So does that mean Microsoft is developing a competeing distributed computing system called "Guardian"? And how does that possibly seem like a good idea?

Kinda reminds me of the section in "Forever War", where due to overpopulation and unemployment, people basically (and illegally) "sublet" their jobs. You split your time with someone else, and that person (with a modest fee to the black-market jobs broker) gets some fake ID and works part time.

Naw--We rape the shit out of them at the Number 6 Dance later on!

If I've told you once, I've told you a thousand times:

First pillage, _then_ burn.

I kept wondering who wanted to defund the Office of Scientific Intelligence, especially after all of Steve Austin's work.

That Newsweek article is poorly written and just... bad; don't use it as evidence on either side of the debate. Many people have legitimate and well-reasoned arguments against the various changes proposed and implenmented by the Texas Board of Education, but that article does not reflect them. Unfortunately, I since I haven't been following the situation closely, I can't direct you to better information.

The article seems unclear as to whether it is dealing with two-lane roads in urban or rural environments. There are a lot of rural two-lane roads in my area that I would prefer to see rebuilt with wider lanes and sholders that would let me safely drive faster.

Overall though, I'm not sure that designing roads (at least roads for automobiles) to slow down traffic is the problem that needs to be solved. My idea of road is a device that allows cars and other vehicles to travel _quickly_ and efficiently while preventing accidents that result in property damage, personal injury, and death. Instead of slowing roads down, I would prefer fast straight roads (within the constraints of preventing highway hypnosis) with additional controls and seperations to prevent the mixing of pedestrians, cyclists, and wildlife. That would include seperated grade automobile, bicycle, and pedestrial pathways, and fences and barriers to reduce cross-grade intrusions.

I feel like there's probably a good idea in your post. I know very little about Firefox development, but I bet the dev team would be interested in helping out enterprise users by providing more management options. Of course, at the end of the day there is going to be some stupid mission-critical application that only works on IE, so why are we maintaining two web browsers in our enterprise?

I wish I had some mod points for you; this is the same experience that I've had, as both a software writer and as a software architect. The Linux / open-source community is great for providing mutli-tool solutions to efficiently and effectively accomplish a task. Unfortunately, people who can work well in such an environment are hard to find and expensive. So instead of an elegant solution, you get the solution that can be implemented by four people you are paying $45,000 a year.

As noted in The Onion, real life is not a romantic comedy.

That sounds like it would make a lot of sense. Amtrak already has a route from Fort Worth to San Antonio, the "Texas Eagle", but it's dog slow. According to Amtrak, a one-way trip from FW to SA is $30, but takes 7 hrs, 45 min. According to Kayak, I can get a flight from DFW to SAT for about $155 one way, but it only takes an hour of flight time. According to Google, it would take about 4 hrs to drive one way. It seems like if you could build along the existing rights-of-way for the existing rail, you could put in an pretty awesome high-speed rail system for not-so-much money. One way to work it might be through the "Central Texas Regional Mobility Authority". They are primarily focused on toll roads around Austin, but could provide a venue to study high-speed rail capabilities.

Air travel in Texas is messed up anyway. I went to visit my sister in Austin, and it was cheaper to fly to Austin, through DFW, than it was to get a direct flight to DFW and drive down.

Zyprexa is still under patent (until 2011), so Eli Lilly can charge whatever they want for it. So it is probably one of their most profitable drugs just because they are still able to have a good (non-competitive) margin on it. They probably don't manufacture or sell as many pills as whatever painkillers they make, but I'd bet each Zyprexa pill sells for a lot more per pill.

What would be interesting to know is how many individual pills and perscriptions were manufactured / written for each drug sold in the past year.

As a side note, I've also favored misspelling common words and misplacing quotation marks for getting flamed on Slashdot. Use your "Preview" button, kids.

I've also favored "slamming myself into the curb" repeatedly and "throwing myself down the starirs" as methods of resisting arrest.

Thank you for that mental image; now, if you'll excuse me, I have to go put out my mind's eye.