but what bone is the Google Bone connected to?

In CA you can't even register your car anymore unless your insurance company electronically provides proof of coverage to the DMV. CHP is pretty aggressive at pulling over people with expired tags so you will have a hard time driving without insurance.

I picked health insurance because I have two children, one of whom has asthma and needs expensive prescriptions and doctors visits on a regular basis. Health is the one thing on the list that cannot be considered a luxury.

I was born only about 7600 me-lengths from where I am presently (work) however from where I live it is over 45,000.

In the ~12 years since I graduated I have worked for 4 different companies, but for one of them I held 4 different positions in 3 different departments, pushing me into the 6-10 category. Of course, I've always worked at smaller companies, so I usually wear many hats. If you want to count all of the job titles I've claimed or been assigned, it's easily in the over 15 category.

Ok, so that is a few examples of people whose rights were violated. Yes, that is wrong, and shouldn't have happened. HOWEVER, what you're missing here is that the passage of Prop 8 violated the rights of tens if not hundreds of thousands of gay Californians. The fourteenth amendment of the constitution guarantees equal protection under the law. Gay men and women in California do NOT have equal protection under the law. It is very wrong at a fundamental level when one group of people can vote away the rights of another group of people. That is exactly what they're trying to do in Washington. It is a grave injustice, and I support anything short of violence (or threats of) and property damage against the people who are trying to pass this law.

I'm a straight, married, father of two children who I do not want to grow up in a world where some people are "more equal than others."

Yikes... 20+ and thats just in California, and not counting the ones that I just drove through to get to a destination in another county.

I live in CA and I've been to 15 different states plus DC. The closest I've come to leaving the US is flying in international airspace on the way to Hawaii. The US is a big place and the culture is a little different everywhere you go. Sometimes you feel like you're in a different country ;)

Thank the Acronymic Legislation Labeling act of 2001 for that.

sorry, it's too late in the day for me to come up with a better acronym.

As a Windows sysadmin I have 4 19" LCDs and could definitely use two more. I do maximize some applications, the ones that lend themselves to it anyway. The two screens I stare at the most have Chrome maximized on one (with anywhere from 2 to 12 tabs going), and Outlook on the other. Chrome because many of our management tools are web-based, and Outlook because a large portion of my tasks come to me via email.

The other two screens don't typically have maximized windows, they are a smattering of system monitoring tools, customer databases, provisioning tools, etc. which I neatly arrange so I can quickly get to any of them without having to go to my taskbar (which is auto-hidden, btw.)

Same with my Verizon phone. When I dial my voicemail I get "Please enter your password followed by the pound sign" which I don't have to listen to because I can just key in my password before the prompt completes. Then I get: "You have x new messages and x saved messages. First new message" and then the message starts playing. I'm not sure what the big deal is. I don't even have to listen to the whole message before deleting it if I don't want, just press 7 while its playing and *poof* message deleted.

Come to think of it, I'm not even sure that calls to my voicemail are billed to begin with. I never come anywhere near my monthly allotment of minutes on the minimum "Family Share" plan because over 90% of my calls are to my wife's Verizon phone which I don't pay for anyway, so I don't particularly care.

What's you're point? Their not going to catch every error. This is a tech bored, abuse of the language is expected.

;)

"Sea Salt, obtained by the evaporation of seawater, is used in cooking and cosmetics."

Where I live, the best coverage is provided by AT&T and VZW. I dropped AT&T after years with them because their customer service is atrocious. They will never get any of my money again if I can help it.

My phone died with 5 months left on my contract. I went to the AT&T store to try to get a new phone. This was during the ATT -> Cingular merger. They couldn't sell me an "AT&T" phone because there were no AT&T plans available, and I couldn't replace the phone on my existing plan. OK, how about a "Cingular" phone then? "We can do that, but you would have to pay the early termination penalty on your AT&T plan." I said piss off and went home to call AT&T customer service directly, and proceeded to get the same story.

I don't understand why companies feel the need to shoot themselves in the foot like this. I was more than willing to pay for a new phone and sign a new contract, but because they were pricks, I switched companies and will never deal with them again. Oh well, just traded one greedy corporation for another, but at least the new one hasn't tried to screw me over... yet

I switched my DNS to OpenDNS because Comcast's DNS servers were unreliable for me. I am definitely hitting OpenDNS because if I typo a domain I'm redirected to the OpenDNS guide page. I'm a Northern California Comcast user.

The statistics do say that. However I look at it from a more practical point of view: if the worst does happen, which am I more likely to survive: a 65MPH collision with airbags and all the other safety features of my car, or a fall from 35k feet?

I'll take my chances on the ground.

At least I have some measure of control over my own situation. I know that I can't control the other people driving, but at least I know that I don't drive drunk, or when I'm too exhausted to keep my eyes open. How am I to know that the pilot of my plane didn't down a case of red bull instead of sleeping during the FAA mandated time off after his last flight from halfway around the world?