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Perhaps that explains the 50% with reasonable views on Phelps' smoking habits.

Home and Business would have an option at install to run either in desktop or laptop mode the only difference being that laptop mode deactivates compositing and other effects and activates battery saving technologies.

I am so relieved to see that Microsoft is repeating some of their Vista mistakes with 7. As a Linux user and supporter, I was beginning to worry that MS was learning from the past and would undo the damage of Vista.

I can tell you how I would do it if I were MS. Ther would be 3 versions of Windows:

1. Windows 7: Home - The full version of Windows with Media Center and an Installed Game Browser, this SKU would be capable of everything needed for day to day computing, entertainment and gaming

2. Windows 7: Business - the same as Home, with the game browser and media center replaced with the full version of Office, which would be included in the price

3. Windows 7: Server - W7 stripped down to a CLI with all desktop software and bloat removed in favor of administrative applications (whatever constitutes such on Windows)

Does that sound good to anyone else?

You could just take comfort in the fact that, regardless of the distro you choose, it was free, and it wasn't any more free because features had been removed or restricted to get you to pay for the full set.

Moore hasn't seen it and has said he will assume it to be trash regardless of public reception, critical acclaim or the decent of the almighty to induct the work into some sort of cosmic hall of cinematic excellence. Moore has been burned so badly in the past, he fears the flame to much to come into the light. He is hardly unbiased. Neither is Gibbons, who, as others have noted, has financial interest in the success of the film. Shit, I guess the only fair thing to do would be to see it and pass your own judgment.

Fair enough, fixed it. I am actually a fan of several American micro brews. Although I have never had Midas Touch, I do like Dogfish Head's IPA and recently tried the "raison d'etre," which was exquisite. Also, I was able to taste Sam Adams new Chocolate Boch at my local liquor store and, although I was skeptical of it at first, it really is a very nice beer that would pair well with a holiday meal.

One of my favorite Monty Python jokes:

Q: "How is [mainstream] American beer like sex in a canoe?"

A: "It's fucking close to water!"

Do yourself a favor and stop drinking American beers.

I would like to think so.