It's plenty fast, almost 4000ft/minute. In a commercial airliner that descent rate would only be used in an emergency,

On paper, but kinda not really. Trying to cash out even 1% of those would have the price under $100.

A game with the same name might have been released, that doesn't mean it's the same game. The next-gen versions of FIFA and NBA2k for instance are completely different engines on nextgen.

Say it with me class: CRED-IT UN-ION

Sure they can. They ask you to give it to them, if you refuse your're disobeying an order from the flight crew.

I suspect you just proved GP's point by mistake.

The old, original vi is quite stagant, the most recent release is from 2005. On the other hand, "the new hotness" like Vim is seeing regular releases.

Lateral G's are never going to make you black out. Have to drain the blood from the brain (positive vertical G) to do that. F1 drivers these days are routinely hitting 7g laterally.

Is it? Is there any *real* evidence that pure nicotine, in these sort of doses, is actually harmful for you, when not associated with tars, benzene, and all the other nasties in cig smoke? Or is it more like caffeine, where it might exactly be "healthy", but the real risk at typical usage levels is miniscule.

He's a real criminal. Many criminal charges including credit card theft, pump and dump stock schemes, and investment fraud.

People actually expected something from Win8? Are they not aware of the pattern?

WIndows 3.11 - Good
Windows 95 - Kinda shit
WIndows 98 - Good
Windows ME - Really shit
Windows XP - Good
Windows Vista - Crappy
Windows 7 - Good
WIndows 8 - Blech

History suggests that you are using a very loose definition of "trusted".

Alternatively: That's better than a hell of a lot of charities.

What's copyrighted is the idea, not the physical manifestation or "input". If you take a downloaded copy of HotSummerBlockbuster 3.0 and burn it to a DVD, that DVD is still covered by copyright. Similarly, you couldn't download a copyrighted song, have vinyl plates cut from it, press records, and sell those. It is the creative work itself that is covered by copyright.

Many years ago a buddy got some new phone lines. One had just been a reservation number for an extremely large restaurant. After a few days of folks trying to make reservations through him he called the restaurant and offered them the number back if they'd pay the transfer fees. They declined. So he started taking reservations. "Four for the Ponderosa Room at 7pm? Under 'Caruthers'? Not a problem; please check in with the Hostess when you arrive." After a week of this he called the restaurant back, and offered them their reservation number back. For just the fees? Oh no, assholes, now it's gonna cost something! He got some nominal amount, just 'cause he was pissed about his time & trouble.

Not really profit. Considering you'd need MILLIONS of javascript miners to equal a single ASIC miner.