Major League Players Born in Cuba

Obligatory Penny Arcade

Nope, Slashdot is mostly into BSD-M.

I think, sadly, the important question in terms of practical consequence is not whether these boilerplate legal blurbs are legal or enforceable. The important question is does this guy, if he decided to ignore them, have a chance in hell of fighting against a legal onslaught from a company as large as ATOC? I think the answer is likely to be no, which enables the CEO to do it with a reasonable chance of success despite the legality.

At first they came for the Germans, and I said nothing because...it's the Germans. Who cares? ;)

Excellent read.

My Vizio 32" TV's box said "PC input". One doesn't even need to read the owner's manual.

I think you vastly overestimate people's ability and willingness to hook up AV equipment. I know that for around 80-90% of my friends, because I'm the "computer" guy, I get defaulted as the "AV" guy as well. And for these people it is too complicated TO PLUG IN RCA JACKS! Seriously. I get called for that problem more than anything.

This post needs some perspective I think. Let me qualify my post by saying:

1) I am a former Blockbuster employee (5 years ago while I was in college).

2) I am a current Netflix subscriber and occasional Redbox user. I can not recall the last time I walked into a Blockbuster. I think their business model is archaic.
 

Don't forget their end of latefees-- which ended up the king of late fees. Apparently, if you kept the DVD, no late fees occurred, because they just charged your credit card for the purchase of the movie.

Which only occurred after you didn't return it for a week! Did you think they were just going to let you keep the movie forever?

Apparently, if the new release you were looking for wasn't in stock, they'd give you a little paper rain check that says "You can rent this dvd at a future date for exactly the same price it is today, no questions asked!" Which would be just awesome, except.. their prices didn't really change often.

Unless this changed since I worked there, this is out and out wrong. The rain check was for a FREE copy of that title on your next visit.

Sometimes it's just a suggestion, rather than being forced, to help them assimilate. For example, my ex-roommate was named Carl Marks after his grandfather, who emigrated from Germany. Upon arriving they noticed his name was "Karl Marx" and suggested to him, if he didn't want to be branded as a communist (even though he wasn't) he might want to change the spelling a bit.

Actually, what the hell is the difference between Facebook and Myspace? Qualitatively?

At the very least, Facebook only allows a certain level of profile customization, so on Facebook (unlike MySpace) you have very little ability to make your profile look like it was vomited by a drunk unicorn.

Outrage over teen stripper loophole

This might partly have something to do with the diabetes and how alcohol affects you. I had a diabetic roommate once who drank like a fish, and when he did, the alcohol seemed to push him into the "falling down, blacked out, stupid" phase much quicker than anyone I know. He once got so drunk he broke into a bunch of cars in our apartment parking lot looking for something he lost. No memory of that the next day. Another time he decided it'd be a good idea to not take his insulin and then drink. Paramedics were called that night as he was unresponsive.

See the relevant WebMD article.

* While moderate amounts of alcohol can cause blood sugar to rise, excess alcohol can actually decrease your blood sugar level -- sometimes causing it to drop into dangerous levels.
* Alcohol can interfere with the positive effects of oral diabetes medicines or insulin.

Ummmm....

This reminds me of Pablo Escobar who actually got elected to Columbia's Congress so as to avoid extradition to the USA for the various crimes he committed. He was eventually kicked out because the rest of the Congress saw right through this (and strangely enough Escobar ended up getting his way anyway by just paying off enough of those same members of Congress to amend the Columbian constitution with a no extradition bill). Now this post isn't equating copyright infringement with the various crimes that Escobar committed, but it will be interesting to see how the Swedish Parliament reacts internally to this matter.

If you buy food with salt in, you can't take it out - if you buy food with no salt, you can easily add some;

I can only assume that you are someone who has no extensive culinary experience, because some of the things you say can not be backed up by culinary experience. Salt is not just something people invented to mask flavors of bad food. It's a chemical: Sodium Chloride. Thus it has uses AS A CHEMICAL. It's an essential part of baking, cheese making, and a variety other parts of the culinary world AS A CHEMICAL. Not to mask flavor, not to make things salty, but strictly for how it effects reaction of ingredients together. You can't just add salt later in the process and get the same results.