I think you're missing the operative words: incident to arrest.

They can't just stop people going about their business and demand to see the contents of their backpacks in the hopes of finding something incriminating.

[X] wristwatch battery doesn't go dead every 3 days

I've been running a Dell Studio Hybrid for 6 months. They're assembled from laptop parts so they're very low power. It's completely silent. It has a fan but I've never heard it. It's about the size of a mac mini and starts about $100 less. Looks very inconspicuous in the living room - more like stereo equipment than a computer.

I couldn't compare speed between it and the mac mini, but mine is running windows 7 (because I couldn't get Ubuntu to send sound through the HDMI to the TV) and 2 instances of Ubuntu simultaneously under Sun's Virtualbox and I've never had a speed problem except some sketchiness when running the blu-ray dvd player (regular dvd is fine, Hulu is fine).

It comes with a wireless keyboard and mouse that has a pretty good range - I use it from across the living room.

That may be true at the level of the individual borrower, but the system of higher rates for lower quality credit evolved over time because it makes money for the lenders. The higher resultant default rates are part of the calculation when they determine the interest rates.

The problem with preferring birds to mammals is that you have to kill a bird just about every day to feed a family of four, whereas the death of a single cow will suffice for most of a year.

Agreed on the crustaceans, though - they're practically insects.

Yep. The Mission Viejo store became a Boot Barn.

That closed, too.

In the same way lightning is nearly identical to lightning bugs.

October 9, 2006, not 2008.

But honestly... are we going to debate whether a US president, sitting or past, is responsible for the actions of KJI? That guy is a nutjob and an egomaniac and to pretend that he's only that way because of the behavior of the US is dangerously naive.

My grandpa called em nips. But then, he'd been carrying some Japanese shrapnel in his brain since '42.

The summary makes a leap of logic. The company was never really worth 200 billion except in the eyes of the guy that bought his shares at $253.88 back in September of 2000.

So the loss of value isn't strictly due to mistakes the company made. The stock market crash accounts for most of that drop.

My personal favorite

Working for a defense company doing 9/80 - they claim to be saving tons of money on power and other services that they can cut on 9/80 Friday.

Personally, my productivity starts declining after lunch so it's difficult to make the case that they are squeezing more work out of me.