It's frustrating, isn't it? Even more damaging is that when you mistreat the mothers of a nation it causes the next generation of daughters AND sons to be even worse off since mothers are primarily responsible (in poorer societies) for raising and educating the children. It's a pretty vicious cycle.

In some ways they already have. Both countries have terrible gender ratios thanks to the selective abortion of female fetuses and female infanticide. The Economist has a summary write-up about it here: [goo.gl]

Ah, I must have missed it. Thank you kindly for pointing it out.

And it's absolutely epic. I've searched high and low for a good wallpaper sized version of it but it's impossible to find. Thanks for putting it up for me to drool over though.

I thought the same thing as well. It's one of those linguistics things I guess. It's a bit like when someone says, "I saw the poster on the train." Was that person on the train or was the poster?

I'm pretty sure Lockheed Martin was getting the better end of the deal. ;-)

"The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is commonly understood. Indeed the world is ruled by little else. Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influence, are usually the slaves of some…

Also, some countries have basically turned text messaging into mobile banking. The Economist published a really cool article about it a coule of years ago ([goo.gl] Basically, mobile phones have helped millions of people access financial services they never would have had the ability to reach before.

Considering some 20% of the people on the planet live on a dollar per day or less, that is hardly surprising. (Here's my source on this- I'm sure there are more accurate ones [goo.gl]

These just prove to me that live action versions of the cartoons could be seriously awesome.

He deserves to go to jail, but I always feel bad for these guys who look like they won't last a minute in there.

I was (and am) a Mac fan. However, after my brother in law and father both donated a host of spare computer parts, I decided to build something from the lot (luckily the parts ended up being *mostly* compatible and I only had to contribute RAM). To be cheap, I installed Ubuntu and, later, Linux MInt. I absolutely…

I have to agree with this. I've owned three ipods through the course of my life and I've despaired every time the metal on the back got all scratched up.

I use both Linux Mint and Ubuntu and I'd say that they are relative pleasing on the eyes. The desktop cube alone is hours of mindless eye-catching fun: [goo.gl]

Madness. Madness!

This was a wonderful article. Some people lead truly epic lives.

I am not surprised by this, but I am excited by it. Amazon has always been fairly friendly to the Linux crowd with Ogg downloads and the like and I suppose this is just a continuation of that.

How well do firewalls play with Synergy? If I wanted to say set up synergy between my Mac and Linux PC, would I need to deactivate their respective software firewalls?

Probably a shortcut to the Lego Universe game, some sort of CAD program (for building virtual creations) and iCal for keeping track of AFOL events and meetings.

As long as it's boy band they're sending down I'd say survival rates are completely acceptable.