"Unlike the EU that closes Nuclear plants when the science clearly shows they actually save lives."

Strangely enough, the Germans had so much solar and wind power without the nukes, that they exported it to countries for so low a price (sometimes for free) that those countries had to shut down reactors too. Especially the Swiss were not amused.

And the 'saving lives' part I will believe when the ashes are cooled down in 200.000 years without hurting anybody.
And if the sites and the guards will have been paid by the energy companies for those 200.000 years.

Everything working OK, only the 'phone' part sucking?

No thanks.

"... even than Visa's ($17.9 billion), Facebook's ($16 billion), and General Motors ($15.8 billion)"

A payment method, a time waster and a 'products that kill you' company.

Here you can actually buy stuff, and lots of it has free shipping, may it be to Ouagadougou, Timbuktu or Buttfuck, Idaho.

You know, useful.

You!

I keep hearing that word since my VIC-20 days.

I do not think it means what you think it means.

Preferably, considering your age, one with WIFI that sends the image directly to your iPad, so that you don't have to freeze your ass off in the garden.

"In other words, they found where the poor people live by looking at phone data."

No they found out that crime happens where the criminals are.
Groundbreaking.

"So what's the problem with that?"

The become a member they existing members have to vote them in unanimously.
And for some reason I'm thinking some countries might object and veto.

England obviously.
France, so not to give ideas to Corsica.
Spain, Basques and Catalans
Belgium, ...
etc

'You don't take the idea from Jules Verne, you just take the Nazi scientist and let him build a rocket to the fucking Moon.'

BTW, here you can order a print from that day.

http://store.theonion.com/p-47...

They only walk dogs if the CEO gets The Flower of Forgetfulness. :-)

"Learning is really not about technology, as soon as pen, paper and books are available."

You mean using a 2D-plotter (hand) to write symbolic data on 'paper' and store it in 'books' isn't technology?

Lots of flights, no matter which type, do 95% OK, it's the last bit that's critical.

That's about the number of deaths measles cost us every 6 days and we've had a vaccine for that for over 50 years.

"But it has a screen that has some inches!"

I need me some inches.

"So all this does is punish the software developers that don't lock their software into hardware they sell. So if Microsoft stops selling Windows and force everyone to buy Surface laptops ..."

Both of them?