You forgot to mention that so long as it's available in your dashboard, you're comfortable with it.

I've always heard, "lotteries are taxes on those with poor math skills..." I guess you should add to that, "...and not worth the effort of those with good math skills"

We'll start asking about the conditions the workers were in while growing it in the lab... "were they forced to sit in cubicles?"

Maybe he should be out pending an appeal like Tom Delay. I guess he can now claim he was convicted in "one of the most conservative districts in the country..." I thought the guy's dad was connected. I'm surprised he's serving time at all.

BP is not a majority US owned company. In fact, large numbers of UK pensions have been invested in the company. Whether it's too big to fail or not is another issue... http://www.bp.com/extendedsectiongenericarticle.do?categoryId=9010453&contentId=7019612

For me, the problem is exactly what you've mentioned at the end of your reply... there's no trustworthy way to opt out often. There's a business opportunity waiting to happen for an org that could become the BB of online solicitation.... you register with them before sending out messages and when the message arrives it says "Do you want to remain on this list Yes/No" all "No" would be forwarded back to sender, failure to remove would ban them from using the service. I really don't mind getting ONE email from a company that may have something to offer that I like... I do a lot of cycling. If a new company selling parts contacts me ONCE saying, "we have these deals" I view it the same as I do a person handing our fliers when I walk to work. If I say, "no thanks", no harm done. If they follow me down the street and stick it in my face... different story. I know the analogy isn't exactly the same b/c of bandwidth, yada yada yada. The reality is I any of us got one or two of these once in a while we wouldn't even react to it. It's the sheer volume of complete bullshit that's made this an issue IMO.

Don't be ridiculous, an outsourced software group in Russia will be hired to review the specs to make sure everything's legit...

I'm not trying to argumentative here at all, but I'm curious if this is just OS related, or hardware as well. If you're able to mandate users use an iPhone, would you have the same abilities if you standardized on one model of android to support? Knowing the updates available for this singular device would give you one path to manage as well I believe. Politics aside of trying to tell users which phone to buy... I'm just wondering if this would work.

I've got a great idea for a recipe. It's got some stuff in it and tastes really good! I need a chef!

Well in the case of "death" I would say one point confirming life WOULD invalidate the the statement.

I wish someone would have told me this before I quit using my Mac and XP desktops at home. What should I do now, look for a copy of BeOS?

...A man goes to see his Dr. and the Dr. says, "sir you're going to have to stop masturbating". The man says, "Why" and the doctor says, "Because I'm trying to examine you"

Like I said, "I won't protest". I'm not going to speak for the US govt.

It appears you're correct on the legality of doing so though:

"this is a violation of Title 18, Section 333 of the United States Code, which says that “whoever mutilates, cuts, disfigures, perforates, unites or cements together, or does any other thing to any bank bill, draft, note, or other evidence of debt issued by any national banking association, Federal Reserve Bank, or Federal Reserve System, with intent to render such item(s) unfit to be reissued, shall be fined not more than $100 or imprisoned not more than six months, or both.” The law is enforced by the Secret Service."

http://www.freelawanswer.com/law/3175-3-law-4.html

Not really the same. I have no emotional attachment to a $100 bill. If it's yours, burn it and I won't protest. I can take that $100 to a store and exchange it for lots of things that may mean more to me, or may feed my children. If I take a load of (insert your preferred religious text here) to Target, I'm not going to be able to exchange it for pampers. Also, you burn a pile of money that you earned, that's your business. If I burn a copy of MY (insert your preferred religious text here), it tends to become the problem of groups that feel that the text, regardless of the cheap manufacturing that went into it, has some sacred significance to it as the word of god(s) (TM). I think a closer analogy would be burning a flag... it's just fabric after all...

As someone procrastinating reading /. instead of writing a script, I can assure you it's not enjoyable.