Who's "they"? And, assuming you're referring to google, how are they shafting you?
It's not your money.

I disagree. The taxes they are avoiding paying would be used to pay for infrastructure, services, etc, so, in a very real way, it *is* his money because without those taxes, the system is not as well funded and projects/services/infrastructure have to be cut

What, you mean you don't want a doctor with no more than a high school education? ;)

Israel was enforcing a blockade, a number of countries do and have done for centuries.

Israel boarded ships in international waters by force, which is an act of piracy. They also practice apartheid (which we have shunned other nations, like South Africa, for in the past) among many other things.

You couldn't fire someone explicitly for using the bathroom because that would be a violation of health and safety laws. You could, however, fire them for something semi-related.

I have to agree with you. I don't get the hostility toward "Teach yourself X" books. They're a great place to start.

Granted, there are a number of crappy ones out there, but a lot of them are great as intro tutorials (and some even serve well as refs)

When starting on 3G and moving out of 3G coverage area, it will try to keep a signal by shifting to a less optimal signal.

However, it may not work the same in the opposite direction. If it starts a call on Edge/2G and moves into an area where both 3G and Edge are available that it might *not* try to switch to the better service, but instead stay with what it's currently on.

This is, of course, just a guess, but it would explain the behavior.

Hey, they placed.

Last is a place :P

It was my experience in college that a lot of the grad students teaching math courses were nowhere *near* fluent. It made the classes that much more difficult.

Yup, right up there with leeching

Actually, leaching *does* have medicinal benefits. Doctors have learned that leaches can be used effectively in the reattaching of severed body parts. They've also found benefits in the use of maggots (they eat infected flesh, but don't bother the healthy flesh surrounding it)

Got a headache? We'll drill a gaping, untreated hole in your head to release the "bad spirits"!

Hate to break it to you, but this is used by modern medicine too in order to relieve cranial pressure caused by fluid buildup.

So, despite your cries of "it's all bunk", "new" discoveries involving old techniques are not uncommon. That's not to say that *all* old cures and treatments work, but just because someone scoffs at something as unenlightened doesn't mean it really is.

We /are/ resigned to not getting to eat out at a nice restaurant for a long time without finding a sitter first. :)

I would just like to say thank you. I like kids as a general rule, but parents who insist on taking the kid everywhere with them and who make no effort to quiet the child or make him/her behave (provided the child is old enough to understand) drive me up the wall.

The "you poor thing" comment is actually from something that happened the last time we went out together. I had a sweet tooth. So we bought candy (after unwrapping it of course so it was unsalvageable). But being the klutz I occasionaly (okay, often) am, I dropped it. "You poor thing" was from the guy behind the counter, in reference to me dropping my candy... as he stared down my shirt.

Hey you only ever told me the score you got while you were bored and distracted. :P