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They call it a "legal code" by derivation from "codification", which ultimately derives from "codex" - I.E. a book of law that present and organized system of law. Computer "code" on the other hand derives it's name from the definition of code that means to translate information from one form of representation to another - E.G. to and from native binary.

The American Heritage Dictionary editors seem to think that the "code as abbreviation" meaning, which led to the computer symbol and cryptographic meanings, also came from "codex".

THE INTERNET.

There is always an interest cost on an investment. You pay it or you sacrifice the opportunity to earn it. http://www.answers.com/topic/opportunity-cost And please stop trying to use subsidized costs (after rebate, after tax incentive, low interest loans, etc); those don't change the cost, they only shift the burden of paying it to someone else. How about if the Federal government subsidized 100% of the cost of a nuclear reactor, would that make the electricity it generates free?

A quick intertubes search reveals this quote is well over 150 years old and is really more of a proverb than a quote.

But yeah, the OP did abuse is pretty badly.

There is a market for this, especially for selling Windows to entities utterly obsessed with tracking every object on Earth (basically, big corporate marketing departments and governments). Governments want to put GUIDs in banknotes. Corporations want to put GUIDs in EVERYTHING. Some of them already do.

To really number every object on the earth, the government really needs to use 256-bit GUIDs. There are about 1.3E50 atoms on the earth, so 256-bit identifiers are really needed.

Of course, the computer to keep track of all this would be bigger than the sun, but when has that stopped the government?

As someone with Asperger's Syndrome, I'd like to point out that the engineers you speak of may be unable to learn the people skills you say are required. Should they still be allowed to be productive members of society? Be careful who you exclude. You may be excluding someone important.

Having said that, I recognize that people skills are important. I work on mine every day of my life.

Actually... it's not clear that it would be profitable at all http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Do_cities_lose_money_hosting_the_Olympics You could also check out Democracy Now, they talked about it a little. As for more substantial citations, well that's for you to research - as I am a very lazy devil's advocate.

"Carper himself said, 'I don't expect to actually read the legislative language because reading the legislative language is among the more confusing things I've ever read in my life.'

So, why don't they put it in SVN (or some similar version control system) where people can tkdiff the changes (i.e. new legislation is in a branch) or output a patchset? If a bill is passed, it's merged into the trunk. It just seems so logical to me, yet I can't find any mention of doing this on the web. What do you think?"

Because legislative language is designed to be so confusing that no one can read it and the various vested interests and pork-barrelers can sneak the various self-serving clauses get passed Senate. If they did what you want then people would know what their politicians really do, as distinct to saying. And then where would we be, government would grind to a hault. What are you some kind of commie-socialist-liberal.

Why don't you see how many congresspeople ARE lawyers?

A web site for the ABA young lawyers division claims 36% of all Congressmen were lawyers before being elected. http://www.abanet.org/yld/chooselaw/trivia.shtml According to the Congressional Research Service 170 members of the House and 58 Senators have law degrees http://www.chacha.com/question/how-many-congressmen-and-senators-are-lawyers There are about 1.1 million active lawyers http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_many_lawyers_are_in_the_US, or about 0.3% of the population. If we assume that number is half the trained lawyers, that is still a huge disproportionality.

Since this is 60 to 120 times the national average there seems to be a good correlation to allow a generalized bashing of lawyers when one might more correctly aim their attacks on Congress.

Heck I wouldn't have a huge problem if the US Government wanted to own and operate a super-super cargo ship if it ran on Nuclear energy. The amount of oil those ships burn is measured in thousands of gallons per mile.

I know you're trying to make a point about using nuclear energy to power ships rather than burning fuel, but let's not go overboard on the amount of fuel being burned per mile. According to WikiAnswers, if a cargo ship travels at 30 mph (roughly 26 knots), it burns 120 gallons per mile.

Granted, as the second item on that page relates, most container ships burn bunker fuel but the calculation is still the same. Even taking into consideration the size of ultra-large cargo ships, they don't use anywhere near thousands of gallons per mile to move across the water.

.. which, in combination with the true things he said (lesser memory, lesser hard drive etc.) would be playing fast and loose with the truth.

And yes, saying it's not possible to load software onto a netbook is a bald-faced lie . Sorry, I'm being idiomatically pedantic.

> Three right turns = one left. It is a universal rule!

Which does not necessarily apply in locations where penguins rule!

I looked up what he's talking about if anyone's curious.

Apparently tempered safety glass is made to explode into tiny fragments

Yes, but today's car windshields aren't made of tempered glass. The "safety glass" in windshields consists of 2 layers of non-tempered glass separated by a flexible plastic film. So there's no way you're going to break someones windshield with a ceramic "booger". You may succeed in making a small area of the windshield crack or pit. Of course, anyone who attempts to do such a thing is somewhere on the complete-asshole-psychopath continuum, and should be treated accordingly.

If you want a reference, try http://www.answers.com/topic/automobile-windshield.

The last thing a sports car, any sports car, can be is green

Define green. While you're at it, define sports car.

If green is better than the average mileage of cars on the road, then something like the Mazda MX5 would likely count, as the average mileage seems to be about 17 MPG in the US, and the MX5 is at 21/28 city/highway.

Now, some people seem to think that an MX5 isn't a proper sports car, because it's a Mazda, because it's a Wankel engine or because it's not powerful enough. The Porsche Cayman is rakes in 20/29 ... but maybe that's not a sports car either.

However, the creme does rise to the top eventually.

That's NOT creme.

Once you persevere from the more plebeian positions into the management/executive level, your body of work is far more important.

Which means the only body of work which is important is management work. Which means a developer's body of work is _never_ important. Great news for those of us with no interest in management.

Not that it will change anything, or mean anything for that matter, but someone had to do the math:

(~1.5 gpm show heads) * (1 minute pre-run) * (1 shower/day) * (228,000,000 adults) / (648,000 gallons / pool) = more than 351 Olympic-sized swimming pools per year! http://homerepair.about.com/od/plumbingrepair/ss/tankless_hwh_7.htm http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_the_United_States http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Cubic_capacity_olympic_size_swimming_pool


does it all mean anything? I don't know...

How are they going to use this for protecting crops? If ants are repelled, wasps and bees will be, too, and there goes your pollination.

Corn is pollinated by wind. I'm not going to bother to find sources for each kind of corn, but here's links for maize (American corn), wheat (European corn), and barley barley. (I guess that link only indicates that Barley self-pollinates, not pollinates by wind. whatever.) Rice is also wind-pollinated.

Potatoes don't need to be pollinated at all.

Therefore, if a product is developed from cockroach juice, it might be most useful for these kinds of crops. Note that "cereals" and "roots and tubers" are the 1st and 3rd most produced type of crop.

anyone remember back when a movie could be 2 or 3 hours long and didn't require explosions every few seconds to keep an audience interested

In actuality, movies have been gradually increasing in average length since the inception of the motion picture industry. The earliest films were really short -- The Great Train Robbery, released in 1903, was 12 minutes long. In this decade, 90 minutes is considered a bit on the short side, and anything under 90 minutes (many animated films fall into this category) is "really friggin' short, suitable for children and anyone else with a short attention span."

I had at least one film history site blocked at work, but I found a couple other pages that have interesting stats. This page shows the trend line for film length -- the graph is given in meters of film, which correlates linearly with run time (duration). This page gives a bar graph of run time broken down by decade, although this WikiAnswers article does critique the methodology used by the author of that study (e.g., the choice of the top 50 rated films in those decades, which may skew results).

Precious few movies approached the 3-hour mark "back in the day" -- I think Gandhi, released in 1984, is the only one I can remember seeing as a child, and it was a rare experience for me in that it was the first time I remember going to a movie that had an intermission. A more recent example would be Kenneth Branagh's adaptation of Hamlet.

I guess what I'm trying to say is, people tend to remember the past selectively, and usually with rose-tinted glasses.

It's true that your typical summer blockbuster relies more heavily on shock value and SFX/VFX to keep the audience's attention, but I would argue that the vast majority of dramas that we see today easily exceed 2 hours yet don't rely on explosions and other VFX to carry the audience; just off the top of my head, I can think of We Own the Night and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.

So... I see hope for the future, not despair. :-)

but they're also going to get used the idea of screwing players over without any real negative feedback?

This, I fear, is going to bite Sony in the ass in the long-term, but they are going to flirt with this model anyway because it frankly goes with the kind of corporate culture they've developed. It's a bit like having the much-storied "arrogance" of Apple, without as much good taste or sense. (Not trying to start a flame war, considering how much Apple hardware I own, but the perception is out there, and not entirely unjustified.) The control freaks in Sony like the idea of being able to make unilateral changes to their products without getting beaten up by whiners, and as long as revenues don't take a hit, they're likely to win the day. That entire model is predicated upon gamers either (a) not noticing, or (b) not caring that the game is being nerfed or otherwise mangled in an undesirable way. As soon as Sony crosses some threshold where someone in the gaming community notices and gets vocal about it, social network effects take hold and even people not directly affected by the changes will complain or quit playing.

If an established company keeps starting MMOs that are designed like this, the MMOs will start to appear to be nothing more than get-rich-quick schemes. But since these lite MMOs are mainly designed to tweak the reward circuits of the brains of the players, there will always be a small core of players who will play such games; these are the same kinds of people who'd play slot machines in Vegas. So this is a lot like gambling, without the requirement that sometimes the house has to pay out. The money is real, but the rewar

First off, the article says 1 billion hectares, not 10 billion. That does make your 10,000,000 km^2 number correct, though.

Let's run some numbers.

According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agriculture, wheat production for 2004 was 627 milion metric tons. Wheat yields seem to be in the 50-150 bushel per acre range (see http://www.cotf.edu/ete/modules/climate/GCremote5.html and http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_is_the_average_yield_of_wheat_per_acre). A bushel of wheat is generally taken to be 60 pounds (see http://extension.missouri.edu/publications/DisplayPub.aspx?P=G4020).

So per acre we get (50-150)*60/(2.2*1000) == 1.4-4.2 tons.

Given the 627 million ton production figure, that comes out to somewhere between 150 million and 450 million acres devoted to wheat cultivation. An acre is about 4047 square meters, so that gives us somewhere between 600,000 and 1,800,000 square kilometers devoted to wheat cultivation right now.

Borlaug's work raised yields by a factor of 3 or so, right? Therefore without his work achieving similar wheat production would have required an additional 1,200,000 to 3,600,000 square kilometers (120 million to 360 million hectares) devoted to wheat cultivation.

Similar methods have been applied to other cereal crops, of course. From the same Wikipedia article on Agriculture, maize production is 721 million metric tons. World-average yields are in the 4 tons per hectare range (http://www.fao.org/docrep/004/ad452e/ad452e0m.htm). That gives about 180 million hectares. Again, assuming yields rose 3x or so due to Borlaug's work that would have meant 360 million additional hectares of maize.

We haven't even looked at rice (which has total worldwide production similar to wheat and maize) or barley (about 4x less) yet.

These are all ballpark numbers of course, but 1 billion hectares isn't sounding all that implausible to me based on the above.

I don't think the electrical conductivity of hair is as big an issue as you think. The hair replaces silicon (a semi-conductor), not the metal (conductor) running across it. What's important is that the hair can act as sink for electron freed by the photo-electric effect. Also, 18 watts seems ...impressive for hair... but not totally outrageous. As for the amperage, would people feel more comfortable if the panel could generate 200 milliamps at 90 volts? From http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_is_silicon's_electrical_conductivity - "From a practical sense, silicon behaves like an insulator at less than 700 deg K and as a conductor at much higher temperatures."

In a way a stabilized lens causes additional complications: the visual system is designed to scan things, in order to see them. If you hold an object fix relative to the eye, with retinal stabilization (http://www.answers.com/topic/stabilization-of-retinal-images), it disappears after a few seconds. So displaying one pixel for one second is ok, but displaying text will require some even smarter engineering.

No, they would only detract from a good spirit if they were alkaline.

Oh, silly me. I was referring to the actual present. I keep forgetting that it's OK for the dictatorial head of a murderous socialist regimes to name himself president for life, shut down not-propogandizing-for-him media, "disappear" elected officials that disagree with him, and all of that cool stuff now, because in the past, something else happened.

Would it be OK if he were declaring himself the dictatorial head of a non-socialist fascist regime?

Seemed like a good question to ask, given that the "socialist" part is pretty much entirely orthogonal to the rest, to the extent that the term has any particular meaning at all these days.

But that's really not the GP's point, which is that given the U.S.'s record of interventions in Latin America during recent history (including support for Murderous Thugs(TM)), we don't exactly have a clear moral high ground or unquestioned credibility on the local street.

It may still be that it's against the interest of either the U.S. or Venezuelan citizens to have Chavez in charge, but the point that our record there is arguably pretty blemished itself is germane to the discussion.

The reason there is income tax is folks ask the government to do more than it did in the past.

Please consider size of the U.S. Military in 1920.
http://www.answers.com/topic/u-s-army-1900-41
120,000 men. Today... around 3 million people
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_armed_forces

People over 65 in the 20's were SOL. If you got rid of social security and Medicare and medicaid, you could cut your taxes in half. Include the military, and
the above covers 80% of the federal budget. So cut the military 90%, and eliminate the other two, and you'll be back to the good old 20's. Good luck getting elected on that platform...

One of the biggest reasons not to live in the US is healthcare. My government monopoly (in Canada) lets me go to any doctor I want. and we pay less than half, per capita, what Americans spend on health care, which means that those with coverage are likely spending three times as much or more. Yet Canadians live longer... maybe it's just that the poor Americans are dying like flies, bringing the average down... you're going to try to spin that into a positive, aren't you?

Americans have health care that is great when you are not sick, which like a roof that doesn't leak when it isn't raining. I think many of those who have health insurance will get surprised if they ever actually have the audacity to fall seriously ill.

Why are you spending so much money, for so little care? Maybe because there are no competitive incentives to control costs. The higher the premiums are, the higher the justifiable management costs.
The only reason to reduce costs in the US system is to improve the profit margin, but one can do the same by just raising the price, which has the added benefit of helping the HMO too, so it's pretty moot.

The market doesn't work, if only healthy people can shop for health insurance. You cannot test drive it, you're basically buying on reputation, and how they take care of your minor issues and checkups while you are healthy.

Once you are sick, you can be very sure that you cannot change providers. You can be very sure that they are looking for reasons to unload you, that you are at higher risk of being fired because the health insurance provider squeezes your employer. Insurance companies naturally seek to cover the least risk for the highest price.

There is no free market when you are sick in a private system, Your insurance provider, at the time you fall ill is essentially the only game in town. Can you say Monopoly? knew you could! When there is public health care (ie. a public system to pay private doctors to provide services (which is how it works in Canada)) The patient can change doctors at any point, even after they are sick, get a second or third opinion any time they want, and do not have to worry about losing their job.

In public health insurance, risk is just removed as an economic factor, and is distributed over the entire population. People pay a flat rate for health care.
The doctors are still private, The hospitals can be as well. The fees are standardized, so the doctors compete on cost reduction (to maximize their profits.)
Since the fees are negotiated by the government in bulk, everyone benefits from wholesale-style pricing. That's a big reason why drugs in Canada cost a fraction of what they do in the US.

But you know, just keep on keeping on, because it's better for us. Canadian labour costs are lower (for example in the auto industry) because the health insurance premiums for employees are 1/4 what they are in the US, including for the large number or retirees. That's one big reason why plants are closing in the US and relocating... to Canada...
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2009/08/28/toyota-corolla-cambridge592.html

From a human pers

She can sue the gov't... if she get's permission from congress. For some reason, I don't think anyone will be very compassionate about her "mental distress" considering the reason she was put through all of this was by causing "mental distress" of another and subsequent suicide of that individual...

Enlightenment is a mere click away...

unless you're a troll, in which case, bon appetit.

I can't wait till my state Texas succeeds from the union.

http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Can_a_state_succeed_from_the_union_in_2009

I just find it funny that people around the world still like to argue about 'soccer' vs. 'football'. If the British want to call 'American soccer' football, let them.

Slightly different, the differences between rugby and American football. I don't know how well rugby players are paid across the world, but I would guess that American football pays better (well according to http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_is_the_average_income_of_a_professional_rugby_player is roughly US$120K, and http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_is_the_average_salary_of_an_NFL_football_player, US$770K.) So why not try and get a job in the NFL for such an 'easy job' at 6X the pay for a year or 2?

I just find it funny that people around the world still like to argue about 'soccer' vs. 'football'. If the British want to call 'American soccer' football, let them.

Slightly different, the differences between rugby and American football. I don't know how well rugby players are paid across the world, but I would guess that American football pays better (well according to http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_is_the_average_income_of_a_professional_rugby_player is roughly US$120K, and http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_is_the_average_salary_of_an_NFL_football_player, US$770K.) So why not try and get a job in the NFL for such an 'easy job' at 6X the pay for a year or 2?

I think you're either greatly over estimating the cost of a police officer or greatly underestimating the cost of installing, maintaining and monitoring videos. A thousand cameras is going to cost you a pretty substantial sum of money to keep in repair. On top of that, criminals no where the cameras are pointed, if you spend enough time around them you can spot which way they're pointed without looking too hard. On top of that a police office can be sent to other areas of the city as needed and get information which is completely inaccessible to a camera. And an officer is already there and in these parts ready to respond to anything that might be going on, not just crimes, but medical emergencies and such as well.

I'm sure these sources aren't completely accurate, but they are accurate enough for our arguments...

The average cost of a CCTV camera and recording facilities is about 1500 pounds.

The maintenance cost is about 70 pounds a month for 32 cameras. This is a high estimate, since the police department likely has a higher bulk deal.

The average wage of a police officer in the UK is about 22000 pounds a year.

So, (22000/(70*12)) * 32 = 838 cameras per cop.

I'd say that 1000 cameras per cop is a pretty good estimate. Especially considering that a journeyman cop (10 years) makes a lot more than 22k, more like 30k+.

The loss of privacy and all of the cameras around is annoying, I'd hate it in the US. But the arguments brought forth thus far to remove them (aside from privacy) are not compelling. If 1000 cameras solve 1 crime and prevent 1 more, then they are worth their cost. My gut is telling me that, privacy issues aside, they are a useful tool for the police and, when used appropriately, a good mix of both is ideal.

Honestly, I don't think that calling a tooth an organ is very much of a stretch. Teeth have their own blood vessels and nerves, and consist of a large proportion of living tissue. This little blurb provides what I think is a convincing, if hardly exhaustive, argument that teeth are organs.

Portable terminals need to be disposable, not contain your life (or blood IMHO).

How long does the average red blood cell last?
120 days
I haven't had a cell phone that's lasted less. Just don't forget to do your backups.

Well, in our solar system at least one planet is spinning the other way around: http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Why_does_venus_spin_the_other_way It's not quite the same like orbiting into the opposite direction, but the Venus apparently received a nudge or two as well in order to spin the other way around. Such accidents appear to happen.

It is only relevant in rebuttal to the position you took. You're not failing to see that, you're refusing to acknowledge it.

The position that I've taken is that rape is a form of endangerment regardless of whether or not force is used in the commission thereof. Saying that "death is highly unlikely" does not rebut this point. The fact remains that the rape victim is forced into a situation against their will wherein they could lose their life. That's endangerment under any accepted definition of the word. Society recognizes this fact and allows the rape victim to use whatever amount of force is necessary to terminate the commission of this crime. Why you can't recognize it is beyond me.

As you have nothing more to offer this conversation, I'll leave you with the last word.

Ah yes, the good old fashioned "screw you guys, I'm going home" technique. Gotta admit, it's a classic :)

My understanding is that lib(dvd)css2 is in a legal limbo -- despite a quick search on Google, I can't find a single citation to show that it is expressly forbidden. However, there are warnings about using it and similar technologies all over the net.

So what? If "they" (whoever "they" may be) don't know you are using it, who cares? Well, for instance, what happens when you carry your laptop on an international flight, and as you return to the country, Customs asks to search your laptop?

I might just be paranoid, but it's something to keep in mind.

Do *you* know the actual physical volume of "60,000 metric tons" of nuclear waste, offhand?

Plutonium: 19816 kg/m^3 http://www.economicexpert.com/a/Plutonium.htm
Uranium: density = 19.05 grams per cubic centimetre = 19,050 kg/m^3 http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_is_the_Weight_of_1_cubic_meter_of_uranium

60000 tons / 19 tons per cubic meter = ~ 3158 cubic meters, or approximately 1 to 3 olympic swimming pools, depending on depth. http://hypertextbook.com/facts/2005/JeffreyGilbert.shtml

This nuclear waste stuff redefines the meaning of the term "heavy" in heavy waste.

You pointed out nicely what I was about to post. Here are the links I was going to add though:

http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=teenage
http://www.answers.com/topic/teenager
http://www.home-school.com/Articles/PlattTeenagers.html

As resource bases contract and the world goes back to a solar economy, expect the teenager to disappear.

I wouldn't agree on this though.

Teen and teen-age are a western 1st world invention - now in use globally.
Unless entire western... no... HUMAN civilization disappears COMPLETELY - the term and the stage of human development it describes will remain distinctive from childhood and adulthood.
And I am talking going back to hunter-gatherer stage long enough that current languages are changed and forgotten.
Even then, upper classes WILL continue to pamper their young long after they (the "rulers" and "thinkers" - not the kids) stop writing dictionaries and regulating language. Teenagers would continue to exist in tradition among the upper class even if no one remained who could remember the word any more.

The only way it may be replaced or removed from use (other than what I said above) is if it is further broken down to early and late teens.
Into something like earleens and lateens. Or prims and seconds. Or juniors and seniors.

But, for something like that to happen you would need a HUGE social difference to appear. Globally.
Like for example giving 15-16 year-olds a right to vote or something similar.
Just like teenagers first appeared when kids globally started being sent to school despite hitting puberty (instead of being sent to work in mines, fields etc.) - a new stage in the society would have to be created first.

Not quite illegal to possess, but regulated.

And I expect that "assault with a deadly weapon" would not be among the charges, though "carrying an illegal weapon" might be.

If it's a model that was road-legal, no you cannot. That is you can't sell your old beater Honda Civic if the seatbelts are broken, even if I want to use it as a bird house.

Umm... no. You can't sell it without slightly more paperwork than a normal car sale, but you can sure as hell sell it with a junk/salvage title. And if the new owner makes it road legal again, they can get the vehicle re-titled.

You can't sell rotten apples as "non-food-substance" no matter how many disclaimers you put on it.

So what do you do with rotten apples? You mean you can't sell them to someone who wants to make compost with them? I'd love to see you call the police on that sale. It's perfectly legal to sell things like that as long as you don't represent them as a food item.

Where do you get your information? And why were you modded up?

Google.com:
Why Windows Vista and Office 2007 are so Expensive
http://www.google.com/search?q=why+is+windows+so+expensive%3F

Yahoo.com:
http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=why+is+windows+so+expensive%3F&ei=UTF-8&fr=moz35
why so expensive? "... Windows Forums ... why are macbooks so expensive i mean i saw a better windows p"

Answers.com:
WikiAnswers: Why are Mac's so expensive?
http://www.answers.com/main/ntquery?s=why+is+windows+so+expensive%3F&gwp=13

Ask.com
Why Windows Vista and Office 2007 are so Expensive
http://www.ask.com/web?q=why+is+windows+so+expensive%3F&search=search&qsrc=0&o=0&l=dir

1. Why Windows Vista and Office 2007 are so Expensive  The Firefox ...
2. Is Windows getting more expensive? - CNET News
3. Windows 7 to be âoemore expensiveâ than Vista, XP
4. Writing on the Wall: Why Windows is so expensive
5. Why are vinyl windows so expensive? who provides them cheapest ...
6. Omfg Vista Is So Expensive - Windows Vista and Windows 7

Top 6 results from Bing:

1. Why are Mac's So Expensive? - Yahoo! Answers

2. why so expensive?. - Games for Windows Live

3. Why are vinyl windows so expensive? who provides them cheapest ...

4. Why are windows hosting providers so expensive? - Community Server

5. Why are Macbooks so expensive? - Yahoo! Answers

6. WikiAnswers - Why are Apple Macs so expensive

5 out of the top 6 at Google are directly related to what I actually wanted to know... articles about why Microsoft Windows is too expensive.

3 out of the 6 at Microsoft's Bing search engine return results for why their direct competitor, Apple, has such expensive computers. 1 more out of the remaining three appears to be somewhat related to my search by at least being about windows games, but no... look at the clip telling me why Bing thought this was relevant:

Official Games for Windows Forums ... why are macbooks so expensive i mean i saw a better windows pc laptop for half the price and double the specs and looks so why

Of the remaining 2 top 6 results, one is about vinyl windows just like Google's one stray result, and the other is about internet hosting companies charging more for windows based hosting... this is the only result that even remotely comes close to answering my question. So... 4 out of the top 6 listed look bad for a direct competitor and don't answer my question, 1 is irrelevant noise, and one is marginally relevant, but still noise. Bing sucks, and is certainly biased against anything negative being said about Microsoft.

Your link? Yeah, it's on the first page of the Google results, but it is the second to the last result, and is the only Apple related link, and even that link directly mentions Windows in the comments, and Windows 7 is linked all over the friggin place on this article's page!

1. Why Windows Vista and Office 2007 are so Expensive  The Firefox ...
2. Is Windows getting more expensive? - CNET News
3. Windows 7 to be âoemore expensiveâ than Vista, XP
4. Writing on the Wall: Why Windows is so expensive
5. Why are vinyl windows so expensive? who provides them cheapest ...
6. Omfg Vista Is So Expensive - Windows Vista and Windows 7

Top 6 results from Bing:

1. Why are Mac's So Expensive? - Yahoo! Answers

2. why so expensive?. - Games for Windows Live

3. Why are vinyl windows so expensive? who provides them cheapest ...

4. Why are windows hosting providers so expensive? - Community Server

5. Why are Macbooks so expensive? - Yahoo! Answers

6. WikiAnswers - Why are Apple Macs so expensive

5 out of the top 6 at Google are directly related to what I actually wanted to know... articles about why Microsoft Windows is too expensive.

3 out of the 6 at Microsoft's Bing search engine return results for why their direct competitor, Apple, has such expensive computers. 1 more out of the remaining three appears to be somewhat related to my search by at least being about windows games, but no... look at the clip telling me why Bing thought this was relevant:

Official Games for Windows Forums ... why are macbooks so expensive i mean i saw a better windows pc laptop for half the price and double the specs and looks so why

Of the remaining 2 top 6 results, one is about vinyl windows just like Google's one stray result, and the other is about internet hosting companies charging more for windows based hosting... this is the only result that even remotely comes close to answering my question. So... 4 out of the top 6 listed look bad for a direct competitor and don't answer my question, 1 is irrelevant noise, and one is marginally relevant, but still noise. Bing sucks, and is certainly biased against anything negative being said about Microsoft.

Your link? Yeah, it's on the first page of the Google results, but it is the second to the last result, and is the only Apple related link, and even that link directly mentions Windows in the comments, and Windows 7 is linked all over the friggin place on this article's page!

1. Why Windows Vista and Office 2007 are so Expensive  The Firefox ...
2. Is Windows getting more expensive? - CNET News
3. Windows 7 to be âoemore expensiveâ than Vista, XP
4. Writing on the Wall: Why Windows is so expensive
5. Why are vinyl windows so expensive? who provides them cheapest ...
6. Omfg Vista Is So Expensive - Windows Vista and Windows 7

Top 6 results from Bing:

1. Why are Mac's So Expensive? - Yahoo! Answers

2. why so expensive?. - Games for Windows Live

3. Why are vinyl windows so expensive? who provides them cheapest ...

4. Why are windows hosting providers so expensive? - Community Server

5. Why are Macbooks so expensive? - Yahoo! Answers

6. WikiAnswers - Why are Apple Macs so expensive

5 out of the top 6 at Google are directly related to what I actually wanted to know... articles about why Microsoft Windows is too expensive.

3 out of the 6 at Microsoft's Bing search engine return results for why their direct competitor, Apple, has such expensive computers. 1 more out of the remaining three appears to be somewhat related to my search by at least being about windows games, but no... look at the clip telling me why Bing thought this was relevant:

Official Games for Windows Forums ... why are macbooks so expensive i mean i saw a better windows pc laptop for half the price and double the specs and looks so why

Of the remaining 2 top 6 results, one is about vinyl windows just like Google's one stray result, and the other is about internet hosting companies charging more for windows based hosting... this is the only result that even remotely comes close to answering my question. So... 4 out of the top 6 listed look bad for a direct competitor and don't answer my question, 1 is irrelevant noise, and one is marginally relevant, but still noise. Bing sucks, and is certainly biased against anything negative being said about Microsoft.

Your link? Yeah, it's on the first page of the Google results, but it is the second to the last result, and is the only Apple related link, and even that link directly mentions Windows in the comments, and Windows 7 is linked all over the friggin place on this article's page!

1. Why Windows Vista and Office 2007 are so Expensive  The Firefox ...
2. Is Windows getting more expensive? - CNET News
3. Windows 7 to be âoemore expensiveâ than Vista, XP
4. Writing on the Wall: Why Windows is so expensive
5. Why are vinyl windows so expensive? who provides them cheapest ...
6. Omfg Vista Is So Expensive - Windows Vista and Windows 7

Top 6 results from Bing:

1. Why are Mac's So Expensive? - Yahoo! Answers

2. why so expensive?. - Games for Windows Live

3. Why are vinyl windows so expensive? who provides them cheapest ...

4. Why are windows hosting providers so expensive? - Community Server

5. Why are Macbooks so expensive? - Yahoo! Answers

6. WikiAnswers - Why are Apple Macs so expensive

5 out of the top 6 at Google are directly related to what I actually wanted to know... articles about why Microsoft Windows is too expensive.

3 out of the 6 at Microsoft's Bing search engine return results for why their direct competitor, Apple, has such expensive computers. 1 more out of the remaining three appears to be somewhat related to my search by at least being about windows games, but no... look at the clip telling me why Bing thought this was relevant:

Official Games for Windows Forums ... why are macbooks so expensive i mean i saw a better windows pc laptop for half the price and double the specs and looks so why

Of the remaining 2 top 6 results, one is about vinyl windows just like Google's one stray result, and the other is about internet hosting companies charging more for windows based hosting... this is the only result that even remotely comes close to answering my question. So... 4 out of the top 6 listed look bad for a direct competitor and don't answer my question, 1 is irrelevant noise, and one is marginally relevant, but still noise. Bing sucks, and is certainly biased against anything negative being said about Microsoft.

Your link? Yeah, it's on the first page of the Google results, but it is the second to the last result, and is the only Apple related link, and even that link directly mentions Windows in the comments, and Windows 7 is linked all over the friggin place on this article's page!

1. Why Windows Vista and Office 2007 are so Expensive  The Firefox ...
2. Is Windows getting more expensive? - CNET News
3. Windows 7 to be âoemore expensiveâ than Vista, XP
4. Writing on the Wall: Why Windows is so expensive
5. Why are vinyl windows so expensive? who provides them cheapest ...
6. Omfg Vista Is So Expensive - Windows Vista and Windows 7

Top 6 results from Bing:

1. Why are Mac's So Expensive? - Yahoo! Answers

2. why so expensive?. - Games for Windows Live

3. Why are vinyl windows so expensive? who provides them cheapest ...

4. Why are windows hosting providers so expensive? - Community Server

5. Why are Macbooks so expensive? - Yahoo! Answers

6. WikiAnswers - Why are Apple Macs so expensive

5 out of the top 6 at Google are directly related to what I actually wanted to know... articles about why Microsoft Windows is too expensive.

3 out of the 6 at Microsoft's Bing search engine return results for why their direct competitor, Apple, has such expensive computers. 1 more out of the remaining three appears to be somewhat related to my search by at least being about windows games, but no... look at the clip telling me why Bing thought this was relevant:

Official Games for Windows Forums ... why are macbooks so expensive i mean i saw a better windows pc laptop for half the price and double the specs and looks so why

Of the remaining 2 top 6 results, one is about vinyl windows just like Google's one stray result, and the other is about internet hosting companies charging more for windows based hosting... this is the only result that even remotely comes close to answering my question. So... 4 out of the top 6 listed look bad for a direct competitor and don't answer my question, 1 is irrelevant noise, and one is marginally relevant, but still noise. Bing sucks, and is certainly biased against anything negative being said about Microsoft.

Your link? Yeah, it's on the first page of the Google results, but it is the second to the last result, and is the only Apple related link, and even that link directly mentions Windows in the comments, and Windows 7 is linked all over the friggin place on this article's page!

What does "a couple Bings later" means ?

Are you getting paid by some guerrilla marketing firm to plant that expression in your post ?

Thanks gods, I googled "bing", and the answer page gave me a direct link to its definition in the header:

http://www.answers.com/bing

(Now, I still have to try to understand what you meant)

This is what I got when I googled it:

It can mean anything like a doorbell when it rings, or a name of a club, or a abbreviation.

http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_does_bing_bing_mean

So should we ring the fridge, or club it to death?

It's not JUST the belt, no. There are other factors. That's why I went based on BTU's instead of trying to compute how efficient car AC systems really are.

... the system can be counted on to draw significantly more power than you think, probably twice as much. I wasn't really trying to do ALL the math over again, ....

tl;dr version: Car AC's are about 10,000 BTU/h, and a 10,000 BTU/h air conditioner is about 1 kW.

The voiceover said they couldn't give away the recipe since it would tank the ruby market. I've googled for this magic recipe, but nothing's come up.

Sounds like the kind of BS you'd see advertised in spam.

http://www.answers.com/topic/synthetic-ruby

The "ruby market" was tanked (at least the first time) in 1885.

I fail to see where the benefit is in keeping an old man in jail for so long, at taxpayers expense, is.

14 years? I've seen figures of $30,000 PA to keep a prisoner captive. http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_is_the_average_cost_of_one_prisoner_in_the_U.S.

So we're talking $420,000 so far spent on this man. Instead he could have had assets seized and been forced into work, and paying tax, and having some money garnished. Or his actual money would have shown up after a few years when he thought people weren't looking.

It's not as if he was a danger to people on the street - the number one reason to put someone into jail.