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The Fahrenheit scale in particular is extremely good for weather in most of the world, much better than C. 10 degrees F seems to roughly correlate to a unit of comfort for most people (60-cool, 70-just right, 80-warm, 90-hot).

That's just because you are usede to it. Look, at a conversion rate of 5/9 you get 10 degrees F roughly equal to 5 degres C. Which makes 5 degrees C roughly correlate to a unit of comfort for most people -- which really seems no more onerous.

You need to understand your conversion correctly. It's not simply a conversion of 5/9, you there is also a change in the relation to freezing - +/- 32 depending on the conversion direction. 10 degrees F is roughly -12.2 degrees C.

good point! 10cm = 4" LCD screen, that alone is a pretty good chunk of change. And he wants to add batteries + lense + other stuff for $25 total? Guessing that's company cost, not what consumers would pay.

Agree with you. The link published by grandparent is horribly off. I've rented 62 DVDs in the past 90 days. Sometimes there is a 1 day delay, but usually there is not. That link says the delay will be 7 days, which is BS.

I know for a fact I've been throttled. The first couple of months they were great... then suddenly my 3-day turnaround time went to 7-days with no explanation... somehow everything I sent in the mail was taking longer to get there and when they did get the disks they took longer to process and get here. It would have pissed me off a lot less if they didn't flat out lie to me about it being the Post Office's fault and garbage like that. There are whole websites devoted to this subject. Unlimited rentals my ass.

The second Amazon's service goes into effect, assuming they have a decent anime and out-of-print DVD selection, I'm switching. Also Amazon, the ability to rent games in addition to movies would be awesome, and something Netflix doesn't offer.

besides some thing like this makes me very doubtful about joining netflix.

My dog (beagle) would do this. I just chalked it up to her trying to mask her scent. Same with eating feces.

This site, I don't know how authoratative it is, seems to affirm this assumption. http://www.manuelsweb.com/poop_rolling.htm

Obviously you havent been subject to Netflix's dubious (illegal?) practice of "throttling", whereby they stop sending DVDs to long-term customers because their market strategy is to target new customers who forget to rent movies.
I was forced to quit Netflix a year ago [as a 2+ year customer, my average wait time for a movie was 4 months near the end].
The "throttling" process is well documented in the NY Times and elsewhere (http://www.manuelsweb.com/netflixjournal2.htm), by hundreds of cheated customers.
Netflix IS the bad guy, so its bad news for them to merge with their 3rd largest competitor, as only evil (netflix) and evil (blockbuster) are left.

"U.S. production of the bomb was postponed in 1978 and resumed in 1981."

Found here

Yeah well there's a distro center an hour away from me and when I first joined I had 2 day turnaround time, but now they are intentionally delaying sending my next movies. I can get 12 movies a month, period. See, people who actually get their money's worth are not the sort of customers they want. If there were another service in my area with a large anime selection, I would be gone.

But don't take my word for it. There's a whole site devoted to exactly this issue. Check out the customer opinions part and see for yourself.

This fellow found the proof. And got a letter from Netflix stating that this was their practice.

Along thoes same lines here's a couple of other links. Here's the delay calculation Netflix denies:
Enter a reasonable 10,10,3-at-a-time

Here's a study done on rentals to prove it.

Take a look at what happens to availability of movies right after you pay for the next month.

Oh, if you cancel 1 day after renewing, you have 7 days to send everything back and you loose the rest of the month.

Flat rate services generally have problems with their models. They never seem to suspect that once unlimited anything is available to their clients, they often start pushing those unlimits.

Netflix in particular quietly stiffs their customers who try to take full advantage of their supposedly unlimited rentals. Sure, when you start out you're getting two sets of movies a week. But then gradually they start getting "sent" and "recieved" slower and slower, until you're getting only one or less. Mind you, this usually happens after you get a series of emails asking how many days it took to recieve your movies. If you ask about it, NF just blames the post office, although they have no explanation as to how the postal service could suddenly become slower for just your mail to and from Netflix, regardless of whether it was sent from your home, post office box, or post office itself. It couldn't be their fault - that would be false advertising.

Why did they outlaw the neutron bomb then?

Reducing collateral damage is becoming more and more important as military planners realize that the war is not over once you capture the territory.
You want to win over a people's hearts and minds by changing the regime but not levelling their cities a la carpet bombing Dresden in WWII. Killing citizens does not shorten a war and the London Blitz and Berlin showed that enemy soldiers will fight harder if they know their families are being killed too.

There are lots of different types of bombs that try to reduce collateral damage. The most infamous was the Neutron bomb that limited a nuclear bomb's blast and heat damage to a few hundred yards but killed people through the use of radiation.
The electric power distribution munition(ph), can knock out a whole power grid. This bomb scatters spools of carbon strands over a target. In Vietnam the US developed Hyper baric Fuel Air bombs that used a high pressure wave to kill people in tunnels or create helicopter landing pads in the jungle. The latest improved version is the thermo baric bomb that uses extremely high temperatures to create a blast wave and also suck the oxygen out of enclosed spaces.

War is not glorious but it is necessary from time to time and if you can defeat the enemy without killing non-combatants, I am all for it.

i was thinking of a neutron bomb, actually...

its amazing, with this new-fangled internet thing, you can research things really quickly.

someone should try to make a buck off of it, its cool.