ditto +1

Law offices often have large directory-type books (Martindale-Hubbel, Best's Directories) and various other large, nicely bound books that become dated annually. There's sadly not much of a market to recycle them. They make great free monitor risers.

Also old, but seriously disagree. While it's lerverly to kill time at the Sazerac (seriously traditional), Cure (seriously young/hip(ster)), Nick's ([nicksbar.com] industrial, drinking weird stuff for effect—I think currently closed, but due to reopen in '12), not to mention music bars etc. (NOLA is, f'sure, a…

Don't you mean "gggooooo-rrrryyy"?

I will absolutely pay more attention to by-lines before going to articles henceforth. Then again, the comments tend to be more informative and helpful anyway.

Gabriel is more likely to be right than wrong. China's domestic control problems are easily solved by taking all of their "excess" population and sending them off to concquer foreign lands. It's a very old technique in governance. Medieval European monarchies were fond of this approach—hence, in part, the Crusades.…

You're absolutely right, Johnekb. American self-loathing/praise of adversaries in full effect. Like a weird Stockholm syndrome, with mental/academic/ideological imprisonment, instead of physical. Sad, stupid, but now a very common psychosis in American culture—consider Michelle Obama's "I can finally be proud of my…

No surprise—Gawker anti-Americanism is a standard feature here.

You assume that the ruling powers in China have the same sense of self-benefit that you and most of the U.S. does and that it will over-rule stronger motivations of greed, power, and concern for the security of resource supplies.

Uber-nerdiest comment re: nerdiest thing wanted—also most potentially useful comment. Thanks Sr. Lopez. Here's a luddite-nerd follow up—how do you think this would work with knob and tube wiring? My home is about 100 y/o and still has original wiring on one floor (floors wired as separate units). It's been…

Can you use handbrake to do this or is there other software recommended to "remux it into a .m2ts file?" Nuts&bolts details would be greatly appreciated (or a link to same, if you know of a tutorial or such).

I am in your base, scratching all to hell your discs.

Thanks for adding this substantially more knowledgeable view. I don't have any Apples, so don't know about Numbers, but I have used Open/Libre Office's spreadsheet for basic stuff and found it fine—for very basic, "home user" stuff. The only routine use of a spreadsheet for me is time tracking. I have a spreadsheet…

Never write a letter, never write a report, never compose an invitation, or a speech outline, or make a flier when a pet goes missing or to publicize an event. Never mind even a thought of writing an article or book.

Sho nuff beats the hayell out of walkin'.

Oops, that was intended as a reply to canyak. Your explanation politely and succinctly addressed canyak's comment. Guess I'm gettin' sloppy from the pre-holiday stress. Merry Christmas to all and to all a good, um, day.

Way overthinking. Like mega-meta-overthinking.

Only a Gawker pub would run a story that says winning on 3 of 4 patents at issue and the 4th is a minor ui issue in outdated versions of Android was not a net win. You're absolutely correct to note that all HTC will need to do is ship phones with Android 2.3 or above—great for consumers and the Android community in…

Woman's seemingly hard-wired role is more to id and out problems, man's is (or at least men think that it is—but what do we really do anyway?) to do something about them. The really hard part is when the "something" to be done is nothing or to do things that are necessary, but less immediately or aesthetically…

Based on what we know about trends in other forms of criminality and gang involvement in relation to various demographics on a national basis, I'd be willing to bet that this is a "trend" within certain identifiable groups and that much of this activity is, if not directly gang related, it is de facto gang related. I…