...and now I'm waiting for my Shakey's Pizza clone.

Except for the fact that you've spent a few days in jail and are out a few thousand dollars on lawyers' fees. Or maybe your Christmases were much more interesting than mine were.

I take it you've never heard the term 'fluorine martyr.'

Would your response be different if the question was thus: "I have two children, one of which was a boy born on a Tuesday. What is the probability that my other child was born on a Tuesday?"

Linear momentum, not angular momentum.

Just a technical aside: You need two photons to produce a particle-antiparticle pair (conservation of angular momentum).

I thought that was the recipe for Apple iPie.

Oh jeez, I in no way meant to imply that different skin colors were genetic disorders. Let's just put that flame out before it catches...

This brings up an interesting point. If we can use gene therapy to cure colorblindness or extend our senses, couldn't we also use it to give us certain disabilities to take advantage of handicapped laws? Or maybe we could change out our skin colors like the cool kids do with their ringtones. Or perhaps we could customize our abilities like we do our computers. Some of us may want a bare-bones system (literally?) or to be stripped of stuff we don't really need (like a complete vas deferns or Fallopian tube until we're ready to reproduce). I've seen a few commenters talking about a slippery slope, but what if you want to go skiing for a while (just to completely milk that metaphor)?

Wasn't this a plot device in Demolition Man?

Two words: grade inflation.

Well, the website you quote says it's cheaper than competing technologies, and Wikipedia says that the competing technologies (which still all seem to be in the beta phase) cost about $15k for the drive and $100-200 for the media. So I imagine this technology wouldn't be cheap.

This is ucking ridiculous. I'm a ullerene chemist, or uck's sake!

Maybe, oh I don't know, not suing them would be a good first step.