If an extended warranty made sense, they wouldn't sell it to you.

Wouldn't that apply for health insurance and auto insurance as well? I hope to god I never need to make a $200,000 claim for an accident, but it sure as hell makes me feel better to know that I can if I need to.

I honestly doubt Hitler was some record holder for being evil. He is simply the record holder for being successful at acting on his evil nature. I'm sure there are at least dozens of millions of people in the world who'd happily slaughter hundreds of millions of other humans if they had the means and thought they'd get away with it.

First off, at least in the United States, police cannot prosecute for a retrospective crime.

Wait, what now? So the only way to be charged with murder is to kill someone in front of a cop?

It's basically a Stand Alone Complex.

Not anymore. Blitzkrieg raids have become SOP for anything more severe than unpaid parking tickets, and will probably remain that way until more citizens start greeting these home invasions with kinetic resistance.

Which would lead to the SOP preemptive kinetic pacification of any residence about to be raided.

While 50% is a fraction, it's a pretty big fraction.

And actually he was 3 mph over the effective speed limit. Have every tried going exactly the speed limit on any moderately busy road?

No, it's obviously copperright infringement.

Why would they need a change in policy when they're told that tasers are harmless?

This is one of the first things I came across while surfing the web back in high school.

Of course it doesn't really promote Satanism, but whatever, close enough :)

Let me put it like this. What if the kid was a whiz programmer, and they said he had taught himself "C, C++, Perl, Python, Ruby, Java, Lisp, Prolog, and x86 assembly in a week"?

He didn't learn another language. It's more like teaching yourself "Object oriented programming and functional programming in a week."

I don't know about $700, but I bought an 8800GTX when they were top of the range at ã320 ($640 at the time). It's been 5 years since then, and I can play Bioshock 2, Crysis, CoD:MW2, Prototype, loads of games which came out in the past year (hell, month) at native 1920x1200 at over 40fps (I'd call it a day at 30).

There's no way a 8800GTX can get a relatively steady 40fps on Crysis at 1920x1200 unless you lower the settings to Medium. Maybe even a mix of Low and Medium.

According to this review, the 590 is actually pretty quiet.

The clock speeds were purposely lowered in order to keep the acoustics in check. This differs from AMD's explanation of down-clocking the core clock speed in the Radeon HD 6990 in order to keep power levels down within spec. AMD has focused majorly on power efficiency this generation, and NVIDIA is focusing on acoustics. To this, I will say that NVIDIA has succeeded. At idle and at full load while gaming, I simply could not hear this video card.

So instead they sniff the sessionid of your Yahoo account, and get use it to get the password reminders of all those other sites.

1. StarDust. An excellent movie that did not get even a fraction of the marketing and any of the awards Hollywood hands out to all kinds of cr*p.

Actually I saw plenty of TV trailers for Stardust. The problem is that they were not representative of the actual movie at all. I saw the movie on a whim, expecting some generic fantasy attempting to hitch a ride LotR's coattails. Instead I was blown away by the humor and energy of the film.

Along with I, Robot. Just, completely ignored the real point

Actually while the I, Robot movie ignored the plot, it got the point pretty well - the entire short story collection was about the unforseen consequences of the Three Laws. And robots developing on their own the "Zeroth Law of Robotics - Protect Humanity", which supersedes the First Law, was taken from the last Robots novel - Robots And Empire.