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You are the CEO of an online service, say in the media sharing space. One of your competitors is completing the final stages of merging into the larger company that purchased them over a year ago. Some customers (many of whom receive the service for free) are complaining about new limitations placed on the service. [...]

I’m late to this meme, but Reason Magazine links to a clip from The Andy Griffith Show that shows just one of the many reasons that warrentless wiretapping is wrong. Remember when we all used to think about “due process”?
(Side note: If anyone knows how to embed YouTube video in Wordpress blogs, I’m all ears.)
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Top Ten Signs You’re a Fundamentalist Christian10 - You vigorously deny the existence of thousands of gods claimed by other religions, but feel outraged when someone denies the existence of yours.
9 - You feel insulted and “dehumanized” when scientists say that people evolved from other life forms, but you have no problem with the Biblical [...]

I was too nerdy not to do this.
 

I am:
Arthur C. Clarke
Well known for nonfiction science writing and for early promotion of the effort toward space travel, his fiction was often grand and visionary.

Which science fiction writer are you?

Which is a pretty cool result as I like Clarke’s work quite a bit. Not to mention, [...]

First clue that you won’t be home on time.
4:38pm, new guy on Tier 2 Help Desk: ”You got a sec?”
4:56pm, me: “That’s not possible.”
4:56pm, me: “.. but someone managed to do it.”
*sigh*

Call it a one day sales zerg.
Blizzard Entertainment® today announced that World of Warcraft®: The Burning Crusade(TM) has broken the day-one sales record to become the fastest-selling PC game ever in North America and Europe, with a worldwide total of nearly 2.4 million copies sold in the first 24 hours of availability.
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“In addition to setting [...]

But some economists and demographers are beginning to wonder whether New Orleans will top out at about half its prestorm population of about 444,000, already in a steep decline from its peak of 627,525 in the 1960 Census. At the moment, the population is well below half, and future gains are likely to be small.
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