Pong, eh? I know some excellent storyboards for that screenplay.

And we certainly can't discuss classic arcade game adaptations without mentioning the critically acclaimed Frogger trilogy.

Sheesh. Why a whole article? This is not a difficult question.

Anonymous comments are a great choice for speech that is legal, but might expose a public speaker to social consequences: reviews, dark humor, political criticism, whistleblowing, etc.

Anonymous comments should not be a shield for speech that is an illegal attack on others: libel, threats, intimidation, etc. If you want to say that kind of stuff, be prepared to own up to it.

Yep. NNTP discussion groups have been rather thoroughly replaced by web-based discussion sites, like Slashdot. And if you really need Usenet there's Google Groups. (yeah, there's a couple newsgroups Google doesn't cover. I'd give you a URL but I'd rather not risk slashdotting them.)

And as for NNTP binary groups, Bittorrent and Redtube have them covered.

You're lucky I don't have mod points right now. Personally I despise McDonalds for both their food and their corporate behavior, but the REAL cold hard fact is that they prefer to hire people who will show up on time and work hard. It is extremely hard to find USians, either inner city or suburban, who are willing to do that for minimum wage.

Megan suffered from clinical depression, and she had told the other party. Pretending to befriend a depressed person and then brutally turning on them is no different from giving a soft drink mixed with a few drops of peanut oil to an allergic person.

If I'm reading them correctly, the studies being quoted (BTW, here's one of them if you have ScienceDirect) are NOT saying that Asperger's can be cured or prevented by altering a child's exposure to stress. They're saying Asperger's brains have a different neurochemical reaction to sudden changes than ordinary brains do.

1: This may (or may not) point toward changing how Asperger's kids are trained to deal with stress.
2: More interesting to me, this may point to targeted pharmaceuticals able to provide long-term remission.
3: This may just be a side effect of Asperger's, and the actual cause is somewhere else entirely.

The point that he's making (and you're agreeing with) is that if the right to bear "arms" is conditional (e.g. no mortars or machine guns), then deciding exactly which ones to allow is not necessarily a Constitutional crisis. Drawing the line anywhere north of flintlock muskets could plausibly be said to meet the framer's intent.

It's absolutely a low blow of weak minded groupthink to label that post a troll. I disagree with Arthur, but he has a perfectly legitimate point of view.

(**) where "sufficiently small" means "90+% of all human activities that benefit from knowledge of physics".

Yeah sure, you can complain that GPS satellites wouldn't work without accounting for relativistic effects. But when I throw my Garmin at your head, it will travel in a parabolic path (minus air resistance) with sub-millimeter accuracy. Then I will write "annoying pedant" on your face in magic marker while you're knocked out.

A few notes to remember about this study:

1. None of the patients "got better". The only difference was that being stuffed full of plastic tubes sometimes postponed death by a number of days.
2. On average, the highly religious were much less likely to have end-of-life planning (advance directives, durable power of attorney, etc)
3. On average, the families of people on intensive life support were more traumatized by the death than the others. That's a "no duh".
4. All that machinery and medical labor is REALLY expensive.

Personally, I would much rather go for hospice care. Aside from being more comfortable for the patient, it also gives them a chance to say goodbye to everyone properly, rather than just gurgling at your horrified visitors from inside a torture chamber.

... I must object to these allegations in the strongest terms. Our QA department went above and beyond the call of duty to ensure compatibility, by testing our software not only on HP and Dell computers, but also Lenovo, Sony, and Acer. Whatever objections these critics have are clearly spurious.