The bartender (mission control maybe) says "what is this, a joke?"

You and your unreasonably large penis are about to find yourself with a bit of a problem.

Genius. The next step is fitting a Coke tank and a hose to feed it to you. Maybe even some pre-chewing of the pringles... Then you wouldn't even need to open the window, there'd be a similar hookup to the fuel tank.

Over 10,000 miles, getting within 30 miles is still a pretty big deal.

I do believe that 03:14:07 UTC on Tuesday, 19 January 2038 will indeed be in 2038...

Most of us are concerned about both injustices. We've become a bit desensitized to people being beheaded for criticizing the king of Siam. Someone being jailed for /not/ criticizing him is a new development which can both bring up dormant disgust at the previous crimes and fresh disgust at the new crimes.

Well, of course the ones who actually go on the rampage are the ones who didn't cool off. If you think about going on a rampage, but then come to your senses you don't make the news.

I like the line: "A friend in need is a friend indeed, a friend with weed is better." Possibly due to my (lack of) age.

I remember playing SimCity in high school geography class. I guess you have to move with the times and play a more modern game to learn about the more modern world.

It'll be nice to have an established poker site taking Bitcoins. Not that I want to disparage the current bitcoin poker sites (I like seals with clubs) but they just don't have the polish and finish to which I've become accustomed.

Actually I take that back, as I just realised it was in the summary...

+1 This is what I came here to say.

You have hit the nail on the head, but I'll elaborate for those people playing along at home.

The price of oil is mainly dependent on the cost to get the last gallon out of the ground. If 90% of the worlds oil can be dug up for $20 a barrel, but that last 10% costs $140/bbl then everyone pays $140/bbl. If you can expand your $20/bbl oil to the whole world's supply then you can lower the price, and the guys sitting on the $140/bbl oil won't be able to make any money. With the consumption rate of oil going up, there is the possibility of the current oil sources not being sufficient, so we'd need to go find some more oil, which would probably be more expensive.

The price of oil may not come down, but without the oil from frakking it would have gone through the roof in fairly short order.

I thought it was fairly well understood why there was such a bad outbreak this year: the flu season hit earlier than usual so a lot of people haven't had the shot yet.