I have. I can't find the video but someone posted on reddit a video of a refrigerator TV ad from a mom and pop shop which had an an enthusiastic asian guy talk about how to pick the best refrigerators (insulation, how to tell cheap models that cut corners, etc) and in about 1 minute I learned more about fridges than I have ever known. If I lived in the same area I have no doubt I would have bought a fridge from them if I needed one.

It seems like I'm being bombarded by propaganda from both sides and the only way I'm going to find the facts is if I become a climatologist and study the data myself.

There is a giant frustration with fantasy authors that just can't seem to close a story. Tolkien got it right: create 3-4 main books, then a couple supplemental. Jordan couldn't do it in >12 books, and George R.R. Martin seems to be heading in the same direction.

My biggest regret has been using steam lately to purchase a few games (including Empire Total War which requires it). I remember the days of loaning games to other people, finding out about genres you otherwise wouldn't play. Now you can't even sell your used PC games anymore. When games didn't require a nagware/adware internet check to play a single player game. Now you have to investigate if games come with additional rootkits (Securerom/TAGES) before you buy them. When games came with extras like huge detailed manuals (Baldurs Gate II) which now require you to buy the "collectors edition" if you want any extras.

The big publishers took all the fun out of buying games and I will not mourn their loss.

...plus free mobile to mobile and nights and weekends, which the prepaid plans do not have (that I am aware of).

length and width depend on the perspective :)

Hence the word probably...and finland is about ~200 miles E->W, the same direction as the I10, if you would have spent five seconds looking it up.

I pay $29 but then I guess I'm not a phone whore and only need 200 minutes/month. It does make sense though, the stretch of I10 going from Phoenix to Los Angeles (where nothing but desert stretches for miles) is probably the length of Finland itself.

Unless the people retesting are the same ones who submitted it in the first place (either via ghost writers, sham corporations, etc). Then it becomes like artificial sweeteners, where you have a mountain of evidence stating that it is safe (from the corporations, or people funded by the industry) and some research stating that it isn't safe, and the end result is people are confused and no one knows what to really believe.

Yep 60% total load on a core2duo 6400. 1080p video uses less than that so I don't know what the hell they are doing.

Thanks RIAA.

I refuse to give up culture just because it is a one-sided deal.

To be fair prices have decreased. Now you can get a lot of CDs at Best Buy or Walmart for $9, and I remember the going price at the Wherehouse used to be $17. Still, $1 a song is ludicrous, I think the allofmp3 model had it right, ~$0.32 a song. Even $0.50 a song is reasonable if the artists gets a good portion. I would probably pay $1 a song if the entire amount went to the artist.

I bought the first Velvet Revolver CD, which installed a rootkit on the computer to prevent you from doing anything other than listening to some shitty WMA files. After that I swore I would never buy a CD again, and I haven't. You only screw me once. So until we have no DRM and a perpetual license (buy the music once, have the rights to any format) I'm done playing their game.

You are correct, all the research that comes out of neuro and social psychology is completely worthless as it isn't real science, despite the fact that it actually has everything you mentioned. But don't let facts stop your baseless accusations.