If you had a 50% fraud rate, you'd still save money. That's what matters from a government standpoint. Preventing fraud is nice, but saving money and getting the job done should be the top priorities.

Seems like this should be fair game if computers are allowed to make buy orders on their own...

Wrong, the standards on the glasses make all the difference. I'm not willing to buy a 3D TV until my glasses work on my friend's TV set without worrying about who bought which brand. That's 100% of the reason I didn't buy a 3D TV this summer.

A year ago I was planning on buying a 3D TV this summer. What happened? I looked before I jumped and decided I would wait until the glasses were all inter compatible. I told Sony, Samsung, and Panasonic that until their TVs worked with Toshiba glasses, I would wait to buy. I'm sure some other people told them too.

Myself as a 3D enthusiast, and a prime early adopter, I feel that Sony failed to sell me on a technology that I was really looking forward too. And the truth is that you need early adopters for this kind of technology to ever take off.

I hope the TV companies get their act together and get a pan-company team of engineers together to create and implement a standard. If they don't do it next year, and Hollywood continues to produce terrible 2D->3D abominations, the 3D momentum is likely to fall below sustainable levels.

Some politicians who are older than the tea party (Sarah Palin for example) could be described accurately as "a darling of the Tea Party".

Now, the observation was that Wolf is probably a hardcore conservative based just on that one comment. It's a valid bet to make and I wouldn't take the other side.

From Wikipedia: Congressman Wolf has also voted to deny funding to Planned Parenthood. He gets a B+ from the NRA and a 0% from the ACLU.

I think it's safe to assume the GP was correct calling Wolf a hardcore conservative, you lost the bet.

The point was that the GP thought Voyager was the worst series, not DS9.

Noted. I will probably avoid the mistake someday in the future.

The Pentagon didn't really 'buy' the books. They paid for them. There's a difference.

Some body at the pentagon "Oh, shit, this has classified intel in it. Call up the publisher"

Some body at the publisher "We'd love to help protect national security, but we don't want to take a multi thousand dollar hit to costs"

Some body at the pentagon "Yes, we can compensate American citizens for damages incurred by helping us protect national security"

Some body in the press "OMG THE PENTAGON IS BURNING BOOKS!"

Captain Picard *headpalm*

The question we should be asking is not "Should the pentagon be burning books?", it's "Should the pentagon have (so much) classified information?"

The Edison2 is RWD.

What if the car is half under a rock? No way you're pushing out plexiglass, only breaking it would work.

Journalism isn't decaying. It's ALWAYS been terrible.

Is it possible they were using a few engines or that the engine change also was a horsepower increase? If not, plenty of STI tunes hit 570 range.

I wonder if that's the reason why Sega pulled the plug. Their technology wasn't far enough to let things parallax correctly?

Your wording could have used work, it came off as condescending. (I know where you're coming from, I come of as condescending all the time when I never meant to).

Your eyes converge and focus to the same depth usually. Your eyes cross so that a normal line from each pupil intersects at the object you're looking at. The focus works a similar way where each eye twiddles itself to converge at that same point.

3D video messes with this. Your eyes converge like the objects is 20 feet away or 3 feet away, but the screen is five feet away. I'm not sure what your eyes actually do, but there are some health concerns about it. I suspect it's probably fine (in moderation?), but I'd like to see more research done.

Not all color content is universally useful on a B&W TV though. Sure it displays, but if the game show uses a bunch of colors with the same luminosity, you aren't going to be having much fun watching.