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I'm not too worried about the quality of my music. Since I mostly listen to noize, industrial and EBM, the occasional scratching, pop, siren, explosion, grinding metal and screaming only accentuate the already apparent awesomeness of what I'm burning holes in my ear drums with.

And if it's the neighbour's kid retrieving his ball, you've committed murder. Congratulations.

i know we're all supposed to be nerds here, but this is way left of field. dont supposed you could have included a LITTLE more info in the summary as to what the fuck you're talking about?

The issue with DST is not that it's inconvenient, it's that it's insufficiently precise! We should be changing the time every day (at least!) to make sure our time is as accurate as possible to the length of the day. Every day, 12 noon should be when the Sun is directly overhead, no matter where you are.

Sure, this means changing time zones almost continuously while travelling, and at least daily while remaining stationary, but at least we won't have to deal with the confusion that comes from discovering that the Sun is directly overhead at 12:00:34 instead of 12 noon sharp! How can we call ourselves intelligent beings when our time system is so woefully inaccurate most of the time?

So, scrap daylight savings time and replace it with a system of several thousand time zones, each updated daily based on the predicted "high noon" for that particular day at that particular location. If the prediction ends up being off by a few microseconds on a particular day, just change the time to correct it right then and there! Sure, wristwatches will become orders of magnitude more complex, but it's the only way to have a truly sane and accurate system of time measurement. And after all, isn't that what we all really want here?

Seriously, traditional societies were totally fucked up. I'm not sure why we should be using them as role models.

To me it would appear that someone submitted entries with an bogus title and accompanying description. Hacked? Hardly. What surprises me is that no one submitted Viagra programs with accompanying links in the description.

These aren't the droids you're looking for. Move along.

While what you say is largely true, suburbs that are about an hour by train can be quite inexpensive. And most companies buy a monthly pass for you. And where I live in Osaka, the rent is lower compared to the place I was renting back in India.

On topic, this is awesome news indeed. I currently pay 5500 Yen for a 100Mbps from K-Opt/eonet(http://eonet.jp). But too bad that I am living in the western part of Japan.

I'm a firm believer that there are simply too many people. Why can you pay someone $2 for this? It should cost more... but there are people willing to do it because there are too many people competing for the same jobs...

You can expand this to the food crisis, energy crisis, etc. bottom line is, there are too many people. And why? Because we're the top of the food chain. Because we heal ourselves, and live too long. Because someone that weighs 500 pounds lives alongside those fit for this society.

My proposal is to clone rapters. Then no longer would be be at the top of the food chain.. they could simply sculpt our society into one that we can manange. and lets face it, they could do it pretty effectively. Rapters are fast and intelligent, hunt in packs, and hell.. they can even open doors! Support rapter cloning!

I'm sorry but I can't sit and watch liberals destroy themselves in the pursuit of free works.

Its one thing that the likes of any number of political musicians might suddenly find themselves without a fat paycheck once CD sales approach zero, its quite another when the very academic backbone on the country is assaulted.

It takes an enormous amount of work to make a good academic text. You can't just learn something like physics by skimming a few blog quotes, or get a real sense of any field, for that matter, by reading books. Is it unfortunate that they cost a lot? Yes, it is. But books have always been historically valuable things and the bulk of that value has been in the content.

I've read MIT Open Courseware and a lot of it actually is not that deep. A few syllabi and class notes and homework assignments is not the same as the book the class refers to!

Textbook authors deserve to be paid. If you have a society where authors do not get paid, you basically wipe out the entire academic basis of learning in the USA, and with it, our country. People's quests for knowledge about the world will not go away when you get rid of books, and, instead of books, they will have their heads filled with muddy, wrong and incorrect web sites all measured more by how many clicks they get from adsense than any real academic measure of the value of the work.

Indeed, there's a lot of that already.

But hey, if all of these professors want to work for free... they are more than welcome to it, but I guarantee them this - preachers -never- work for free, and, if people want to screw over universities because they don't want to pay their authors, then, we'll wind up reverting back to a medieval society.