Except we've been waiting for this 'Rocket Racing League' to [i]take off[/i], pun or not, for the last [b]six years[/b]. It is the Duke Nukem Forever of motor^H^H^H^Hsports.

Being within 860 miles puts it 8 degrees above the horizon. This is where Seattle will catch it on the first possible attempt, but if it goes to the second attempt it will be much more overhead at a 50 degree angle.

Similar to this, my dad thought he was being smart by buying an $85 power cable with a keyed 'on-off' switch in it. The failing, however, was that we were very much a computer operating household and had dozens of regular power cables lying about. I switched a regular one in, left it there when I was done for my brother to use. Sometimes the keyed power cable would be back in place, and we'd just swap it out again. It was rather insultingly naive, and eventually it was thrown over the fence out back.

pointless government bureaucracy

This is redundant in three different ways.

Funnily enough theres a literature example of that. Persons with nanotechnologic eye implants in The Diamond Age are frequently hacked to show spam and advertisements at all waking hours, even when trying to sleep. Its cited as the biggest reason they aren't very popular.

I suppose contact lenses with much the same function wouldn't be so hard to be rid of in such a case though.

The real tricky bit is going to be proving that it isn't flying once it gets up to speed.

Or how about.. you know.. a multipurpose rotary switch in easy reach just forward of the steering wheel that can be rotated to the 'off' position?

Sticks and Stones man. If these words could kill it'd be another issue. Explicatives and slang have now become casual english.

It still takes the same amount of care and discretion as applying salt to food; everyone has their own tastes. California could try to ban salt, even with true health concerns, but that won't stop anyone from cooking with it.

Ignorance is solvable in some cases.

Its an excuse for Linux users to brag about how much RAM they're not using. In the age of 'zomgz, Vista uses >1Gb or ram!!' I loaded up some video editing, piled in as much media as possible until the system was strained to breaking, and then killed the process: Vista was using 297Mb.

Security has become enough of a concern for Final Fantasy XI players that browser recommendations and plugin advice abounds on almost every site and forum anymore. Years of playtime lost to a compromised account can go for months before being restored by Square-Enix.

Security became enough of a concern that one enigmatic third-party developer has banned IE6 users from his site for their own protection (IE6 accesses redirect to that page), because even his own site has been hijacked, exploited, and injected with iFrames and scripts to steal credentials and push keylogging and hijacking methods.

I think the standard response to users of IE6 not being able to access pages when the security of their own browser is more important to them than they know is 'Tough Shit'.

If someone makes a debugger or syntax checker for it, will it be called 'F#CK'?

By your mention of 'unfilmable' I could pose that Watchmen was considered unfilmable on the same virtues of complexity and such. The Watchmen movie gets the same treatment now as the 1984 Dune movie; the visuals are perfect, but the acting and script fail to convey the entirety of the source material.

You're more likely to get the religious indoctrination in public schools anymore. Better to be Socially Retard than a Retarded Socialite.

We are on Slashdot after all.

You're easily a month behind on this. https://chrome.google.com/extensions