They asked if "whiskey stills" can be considered internet routers. As soon as their lawyers sober up we should have an answer.

FYI everyone Al Gore never claimed to have invented the internet, you really need to lay off Fox News, it kills brain cells. It's interesting that the first award would be for the founding of the internet. It's managed to eclipse other innovations in a little over a generation.

Why isn't this getting a troll mod? Gore never claimed to have invented the internet, that was an invention of the right wing Republicans. The right wingers also like to slam him for profiting on the sale of a TV network. Text book hypocrascy given the only thing sacred to the conservative right are profits. I guess a liberal making a profit is evil to them.

It's also part of a gopher erradication system(Cue "I'm Alright" song)

" Let's be honest here - the EPA is not know for being a hard-ass" Honestly the EPA is a neutered dog with his teeth pulled. For all the spills and air pollution how often do you hear about fines? Sure they made an example of BP in some ways but they even let them pull out before the clean up was done. Dig down on most of the beaches and there's still oil. The bottom is dead and still covered in oil. Those dispersants they were so fanatical about spraying were to make it sink below the surface not to make the oil go away. Once the visible surface oil was gone BP ran like a scalded cat. For all the right wing claims of the EPA being too tough the opposite is truth. The EPA is nearly useless and even as beaten as they are the right still wants them gone because they want zero oversight.

Under those rules the head of BP would get life on the day he was appointed.

Bush Jr, he exempted them from the clean water act. They can legally dump then it's the city and county's problem.

Good luck with that, they can't get the coal plants to install the scrubbers that are required by law. All they have to do is whine about lost profits and Congress runs for cover like cockroaches from light. We need to start enforcing the laws instead of doing things like exempting oil and gas from the clean water act.

I wish deer would learn this trick. I had a pair of them stop and stare at my car. Unfortunately they chose a night when the road was like glass and my brakes were nearly useless. I finally managed to change lanes a few feet from them and they only moved after my car was even with them. If I hadn't grown up driving on ice I would have had a face full of air bag and two deers riding shotgun. Apparently Chipmunk behavior is evolving faster than deer behavior.

I don't know but the little fucker dropped his coconut and cracked my windshield.

We have. Our asses have spread to better secure ourselves to couches. Our bellies are also evolving into shelves for beer cans.

This isn't about printing nano scale action figures it's about making nano scale prototype parts. It may not be true nano scale printing as some point out but it's close and still printing on a scale which would require extremely expensive hardware. A few years ago there was no such things as 3D printing and now they are printing at several thousandth scale. How long until they are printing based on individual atoms?

Other than the Xbox and that's had a rocky ride Microsoft's track record with hardware is miserable. They've been the mirror image of Apple. Apple has had a few products like Apple TV that haven't taken off but few actual flops. Microsoft keeps playing catch up making it incredibly hard when the market is already full. Last to the market with a music player and it flopped and now last to the market with a smart phone and shock of shocks it flopped. They would have been better off using their leg up with Xbox to try to beat Apple to market with a smart TV. If Apple does come out with a smart TV in the next 12 months what are the odds Microsoft will 3 years from now and what are the odds of it flopping? They have to stop chasing after the market and start leading. It doesn't matter how hard you work on the barn when the horse left three to five years ago.

It's a corporation so PR spin is a way of life. Doing it without spin would be like asking a crack addict to go cold turkey.

Walgreens not Walmart