I'm going to assume this post was written by somebody who never watched a lot of movies on VHS. The lack of rewinding or necessity of tracking, the longer life, and higher quality all made DVDs an enormous leap over VHS. You might complain about FBI warnings and trailers, but VHS tapes all had those, too

I'm still a little confused. Is 25Mbps the minimum a company would be able to offer or would they be required to offer 25Mbps and then could potentially offer lower packages as well? Because 25 Mbps is probably unnecessary for most consumers.

It's not even clingy, it's just an elastic-banded sweatshirt. Those things were incredibly common then and aren't even that uncommon now. They ride up like crazy when you sit down.

I think a lot of pilots have escalators that pay people (staff, actors, producers, etc.) more if they actually air. And then, if you want even a halfway decent rating, you have to spend ad time promoting it and even then you're unlikely to get a better rating than repeats of NCIS would anyway and those are usually…

That's what I like to call an "elevator pitch show," where it's a show picked up, not necessarily because it's great, but because it's an easy sell. It's why, I feel, in addition to what Charlie mentioned above, you end up with so many derivative shows. It's really easy to pitch, say, Backstrom as "House, but a…

Or, you know, like CBS, the most-watched network on television.

This is why I will never understand people who claim there's no such thing as white privilege. Just three generations ago black people were banned from Oregon. Just two generations ago black people were allowed to be banned from schools and other public and private institutions. Well into the 1980s, financial…

I played for a long time, long enough to get to Level 100 anyway. I got kind of bored with it after a while, though, and moved on to other games. If heists come sometime soon, I'll probably hop back on and hopefully grab the last couple of trophies I need for the game.

Actually, I think it did the exact opposite: cultivation of wheat turned us from hunter/gatherers into farmers, and locked us down in a confined area.

He edited the post. Just read the other comments.

It's not really a puzzle, it's a trick question. The whole "Susan's picture" thing is meant to lead you to the silver box, which would be the correct answer if the gold box claimed that it held "Rowena's picture."

And now that I read the second letter, I realize that it was her husband's sister's daughter, not her own sister's daughter. So why is she asking Ayn for money instead of Frank?

And? It's still an estranged relative (living in Russia no less so literally half a world away) asking for quite a bit of money to buy a dress, something relatively frivolous, after already being conned for money from two of her other nephews/nieces.

I would also add: don't feel like you have to be able to enjoy every type of art. For example, I don't particularly enjoy paintings. For some reason I don't react to them emotionally. But photography and detailed pencil drawings I love. I could stare at the intricacies of a finely composed photograph for hours.

I can already get from LA to SF in two hours for $70. It's called an airplane.

I don't understand why you would choose a travel corridor that's already extremely well-served by cheap air travel and use it as your first test for high-speed rail. I can't see this providing any real advantages over flying.

Well, you could until a few days ago when people flooded the site and crashed it.

People still use that argument today, though, in an attempt to disprove evolution, so he's not just arguing with Darwin.

That last bit is not accurate. You can't be taxed on "interest saved" because, by definition, it has not been accrued. It's only assumed interest, not charged interest. You don't actually owe that money until it's been accrued, thus it's not a negotiated debt.

I had one of those. It was great for making mix-tapes prior to the ubiquity of mp3 players and CD burners. There was about a three-year window where it was it a great, underrated piece of technology but then the iPod came along and rendered it basically useless.