OSS only came into fruition to address specific problems with mass market closed source. AKA everything you could buy was so broken. Apple's code on the other hand does a credible job of addressing customer requirements quite well and so there is no specific need to 'open' it any more than you should feel it necessary to have an 'open' automotive computer or an 'open' jet engine design. If you feel you need an open or quasi open system I highly recommend Ubuntu or Freespire/Linspire.

That is, what protocols exist to address a finding at that age? And which healthcare company would pay for it?

When you try to write like Umberto Eco, you fail.

When you don't suffer any risks for not doing those things there's no incentive to do them. Credit worthiness is important if overall the loss incurred by one is a loss for the institution. But it's not. The credit card companies let the rate float up and down according to their whim. Whenever there's a spike in non payments, they simply jack the rates up for everyone else, month to month. Or more typically tack on junk fees to hide that. There's no law that says credit card companies can't do that.

And if there's something Microsoft can fix, implant a brain in the crack drones behind the register.

That do business with Norway's own Ministry of Defense. Which is actually a violation of the NATO treaty. So there's more than enough insufferably precious stupidity to go around. Want to know two industries that pollute a great deal?

Paper recycling

Prescription drug manufacturing

We should ban both of them, I guess.

The internet is 99% horseshit and looking for something of substance and value in a blog or forum is akin to expecting to have an intelligent conversation about the topic of your choice in a huge room of random strangers all babbling about their own favorite topic as well, assuming they aren't retarded fools, then things go smoothly. People critiquing other people critiquing other people on their blog of blogrolls about other blogs is just a waste of time and Louis Bayard is their God.

I'm getting fistfuls of visas to somewhere. Either way we get a psycho who wants to challenge an iceberg to a boat race.

Will go extinct in my lifetime. It's unstoppable.

Or any of those other gold digger baby mama stripper names. Always a safe bet.

Marion Jones? I really don't understand your timing. You do the Come to Oprah before sentencing or after you get out of jail.

Much of it is wherever you find it. In the arctic, offshore. Those are some of the hard choices you have to make.

parse each other's words about whether we'd be in Iraq till 2011, 2018 or 2038. You know in the last century the British army was in Iraq for 37 years. So I'm thinking 2040 is a good round target end date for the US. Now we can stop hurling rocks at one another about who to lied to who about what.

Green investing has done this for years. Typically they underperform the market. If Norway can fix that, then great. Live long and perspire! But I worry of the snowball effect where eventually everything is held up to some neo Calvinist standard and things that people don't usually have a problem with are now verboten. If you look hard enough, everything is eeeeevul to someone.

Everything's been micromanaged, discussed, logo'd, branded, soccermom'd, PC'd, tossed in a blender and poured out so that it's just another plate of fried crud on the menu in a sportsbar replete with its 'adult beverage'. No one really cares. And trust me, 2-3 years tops, UFC will become a Disneyfied staple too.

First off, on planet nanny state, anyone, N-E ONE, accused of domestic violence is ARRESTED. Hell where I live it's the law that if the cops come to your home someone is getting arrested. It's the damn law. Someone is going in the cop car. So some trick ass ho getting an order of protection is meaningless bullshit.

Next, no one actually gives a shit about Marion Jones and her ex Olympic career except the hand wringers who probably beat the shit our of their local AD over some dumbass role-model-for-girls project. Just because your hero has ovaries (we think) doesn't mean she's perfect. Get the fuck over yourselves already.

Roid Ball MLB? Simple. Don't buy a ticket to the game. The last time I went to a AAA game the squarebadges were throwing people out for yelling and cursing (the CHILLLLLLLDRENNN !!!!!!!!). But they didn't care about the redneck assholes who pounded down a half gallon of cheap beer and we're too fucked up to stand up before the National Anthem. Again, get the hell over yourselves.

Go to your local professional athletic venue, have your Outback Steakhouse (tm) 14 dollar hamburger, watch your athletic event, root for the team and/or individual of your choice, buy your jersey, get in your car and go home.

Wake County, NC. If someone calls 911 an the cops come to your house, the law says someone is getting arrested. They will sometimes even warn you beforehand by mentioning, "Are you sure you want to be there sir/madam, because if we come then one of you is getting arrested."