Good analysis except for a few incorrect assertions. FB is not growing exponentially in revenue or profit terms and can't grow exponentially in users given that its at 900m user accounts (less unique users).

Full year revenue:
2008: 272m
2009: 777m (285% growth)
2010: 2,000m (257% growth)
2011: 3,700m (185% growth)

Full year EPS:
2008: -0.06
2009: 0.10 (n/a from neg)
2010: 0.28 (280% growth)
2011: 0.46 (164% growth)

Selling $30,000 speaker wire is a perfectly rational thing to do.

Well obviously the NPR test was flawed. Most people prefer pizza to NO pizza. While there are some who would pay for a simple NO pizza diet plan (a foll and his money are easily parted), it would be difficult to target them as a group.

Your problem is that you want a simple explanation for the universe for reasons that are your own. Unfortunately reality is very complex - possibly to the point of being beyond our abilities to understand. Simply plugging the hole with a creator and/or active god does not advance our understanding at all. Aristotle was a very smart guy but if you think anyone alive several thousand years ago had it all figured out then you are delusional. I think Socrates was much closer to the mark:

Is it opposite day or something?

No because plain text emails could be intercepted entering and leaving the server.

In population statistics for a large workforce, the mean and median are likely to be the same thing.

Really? The same 911 perpetrated by mostly Saudi's? Starting a war in Afghanistan for harboring Bin Laden is a bit like bombing a neighborhood that won't co-operate with police. I'm sure a SWAT raid that resulted in 20,000 civilian and almost 3,000 friendly casualties would be viewed as an abject failure. That's before you even consider that Bin Laden was eventually killed in Pakistan!!

You have the meaning of the expression wrong. It doesn't mean snow that has been driven over but snow driven by the wind. It means clean/pure/uncorrupted/moral etc.

While I don't support jailing people for this type of speech where no direct threat or incitement to violence was made, the US, in spite of the 1st amendment, has jailed people for producing material judged obscene.

Never heard of José Padilla?

Are you asking the Europeans or the Americans?

There are a few modern cordless units that have a function whereby a handset can be used to charge the base station during an outage. Then you can either place a call from the base station or use another handset. Panasonic does this on some of their higher end models. No need for a separate UPS.

If passed, this law could be challenged on constitutional grounds as a bill of attainder.

Er...killing US citizens with drone missile strikes outside of any judicial review or trial process for one. Pre-emptive wars of aggression for another.