Disclaimer: I am a vegan and all carnivores are morons.

Wait, doesn't that make octipi morons? Logic breakdown, never mind, carry on. :-)

But seriously, don't let me catch you eating one, I'll kill you...

Magnificent post. I would mod you up, but SlashDot hasn't given me mod points in over a decade.

A dumb question for you, but one that I could not answer for myself by reading the article: How is it that the universe is accelerating away from center? Is there a huge amount of matter outside our universe that is pulling the outer bits away? Does the radiation from the inner parts create pressure on the outer parts? Or is there more relativity trickery at work here that I do no grasp?

With Decent you really needed TWO joysticks to play properly. We bought splitter cables and used the offhand joystick to control thrust (forward and backward on the top buttons) and strafing in any variable direction. With this setup you had a terrific edge over anyone of equivalent skill who did not have it.

Looking at that photo linked in the article, I just realized that there are many other large storms visible on Jupiter. There are three large off-white ones just above the red one that are comparable in size. They do not stand out as much because they lack the striking red color and instead blend into the surrounding clouds. There is a little orange one at bottom left. I wonder if those other storms have persisted as long as the big red eye?

This is just my theory, but I believe the sudden relaxation of marijuana laws globally is a result of the .01%'ers starting to get worried. The rabble are rousing, we must unleash the opiates for the masses!

That's awful, pretty closer to "as bad as it can get". I hope that the protesters can manage to elicit real change in the face of such brutality but you've provided a stark example of how difficult it can be.

Looks like the pro-EU protesters are still fighting tho...

Yeah there will be some of that for sure. But even following the most pessimistic line of thinking... eventually when it gets as bad as it can get, there is always the option of revolution. In the meantime, unlike Russell Brand, I'm going to keep voting, glass-half-full style. :-)

You're probably right, it's a long play hope. You have to wait for old folks to die off, and young folks to start caring enough to vote. In my mind, it's an inevitability. Circa 2100. Any sooner is probably wishful thinking.

In the mean time, I think Kardos had good advice recommending creative commons.

before they are voted out. They may have powerful corporate backers, but these are the kinds of things that the younger generations just aren't going to put up with much longer. At least that's my hope.

Thanks for that info, I'd never heard that before. The need to heat the converter up every once in a while makes sense. I will put the top town and take a trip down A1A every once in a while :-)

My personal "why": I code from home, so my car leaves the house twice a week and even then only to go 5-10 miles. My car is a '98 Mustang Cobra with a supercharged V8. I paid 15k cash for it used in 2002. I only get 17 miles to the gallon, but so what? I fill up maybe once every two months. I do a lot of my own maintenance. An all-electric vehicle would be perfect for my needs, and I could easily afford one, but I plan on driving my '98 until it rusts out from under me. It is a blast to drive, and the cost of fuel is a non-issue for so few miles.

Young Jared James Abrahams, I hereby sentence you to 20 years of coding for the NSA. Our country needs young innovators with such talents to preserve our eternal safety from those who would do us harm. As your reward, you can have access to all the nude webcam photos you want, we have the worlds largest data center chock full of the bestest stuff.

So phones, tablets and consoles are now all the same thing?

Xbox 360 sold over 44 million units. Xbox Live has 22 million users. Those are some HUGE numbers, and there is a lot of brand loyalty amongst console buyers. Office is still king with businesses everywhere.

The first Ender book is the least cerebral. Too bad for you. Or was this sarcasm? My eldest daughter (15) has read all the Ender books. She loved "Speaker for the Dead" and thought the first book was the weakest. She claims that the Bean timeline is the best. I am hoping to see what she means this summer, but I have to retrieve all my Ender books first as she has farmed them out to all her friends.