More credibility? Really? Sources?

No, it's the truth.

where we learned to stop fighting each other one hundred and fifty years ago

But still haven't mastered free money transfers to any account in the same country.

That's not so unusual. Nowadays things probably aren't so shiny due to the extreme overselling and poor use of QoS techniques, but 5/6 years ago (when I still played) it was standard to have pings of 6-20 ms to national servers and 15-30 to those in some (well connected) countries in Western Europe (UK and Netherlands-based servers were popular). All this over, at the time, a 4 Mbps cable connection. So you can move to 5-years-ago Portugal too, in addition to the GP's "in the middle of Europe" country :P

And don't forget the first failure ocurred because of a design fault on one of the Fermilab-built magnets. I'm with you on this one, those sneaky physicists.

Haha, you bought Sims 3 :P

J/K, but you apparently read Slashdot... How did you fall into that trap?

There comes jury nullification again... And people talk about the RIAA, now this is a lobby.

Of course it's socialism's fault! Are you crazy, what else could it be!? And universal healthcare breeds terrorists!

I believe a pwned is called for.

1. Go for jury service
2. Nullify law
3. ?
4. PROFIT!

Ok, this was a really bad "profit!" intance, but what's with the recent jury nullification histeria? Everytime I read a YRO story in the last few months there's always someone cheering for jury nullification. Please, let's just go back to GNAA, at least it was funnier.

Well, on the scale of hideousness he's closer to the Lewinksy affair than to Bush's war crimes, which, funnily enough, makes him more likely to face impeachment.

(Not that I think it will happen, or even want it to).

You people in the US tend to use hourly, weekly, monthly, yearly wages. Over here, when we refer to salaries, it's pretty much implicit that we're talking about monthly salaries, as it's very rare to use any other timeframe (except maybe for your hourly example, but, given the context, that's obvious anyway). I don't think I ever had the need to attach the interval when refering to salaries.

I'm not so sure you can sue a phone, but it's worth a try - crazier things have happened.

I'm definitely not an authority on either Linux or Windows audio, but I see something wrong with this statement:

Graphs like these are very misleading. OpenAL, SDL, libao, GStreamer, NAS, Allegro, and more all exist on Windows too. I don't see anyone complaining there.

http://blogs.adobe.com/penguin.swf/linuxaudio.png
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_vLES3KKBdaM/Sjsptq1kkCI/AAAAAAAAAGU/yITp1qKuHOU/s1600-h/windowsaudio.png

Looking at both graphs, there's a striking difference: I don't see any loops in the Windows one (though, not being complete, there could be some). I don't see any major problems with library diversity, but the fact that there is no apparent hierarchy does confuse me.

While your numbers are right, your conclusion is wrong. Gold has a density of 19.3g/cm^3 while lead has a density of 11.34g/cm^3.