In what is being described as "a good idea whose time has come" (by me), this bill will require all American citizens to buy Internet Insurance from me. Failure to buy this insurance from me will simply cause the IRS to penalize you $750 on your taxes and give the money to me. In a press release, a spokesperson for me said "Internet security and freedom from terroristic thoughts is a basic human right that will be protected by the implementation of this bill. Anyone who opposes this bill is a right-wing kookwad who should be first ridiculed on The Daily Show and then killed."

Keep in mind, though, that this bill, in its present form, is just the beginning. Other basic human rights will be covered in later additions to this plan that will require all American citizens to buy more things from me. I will build a Great Society where the trains run on time whether you like it or not.

Sure, at 7 TeV they just got muons. No big deal. Once they get to full power and hit 14 TeV they'll get LOTS MORE muons!! That'll be HUGE! Really!

(mutters)Goddamn kids woke me up for fucking muons.

Interesting. I was in a hammock with a Chinese national and a banana and she said she loves China because everyone there uses Gnome instead of KDE. I said that freedom was everything which is why I use a Mac and an iPhone. She called me a stupid Europig and left. You just can't reason with those people. They're all brainwashed.

Yes, Opportunity has found a bird! The probe has struck crumpet - and she looks pretty good too!

Do you think we're going to see underwear become even naughtier?

Hey. Has anyone noticed that building there before?

Get to the choppah! Naow!!

Supercritical is when a substance is above its critical point where the liquid and gas phase lose their distinction. This requires both high pressure and high temperature. So fuel at 180 MPa may not be supercritical. It depends on its temperature.

Its not a one step process, you need to figure out what 2-3 processors, graphics cards, etc you are looking at, then do the further research on each-- when buying a car you dont just go looking at performance charts and then choose the car with the biggest bar, hopefully you actually do further research on your prospective purchase.

An ISP analyzing your traffic by opening your packets and inspecting them as they go over their networks might be a privacy violation. Analyzing traffic by connecting to a bittorrent swarm and reading the information that you send out to every other peer in the swarm is not the same thing.

Actually, there might be other reasons.

Personally, I've got my hard drive partitioned with a non-GUID partition scheme, meaning if I want to install Snow Leopard, I have to reformat my drive.

It's a big drive, so this is a major pain to get around to, and accounts for my not having upgraded yet.

There could be plenty of other little reasons like that. Frankly, I hope I can still run Steam without having to reformat my whole machine.

Mind you, I've already got it installed on my Windows partition and it runs just fine. Really, all this mac-specific business only saves me a reboot.

There seemed to lurk in IE6's bearing some cryptic, sardonic arrogance, as if he had come to find all human beings dull though having moved among stranger and more potent entities. He was, of course, virtually an outcast, suspected of vague horrors and daemoniac alliances which seemed all the more menacing because they could not be named, understood, or even proved to exist.

I met him once when I was younger and he shewed me a mangled frame containing the incomprehensible word "YOGSOTHOTHE" and promised me that we would meet again one day. So it is with mixed feelings that I hear of the death of IE6, for I well remember that strange couplet from the blasphemous book by The Mad Arab Abdul Alhazred that he spake to me as a goodbye: "That is not dead which can eternal lie"

I, for one, have been waiting YEARS for the technology to evolve to the point where we would no longer need movie actors.

Imagine. No more yammering George Clooney. Just an CGI George Clooney! And no one will be able to tell the difference!! Plus we can take all those plastic Hollywood big-boob bimbos and get them out of movies and into the wrestling ring where they belong. Happy days. Happy days.

If I have 5000$ in the bank, I certainly hope that my 'value' is at least 10000$, whatever than means,

Let me take a semi-serious stab at this for ya. If you have $5000 "in the bank" that means that you're getting a return of, at *most*, 3% per year. Someone who can do math might look at that and say "Hell, Paychex freakin common yields over 4%, I can do a lot better with that money than this fool" and offer to buy you out to get his hands on the caysh.

Ok, ok, I admit, it's not going to happen to you or me (and if someone did offer to buy me it probably wouldn't be Veronika Zemanova, it'd be Betty White's grandfather) but there are very, very large companies that are sitting on gobswallops of cash earning, essentially, zip. Some of them earn zip on all that cash while their core businesses print money. Apple and Microsoft come immediately to mind.

Whether that business is sitting on non-performing cash out of deep-seated paranoia and inferiority complexes (Jobs) or just out of gross stupidity and lack of business sense (Ballmer), sooner or later someone who can do math is going to run the numbers and want access to that dragon's hoard of money that's sitting around and, presto, a buyout offer will appear.

Novell is just the current one. Not the first. Not the last.

A million DOLLARS?? For this old thing?? Hell, he could have had this copy for half that. Tard.

Money mules loose too (not that banks give a damn about them) and if we could get people to understand that there is no such thing as a free lunch and laundering money is a bad idea all those transactions could be traced and the banks that get them could be told 'go get Ivan or don't expect wire transfers in the future.' The local banks would do it just to reduce the paperwork they have to do and save some money.

Someone had pointed out to me a while back that human sexual maturity seems to be regulated by body fat. Feed a female enough fat in her diet, and reaching puberty by age 10 is not uncommon at all. 5 is probably an outlier in any case, I doubt that more than a small fraction of human females can reach puberty by 5.

Then again, I know one who didn't reach it until 19.

-Steve