Great! So when can I expect outlook web access to look decent in anything but IE? Doesn't really matter much, because my IT department just recently switched to 2007...

http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9028723/D_oh_Homer_photo_exposes_Chinese_media_piracy?intsrc=news_ts_head

Shouldn't they be permanently barred from misleading their customers?

I somewhat agree with you. I think the idea of making everyone buy health insurance is ludicrous. That is the "Let them eat cake!" attitude to fixing things.
The problem is not that there aren't enough people buying health insurance, it is that it is too expensive to afford.
To fix that we need to fix the way we practice medicine and the way health insurance companies operate.
Quite frankly, I have no beef with Medicare. I'm not old enough to participate, so i have no first hand experience, but it sounds like there is less red tape, corruption, and profiteering than most health insurance companies.
I would love to see a single-payer system set up that actually worked. I'd even be willing to settle for a public health insurance option, so long as it is not tied to employment.
However, I agree that none of the options on the table currently are very appealing and the thought of government mandating people purchase health insurance coverage is ridiculous and does not solve the true problem.

So, then single-payer health insurance will come as a tax.
That is how they will force everyone (who works) to pay into it.
They won't force you to USE medicare. You can always choose to go to a private hospital (as you can in Canada).

Oh really? I have medicare taken out of my check every month.

From TFA: "Transport Secretary Lord Adonis said in the immediate future only a small proportion of airline passengers would be selected for scanning."

Well I'm sure Lord Adonis has no problem showing off his perfect greco-roman body, but what about the rest of us?

I had the blinky screen issue with X failing to load. I think it had to do with DKMS not building the nividia module for the new driver. I was forced to wipe / and reinstall. An annoyance for sure, but no data lost as /home is on a separate partition.

Aren't all religious holidays in the US "stolen-by-commercialism."

Valentine's day: You must buy things to please your significant other, or they will leave you.
Easter: You must by candy for your kids, or they will hate you.
Christmas: You must buy things for everyone you love, know, or are acquainted with in any way, or they will think you are cheap or poor.

The only holidays that aren't commercialized are various memorial days (but even then, there are sales to be had at the local mall).

I suppose you have never heard of a Mobius coin.

One more thing....

Avogadro's number isn't some fundamental constant. It is just like a dozen. It just so happens that we chose a dozen to be 12 (or 13 or 11 depending on where you live).

It is 6.022E23 g-mol^-1 and 2.73E26 lb-mol^-1

yeah, well there are a lot of strange features in american engineering. So it's all based off of carbon. 12 g of carbon is a g-mole. 12 kg of carbon is a kg-mol (or kilomole). 12 lbs of carbon is a lb-mol. it might have something to do with the fact that the exact value of Avogadro's number wasn't known until the early 20th century. By that time, i think lb-mol was already established. Perrin (a french guy) figured out that a g-mol is 6.022E23. I think he chose to use grams because he was French.

Not to an american chemical engineer. I frequently see things in lb-moles. The OP is a bit misleading. A lb-mole of NaCl is 58.44 lbs. A g-mole is 58.44 g. A kg-mole is 58.44 kg. The mole always needs to have a unit of mass in front of it, or it is useless. It is by convention that by "mole," we mean "g-mole."

Send it to me, I'll do it for cheaper.