In both directions, Southwest really was quite nice.. I even got the refundable extra seat (for wideasses) and got both of them refunded, which was cool..

An unanswered phone is a happy phone!

ps: "Bad for someone else, but OK for me to do it!" sounds an awful lot like Al Gore and learjet liberals carping on about CO2 while they have chauffeured SUVs and private jets spewing several villages worth of CO2 as they travel from junket to junket..

... bwahahah

Of course they're desperate: Yahoo is a shithole.

Taxes in Buffalo are fucking insanity. Even if you like the weather, the taxes, utilities, etc. are bullshit.

Hell, I have a ton of friends in Buffalo, but that's what IM is for. I love to visit and get the only wings worth eating, but then I get to leave and not pay the rapacious income or property tax!

Moving to a city with zero income tax and a relatively low cost-of-living, but plenty of stuff to eat, do and see. 20 Schrute bucks if you can guess which city and state ;)

At this point, I'd need to spend $80-100k per year to pay in sales tax in an average state what I'm paying right now in income tax. Fuck income tax.

Dodgeball was Twitter before Twitter.. Google bought it and fucking squandered it, stupidity of a Microsoftian degree.

I can't wait to see Facebook melt down though, too scamilicious to IPO in the US lol...

No, what I'm saying is, if the folks who SAY it's a problem don't actually BELIEVE it's a problem (judging by their actions), then I am not convinced that it IS a problem.

Do as I say and not as I do because I said so only works if you're a parent lecturing a child, and by 'works' I mean 'something you can get away with', and only until they can free themselves of you.

Better yet, think of something totally new. If the primary joke of your Brady Bunch reboot is "Ha! Remember Brady Bunch?" then you've failed.

Seth MacFarlane's giant bags of cash beg to differ. ;)

I believe there's a Turkish solar panel maker that has hybrid PV/hot water panels (which increase PV efficiency as well as generate hot water) but I don't know if they can or do sell into the US market, or if there's a US-built competitor that does the same thing?

Except we did this for lead, CFCs, DDT, etc. And gee, no Global Communist Government seems to exist...

Who said the globalists would necessarily be a publicly-visible government?

Also, I would bet that malaria kills more Africans than war, and irrational fears of DDT have contributed to more African deaths than the AK-47.

There's no such thing as irrational fear of global communism.

As far as Global Warminating is concerned, I'll take it seriously when the self-righteous greens and politicians take it seriously. That means: MASSIVE investment in LFTRs (as in, Manhattan Project with factories cranking out thousands of community 2-10MW reactors per year, NIMBY preemption, with 25% of all power generation in 5 years and 75% in 10 years) and making celebrity/pol lifestyles match their rhetoric (no more 10k sqft houses with massive power bills, no more private jets to wasteful junkets, etc).

When the hypocrisy stops and the real technological solutions begin, maybe I'll pay attention.

Also, all climate _data_ must be opensource and publicly available, for free, along with methodologies. That's what real science means.

OK, 10 years is a bit long to be avoiding the IRS/Inland Revenue, but I still believe it.

The lead photo's caption says:

"Workers celebrate as the "Big Becky" tunnel boring machine makes its breakthrough in Niagara Falls May 13, 2011 for the new hydroelectric project there."

To be fair, the print is relatively small.

You actually should look for the best processor/disk/etc BEFORE memory, since RAM is where vendors like to bend you over a counter and rape you. I miss the days where you could buy computers (especially Macs) with 0MB RAM and then fit it yourself.

The only exception to this is where the RAM is soldered onto the system board, like the Macbook Air. Or, if you're exceedingly lucky, you buy from a vendor that doesn't have a one-size-rapes-all RAM pricing policy.