But . . . but , , , but . . . He's Denny Crane!!!

Given the choice to be able to swim like a Navy SEAL or a Harbor Seal, I think I would choose the latter . . .

One thing's for certain, there is no stopping them. The ants...will soon be here.

And I, for one, welcome our new insect overlords...

"The metric system's the tool of the devil! My car gets 40 rods to the hogshead, and that's the way I likes it!" -- Abe Simpson

It's just a matter of time before we have our own Ender Wiggin . . . "Real. Not a game. Ender's mind was too tired to cope with it all. They weren't just points of light in the air, they were real ships that he had fought with and real ships he had destroyed. And a real world that he had blasted into oblivion. He walked through the crowd, dodging their congratulations, ignoring their hands, their words, their rejoicing. When he got to his own room he stripped off his clothes, climbed into bed, and slept."

This has all been fascinating reading, but I really need to get back to the Heart of Gold so I can fix that #*($%^#*! Infinite Improbability Drive . . .

"The most likely way for the world to be destroyed, most experts agree, is by accident. That's where we come in; we're computer professionals. We cause accidents." -- Nathaniel Borenstein

Sure, you can tell the school that you don't want your child/children present when this is taught -- and they will most likely comply . . . they also may forward your name and address to the RIAA (and to the House & Senate Committees on Un-American Activites, and whatever other institutions "subversives" get reported to . . . ).

Did you read the article? They employ around 4000+ people on WoW alone.

Support staff:

>>>no profit motive

- Tourism (vacation on the moon or mars!)
- Mining raw materials.
- Services for the tourists/miners like housing, restaurants, and entertainment.

That's the same way we settled desolate areas like Wyoming or Arizona. And before you (or somebody else) say "we shouldn't disturb these heavenly bodies with mining," then I have to respond: If you're going to take that outlook on space exploration then you might as well stay on Earth until the sun explodes and makes humanity go extinct. We either colonize other worlds and make them favorable for habitation, or we stay here and die as a species. That's the choice.

Unless Microsoft can manage something like the Rosetta emulator in Mac OS X, which lets PowerPC apps run on x86 machines.

Come on here, we're talking about a company that is putting a virtualized Windows XP inside Vista 7, both running on x86, because their API's are so broken they can't even map them to themselves cleanly. (sup dawg, I heard you like computer crashes so I put a Windows in your Windows, so you can bluescreen while you bluescreen!)

Personally, I like to rotate drives around. That is, pull a few (one at a time) from the RAID and put them aside for when another RAID is built. This gives a variety of drives at different ages to help prevent failures from clustering.

Could you sue me in Paris...I have not been there yet. Oh yeah they'll need to pay to extradite me extradite (sorry i'm broke)

You're right -- the system is mostly worthless to the civilian. The original intent of the color-coded scheme was to provide guidance to law enforcement agencies. Each color actually corresponds to specific guidelines for them.

I'm not defending the program as such -- just clarifying the DHS's original intent as best I understand it.