Set up a quick static mirror: click.

Where are the other six?

If you're willing to change the system so that the jury-trial disappears, change it so that the judges are decently competent.

Here in the Netherlands we have no juries and my gut-feeling is that the system here is not perfect, but most certainly not worse than any country with juries.

This is one of the reasons why, sometimes, I'm glad to get to go to the data-centre and *build* stuff. It's enormously satisfying to spend a few days to rack up a few cabinets full of shiny new kit in between weeks of working behind a monitor fixing configurations and stuff.

Besides, it's a good feeling to know that the common bias of us geeks being afraid of physical work is wrong. Yes, your back hurts after racking a few blade chassis, but at least you feel like you did something. Certainly did a lot more tangible work than those guys over at marketing...

I count at least 106 Soyuz missions. Where did you get that data?

The Spaceshuttle is able to get far bigger and heavier loads to the ISS than Soyuz. GP was talking about a servicer, the Soyuz is a pretty good people carrier, not so much a heavy servicer.

As far as I know, there is currently no spacecraft that can replace the Spacehuttle for transporting large parts to the ISS.

It isn't infinite, it just approaches infinite. The changes that you roll 1 an infinite number of times (as great-grandparent stated) is effectively zero. You'll never throw the dice that often, and even if you do, it will never, ever be all 1's.

Here in the Netherlands (I live in Ede, near Arnhem), they're everywhere. From smallish posters at bus stands to billboards.

Actually, wodka is the Dutch spelling. Sorry for that.

That bet is on. Name a time and a place. If distance is a problem, we'll organize something with an alternative control group or whatnot.

Anyone who tells you that wodka is just ethanol and water is talking nonsense and taste definitely does matter with some (if not most) brands. Hell, you'll probably have to blindfold me since I'm probably able to see the difference by the slight variation in color and I'm not even a wodka-fan (my last wodka was years ago).

Oh, I am talking "the real deal" here, not that American filtered crap. Do you do the same thing with whisk(e)y and cognac?

Not surprising.

It's also great if you just want to stream content. Streaming WMV to Silverlight needs much less of a backend than F4V to Flash, not to mention that Flash eats resources like a hungry kitten on the frontend.

Now, I'm not saying that it's any good, 'cause it isn't, but it's certainly compelling for sites that stream a lot of content. They can do it with a fifth of the servers they need for Flash (apparently, I'm getting my figures from our public broadcasting system which went Silverlight around the last Olympics and never went back. They do have the option of streaming "as is" WMVs though, so I can still access them from my Linux box).

Hi, the Netherlands here.

You can abort until the 24th week of pregnancy. This line is drawn since with 25 weeks, the infant would have a decent chance of surviving when born.

I've seen my daughter (born 2 weeks ago) on a sonogram being 12 weeks old. Everything is there, alive and (in this case) wildly kicking. Almost every "pro abortionist" will tell you that it should be OK for a woman to end an unwanted pregnancy at 12 weeks.

DISCLAIMER: I don't know where I stand on this matter. I know how I feel about it, but I'm not completely able to rationalize it into a proper point of view.