At the same time, the nature of celebrity is that millions of people know who you are and have an interest in you, so anything like this is highly sought after. Compare that to some anonymous person who could post naked pictures of themselves all day online and nobody would care. The trade-off for being rich and…

I see an OmniTracs unit on there, too.

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If it were Tijuana, it would be Club Paradiso. Anyway, I haven't been down to Revolucion in about twenty years, but I assume Tijuana Tillys, Torito, Papas & Beer, and Señor Frogs are all still there.

Anyone with physical access to any *nix machine (MacOS included) can simply start up in single user mode (which gives you a root shell) and do any damn thing they want. Actually, that goes for Windows as well, since you can just boot off of an external *nix boot device and have at the contents of the hard drive.

Oh, sure, they're not going to make people wait three months for a disk. But there's a sweet spot somewhere that is short enough that people waiting for a disk won't be pissed, and long enough that they can eke out several more days of latency from the subscriber who is sitting on the disk.

Since they probably don't care that much about how long other people have to wait for a disk in their queue, nothing is forcing them to buy more disks to meet demand.

In a really simplified way: You pay them ~$9 per month, every month. That's their revenue. They ship you disks, which costs money. That's (part of) their cost of doing business. The difference is their profit. The more disks they ship you in a month, the less of your $9 they get to keep. So they love it if you sit on…

Does it also scream "Noooooooooooo" on the hour?

"there's still money to be made in mailing shiny little frisbees to people and waiting patiently for those people to mail them back."

Old news.

Are you saying Google+ is a sausagefest?

How can you register for legal residency if you're here illegally? My understanding is that only people here legally (on a work visa or other legal means) can register for legal resident status.

A *legal* immigrant from Mexico.

Unfortunately, with a job in construction, he probably won't. That's one of the hardest hit job categories in this economy. It's really too bad, because this guy deserves far better.

I was referring specifically to the eel story.

I read this yesterday. I really didn't want to read it again. Ever.

Too bad none of them bailed by diving into the Dnepro. That would have been epic. And Kiev looks totally different when it's not freezing my nuts off (which is the only time I've been there).