The solution to this is to build more nuclear power plants. Nuclear is the cleanest and safest energy we have available, and people freaking out and trying to ban nuclear power is just misguided. We need to take advantage of new technology and build newer more up to date plants that won't have these problems.

Well, that would just be awesome.

If the address is loads@beer.com or foxy4U2@hotmail.com, yes that probably won't help them get the job. Ditto if it is religous, political or whatever, The best option is to not try to be cute with the email address you are using professionally.

Now, if cutting the analog cord meant that the telephone providers would be required by law to build out their digital capabilities to anybody within their previous POTS coverage areas, then that would be great for folks who haven't had any good broadband options so far.

I think that is the whole point of bringing this up to the FCC. Currently the Universal Fund requires them to provide coverage to everyone, but that does not extend to Internet Access. That needs to be addressed, and that is why the FCC needs to be involved.

I would have thought that one of the Android phones released in 2009 would beat out the Eeeeeeeeeee PC.

Novell maintains its own version of OO.

It also supports it via contracts with third parties such as this one

There is plenty of support out there for OO and other Open Source Projects. Digium will sell support for the Open Source Version of Asterisk. The OS is will supported also. I think that the support for OO is at or near the level that MS can provide for MS Office if you know where to look.

Blue Screen of Doomsday.

Which regulation is it, exactly, that prevents shipping companies from paying to have pirates killed?

It's easy to say "just don't spend the money" when you haven't played the game. I've been a casual player of the game since April, and I must say, this is the definition of bait-and-switch. The business model of cheapening everything, but forcing players to buy them, is a horrible one to go buy. Given it's accessibility and cartoony environment, this game attracts many younger kids who find paying for items online a huge hurdle. Also, to suggest that they weren't making money before is simply wrong. I had mentioned this in another response here on /., but I'll say it again. In the actual forum post, Ben Cousins has clearly stated that it's not an issue with money but rather with a sustainable business model. Also not mentioned here was a previous interview where he had stated that only 5% of players would need purchase clothing items for them to turn a profit. As a player, I can tell you they clearly were not in the negative. Most likely, some corporate heads at EA called DICE and said "Hey, we're losing money from our other shitty games, so you need to pick up the slack". To do what they did is not illegal, but it sure as hell is professionally unethical. It's a great game, but doesn't have enough to offer to keep it's fan base. Trust me, the fans aren't going to just swallow this one.

I have a pair of older mechanical typewriters. I don't use them to write (which I do professionally, albeit technically). I could see using them for pre-printed forms not available in PDF, but they're there mostly because I like the idea of having them more than they are useful (free/cheap garage sale fare). I might bring one with when I move; but I haven't ever even changed the ribbon in either of them.

I write mostly on the computer, but have written stories and drafts on paper even recently. Hell, if it's a line or two or an idea, I'll SMS it (with an old crappy cell phone, not iPhone/Blackberry/etc.) to my e-mail address. It's just a matter of what is available at the time. Words are words, regardless of how they are put in the particular order you put them in.

Also, if it's a long doc, I'll print it out and edit it by hand by scribbling on the page, then make the changes in the electronic file.

That being said, I like reading from paper, not an LCD screen, but I have been eyeing an e-book reader for a while now; too bad they all seem to have pesky DRM. It's just a matter of which one is the least evil.

>That said, I'd buy one of Burroughs's typewriters.

I would agree. And his stash of magazines he used for his cut-ups, too. :-)

Why limit ourselves to just one? I vote for all three! Only thing is you now lose twice the karma,

Personally, I like

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How exactly did a youthful da Vinci figure out what an ova and sperm look like? If Leonardo da Vinci (as a child) could sketch sperm and ova over 100 years before a crude microscope was invented and almost 200 years before Hooke and Leeuwenhoek, then that alone would be an astonishingly significant discovery. Unfortunately, it seems unlikely that Leonardo would build a microscope, discover cell biology, and not bother to write something up about it as an adult. He was, after all, interested in pretty much everything. The more reasonable conclusion is that Edith Sherwood is willing to interpret images very "liberally" (meaning here, without much evidence), without making even simple checks for logical consistency. This is a single example, but the carelessness calls the rest into question. (As you have already indicated)

Genius. I bet you don't lose when your car is stolen, because you are all insured?

They don't *have* to, but it makes sense (for logical, ethical and legal reasons).

Simple, really. Because property rights allow individuals to move up in the world. Take Africa, for example. They are VERY RICH in natural resources; but there's no property rights. So the farmer who could setup irrigation on his field and feed his/her family won't do it, beacuse as soon as he spends all the time and effort to do that, someone will come and take that away from him/her by force.

There is poverty in Africa because it lacks good property rights.

"Rights" to basic food, shelter, job, and health care create AN ONEROUS RESPONSIBILITY ON PRODUCTIVE MEMBERS OF SOCIETY AND ALLOW UNPRODUCTIVE PEOPLE TO LEACH OFF SOCIETY.
Property is sacred because it's the fruit of human labor. It must be protected in order to encourage productive people to produce. I guess they don't cover that in communist-sponsored leftist schools.

Food, shelter, jobs and health care are noble goals indeed, but are best left to CHARITY, to which you are free to contribute. But do NOT use FORCE to force people to GIVE UP the fruits of their labor to others any more than is necessary to protect property rights. Strong property rights enable everyone to succeed, and allow you the CHOICE to contribute to charity.