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Don't forget partial pressures of gases. In effect, putting the oxygen under to much pressure can result in a "dieseling" effect. When using exotic atmospheric gas mixtures, the goal is not only to remove potentially harmful gases, but also to control the partial pressure of oxygen itself.

Definition:

The pressure a gas would have if it alone occupied the space in which it is being measured.

For example: Air is 21% oxygen and therefore the partial pressure of oxygen in air at the surface is 0.21, meaning that it would occupy 0.21 of the space on the surface. As depth increases, pressure increases so that at 10 meters (33 feet) of sea water surface pressure is doubled and air pressure is also doubled. This means that while air still occupies 21% of the volume it is now twice as dense and it's partial pressure is now 0.42. The partial pressure of oxygen reaches 1.0 at approximately 37.6 meters (123 feet) and at this depth breathing air is the equivalent of breathing pure oxygen on the surface.

http://scuba.about.com/od/scubaterminology/g/partialpressure.htm

There are probably better links out there, feel free to use Google to satisfy your curiosity. ;^)

horses work
dogs work
cats work

There are millions of animals that need a home - but that won't get research grants, and animals are "messy, disruptive, don't want them in a school or work environment".

The other difference is in the US, workers are sold the dream that anyone has an equal chance to make it big if they work hard enough at it, and workers are free to complain long and loud about the system , their bosses, how much the government sucks, etc.

In China, they had a revolution that was supposed to make everyone equal, but the workers are still getting screwed over and getting bugger all for their efforts, without any accompanying freedoms that US workers enjoy.

Of course in both systems, the workers are getting screwed, and will probably always get screwed, because those in charge of the means of production, (ie. factory owners, Intellectual property owners, land owners etc.) will always find a way to justify why their time and effort is worth so much more per hour than the ordinary employees.

For example, do you think that the average CEO of a company really does such a magnificent job compared to the average employee, that they should be paid 531 times the average hourly worker? http://management.about.com/cs/generalmanagement/a/CEOsOverpaid.htm

There is definitely a case for CEOs getting paid more than a regular worker, (say, 10x), as they do have a great deal more responsibility and a rarer set of skills compared to the average worker, but that level of difference is a sign of a broken and unfair system, just as it is in China.

The classic example was Eli Whitney's cotton gin. It was a brilliant invention that revolutionized the production of cotton but a financial failure: the farmers all pirated the design and built their own rather than pay his exorbitant price.

http://inventors.about.com/od/cstartinventions/a/cotton_gin.htm

If you want to have an honest GLBT discussion, why are you having it on the WoW boards? That's not being flippant - if I were going to have a discussion about any serious, mature topic, I would consider posting it amongst the flotsam of the WoW boards to be an exercise in futility, lost amongst a sea of uninformed one-liners and arrogant diatribes. On a RealID-backed board, I might not suggest you start a post outing yourself as gay, but I'm not sure I would bother starting ANY discussion on the WoW boards as they stand now.

My initial reaction was to agree with this... but on further consideration, I think it's the audience / demographic that really needs a safe place to discuss those topics:

1) anonymous

2) introverted

3) teenage

4) safe from ridicule

5) comfortable

6)...

Yes, WOW might not seem like the ideal place to worldly adults, but to a small town / high school teen it might be their whole world. Or at the very least the only place they can be truly honest.

Most of all it seems a case of "Any port in a storm" ... if it saves a life right ? (I'm not even being overdramatic here, gay teens are said to be 4 times more likely to commit suicide http://gaylife.about.com/od/gayteens/a/gaysuicide.htm)

Actually, the SAT is a very good predicter of how well a student will do in college (not sure about the ACT). http://www.mindingthecampus.com/originals/2008/10/by_peter_salins_one_of.html http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/WhosCounting/story?id=98373&page=2 http://collegeapps.about.com/b/2009/09/19/the-sats-ability-to-predict-college-success-revisited.htm I actually wasn't sure if it still held true, but every study I have ever heard of that compares either first year grades within the same school or college graduation rates has shown that a higher SAT score correlates with higher grades and a higher graduation rate.

Easily rectified, as in the London Underground with a "stand to the right" rule.

"AFAIK exersize has never been shown to boost the immune system (someone please correct me if I'm wrong)."

You're sort of wrong. Moderate exercise boosts the immune system, go over 90 minutes and it's temporarily weakened. Maybe.

There is some evidence that moderate exercise can boost your immune system.

http://sportsmedicine.about.com/cs/injuryprevention/a/aa011502a.html
http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/s_115503.html

So where do you live, exactly?

The Twin Cities of Minneapolis/St Paul with a population of more than 3 million. Two block from me there's a privately owned convince store some of my neighbors work at, with many more small businesses on the same street. Several blocks in the opposite direction there's more small businesses. I'd say the area was Asian however there are also African shops, a cafe, and a German restaurant in walking distance. In a third direction there's more independent businesses. The fourth direction has nothing, the street ends in a "T". My sister has her own business, in accounting, with offices downtown.

However it's not just here with a large population. I moved here from Orlando, FL. There I knew people who owned their own business as well.

And there are a LOT more small businesses in Europe than in the U.S

Citation needed. Looking for myself, I found where the European Commission says "48% of Europeans agree with the statement 'You should not start a business if it might fail', compared with just 19% in the United States". According to the EC Europeans are more risk adverse that Americans not less. Continuing to look I found the article The United States Is the New Europe which says "While the government is hiring, the private sector is losing millions of jobs rather than creating them." It goes on about how Obama wants to make the US more like Europe, and that some of his policies harm small businesses. Continue... Again the EC provides something, Fact and figures about the EUs Small and Medium Enterprise (SME) says that more than 99% of Europe's businesses are SMEs.

Of those the average number of employees is 2, but some have more than 10 employees. A quick calculation says that for every one business that has 10 employees there has to be 10 businesses with only one employee, rounding error.

As for the business travellers--that was exactly my point. They shouldn't be flying at all, but the real reason they are doing it is not because they need to, but because they enjoy it

Some business has to be done face to face, and not via video. There's just too much communications that video misses. People may be just as unlikely to trust video conferencing for business as they would be for tele-surgery or remote surgery.

They want to "network," play golf and socialize ,and basically waste all of our money (whether as investors or customers paying higher prices for products). It's a pretty appalling practice in this day and age!

I knew one person who ran her own business as a web designer and she frequently flew. I find it highly unlikely that she, or most any other business owner, would waste money flying when video works. Fact is is video does not work all the tyme.

Falcon

Maybe this will help you understand why we don't do much traveling outside of the states.

Granted, that's only Western Europe, but I think you get the idea.

Wait, who have you ever heard say that humans are the only thing affecting climate? I have literally never ever heard that, except perhaps from deniers mis-characterizing their opponents.

Bullshit! First result on google.com http://environment.about.com/od/faqglobalwarming/f/globalwarming.htm Notice that there is no mention of the fact that some warming is happening because WE ARE COMING OUT OF AN ICE AGE! Fucking Morons!

From the link you posted, right at the beginning: "Scientists have determined that a number of human activities are contributing to global warming by adding excessive amounts of greenhouse gases to the atmosphere." Contributing means there are other causes. Also, they probably didn't mention we are coming out of an ice age because it isn't actually true...we came out of an ice age thousands of years ago, the global temperature reached a peak during the medieval warm period, and then it began trending downward, bottoming out in the "little ice age" (not a true ice age) whose end followed the onset of the industrial revolution. Since industrialization, we've far exceeded the peak of post-ice-age adjustment.

Bullshit! First result on google.com http://environment.about.com/od/faqglobalwarming/f/globalwarming.htm Notice that there is no mention of the fact that some warming is happening because WE ARE COMING OUT OF AN ICE AGE! Fucking Morons!

Bullshit yourself. We are not "coming out of an ice age" - technically we are in an interglacial of the current and ongoing ice age. For the less technical definition of "ice age" (i.e. "glacial period"), we have been out of the last one for about 10000 years. And while the about.com article is fairly atrocious, it does say "a number of human activities are contributing to global warming" (emphasis mine). Of course, aerosol emissions by humans also counteract global warming...

It is not only not good common sense but it is actually bad economically. The protectionist law Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act, which became law in 1930, led to the Great Depression. When one country enacts protectionist laws other countries pass their own protectionist laws in retaliation which shuts down trade. Economies then collapse causing recessions and depressions.

If you want to help create US jobs, reduce if not get rid of Payroll taxes. Besides all the taxes employers have to deduct from employee pay checks, employers have to also pay taxes. The FICA or Medicare and Social Security tax, employers have to pay half of it. They have to pay federal and state unemployment taxes as well. Not only that but they have to pay accountants to calculate how much has to be paid in taxes. These taxes are paid for every employee, reduce the number of employees and the taxes are reduced as well. Reducing, I'd prefer them to be abolished, federal income and payroll taxes would allow employers to hire more employees and or pay them more. And more people making more money will boost the economy. They will have more money to buy more, driving demand, and or they will invest more thus creating more jobs.

I am completely sick of being screwed over by the corporatist plutocrats.

So hold them accountable, just don't shut down trade.

Falcon

Wait, who have you ever heard say that humans are the only thing affecting climate? I have literally never ever heard that, except perhaps from deniers mis-characterizing their opponents.

Bullshit! First result on google.com http://environment.about.com/od/faqglobalwarming/f/globalwarming.htm

Notice that there is no mention of the fact that some warming is happening because WE ARE COMING OUT OF AN ICE AGE! Fucking Morons!

Interesting perspective, except that your figures are wrong. Sales tax is high in Europe, but 25% is the maximum, not the common amount.

Gas is expensive indeed, but because of that Europeans have been driving more fuel efficient cars for years. Our densely populated continent is better of this way to keep the air cleaner, but also because we can keep parking lots smaller. And again, you picked the maximum (8USD/gallon)

10-19% unemployment? The average is 10.1 in Europe. And although there are some extremes like Spain at 19.7, a country with fairly high taxes (the Netherlands) is currently at 4.3. So maybe you can say 4.3-19 %. But I would rely on the official average of 10.1 And in the USA it was 9.7 in May.

And 75-99 % unemployment rate among teenagers? I have no idea where you got that from, but in Europe most teenagers are still in school/college. And the only figures I could find are that in most countries the youth unemployment is roughly twice the average, no where near 75%

If you yourself are educated the way you advocate, you in my view are a perfect example why we should encourage youth to go to college! They do teach you to do some research and how to interpret the figures. Don't think I ever saw an episode on that on Discovery.

Large Dangerous Rocket Ships

Science Channel (USA) July 5th, 9 PM eastern time.

The (legendary) Rocket Manual For Amateurs is online as a PDF.

What the heck, grab a PDF of the LONG out of print Golden Book of Chemistry while you're at it.

Hey, kids! Set up your OWN chemistry lab bench and do real chemical experiments.

Like safely generating Chlorine gas.

Science Is FUN!

"Why aren't we providing end of life payouts to widowed military wives?"

Widows and widowers are eligible (chicks get killed too):

http://usmilitary.about.com/library/milinfo/casualty/blgratuity.htm

There is also SGLI, which all but utter idiots retain (it's opt-out).

http://www.insurance.va.gov/sglisite/sgli/sgli.htm

Easier to read fact sheet:

http://www.navymutual.org/ServicemembersGroupLifeInsuranceSGLI.asp

Sometimes, due to the Soldiers and Sailors Civil Relief Act:

http://usmilitary.about.com/od/sscra/l/blsscra4.htm

Actually, this 'valuable' patent is worth the application fee and the stream of maintenance fees for the life of the patent! That's, er, about $8k over the life of the patent. http://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/ac/qs/ope/fee2009september15.htm
And that's not counting all the patent litigation fees to keep the lawyers' children fed!

Sadly, there are no longer many worthy patents that are on the scale of a lightbulb, where the realized implementation of an idea is patented after some incredible effort and trial and error. Nowadays, a patent would be just the idea: "a method of generating light from electricity". The carbon filament lamp in 1879, the tungsten filament lamp in 1915, the tungsten halogen lamp in 1959, etc. would all just details that fall under the original idea.

http://inventors.about.com/od/lstartinventions/a/lighting_2.htm

You might just avoid it. But others might replace the word "avoid" with the word "vandalize."

FYI I'd never vote for gay marriage. Does that make you dislike me?

Would it suddenly make a difference if I told you that I would like to see the government eliminate all references to marriage of any kind, including traditional (read: heterosexual) marriages? That is, I would like to see the complete and entire elimination of government recognition of "marriage".

The problem is that, right now, there are a huge number of legal rights conveyed by marriage (the exact number varies by state, but it's probably a LOT more than most people realize). All of these would have to be re-written to either grant the right some other way or remove it completely. Then those that are removed would have to be provided for some other way, as many of them are rather necessary for resolving all sorts of legal situations.

Gee, you looked in Wkikpedia and didn't see that Egypt is part of the middle East? Egypt's in Africa.

Gee, you didn't notice that Egypt is both Middle East and Africa!

http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=middle%20east
http://middleeast.about.com/od/middleeast101/f/me080208.htm
http://www.infoplease.com/atlas/middleeast.html

Any Last Words?

In 1994, Bill Gates gave an interview to Playboy. He stated then that he was going to give away his money. In it he says:

PLAYBOY: Does your net worth of multi-billions, despite the fact that it's mostly in stock and the value varies daily, boggle your mind?

GATES: It's a ridiculous number. But remember, 95 percent of it I'm just going to give away. [Smiles] Don't tell people to write me letters. I'm saving that for when I'm in my 50s. It's a lot to give away and it's going to take time.

PLAYBOY: Where will you donate it?

GATES: To charitable things, scientific things. I don't believe in burdening any children I might have with that. They'll have enough. They'll be comfortable.

http://beginnersinvest.about.com/od/billgates/l/blbillgatesint5.htm

With feh, you can run a specific command for any keypress (actually 0-9) while viewing the image. Using this command, associate file metadata using setfattr. If you need user input, open a dialog box from this command which in turn will be stored as metadata. Advantages:

1. No dependency on any new-fangled databases.
2. Metadata is independent of image codec/container/technology etc. Supports most popular formats - png, jpg, gif etc.

Mumbai doesn't either. Mumbai's transit has other problems, but lack of use isn't one of those.

88% of the population uses transit (buses and trains). That's about 18M people. Mass transit works very well if you keep provisioning for it, and grow along transit lines.

It doesn't work well in rural areas, but even there you can have fairly reliable public transit without the need for cars.

If I understand correctly, the "monopoly" aspect of patent restrictions don't apply to the government. The government can use any patented invention without restriction, but the patent holder is entitled to claim compensation from the government. So there may be some truth to your witty observation, due to cost of compensation.

Related, note that often government contractors may be immune to patent infringement claims.

They get what they can get. They bring in a lot of money to the owners, why not charge that much?

The promoter has always known that the star attraction is his best guarantee of success at the box office. Mark Twain's satirical playbill for the Roman Coliseum didn't stray too far from the truth. The Innocents Abroad
[1869, Chapter 26]

The backups from an iPhone or iPod can be encrypted. The iTunes db is not encrypted. Managing the database is as simple as copying some files to the proper locations, and modifying an XML.

[Basic info on the XML interface and hte db locations]
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1660

Here are some free alternatives to iTunes. A few minutes of Googling should net you a larger list:

http://www.copytrans.net/copytransmanager.php

http://techcrunch.com/2010/03/10/doubletwist-podcasts-android/ (also works with a variety of devices including Android)

http://ipod.about.com/od/introductiontoitunes/tp/itunes_alterns.htm

http://grammar.about.com/od/ab/g/analogy.htm

You live in Yakutat, Alaska?

Uh...no, India is considered part of Asia, just as the middle east is.

I'm guessing you didn't make the Geography bee. ;-)

You're funny. Privacy is a myth. Public place or not. Others know where you are all the time, what you buy/eat, what you were searching for, and people just hand out personal info on sites such as Facebook and Twitter now. There's no need for cameras. Hah!

Perhaps you missed it before, but Microsoft is very much interested in backing HTML5

There is NOTHING random about natural selection. NOTHING. Genetic variations are SELECTED. That's the point. Nobody that know anything about evolution believes it's random, and only those trying to discredit evolution say it is. This version as you present it is believed by no one, it's merely a strawman that creationist like to point at and discredit.
 
Try telling that to Paul Lutus, or even this article on About.com:
http://atheism.about.com/od/atheismscienceevolution/a/RandomUniverse.htm. However, I did mistype slightly- it is the MUTATIONS that are by necessity random, not the SELECTION of those mutations, and in that you're correct.

Forests in the US have been increasing for almost the past 60 years. More wood is grown than harvested by a ratio of 3:1, and significant acreage has been returned to forests, in part because more responsible timber farms have been created over the decades. We may have at one time reached peak wood, but usage and growth patterns changed, and that is no longer the case.

Other nations may have problems with their forests, but the US is not one that does.

A better researched and written article would have made the parallel between peak wood and peak oil more explicit and exact. Peak wood hit all of the industrializing nations of the West during the 18th or 19th century due to its consumption for fuel. The areas close to the iron works and major cities in France and Britain were stripped bare of trees by 1750 or so. Coal, and then oil, replaced wood because energy demand could not be satisfied by wood. This is not only still true today, it is far more true now than ever. Tree harvesting today is not for fuel except in poor countries which cannot afford oil-based fuels and are now experiencing the same deforestation-for-fuel calamity. Bio-energy to replace oil cannot be based on burning trees (for the most part) because their energy productivity per acre is too low.

In the 19th century the more densely settled East of the United States lost half of its forests from this cause. Fortunately the U.S. retained vast forests in the West where it was much less densely settled. http://forestry.about.com/library/bl_us_forest_acre_trend.htm .

Those students are nowhere doing anything like landing on the moon. Yes it's an impressive student project but it is mostly useless from a scientific and technical POV. Good for promoting awareness of EVs I guess[1].

The previous Tesla models already HAD a 53kWh battery pack, 90% battery-to-wheel efficiency and > 248 mile range (under good conditions). The newer models might do better. Tesla even did a road trip too ( http://detroit.about.com/b/2010/01/19/detroit-auto-show-tesla-roadster-road-trip.htm ).

Nissan and friends are the ones improving the technology.

[1] But you wouldn't want your friends to be buying EVs till the tech improves a lot more, unless they are really rich and can afford to "donate to progress" or the cars really suit their requirements.

I don't have mod points so I'll just add this: The Tesla Model S prototype has a 300mile range with the "large" battery pack option AND carries up to 7 passengers AND with the help of Toyota and some Government grants, will be going into full production soon...way beyond the "proof of concept" stage. And for that matter, high school kids are building electric cars in their parent's garages these days. So why is this college student project impressive at all?

Those students are nowhere doing anything like landing on the moon. Yes it's an impressive student project but it is mostly useless from a scientific and technical POV. Good for promoting awareness of EVs I guess[1].

The previous Tesla models already HAD a 53kWh battery pack, 90% battery-to-wheel efficiency and > 248 mile range (under good conditions). The newer models might do better. Tesla even did a road trip too ( http://detroit.about.com/b/2010/01/19/detroit-auto-show-tesla-roadster-road-trip.htm ).

Nissan and friends are the ones improving the technology.

[1] But you wouldn't want your friends to be buying EVs till the tech improves a lot more, unless they are really rich and can afford to "donate to progress" or the cars really suit their requirements.

unless there are undead lawyers.

They're called Estate Lawyers

They're the complement to "ambulance chaser", they're more of a "hearse chaser".

So 10% of the Christians want to change your behaviour? OK, if you say so, but then you go on to say it appears that Muslims want to convert everybody. None of the Muslims I have spoken to (even about religion) where trying to convince me to become a Muslim.

I would say that more Christians want me to become a Christian then there are Muslims that want me to become a Muslim. The fact that these people blow themselves up has nothing to do with Muslims. And the "live and let live" IS clearly in their vocabulary. I clearly states in the Koran that you need to repect other peoples belief.

Sure, that is not what the nutcases want you to read. Just like there are contradictions in other books, they exist there as well. Many Muslims have said that killing others because of their belief just shows that you are a bad Muslim. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/faith/article7046487.ece
and http://islam.about.com/cs/currentevents/a/suicide_bomb.htm
From the last link:
The predominant theme in the Qur'an is forgiveness and peace. Allah (God) is Merciful and Forgiving, and seeks that in His followers. Indeed, most people who spend time on a personal level with ordinary Muslims have found them to be peaceful, honest, hard-working, civic-minded people

And there are a lot of "bad" Muslims who smoke, drink alcohol, eat pork and not pray 5 times a day, just as there are "bad" Christians and "bad" Jews. However your idea seems pretty clear made up as you talk about "they" and "us". Well, I am neither "They" nor "Us" in this case and If you are "Us" then I rather be "They" who seem to be more open minded. And I talk from experience.

Actually, you can patent gameplay. You can't copyright it. In fact, games ranging from Monopoly to Magic: The Gathering have been patented. A prior collectible card game patent was issued in 1904. There really is nothing new under the sun. Random citations:

Monopoly
Magic

However, Tetris isn't patented so the whole patent issue is moot. Besides, trademarks and patents aren't enforced by the DMCA.

I'd say the "little black dress" and men's dark suit are the music equivalent of "classics." (e.g., they've been around for a long time, sell well...and probably always will.)

Then again, why "copyright" clothing when you can "patent" clothing or clothing components based on features or unique design, from Teva to Velcro.

Modern motorcycle protective clothing (the kind worn by riders of rice-rockets, not Harleys) claims patents and "patents pending" using all kinds of IP-based parts from A-Z (uniquely Articulated armor, Ceramics, Cordura, Kevlar, Teflon sliders, Ultra high molecular weight polyethylene, Velco to Z (Zipper).

http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blteva_sandals.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Velcro

Soldiers can't be charged with conduct unbecoming for bad behavior unless they are in uniform, so why should it be different?

Yes they can. The standard is much tougher for anything they do while in uniform (on duty or not) but they can be punished for activities they engage in while off duty and out of uniform. Whilst seldom used, it is *technically* illegal for them to be promiscuous, for example, and sleep with a different person every night. (This is part of the moral code they agree to) If they actively take part in a pro-communism rally for example, they can be punished. If they publish stuff on their facebook page about being pro-anarchy, same thing. This is punishment for *ideas* more than actions, but when you sign up, you literally sign a contract agreeing to those terms. And yes, you CAN and WILL be punished if you get a sunburn that is so severe you can't go to work, under Article 108 of the UCMJ for damage to government property.

The military is an exception to virtually every rule in regular society, for good reason. Any military or ex-military person knows this, and is ok with it, understanding it is a necessary function of being in the military. Military members are not without Rights, but those rights are different than for civilians, and overall, the military system tends to be more "color blind" and fair/equal to all, even if a bit harsh at times.

Oft quoted and always applies: "Gentlemen, we are here to protect democracy, not practice it."

Wow, it looks like you're right. In Texas it's easier to buy a handgun or rifle than a pyrex flask.

I guess as far as hobbies go, ranchers, factory workers, and the other "real Texans" enjoy shooting more than science. Big surprise there.

Here's a link. Note that he said "the majority of America supports health care reform." Not "the majority of America supports the health care bill that was passed." Hell, I'll even spare you the link that cites 77% of the population being in favor of a choice of a public option, because that's on HuffPost and therefore obviously biased.

I wanted health care reform. I think the current bill is not very good (it is, in fact, almost exactly what Republicans proposed as an alternative to the system Hillary proposed 15 years ago), but I think it is at least a step in the right direction to preventing medical bankruptcies. The Republican party was in power for over a decade and did exactly jack squat about resolving healthcare inequality and the obvious problems our system has. What we ended up getting due to Obama and the democrats is not good, but it's better than nothing.

When Bush was president, left-wing nutjobs were not much better. Are we comparing the worst of the worst of both parties?

When Bush was president, the most vocal "left-wing nutjobs" bitched about stuff that was TRUE. Sure, there were quite a few that were unhappy about the results in Florida, but I don't remember them being given nearly as much media attention as, say, the birthers have. The majority of us were pissed about going to war on false pretenses, not "robbing medicare to pay for socialized medicine" or crap like this.

--Jeremy

Prior art:

http://graphicssoft.about.com/od/photoshop/ig/20-Years-of-Photoshop/Photoshop-Elements-1-0-2001.htm

Button and menu controls on the palettes, tabs to switch between control palettes, all of it. Just 'cause the Ribbon is blue doesn't make it new.

It's not necessary to make new lies when the old ones still work. The lies are just a pretense that the citizens and taxpayers matter.

Quote from Dwight D. Eisenhower, former U.S. President, former Supreme Commander of Allied Forces in Europe:

"In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex." -- Farewell Address, Jan. 17, 1961

Full speech

Taxpayers ignored that warning, and now the U.S. government is more corrupt than ever before.

It doesn't matter if I do it; if it's an important enough piece of software, somebody has. And if it's really important, more than a few somebodies. And if it's really really important, I can pay somebody to do it.

I'd like to introduce you to an important, relevant psychological effect known as the bystander effect. The more important that something public is, the GREATER the chance that no one will take care of it because they all just assume "It's so important that someone must have taken care of it."

I'm not saying that open source is insecure, just that you can't automatically assume that it IS secure. Unless you personally look at the code or pay someone trusted to do so, you have to assume that it isn't secure.

The "noob" here is the person that blindly trusts other people to make sure everything is secure.

http://orthopedics.about.com/cs/otherfractures/a/scaphoid.htm

Sorry, I had heard of it referred to as a navicular bone.

That being said, I wish I could stick to cars :/

Not generally true.
http://judaism.about.com/od/conversi2/f/tatoos_burial.htm

"The Torah forbids us from tattooing our bodies. Nonetheless, one who has had tattoos can still be buried in a Jewish cemetery.

That said, every Jewish burial society has the right to enact its own criteria for who may and may not be buried in their plot. This stems from people's desire (or right?) to be buried in proximity to others of their choosing. So while technically there is nothing in Jewish law which prohibits a tattooed person from being interred in a Jewish cemetery, certain burial societies -- not the majority of them or even close -- will not bury among their own a person who willingly tattooed him/herself, as it is a permanent exhibition of violation of Jewish Law.

This practice by certain burial societies led to the common misconception that this ban was an inherent part of Jewish law".