I don't need nearly the level of coverage on the latest missing, pretty, white girl. If more news outlets go under maybe the rest will not have the resources to cover touching, but unimportant issues.

Do you seriously doubt that Iran has serious economic difficulties, and is proping itself up with oil money? Here's a recent cite; Google finds dozens.

You probably weren't being intentionally funny but in today's economy, if you're propping yourself up with oil money, you're not having economic difficulties.

"...runs Linux with some instructions in Java..."

Uh-oh, they used the J-word. Wait until the Slashdot Religious Order gets their hands on them.

I don't know. Hasn't Ford produced a billion cars yet? I bet for sure there have been a billion Twinkies made.

The strange thing here is not that a fool and her money are soon parted but rather that the fool ever managed to get together with her money in the first place.

He signed the non-compete. *HE* gave away his freedom. Not the State.

Doesn't matter what he signed. You can't contractually agree to an illegal activity.
Well, you can but you can't be held to it in a court of law.

I've had a bone marrow transplant. It's not so much a transplant as a regeneration of bone marrow from the donor stem cells. In my case it was an autologous transplant, meaning I used my own stem cells. It sounds like the transplant being discussed is an allogeneic or donor transplant. An allogeneic transplant is no small procedure and I have to wonder if maybe the cure isn't as bad as the disease? After all, with treatment, isn't AIDS largely manageable these days? The fatality rate of an allogenic transplant approaches 1 in 5.