I'm not a big fan of a "miles driven" tax, but I think I'd prefer an odometer reading that doesn't distinguish off-road and out of country miles to having some kind of constant government mandated GPS device in my car.

They could construct it so it doesn't matter. They could just say "in order to get a license, you will pay x% of the difference in your odometer readings from year to year, period". There's no legal reason they have to care where you put those miles on.

Some problems are deceptive though. Think Fermat's Last Theorem.

Identifying innuendo, that's a hard problem.

You think there are rumblings about monopolistic practices now, imagine if the owned the whole music industry. Plus why would you want to buy the music industry? That would be like buying cattle with mad-cow disease.

It's good that we have a museum to put these historic artifacts into, but I would prefer that we have something to replace them with. That feeling is more intense when I see either a Saturn V or a LEM at one of the museums.

This is absolutely true. The most egregious example is a character from the blockbuster Sci-Fi series "South Park", a character named Kenny seems to die almost every week. Long live Mysterion!

I would be quite surprised if one was able to witness the entire event through a telescope from start to finish. I'm curious how long it takes a star to "fall into a black hole" from start to finish.

I would always enter 11/11/11 as the system date. (You would have to enter the date every time you restarted). I must have been psychic.

Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.

This is old, but I enjoyed it. 'New Super Mario Bros'. movie trailer.

When you have a system where you can actually make more money suing for patent infringement and protecting "intellectual property" than you can for actually creating a product, what do you think businesses will do? It probably wasn't the case back then.

Two pounds of semtex, an egg timer, radiation suit, 3 rolls of duct tape, and NO QUESTIONS ASKED. I'm sorry, what were we looking for again?

The Oxford Management Group, Lloyds Of London, and Finnish Yodeling Institute are very upset.

Anything you can put a simple number in front of uses "fewer" rather than "less". If you can say "10 viewers" then you can say "fewer viewers". Something like "beef", you can't say "10 beefs", you could say "10 pounds of beef", but that's not a simple number. So you could either say "less beef" or "fewer pounds of beef".