I would also like to posit that if you are of the opinion that the Republicans have had little or no effect on the legislative process for the past two years, then you have not been paying attention.

He'd better make sure he has the Shoe-Dodging app.

As long as the employer recognises that 40 hours of that Tetris-player's week contributes more value than 40 hours of TakesADayToCodeHelloWorld McGee's week, and therefore should require more money to finance, then he's free to reallocate his resources. Ideally, that is.

If the entire Tea Party movement hadn't been orchestrated by GOP-aligned media personalities, and wasn't fueled almost entirely by an intense, blind rejection of Obama, you might've been onto something there.

Are you a writer for the television show CSI, perchance?

As someone who's in the middle of watching Babylon 5, I couldn't help but think of the Night Watch when I read this story.

Tagged correlationisnotcausation? And here I was, thinking that there was a Medicaid bureaucrat whose job was to run through a list of people with low income and schedule them all for antipsychotics.

The astronauts should just lift weights.

This attitude of "The US shouldn't look at other countries as examples. If we didn't come up with the idea ourselves, it doesn't deserve to be used in America!" is really weird to me, as an outside observer. The same attitude is present in the current healthcare reform debate and in metrication. Surely Americans are aware that foreigners do come up with good ideas, and that you haven't failed as a country because you used some?

Can someone please justify why we should consider the CSIRO to be a patent troll? They are an actual research organisation (a taxpayer-funded one at that); they don't exist just to file patents and make claims on them. Why are people dismissing them as trolls?

Mod parent up. The summary said to measure the rabbit from Earth, the whole point of which is to illustrate the distance involved. At such a distance, the radiant heat from the rabbit will have weakened such that it would be nearly indistinguishable from other sources much closer. This is where you need sensitivity.

Even more damning is that he has no proof that it was even being changed to Bing. The only reason Microsoft is even considered as the culprit is because he found a perfectly normal service, Windows Search, start up at the same time as all of the other on-boot services. This is something to laugh at at best.

Why, you could be as great as these people!