You're right the question posed in the topic is not really the question at all. I hope someone gets fired over that blunder!

Cut me off and burst into flames!

To me, shows like COPS are illustrative of the problem. I can't watch it, because I start screaming at the TV, due to the police (sometimes) violating peoples rights, and more often people not exercising their rights. I find it ironic that the police don't want to be filmed, but they want us to be filmed constantly! Cameras on every traffic light now!

This is all just a preview of Obamacare. If we don't get it repealed.

There is silver and gold. I am a silver member. Silver = Not Gold. As a silver member you can go online. You can purchase game / items from the online store. I can't play games with online connectivity. I refuse to pay a monthly fee to play. Sometimes my games come with a free month of gold, but I don't even use that. The only thing I have ever bought, were expansion packs and songs for rock band.

How do you keep a star traveling through space and rotating with the earth? Wouldn't it tend to stay stationary in space, and rip through swaths of earth each year as we passed it in our orbit?

If I don't agree and stay on my current version, but I still connect to the network, and then a forced upgrade comes out... Will I be force upgraded without every agreeing to that? And then when I sue them they will say, you agreed when the software installed? (by itself) Furthermore, I guess this means no more EULA changes since the upgrades will go on automatically.

I actually find the $100 denomination to be too small. If you deal in cash, carrying around a relatively small amount of money, just a few thousand, is prohibitive. Try stuffing $3000 in your wallet.

It's not the corporations demanding the ID card. It's the fascist politicians.

You may want to read the emails out of East Anglia, you know the primary site for the study of AGW? You know the people who admit there has been no warming for 15 years! If we listen to the AGW extremists we should have all burned up by now. Science and politics have ugly babies!

Elections have consequences. These board members ran and were elected. They have the right to choose the books they want. If you don't think they are intellectual enough, then elect intellectuals. Just because they are being lobbied, does not mean they will make an ill-informed decision. Your anti-Texas bigotry aside.

60%, not far enough off from standard deviation to make me care. Just more crap, how much did this study cost me?

This is the method I would use, I was already thinking this before I read your post. I'm sure this method will be implemented a lot.

Crap like this makes me sad to be a republican. Drudge has a posting saying net neutrality = fairness doctrine. And a headline saying that the FCC wants to regulate the internet, in big scary letters. Net neutrality is such and simple and good idea, I don't even understand why this is political, and why repubics are on the wrong side of this.

I guess it never occurred to me to spend hundreds of dollars on a graphics/physics card only to not use one of the primary functions. I have an nvidia card, I don't notice the physics stuff, doesn't seem to make a difference anyway.