He's probably never looked for it. It is pretty rare but can be found. If they have venison, it will probably be one item, frozen, next to the frozen duck, rabbit, and less used cow organs in the bottom of the freezer section. Asian markets will probably carry it as well as exotic meat markets. Otherwise, most of the US will probably just ask for some from the part of the family that hunts when they want it.

Most of the analysis I've read has pretty much stated that anything that massive that would have kept the pilots from reporting in via the various means of independent communication on the plane for the hours they were still in control, would have been so massive, the plane would not have still been airworthy. A single turn and cruise till it runs out of fuel, and there might be an argument for fire, loss of cabin pressure, or something overcoming the crew and passengers. There were at least three turns and altitude corrections in over an hours time that would have required manual control. If things were so bad that they couldn't tell where they were going and couldn't radio, they probably would have ditched and hoped for rescue with the liferaft transponders rather than fly blindly into the Indian ocean.

I think you've got it backwards. God is what created the universe. If there is nothing but a collection of impersonal physical laws, so be it. Any collection of impersonal physical laws complicated enough to create creatures which will anthropomorphize them, deserve to be anthropomorphized.

This differs from driving on the LA freeways today how?

Well, he is smarter and more experienced than Palin. He at least managed to finish his term as governor.

Long past that point. I can remember seeing something on the internet at least a decade ago talking about not only where the water went to, but where it came from to begin with. The idea that there is water trapped deep in the mantel is not new or surprising. It has been known for along time, this is just more and better evidence.

"I'll get back to work after reading the comments on this next /. article."

Why do you think that it is the rest of us don't bother to read the 'fing articles anymore.

I suspect that there is a significant difference between sustaining themselves in the wild in a climate they have trouble handling and being raised in essentially what will be a zoo which is where they are going.

Because Samsung is really, really big and the section they are suing is not the same as the one they are buying things from. It's doubtful that the section being sued has enough pull to make another section take a hit to their finances. Besides, having a good deal with Apple provides leverage they wouldn't have if they dropped it and no reason to believe that dropping it would give any other benefit besides being spiteful.

Because they are paying people, when they should be paying corporations!

It's not that they'll vote for anybody that is a Democrat, but rather against anybody who is a Republican. No matter how bad their guy is, they're still better than the other guy's guy. I see the same thing for people voting for Republicans in OK. So long as they're not a democrat, they think they'll come out ahead.

I'll agree with all that but part of it is also that Crimea seems to be siding with Russia. I was reading an old thread on militaryphotos.net (they're really good at collecting photos of military actions and giving commentary on what exactly is being shown) dealing with the Kiev riots, and from months ago, the Crimea parliament said that Kiev better quell the rioters because it would come or go with Russia. This shouldn't have been a surprise to anybody watching the situation.

It's not uninhabitable. People could live there perfectly fine for a long time I bet, just like some are around Chernobyl. It is probably more danger in the long run than other land, but we are just attempting death avoidance in levels far safer than other situations that we are ok with. Living in the evacuated zone is probably safer than being a coal miner.

Because WSJs support to big businesses is in telling the people that run them the facts. That is why the WSJ can be trusted, because people (who make up the CEOs and boards of various big business companies) read it to determine where to put their money. If WSJ puts spin and prints propaganda and people base where they put their money on that info and lose it because it was falsified, there are going to be lots of mad billionaires. That includes honest criticism of same big businesses. WSJ may be pro-business, but they are about the best fact checking news provider that exists.