Azalin

I just had to have my 20 year-old cat put to sleep last weekend. it's the sixth time I've had to make a trip like that and it never gets easier. I'm sorry for Ginger. take comfort in knowing that you gave her a good & loving home.

this is apparently a point where you and I will disagree completely. in my world, science is a search for truth in understanding how everything works, from the cosmos all the way down to subatomic particles. to go into science 'to make a difference, better the world, or even save it' seems to me to be motivation that's purely agenda-driven. motivation inspired by a noble cause does not lend greater credibility to the research.

it's certainly good for flora.

from the comments: "Bees normally swarm onto trees.That Talos must have some wood."

or Carter. especially Carter.

I have Uverse and live in Austin as well, but I can't get gigapower yet as it hasn't deployed in my neighborhood. I'm sure it will soon though. in the meantime, the 24 mg is doing just fine.

Buchenwald actually had a gift shop? I can only imagine how careful they would have had to be with their choice of souvenirs (a whole string of extremely tasteless ideas are parading through my imagination right now.....) I can only imagine what it must be like to tour places like that...to actually be in a place where so much evil was perpetrated on so many others. I've been to many places in the US like Jamestown, Monticello, Willamsburg, and several others where they had, among other structures, slave quarters. that was bad enough. I can't imagine actually being at Auschwitz, Buchenwald, Dachau, or any of the others.

I know, right?

you don't have at&t, verizon, clear, or any of the others?

way to keep up with the dialogue. the article is from 2 months ago.

I shouldn't be laughing at this, but the image is so incredibly offensive that I can't help it.

the man used three exclamation points followed by three question marks! he's obviously insane.

I was looking at some examples of elemntary school math only yesterday, and it looked pretty cumbersome to me. I can understand the rationale behind teaching the purpose of arithmetic in conjunction with the math itself, but the method in which they do so seems utterly bizarre to me.

so you need a prescription to buy cucumbers?

I work for a major telecom company. we offer at least 5 different bandwidths/speeds for our customers, each one with it's own set monthly rate - slowest = cheapest, fastest = most expensive. I see no reason why we shouldn't charge companies like Netflix a larger rate since they suck up incredible amounts of bandwidth (the result of that is that it slows down all other traffic along that path, affecting other customers, forcing us to continue increasing our available bandwidth to accommodate their services). most urban areas in the US have at least two major competitors with their own infrastructure (local cable companies and local telecom companies), as well as colocators/resellers that buy access from the locals and resell it as their own. in addition, most hand-held devices have at least 4G access via wireless, so wheverever the technology isn't available yet, it will be very soon. ISPs and telecoms want your business, and they're doing everything they can to get it.

we don't need to devise a new method of propulsion to get our space program back on track. space exploration is one of the very few areas where I whole-heartedly support large-scale federal spending. I remember all of it...all the way back to John Glenn's three-orbit flight aboard Friendship 7 (although I was very young at the time). you're absolutely right about the cold war's influence on technological development within the space program (I believe that the booster rockets used in the Gemini missions were from decommissioned missles, but I'm not sure). a friend and I were talking about this just the other day. he bemoans the general public's apparent lack of interest in space exploration, but I reminded him that we've decommissioned all of our space shuttles and all current rocket development in the US is being handled by private companies. people used to be engaged when we were sending people up into space, because it was all over the television whenever we did it, especially in the days before cable TV (it was like when the president spoke or when the pope died....all three channels covered it to the exclusion of scheduled programming). you will see renewed interest when they finally whittle down the number of people that will be going to Mars. that will be especially appealing to the public interest, if for no other reason than it's a one-way trip. whoever goes will not be returning to Earth.

I don't care how urgent it is.....I told you to go BEFORE you put on all that armor.

I'm completely against the government getting involved for many reasons, and the internet itself has developed just fine without interference or control by the feds. if companies like Netflix, Hulu, etc eat up massive amounts of bandwidth, then the companies that provide that bandwidth have every right to charge more for it, in my opinion.

keep them coming. some of the resulting material has been pretty funny.

hahahaha! they'll NEVER try to impeach me with Robocop on my side!

doesn't it strike you as being a little ironic that the bulk of said awareness is generated in this case from these peoples' photos being shown on the news, not necessarily through the twittersphere?

not only that, we're letting them out of our prisons too. http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/may/14/editorial-the-great-escape/