So who exactly is that guy/company, to tell me what is how, and what is allowed or not allowed?
Do they really think their clients are just cattle that follow whatever made-up own rules they throw out there?

If that price is negotiable is not your decision Amazon! It is ours. Because without us, you’re fucked.
The Spore debacle has shown, that the times of companies dominating their clients is over. The Internet killed it, by freeing us.

Hey Companies! You’re our clients too, you know? You buy our money with your products. And we now put rules to when you get that right, too!
And hey bosses and managers! You’re next!

(Then again, fair companies and bosses with good deals will now earn what they deserve, too.)

Did the models predict the cooling over the past decade or did they fail to actually predict anything other than warming?

I found this AP story interesting. They gave a number of statisticians the temperature data for the last few decades (without telling them what it was) and asked them to identify a trend. All found an increase, and determined that the tail end -- the "cooling" -- was statistical noise consistent with noise from earlier periods in the data set.

http://www.ajc.com/news/nation-world/ap-impact-statisticians-reject-174088.html

My point is that models don't predict every nook and cranny in the temperature map, since a lot of the noise is based on unpredictable events. (As an example, if you pour cold cream into hot coffee, you can't model the precise distribution of the two substances after one second, but you can predict the temperature of the mixture after a minute or two.) To the best of my knowledge, the models are consistent with recent trends.

Same. In terms of fish in general, I almost exclusively eat salmon.

So how is copyright a right then? If I want my "right" enforced, I have to join and pay an artists "interest" union, that I would never trust. Even worse, if I burn my own music (played with the band I am a member of) on my own CD, I have to pay that same union because I am supposed to be pirating my own music

That's blackmail, not a right

I think you meant Arial and Helvetica (Although side by side, they are way different fonts)

Say, a convicted embezzler, having served his time, applying for a job with no amounts of cash whatsoever, but in spite of his otherwise fine qualifications not getting the job because he's cried out as a criminal in some public source?

In a case like the above, and even in a case like the in the original post, I think getting over it and moving on -- after actually having served the penalty decided by the judicial system based on the laws passed by the parliament elected by the people -- is actually quite alright.

I have never heard of unlimited bandwidth for wireless data card, or USB modem for PC. I have been looking, and looking hard, as I also live in a rural environment. More info is needed to confirm that accusation. I finally decided on a combination of both tethering (Verizon BB Storm) and satellite (WildBlue) both suck (mildly) for PC use, but I'm not going back to dial-up. As of three months ago I paid monthly $140.00 for internet at my house ($5 dial-up)($65 ATT Netbook)($30 BB Storm tethered)($40 WildBlue), had to drop ATT because the service sucked, didn't need dial-up if I was getting rid of my house phone.

But they are ones I'll never forget.

And no one else would ever guess.

One is my uberstrong password, the other is for everything else.

Not having them written down anywhere is a big security plus, which I think makes it stronger than changing them so often that you have to "manage" them.

There's no other way for the Obama administration to kill subpoenas like this?

First let me say if this is an Obama ploy I disagree with it. With that out of the way, there is no way for Obama to stop a president that follows him from trying to issue a subpoena. Without a law or a court order, which didn't work to stop the second Bush, there's no way Obama can stop the president that follows him.

Falcon

While I hope what you say comes true, the problem with your argument is diversity of operating systems. given we can do a basic split of end users OS's... say 80% windows based the rest UNIX based. but then it's broken down by flavor ( red-hat, win2000, winme...)

so Mr. I-hate-the-internet-and-I-am-going-to-fix-it, please design it to be multi-flavored

Obviously you live somewhere warm. Up north you show up to the airport an hour before your flight and wait three hours while they deice the planes.

But no matter how much I like apples, there's one price I will never pay for one, and that is two apples.

Congratulations! You've just disproved the economic viability of charging batteries! What are you going to do next?

AFAIK Chevron-Texaco is also pretty good.

There were two main reasons why we developed that particular piece of technology. The first was that both communists (USSR) and the liberals in the west hated us and wanted us destroyed. The second reason was that we have plenty of cheap low grade coal.

(We rather did the research than attack Middle Eastern countries).

You sound like a college student. Now, given your turing machine, if you have sequential operation, then two turing machines can complete the same work in, um, the same amount of time. Scalability = 0. How is that implementation driven?

FWIW, that's the first time in years that I've looked at anything at a fox site.

And still you immediately found the one piece that is accurate, unbiased and informative? Wow!