Isn't that move a function of the age of your acquaintances instead of how the market evolved? I saw the same thing among my relatives, but it's mostly because they either grew up and stopped downloading music/porn/etc (now that they can buy it), or because the people I now frequent due to my work are mostly non-technical types.

There has been allegations of sexual agressions by Strauss-Kahn for at least five years : http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/may/16/dominique-strauss-kahn-tristane-banon

Simply viewing the door handle *will* change its state!

You're just holding it wrong!

I'm wondering what would happen if we were to mine the moon enough so that there's a significant mass transfered from there to here.

Actually, I think that's a very good idea - maybe not six years, but double the actual term limit : in eight years, the president gets to do what he wants (with the caveat of having the Congress on his side), and he doesn't have to worry about getting re-elected at the end. He can work on a project from the conception phase to the concretization without thinking about whether his electoral base will go for it. I don't see why it would be more dangerous to have a president for eight years instead of four. Can anybody?

Corporation, corporate America. Not *cooperate*.

Windows. Windows happened.

Your RNG is broken!

That's the thing : maybe there are laws that will forever forbid us to travel through space, but if there are, we don't know them - and there are no indication that they exist.
Let's be optimistic :)

Are you saying that because my metaphor is factually incorrect, you can compare not being able to defy the laws of thermodynamics and not being able to travel through space, a thing that we simply don't know how to do (efficiently) yet?

Impossible is just a word people use to make themselves feel better when they quit.

Science and religion are not incompatible. It's blind faith and science that cannot work together.