I tried portrait orientation for a month. It was awful. The viewing angle along the long axis was much smaller than the small axis, thus sitting up in the chair made midtones brighter than highlights, and all sorts of crap like that. More importantly, trying to keep my place within 120 lines of text is nearly impossible. The portrait mode only makes sense for white papers where multiple graphics are fixed in position. Nowdays, I stick to one monitor and flick between views with my fingertips. Way faster than moving my eyes across monitors/views. Why does anyone use dual monitor anymore? (p.s. I still have a second monitor, its just displaying crap I haven't looked at in two days)

Making "hate speech" illegal is unconstitutional, but that's pretty much the way the courts feel too (in the US). However, there is plenty of speech that isn't free. Slander for one. And harassment. You can't forcibly enter someone's domicile, or burn a cross in their lawn just because you've got the freedom to talk to them. In other words, as important as freedom of speech is, it isn't the trump card of all rights. And if we need to create a new law to not have someone scream obscenities at your face as you bury your dead children, that's fine. Just scope it properly, and everyone can still yell their minority dissenting views the other 99.99% of places and times. These exceptions have always been there, so much so that we don't even think of them as exceptions, just common sense.

"# People have exactly N names, for any value of N." Sure, please let me tie your uncountable, Gaussian curve of names to that paycheck. We'll both be happier.

I started playing TF2 last week and now I'm making it to work in less than 15 minutes. I'm also more likely to look for a taunt button by the wiper controls.