Good. I love toast. Now let's talk about butter, and jelly.

Government oversight is not "third party". Compliance verification of manufacturer's emissions performance should extend to software design validation. Why doesn't it? It's not like it's difficult.

Taxact is good enough that I actually paid for it this year, even though I didn't have to.

Maybe. Probably not.

"The space agency solicited proposals in 1998 for projects that would push the boundaries of space development and exploration, and later awarded Boeing a $137 million contract for the X-37"

That's a bargain. Most commercial passenger jets cost more than that.

Get or build a better antenna. And put it up higher, and point it in the right direction. Use a signal amplifier. These things work.

Sounds like a cookie permission problem to me. Get rid of saved cookies, look through Tools-Options-Privacy-History section-Exceptions button, find relevant Slashdot entries, check their status, delete or modify as needed.

Put dry ice into some old shoes and put them out on the sidewalk.

Since they seem to spend so much time in the desert, this should work out fine.

Just to go one further: a phobia can often manifest itself as avoidance. Not just of cockroaches, per se, but one might avoid places they believe could contain a cockroach. Depending on severity, it could cripple one's ability to function normally.

No cop has ever (and likely never will) "risked his life to protect me" unless he happens to be my uncle. In fact, it's been repeatedly confirmed as a matter of law that they are not -- and cannot be -- EXPECTED to do so. It's "not their job."

Then you are one of the folks who didn't get bitten by the issues with them. The past two releases have had wireless issues with Network Manager, and I've had Pulseaudio issues since they introduced it.

The more they put "vision" ahead of "practicality," as in "making the damn thing work," the fewer people will go with them. They are not Apple, and they need to lose the delusion that they are.

Anyone whose first reaction to the above post was "that's insightful", you have some reading to do. If you read it and your first thought was "Whoosh", you can keep your geek card. (Insightful can be your second thought, of course).

Anyone in the first group, go read Hitchhiker's Guide please.

"No Liberty without Representation!"

"Live Free or Die!"

"Remember the Alamo!"

Slogans is how the gestalt of democracy works. You hear the slogan, compare its implied argument towards your understanding of the facts, and either cheer or boo. This is not new, and I suspect if the ancient greeks and romans had better record-keeping (and movable type), you'd be able to find similar slogans as well.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_N._Welch

[McCarthy is dragging yet another random name from the List, when Head Counsel for the Army Joseph Welch responds.]

"Until this moment, Senator, I think I have never really gauged your cruelty or your recklessness. Fred Fisher is a young man who went to the Harvard Law School and came into my firm and is starting what looks to be a brilliant career with us. Little did I dream you could be so reckless and so cruel as to do an injury to that lad. It is true that he will continue to be with Hale and Dorr. It is, I regret to say, equally true that I fear he shall always bear a scar needlessly inflicted by you. If it were in my power to forgive you for your reckless cruelty I would do so. I like to think that I am a gentle man but your forgiveness will have to come from someone other than me. "

When McCarthy tried to go on the attack once more, Welch stepped in again and famously rebuked:

" Senator, may we not drop this? We know he belonged to the Lawyers Guild. Let us not assassinate this lad further, Senator. You've done enough. Have you no sense of decency, sir? At long last, have you left no sense of decency?"

McCarthy had none. Apparently, neither do you.

Truck owners have been dealing with IFTA for a long time.