Accelerating energy -- what a concept.

In my lifetime I've known about ten Mensans personally, and at least five of them could really have used it.

...are going to be really, really bad.

Not killing innovation, requiring it. If you want to deliver packages by air to people's doorsteps, you're just going to have to invent an anti-gravity device that will do it without killing their children and dogs.

It always was: the few hundred voters who live in Deer Trail, a Colorado truckstop town, rejected the measure to authorize them. If you're one of the tourists who were conned into buying one at the truckstop anyway, you should continue on up to Wyoming where they'll be glad to sell you a stuffed jackalope head.

...and I'll bet the filthy infidel doesn't believe we're gonna get flying cars, either.

Gimme a break. That "package delivery" shtik was a Christmas-shopping publicity stunt. If you really believed it was going to happen, you'd be investing in pediatric and veterinary hospitals.

Ummm, you're aware you're talking about a 27MHz SSB-AM system interfering with a 2.4 GHz spread-spectrum PCM system, right?

That vibration you feel is your lawyer trembling with anticipation of a paycheck.

Of course you can. Haven't you ever been shortchanged? You can't hustle an honest man.
Hustling is making the victim think he's cheating you.

...I love it. There are Nissan (at least) dealers hereabouts who have occasionally priced cars over MSRP. Now that may be annoying, but it's basically legitimate, considering that "suggested" means just that. I can understand a dealer saying "We're charging you over MSRP because we can, so take it or leave it".

But these guys take it to a different level. The window sticker lists the MSRP and all the usual add-ons, and then an entry that says "[Dealername] Added Value $500". It doesn't include any of the silly crap like Scotchgarding the seats -- those are saved for the sales manager to try to force on you.

Assuming they do. They're not under any legal requirement to stop using it; they just can't enjoin anybody else from using it. In which case, a business called "Redskins Pizza" could be interpreted as supporting the name, not mocking it.

...it's not at all uncommon for bank accounts to go unclaimed forever, and various jurisdictions have various ways of dealing with that.

For example, I have a small savings account left over from a former employment that I haven't touched in about 15 years...I recently got a letter from the servicing credit union that offered me the options of keeping it active for another expiration period or closing it and collecting a check. Seems fair to me.

If you haven't designated an heir in your account agreement, the fiduciary agency that handles it has no way of knowing who that heir is until you die and your will becomes a public document.

At least give him some credit for not saying it should be Prii, as if "-i" were a universal Latin plural for "-us".

Buddy of mine went to the U of Miami where the Marine Biology Dept was always irritated by that. They used to rail against "octopi" for "octopus".

Seems like an echo of Richard Feynman's famous "I can open your safe" hobby at Los Alamos. Same method: guessing at obvious combinations like birthdates, in the 50% of cases where the lock wasn't still on the factory combination.