Or when Russell Crowe won for Gladiator when they really wanted to give it to him for The Insider.

There is a reason we use X and the reason is because it doesn't clash with anything else.

um, doesn't X clash with the symbol for multiplication? Wouldn't another letter, say 'F', be more appropriate?

Never mind the dot-com boom, this kind of publicity stunt has been around since at least the 1950s: Truth of Consequences, NM, named after a game show.

Designers win, because they use one design (compliant, too!), for all browsers. Users win, because everyone sees the same design/version/look.

Best yet, when you pile on a library that fixes CSS3 (this article), and one to fix the CSS box model ( http://webdesign.about.com/od/css/a/aaboxmodelhack.htm ), and then another to fix the png transparency issue ( http://code.google.com/p/ie7-js/ ), and another to add canvas support ( http://excanvas.sourceforge.net/ ), and another ...

Then you explain that everyone will see the same design (yay!), and people using older browsers will experience a VERY SLOW page load. That is why they should upgrade to a more up to date browser.

As an American, I HATE traveling from Canada into the U.S. And I live in New England. :/

I learned that word from The Simpsons:

Moe: "Alright, tell me when I hit the sweet spot."
Homer: "Deeper, you pusillanimous pilsner pusher!"
Moe: "All right, all right."
Homer: "De-fense! Ooh! Ooh! De-fense! Ooh! Ooh!"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HOMR

...there are regions of India the size of Canada where you really shouldn't try it.

Canada has more than three times the land mass of India.

Additionally, the section of Manu Smriti that you cited is this:

8.359) A man who is not a Brahmana ought to suffer death for adultery (samgrahana); for the wives of all the four castes even must always be carefully guarded.

That pertains to infidelity, not homosexuality.

Slashdot doesn't render properly in Safari 4 or Firefox 3.5 beta4 either - the comment titles and scores aren't displayed anymore

The comment titles and scores are being rendered (highlight the page with ctrl-a), the problem is with the CSS - the background image that runs the length of the div element containing the title is being overwritten. This:

.comment div.title { background:#044 url("//c.fsdn.com/sd/article-title-bg.png") repeat-x left top; }

get's overwritten by this (appears further down the document):

.comment div.title { background:#fff!important; }

You'll notice the issue doesn't occur on some of the alternative stylesheets (Ask Slashdot, YRO, etc). In the meantime, you can hit 'change' in the threshold form to set things straight.

At least Timberline Lodge is still around.

> This left the shortest dial time area code for a statewide code as 201..

Have you ever actually seen a rotary phone? Dialing "0" is the slowest digit of all. It's placed after the "9".

Keep in mind that he said that statewide area codes (ie. area codes that every phone number in the state used) had to have 0 as the middle digit. So while 201 wouldn't be faster to dial than 212, it is the fastest statewide area code (since 1 wasn't available as the first digit).

This is nice and all, but can we do something about the clown armor? Trying to keep my flame resist up, but man, its ugly!

I apologize, you're right, you didn't claim the workers were making $75/hour. However, others have claimed that and I erroneously replied to you instead of them.

The article also backs up the $60k number. Is unskilled labor really worth that much to you? Seems unreasonable that an uneducated unskilled laborer should earn more than the average undergrad out of school.

I wasn't making even half that as an undergrad out of school, and I'm not making that much now, but I don't really care what they make. Life is too short to constantly compare your earnings to that of others. I've got a good life, and my salary has little to do with that.

Anyways, I wouldn't want to do assembly line work for 10X what they make. I'm not interested in being bored for a living.

For another thing,

That $75/hour number is incorrect, for a variety of reasons outlined in the linked article.