To be fair, if Palin's personal email account was "hacked," (as in "guessed because of being an easy password") i think it was the fault of her own naive password habits and therefore reason to laugh at her.

Obama's Twitter, on the other hand, is obviously not actually used by him. Hate to break it to you, but the POTUS does not tweet. Some staffer, probably some young intern, is in charge of posting the official tweets from the press office each day. We should be laughing at that guy right now. If it had been something the President did himself then yes we should be laughing at him and I would be the first to have a chuckle. It's good to laugh. //I hate Palin and wish a moose would eat her.

England hasn't been part of Europe for 10,000-20,000 years. It's no more a part of Europe than Madagascar is a part of Africa just because of proximity, or Guadeloupe a part of Europe just because it is ruled by a European country.

Note: Membership in the EU also does not imply being part of Europe. Europe is a continent. Well, half a continent.

Hilariously, this same question came up recently in a thread I was involved in.

I think your argument is a rational one. Is the theme in question the default one?

No matter how much you personally disagree with the policies of Her Majesty's Government, at least the officials who run it were duly elected by their constituents.

China does not have real elections (in that you have a choice of more than one party to vote for).

Please don't try to compare the UK with China.

It was Windows NT or 95 that decided randomly to move the close box to the right side (3.1 had only the window menu for closing, and you had to double-click it or drop it down and click "close"). The only reason I can imagine why they did that was a juvenile attempt to differentiate vs. classic Mac OS. See also:

- Icons lined up by default on the left of the desktop instead of right.
- White mouse arrow (stupid!) instead of black
- global "bar" (taskbar vs mac menu bar) at the bottom of the screen by default instead of the top

All these changes were so obviously made to be "the opposite of whatever Apple does" in order to give Windows a veneer of different-ness so that the inexperienced user (or judge) would say "Wow, this is definitely NOT a knock-off of Mac OS! In fact, it's the opposite!

Therefore, since the original justification for moving it to the right was nonexistent, none is needed to move it back where it belongs.

Oh, please, please tell me this means the next step involves burning all spammers alive? Pretty please can we can we? I would support that plan because SPAMMERS ARE WHY WE CAN'T HAVE NICE THINGS.

Haha. Thanks for setting me straight. I didn't know that.

Um, since always. it's an island. er, one and a half islands. In other news, Hawaii is not a part of North America. :P

With a name like "clarkkent09" i'm surprised you didn't at least pick a DC superhero to use for that joke, but it was hilarious nonetheless. Too bad I don't have mod points.

Something must be wrong with your computer. I've been using time machine since leopard came out (I never did backups properly until that so this was a big win for me) and other than occasionally spotting the little time machine menubar item doing its little animation, I've NEVER noticed anything.
Also, I get "spinning wheels" only on occasion, always when a program is working on an intensive operation and not responding (usually Textmate doing a project-wide search). This doesn't affect any other programs at the time.

One other problem besides net neutrality is we're letting cable companies buy TV networks now. NBC is about to be owned by Comcast, and it's not the first and won't be the last. And regulators see nothing anticompetitive about this. It's sickening.

Of course, with cablecos owning major chunks of cable networks and now broadcast networks (NBC), they would never allow an IPTV startup to carry any halfway-complete set of channels... And with no net neutrality, our monopoly cable and phone companies that both want to sell you their TV services can throttle back "Tivo IP" to about 10Kbps... Crap.

You're doing it wrong on the Dish box. I think you made a Dish Pass when what you want is a plain vanilla recording. Dish pass searches on every channel--it may be good for catching the next time your favorite movie comes on, or if you gotta have every "Cops" that's aired in syndication, but a normal recording is always the tool for recording first-run shows because a normal recording only does the channel you put it on. Since you know new episodes of Big Bang Theory will always be on CBS, you just find it in the guide on your HD CBS channel, press "Record," hit "new episodes," and you're done. You'll get only new episodes that air on that specific channel.

Also cool is the timeslot feature. That is another choice in the standard recording creator, where it records that show *if and only if* it is on in that same timeslot. If it's preempted nothing is recorded. If they air episodes at 5, 6, and 10, you'll only get the timeslot you intended.

Also the Dish thing does group by show name, it's one of the options to the right of the list. Let me know if you can't find it and i'll go see what it's called. It also lets you sort either by most recently recorded or alpha.

The biggest annoyance I have with Dish DVR is that they don't strip off "The" from the beginning of shows when alphabetizing. So i have a huge "The" section down near the end of the alpha list. Aside from that it's awesome. and now the web scheduling is out of beta so i can log in and edit scheduled recording, delete shows etc. from anywhere.