@ AnUnSi:

Why do you come here if you're so easily offended? I'd hate to think of how you deal with your cat's litterbox... or your child's diapers. Everybody poops, you know (yes, even sea creatures).

Of course, the great and powerful AnUnSi never has to go to the bathroom. The waste just magically appears in the toilet bowl. "Immaculate bowel movements", if you will.

I'm still feeling sorry for the kid. Who named her Reigh Storrow “Snooks” Mills Boss (Rockefeller)? And how do you even pronounce that first name? Ray? Ree?

Not that the nickname is much better.

They're betting that their customers can't do math.

I wonder how many Southerners wet themselves...

I'd imagine the same thing is possible with those brain stimulators they implant in Parkinson's patients. They activate them by remote control, so they're probably susceptible to hacking, too. But I don't know how close you'd have to be to actually hack a pacemaker. They might not have a huge range.

"Other hackers have figured out how to induce epileptic seizures in people sensitive to light conditions."

I don't think you need to be a hacker to do that, do you? Isn't a strobe light all it takes?

Ooh... neat!

Woking... not Working.

Geez, Chris Gregory. There's no need to hate people just because they don't see things the way you do. I'm glad you're happy with all the stuff you "need". But your experience isn't everyone else's experience.

I've tried to steer clear of cheap stuff lately. It's just not worth it. The clothes smell like chemicals (which no amount of washing seems to get out), the shoes give you blisters, and the toys... well, I guess they're okay if you don't mind a bit of heavy metal exposure. I may not have the newest and best of everything, but at least I know that what I do have will last a while... and won't cause me physical harm.

Louder is not better. If people want to listen to loud noise, they should just rent a jackhammer. Music shouldn't lose its nuances just so some future hearing-aid customers can show off how loud their stereo can go.

I haven't bought a CD in months (or it may be over a year). I've noticed that the music seems to be drowning out the vocals on the last few CDs I've bought. I don't know if that's part of this issue or something else.

@ Ladyfingers: I thought that DVD issue was just our DVD player! I hate having to turn up the movie to hear the dialogue, because I end up nearly wetting myself when music or a sudden sound effect comes along.

This would be great for camping. Outhouses are just nasty. With this, you wouldn't have a million other people's crap sitting in there and stinking, so it would probably be more tolerable.

But you're going to get laughed at when you're carting your Shit Box off the mountainside!

Only a person so unobservant that they'd never noticed their pet's personality would want to do this. People (well... smart people) wouldn't clone a dead child and expect the clone to have the same personality. And yet some people seem to think that animals have so little personality that one dog is as good as the next.

What a waste of knowledge, resources, and money.

This would be great for camping. Outhouses are just nasty. With this, you wouldn't have a million other people's crap sitting in there and stinking, so it would probably be more tolerable.

But you're going to get laughed at when you're carting your Shit Box off the mountainside.

Geez, soops. Treehugger much? I think mulch is usually a waste product. Nobody's going to cut down prime timber and mulch it. After taking the good wood and stuff, well, yeah... use the rest for mulch. And there's also fallen trees and whatnot.

What would you rather they use? Plastic chips? At least now, the pizza is biodegradable.

I've read articles and seen pictures from both sides, and I haven't come to a definitive conclusion one way or the other. In the end, though, it doesn't change the outcome. Somebody dropped the ball, and thousands of people died as a result. The focus should be on making sure it doesn't happen again.

But I will say that calling someone else a "fucking lunatic" for questioning the "official" story doesn't make you look right or smart. It just makes you look desperate, intolerant, and insecure.