This is what the rest of the world thinks about American Football... http://www.vennding.com/2010/06/americans-sometimes-its-hard-to-take.html

Thanks, I totally just tweeted that.

forcing consumers to wait nearly a month if they want to rent popular movies from Netflix

Well boo fucking hoo. Hey fatass. Get off the couch and do something besides watch TV all day.

Like this matters! Who can ever get new releases from Netlix when they come out? Every time I add a new movie that is popular(I.E. The Hangover) it sits in my queue with the words "Very Long Wait" for three months. So its not really an issue. Who has Netflix for new releases?

Really.

People only buy movies they really, really like. The others, they rent them.

Delaying rent will not cause people to buy them bu to download them. Thus "proving" that piracy is really, really bad, evil and unAmerican...

It looks like they are getting smarter :-/

And that's why modern x86 processors are basically RISC processors with a decoder on them for legacy x86 instructions. Your comments haven't been insightful for quite some time now.

Which can be expensive if you download the app over USB or Wi-Fi at home but then first-run it while on 3G, and it spends a sizable percent of your monthly transfer allowance downloading the resources.

Distinct in the sense of being orthogonal. It is possible to believe there is no god while admitting that you do not know that there is no god. Knowledge is the intersection of truth and belief, and since the truth value of the god hypothesis can never be conclusively determined, the most we can ever achieve is a strong suspicion. Atheists, by and large, are agnostics. But people who call themselves agnostics are different from atheists, in my experience, in their willingness to entertain the possibility rather than reject it. I agree with the earlier poster who thought this was an odd notion, because there is an uncountably infinite number of unfalsifiable propositions to entertain. What makes the god hypothesis worthy of this special consideration, when we casually reject all the others?

Incidentally, dictionary.com defines disbelief as "the inability or refusal to believe or to accept something as true" which strikes me more as not believing there is a god than believing there is no god. So, by your definition, you're an atheist if you believe there is no god OR if you merely refuse to believe there is one.

Why would they promote a device with a receiver in it that provides a service they may sell

Oh the US providers would LOVE it provided that they could lock it out and charge extra to use it.

1Ghz isnt overkill. Also, the nexus one DOES have multitouch, its just that the apps preinstalled on the device dont have pinch zoom on them. You can download a browser with pinch zoom whenever you like from the app store. So before you tell me it doesnt have multitouch, keep in mind that it does and this has been confirmed by several people who own the phone.

Yeah, Jewels and Bonsai Blast are good time wasters when I'm travelling on public transport or sitting on the bog. The rolling-a-ball games like Teeter got old quickly though.

I've seen no evidence of this. I know that this was the generally accepted theory when I was an undergrad, and was the basis for the EU ban. The current observations suggest that this is the case and observations trump theory any day. Here is an example as to why these genes don't go a way

I know of no antibiotic that has been rendered "Useless" by increased resistance gene abundance. the first and probably most abused antibiotic, penicillin is still routinely used despite resistance being reported almost immediately after it was discovered. Their reliability may be decreased against specific strains, but just like resistance will always develop, there will always be susceptible strains if penicillin is any indicator.

Not entirely true, lots of shared web hosts also provide PostgreSQL, but completely irrelevant. I have never seen a shared web host that runs software that bundles MySQL. They may have third party software that uses MySQL via PHP, for example, but this does not need a commercial license.

Again, you're talking about having SQLite installed already, not bundling it with your commercial code. If you need a small db, you can link SQLite directly into your app. If you need a bigger db, you can require the user has Oracle or PostgreSQL installed. You don't to ship a db with your app. If you want to interface with MySQL, then you use one of the permissively-licensed MySQL client libraries. You only need a commercial license for MySQL if you are going to be shipping a copy of MySQL along with your code.

As for foreign key constraints, you realise that these are still pretty new in MySQL, right? Until around 2002 or so, MySQL users and developers were claiming that no one needed them...

Well, it is a big budget (make that: BIG!!! budget) holiday blockbuster. The last time you saw one of those with a unique plot and surprising plot twists was.... when?

There are different types of movies with different entertainment qualities, and you should judge it by its own genre. Do you go to a kung-fu flick expecting an emotional story about small town life? Do you go to a sports movie expecting Shakespeare?

The Matrix is the last big budget blockbuster that I can think of with an original story, which was almost eleven years ago, and was not a holiday blockbuster (it was released in March).

Actually, as far as I can tell, he's not saying there won't be a free DB. He's saying that you can fork the code but not the ecosystem, which is nonsense. Look at X.org for a counterexample; if the original is not being invested in (which he claims he fears) then the fork becomes the official version. The only one of his complaints that makes sense is that Oracle might discontinue commercial licenses for MySQL. The only reason that you need a commercial license for MySQL is if you are going to distribute a product that incorporates a product and is not GPL'd. Quite why you'd pick MySQL if you wanted a database to incorporate into your product instead of SQLite or PostgreSQL, I have no idea.