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True, but the US actually has one of the lower smoking rates in the first world.  Nearly twice as many people smoke in Japan than in the US, for example. I agree that exceeding 90-100 routinely is a way off. The last 100 years has mostly been about eliminating a lot of the easy killers...

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No, it's only 500.  Only. And according to his business plan (har!) they're all just going to idle anyway because that's why people buy LEBs.

Now that you mention it, I did know that.  My bad.

I'm skeptical a national park will blow up. On a more serious note, it's extraordinarily difficult to beat the S&P return on any kind of long-term basis.  Even Warren Buffett can't do it.

I have about 3TB of files stored on CP. My home drives are nowhere near 68TB.  And if I did have 68TB to backup, it'd probably be more than 3 files  :blink:

When that goes wrong, it'll make an excellent premise for the next Marvel superhero movie.

There are various googleable retirement calculators where you can plug in numbers, etc.  It's mostly a guess. Virtually all private employers in the US use defined-contribution rather than defined-benefit (pensions), which is unfortunate but a fact of life. I've been putting 10% of my pay into...

Yomero, you're in...Mexico?  Am I remembering that correctly? Lots of American tourists go to your country to see things (Aztec ruins, Cancun, etc.)  Only fair you should come up and see the Rockies.

Very nice.  And +1 for pretty post. You could not do this easier in PHP :-)  But perhaps in perl. My backup philosophy is a little different.  I don't know any scenario where I wouldn't want to backup a DB.  If I did, I'd rather have a "exclude" list than "assume exclude unless specified"...

Just came back from my summer vacation.  Took the fam over to Glacier National Park.  We've been there before but you can never get enough...it rivals Yellowstone in my mind.  Absolutely spectacular. We hiked, drove the white-knuckle Going-to-the-Sun Road, saw lots of wild life (black bear...

Or less if I was a school teacher or government bureaucrat. Again, though, this illustrates the silliness of the American system - the F500 company can bargain better and get cheaper rates, but why should where I work determine what I pay for health insurance? I know the history but it's just...

The critic in me wonders if socialized medicine works best in countries that have some geographical isolation/border control and do not allow unfettered third world migration. The usual success stories people point to are the Nordic countries, Britain, Japan, etc.

I do, through my employer.  I think I pay $10/week for me + wife + 3 children.  But there are agonizingly complex details, e.g.:   some medicines are virtually free, some are $100/3 months copays at doctors annual family deductible in-network vs. out-of-network the annual ritual of choosing...

I use the Microsoft Natural as well...(lifts it up)...model 4000 at the moment. I hate regular keyboards now - ergo for life. I should probably get a Dvorak layout...I already type fast and wonder how much faster I could be.

Several reasons: - $150/month in free credits for any startup through BizSpark - $150/month in free credits for any MSDN subscriber (many employers buy these for employees) - some amount of monthly credit for DreamSpark (students) In other words, MSFT giveaways are great :-)  I run a couple...

ElegantThemes is nice...but was nicer at $39/year unlimited and less nice at $79/year unlimited...

Surely a question for your forum rather than ours.