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After graduate studies in nuclear physics at Union College in Schenectady, New York, Carter was selected by Admiral Hyman Rickover to serve as engineering officer of the Sea Wolf, America's second nuclear submarine.

I've got no idea why people feel inspired to "correct" others based on wild guesses instead of reality in situations as trivial as my post above. Care to enlighten us "jordanjay29". At least your own motivations will be something that you will actually know about.

Astronauts tend to be proud of their eyesight... like Chuck Yeager:
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From the early days of test pilots and the original Right Stuff astronauts they've typically had much better than 20/20 eyesight.
So it's probably easy to detect this sort of thing, and they might be a little ticked off to loose it :^O
Of course a lot of people would go to space even if they went blind... most of us risked that in Junior High School anyway!

Anyway just a thought LOL the point is to be a villian :-P Basically like the Oracle Larry there, in fact maybe he has these powers....

Larry is even worse than a supervillain. He's an aspiring lich who steals others' souls with his cold touch and will save his spirit in a redundant phylactery.

He was apparently born in the Bronx so I might need to run very quickly should he return to perform his lichdom rites. I'd rather run headlong into a hundred zombies than live a mile from the dungeon of an undead billionaire that can teleport into my house!

There is a big difference between "has the best" and "is the best". True, the US has the best hospitals, surgeons etc. But only the wealthiest 10% of the population has access to them. For everyone else, all you get is care that would horrify the typical Swiss or German.

Bullshit! I won't argue the merits of who has the better Healthcare system for "John Q. Public" but American car would "horrify" the typical Swiss or German? That's flamebaiting at best or trolling at worst. My old boss was a first generation German immigrant and she wasn't "horrified" by American healthcare.

And only the wealthiest has access to the best? Perhaps it would interest you know that my Grandmother had one of the first artificial heart valves ever made back in the 70s. Her surgery was performed by Denton Cooley one of the foremost Heart surgeons ever and the guy that helped pioneer heart transplants and artificial valves. My Grandmother was as lower middle class as anybody and she had access to him.

We have a lot of problems with our medical system (the cost of insurance comes to mind) but quality isn't one of them. I'm sorry if it "horrifies" you.

Mike Wallace interview on 60 Minutes of Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad: Iranian Leader Opens Up Ahmadinejad Speaks Candidly With Mike Wallace About Israel, Nukes, Bush.

Mike Wallace was VERY disrespectful. Maybe it was not such a good idea to have a Jew interview the Iranian president. If I were Les Moonves, CEO of CBS, I would be thinking about firing Wallace for his lack of professionalism. However, Les Moonves is a Jew, also. They are both disposed by their culture to be sworn enemies of Iran. There should have been a statement on the show about the conflict of interest.

I am against violence of any kind. However, that said, I thought that the Iranian president was quite a reasonable man.

The developer of the Polio vaccine.
Salk bio

You know what I find especially lame about the now infamous "NOOOOOOOO!!!" scene? It was delivered by James Earl Jones, not Hayden Christensen. James of course was responsible for making Darth Vader such a badass in Ep. 4-6. The fact that a distingushed professional as him could have delivered such a horrid stinky scene is highly dissapointing.

Oh well, personally I'll just continue to enjoy those 3 great original movies and ignore the latest 3 stinkers.

- I'd also like to see the artists being paid more than 10%...
Yes, a good share to the artists is important. And possible in a system where distribution costs may be low.
Note also that "artists" are not only the visible (or "audiblde") performing artists, but also people like producers (what would the early Michael Jackson music have been without Quincy Jones? Ever heard of Phil Spector? to name a few of the most well-known), sound technicians, etc.

As for the rest of the poll, here it goes:

- Should it have OGG and FLAC tracks, as well as MP3?
Yes, and with high bitrates available.

- Would you rather pay per-song or per-month?
Per song.

- Would you want the option to purchase hard-copy as well (like the actual album, or even band merchandise)?
Yes

- Should the song samples be 30 second downloads or full-song streams fed on-demand?
Full-length streams (can be very low quality)

- Is a radio station important for an online music store?
Not for me.

And last but not least, the question which was not asked:

- Should the songs have DRM?
NO. If I buy a song, I do whatever I want with it, and can copy it to all my MP3 players and home computers, whatever OS they are running, and don't have to worry about some arbitrary restrictions.

I didn't have that luxury at my last programming job -- so I did it all. Along the way, I typed up or found on the Web lots of bits of useful code that I copy and paste into new programs as needed--thus reducing the amount of typing needed.

Unless you are Shelby Foote, who painstakingly writes his books in longhand with paper (parchment?), a (quill) pen, and an inkwell, touch typing is, I believe, an *ESSENTIAL* skill for (software) writers. You learn a valuable skill and save the company you work for money by not having to pay someone else do the typing. As an added bonus, by typing in software, your thoughts are accurately conveyed to the software development environment as you type them. Your boss's approach was standard operating procedure back in the heyday of batch job oriented computer mainframes but not now in the PC era thanks to proper mainframe terminal emulation and networking between the mainframe and the PC(s) that are 'attached' to it....

I don't care where Mr. McCaw got his idea. With a mug like this I'd let this pimp skillet disrupt whatever the hell he wants.

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Fortunately, google is your friend :-)

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I also didn't know what he looked like until just now :-)

Fortunately, google is your friend :-)

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I also didn't know what he looked like until just now :-)

Here a link to an interesting interview with Teller along with some video clips: Teller Interview

George Lucas was a keen social sciences student before he discovered film, and he was specifically taken with anthropology, sociology and psychology. I recall seeing an interview years ago where he compared The Force to Jung's collective unconscious, as an all-encompassing, all-permeating energy that connects all people. There was more, which I can't recall, but archetypal stories such as Star Wars, The Matrix and others all draw on philosophy, theology and other social sciences, whether we want to admit it or not. You should read this interview with George Lucas where he says:

When I first got to college, I was very interested in the social sciences, anthropology, sociology, psychology, those kinds of things. And I was still interested in art and photography. I didn't know that I could actually put them all together in one occupation and love it.