So we stomp on the indigenous Hawaiians who consider Mt. Haleakala sacred by building a massive telescope in order to detect more advanced alien civilizations that will someday stomp on us, the indigenous earth people.

A solid yellow traffic signal does not mean slow down. It does not mean to proceed with caution. It means STOP unless you cannot stop safely. If you are slowing down to make a right hand turn when the light turns yellow, then you are capable of stopping safely.

I'd suggest, "Dear Friend, I am an Earth Prince and need to transfer $20 million to your personal bank account . . ."

What have we come to when the educational courses are free and the NY Times article telling you about them is behind a paywall?

I find it interesting that in a thread about cars there are no computer analogies.

Don't miss the La brea tar pits. Awesome.

Does this mean that US dollars are no longer allowed in Germany? Several German states banned Red Bull because it had 0.13 micrograms of cocaine per can. http://news.slashdot.org/story/09/05/25/2021226/Cocaine-Test-Prompts-Red-Bull-Removal-In-Germany or http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1900849,00.html

Yes, isn't this a step backwards? Do we really want to go back to carrying three different single use gadgets around?

I've been defending Vista for some time now since it worked just fine on my laptop. Now, however some sort of incompatibility between Vista, Firefox and Zone Alarm keeps freezing my browser. It's not happening on my XP systems. And suddenly, within the past couple of weeks, even IE is freezing. So I'm building a new system for my wife and be sure that I'm going with XP.