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I'm not sure that you're going to get agreement here, especially as those who live in the Old Northwest insist that they are in the Midwest.

I was flipping around today and saw a tidbit on Animal Planet about a gigantic, colonial spider web in Australia. I wanted to look up more information about it, but they didn't exactly tell much in the 90 second segment. Anyone here have any idea where this web is and can help me dig up a...

Sure that those aren't "shows"; there's a bit a difference. I'm personally a bill person, but coins have a lot more weight to them -- in many senses. It's also very easy to collect something that you get back as change every day.

They'd get more out of fuel-cell powered buses. There's some city in Canada which has a small fleet of them. All you get from them is steam....

I doubt it. Then again, they hold quite a bit more information.

They're all compact flash-sized -- which is to say, pretty small already. These sound to be about the same size.

So, uh, where does the air go? Throw in a couple drives, cabling, and a video card and -- hey, where did the space go?

This laptop will spend most of its life on a lap on a sofa in from of a television, so weight isn't so much an issue. The bigger screen and better configuration options are what drew me away from the T41 to the R51. With the discount that I can get through friends, the laptop is pretty much...

How are these different from Hitachi's Microdrives?

I'm also dumping my old Lite-on CD burner. Runs 48x12x48x. Asking $20 for it.

Would not such a law be unconstitutional, per our previous "discussions?" No such law, then, should exist.

That's not what you wrote. Just scroll up and check. I will not encourage such behavior. If a man wishes to make an ass of himself, I will call him on it and be on my way.

Calling someone names is hardly an argument. If you think that's well said, then that says a lot about you, as well.

Well, all of the toxicologists that I know have PhDs or PharmDs, so a medical degree is probably not the path there. Given, it's a lot easier to become a toxicologist than a medical doctor....

Ad hominem attack. You lose!

Actually, if you read *really* carefully, it says, "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion"; not, "Congress shall make no law establishing a state religion."

ST318453LW - retail, 68-pin. No grown defects and a factory warranty from Seagate through December 2007. Asking $110, shipped. ST336753LC - OEM refurb, 80-pin. No grown defects, 9+ months warranty from Hypermicro. Asking $110, shipped. 5-Connector, 68-pin, round, 50-inch SCSI cable with...

Toxicology is a heck of a lot more fun. Now we're talking about chemicals that people *didn't* intend to take.

If you can find one in your price range, Xerox has the best laser printers that I've ever used. Barring that, you can still find the Samsung printer at less reputable Internet retailers.

Get thee back to Texas, where thy may shoot across the 16-lane highway at thine enemies!

How long will the display last? As I recall, current OLEDs have a very finite lifetime.

In light of recent events: Bowling for Columbine Yes, Michael Moore is a bleeding-heart liberal, but perhaps people will listen to Matt Stone, instead.

This is just furthur proof that people are amazingly stupid. I can pick out two open networks from my living room -- one of them appears to be a company net.

I use Mozilla for web and Eudora for e-mail. I've never had any security issues with either.

Maybe you could go on to explain how our "founding fathers" are somehow better than everyone else's? Perhaps you could also tell us how their "creator" is superior to anybody else's.

In what sense? These were just a bunch of guys who agreed that people ought to have certain rights and called them inherent. One should also remember that some of these men held other humans in involutary servitude. Not exactly that kind of people that anyone, these days, would choose to make...

The second amendment is about the ability of citizen-soldiers to have the tools that they need to do their jobs. It was specifically aimed stopping the federal government from disarming these people, as the British had done. In a narrow construction, the second amendment does not say that...

It must be *properly* terminated at both ends.

Does no one think that this can be done with a batch file or Windows script?

My people didn't come to America, let alone to escape anything. Actually, it's more likely that *your* people took *my* people's land and then slaughtered them needlessly -- with guns no less. If that's combating what "our founding father's believed in," then I want no part of it. Take your...

Anyone have experience with this particular model, or with the more recent members of the R-series, in general? Looking at buying one of these to replace what remains of the Dell laptop.

Right. have gun -> lower risk -> criminal no gun -> higher risk -> noncriminal

True. But there are non-criminals who have criminal tendencies, but never act on them. Guns clearly can be an enabler in these cases.

I get it. In fact, I have it. I get it all of the time. You clearly do not know what "it" is. If there are fewer guns to be had, then fewer guns are in the hands of criminals. Furthurmore, it's pretty obvious that, if a law-abiding citizen cannot have a gun of some type, and someone has...

Another reason why we need a sin-tax on gasoline. Stupid people have no idea what they're doing.

I'm just thinking that Norway is going to have a population decrease here....

Is it easier to kill with your bear hands or a gun? Guns can empower people to commit crimes that they otherwise would not.

Actually, yes you can. Guns don't cause crime, but people without guns are less likely to commit a crime. Therefore, fewer guns leads to fewer crimes.

The problem with this argument is that horses and people (oars), and wood and coal are substitutes. From muscles to burnable fuel was a major paradigm shift. From oil (and gasoline and JP5 a*are* oil) to whatever is next will be another paradigm shift. Unfortunately, we are not quite sure...

Unfortunately, we live in the United States of America, not the United People of America.

I don't think that I'm that big of a fan of anything with a convention. Unless someone knows of a local numismatics con....

Great news. Most people are stupid and don't know what they're doing. Is it better to protect people from the millions of stupid people, or protect people from the thousands of criminals?

Reported reserves can, as he mentioned, be manipulated for such purposes. That does not change what I mentioned. Campbell's bone was mostly the temporal accounting, not the changes. He realises that, through the life of a field, technology can and has increased the amount of oil is...

To my knowledge, guns don't have a real bearing on the actual amount of crime, just what occurs. In some places where gun carrying has been introduced, people have been lulled into a false sense of safety -- and entered into more dangerous situations -- where they or someone else was inevitably...

The problem is that proven oil reserves go up every year. As the price of oil increases, the economic feasibility of getting the next few drops of oil increases, and so there's more oil that the petroleum giants can say they can pump out. This is bolstered by the fact that some nations, such...

You know what, it's not the wierd people who dress up; my friends are some of those people -- and there weren't very many of them there anyway. It was the commercialism and lack of real content. Fifty bucks was kind of steep, and while Michael Dorn and Marina Sirtis gave a very interesting...

As a self-professed poor driver, I see people who are worse drivers than me. I find that very worrying. Unfortunately, statistics have shown that if you bring a weapon into a situation, its just about as likely to be used against you as by you. And even more likely to be involved in some kind...

I'm not a shy person, and I try to avoid these conventions. After going to a Star Trek convention with some friends in college, I think that I'm scarred for life....

Actually, I learned it in middle school. You need it for geometry.

System operators don't switch tapes. There are machines that do that. System operators wait around for alarms to go off, and then call someone to fix it.