Bad example: in the future, when 200Mbps connections are affordable for everyone, no one would require a tailor since everybody will pass their time in their basement, in underwear, enjoying their connection...

This makes me remember of an exam in which the teacher asked for "quantity of electrons" when he really wanted the "concentration of electrons", since there was no notion of volume in the problem.

Now, how many of you would have had the balls to write "insufficient data" as an answer to the question, in a real-life exam? I almost did it :P.

I call that common sense...

Puting aside the debate on mass and weight, there seems to be some contradiction on the mass of Apophis.

In the post, it is 46 million kg (pretty lightweight), in the first link of the post it is 46 million tonnes and on wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/99942_Apophis) it is 27 million tonnes...

What is the matter with everyone wanting a garbage collector? Personally, I find smart pointers to be far superior to garbage collection and the new standard now incorporates them in the STL (strongly influenced by BOOST)! With them, the sole idea of garbage collection in C++ is somewhat useless and obsolete.

I like the way you compare Duke Nukem to art.

As a student, I would be pretty happy if I had actually drank beer all time instead of studying for that test and had my gigantic failure thrown out because other people cheated.

Wow, being colonist of a new world. I'd like so much being part of it, I'd kill for it! Wait, what the ad just say...

The real issue here is not about government spending on the army or other [insert field where you think gov spends too much] over the space program. Its more space program money might have been spent on more space probes, more telescopes, more scientific satellites, etc. which might have had more scientific profit.

According to this: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7813635.stm, the milky way is roughly the same size as Andromeda. Therefore, we won't be devoured, it will be a nice and slow merging.