that's never gonna happen, for the reason I described.

Most academics are publishing to advance their careers/reputations/chances-at-tenure, not as a community service. So publishing in "Bob's Open Source Mathematics Journal/Blog" is NOT the same as publishing in Annals of Mathematics to them. You may be able to talk them into *republishing* their articles in some open-source repository at some later date (and that seems to be the President's goal), but you can forget asking them to forgo the prestige of established print journals for idealism. It's hard enough to get tenure today even with a list of publications in prestigious journals, much less with a long list of publications in fly-by-night open-source journals that your review committee may not have even heard of.

The guy at Best Buy said that oxygen-free Monster cables offer much faster download speeds on pirated movies than any other cable brand.

Good boy! Him roll over! Can you sit? Can you sit? Come on, boy...sit!

My dumbass roomie used to be like that. Typical exchange:

Me: This game sucks. It's boring and unoriginal.
Him: Yeah, but did you *SEE* those particle effects on that hangar level?!?

No...let me guess, more micro-transaction shit, right?

Don't make me have to stop this car and separate you two!

My mistake. I read it as "Emilio Esteves."

I can remember telling a friend about ISDN and having him respond with "My god, what would you even *DO* with 128 kbit/s?"

Hardly surprising. Genre films are very popular among geeks on the tech cutting edge. But don't worry. If the "Funding a movie via Kickstarter" thing catches on, you can expect the shitty romantic comedies and godawful cop movies to follow soon enough.

Just a play from the classic Apple playbook: Any feature that our competitor has that we don't is something customers don't want or need--until we do have it, and then it's awesome.

Actually, in all fairness, it's a play from pretty much everyone's playbook. I mean what do you expect him to say, "Well, the truth is we're jealous"?

Well, the lowercase "i" suggests it's a jab at Apple.

Silent Running was actually directed by the guy who did the FX for 2001, so there is a lot of cross-pollination there.

That's more than one word.