but culture can't survive in the long term if its creators don't get rewarded for their work

Evidence?

Just looked up recalcitrant in the dictionary, there was a little picture of this grinning douchebag in shades and a bandana.

First we hear Jobs was gonna kill Android. Now Androids are gonna kill jobs.

I've seen powerdrills with less spin.

Well that's a boring analogy.

It turns out that the male squid also squawks "call you tomorrow" during his drive-by shooting. Of course male squids never do. The revenge of the jilted female squid involves hacking the male's limbs off and deep-frying them while mockingly repeating "call ya' 'morrow". This is why we call it calimari.

requires a jolt of three to four megawatts of power for 30 seconds to get up to cruising speed — that's enough energy to power 1,300 average U.S. homes.

The corrected sentence is much less impressive: "— that's enough energy to power 1,300 average U.S. homes for 30 seconds."

sandboxed native client (NaCl)

In other words, a saltbox.

During the Apollo manned lunar exploration program, NASA astronauts trained in Sudbury ... visiting Sudbury because it purportedly resembled the lifeless surface of the moon...

You have a decent point, but a very important, unmoveable deadline also kept the engineers on track: the alignment of the outer planets imposed a certain launch window.

13,000 feet of toilet paper in half 13 times

Wow, they must really have their shit together.

The usual majority laugh at privacy and point at illegal immigrants and drug traffickers

So true. It's crazy how "conservatives" eat these ideas up. When I think of "conserving" the best from the past, anonymous and free speech are right up there. Apparently not so with conservatives-in-name-only.

If we can't see your scrotum, you'll be sacked.

I noticed Adobe never seemed to put any serious DRM on their software...

I bet that Dmitri Skylarov has a different opinion.

combined GDP of every country on the planet

We're gonna need a new term, especially if we start colonizing the moon and Mars. I propose GTP=Gross Terrestrial Product.

Java is performant, widely adopted and eminently portable...

So much bullshit in just eight words.