Interesting studies. I gotta go take a nap, er, 1st sleep.

Yeah, every now & then something spectacular comes out of studies of "common sense" things that everybody could have told you. I can't think of any at the moment 'cause I'm too tired.

And it's certainly an analogy that would connect w/ the /. crowd. The AC's insightful analysis didn't help (yeah, big surprise).

Disproof of the AC's hypothesis. Do a gedankenspiel comparing the AC's brain and a disk drive.

Throw a feather at it, it won't break.
Hit it w/ a sledgehammer, it will break.

sr

"I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy"

Greek, thanks. That's the great thing about numerology (and asstrology)...one can make up whatever one pleases. Nero was pre-ANSI, though, so no ASCII back then. EBCDIC probably.

"ASCII silly question, get a silly ANSI"

Actually, it seems that most historians believe that 666 referred to Nero. Remember the scope of the New Testament. They expected the 2nd coming to be "right around the corner...all the signs are there". In the meantime, the faithful needed to be warned about Nero and what he was doing. Apparently 666 encodes "Nero" in Hebrew, or something like that. They were big into numerology back then.

I went to Wiki and found no ref to ipad or ipod in it, but found a ref link to AppleInsider...

  Thursday, January 03, 2013, 06:05 pm
Corning's third-gen Gorilla Glass could be bound for next iPhone, iPad

By AppleInsider Staff
Glassmaker Corning on Thursday announced Gorilla Glass 3, a stronger, more scratch resistant version of the current substrate used in the display of Apple's iPhone and iPad lines of mobile devices.

Gorilla Glass? I don't think Apple would do that. A broken screen just gives the tekkiddies an excuse to buy the latest iteration.

Hah! Ninja Notebook.

Yes! Dondi! I barely remember that. As a childster I got my hands on a really old copy. Fascinating.

Good stuff. Well drawn.

Terrific! Doonesbury for the right! Hope they don't use big words.

Well, I like sitting around and waiting for other people to do stuff for me as well as the next guy, but I figured, just this once, to do something, so here you go.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monopoly#Historical_monopolies

Aristotle talks about it in his "Politics" (turns out someone had cornered the market on olive presses).

+1

Here's a few million anecdotes: when I was a kid living in Los Angeles, smog really sucked. Many days a year we had Smog Alerts. Now it's fairly rare to get an Alert. It took decades to get to the point of constant smog, and, apparently, due to the "knee-jerk", it's taken decades to get us where we are now (it's not an easy solution).

So some regulations are good. I think we agree on that. A lot of regulations, though, are created when private businesses find ways to game the system (of course, some regs come to us via corruption or incompetence). I guess I'd rather have businesses have to retain an "army of lawyers" to deal with their pollution, vs. having to have private citizens or local govt have to hire an army of lawyers to deal with each polluter individually, on a case-by-case basis.

I think that I and a few million Angelenos prefer the knee-jerk. It is working, I don't believe that the court system would have worked as well or as comprehensively.

Hah! What a sight picture!

For a dramatic rendering of the phrase, see the movie "Airplane".