Sure, if you think that reading should be an exercise in excruciating drudgery.
That book bored me to tears, resulting in my finally giving up and throwing it in the trash.

And any new US innovations are routinely stolen by Chinese Gov't hackers and given to Chinese Companies.

John Carmack is moving on to bigger and better things.
iD has done fuck all for innovation aside from building it's game engine.
What titles does it currently have? Doom, Wolfenstein and Quake.

Carmack is a very sharp and creative guy who has far broader and better suited prospects with Oculus.

If these other Countries don't want to buy All-American products with Freedom® and Democracy® built-in, then they stand against us in our Global War of Terror

The Electric FIRE Truck

Never heard those called "Sand Fleas" before, I grew up by the beach in So Cal and they were always called Sand Crabs.
Maybe it's an East Coast thing.

Let's put motorized carriages on the walk ways to harass, annoy and run over those on foot.
Don't like it? Get in a pod or get in a car or take the bus.

Even here in America we aren't as hostile to pedestrians.

Excuse me, but I refuse to see those movie because OSC said that I SHOULD BE SHOT because I, while not gay, support gay marriage and accept those who live that lifestyle.

This is not me refusing to see a movie, throwing my copy of Ender Game and all other OSC books away and vowing never to read another piece of shit that that piece of garbage writes writes simply over his view.

I refuse to read, view, buy or otherwise support anything by him BECAUSE HE THINKS I SHOULD BE KILLED FOR HAVING A VIEW DIFFERENT FROM HIS.

I bet Douglas Adams is ROLLING FURIOUSLY IN HIS GRAVE after what those hack Hollywood Screenwriters did to his most holy and sacrosanct scripture ... ohhh wait ...

Well, that screen writer having the name "Douglas Adams" is surely some freak coincidence.

No need to get an IP connected TV when your PS3, modern DVD player, AppleTV and any number of other appliances have Netflix, Hulu and Amazon Streaming built in, or the ability to download and install those apps through the UI.

Sure, IP-connected TV is nice, but is sort of redundant with the diaspora of network connected set-top boxes that will play games, DVDs, music, photos and other digital media have become the norm in the last few years.

Home made Spicy Pumpkin Soup, a bottle of Dark Rum and Edgar Allen Poe on Audio Book.

Minority Report featured huge wall-sized displays that everyone could see what you were interacting with and appreciate the subtle finesse and precision with which you operated.

With these, people will cut throw startled glances and cut wide arcs around the goggle wearing special needs person doing a bizarre mime routine while walking down the sidewalk.

Final Cut Pro has been fucked for years and the Studios have been leaving FCP in droves.
Apple does not give a shit and will not give a shit -- because they *know better* than their users -- so why should they care about this?

So you need to have your phone present and with a connection to login?
And it's basically just OAuth with an added device dependency?

FINALLY! As a SADO-MASOCHISTIC Web Developer, I've been pining for an authentication schema that is as equally painful to use as it is to implement that provides no real added benefit over what we currently have!

Ohhh Steve Gibson -- you are a fucking genius!

Son't worry -- we're working on it. In a few years, we'll be rolling out indentured servitude in exchange for a college education.
Such servants wont be afforded such rights by their minders. The rest wont have jobs and will be subject to labor camps.