Scalability.

The chemical weapons attack in Syria was a small one. It included a relatively small number of rockets with a small total payload on a single night. It managed
to kill ~1.5% of those killed in the Syrian civil war. In one night. It killed at 10x the rate of the rest of the war.

The Syrian population is largely defenseless against it (unlike a prepared military in WWI, for example) as nobody has supplies of gas masks and related protective gear. This was a small attack. Full scale attacks could wipe out entire rebel held cities of largely unprotected civilians overnight.

It's only natural.

At some point you have to stop living in fear.
Stuff can go wrong - that's life. The correct thing to do is to go on with life, not find someone to blame so you can sue them. Somewhere this simple concept has been lost on a great too many.

Says one thing, does the opposite...

http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/427790/july-16-2013/david-karp

Most RAZR users in 2005 were perfectly content with their phones and didn't notice the difference between what they had in their hands and what was possible when Apple was hatching the iPhone.
Users should not be expected to "know the difference" as that is not their job. It's your job, as the technologist, to know the difference and improve the user's experience. The user's sole task is to reap the benefits and reward those who provide the most benefits.

Part of the roach's success stems from its omnivorous diet. Removing glucose from its diet is likely a considerable hit on its caloric intake. If the aversion to glucose can be maintained while developing aversions to other abundant and nutritious food stuffs, like meat protein, we could bio-engineer cockroaches to become specialized eaters.

Specialized eaters are easier to control and eradicate. Furthermore, if they over specialize to the degree of Pandas and Koalas they may be bio-engineered out of existence. Personally, I wouldn't mind never seeing another cockroach again.

Tell the VCs how you are going to make them rich.

Obama should have used NK's threats of a nuclear strike on U.S. soil as cause to move forward more big weapons like THAAD and announce big missile defense projects, perhaps in Japan, like those cancelled in Europe. This would increase the pressure on China to tone down their bulldog as it is would be working against Chinese interests.

Sounds like a currency fork. You could conceivably end up with two currencies. Which raises the question: what is to stop groups of people (say China) from creating parallel systems?

If the answer is nothing, BTC is wide open for undermining by fragmentation.

So I don't need to remember my best friends' names.

Sarcasm aside, pasting people's names over their heads would make Dale Carnegie warm all over. It would be useful for bosses, politicians and other people who need to fake caring about others.

Phones have heavy touch screen LCDs (and other bits and pieces, like the case!) that are pointless in orbit. Did they really waste that much of their mass budget on an LCD touch screen? Or is the "stock nexus" on this thing really not so stock?

Where do I contribute to Japan's space program? Sign me up!

You know little of what you speak.

A workplace environment is very much created and shepherded by those at the helm. Especially in a workplace that starts at 2 people and progresses to a giant multinational. The leaders set the tone. I've personally experienced it and even did it in the teams I led.

None of which changes the prevalent mode of communication of the workers.

Evidently, your reading comprehension is as good as your powers of observation. Pretty poor.

Europe has very few public toilets relative to other countries. Where toilets are available they would rather inconvenience you with fumbling for coins rather than letting you get on with your business.

Europe has even fewer public drinking fountains. Europe can be a drinking water desert. Let's not bring up the apparently offensive concept of ordering tap water at a restaurant - never fails to garner dirty looks. In Europe you often have no choice but to go the bottled water route.

Youth hostels and high end $200/night hotels and B&Bs. In any case, youth hostels in other countries don't share this stinginess - warm water is either there (and free) or it isn't.

Wake up and look around you.