“[A] quotation is a handy thing to have about, saving one the trouble of thinking for oneself, always a laborious business."
-- A.A. Milne

“It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.”
-- Winston Churchill

“Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.”
-- Ambrose Bierce

“A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought.”
-- Dorothy L. Sayers

“He wrapped himself in quotations - as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors.”
-- Rudyard Kipling

and an NRA paradise as everyone owns a gun and uses it?

The same way they deliver their goods to over 2000 different locations without having to drive there themselves?
Maybe part of the reason I don't see a problem is that I live in a sane state were we have one state sales tax and no sales taxes at the city or county level.

Held accountable how? If the businesses are not required to tell the state that you bought something and they need a warrant to search your financial files to tell if you bought something... exactly how are they to determine that you spend thousands of dollars on Amazon without paying use tax on the items you bought.

To me, that makes sense.
The purpose of being "agile" is to be able to change things. If you have to complain and bitch on forums about things not working, then you obviously aren't getting feedback from those evolved and changing things to make them work.

Just means we need a ball with GPS and wireless internet.

That has a few blinking LEDs on a piece of plastic that you can connect to a pair of glasses. There is no tiny screen, just blinking lights. It is like comparing a smart phone to a flip phone.

1999 - 1967 = 32 years

One could argue that we should have had these defenses in place long before Kimmy-boy said that he would set the world on fire.

This is japan. They'll likely crash a satellite into the incoming missile. That may buy them enough time to upload their cyberbrains into the internet.

Only if Amazon also feels like buying a fleet of trucks and being responsible for delivering these packages to the B&M locations. Walmart already has a fleet of vehicles, but I would guess that they have a small percentage of the online store sales. I'm also interested to see how they market this to customers. Why would I want to pick-up in store vs having it shipped to my house. Are they going to start charging to have it shipped to a residential address? That could quickly become a differentiator between online stores, as most people that I know only care about the total price of their purchase.

Man who is lazy to wife in life, has wife who is lazy to husband in bed.

The tree of Innovation must be refreshed at times with the blood Developers and Publishers.

My kingdom for a mod point

Based upon watching The Clone Wars TV series, I have to disagree. You walk into the series knowing all of the key points about main characters and the war as a whole, republic wins, Palpatine is secretly a sith, etc. Almost every episode is better than any prequel movie when it comes to plot, dialogue and characters. If this team would have been given the reigns to develop the prequel movies and Lucas only played a consulting role... I think the galaxy far far away would have been much better.