GP is correct. The corruption here is nothing like it is in Venezuela. I'm not saying it shouldn't be fixed, but I do definitely appreciate it. I don't have to worry about getting arrested by men with machine guns as I ride the bus so that I'll pay bribe money to get it back. When I was in Venezuela, it was a constant worry. I carried a photocopy of my passport with me, and kept the original in a bank safety deposit box. I knew plenty of people who were arrested only to be charged money to get their passport back. I met a lot of Middle Easterners there, too. It was worse for them. They were hassled far more than USians were.

A lot of Venezuelans live off of $50 a month or less. When I lived there, my apartment cost me $15 a month, in a high rise, right on the beach. I spent less than $110/month on living expenses. And if you think the murder rate is bad there now, you should have seen what it was like when Chavez was temporarily disposed of in 2002. That was an interesting time. Anyway, Venezuela also has a lot of gold and diamonds. The government is very corrupt there, though, and the average person never sees a dime of the money coming out of the ground.

I used to live in Venezuela and it is true that the only thing cheaper than beer is gas. But it has nothing to do with owning PDVSA. It's because the government subsidizes the price of gas, much like Iran does. Their gas would be just as expensive as everyone else's if the government wasn't artificially lowering the price. PDVSA is also super corrupt now. Most people in the country do not make minimum wage. Being a janitor at PDVSA (if you can even get in), is a very well paying job.

Oakhurst is a pretty small community, yes. But it's also the last town on the way into Yosemite from Highway 41. I had a huge crush on a girl from Oakhurst when I was in college, and used to go up there all the time. There's also surrounding communities such as Bass Lake, which are even further from the nearest theater than Oakhurst. It's a small enough community where most people know each other, and all the locals I met were definitely into small businesses and restaurants. As long as they get new movies, I bet they will have plenty of customers. During the busy season, they'll likely get some teenage kids trying to escape the majestic beauty of Yosemite with their parents.

Or I could spend my time and effort working on projects that probably need the help more than Kernel.org does anyway.

Except why should I bother? I am not going to fight tooth and nail to make their project better. I made an honest, good faith effort to send them a patch. I sent it multiple times, for multiple kernel versions. Eventually I gave up because it was less of a hassle to automatically patch new kernel versions than to continuously ask for a patch to be applied. I've submitted bug fixes for plenty of OSS projects, and I am always happy to help those that have a great community.

I don't believe you. Someone added a sleep to the USB-HID driver in 2.6.10. The problem is they were holding a spin lock at the time. I submitted a patch for it to every single kernel release from there until 2.6.18 when a Linux kernel developer submitted the same patch and it was accepted. It was a very simple fix. If they don't tolerate stupidity, why did they ignore my one line patch and leave a huge bug in the damn keyboard/mouse (and other devices of course) for so long? I have had zero interest in contributing to these large projects ever since, as they seem to be more about ego and status than moving the project forward.

The problem here is that homes may intentionally be targets for burglary because the criminal is looking for firearms. Do you really want to make it that much easier for criminals to get their hands on guns? The media should have no access to such records, why do they need it? What greater purpose does it server? The only reason such laws should exist (if they even should exist), is so that law enforcement can track down ownership of a gun. Since the person who had the federal firearms license that was used to transfer the gun from a business to a person has a record they are required to keep by law, I'm not sure why there needs to be a public set of records too.

This is chrome we are talking about here. They've probably made 3 major releases just since they announced this feature in release 25. I mean how long has Chrome been around? The only software version that has a higher number than Chrome is Windows 98.

I guess I should go for the record then. The last time I took a typing class was in college. My car broke down, I had no way to get to school, so I had to drop 9 units of classes that were during a time of the day where I couldn't bum a ride from friends/family. I went below full time, and had to maintain full-time status so I took some typing classes, intro to word and excel, and other one-unit self paced classes at the library. If the software they used calculated the data right, I averaged over 150WPM with alphanumeric sentences and could burst up to ~260WPM on alphabet characters only. Of course its much easier to read something off the screen and type it off as you read it than to sit here and think about a response and type it. I got through college partially by doing legal transcription work for a law office. I went through a 6 month backlog of tapes in less than a month of 12 hour weeks. I wish I could do everything as well as I can type!

Bees die when they sting humans and other animals that have elastic skin. The stinger penetrates the skin, which closes around the stinger. The bee tries to extract the stinger and it rips off, often leaving the venom pouch inside the victim. If you think about it, it makes sense that one bee would sacrifice itself in this manner, as it would allow more venom to be pumped into a larger enemy. If you see a bee sting another insect, you can see it sting multiple times without any damage.

Dirt and water touching wood is about the worst possible combination you could have. If you've ever put in a fence or any other outdoor wooden structure, you know that the most important thing to do is to make sure that you poor cement into the post holes, and that the cement completely envelops the wood so it doesn't touch the dirt. Otherwise, you will get bugs and other such creatures attacking the wood from below. It will also rot faster as well.

Now it could be that they had some technique to avoid pest infestation and rot, or it could just be that the hole was deep enough that the bugs didn't typically hang out as low as the wood went, I don't know. But in general water + dirt + wood don't mix well!

No worries. :) It certainly would be nice if the EU had called Apple to task and made them add a microUSB port to their phones. I for one look forward to the day that I can borrow anyone's cable to charge my phone/tablet. Oh well, maybe some day.

I wasn't aware that I was experiencing nerd rage. I was just merely commenting on the fact that the lightning connector has no advantage in my opinion, and that Apple has done many things to break compatibility with their own accessories over the past ~2 years. I am not commenting on the power adapters of any brand but Apple's. And that has been the same since the original iPod came out (well now with USB instead of firewire only). So I'm not sure what your father's Nokia or your wife's Samsung phones have anything to do with Apple's 30-pin to lightning bolt switch that I am discussing.

I wouldn't give up compatibility with all my existing docks just to be able to do that. If I can't plug it in in the dark, I flip it around and plug it in the second time. No big deal at all. And don't mention an adapter to me because the plug itself is not the only way they broke compatibility. I have a dock that works with anything iPhone 4 or older, but not with anything iPhone 4S or newer. That includes the new iPod models as well.