If they're going literal, then the groupers weren't destroyed. They were just placed in an indeterminate location. Hell, take it up a notch, and rely on the second law of thermodynamics.

Stupidly vague laws resulting in legislative over-reach is one of many reasons the law is an ass.

I know, right. I've been making payments online by stuffing bank notes into my drive case for years. Funny, I never seem to get the goods I order.

You mean, programs about educating people on how to engage in useful and productive activities?

How terrible.

Says the man who works at a public college teaching English, women’s studies, comparative literature, and classical studies - fields noted for the career prospects of their graduates.

David Halperin

MP3 players existed before the iPod
Smartphones existed before the iPhone
Tablets existed before the iPad
Smartwatches exist, and the iWatch doesn't

Apple doesn't create new categories; they polish and popularise them - sort of the way Blizzard has done with the RTS, action-RPG, and MMO genres in gaming.

Or, you believe the government should be limited in the things they are allowed to do, removing the incentive for bribing them in the first place.

In other words, tax evasion is what other people do when I don't like it.

The whole of climate science and meteorology is predicated on the fact that those systems are not random. Yeah, the more iterations of a random event, the closer you get to the statistical average. But that doesn't mean that the more variables you add to a system, the more it converges on a predictable single value.

Is an orange the aggregate of millions of apples over a long period of time?

Really? Weather is a simpler, shorter-term analysis than climate, pretty much by definition. If we can't perform the simpler task particularly well, it argues against us being able to do the more complex.

What on earth does this have to do with the topic at-hand? Do you post this on any medical science related story?

It depends what you mean by "drones". Missiles would basically be one-use drones, with the firing ship serving as their control centre. In space battles, distances would likely be large enough for relativistic time lags in comms between ship and missile to be a thing, so they'd have to be capably of autonomy after they'd moved beyond comms range of their ship.

I've got a Note 3, and I frequently hold it up to my head to talk on it. I also gave up caring about what people think of based on what technology I use a couple of decades ago.

So how much advertising did Dell buy ro get this story run?

Give me an objective definition of "market" that makes the doesn't make the distinction between software products and support services, yet does distinguish between, say, operating systems and web browsers.

I doubt you have one. You just draw the line on a case-by-case basis wherever it supports your argument.

Yes. They're using their profits from selling their support product to fund development of their free operating system.