"...most of today's sexagenarians and septuagenarians want to work as long as they possibly can."

Who the f*ck did they ask? Not me. I'm 70 now and was fortunate enough to be able to comfortably retire in my early 60s. I've never looked back. I can understand people having to work to survive. I can understand that those who have to work may try to convince themselves that they want to work. But let's face it - work sucks. That's why they pay you to do it. It's a necessary evil but one most sane people want to leave ASAP.

"There is nothing -wrong- with Windows 10 aside from the Privacy Policy."

And apart from that, how did you enjoy the play Mrs. Lincoln!!!!

In the US your library records are generally confidential and will only be disclosed in response to a lawfully issued subpoena. The American Library Association has promulgated specific privacy guidelines on this issue:

http://www.ala.org/Template.cfm?Section=otherpolicies&Template=/ContentManagement/ContentDisplay.cfm&ContentID=13084

These rules were formulated in the 1950s in response to McCarthy era hysteria on "subversive" communist/socialist books. At that time certain governmental agencies were asking librarians to turn people in that were reading these materials without getting a court issued subpoena. How all this fairs in the modern era of the Patriot Act and the NSA is anyone's guess.

The big three Ivies, Harvard, Princeton and Yale, have unbelievably huge endowments. Harvard leads with $40 billion, and Yale and Princeton have about $20 billion endowments each. As a result, they can afford to offer very generous need based financial aid. In fact, the only financial aid available from the Ivies is need based. If the family makes under about $75K, the student gets a free ride; that's tuition, books and room & board. The financial aid awards go down on a graduated scale based on income and don't cut out until family income is in the $250K range. They appear to intentionally peg it so for a middle to upper middle class family the financial aid award is large enough to make going to the Ivy slightly more affordable than going to an in state public university.

Absolutely not true. Those kids made money, but not nearly as much as the Hollywood version of the movie "21" depicted. Their winnings certainly weren't large enough to fund a tech startup. For example, I know for a fact that Solidworks was initially funded by a venture capital group, not from the personal assets of the founder, Jon Hirschtick, a member of the MIT blackjack team.

That's not true. A technique called "fast track construction" was developed in the 1960s: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fast-track_construction For the last 25 years, pretty much any large construction project has utilized some form of fast track construction, i.e. the final plans for the entire project are not completed prior to construction commencing.

On identical hardware, Asus sells Ubuntu laptops for $38 less than the Windows 8 laptops: http://www.pcworld.com/article/2012095/two-new-asus-laptops-offer-an-ubuntu-linux-option.html So why can't Dell? I think the obvious answer is that Asus is not nearly as beholden to Microsoft as Dell.

I imagine the purpose in keeping these communications confidential is to encourage frank discussion and the open exchange of information among scientists. Similarly, our society recognizes the privileged nature of communications between a doctor and patient and between an attorney and client for exactly the same reason. When a scientist's emails and preliminary results become routinely subject to subpoena for use in litigation by politically and/or financially motivated parties, this only discourages scientists from revealing and discussing preliminary results with his peers. Science suffers when open communication is chilled by the prospect of being dragged into court on every preliminary comment made by a scientist.

And as an attorney, I can tell you you are wrong; your patients' medical records belong to your patients, not you. Similarly, my client files belong to my clients, not me. How anyone could get through medical school or law school and not understand this is beyond me. I think one factor that accounts for a doctor's or lawyer's reluctance to release their records to their clients or patients(and I've experienced both) is that free records access empowers the consumer to seek the opinion of another professional. Placing road blocks and hassles to free record access is also used as a client/patient retention mechanism.

Civil actions for copyright infringement have a 3 year statute of limitations under section 507(b) of the Copyright Act. However, uploading an illegal copy of a song to "the Cloud" would be a separate act of infringement and the statute of limitations would start to run from the date of upload. Under copyright law, each unauthorized "copying" is a separate infringement. Also, while the law is not settled, most jurisdictions adopt a "discovery rule" approach to determine when the statute should start running. Under the discovery rule, the statute starts running when the copyright owner knew or should have known that an infringement occurred.

Mr. Pot, I would like to introduce you to Mr. Kettle.

Not the real reason. They are worried about the inmates getting boots of escapement: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TxF0vygnF2Y

I live in Illinois, Chicago to be precise. Around here, we consider Wisconsin to be a tax haven somewhat like the Cayman Islands. All people can talk about is someday moving to Wisconsin to escape the Illinois/Cook County tax burden. And we consider your highways to be a dream compared to our Illinois roads. Walk a mile in my shoes. I don't know what you guys are complaining about.

I think you have to look at the underlying economic reality. The 4 year old is only the nominal defendant here - she probably has no assets and is judgment proof. The real defendant is her parent's umbrella insurance carrier; that's who is going to pay if the plaintiffs are successful and that's who is undoubtedly defending this lawsuit. The problem for the insurer is that senior citizens tend to be overrepresented in juries - they've got nothing better to do and most younger working people try to get out of jury duty.

It was "Dr. Tongue's House of Wax" and Count Floyd's Monster Chiller Theater(scary stuff) although only the Dr. Tongue skits featured 3d IIRC. During the skit Dr. Tongue's hunchback assistant, Bruno, played by Eugene Levy, would periodically take some object and thrust it back and forth into the camera.