They're probably as lactose intolerant as the rest of the canine population. But the real problem is that they're more than a little bit food driven, and one's a hound.

I have a feeling the roadkill rate might go up a bit, and I'd hate to think about trying to walk my dogs on a sidewalk or street coated with processed dairy...

Android might have been designed for the touchscreen, but it's pretty solid as a singletasking desktop too.

Not without a touchscreen.

I've tried various versions of Android x86 over the years, and (ignoring hardware compatibility bugs and stuff like suspend not working), it's nowhere near "pretty solid" without touch. Scroll bars, for example, seem to appear randomly. If I had to compare it to something, I'd say it's about as usable as KDE 4.0.1.

I fail to see why a desktop or laptop maker would use Android and not Chromium OS.

Because Android has a gazillion name-brand apps, and Chromium OS... doesn't? Granted, many of those apps have web versions which will work fine on Chrome, but it's not even close to the same number.

I'm also thinking that PC makers (who, in many cases, are also tablet and even phone makers) have a lot more product experience with Android than ChromeOS. Yeah, there are some ChromeOS device makers, but nowhere near as many and they haven't been doing it as long.

The shell company that holds the patents itself produces no products, but Apple and Microsoft certainly doÃ"it's just that they hold the patents jointly through this 'Rockstar' entity.

None of the patents held by Rockstar were invented by Microsoft or Apple and none of the parts of Nortel that actually built products based on the patents were purchased by Rockstar, Microsoft, nor Apple.

That's pretty much the essence of a patent troll. That the owners might do some of their own stuff doesn't really change anything.

Just don't stop taking your meds. The reason you are feeling better is because of the meds. Just don't stop.

Amen.

My mother did community mental health outreach work for years (post-release patients, etc), and by a good margin, the number one cause of problems in followups was people not taking their medications.

The number two cause appears to have been incredibly abusive, unsupportive or just generally dysfunctional families, which fortunately doesn't sound like an issue for the OP.

Before we try and get and that additional freshwater - has anyone found another possible _deposit_ location for all the rubbish and toxic waste we're producing?

China?

Transit riders and drivers/pedestrians are all navigating... they're just navigating entirely different sets of routes. The transit rider has a much simpler set of possiblt paths, but with the added complexity of time constraints (i.e. last subway at 3am, this bus line doesn't run on the weekend, if I catch this one I have to wait an extra 45 minutes *here*, etc).

And blaming the driver.

Actually, I think most people are looking at a picture of a lump of scorched metal that used to be a car which was going fast enough to be completely wrapped around a small tree, and blaming the driver.

You don't need to know the technical specs on the engine or the portfolio of the driver to spend a whole lot of time coming to that conclusion.

Looking at the pictures of the scene its hard to imagine that they were driving anywhere close to the 45mph speed limit.

Yeah, that's pretty much my sense of the whole thing without even RTFA. There are relatively few vehicles certified for road use that would be inherently dangerous when driving near posted speeds under typical conditions. That these "experts" are even considering a problem with the car rather than the driver points to a fundamental problem with the "fast car" enthusiast mindset. If you're driving very fast while barely in control outside of a closed track with full safety gear, you're an idiot.

and yet, it bears an uncanny resemblance to the kinds of things that come out of an average politicians orifices.

Surely you're referring to their mouths.

I'd like to think so, but I'm not a xenobiologist.

The above post may contain toxic doses of sarcasm.

... and yet, it bears an uncanny resemblance to the kinds of things that come out of an average politicians orifices.

Never give personal information to a cold call. Never believe anything you hear from a cold call. If you think it could be legit, conclude the call, look up the *real* number of whatever institution purports to have called you, and call them. Real institutions (even creditors) will understand when you insist on doing this. Do I really have to say, do *not* believe a cold call when they give you a number to call back.

Can't mod you up more than you're at, so I'll say that if this was placed verbatim on a placard stuck to every single device with a connection to the outside world, there'd be a whole lot less of this nonsense.

hmmm....I wonder where they could build it. Oh - I know. Dallas. The tunnel has been dug so all they have to do is drop in a few magnates.

I'm all for putting Donald Trump underground, but shouldn't we cover the hole with dirt afterwards?

Assuming you can tell the difference between Donald Trump and cheap backfill, once you cram him, his toupee, and his ego into that hole then it's pretty much ready to be paved over.

Hey, he managed to Godwin the Streisand Effect

I believe it's called "pulling a Mosley". Or if it wasn't, it is now.