I trust the article that there may be subtle changes in future comments due to past comments. However, there is still a very valid difference between a 5-star item with 2,000 comments and a 1-star item with three or four comments, and that is good enough for me.

The most authority phobic generation in history? Really? Anyone forget the 60's? Come on, folks. People have not fundamentally changed. Every generation thinks the younger generation is the most authority phobic generation in history.

It's not malice, it's incompetence. Having worked in several large organizations, I'm not surprised that it would be difficult to find a complete list of personal email addresses for people that probably don't even work there anymore.

A million for an orbiting telescope? Wouldn't that be more like a billion?

They also have so much corporate experience in the data center industry. Why don't they just open a hospital while they are at it?

Given the Predator uses hellfire missiles that are supersonic, they're going to blow you up before it is physically possible to hear them. And the drone itself can fire from five miles away.

That's a good idea, but legally moving the money into the corporation in order to purchase the stuff gets pretty complicated tax-wise. You might want to look at something like an open trust instead. Talk to your tax lawyer. IANAL.

I agree completely with parent. There is a difference between passing an inheritance to your children and providing access. I can leave the keys to my house to my children, but that doesn't mean the legal possession of the house will pass to them. Very different concepts.

The point is not the database structure, it's collecting the data to populate it. Large tax companies have teams of hundreds of people that keep track of all the local tax laws, and charge a large amount of money selling the data to large retailers. It's not trivial to keep the laws of every 10,000 person municipality in the database up to date.

But but... it didn't give us any extra light for farming. We have the same amount of light. It just made farmers feel better, I guess?

This. I have never understood either. We're not changing the amount of time each day. If you need more light, change your hours. There is a very good image here that helps to explain (the purple one): http://www.thefullwiki.org/DST

Well, kindof. Not necessarily, it depends on the legal wording in your homeowner's policy: http://www.merlinusmonroe.com/2011/01/02/insurance-policies-and-forcible-entry/ IANAL

When 99% of laptops have touchscreens, they will be cheaper than non-touch screens. Economies of scale and all that.

On a serious note, what kind of strange issues will this create with HR? Am I working in the office or not? If not, why do they say I'm not? I personally think these things are pretty hokey, but it will be interesting to see how they jive with a real office and the people in it.