Umm... What?

I can't remember his name, but the guy who owned most of the paper production in the US would have lost everything when people began cultivating hemp for paper, because it was cheaper and produced higher quality paper. So hemp was dragged through the mud in a disinformation campaign to make it illegal so he could hold his monopoly on paper production. It has absolutely nothing to do with Mexicans or Christians at all, it was entirely an economic move which relied on people's prejudices to convince them it needed to be banned.

That Dyson fan is extremely loud, much louder than a moderately expensive traditional fan that's clean and balanced.

Granted, you can do really cool things with it if you have a bunch of them: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4WNcjkZ6d0w

I turned 21 about 8 months ago and I have at a guess around four or five thousand books. It's what happens when you read 2-4 books a week for about 10 years and keep everything you read. My favorites are on a wrap-around ceiling bookshelf around my room, with an entire wall sized bookshelf holding the rest, everything else gets boxed up and stored away.

I do read a lot of ebooks too, but it's quite hard to take an ereader or a phone and keep it charged and working when you go camping or kayaking or hiking or sailing. A physical paper book you shove in your bag is a much easier way to bring a story with you.

I reject your assumption that paper books will die off, and I cite vinyl records as my evidence.

I think you mean the People's Republic of California. And as a Georgian, I have no issues with not being allowed in California, I really don't have any desire to visit or live there. Reciprocally, I don't want any Californians in Georgia, so you need to add a few laws restricting them from ever leaving the state.

Well at least it wasn't built by FoxConn, otherwise it would have jumped "off" into the gravity well and smashed itself to pieces on the ground.

The "fuel" for solar/wind power is nuclear.

I see your xkcd and raise you an onion: http://www.theonion.com/articles/mars-rover-beginning-to-hate-mars,2072/

Only 3 launches? The fun really starts when there are 12.

What about embedding it in the road itself? Roads flex from cars driving over them, if this stuff could be made cheaply, laying down sheets of it under the road surface might generate a lot of power. If a person walking generates a single watt, thousands of cars weighing thousands of pounds theoretically would produce an exponential increase on that. Power transport would be an issue over this type of design, but it could be done every few miles so it generates just enough power to power the street lights, traffic lights, and stuff of that nature and maybe a small surrounding area too if the power generation is high enough. On certain roads it would also be more reliable than solar/wind power as there is always a base-number of cars driving on the road at any one time.

Completely dependent on what morals they have, morals are not an absolute and they aren't universal for everyone. Oh, I'm sorry, you're an AC posting an eloquent troll, so obviously when you say "moral" you mean "[insert religion here] moral", carry on then.

My modpoints they gave me on april fools expired today, or I would have given you a +1.

The difficulty isn't the design, it's getting ahold of enough enriched U-235 to actually have a working bomb.

Simple design, extremely complex materials.

I see your xkcd and raise you an onion: http://www.theonion.com/articles/mars-rover-beginning-to-hate-mars,2072/

DON'T DATE ROBOTS!

Lawyer: "Now little Timmy, on this doll, show me where the robot touched you."