@Settings: Someone missed the sarcasm train.

@Drive-by troll: I've been stepping through scanners at the airport for years. What I *don't* like, however, is them bouncing ionizing radiation across my skin. My family has a history with cancer, and skin cancer is among them. Why would I want to subject myself (and every other American passenger) to a guaranteed…

@MaNiFeX: Unfortunately, those of us who have to travel internationally on a regular basis don't have other options than flying; last time I checked, transatlantic cruise vessels don't really operate for business customers anymore.

@in ottermann speramus: so wait, you tell the first group that you're willing to subject yourself to dangerous x-rays or TSA gropings 100% of the times you fly to offset the VERY small chance that your plane will get hijacked or otherwise damaged, then tell the third group that no amount of X-Rays or rent-a-cop…

@RuckingFetard: The developer of the pre-official app had specifically left it out because he didn't like the idea, and told users to download a second client if they wanted push. Once Twitter bought him out, they added it to the to-do list for the official app. I'm sure he's been putting it off as long as he could.

I want to know where he lives that he can find whole, live bison so inexpensive. Live cows go for something like $800 each, so $600 for a bison along with a full cart of other exotic foods is a major steal.

@medopal, medohack: grocery shopping needs only be done once for several dishes if you're willing to think ahead and buy what you'll need, instead of deciding to make a run any time you get a hankering for a dish. Furthermore, many stages of the prep/cooking phase allow time for you to clean as you go, so that by the…

@Dreamwriter: have you never partitioned and frozen food? Buy a packet of beef and saran wrap 1 pound sections of it, then pull out what you need for a single meal. You can also keep buns frozen until practically meal time, at which point you toast one. You can even separate the buns out and freeze a slice of cheese…

@kaffeen: I understand the principle. I'm simply saying that paper money is no different than diamonds. Neither is particularly precious, and only has value because people are willing to trade other things for it. Indeed, gemstones were a currency in many cultures of old. To say that assigning diamonds value is…

@kaffeen: Paper money only represents true value because the government has told everyone that it does- and society only originally believed the government because the government was willing to trade a set amount of shiny rock for each piece of paper, a practice which no longer takes place. Paper money only represents…

@Ellomdian: OS X server isn't going anywhere. When/if your clients

I would be interested in a 3DHDTV if A) my family hadn't just bought an HDTV last Christmas because they finally became inexpensive enough to justify, and B) they had focused on delivering a glasses-free experience instead of pushing out the "next big thing" so quickly.

@Geisrud: why that's only 1000 cm^3 at STP.

@philosopher_dog: even assuming it's the thin edge of the wedge, you'll have three years of open system; it'll remain open for the next year of SL, and will remain open with Lion.

@TheFu: so you don't vote?

@philosopher_dog: within like 45 seconds of announcing the app store, he says it will the be easiest, but not the only, place to get applications.

@aziatiq: hasn't greenpois0n been out for a few days now? That's a 4.1 jailbreak for you.

@thnikkamax: I agree with all but the last two words. Spielberg, really? Indiana Jones and the Monkey Boy of Delayed Pubescence would like to have a word with you.

@OCEntertainment: One small hole in your argument; For every new Verizon iPhone sale made, it's likely (not 100%, but probably more than 50%) that Android loses out on a sale. Apple doesn't have to keep up with the up-to 25ok/day sales. It has to convince would-be Android customers from buying an iPhone. Based on the…

@mrm: I understand the idea of a group pull to offset the costs. I'm simply wondering why you feel that the $75 had to be paid way in advance, and couldn't have been billed after the fact, or even when the firefighters showed up? And as others have said, the fee didn't have to be limited to $75, and a larger amount…