Rail is not dead in the US. Passenger rail is pretty dead in the US. Freight rail in the US, which is a much, much better use of resources, on the other hand, is top of the world.

That's such great news I just have to say YAHOO!

I'm sure some people will do that, and I'm sure Valve thinks so too. But adding a moderate hurdle like that will certainly cut abuse down, and I don't see it as being a real imposition at all on actual users, so I think this is a brilliant idea. /been getting Steam Spam lately.

"Controlling Brain Activity with Magnetic Monopoles", and thought that it didn't seem like a terribly practical technique.

Couple additional reasons too: lead decreases the drying time of oil-based paints, and also produces relatively strong paint films. It's a fantastically useful pigment, actually, aside from that poisonous thing.

/professional oil painter

/currently has a pile of lead paint on his palette.

'course they did. Bon Jovi, who obviously doesn't get enough credit for his deep historical research, even wrote a song about it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRvCvsRp5ho&ob=av3e

I don't think that "Kerplop" will have the latest batch of 8-12 yr old boys out doing "science" instead of trying to be wizards, but that's probably because our "post-post-modern" culture is more attuned to angels & witches than it is to the scientific method. I don't blame it on Bhopal, Three Mile Island, or Agent Orange, though. I blame it on LSD, fake mysticism & "I'm OK, You're OK."

Yeah, but the thing you're missing is that Rowling's presented probably the /least mystical wizards/ to ever appear throughout history. Now, I think there are all kinds of things wrong with "post-post-modern culture", I'm with you here, but honestly! Hogwarts has more to do with a rational, reasoned approach to problem-solving than most things I've seen lately. Just no mini-subs. ::misses the mini-sub::