Look into Betterment. I've had an account with them for a little over a year now as a college fund for my god daughter. I decided to keep it separate from my Vanguard-based general investment stuff because I'll eventually be passing ownership over to her.

Intuitive reference scales are not useless. They provide observes with an immediate understanding of the size of what they're seeing, without having to reference a chart telling them how big the "actual scale" is.

On the plus side: By the time your victim has erected a complex series of mirrors to take a picture of his own phone screen, you can bet he's wide awake.

I would say a lack of editorial oversight which allows huge assholes to alienate readers is, in fact, an institutional issue.

The "Tax dollars!" thing is a non-issue. I am pretty sure they get paid whether they work on this case or another one.

You're absolutely right. He knowingly broke the law and should have gotten dinged by a penalty (the magnitude of the penalty being another discussion entirely).

Yeah, I suspect that the only credible "warning" was the 2005 one, in the form of the generic DMCA Notice half of us probably got that year.

The "warnings" part is a little too vague for my tastes. I'd be very interested to see what they consider a "warning".

The decision states that he downloaded and distributed "thousands of copyrighted works to users of peer-to-peer file-sharing networks" over eight years.

It's important to understand that they prosecuted him for infringing thirty one times. This should in no way be taken to imply he only downloaded thirty one songs.

But, like... God, or magic or something, and stuff.

I like it better. Having to click every time I wanted to see a new top level comment was ridiculous.

I don't think anyone is going to want to take 5 hours to restore their server, but I doubt this would be the primary backup either. Seems like more of a third redundancy in case your local backup fails and a meteorite hits your tape closet at home.

I think the only big one to get that wrong was Transformers, but that scene was super hilarious for anyone who lives in DC. Oh, Shia? Coming out of your girlfriends ground level converted fire station onto a 50 foot wide city street lines with skyscrapers?

Washington D.C. has codified the height limit on buildings, so as not to exceed that of the Washington Monument.

I went to this website: http://www.isws.illinois.edu/data/climatedb/choose.asp?stn=118740

"But can you store mp3 files on your kitten or puppy?"

Has anyone considered the legal implications with looking around on an unconscious person's flash drive? I doubt a doctor is legally allowed to snoop around on a patient's computer peripherals without explicit permission, at least in the US. I'd assume other first world countries have similar privacy laws.

They're probably not both exactly 650 grams either, but it's near enough as makes no difference.

Nope, you're absolutely right. In terms of buying "new", it's impossible to beat BikesDirect prices. A bike mechanic friend who works at a very high end shop - the sort that caters to the $5K+ triathlon and road crowds - was telling me a while back about how they could buy Sram RED equipped BikesDirect bikes for less…