@d_r_e: Heh. Vinyl may sound nice due to its "euphonic distortion", but vinyl is not audio fidelity (look the term "fidelity" up).

@Con Seannery is back by popular demand: The laser turntables are interesting, but apparently don't work as well as they seem they should.

@Con Seannery is back by popular demand: "Exploding" is a bit of exaggeration. Vinyl is a very, very small niche format, and has grown somewhat in the last 3-5 years compared to the almost infinitesimal sales it had in the prior decade.

@Thus Spake Kate is a Goth Detective: No need to apologize. I in turn misinterpreted you... I think.

@twisted_martini: "Let's be a bit more thoughtful with our language, yes?". By all means. I looked "stupid" up in the OED, and discovered its first and second definitions, as well as its oldest usages, have to do with temporary states (like being stunned, amazed, etc.). Mrs. Thomas appears to be in her state of…

@Thus Spake Kate is a Goth Detective: I am very puzzled by your comment to my post. the OP made a (possibly in jest) remark that no one should use the word "stupid"; that was followed by your first post, which seemed to suggest you shared my (and Otis Galoway, youthinkyouknow, and imjustnotthtintoyou) opinion.

@Thus Spake Kate is a Goth Detective: Dumb? Dim-witted? Bovine? Blockheaded. A chowderhead. A halfwit? Doltish! Brainwise inert.

Creepy/ yep (article in LA Times):

@Hana Maru: I believe the fundamentalist polygamous marriages have a quite high (compared to the general population) reliance on welfare and other tax-supported systems, partially because all the wives but the most senior can (or do) claim to be single mothers with dependent children.

@leGodt: No kidding. For example (updated version of what I have):

Isn't the very lower ground clearance going to be a bit of a problem?

It's "Sir Terry", not "Sir Pratchett".

This is not a new discovery — what's really weird is that other stuff we've shot into space undergoes the same slowdown. [discovermagazine.com] and http://www.cosmosmagazine.com/features/print/2353/magical-mystery-tour-pioneer-anomaly

Go back? I have a tracfone, which is perfect for me. Costs around $100 per year, and I don't use all the minutes up.

@dsands: I think the smart shopper should wait till the price drops to $219.99.

@FriarNurgle: But students SHOULD be taking notes. And more and more often, they just don't — they sit and watch the PPT slides like a TV show, and don't actually internalize the information, which decent note taking facilitates.

@XanderCrews: Flooding the mind with random anything is going to prevent encoding of a lot of kinds of information. We have limited short-term memory and attention capacities.

@bookmatch: To expand on this, I was referring to Orwell's idea of Newspeak (a central premise of 1984, the topic of the appendix to the book, and similar to comments in general about language he made in a mid- 1940s essay.) The idea is that banning any word, or phrase, referring to X (freedom, liberty, choice,…

@bookmatch: I'm wrong — it does have a tuner. My bad.

@phiyuku: I have an HDTV, and it has no tuner built in. (Samsung 42").