Maybe that's why his plan increases NASA's budget over the next 5 years?

http://www.cnn.com/2010/TECH/space/02/01/nasa.budget.moon/?hpt=T1

I have a G1 and indeed, I have the same trouble. I tend to lock it into Edge mode most of the time.

I like the freedom of MythTV, I've been running it for about 4 years now, but it can often be tricky to get working if there is a problem. Particularly if there is a MySQL problem when I don't have a great deal of expertize in database administration. I'd like to take advantage of the new cable-card hardware coming out for high definition too.

Right now it pretty much seems either windows media center or giving in and getting a TiVO, but I'm curious about some of the other things out there like Sage TV. Sadly, not everything is available online right now without having to go to bit-torrent, especially high-def content.

I'm not a big fan of them dropping the DVI-I port, but it's not a $60 change:

http://www.monoprice.com/products/subdepartment.asp?c_id=104&cp_id=10428

We only have two seasons: Sweater Season and Fire Season.

Exactly. It is a cause for concern but all is not lost.

Take a look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miramax sometime. There was some tension between the studio and Disney for the decades that they produced films like Pulp Fiction, Kill Bill or Dogma. In the end, though, they green lit them. Even after The Weisnteins left, there are some great, adult movies that have come from the studio.

Because Kill Bill, Pulp Fiction, Fahrenheit 9/11 and Doubt were completely free of violence and any sort of controversy under the Disney heal. Clearly as Disney-fied as Hanna Montana and Witch Mountain.

Of my 8 or so high school friends who I still keep in contact with who graduated between about 10 to 12 years ago: six of us went to school and got our degrees, one went into the airforce, one became a mechanic. Guess which two own their own their own home while which 6 are still puttering around still trying to figure out what they want to do or trying to finish school.

Sure, had some of them really gone after it and known just what they wanted to do in school they could have been making more than any of us, but the point is that there seems to be this myth out there that a degree automatically == a great job with great money. While maybe 10 more years from now some of them are going to be making more money then our mechanic friend, I don't think that any of us have or will have more job security or more job satisfaction then he has.

That ignores the life of the car though. That 20 year old geo metro goes down to someone replacing their 40 year old gas guzzler. It might not be in the US, but a running car usually goes somewhere and gets used. So the hybrid argument aside, yes, going from 30 mpg to 40mpg and throwing the old car into a local lake is a pretty stupid idea. But getting that new 40mpg car and getting the old one to some highschool kid or family in Mexico who now isn't going to keep some old clunker on the road, then things start to look a little different.