I used to use nvidia cards, but always assumed video card brand made no difference, since I'd never heard anything to that affect. I recently got my first Radeon card, a minor upgrade that was twice as fast as my old card but used the same wattage (cool, right?). About once an hour, the new card freezes for a full 2 seconds, and maybe 30 seconds later freezes again for half a second. Sounds like no big deal, unless you are playing modern warfare 2, because then you are dead, and your kill-streak is reset. Sometimes I come out of the 2 second freeze to see my avatar ran off a ledge and is falling to his death. Kinda funny, but not when it borks a kill-streak. Getting killed by your video card is just wrong. I googled around for a solutions, and just found forums full of people lamenting the bad quality of drivers for those cards. It's fine for most games, and it's fine 99% of the time, but that other 1% can be a cruel bitch. Now you know.

That would be awesome.

unfair to the rats, and they deserve better.

Expensive.

They received a bunch of broadcasts containing our political debates, and

... their preemptive strike in en-route.

There was this one town hall meeting...

I just got a check in the mail for one penny for an ebay motors class action settlement. Printing and mailing the check probably cost a dollar. Reminds me of the time my school sent me a bill (in the mail) for $19 cents.

What the 2nd amendment covers today is up to the whim of the 9 on today's court. The issue I raise is that people who would answer your cannon question don't then apply whatever logic they used to the other amendments. Instead, they first consider what answer they want for each individual issue, then selectively pick arguments to support their preference of "what the constitution covers." BTW cannons are ordnance, not arms.

One thing I always found interesting about constitutional interpretation is that the same people who argue the 2nd amendment should only apply to muskets (on the basis that the writers of the constitution supposedly could not have imagined anyone ever designing what they all wanted... a gun that shoots faster and further), will turn right around and assert the first amendment has a wide reach with respect to electronic mass media. Electronic mass media... like that was easier for a colonist to see coming than a rifle upgrade.

then you should read http://www4.ncsu.edu/unity/lockers/users/f/felder/public/kenny/papers/bell.html

Consider any project financially unsound enough that the locals would never pay for it. Then add matching federal funds so the cost is cut in half, and all of a sudden it gets the local vote to go ahead, now that it is half financed by distant federal taxpayers. Problem for the locals is, the distant taxpayers have some dumb project in their own backyard also. This is the way dumb things get justified all over the country.

Seriously. Meissner effect is old news, too. I mentioned to a friend how slashdot seemed to have gotten really dumbed down in the last year, and he made an interesting connection: ipads became popular.