Makes sense; I consider myself fairly conservative and there are a lot more times where I support a candidate solely because I don't want his opponent elected. [Edit] I'm not try to say that this is an explanation for political leanings, but the correlation is interesting

It will swing around the other way, as well. You have to remember that China's absolutely HUGE worker base is mostly one generation; after the implementation of the One Child laws, their next generation is comparably tiny. So workers are going to be in higher demand and command higher wages, and since they're well on…

Will not watch, just came to the page to read the comments. Will not watch. I'd like to feel clean, ever ever again.

No, we're not secular enough, but we're much more secular than we were some decades ago; progress is being made.

Edit: I couldn't find my sources, so I don't feel comfortable making that claim. Still, it is my belief that studies have shown that as America has become more secular, instances of violent crime, adolescent pregnancy, divorce, suicide and drug abuse have gone down.

Cryptonomicon; a very good book and I like Stephenson's other work, but something about the book just defeats me.

Wikipedia is raising awareness the best way they know how, as is Lifehacker; thank you guys! Everyone that comes out against SOPA/PIPA is welcome to do it in their own ways.

In Soviet Russia-

it may be just the design of my shower, but my soap slips off the soap dish almost every time, to the point where it's a legitimate annoyance.

I consider myself a moderate libertarian (by which I mean I'm pro-choice and think that the only involvement government should have in business is to enforce adherence to the free market system, like low barriers of entry and exit for consumers and other businesses; I don't identify with the Tea Party at all, please…

I want to read about it, whether you review it or blast it. You knew what you were getting into, io9, this is why you exist

I've always been confused by the question "if they're out there, why haven't we seen them?" because it's taken Earthlings a helluva long time to just breach the edge of the solar system; why should we assume the other planets are more advanced or trying any harder to get to us?

The only problem I see with this claim is that Google has used Twitter data in search, and from what I know has been trying to use Facebook data in search; this is something they've been trying to do for years, and they're just adding their own social component to it.

It's unfortunately the last one; it's a good end, but still.... an end :(

took 17 minutes (in all fairness I made an Aeropress coffee between the answer and the extra credit (and I ground the coffee (because I'm not a barbarian))) the current executive chef is French (but a naturalized citizen of Monaco), the hotel was used in the Sex and the City, and her dress is black and white; I don't…

[spoiler] comes back from the dead!

No one else is excited for Cold Days? Harry Dresden [spoiler] after he [spoiler 2] and he [spoiler 3] and I [spoiler 4]!

Is there an ICS ROM for a Sprint Nexus S 4G? I'm comfortable with installing it, it's just a pain to find them

Because Poe wrote on both?

Then go away