We're trying to modernize acre-feet to Manhattan-fathoms, but the traditionalists won't have anything to do with it.

I thought Copenhagen Suborbitals was a brand of pot.

= "none"

The whole thing has been turned into a gigantic cream-skimming operation.

The only thing more annoying than a computer is a computer that tries to be helpful.

No, they should mod you up. It is easy to write snarky and cynical comments... they can generate them without having to RTFA. Obviously Facebook makes its money on eyeballs / participants. Why can't this just be a win-win? By expanding access to higher speed internet, Facebook increases its potential market. What's the difference between that and increasing distribution of any product a segment of the marketplace needs?

The USA Highway system was built in part by the distribution needs of corporations. But we are all free to drive our cars and motorcycles on it. Should we not have built the roads because a corporation was going to profit from it? It's called "development".

I'm glad to hear that someone is trying to out-stupid *my* country.

wherein we find out that Monsanto has known it all along.

Probably they were hoping no one would find out until they' ready to market GMO humans that are resistant to it.

"whop him low and whop him high, stick your finger in his eye, kick him in the shin, hit him in the head, hit him again if the critter ain't dead"

(I grew up in northwest Arkansas and am allowed to make this joke /= trolling)

I guess everyone's getting bored with the war on drugs, so now they're looking for a new menace to protect us from.

He's considering changing his name to N. S. Sherlock.

Crime doesn't pay for everybody.

Makes me wish I be a Chinee pirate. Besept I don't need Wind O'Tain, and I don't know how to say 'Arrrr' in Chinees. And I hear tell their ships are all junks.