@TheClap: Ditto. I'm still having fun with Reach anyway.

@forallintentsandpurposes004: If China has a de facto monopoly on mining this stuff and they want to start paying hardball, then we're going to end up paying more anyway.

@notthevictim: So far all ATT smartphones require a data plan. I don't see why WP7 phones would be any different.

Xbox Live and I've been a ZunePass subscriber since day one. My Zune 30 is still going strong, but I'd rather have one device in my pocket instead of two.

@Lawson Culver: I'm guessing that even if pot is legalized here in California, smoking it in public will be as restricted as smoking tobacco is. In my city (Glendale) it's illegal to smoke even outside on certain streets. It should be as easy to avoid pot smoke as it is tobacco smoke, which is fairly easy in my…

@Chromeo's name has nothing to do with the band Chromeo: Right there with you, brother. My contract is up for renewal in December, so the timing's good too.

@Hooray4Zoidberg: Lol, you beat me to it.

@genkainashi: Okay, that's good to know. What I thought the OP was talking about was playing Matchmaking then going back to playing solo. It didn't even occur to me that some people might go through periods of not being connected to Live at all, even with a Silver account.

@Jonathan Wills: No, that would be ridiculous. This rumor probably got started because Bungie did tweak some gametypes because it was too easy to earn a lot of credits.

@Kickstand27: @Srynerson: That's my gut feeling too, Srynerson. Tides might have helped mix the primordial soup, but that's about it. Sooner or later the molecules needed for life would have gotten together just by Brownian motion in even perfectly calm seas. Tides might have had a hand in speeding that process…

I like Zarmina as a name. Can we call the next one Reach though, Dr. Vogt?

@Kickstand27: As far as I know, there's no need for tides for life to evolve. It might have helped (maybe moving molecules around from one place to another, where they can be used by evolving life) but aren't necessary AFAIK.

@digikrynary: Don't be ridiculous, there aren't any crocs in the NYC sewer system. It's an urban myth.

@Tarnis-Phoenix: It's nice if you already happen to be a ZunePass subscriber like I am though. I've been waiting for this for some time.

@Keo: I was born under similar circumstances, and I popped out the old fashioned way. That was in 1979 though - it would definitely be a c-sec these days.

Intergalactic space hippies? We need Nixon's head in a jar attached to a giant Gundam robot, stat.

@Rainie: And from another male perspective: Ick.

All I know is this: Every time I go to my local taco truck and ask for extra hot, Johnny Cash visits me in the form of a coyote and dispenses sage advice.

The first thing I do in the morning is make hot sweet black tea. Then I drink a combo of both (mostly coffee at work and tea at home) until about 5PM. After that, I only drink tea until bedtime.

@justsomereportingguy: Yep - the sooner we have SPARTAN Mjolnir helmets when we're riding our bikes the better.