The big difference is that now, the guys can find the girls on-line and they can talk, get to know each other on-line, bond over how different they feel, and start dating.

Seriously, this isn't stunting; it's empirically a shift in human social behavior.

Or, they could consider the idea that as on-line communication becomes rooted in our social ecosphere, social skills are changing to more closely integrate on-line interactions.

15 years ago, online dating was satire. 5-10 years ago it was socially frowned upon. These days, it's damned near normative.

They dim fine.

As for the price... well, it depends. Are you willing to spend $1 now to save $3 over the lifetime of the product? Because that's the ratio you're looking at for LED bulbs over incandescents, even at $40 for a 17 Watt (75 Watt equivalent) dimmable LED bulb.

Look better, then (like at Amazon and Home Depot): dimmable LED bulbs.

I've just redone all the floods in my house with them. They're pricey ($40/bulb) but they'll recoup their price in about 3 years of my current usage and last at least a decade.

Did you miss the original?

I can only guess she sent the Alamo a C&D letter, so they had Oswalt do the recreation, but they were showing this for a while: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1L3eeC2lJZs

Makes complete sense. I can easily see that if everyone you know is cheating, it would start to seem "fair.". Plus, the cheating itself starts to seem like a game in itself.

Griefing in MMOs seems like it would be the same sort of thing.

If we can send one DBA into space, why can't we send them all?

Exactly. I will go where my friends are - and we were on G+ for a little while. And then Google killed the accounts of a dozen or so of them, and the rest of us left.

I don't need an identity service masquerading as a social networking site. Facebook's bad enough, but Google's trying to get its scary little tendrils into every part of my life.

Because you fail to see that deep down under their skin, all those brown people that the US blows up are the same as the white people that the US does not blow up, of course. Or something.

Look at DIASPORA*: https://joindiaspora.com/

You're not an astrophysicist. I met your mom isn't, either.

Seriously, this isn't a matter of common sense, but of a scientific jargon / English mismatch, it happens all the time. In the context of astronomy, it's completely normal to talk about size in terms of mass rather than spatial units. If somebody asked what size a star was, an answer of "5.6 solar masses" would be a perfectly acceptable answer.

I wear a fez now. Fezzes are cool.

Can't live without it.

And that makes you Google's bitch.

That's scary enough, but the really scary part is that this is a 15 member board 8-0 is deceptiv, there were 7 (creationist) abstentions.

I wouldn't bet on it, if his case is like mine. I have a 4-year-old house with a 50-year roof (galvanized zinc). Maybe I will, maybe I won't. It almost certainly won't be any time soon.

People don't have to buy disposable roofs.