Pffft. I had one of those when I was a kid.

Europe is way ahead of the US. Banned since 2006.

Thanks for distilling the thread. Removing iStat Menus fixed the freeze for me. Off to notify the developer....

Probably not, and expulsion was too harsh. Kids need to be taught that the internet has power beyond their little cliques, and the parents are the ones who should have been taken to task for this.

Except this isn't analogous to talking about a teacher during recess, it's more like posting flyers on telephone poles near the school.

Um, yeah. Some folks might beg to differ.

I view this as a one-day-only 5% discount sale.

I wonder what Safari allows. Verizon.com is particularly frustrating in this respect. When browsing my account and, say, trying to pay my phone bill, I often get the "too many redirects" message, so I have to go back to the entry page and try again.

Don't get me started about Verizon's customer service. Or their voice mail. And I'll never buy a Verizon cell phone. Crap, I got myself started. (However, their FiOS service has been outstanding. Go figure.)

He actually used two spaces. Unfortunately for him, browsers collapse multiple spaces into one. He lacks commitment; a true Double-Spacer would have used two non-breaking spaces.

Next step: the biosprings from The Windup Girl .

Area Man Constantly Mentioning He Doesn't Own A Television

Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. The third time it's enemy action.

-Goldfinger

I hear this a lot, but we already have crimes defined by mental state: first-degree and second-degree murder, for example (premeditated and spur-of-the-moment passion, respectively). I suppose hate crimes could be lumped with the former, but they don't always end in the victim's death.

I just finished reading Market Forces by Richard K. Morgan and I'm afraid you might be right.

Due diligence, in this case, would have been to follow standard procedure and turn it in to the bartender.

Hear that whooshing sound? Look up.