To be fair, in most places there are options for satellite. Many rural locations also have small-business ISPs that can set up a LOS shot. Not always economical, but definite alternatives to the nationwide ISPs.

Here, let me google that for you: http://lmgtfy.com/?q=how+does+facebook+track+you

Short answer: mostly by setting cookies in your browser, but with several other tricks as well.

Proof that we're living in The Future. Ghost in the Shell fans will recognize the Japanese Miracle in action. The '30s should be an interesting decade...

Are you, perchance, a barnacle?

http://www.explodingrabbit.com/games/super-mario-bros-crossover I came across a similar project last month. It has been active for about a year now and features the original mario levels that you can play through with any of several other old NES characters. Maybe Nintendo is actually playing nice with the fan community?

Replying to undo accidental moderation... I meant to mark as informative.

Thank you! Your link and the AC's link below were exactly the sort of information I was looking for to fill in the gaps.

I started to write a comment about being glad that Murdoch is finally getting what's coming to him... then I realized that I didn't know why I felt that way. I have a generally negative opinion of him... but all that comes to mind when I think of him is a caricature assembled from various stories I've come. I gather that he's been consolidating several media markets into near-monopolies and there's controversy about him forcing editorial opinions onto his reporters... but is he the guy who single-handedly broke the news business, or just a businessman who got in over his head with yellow journalism?

I do not think that word means what you think it means.

Oh my! Armed with a reliable source like a three year old article from pimpinturtle and *dozens* of second and third hand stories, the ignorant masses can no longer ignore the truth! Cast off your shackles! Rise up against your oppressors! Cast down the corporate overlords of the New World Order! Free yourselves from the Black Iron Prison!

Fussing wouldn't help things. Instead we provide top-of-the-line prosthetics, years of psychological, physical, and occupational therapy, additional consideration for promotion, a medical retirement plan, and a (admittedly not as large as it could be) and lump sum payment. It is heart-wrenching when the system fails veterans who have been hurt, but the "bad press" can make people forget that the support is there and the failures are the exception, not the rule.

Actually, any substance with a suitably high osmotic pressure would work- you don't need to buy more of their powder. I've heard of people using maple syrup or generic electrolyte mix.

Forward osmosis has been used for years and will filter out the stuff you mention. It's the same principle that a home or industrial osmotic water filter (reverse osmosis) would use, except that the pressure comes from the 'charged' liquid on one side (the stuff that makes it taste like a sports drink) instead of from the water being forced against the membrane. You can buy a system like this commercially from HTI (http://www.htiwater.com/technology/forward_osmosis/index.html). Some people like it for hiking, but from what I've heard it's more suited to emergency water production on lifeboats.

These graduate students are obviously trying to muscle in on the US military's contract for BCGs! They're the only frames I've seen that are ugly enough to give the 'Birth Control Glasses' a run for their money.

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