1967. Try again.

Just for fun, I was dating hand written checks like "3/21/19100" for a while, just to see if anyone commented. Nobody ever said anything.

Maybe they were embarrassed for me.

Call it twenty-eleven, fer cryinoutloud. Or just '11 if you want.

Unless you get excited about the first one...

and since vim supports lots of network access methods, you can easily put shortcuts on all of the computers you use and pass the password file back and forth in its encrypted form. I personally keep mine on a server that is accessibly via ssh from anywhere.

That 1% is a shit answer. The link you provided states that 90% of the population occupies 3% of the land. That says nothing about how much of the remaining 97% of the land is occupied by the remaining 10% of the population.

For example, a very large farm would have a population density that would put it square into that nebulous 97%, but I would consider that farm to be part of the human habitat in that it is used to cultivate food to support the 90% of us who live in densely-populated areas.

Assuming that extraterrestrial life is water based does give us some clue what to look for, though. If someone comes up with a viable "alternative formulation" for life, presumably scientists would start looking for that as well.

Are you insane?

• Bill Gates (Microsoft)
• Steve Ballmer (Microsoft)
• Larry Page (Google)
• Sergey Brin (Google)
• Larry Ellison (Oracle)
• Steve Jobs (Apple)
• Jeff Bezos (Amazon)
• Michael Dell (Dell)

And these are just a few that I came up with off the top of my head and taking a quick look at wikipedia for the richest people in the world.

Sadly, there are a LOT of americans that watch (and believe!) Fox news. Worse, they parrot all of the propaganda as if it were truth. I also know some americans who think that all new sources have the same level of bias as Fox, so they also watch CNN and they think that they are getting a valid viewpoint by splitting the difference between what Fox is spewing and what CNN is reporting. Not that I'm really defending CNN, as they also have a lot of junk. But that is really due to the 24-hour news cycle more than any innate bias.

I'm paying Virgin Mobile at least $20 every 90 days with $0.18 per minute. That works out to about 37 minutes of usage per month on average. It's not like the "minutes" expire (there may be a cap that I'm not aware of). It really is a good deal. The only problem is that coverage is not good AT ALL. I go through several dead zones just on my commute to work. Sure beats the hell out of my wife's $40/month verizon plan.

Um, maybe MIT doesn't have the ability to actually handle more students than it admits? Maybe they feel that the quality of the education they provide would suffer if they admit more students? It doesn't seem like question of ethics at all.

Sorry, I thought it was either a rhetorical question or you were trying to pick a fight.

My point is that he ruined a perfectly good argument by introducing unnecessary bias. One thing that the electoral college does well is keep such problems localized so the worst case is something like Florida in 2000. You could argue that the chances of the national popular vote being that close are miniscule, it would still be possible, and I would have to wonder if we would survive such a thing as a country without the electoral college to narrow the scope of the problem.

The electoral college is good for other reasons as well. If anything, my gripe is in the way we have to vote for one and only one candidate. As noted in much older stories on /. this is not very effective from a gaming theory perspective.

Ya know, you had a point in there but I can't take you seriously when you can't resist inserting your own anti-democrat bias into your argument.