It's not totally broken, your problem about slow speeds when copying files over network drives is due to a "feature" of vista that compresses the files before transfer. Unless you have a ridiculously fast computer on a ridiculously slow connection, this is obviously a bad idea but for some reason Microsoft enabled it by default. Go look up how to disable "Remote Differential Compression".

I already get a warm fuzzy feeling from the static off my crt when I hug it and it's been running for a while.

anyone else wondering where such a small system is getting the energy needed to ionize a large amount of xenon atoms?

Daughterless genes? This kind of thing seems like something that would be awfully close to being used in humans if it was safe. Seems like just another step in the process of 'designing' a child. The scary thought is i'm sure the demand is already there for these kinds of things, thankfully anything like that in humans would require the gene from birth or at the least some mean genetical manipulation of the embryo.