You mean like the one they built in Oak Ridge in the 60s?

-Microsoft is not a hardware company

I disagree. I have a GREAT Microsoft mouse. In fact, I consider it to be much more valuable than the several pieces of their software I had to delete off my hard drive when I originally bought my computers.

They also didn't include a map. I mean, c'mon, if you're talking about a 10 freaking mile long man-made hole in the ground isn't a map showing it's route a pretty damned obvious thing to think that a reader would want to see?

damnit, announce when you're posting something serious. I read that whole long thing looking for the joke to start.

He was one of the ones that created the rules leading to the collapse of the housing market. THEN he came in and began making the rules to FIX the housing market, blaming the problem on someone else.
I say he's a perfect fit at the MPAA.

I understand the difference between a WAG (wild assed guess) and a scientific hypothesis. But you used the word speculate yourself. At the very least this could have been couched with a "might" or a "maybe". I didn't read TFA, maybe they did and it wasn't in the synopsis. I just get bothered when there is a report of exact certitude when there could be multiple explanations for what they have observed.
Another example, the people telling us the world's weather is going to be a specific number of degrees hotter or colder in a decade. They can't even accuratly predict a week out.
No matter how accurately we can observe an exoplanet from Earth, at this distance, most of that interpreted data is not much better than a guess.

Thank you. All they've found is a certain wobble in light from a distant star. They have inferred lots and lots but *know* practically nothing about these planets. I'm getting really tired of all different branches of science saying with exact certitude what they can only guess at.

nah, I wanted to make it an .org when we started it up, but the pastor said it was just confuse people. That .com was the standard.
When I protested he said "trust me, you deal with nerds, I deal with everyday people, it will confuse them." So, I trusted him.

so does my church and the local rotary - most folk people think it means "computer" not "commercial"

Alternative response: The Democrats don't because selling their BS would be against their socialist beliefs.

What would I do to improve it?
Drop the damn thing. It's boring as hell watching it slowly slide down a big pole. Actually drop it like a gallows drop or a bungee jumper diving off.

One:
To never make New Year's Resolutions.
I'm batting a thousand.

Oh c'mon. The Refs are having a bad enough season, there's no reason to pile on.

I don't understand how the patent could apply anyway. The individual football teams are part of individual universities. the NCAA is a collection of those universities. They have made an agreement between themselves on how they are going to determine an arbitrary designation for one of their members. How could any outsider have any claim over that process?

It'd be like me trying to go patent "apricot coke-a-cola" some something foolish like that.

Sports build character, make men into boys, provide wholesome entertainment for millions of fans.

But you suggest strip clubs?... hey, wait. That's not a bad idea. I'm thinking back to some of the co-eds I went to college with.

Can we patent this idea?

yeah I know, the bill comes, I pay it. As long as its not too far off last month, why would I care how many of some unit that means nothing to me I burned?