I guess you wouldn't like Bathory then, which is a shame.

How does an electronics company sell out?

Carrot cake, DUH!

In a way, isn't that what the plea bargaining system does? If you deny the crime and plead innocent and are found guilty you'll get a much longer sentence than if you had admitted it up front.

By clearable, you mean detonating a bomb in their datacenter?

I'm sure a doctor can find something in the DSM-V that will stick.

Good point. It is not his duty to prove it. But smart ideas alone are not going to convince California taxpayers to invest a few billion dollars in something that has never before been built. Someone is going to have to prove it.

If the technology is all ready then why doesn't he build a test track out in the desert to prove it?

I purchased a few videos from Amazon, thinking they would play on any browser with flash. Turns out that when chrome went with pepper for flash they no longer played. The DRM got in my way as a paying customer. Lesson learned.

Just use chromium/chrome and whitelist javascript and flash. It makes the browser actually usable on a netbook.

21st amendment basically gives the states unlimited power when regulating alcohol.

Composite materials have been used for a long time in airplanes. Isn't there data on how the material degrades? In fact wasn't there some concern that AA587 crashed because of a failure of composite materials? I hope everything is sorted out.

Since there are way more orders for the A380 than there are for the 747-8, building the biggest plane seems to be more than just about ego.

Since these planes won't suffer from metal fatigue like planes made out of aluminum, that means that they'll last longer?

You can't blame the file format for your decision to rip CDs at such a low bitrate.