While a sign there are probably other issues, those aren't a big problem in themselves. the JS files will be cached by CDNs, so will probably be some of the fasted parts of the site to load

The same ways that people signed up for anything before the Internet? Phone up a number and someone will sign them up or visit an office and fill out an application at medical centers.

Despite being different branches, the Republican legislature and Republican executive members are in fact the same party.

Democrats may have supported the wars at the time, but there's little doubt that we would have avoided them had a Democrat been president. Apart from that, there certainly wouldn't have been the tax cuts.

But we already have tools that do that - being able to put that in the living room is the step forward.

However, when Obama was a senator, the administration had turned a budget surplus into a budget deficit. That was the result of reckless spending on tax cuts and wars.

That contrasts with the current administration which was given a large deficit to start with (made worse by declining tax revenues due to the recession) that has cut government spending.

Are you really comparing someone being forced into slavery with a company sending a tweet using a person's twitter handle?

That may be, if you've never owned a ruler with inches.

In reality, a typical ruler has 1/2, 1/4, 1/8 and 1/16, and those are what people will use when denoting length. No one uses "mils" in the real world.

I used it around 2009 and it was great for walking around with an iPod touch. It worked best around downtown and the train stations, but even out a bit more I got good signal. Wasn't the fastest out there, but it was enough for basic browsing and google maps

In related news, it turns out Adobe will give you some sort of software if you give them a credit card number. What a crazy business model!

To be fair, it's only the few hours yesterday that those sites are going to be getting that much traffic.

I saw one proposal that would take out the tax penalty for people who don't get insurance and give a tax cut to those who do. Basically the same thing as now, but a tax cut for everyone that pays enough taxes.

That's much more confusing and hard to advertise for.

For example, this image of a guy jumping into a pool to go along with the article "The Next Big Fiber Showdown: Austin", but we don't get the extra sentence from the summary. http://i.imgur.com/OzS4RdP.png

At first glance I saw the big top thing with all the useless links and "topics" and thought "Wow look at that waste of space". Then I looked at the current slashdot and realized all that stuff is essentially there and takes up the same amount of vertical space. Maybe it's just the relative waste of vertical real estate while they limited the horizontal size, but it seems much more obtrusive.