I drool over having a Kindle (and in general), but these things are too damned expensive. Don't forget, you have to buy the books too.

If it ever prices out at about an hour of overtime, I'm there, but no way I could ever justify one with a family to provide for (cue violins).

Great if you're a tech guy and have disposable cash, but not for most folks.

@#41: My 'pinion; Ferdinand Porsche should've served 15 years for that damned design. Ya' ever try to sit in the back seat of one of a Beetle and hear anything? How about the window washer running off the spare tire? THE SPARE TIRE!

No parole for F. Porsche, none at all.

@#59: "Low level"?

Just an aside; our current paper currency isn't really fiat money, it's credit money. All borrowed into existence, not decreed.

Easier to manipulate for private reasons this way though.

Ha Ha to # 17; “Safe” and “Effective” torture!

The P.R. Firm for Procter and Gamble couldn't have done better!

Agree with Woo Woo about refrigeration. Modern Western “civilization” without it? I think not.

Along with that; canning, especially industrial canned goods. You try and commit yourself to a twentieth century land war without canned goods. You couldn't have killed nearly as many people in as short a time.

Don't forget the transistor either.

It was snark.

I don't see why we don't just massively subsidize corn based ethanol and leave it at that?

Hey folks,

Just to let you know, it's possible to raise an enormous amount of vegetables in a very small backyard without pooping into a bucket.

I've got a 50' X 100', mostly taken up by house, and I'm still able to able to feed a family of four (two horrible teens at that!) with the veggies from my backyard. I've done this for years, work 58 hours a week at my job, and still have time to deal with the garden. It's busy, but very doable.

Raised beds are the thing (in most years[expect 10 degrees higher or more in a raised bed, and yes, you can dry out or kill a seedling with that heat]) and all I grow is organic. You really can't believe what you can get out of a backyard garden until you've done it (and had a successful year).

I live in Western Ma, so it ain't about a long season either. Every year you can't believe the weather in April (May, June, July...etc.) or in September, yet you still load the freezer with food. Just buy a decent upright freezer and you never have to buy vegetables again, save for lettuce or cabbage, which don't freeze so good.

It's really within the reach of 99% of homeowners, so no whining, just do it.

For a while, a few years back, some folks referred to the lot of these guys as Fascists, but were treated as the lunatic fringe. Really though, the entire administration is made up of extreme-reactionary-militaristic imperialists. So, what sort of behavior does anyone expect of such people? Of course they're war criminals and of course they are Fascists. If they could've whipped up the population and the military brass, we'd already be fighting in Iran and they would be planning the next invasion. There can be no objective doubt that they have committed war crimes; the real issue is the complicity of the so-called opposition party. “Impeachment is off the table”. So, we have one party of overt Fascism and one party of complicity.

Now what do we do with no one holding the moral high ground?

Well, call me a taxi, but I like the ads.

Or I'm an a!!hole.

Whoever the "ehll" Kieffe & Sons are, I'm running, not walking, to them to buy my electric and gas car help.

I'm also all about real issues like gas, war, and taxes (why did he capitalize them?).

Is this a car dealership troll, or a RIAA troll? Oh well, thanks for the swell advice!

Me like #32's brains.

Is this real? Are the governments really in secret negotiations? If so, it could only be used for selective enforcement, the worst kind of legal legerdemain there is. I can't even imagine that being possible though. How the hell are border guards/police even going to selectively enforce this?

Jesus though, don't ever underestimate a corporation's attempts to legislate their revenue stream. If they can't figure out a way to monetize the market, ENFORCE their particular marketing effort...bah, I say.

Lilith999, the guy made a dumb mistake at the most.

Not allowed for a parent to make mistakes? You know what, "if you decide to have children" you're going to make, not hundreds, not thousands, but millions of these boo-boos. You know why? Because an adult with children has their attention pulled in that many directions.

You know what else? This guy didn't do anything wrong, not one thing. He made a tiny error because he was unfamiliar with a new type of alcohol.

You ever break a bone as a kid? You ever get a bad grade? Did you ever slip one past your parents? How did that happen? They weren't supposed to let that happen! They must've been unaware/negligent, eh?

To #56 " And if I ever decide to have a kid"...ha-ha-ha nuff said. You don't know diddly.

That sheriff is spot on. I even heard that Richard Petty was seen lurking around down south with a suitcase nuke. You can't trust anyone or be too careful these days, yup!

The whole thing is ridiculous, especially “the prof should'a knowed” argument. For Chrissake, bookworms keep their heads in books, not booze ads, and academics keep their heads in academics. Of course he didn't know hard lemonade from shinola. Anyone over forty can't keep up with three fourths of the shite that twenty-somethings take for granted.

And what the hell is the big deal if the kid had a drink? How about if he got swacked? I'm not kidding! There are worse things than having an academician for a father letting his kid get a teeny jag on. Even if the guy knew it was booze (which he didn't) there is no friggin' crime here. I'm sure that kid will be exposed to more thought provoking stimulus in his life than the lot of us plebs.

#9, so true. That hole must be supersized for this modern world!

Oh man, this is an awesome idea. I just wish I could think these things up and implement them.

Say, you know what I need for my teenage kids? Oh, how about...a kid library...um, you know, to loan them out?

Hey #50, don't forget teeth. You wanna outlive your teeth by several thousand years?

Yup, I did just skim the surface, but hell, the whole work situation and simple affordability thing makes expanded lifespans seem so awful to me. Oh my God, staying at a crappy job just to keep health insurance for a couple millennium? No-no, nobody should have to deal with that.

And everything I buy breaks or obsoletes itself in a couple of years. Without the chance of losing touch through the benefit of senescence, the frustration of living seems like a horror. I wanna not give a damn by the time I'm seventy, not seven thousand.

Look, nobody's going to live forever, but UGH, imagine if it happened?

Just think of the implications; 1000 year, 10,000 year mortgages? How about never retiring? What would the economic hell be like if the lifespan just went on and on? You just know that the banking system, the for-profit higher education system, the capitalist employer/employee systems would simply adapt to the longer lifespans. Picture more of your current situation, whatever it is, going on indefinitely. How about recessions? Depressions (both economic and emotional)? Yeah, or you have bad knees or injuries? Wanna keep that up for a couple hundred-plus years?

This doesn't even consider a world where birthrates exceed death rates and that mess. Who needs to mull that when the chance of never getting out of debt or retiring or even getting your kids to stop sponging off you are staring you in the face?

I'm all for dying.